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NYC’s PLAN to alert citizens to danger during Hurricane Sandy
Starting at around 8:36 PM ET last night, as Hurricane Sandy began to flood the streets of lower Manhattan, many New Yorkers began to receive an unexpected message: a text alert on their mobile phones that strongly urged them to seek shelter. It showed up on iPhones:
This Emergency Alert just popped up on my phone. Ten seconds later, the TV went out. Here we go. #sandy #ny1sandy twitter.com/mbchp/status/2…
— Mike Beauchamp (@mbchp) October 30, 2012
…and upon Android devices:
Emergency alert on my phone. instagr.am/p/RYvlmJxJec/
— Heidi N. Moore (@moorehn) October 30, 2012
While the message was clear enough, the way that these messages ended up on the screens may not have been clear to recipients or observers. And still other New Yorkers were left wondering why emergency alerts weren’t on their phones.
Here’s the explanation: the emergency alerts that went out last night came from New York’s Personal Localized Alerting Network, the “PLAN” the Big Apple launched in late 2011.
NYC chief digital officer Rachel Haot confirmed that the messages New Yorkers received last night were the result of a public-private partnership between the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the New York City Office of Emergency Management (OEM), the CTIA and wireless carriers.
While the alerts may look quite similar to text messages, the messages themselves run in parallel, enabling them to get through txt traffic congestion. NYC’s PLAN is the local version of the Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS) that has been rolling out nation-wide over the last year.
“This new technology could make a tremendous difference during
disasters like the recent tornadoes in Alabama where minutes – or even seconds – of extra warning could make the difference between life and death,” said FCC chairman Julius Genachowski, speaking last May in New York City. “And we saw the difference alerting systems can make in Japan, where they have an earthquake early warning system that issued alerts that saved lives.”
NYC was the first city to have it up and running, last December, and less than a year later, the alerts showed up where and when they mattered.
The first such message I saw shared by a New Yorker actually came on October 28th, when the chief digital officer of the Columbia Journalism School, Sree Sreenivasan, tweeted about receiving the alert:
[photo] Nice to get alert from NYC.gov about evacuation (also nice it’s not about our area). #sandy twitter.com/sree/status/26…
— Sree Sreenivasan (@sree) October 28, 2012
He tweeted out the second alert he received, on the night of the 29th, as well:
[photo] COOL TECH: Loud alarm and screen alert about #sandy making landfall in NYC. (cc @digiphile) twitter.com/sree/status/26…
These PLAN alerts go out to everyone in a targeted geographic area with enabled mobile devices, enabling emergency management officials at the state and local level to get an alert to the right people at the right time. And in an emergency like a hurricane, earthquake or fire, connecting affected residents to critical information at the right time and place are essential.
While the government texting him gave national security writer Marc Ambinder some qualms about privacy, the way the data is handled looks much less disconcerting than, say, needing to opt-out of sharing location data or wireless wiretapping.
PLAN alerts are free and automatic, unlike opt-in messages from Notify NYC or signing up for email alerts from OEM.
Not all New Yorkers received an emergency alert during Sandy because not all mobile devices have the necessary hardware installed or have updated relevant software. In May 2011, new iPhones and Android devices already had the chip. (Most older phones, not so much.)
These alerts don’t go out for minor issues, either: the system is only used by authorized state, local or national officials during public safety emergencies. They send the alert to CMAS, it’s authenticated, and then the system pushes it out to all enabled devices in a geographic area.
Emergency alert message on my phone: “Take shelter now!” #eastvillage #sandy instagr.am/p/RYza7_gzGZ/
— Ola Forsstrom-Olsson (@olaforsstrom) October 30, 2012
Consumers receive only three types of messages: alerts issued by the President, Amber Alerts, and alerts involving “imminent threats to safety or life.” The last category covers the ones that went out about Hurricane Sandy in NYC last night.
According to the FCC, participating mobile carriers can allow their subscribers to block all but Presidential alerts, although it may be a little complicated to navigate a website or call center to do so. By 2014, every mobile phone sold in the United States must be CMAS-capable. (You can learn more about CMAS in this PDF). Whether such mobile phones should be subsidized for the poor is a larger question that will be left to the next administration.
Take shelter #emergencyalert twitter.com/CJP_/status/26…
— Cristina(@CJP_) October 30, 2012
As more consumers replace their devices in the years ahead, more people around the United States will also be able to receive these messages, benefiting from a public-private partnership that actually worked to deliver on improved public safety.
At least one New Yorker got the message and listened to it:
“If ‘act’ means stay put, then why yes I did,” tweeted Noreen Whysel, operations manager Information Architecture Institute. “It was enough to convince my husband from going out….”
Here’s hoping New York City doesn’t have use this PLAN to tell her and others about impending disaster again soon.
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ASX falls, gold rises on Trump's tweets
Friday, 2 August 2019 3:35 pm
The futures market is pointing to a fall for the ASX at the start of trade. Credit: AAP
US President Donald Trump has done it again, sending markets around the world into turmoil, tweeting threats to raise tariffs further on China - although Australia's share market emerged less scathed than others.
The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index closed down 20.3 points, or 0.3 per cent, to 6,768.6 at 1615 AEST on Friday, while the broader All Ordinaries was down 25.8 points, or 0.38 per cent, to 6,846.1.
Trump's threats to impose an additional 10 per cent tariff on $US300 billion on Chinese imports by September 1 sent Asian markets tumbling as much as two per cent.
"This certainly shocked the system, especially after the two countries mentioned there'd be a truce at the recent G20 summit," CommSec market analyst James Tao said.
The tweets pushed Australian bond yields to all-time lows and sent commodity prices tumbling, with oil prices plunging eight per cent and iron ore dropping three and a half per cent on fears an escalating trade war could harm global growth.
The energy sector was down 2.5 per cent as a whole, with Beach Energy falling 5.2 per cent, Woodside down 2.3 per cent and Santos down 2.3 per cent.
The mining sector lost 1.3 per cent as a whole, with BHP down 3.7 per cent to $38.78, Fortescue Metals down 6.1 per cent to $7.64, and Rio Tinto down 3.1 per cent to $94.77.
But the price of gold rose a percentage point to $US1,434 an ounce - its highest level against the greenback since early 2013, and its highest price against the Aussie dollar ever.
"In times of unrest gold in particular sees a rally," Mr Tao observed.
The top four gainers on the ASX200 were all gold miners, with Saracen up 10.8 per cent to $4.49, Resolute up 10.7 per cent to $1.86, Newcrest gaining 7.2 per cent to $36.66 and Evolution up 6.6 per cent to $5.15.
Lynas Corp rounded out the top five with a 6.3 per cent gain, to $2.69, after Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad indicated the rare earth miner would not have to remove hundreds of thousands of tonnes of low-level radioactive waste from the country to have its processing plant's license renewed.
Property trusts, also seen as a safe haven, were up 2.1 per cent as a whole, with Goodman Group gaining 3.0 per cent to $15.31, Scentre Group up 2.0 per cent to $4.10 and Mirvac Group up 3.1 per cent to $3.33.
Graincorp fell 5.4 per cent to $8.13 after the bulk grains handler flagged a loss of up to $90 million thanks to continued drought and "significiant" global grain market disruptions.
Bega Cheese also cuts its earnings guidance on drought issues, saying the exit from many farmers from the dairy market had led to unprecedented competitive pressures.
Bega shares fell 4.3 per cent to $4.24.
The big banks were mixed, with ANZ down 0.8 per cent to $27.79 and NAB down 0.5 per cent to $28.51, while Westpac rose 0.1 per cent to $28.82 and Commonwealth was up 0.1 per cent to $81.88.
Bond yields - which fall as investors buy more - suffered their biggest one-day loss since the United Kingdom voted for Brexit on June 24, 2016, with yields on 10-year bonds dropping 10 basis points to an all-time low of 1.09 per cent.
The local currency is at its lowest levels since 2009 against the resurgent US dollar, buying 68.08 US cents, from 68.45 US cents on Thursday.
Looking ahead, US jobs data will be released later on Friday (Australian time), and the Reserve Bank of Australia will announce its latest decision on interest rates on Tuesday, with markets predicting a 49 per cent chance of a rate cut.
* The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index closed down 20.3 points, or 0.3 per cent, to 6,768.6.
* The All Ordinaries closed down 25.8 points, or 0.38 per cent, to 6,841.1.
* At 1630 AEST, the SPI200 futures index was down three points, or 0.04 per cent to 6,706.
* 68.45 US cents, steady with Thursday's local close
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Wales not panicking about England defeat
Andrew Baldock
Tuesday, 13 August 2019 5:29 am
George North (C) says Wales are not panicking after their Rugby World Cup warm-up loss to England. Credit: AP
George North says there is no panic in the Wales camp following their Rugby World Cup warm-up defeat by England.
Wales' 33-19 reversal at Twickenham on Sunday meant a first loss for Warren Gatland's men since February last year, ending a run of 14 wins.
It also dashed their hopes of replacing New Zealand at No.1 in the World Rugby rankings.
And there was a major setback for them on Monday, when flyhalf Gareth Anscombe, who went off just before halftime, was ruled out of World Cup contention due to a serious knee injury.
Despite the Six Nations champions matching England 3-3 on tries, with wing North among the scorers, George Ford's goal-kicking proved a key difference.
Wales have an immediate opportunity to avenge that result when they host England on Saturday, and North knows it is all about a bigger picture.
"We were a bit rusty and I reckon we left four tries out there," North said.
"But we are not panicking. It is what it is. We have to address that and we have a week to get it right for the next Test and we go again.
"You never like losing games, but it has put us in a good place to mentally focus and work out where we need to go.
"This is what these games are for.
"This is what the opportunity is to allow us to play these big games, turn that around and play the weekend after to simulate what is coming up.
"We are still fighting for positions in the squad and every second counts in these weeks and games.
"This is the pointed end of the stick now, when the games come thick and fast."
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'Beast Mode' apparel store a hit
By Darren Rovell
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Landon Douglass really wanted the hat he saw Marshawn Lynch wearing at media day.
So at 3 p.m., on Thursday afternoon, he convinced his mother to make the 25-minute trek from Tempe to Scottsdale. But when they arrived at the Beast Mode Pop Up Shop located inside a cold-pressed juice store, the hats were all gone.
Three straight days of wearing the "MB" logo hat while talking to media gathered to cover the Super Bowl had taken its toll: Douglass, 14, had no chance.
His mom, Mindy, asked him if he wanted something else. "No, just the hat," he says, pouting, not even noticing the table of share size Skittles left out on the table for customers to eat.
Lynch might be a man of few words, but he certainly doesn't lack business savvy.
Seahawks fans filled with a desire for everything green and blue and "12th Man" now have something else to fill their closets with in Lynch's new clothing line. He owns four trademarks to the word "Beast Mode" and have filed three more.
In a one-and-a-half-hour period Thursday, about 60 people walked into the juice bar and made an immediate right to the back where clothing with Lynch's trademark phrase was displayed.
There was James Moquin, a firefighter from Renton, Washington, who came to the shop after his 26-year-old son Mitch texted him details he saw on Facebook. He walked away with a Beast Mode hoodie in green and blue for $58.
And there was Kevin Glidden, who was relieved to get one of the final seven hats remaining Wednesday. He was back in again, buying a Beast Mode sweatshirt for his wife.
In not answering questions by the media this week, Lynch has drawn even more attention to himself. And he's profited off his tact.
A video of him answering silly questions from his sponsor Skittles garnered more than 3.3 million views on YouTube, and a new Progressive spot making fun of his disdain for interviews just debuted.
More than 1,000 hats sold out between the brand's online store and the temporary Scottsdale shop, where he was also selling a shirt that said "About that action BOSS."
It's the line Lynch told NFL Network's Deion Sanders at last year's media day when he hid from the press. Lynch's team, of course, trademarked that phrase, too.
Even though Lynch has walked off the podium when his required time with the media has elapsed, recap after recap has given his "MB" major air time. In fact, sponsorship valuation company Front Row Analytics calculate that Lynch has received $2.6 million in equivalent advertising time from the logo on his hat over the past three days.
It's unknown whether promoting his own brand during Super Bowl media availability will result in a fine from the NFL.
Sources told ESPN on Wednesday that the league would review whether Lynch deserves to get fined for wearing his own logo, which was designed by his graphic designer friend Tommy Heinz.
Lynch's Beast Mode clothing line is in its infancy, but it has the makings of a legitimate operation.
The business is a partnership between Lynch and the agency that represents him, Relativity Sports. Chris Bevans, a former Nike apparel designer, runs the label, which currently has about 25 different products.
"If we do this right, Beast Mode could be doing $50 million in sales within the next five years," said Bevans, who insists Lynch has already received calls from big players in the apparel space who offered to run the business.
They certainly spend a lot of time protecting what they have.
Devin Lacerte, who works hand in hand with a trademark attorney, said that the brand has sent out hundreds of cease and desist letters for anyone who tries to sell Beast Mode without their permission.
As Mindy and Landon Douglass leave the store to begin their trip back to Tempe, the two start discussing Lynch and his decision not to speak when the cameras come on.
"He's making all this money, he should talk to the media," Mindy says.
Landon, of course, backs Lynch.
Said Landon: "I thought it was classic."
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Jim Basquil and ESPN Seahawks reporter Terry Blount discuss Marshawn Lynch's impact on the Seahawks' offense and the relationship he has with his team.
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How to Get Away with Murder 3x3
Always Bet Black
Annalise presents her class with a high-profile murder case that pushes even the Keating 5’s morals, while Laurel makes a shocking discovery through an unlikely source.
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About the Space
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ABOUT BROWNOUT
Texas’ Latin Funk Powerhouse” (Stereogum) Brownout is back with a bar-raising new album The Berlin Sessions, produced by Steve Berlin of Los Lobos. Their first full length album of original music since 2012’s Oozy, the album was recorded immediately after the release of their critically acclaimed Public Enemy Instrumentals project ‘Fear of A Brown Planet.’ The dynamic, supremely funky new LP is their first with lead singer Alex Marrero, whom they originally collaborated with on their wildly successful Brown Sabbath records. The Berlin Sessions finds the group merging a multitude of styles, from rock to psych and of course the Latin Funk and Breakbeat on which they have built their twelve-year career and reputation as Austin’s premiere party-starters. The Berlin Sessions drops in early March on Fat Beats with a pair of shows at Austin’s 3TEN ACL Live.
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2004 All England Masters Championships - Test Piece Review
We look at Peter Graham's fine set work for this years contest - Harrison's Dream.
Harrison's Dream - Peter Graham
Peter Graham wrote this wonderfully descriptive piece for the National Brand Championships of Great Britain held at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday 21st October that year and which was won by the BAYV Cory Band. It has remained since that time one of the most popular major test pieces at the top most level of banding.
It takes its inspiration from a naval disaster of 1707 and the ceaseless work of the clockmaker John Harrison to produce a timepiece that could be used to measure Longitude, and thus enable ships to navigate safely.
The composers relates the story himself : "At 8.00pm on the 22nd of October 1707, the Assocation, flagship of the Royal Navy, struck rocks off the Sicily Isles with the loss of the entire crew. Throughout the rest of the evening the remaining three ships in the fleet suffered the same fate. Only 26 of the original 1647 crew members survived. The disaster was a direct result of an inability to calculate longitude, the most pressing scientific problem of the time. It pushed the longitude question to the forefront of the national consciousness and precipitated the Longitude Act. Parliament funded a prize of �20,000 to anyone whose method or device would solve the dilemma.
For carpenter and self taught clockmaker John Harrison, this was the beginning of a 40 year obsession. To calculate longitude it is necessary to know the time aboard ship and at the home port or place of known longitude, at precisely the same moment. Harrison's dream was to build a clock so accurate that this calculation could be made - an audacious feat of engineering.
This work reflects on aspects of this epic tale, brilliantly brought to life in Dava Sobel's book Longitude. Much of the music is mechanistic in tone and constructed along precise mathematical and metrical lines. The heart of the work however is human - the attraction of the �20,000 prize is often cited as Harrison's motivation.
However, the realisation that countless lives depended on a solution was one that haunted Harrison. The emotional core of the music reflects on this and in particular the evening of the 22nd October 1707."
After those initial Championships, the piece was used as an Own Choice selection at the 2001 Europeans by both BAYV Cory and CWS Glasgow, and by Tredegar in 2002. The popularity of the piece has meant that it will also be used as the set work for the 2004 All England Masters Championships.
It opens in fantastic fashion - marked Allegro quaver = 168. The percussion set the tempo (many have set off as if the clock had been manically overwound) and many a band have come a cropper by trying to play this section too fast. YBS will not want to be reminded of London 2000, when the judges tore them apart before their ship had left dock. There will also be many a second and third cornet player cursing the composer after trying to untangle their third fingers from around the valves.
After that the mechanical approach continues apace with the consistent beat of the clock ticking away in the background and an Eb bass part that only the best will master. And if you thought the tempo at the beginning was high, come the Ritmico at letter E it flicks up a couple of gears and moves into electric territory at quaver = 192. Ritmico and bleeding hard. Around letter H the cornets have a devilish part before we move into a grotesque waltz feature (all druken sailors) whic features a nautical bit of euph playing. There is then a lovely section of playing that is marked Largo which features a plaintive cornet sol before we move into a section of calmness as if the sea itself is clear and the wind is settled.
The cornets though have a tough time of it (up amongst the crows nest in range) with their part soaring up to top C and D - all with a sense of serenity. It is mightily difficult, but when it comes off it is quite beautiful. The tenderness continues before we come to the most surreal moment of the work when the echoes of the lost souls of previous ships are marked with ghostly small bells. This is a section that is sometimes overlooked as just effect, but when it is played with intelligence and understanding it is as moving as you like and sends a shiver down the spine. You can almost feel the ships slipping below the waves, their bells ringing out for a last desperate time before the vessel and it's sailors sink to the leviathan depths.
Then comes triumph as Harrison sets to work once more and finally cracks the problem - the tempo is once more frantic, as if he despairs that he will never find the secret of Longitude before the final build of intensity to the climax of his historic achievemnt. The calmness returns and for once Harrison after such a long and tortuous self journey finds peace (and a few bob in his pocket). The music finally ends with a huge chord of declaration. Harrison has achieved his dream.
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Loveless, but not lawless
"Ambling Towards Oblivion: Russell Brand, the Posh Left and the Politics of Class" by Kim Nicolini. The 'Posh Left' is more of an enemy of the people than the 1% itself. And what about the almost ubiquitous warmongering of the 'Posh Left'? One is left with the issue of whether the left has been intentionally ruined by a particular warmongering group which has traditionally made up a disproportionate part of 'progressive' politics.
"6 Things You Buy That Help Support Israeli Brutality"
"Contracting Case Implicates 2 Admirals" These are both extremely high level military intelligence officials (which makes me wonder if there is more going on here). "Correction: November 8, 2013: A previous version of this article misstated on second reference the last name of one of the admirals involved in the naval investigation. He is Bruce Loveless, not Bruce Lawless."
"Israel's History of Assassinating Palestinian Leaders" "Yes… Arafat was poisoned and Israel killed him, but what can we do?" "Road map for a decease plan" Israel had motive and opportunity, was one of a tiny group with access to the peculiar murder weapon (and the only one with motive to kill Arafat, and the only one with both access to the murder weapon and access to the people around Arafat), and had a stated intent to assassinate him and a documented history of many, many attempts to do so. Yet we are still being asked to entertain the possibility that somebody other than Israel was behind this!
"How China Can Cause The Death Of The Dollar And The Entire U.S. Financial System" The American shift on the Middle East is just a tragically belated realization of the perils of allowing your foreign affairs to be run solely for the group supremacist interests of World Jewry. There is a lot of the usual bullshit, but the Kerry interview is striking in its unprecedented clarity.
"Scientists Warn of Extreme Risk: Greatest Short-term Threat to Humanity is From Fukushima Fuel Pools" It is long past time for the world to take serious measures against Japan in order to force it to remove the corrupt and incompetent Tepco and allow international experts to take over. Start by withdrawing the Olympics. We're headed for a mega-disaster caused entirely by lack of attention to the magnitude of the problem.
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Fake graves
"Libya Must Fall: The Fallacy of a New World Beginning":
"No one reading this report will be surprised to hear George Soros’ Open Society Foundations is neck deep in this regime change. The man who essentially got Obama elected in the first place, he and his NGO have been implicated in many political machinations. This Arizona Daily Independent opinion piece by casts a blistering light on John McCain, the aforementioned Levin, and a neocon system of levers most are aware of, but know not how to confront. I’ve not the space to go into McCain’s shady past here, but his face on crisis has been adequately established. It was the Soros connection to the defense spending champion that caught my eye.
George Soros’ gift of $100 million dollars to Human Rights Watch did not make big news back in 2010. Human Rights Watch was thrilled though. A few months later, Human Rights Watch reported on the International Criminal Court (ICC) charging both Muammar Gaddafi, and his son Saif al-Islam Gaddafi with crimes against humanity. Human Rights Watch’s position in this strategy was to validate and provide presidents for a tribunal, at least in my view. This quote from the report by HRW is telling:
“Should the court issue an arrest warrant for Gaddafi, it would not be the first warrant for a sitting head of state by an international court. In 1999, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia issued its first indictment against Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.”
Almost immediately after ICC head prosecutor Moreno Ocampo issued an arrest warrant for the Gaddafis on 7 June 2011, 30 nations recognized the Libyan rebels of the NTC as the legitimate government of the country. A key in understanding how collusion and influence parlay uprisings is in understanding how the Open Society Foundations grants and meetups operate. Central to the legitimacy of Gadaffi’s overthrow, was the notion he was a tyrant and a killer. Legitimacy for the White House agenda comes in many forms."
"Upholding Abuse in Venezuela" HRW is upset that the ultra-right in Venezuela has been unable to absolve itself of various acts of sedition.
"Israel agrees to replace ‘pro-settlement’ Brazil ambassador" The US got Brazil's very sloppy seconds. Then a color revolution broke out!
A comment by DJG in the Naked Capitalism comments on the tragic Brazilian coup, a return to the generals staged by people known to be massively corrupt ostensibly based on the corruption of a woman who is known, with certainty, not to be corrupt:
"Why torture is corrupting. From the Guardian article about the impeachment vote in the chamber of deputies in Brazil:
“On a dark night, arguably the lowest point was when Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right deputy from Rio de Janeiro, dedicated his yes vote to Carlos Brilhante Ustra, the colonel who headed the Doi-Codi torture unit during the dictatorship era. Rousseff, a former guerrilla, was among those tortured. Bolsonaro’s move prompted left-wing deputy Jean Wyllys to spit towards him.
“Eduardo Bolsonaro, his son and also a deputy, used his time at the microphone to honour the general responsible for the military coup in 1964.”
And as the U.S. seeks to avoid responsibility for torture at the black sites, Bagram, Guantanamo, and elsewhere, the same corruption undermines the government and enables the most immoral politicians."
"What the election results tell about the reality of war-torn Syria":
"The voter participation rate is key to this election, more important than the individual candidates who were elected. Here’s why: you need to understand elections in a constitutionally-created state, in which one party dominates, in terms of a strike vote in a trade union. It demonstrates continuing confidence in the leadership at a turning point in the struggle. A union would not be satisfied with a strike vote of 58%, going into a strike. And probably the Syrian government would have wished for a higher rate going into the negotiations at Geneva. But it knew from the start that holding the elections under the conditions of war and occupation was a gamble, because there are a lot of eligible voters living outside of Syria right now, living in places besieged by the terrorists, and who have died but not yet been accounted for. Taking into account these factors, the participation rate would probably have been much higher.
Among our solidarity delegation, we have been pleased that the Syrian authorities did not try to inflate the figures to make the election results appear better than they actually were: it reinforces our contention that the Syrian government is a credible force in the serious negotiations ahead."
"‘Fake Jewish graves in Muslim cemeteries’: UNESCO slams Israeli occupation of Palestinian sites"
"She’ll make Iran, Syria worse: What the media won’t tell you about our foreign policy — and how hawkish Hillary will pour the kerosene"
"In Praise of James Petras":
"Petras shows how the US government is to some degree a private tool for advancing Jewish interests. He points, for example, to the position of Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence within the US Treasury Department, filled by Stuart Levey. Showing his sense of caustic humor, he notes who followed Levey: “Levey’s successor, David Cohen (who else!) followed the same policy.” The result was that “Multi-national banks and corporations, which had corrupted officials, swindled investors, evaded taxes and laundered illicit funds were never investigated, let alone charged. Cohen devoted his time and effort, at Israel’s behest, enforcing sanctions against Iran and endeavoring to sabotage any US.-Iran nuclear negotiations.”"
"The Killer Hiding in the CDC Map" This is great for a number of reasons.
Judas Corbyn
Cowards, stooges, and fools.
She ran back in the building
The Human Rights Industrial Complex
It didn't match
Quite unusual
Skywriting
"We are proud of that!"
Who would you save first?
Hoax plot
'Terrorist' ID
WWIII Begins
Arrrr
.00161%
Pistons popping, ain't no stopping now!
#ÖÖÖEEEEEEEAAAAAAĞĞĞĞĞĞHHHHH
Militant engineers
Micro and macro agressions
It can't happen here
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Bone Saw II, the Sequel
"The CIA Sent Warnings to at Least 3 Khashoggi Associates About New Threats From Saudi Arabia" (Meyer).
"'Never Seen So Many Weapons': LAPD Seize 1,000 Guns At Bel-Air Mansion" (Durden). Minor missing detail - it is a Getty family house. Why did Durden remove that particular detail?
"Eurovision protests grow in solidarity with Palestine" (Abunimah). It is a travesty that the Eurotrash allowed the Khazars to rig the last contest so they could arrange to host this one, On the other hand, this may turn into more of an embarrassment for the Khazars than the PR stunt they were planning.
"Misled again by the arbiters of anti-semitism" (Cook). OK, but far better to simply completely ignore Jewsplaining directed to the stupid goyim (unless, of course, you are truly woke and do the opposite of what (((they))) order).
"Judgment Day for John Brennan" (Whitney). I'm sure Brennan was the prime instigator of the coup d'etat conspiracy. I'm also sure nothing will be done about it, as the Swamp protects its flanks. I'm guessing Nellie Ohr and Peter Strozyk will take the fall, deservedly so, but in lieu of the really bad guys.
"Another Whistleblower Bites the Dust as The Intercept Adds a Third Notch to Its Burn Belt" (Webb):
"Another possibility is that someone else at the Intercept other than Scahill was made aware of Hale’s identity, a point raised years ago by CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou and recently pointed out by independent journalist Caitlin Johnstone. After it was revealed that the Intercept had obtained information from a whistleblower on drone warfare, which turned out to be Daniel Hale, in 2015, Kiriakou tweeted: “New drone whistleblower at The Intercept. For God’s sake don’t let Matthew Cole learn his identity.”
Cole, as will be noted later on in this report, has been accused by Kiriakou for outing him as a journalistic source to the federal government and, two years after Kiriakou’s tweet, was believed to have helped lead federal investigators to Intercept source Reality Winner in 2017. Thus, it is possible that Cole or another employee of the online publication had learned of Hale’s identity from Scahill and then passed it along, either intentionally or inadvertently, to the government."
"Most concerning of all, the FBI warrant also notes that the reporter in question – who is unnamed in the document – contacted a government contractor with whom he had a prior relationship and revealed where the documents had been postmarked from – Winner’s hometown of Augusta, Georgia – along with Winner’s work location. He also sent unedited images of the documents that contained the tracking dot security markings that allowed the documents to be traced to Winner. Jesselyn Radack as well as whistleblower John Kiriakou, who served two and a half years in prison for exposing the CIA’s illegal torture program, have since asserted that Matthew Cole was the journalist mentioned in this warrant. Well prior to being hired by the Intercept, Cole’s behavior was known to have been a key factor that led to Kiriakou being outed as a confidential source, which led to his arrest. Upon learning of Hale’s arrest, Kiriakou openly speculated upon whether the outlet was incomptent or compromised.
Despite this track record, the Intercept hired Cole anyway. Cole continues to write for the Intercept and appears to have suffered no negative consequences for his alleged role in outing Winner. Intercept editor-in-chief Reed took responsibility for the acts on the part of the publication that led to Winner’s arrest and “for making sure that the internal newsroom issues that contributed to it are resolved.” Reed remains employed by the Intercept and continues to make a hefty six-figure salary. Winner is currently serving a five year and three month prison sentence for releasing a classified NSA document in relation to alleged Russian intrusion of a U.S. election software supplier.
Furthermore, journalist Barrett Brown — who served a lengthy 63-month prison sentence for linking to hacked material — has recently stated that Intercept journalist Sam Biddle played a role in his imprisonment, further worsening the optics of the publication’s track record. Brown originally faced a combined sentence of over 100 years in prison before negotiating a plea deal."
"The Green New Deal, Israel, and Mayor Pete" (Sniegoski). Sniegoski is very good, so this is oddly off. Obviously, a brokered convention is the trick to get Killary back in, or some Killary surrogate, and it is literally impossible to conceive of the Clintonista power brokers using their machinations for some white guy, albeit a gay one. On top of all that, is it not obvious that Trump would tweet him to political death?
"Trudeau continues push to overthrow Venezuela’s government" (Engler). I wonder what all these people think when they talk to Trudeau and realize that he is obsessed with Venezuela (wtf!?), and only wants to talk about pushing for a completely illegal, and completely Evil (not to mention, completely hopeless), coup! If they assume that he has not completely lost his mind, they have to think he is angling to get something in return from the Assholians for cucking so hard on this issue.
The essential problem with dumping on Trudeau is that the Liberals are uniquely competent at governing, so you give up a grievous amount to send a message: tweet (Tyler Meredith):
"These are the things that matter in people’s lives Since @JustinTrudeau took office: — 1,043,000 more people working — unemployment near historic low — 825,000 fewer in poverty — child poverty by third — 90% of Canadians have more compared to 2015 tax system #cdnpoli"
Regional threats
Partly because Sheldon Adelson likes him
'Advice' from the Yanks
Turkey versus CIA
Priceless state-stabilization experiences
We’re not looking for regime change
WFTJ, WTF?
US chaos
Rounding error
Lap dogs and lackeys
Just think about John Bolton as a human being
We’ll take over your media and destroy your countr...
'Faced
Useful purpose on the ground
No, they know that you are cowards and hypocrites
Innocence and self-pity
Fat Slim
'Terrorists' and 'gunmen'
The cult of the exterminated
Pierre!
Strange case
Failed to follow through
J. Q.
Secret reason
Complete failure / no one decent
The Fix and Fits
Aggressive mocking / excremental attempt
Constitutional legitimacy
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Exploring The Future Curtis Counce Quintet
West Coast Jazz
Boplicity
CDBOPM 007
Exploring The Future (MP3), MP3 (£7.99)
Ace Records’ Boplicity label was one of the earliest entries into the jazz reissues market in the mid-1980s. The short release schedule covered classic modern jazz from the 50s and 60s, taking in music originally released by Blue Note, Riverside, Prestige and various smaller independents. We are now re-launching the label as home for our small but distinct catalogue of 1950s and 1960s modern jazz. Featuring bonus tracks wherever possible, each release will strive for the highest quality in sound reproduction, using fresh transfers of the original master tapes.
Our first batch of releases comprises albums recorded by Dexter Gordon, Carl Perkins, Curtis Counce and Buddy Collette for Dootsie William’s Dootone label. A fixture of the Los Angeles scene since the early 1930s, Williams set up his label in the late 40s to take advantage of the nascent vocal group scene. Dootone scored a big hit in 1954 with ‘Earth Angel’ by the Penguins, which allowed him to indulge his passion for jazz.
Bassist Curtis Counce was an in-demand player from the moment he arrived in Los Angeles in the late 40s. His group included pianist Carl Perkins, trumpeter Jack Sheldon and the incredible saxophonist Harold Land. Signed by Contemporary, they released two fine hard bop albums in 1956 and 1957. By the time of their Dootone album “Exploring The Future” – which featured an astounding cover of Counce in an orange spacesuit – Perkins had died and Sheldon had left the group. The record was exceptional, although different from their earlier material, the arrival of Elmo Hope on piano making for a busier sound.
By Dean Rudland
01 Preview So Nice
02 Preview Angel Eyes
03 Preview Into The Orbit
04 Preview Move
05 Preview Race For Space
06 Preview Someone To Watch Over Me
07 Preview Exploring The Future
08 Preview The Countdown
09 Preview Foreplay
10 Preview Chasing The Bird
11 Preview Move (Unedited version of master)
12 Preview Head Gear aka The Countdown (Unedited version of master)
A must-own reissue ★★★★
Record Collector
Exploring The Future (MP3)
Curtis Counce Quintet
The Swingin'st
Vido Musso
Introducing...Carl Perkins
Cools Out
Chet Baker Quintette (MP3)
Shelly Manne & Co (MP3)
Shelly Manne & Co
Do It The Hard Way: The Riverside Years
The Swingin'st (MP3)
Introducing Carl Perkins (MP3)
Chet Baker Quintette
Buddy's Best
Buddy Collette Quintet
Buddy's Best (MP3)
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Eastern Christian High School
Enrollment Campaign 2014-2015
Services Used: Strategy, Web, Design, Direct Mail, Print
Client Situation
With lackluster enrollment applications in prior years, Eastern Christian High School was struggling to raise the number of students attending. As a response, an enrollment and marketing manager was hired in order to implement a successful strategy. EC wanted a new vision that focused on enrollment in a different way and capitalized on their affordable tuition. They needed help increasing awareness of their tuition program and boosting enrollment overall in a way that supplemented the new digital strategies they were already employing.
This type of project required a data-first approach, making Action Graphics an ideal candidate to assist Eastern Christian. We wanted to focus on attracting two groups of prospective parents; one based on the demographic of current EC families, the other on psychographic profile. We then created a program comprised of 3 direct mail pieces with varied messaging respective to the group of prospects that also included ways to track the performance of each touch. Since our goal was to increase enrollment and promote affordable tuition, the campaign theme reinforced the availability of a high quality Christian education.
The direct mail program consisted of 3 oversized postcards—each with messaging tailored to the recipient group—which contained links to personalized URLs (pURL) we set up for the campaign. The ability to track the performance of each mail piece was imperative, and the pURLs allowed us to understand who was following through on our call to action which was a prompt to learn more about EC’s offerings and ultimately to apply. If a recipient did not apply, they continued receiving the postcards. Once someone did apply, they were removed from the list. Following the 3 mail touches, we analyzed the website data to better understand who was engaged enough to learn more by visiting the pURL. Anyone considered highly engaged but who didn’t apply was sent a highlight personalized fourth mail touch with a “handwritten” note and brochure on the school.
This direct mail program helped contribute to a banner year for enrollment. More people than ever became aware of the school, its mission and affordability which helped increase applications from the prior year by 900%!
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PLUTA, ANDRZEJ
Anwil Wloclawek 10 Guard
Height: 1.83 Born: 26 April, 1974 Nationality: Poland
Totals 10 10 263:32 122 12/24 27/55 17/18 6 10 16 14 9 11 0 8 36 16 81
Averages 10 10 26:21 12.2 50% 49.1% 94.4% 0.6 1 1.6 1.4 0.9 1.1 0 0.8 3.6 1.6 8.1
1 * vs Azovmash Mariupol 20:09 11 2/2 2/7 1/1 2 2 1 1 1 5 3 5
2 * at Skyliners Frankfurt 35:11 20 1/2 4/6 6/6 2 1 3 1 16
3 * at Pamesa Valencia 17:37 0/3 0/2 1 1 2 4 -10
4 * vs Khimki 25:35 13 1/1 3/5 2/2 1 2 1 1 5 2 9
5 * at SLUC Nancy 27:21 12 2/3 2/3 2/2 1 1 1 3 1 8
6 * at Azovmash Mariupol 35:06 12 2/3 2/8 2/2 2 2 4 2 2 1 2 1 11
7 * vs Skyliners Frankfurt 31:39 19 1/2 5/7 2/3 1 5 6 4 2 2 4 4 25
8 * vs Pamesa Valencia 20:41 13 2/2 3/4 1 4 7
9 * at Khimki 24:10 11 0/2 3/5 2/2 1 1 2 2 4 3 7
10 * vs SLUC Nancy 26:03 11 1/4 3/8 1 1 2 3 3 2 2 1 3
10 Totals 263:32 122 12/24 27/55 17/18 6 10 16 14 9 11 0 8 36 16 81
Average 26:21 12.2 50% 49.1% 94.4% 0.6 1 1.6 1.4 0.9 1.1 0 0.8 3.6 1.6 8.1
Index rating 25 Anwil Wloclawek vs. Fraport Skyliners Frankfurt 12/18/2007
Points 23 Anwil Wloclawek vs. Ventspils 11/28/2006
Offensive rebounds 2 Azovmash Mariupol vs. Anwil Wloclawek 12/11/2007
Defensive rebounds 5 Anwil Wloclawek vs. Fraport Skyliners Frankfurt 12/18/2007
Total rebounds 6 Anwil Wloclawek vs. Fraport Skyliners Frankfurt 12/18/2007
Assists 5 Anwil Wloclawek vs. Strasbourg 11/7/2006
Steals 3 Anwil Wloclawek vs. SLUC Nancy 1/22/2008
Blocks 0 Anwil Wloclawek vs. PEPSI CASERTA 12/21/2010
Minutes 40 Anwil Wloclawek vs. Strasbourg 11/7/2006
Made his debut with Pogon Ruda Slaska (Poland) during the 1991-92 season.
Signed for the 1994-95 season by Stal Bobrek Bytom.
Signed for the 1999-00 season by Pogon Ruda Slaska.
Signed for the 2000-01 season by Czarni Slupsk.
Signed for the 2001-02 season by Hoop Blachy Pruszkow.
Signed for the 2002-03 season by WTK Anwil Wloclawek.
Signed for the 2003-04 season by Prokom Trefl Sopot.
Moved to France for the 2004-05 season, signed by Chalons-en-Champagne.
Back to Poland for the 2005-06 season, signed by KS Turow Zgorzelec.
Won the 2002-03 Polish National Championship with WTK Anwil Wloclawek.
Won the 2003-04 Polish National Championship with Porkom Trefl Sopot.
Won the 2007 Polish National Cup with WTK Anwil Wloclawek.
Won the 2007 Polish Super Cup with WTK Anwil Wloclawek.
Played the 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 Polish All Star Game.
Won the 2003, 2006, 2008 and 2009 Polish All Star Game 3Pts. Contest.
Named the 2008 Polish All Star Game MVP.
Has been member of the Polish U-22 National Team.
Member of the Polish National Team.
Played at the 1997 and 2007 European Championship.
2003-04 Prokom Trefl Sopot 10 119 11.9 29/51 56.9 11/36 30.6 28/31 90.3 12 5 13 0
2006-07 Anwil Wloclawek 9 149 16.6 24/49 49 22/51 43.1 35/40 87.5 3 7 20 0
2007-08 Anwil Wloclawek 10 122 12.2 12/24 50 27/55 49.1 17/18 94.4 16 9 14 0
2010-11 Anwil Wloclawek 6 78 13 15/28 53.6 12/32 37.5 12/12 100 7 3 5 0
Totals 35 468 13.4 80/152 52.6 72/174 41.4 92/101 91.1 38 24 52 0
Averages 35 468 13.4 80/152 52.6 72/174 41.4 92/101 91.1 1.1 0.7 1.5 0
1998/99 Bobrek B. 28 435 15.5 96/173 55.5 55/109 50.5 51/66 77.3 61 41 69 …
1999/00 Pogon R. 29 502 17.3 112/201 55.7 48/114 42.1 134/149 89.9 61 50 65 …
2000/01 Czarni S. 34 606 17.8 114/212 53.8 87/217 40.1 117/131 89.3 50 90 83 0
2001/02 Pruszkow 39 632 16.2 123/218 56.4 83/176 47.2 137/153 89.5 66 51 58 1
2002/03 Anwil 44 609 13.8 127/221 57.5 89/199 44.7 88/102 86.3 67 65 96 3
2003/04 Prokom 35 400 11.4 62/122 50.8 70/156 44.9 66/79 83.5 50 41 45 1
2004/05 Chalons 34 454 13.4 100/197 50.8 56/166 33.7 86/96 89.6 56 28 93 0
2005/06 Turow 29 434 15 99/166 59.6 51/96 53.1 83/91 91.2 39 61 51 2
2006/07 Anwil 39 597 15.3 113/208 54.3 79/168 47 134/149 89.9 68 88 48 1
2007/08 Anwil 25 314 12.6 63/122 51.6 44/107 41.1 56/64 87.5 28 38 22 3
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Tag Archives: Basketball
FOLLOWING LAKERS’ KOBE BRYANT, WARRIORS’ STEPH CURRY ANNOUNCES HIS RETIREMENT
November 29, 2015 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment
Bryant, left, and Curry
OAKLAND, California (The Adobo Chronicles) – Just moments after basketball star Kobe Bryant of the L.A. Lakers announced that he will be retiring at the end of the current NBA season, The Golden State Warriors’ Steph Curry shocked the sports world by announcing he is retiring effective immediately.
“It’s a matter of knowing when to quit,” Curry told The Adobo Chronicles. “There is no better time to retire than when my team has achieved an all-time record start of 18-0 in this current season,” Curry added. “I’m just following the example of boxing champion Floyd Mayweather who has retired after a zero loss record.”
Asked what he’s going to do next, Curry said he will devote 100% of his time to his family. He has two daughters with his wife Ayesha — Riley (the press confererence darling) and Ryan Carson.
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GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS, NBA CHAMPS, TO CELEBRATE ‘LAGLAG BALA’
SAN FRANCISCO, California (The Adobo Chronicles) – NBA champions Golden State Warriors will hold a fundraiser to celebrate laglag bala, the now internationally-recognized extortion scheme at Manila’s Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA). The scheme involves the alleged ‘planting’ by airport personnel of bullets in bags of unsuspecting passengers.
The Warriors will host a Filipino Heritage event at a California casino on November 14, and will be wearing special edition “shooting shirts,” according to an announcement by event organizers.
In response to a query by The Adobo Chronicles on the significance of the shooting shirts, the organizers said the basketball champs recognize the extraordinary accomplishment by NAIA in putting the Philippines on the world map through the laglag bala scheme.
Proceeds from the sale of the shooting shirts will go towards the continued improvement and modernization of NAIA.
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Military, Sports
FILIPINO ARMY RESERVISTS CALLED TO ACTIVE DUTY FOLLOWING BASKETBALL TEAM’S LOSS TO CHINA
October 4, 2015 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment
Lt. Col. Pacquiao, left, and Lt. Col. Henares
MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – The Armed Forces of the Philippines Reserve Command (RESCOM) has called hundreds of thousands of army reservists to active duty following the Philippines’ loss to China in yesterday’s FIBA Basketball Asia Championship game. The Filipino team, Gilas, lost the 2015 title to China 78-67.
The 2015 FIBA Asia Championship game was held in Changsha, Huna, China.
The Filipinos accused China of cooking the game through bad calls by Chinese referees.
The Philippines and China are embroiled in a territorial dispute over the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.
Till yesterday, the Philippine government has been passive in dealing with the dispute, choosing to resolve the hot button issue through diplomatic means, including filing a formal protest with the United Nations.
Gilas’ loss — its second failed attempt in a row at the much-coveted title — was too much for the Philippines to bear, so it decided to bear arms instead.
“We’ve been trying our best to be sportsman-like in dealing with the South China Sea conflict, but it seems that the Chinese can’t be sport enough even in a supposedly friendly competition like basketball,” President NoyNoy Aquino said.
Among those called to active duty were Filipino champion boxer and Congressman Manny Pacquiao, a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve; and Internal Revenue Commissioner Kim Henares, lieutenant colonel in the Air Force Reserve.
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54 Days in Prison and Counting for Ethiopia's Zone 9 Bloggers
Free Zone 9 Bloggers banner. Original design by Hugh D'Andrade, remixed by Hisham Almiraat.
It has been 54 days since six members of the Zone Nine blogging collective [am] and three journalists believed to be associated with the group were arrested in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The group formed in 2012 in an effort to report on and increase public discussion about political and social issues affecting a diverse cross-section of Ethiopian society.
On their Facebook page, they describes themselves as young Ethiopians seeking to use fact-based reporting and analysis to create a new, more nuanced narrative of life in Ethiopia today:
Zone9 is an informal group of young Ethiopian bloggers working together to create an alternative independent narration of the socio-political conditions in Ethiopia and thereby foster public discourse that will result in emergence of ideas for the betterment of the Nation
The bloggers have appeared in court at four times since their arrest on April 25, 2014 — their next court date has been set for July 12, 2014. Each time, police have asked for more time to carry out their investigation of the group. Although they have been informally accused of “working with foreign organizations that claim to be human rights activists and agreeing in idea and receiving finance to incite public violence through social media,” they have been issued no formal charges as of yet. Close friends and allies of the group fear that they will be charged with terrorism, similar to journalists Eskinder Nega and Reeyot Alemu, both Ethiopian journalists who have been in prison since 2011.
Following their arrest, Global Voices Online released a statement calling for their release, invited supporters to join the #FreeZone9Bloggers campaign through letter-writing and online efforts, and organised the FreeZone9Bloggers Tweetathon on May 14, 2014.
As the Zone9 bloggers continue to languish in jail, the Ethiopian government is allegedly training bloggers to attack those who criticise the government online:
The Ethiopian Government is trying to reduce online criticism by training recruits to attack information on the web that are critical of its administration, the Ethiopian Satellite Television Service (ESAT) reported.
According to the report, in the second round of new recruits, 235 bloggers were trained in Adama on Facebook and other social media sites on how to shape public opinion by posting comments and documents that support the regime.
The training was given to selected people from different ethnic groups who support the regime, and that the trainees report directly to government officials, ESAT said.
So far, the trainees have opened 2,350 Facebook, Twitter and blog accounts to show the Ethiopian regime in a favorable light, and to criticize anti-government articles, websites, the Ethiopian opposition and the Eritrean government
Nigerian British YouTube comedian Ikenna Azuike dedicated an episode of his satirical news show “What's Up Africa” to the bloggers’ plight. In “Zone 9 Bloggers Paradise in Ethiopia,” he jests:
Just because [Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn] ordered the arrest of nine people who happen to be bloggers and journalists doesn't mean this is part of the biggest crackdown on dissent since the 2005 post-election mass arrests.
Why is the Ethiopian government afraid of bloggers? Alemayehu G. Mariam explained:
“Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets,” fretted Napoleon Bonaparte, dictator of France, as he declared war on that country’s independent press. For the regime in Ethiopia, the pens and computer keyboards of a handful of independent journalists and bloggers are more to be feared than ten thousand bayonets mounted on AK-47s. All dictators and tyrants in history have feared the enlightening powers of the independent press. The benighted dictators in Ethiopia fear the enlightening powers of an independent press more than the firepower of several fully equipped infantry divisions.
Total control of the media and suppression of independent journalists remains the wicked obsession of the regime. They believe that by controlling the flow of information, they can control the hearts and minds of the people. They believe they can fabricate truth out of falsehood by controlling the media. By crushing the independent press, they believe they can fool all of the people all of the time. But they know deep down in their stone cold hearts that “truth will not forever remain on the scaffold, nor wrong remain forever on the throne.” They live each day in the land of living lies fearful of losing their throne.
The author continued:
The E bloggers and journalists are special Ethiopian heroes and heroines. They are truth-tellers and -warriors. They fight tyranny with their pens and computer keyboards. Their ammunition are truth, words, ideas, facts and opinions. They slay falsehoods with the sword of truth. They chase bad ideas with good ones and advocate replacing old ideas with new ones. They fight the people’s despair with words of hope. They teach the people that fear is overcome with acts of courage. They fight ignorance and powerful ignoramuses with knowledge and reason. They stand up to arrogance and hubris with defiant humility. They seek to transform intolerance with forbearance; resist oppression with perseverance and defeat doubt with faith. They fight with their pens and keyboards on the battleground that is the hearts and minds of the Ethiopian people.
On Twitter, friends and supporters are keeping awareness alive using the hashtag #Zone9Bloggers:
@gerardvanmourik @endalk2006 @Eshete #zone9bloggers will overcome someday! #change will visit #ethiopia and no one will be able to stop her
— twsgy™ (@twsgy) June 10, 2014
@natnaelteklu this sums up why #Zone9Bloggers or any concerned citizen is jailed in #Ethiopia, #FreeZone9Bloggers pic.twitter.com/wO11vcRtzd
— Fitsum Tilahun (@fitse_t) June 10, 2014
Slowly losing track of # of days #Zone9Bloggers jailed, but not losing track of them. 1 is a numerical issue, the other is a human issue.
— Maaza Mengiste (@MaazaMengiste) June 7, 2014
What makes#Zone9Bloggers incarceration different from a multitude of injustices's z regime taking long 2come up with usual concocted charges
— Kiflu Hussain (@HussainKiflu) June 10, 2014
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Harrison educator wins Arkansas Rural Teacher of the Year for 2015
Jul 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
Little Rock, Ark. — July 10, 2015 — Harrison High School’s Tammye Stahler, a math instructor, is the 2015 Arkansas Rural Teacher of the Year. The award is sponsored by the Arkansas Rural Education Association and the Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas.
Stahler, who has taught for more than 25 years, said, “Our children are unique individuals and each bring a different perspective to the learning environment. The learning environment should be non-threatening, safe and conducive to learning.”
Her goal as a teacher is to ensure that students leave her classroom academically improved and focused on being productive citizens. “I believe as a teacher, I am responsible for giving them a great education and instilling values that will be important to their success in the community,” she said. “If you show students you care, they will strive to meet and exceed the expectations you set for them.”
Stahler has taught exclusively at rural schools, including Mena Public Schools, Rich Mountain Community College, Harrison High School and North Arkansas Community College. She holds an Associate of General Studies degree from Rich Mountain Community College, a Bachelor of Science degree in education from Henderson State University, and a Master of Arts in education from Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Mo.
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Consciousness and altered states
Illustration by Richard Wilkinson
Hive consciousness
New research puts us on the cusp of brain-to-brain communication. Could the next step spell the end of individual minds?
is a Canadian science-fiction author and former marine biologist. His latest novel is Echopraxia (2014).
You already know that we can run machines with our brainwaves. That’s been old news for almost a decade, ever since the first monkey fed himself using a robot arm and the power of positive thinking. Nowadays, even reports of human neuroprostheses barely raise an eyebrow. Brain-computer interfaces have become commonplace in everything from prosthetic vision to video games (a lot of video games; Emotiv and NeuroSky are perhaps the best-known purveyors of Mind Control to the gaming crowd) to novelty cat ears that perk up on your head when you get horny.
But we’ve moved beyond merely thinking orders at machinery. Now we’re using that machinery to wire living brains together. Last year, a team of European neuroscientists headed by Carles Grau of the University of Barcelona reported a kind of – let’s call it mail-order telepathy – in which the recorded brainwaves of someone thinking a salutation in India were emailed, decoded and implanted into the brains of recipients in Spain and France (where they were perceived as flashes of light).
You might also remember breathless reports of a hive mind emerging from the depths of Duke University in North Carolina during the winter of 2013. Miguel Pais-Vieira and his colleagues had wired together the brains of two rats. Present a stimulus to one, and the other would press a lever. The headlines evoked images of one mind reaching into another, commandeering its motor systems in a fit of Alien Paw Syndrome.
Of course, the press goes overboard sometimes. Once you look past those headlines you notice that Reaction Rat had been pre-trained to press his lever whenever he felt a particular itch in his motor cortex (in exactly the same way you’d train him to respond to a flashing light, for example). There was no fused consciousness. It was a step forward, but you don’t get to claim membership in the Borg Collective just because a stimulus happens to tickle you from the inside.
And yet, more recently, Rajesh Rao (of the University of Washington’s Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering) reported what appears to be a real Alien Hand Network – and going Pais-Vieira one better, he built it out of people. Someone thinks a command; downstream, someone else responds by pushing a button without conscious intent. Now we’re getting somewhere.
There’s a machine in a lab in Berkeley, California, that can read the voxels right off your visual cortex and figure out what you’re looking at based solely on brain activity. One of its creators, Kendrick Kay, suggested back in 2008 that we’d eventually be able to read dreams (also, that we might want to take a closer look at certain privacy issues before that happened). His best guess was that this might happen a few decades down the road – but it took only four years for a computer in a Japanese lab to predict the content of hypnagogic hallucinations (essentially, dreams without REM) at 60 per cent accuracy, based entirely on fMRI data.
When Moore’s Law shaves that much time off the predictions of experts, it’s not too early to start wondering about consequences. What are the implications of a technology that seems to be converging on the sharing of consciousness?
It would be a lot easier to answer that question if anyone knew what consciousness is. There’s no shortage of theories. The neuroscientist Giulio Tononi at the University of Wisconsin-Madison claims that consciousness reflects the integration of distributed brain functions. A model developed by Ezequiel Morsella, of San Francisco State University, describes it as a mediator between conflicting motor commands. The panpsychics regard it as a basic property of matter – like charge, or mass – and believe that our brains don’t generate the stuff so much as filter it from the ether like some kind of organic spirit-catchers. Neuroscience superstar V S Ramachandran (University of California in San Diego) blames everything on mirror neurons; Princeton’s Michael Graziano – right here in Aeon – describes it as an experiential map.
I think they’re all running a game on us. Their models – right or wrong – describe computation, not awareness. There’s no great mystery to intelligence; it’s easy to see how natural selection would promote flexible problem-solving, the triage of sensory input, the high-grading of relevant data (aka attention).
But why would any of that be self-aware?
If physics is right – if everything ultimately comes down to matter, energy and numbers – then any sufficiently accurate copy of a thing will manifest the characteristics of that thing. Sapience should therefore emerge from any physical structure that replicates the relevant properties of the brain.
We might be about to find out. SyNAPSE – a collaboration between the US Defense Advances Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the IT industry – is even now working on a hardware reconstruction of a human brain. They’re hoping to have it running by 2019, although if physics is right, ‘awake’ might be a better term.
Then again, if physics is right, we shouldn’t exist. You can watch ions hop across synapses, follow nerve impulses from nose to toes; nothing in any of those processes would lead you to expect the emergence of subjective awareness. Physics describes a world of intelligent zombies who do everything we do, except understand that they’re doing it. That’s what we should be, that’s all we should be: meat and computation. Somehow the meat woke up. How the hell does that even work?
they sat down over beers and took a show of hands on whether to admit bonobos to the Sapients Club
What we can get a handle on are the correlates of sapience, the neural signatures that accompany the conscious state. In humans at least, consciousness occurs when a bunch of subcortical structures – the brain stem, the thalamus and hypothalamus, the anterior cingulate cortex – talk to the frontal lobes. Integration is key. Neurons in all these far-flung regions have to be firing in sync, a co‑ordinated call-and-response with a signal lag of no more than 400 milliseconds. Tononi is using that insight to derive an integration metric he calls ɸ. It is designed not merely to detect consciousness but to quantify it: to hang a hard number on the level of self-awareness flickering in everything from roundworms to humans.
If it does all come down to neural integration – if self-awareness is a matter of degree, flickering at some rudimentary level even in the ganglia of nematodes – then the specific architecture of the conscious brain might be open to negotiation. This, at least, is the position of the so-called ‘Cambridge Declaration’ unveiled at the 2012 Francis Crick Memorial Conference on Consciousness. Its signatories – ‘cognitive neuroscientists, neuropharmacologists, neurophysiologists, neuroanatomists and computational neuroscientists’ – attribute self-awareness to a wide variety of non-human species.
I’m not sure how seriously to take this. Not that I find the claim implausible – I’ve always believed that we humans tend to underestimate the cognitive complexity of other creatures – but it’s not as though the declaration announced the results of some ground-breaking new experiment that settled the issue once and for all. Rather, its signatories basically sat down over beers and took a show of hands on whether to publicly admit bonobos to the Sapients Club. (Something else that seems a bit iffy is all the fuss raised over the signing of the declaration ‘in the presence of Stephen Hawking’, even though he is neither a neuroscientist nor a signatory.)
Still, we are talking about a cadre of renowned neuroscientists, the least of whom is far more qualified than I to make assertions on the subject. One of the things they assert is that self-awareness does not depend on specific brain structures. The declaration grants ‘near-human levels of consciousness’ to parrots (who lack a neocortex) and to octopuses (whose brains – basically a bagel of neurons encircling the esophagus – don’t have any anatomical resemblance to ours at all). It’s neurological complexity that’s essential to the conscious state, they tell us. The motherboard can take any shape so long as it’s got enough synapses on board.
This is all preamble, though, a set‑up to the question posed at the outset: what are the implications of a technology that wires brains together, that in theory at least permits the existence of hive minds? In fact, you know a lot more about that than you might think.
You already are a hive mind. You always have been.
This thing you think of as you: it spreads across two cerebral hemispheres connected by the corpus callosum, a fat meaty pipe more than 200 million axons thick. Suppose I took a cleaver to that pipe, split it down the middle. (That’s no mere thought experiment: severing the corpus callosum is a last-ditch measure against certain forms of epilepsy.) In the wake of such violent separation, each hemisphere would go its own way. It would develop its own tastes in clothes, music, even its own religious beliefs. Ramachandran tells of a split-brain patient with a Christian hemisphere and an atheist one. You’ve probably heard of Alien Hand Syndrome, or at least seen the movie Dr Strangelove: try to put on a certain shirt, your evil hand rips it off. Try to pick up a favourite pen, your evil hand knocks it away and picks up a Sharpie instead.
Except it’s not your hand at all any more, of course. It belongs to that other self living across the hall, the one that used to be part of you before the break‑up.
A shy introvert morphs into a flirtatious jokester. A pleasant woman turns sarcastic. But when the other half wakes up, the new entity vanishes
You’re still talking, at least. Still friends of a sort. Even when the corpus callosum is severed, the hemispheres can communicate via the brainstem. It’s a longer route, though, and a much thinner pipe: think dial-up versus broadband. The essential variables, once again, are latency and bandwidth. When the pipe is intact, signals pass back and forth across the whole brain fast enough for the system to act as an integrated whole, to think of itself as I. But when you force those signals to take the scenic route – worse, squeeze them through a straw – the halves fall out of sync, lose their coherence. I shatters into we.
You might expect that an established personality, built over a lifetime and then split down the middle, might take some time to develop into distinct entities. Yet hemispheric isolation can also be induced chemically, by anaesthetising half the brain – and the undrugged hemisphere, unshackled from its counterpart, sometimes manifests a whole new suite of personality traits right on the spot. A shy, whole-brained introvert morphs into a wise-cracking flirtatious jokester. A pleasant, well-adjusted woman turns sarcastic and hostile. When the other half wakes up the new entity vanishes as quickly as it appeared.
So while the thing that calls itself I typically runs on a dual-core engine, it’s perfectly capable of running on a single core. Take you, for example. Chances are you’re running on two cores right now. Does each contain its own distinct sub-personality? Are there two of you in there, each thinking: Hey, I’m part of something bigger?
Not likely. Rather, the local personae are obliterated, absorbed into a greater whole; as the Finnish computer scientists Kaj Sotala (at the University of Helsinki) and Harri Valpola (Aalto University) recently declared in the International Journal of Machine Consciousness, ‘the biological brain cannot support multiple separate conscious attentional processes in the same brain medium’.
Remember that. It could end up biting us in the ass a few years down the road.
Krista and Tatiana Hogan of the city of Vernon in British Columbia are seven-year-old sisters fused at the head. Craniopagus twins are extremely rare in any event, but the Hogans appear to be utterly unique in that they aren’t just fused at the skull or the vascular system. They are fused at the brain – more specifically at the thalamus, which acts as (among other things) a sensory relay.
They share a common set of sensory inputs. Tickle one, the other laughs. Each sees through the other’s eyes; each tastes what’s on the other’s tongue. They smile and cry in sync. There’s anecdotal evidence that they share thoughts and, although they have distinct personalities, each uses the word ‘I’ when referring to the other. The Hogan twins are two souls with one sensorium. All because they’re fused at a sensory relay.
But the thalamus is lower-brain circuitry. Dial-up, not broadband. Suppose the twins were fused at the prefrontal cortex instead?
If two hemispheres can each run separate, standalone programs – yet fuse to form a single coherent entity – what about the fusion of complete brains, a single contiguous porridge of neurons spread across two heads? Given a slight developmental tweak to the left, would we still be talking about two souls, or a single conscious being with twice the neuronal mass of a normal human brain?
Whether you instil sights, sounds, political opinions or a craving for a certain brand of beer might come down to where you aim the beam
There are other ways to put our heads together. Neurosilicon interfaces, for example. We’ve had those for more than a decade now. In labs around the world, neuron cultures put robot bodies through their paces; puddles of brain tissue drive flight simulators. At Clemson University in South Carolina, Ganesh Venayagamoorthy is busy teaching tame neurons to run everything from power grids to stock markets. DARPA has thrown its weight behind the development of a ‘cortical modem’, a direct neural interface wired right into your gray matter (we’re already using implants to reprogram specific neurons in other primates). But DARPA may have already been scooped by Theodore Berger, down at the University of Southern California. Way back in 2011, he unveiled a kind of artificial, memory-forming hippocampus for rats. The memories encoded in that device can be accessed by the organic rat brain; they can also be ported to other rats. It won’t be long before such prostheses scale up to our own species (that is in fact the explicit goal of Berger’s research).
If the prospect of surgery squicks you out, Sony has registered blue-sky patents for technology that plants sensory input directly into the brain using radio waves and compressed ultrasound. They’re selling it as a great leap forward for everything from gaming to telesurgery. (For my part, I can’t help remembering that neurons fire pretty much the same way whether they’re processing sensory input or religious belief. The difference between instilling sights, sounds, political opinions – why not an irresistible craving for a certain brand of beer? – might come down to little more than where you aim the beam.)
None of these efforts are explicitly designed to connect one human mind to another. What they’re pioneering is an interface, the ability to translate thoughts from meat into mech and back again. What we are seeing, in other words, is the genesis of a new kind of corpus callosum that extends beyond the confines of a single skull.
We’re still in the Precambrian. Grau’s emailed brainwaves amount to a fancy kind of semaphore that happens to bypass the eyeballs. Pais-Vieira’s hive mind was a pair of distinct rat brains, pimped out so that a spark in one would trigger a poke in the other – a stimulus that would have been meaningless to the recipient if he hadn’t already been trained to respond in a certain way. That’s not integrated awareness, or even telepathy. It’s the difference between experiencing an orgasm and watching a signal light on a distant hill spell out oh-god-oh-god-yes in Morse Code.
So it’s early days yet. But it may be later than you think.
Cory Doctorow’s novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003) describes a near future in which everyone is wired into the internet, 24/7, via cortical link. It’s not far-fetched, given recent developments. And the idea of hooking a bunch of brains into a common network has a certain appeal. Split-brain patients outperform normal folks on visual-search and pattern-recognition tasks, for one thing: two minds are better than one, even when they’re in the same head, even when limited to dial-up speeds. So if the future consists of myriad minds in high-speed contact with each other, you might say: Yay, bring it on.
I’m not sure that’s the way it’s going to happen, though.
I don’t necessarily buy into the hokey old trope of an internet that ‘wakes up’. Then again, I don’t reject it out of hand, either. Google’s ‘DeepMind’, a general-purpose AI explicitly designed to mimic the brain, is a bit too close to SyNAPSE for comfort (and a lot more imminent: its first incarnations are already poised to enter the market). The bandwidth of your cell phone is already comparable to that of your corpus callosum, once noise and synaptic redundancy are taken into account. We’re still a few theoretical advances away from an honest-to-God mind meld – still waiting for the ultrasonic ‘Neural Dust’ interface proposed by Berkley’s Dongjin Seo, or for researchers at Rice University to perfect their carbon-nanotube electrodes – but the pipes are already fat enough to handle that load when it arrives.
And those advances may come easier than you’d expect. Brains do a lot of their own heavy lifting when it comes to plugging unfamiliar parts together. A blind rat, wired into a geomagnetic sensor via a simple pair of electrodes, can use magnetic fields to navigate a maze just as well as her sighted siblings. If a rat can teach herself to use a completely new sensory modality – something the species has never experienced throughout the course of its evolutionary history – is there any cause to believe our own brains will prove any less capable of integrating novel forms of input?
Not even skeptics necessarily deny the likelihood of ‘thought-stealing technology’. They only protest that it won’t be here for decades (which, given the number of us who expect to be alive and kicking 30 years from now, is not an especially strong objection). If we do stop short of a hive mind, it’s unlikely to be because we lack the tech; it’ll only be because we lack the nerve.
So I don’t think it unreasonable to wonder if one day, not too far from now, Netflix might change its name to Mindflix and offer streaming first-person experience directly into the sensory cortex. I suspect people would sign up in droves for such a service. Moore’s Law will work its magic.
What might that mean to us as individuals?
Ask one-half of the supersized self that the Hogan twins might have been, if their brains had fused just a little further up. Ask the poor bastard who awakened into a single hemisphere and had a few minutes to live some fraction of a life before the drugs wore off and his other half swallowed him whole. Oh, but you can’t ask him. He doesn’t exist any more. Right now he has as much individuality as your parietal lobe.
Consciousness remains mysterious. But there’s no reason to regard it as magical, no evidence of spectral bonds that hold a soul in one head and keep it from leaking into another. And one of the things we do know is that consciousness spreads to fill the space available. Smaller selves disappear into larger; two hemispheres integrate into one. The architectural specifics aren’t even all that important if Tononi is right, if the Cambridge Declaration is anything to go on. You don’t need a neocortex or a hypothalamus. All you need is complexity and a sufficiently fat pipe.
Does a thought know to turn back at the edge of one skull when the paths lead into another? Does an electron know the difference between a corpus callosum and a brain-computer interface? Titles in the popular press – ‘Google Search Will Be Your Next Brain’ – might not be so much ominous as childishly naive; they assume, after all, that ‘you’ will continue to exist as a distinct entity. They assume that brains can support multiple separate conscious attentional processes in the same medium.
Keep the bandwidth too low and you lose the experience; edge it too high and you lose yourself
Throughout history we’ve communicated via the equivalent of dial‑up, through speech and writing and images on screens. A fat enough neural interface could turn everything broadband, act as a next-gen corpus callosum that fuses we into some new kind of I that’s never existed before.
Of course they’ll put safeguards in place, take every measure to ensure that nothing goes wrong. Maybe nothing will. Keep your baud rate dialled back far enough and you’ll be fine. But there are always those who push the envelope, who might actively embrace the prospect of union with another mind. They’re not all that uncommon in transhumanist circles. Some regard it as an inevitable step in abandoning the flesh, uploading consciousness into a gleaming new chassis with a longer warranty. To others it’s a way to commune with the souls of other species, to share consciousness with cats and octopuses. It’s a fine line, though. Keep the bandwidth too low and you lose the experience; edge it too high and you lose yourself.
Even if you’re not into that kind of thing, you use the internet – which neuroscientists and game developers, even now, are reshaping into an explicit embodiment of neural intelligence. The web’s ɸ score isn’t going anywhere but up. And servers hiccup sometimes. Floodgates fail. Shit happens, and – as Batman’s butler once pointed out – some men just want to watch the world burn. Given the option, those folks might get tired of distributed denial-of-service attacks and leaked celebrity emails, they might try hacking Mindflix for Allah or the lulz. God help anyone who’s streaming the latest Marvel Total-Immersion Extravaganza when that happens.
These are some of the things we might want to start thinking about now – because they won’t matter that much to you after some failsafe has failed, or you’ve been talked into trying the whole mind-meld thing by someone who figured out how to disable the bottleneck. You might not care about the potential of an emergent consciousness built from silicon or a network of 1,000 brains, or whether logging out of a freshly integrated hive mind should be defined as murder or mere lobotomy.
Immersed in that pool – reduced from standalone soul down to neural subroutine – there might not be enough of you left to even want to get out again.
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This is a work in progress. Give me a little time… Jeez, this is hard.
1850 — The former reservation of the Sac & Fox people opened to White settlement; a minor land rush ensued. • Fennimore County was authorized, with Muskrat City as seat of government.
1853 — The section that would become Agincourt was purchased by a syndicate of five Philadelphia investors. • Later that year, the Original Townsite plat was filed at the Fennimore County courthouse in Muskrat City. • Former Indian agent Amos Beddowes built the first house at the townsite, a log cabin now in Riverside Park.
1857 — Agincourt incorporated as a municipality, with a mayor and council of four members. [Population ±200]
1858 — Spring floods devastate Muskrat City for the third consecutive year. County residents voted to relocate the courthouse twelve miles north at Agincourt; the original Italianate courthouse building was cut in two parts and moved. Teams of draft horses required five days to move the building to a temporary bridge over Crispin Creek and then to the square set aside in the O.T. for a government building. • The Daily Plantagenet began publication.
1861 — First Civil War casualties were buried at The Shades. John Beddowes was among them.
1860 — The Fennimore County Agricultural & Mechanical Society acquired approximately ninety acres for a fairgrounds on the west bank of the Muskrat River. Construction began with grandstands and a race track.
1868 — Saint Ahab Roman Catholic parish organized by Rev Francis Manning. Construction of the first church began soon after.
18— — Bishop Kemper Academy opened on the block provided in the original townsite east of The Commons.
1888-1889 — Construction of the second courthouse began from designs by East Coast architect William Halsey Wood
1893 — Harney’s Orpheum, Agincourt’s first legitimate theatre at the corner of First Street SW and The Avenue, burned on August 1st. A stock company formed to build it replacement, The Auditorium.
1895 — The Merchants National Bank merged with the Farmers & Mechanics State Bank and reorganized as the F+M+M National Bank. • Construction of The Blenheim hotel. • Opening season at the new Auditorium.
1899 — Enlargement of Saint Joseph-the-Carpenter Episcopal church, with the addition of new transept-narthex and baptistry.
1905 — An archaeological dig at The Mound was organized by archaeologists from the University of Iowa.
1907 — Agincourt celebrated its Golden Anniversary on October 25th (Founders Day), 1907 at the Fennimore County Fairgrounds, including horse racing and a major fireworks display. John Philip Sousa wrote “March to Agincourt” for the event. Founders Day is officially established by the Common Council on October 25th as a day of municipal celebration.
1908 — Construction of the F+M+M Bank at 2 North Broad Street.
1909 — Service began on the Northwest Iowa Transit Company’s [NITC] line between Agincourt and Fort Dodge, where it connected with the Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern. • The legislature authorized the Northwest Iowa Normal School in a former county orphanage (vacant since 1905); Dr W.A.K.E. Reinhardt became the first president.
1910 — NITC right-of-way pushed westward toward Storm Lake; a branch line diverted from Fahnstock to the Station-Store at Lake Sturm und Drang. Twice-daily summer service ran to the lake from May 15th to September 1st. Construction of the Wasserman Block.
1912 — Fire consumed the Masonic Lodge at 1 North Broad Street. The lodge built a third floor on the F+M+M bank across the street and donated its former site for “a public library or other community resource”. • Anson Tennant modified the Wasserman Block and opened his architectural office in Suite 205-207. • A short NITC branch line extended to the fairgrounds.
1914 — Architect Anson Tennant received the commission for the new public library; the program grew to include an art gallery and venue for banquets and other community celebrations.
1915 — Anson Tennant sailed for Liverpool on the RMS Lusitania and disappeared with its sinking on May 8th.
1916 — Saint Crispin’s Chapel was added to Saint Joseph-the-Carpenter as a memorial to Anson Tennant, thought to have been lost on the Lusitania. The crypt beneath the chapel serves as a Tennant family mausoleum.
1918 — Influenza Pandemic: the former Episcopal School was used as a hospital and quarantine facility, and a special section of The Shades was set aside for burial of influenza deaths.
1919-1920 — Construction of Asbury Methodist Episcopal church (later Asbury UMC) designed by Liebbe Nourse & Rasmussen, architects of Des Moines.
19xx — The Archers, a Double-A baseball team is organized and a baseball field established at the fairgrounds. • Northwest Iowa Normal signed a coöperative arrangement with the Fennimore County Fair board to share athletic facilities on the fairgrounds.
1937 — Anson Tennant was discovered living in the Basque Country of Northern Spain and reunited with his Iowa family.
1941-1945 — Agincourt went to war.
1950-1951 — Construction of the new Roman Catholic church (Francis Barry Byrne, architect), dedicated as Christ the King. • The grave of Rev Manning was discovered while excavating for the new church and was reinterred at St Ahab Cemetery.
1957 — The Founders Day celebration included “Agincourt Suite”, adapted by British composer Sir William Walton from the score for the Lawrence Olivier film “Henry V”.
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1966 — The “Historic Preservation Act of 1966” was passed by Congress. The Fennimore Heritage Society forms to consider nominations.
1966 — The second Fennimore County courthouse was struck by lightening and burned, though arson is suspected. Commissioners interviewed architects for the new facility.
1968 — The third courthouse was dedicated on July 4th on the plaza defined by the second courthouse footprint.
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2007 — Agincourt’s sesqui-centennial. American composer Daron Hagen wrote “Agincourt Fanfare” for thirteen brass instruments; its world premier occured on Founders’ Day.
2015 — The 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt was celebrated on October 25th, including the premier of “We Few” by American composer Daron Hagen, Agincourt’s official “Composer-not-in-Residence”. A tandem celebration was staged at the Rourke Art Museum in Moorhead, Minnesota.
2016 — “Welcome to Agincourt, Iowa: the town that time forgot and geography misplaced” was presented at the Historical Fictions Research Conference at Cambridge, UK.
2018 — Competition for the design of Saint Ahab’s Chapel at Christ the King R.C. Church.
2018 — “How Cities Happen(ed): The Agincourt Project”, an exhibit focussed on Agincourt history, opened at the Rourke Art Museum during November 2018.
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New York is the biggest city in the USA. The number of inhabitants is about 18 million. It belongs to the largest cities in the world. It is sometimes called “The Big Apple”. New York has five major parts: Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx, Staten Island (Richmond) and Brooklyn. The black quarter – Harlem – is in northern part of Manhattan.
The original inhabitants were Indians, which is remembered by the name of the oldest part – Manhattan Island. This island was bought by the Dutch in 17th century. The original name was New Amsterdam.In 1664 New Amsterdam became an English colony and the town was renamed to New York. In 1789 New York became the capital of the United States for two years. In southern part of Manhattan there used to be a wall against Indians, now there is Wall Street – the center of financial life.
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Queens – It is the largest borough. Queens is known for its numerous and enormous cemeteries.
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Staten Island – It is mostly family houses.
The Bronx – It is one of the biggest Afro-American communities. There is Yankee Stadium.
Manhattan – Its scenery is formed by skyscrapers (the Empire State Building). It is the center of cultural life and the center of trade. It is the most important.
The city was built on a modern plan of streets and avenues, which are numbered. Streets run east-west and avenues north-south. Only a few of them have their names, e. g. Wall Street, Broadway. Broadway is the center of cultural life. There is concentrated most of entertainment (e. g. Metropolitan Opera or Carnage Hall). The island is washed by the Hudson River and the East River. East Village is a center of many ethnic restaurants, boutiques and jazz clubs. Greenwich Village is the home of artists.
New York is an important industrial city and businesscenter. New York City has 3 main airports: J. F. Kennedy International Airport, Newark International Airport and La Guardian Airport. New York has the largest subway system in the world; it has about 700 km and 500 stations. So, for traveling in the city you can use metro, railroads, more expensive cab and so on.
New York is famous for its Manhattan skyline – a large number of skyscrapers on a small area. They started to built skyscrapers here because the price of land on the island was very high. The first skyscraper was built in 1903. Today they are built with the help of computers. In the fact the skyscrapers are small towns. We can find here residential quarters, offices, parking lots, restaurants, shops, fitness centres, swimming pool. Living here is very expensive.
The highest skyscraper in New York is The World Trade Center. It was built in 1973 and has 110 floors and more than 100 000 people come and go here every day. Another interesting skyscraper in N. Y. is Empire State Building. It has 102 floors and a TV tower and a restaurant at the top. There are also many others – e. g. Chrysler Building, PanAm Building and UN building.
Harlem – is a black quarter with many poor and unemployment people.
Time square – is a centre of entertainment, there are situated department stores, restaurants, nightclubs and hotels.
Broadway – it´s more than 19km long, there are 33 theatres (like Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall), cinemas, restaurants, clubs and bars
Chinatown, Little Italy
Rockefeller Center is a complex of 14 buildings. Rockefeller center is world´s largest business and entertainment center. There is many restaurants, travel agencies, shops, offices and also have small garden. And the part of RC are RCA and Radio city hall – this is the big cinema and there show new films. Almost opposite Rockefeller Center stands St. Patrick’s Cathedral. It was inspired by the great Gothic cathedrals in Europe.. It´s center of Irish tradition. At Easter people go up and down in the 5 avenue.
The most known bridge is the Brooklyn Bridge.
The only quiet place is Central Park where famous rock concerts take place. We can there relaxing by walking or jogging.
There are many attractive places where visitors like to go in New York. The most known bridge is the Brooklyn Bridge. There are many islands in this area – Roosevelt Island, Coney Island and Liberty Island with the Statue of Liberty (The Statue of Liberty is on Liberty Island in New York harbor (The Lady has torch in her right hand and the Declaration of Independence in her left hand) and it was the gift from France to the people of the USA in 1886. It is a symbol of hope and freedom.
Madison Square Garden is the most popular sport center in NY.
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Resolution requested over “possible dup of SO” flags
To keep getting one-off pings by users about if my proposal is a dup of SO is not productive in my opinion.
The first time this happened, I replied via meta, got some feedback, and was basically told I believe:
"It is possible it is not a dup, but you've got to prove it."
That's fine, though after requesting:
how others have done this, and
how my proposal's users should do this,
It's my understanding that I never got a super clear reply other than the suggestion to "post questions that prove it"; which is fine, though my announcement stating that this be done was deleted by a SE mod, which is confusing to me.
Basically at this point, I still do not get the feeling that even if I was to move forward after getting clear guidelines, that I would never reach a point were SE and the greater community committed to a position.
area51-meta support
kiamlaluno
blundersblunders
The proposal is still there, so I'm not entirely sure what you are asking. With over 800 questions on Stack Overflow, some folks feel you are duplicating a subject already supported on that site. Stack Overflow is the literally the largest, most-highly regarded and complete resources for programmers on the web. I think you are going to have a very difficult time making your case.
The job of the proposal followers is to define the scope of this site by asking example questions they would ask on this site. If there is sufficient content to show it is not a duplicate of Stack Overflow, you've made your case.
Robert CartainoRobert Cartaino
Just to follow up on Robert's answer. It is possible to make the case that a particular technology needs its own site. I invite you to look at the example questions for the Mathematica proposal. We explicitly set out to show that there was a lot of Mathematica questions that didn't fit in SO and were not a good fit for SuperUser either. It helped that we got rapid build-up of support and broke through the defintion stage in about a week. – Verbeia May 6 '12 at 4:47
@Robert Cartaino: In my opinion, support for a topic is meaningless unless that support is matched by the appropriate performance within the domain of the proposal. Based on my analysis, Stack Overflow's performance appears to be poor relative to competing Q&A sites within the same domain; or for that matter, the performance expected of a proposal to leave public-beta. As a result, it's unclear why the existence of 800 questions would do anything other than make the case for why a successful Stack Exchange site is needed, not why it is not needed. What are your thought on the matter? – blunders May 6 '12 at 19:51
@blunders: Your assumption is that SO is somehow holding questions back, that people would ask at a dedicated site but those same people are warded off from SO. Where is your evidence for this? – Nicol Bolas May 6 '12 at 23:07
@Nicol Bolas: The whole point of Area 51 is to provide evidence that a community is able to support a dedicated site that will meet the requirements to leave public-beta. If you have reason to believe Stack Overflow's performance within the domain will improve in a meaningful way, please state why; otherwise I will assume you agree Stack Overflow's performance is very poor relative to (1) the competing Q&A sites within the same domain, and (2) the performance expected of a proposal to leave public-beta. – blunders May 7 '12 at 1:55
@blunders: It doesn't matter if SO is not doing as well as you think that a dedicated site could. SO could be doing as well as a dedicated site if the time and effort you spent building momentum for a dedicated site were instead spent getting such people over on SO. You have to get out of this mentality that if it's not segregated in its own special box with its own special title, then it's not doing well. If SO is not serving the needs of this domain, then help it serve them. Whatever effort you want to expend building a dedicated site should go to building up the SO community instead. – Nicol Bolas May 7 '12 at 2:16
@blunders: As to the whole point of Area 51, that's only part of the point. The other part of the point is to screen out sites that are inappropriate or would otherwise exist solely to draw traffic away from other, already established, sites. SE is not the wild west; there are rules. And one of the rules is that, all things being equal, a site doesn't get to exist if every question that is asked there would be perfectly legitimate on SO. – Nicol Bolas May 7 '12 at 2:18
@Nicol Bolas: "the point is to screen out sites that would otherwise exist solely to draw traffic away from other, already established, sites" - please reread what you said, then read: "Stack Overflow's performance is very poor relative to (1) the competing Q&A sites within the same domain, and (2) the performance expected of a proposal to leave public-beta." My proposal will never even come close to being able to exist because of "drawing traffic away from SO". If you believe I will ever have any interest in building a community on Stack Overflow for this niche, you're wrong. – blunders May 7 '12 at 2:48
If you believe I will ever have any interest in building a community on Stack Overflow for this niche, you're wrong.
It's your way or the highway? If you don't get a dedicated site for Appcelerator, then you're not going to even try to build a community for it on SO? That's sad and unfortunate.
I'm glad all the C++, Java, Python, JavaScript, PHP, etc programmers didn't agree with you. Otherwise SO would have just been a glorified C# site.
The solution to Stack Overflow not having drawn enough of a community around a certain API is not to create an alternative site. The solution is to work to build that community yourself. The solution is to get Appcelerator developers to ask and answer questions on Stack Overflow.
If you do not like that solution, then it is unfortunate. But that's the solution we offer. We have one site for answering programming questions; it's called Stack Overflow. We don't segregate people off into their own little APIs/Languages/etc; that's what tags are for. If you feel that you need that segregation, that again is unfortunate. And if Appcelerator developers truly believe that Stack Overflow cannot work for them (not simply "doesn't yet work", which is where things are now, but can never work), then again, that is unfortunate.
The evidence shows that SO can serve large and small concerns alike. That's how SO was built. That's how SO grew. We serve many smaller communities, from languages like Lua and Go to communities built around single APIs or technologies like Boost and OpenGL.
We welcome your participation on Stack Overflow with open arms. But we are not going to change how we do things to satisfy your sensibilities or your beliefs in what your community needs. Appcelerator is not special; it can flourish just fine on SO if you try and encourage others to do so.
Nicol BolasNicol Bolas
@blunders: I would never frequent a Lua-only Stack Exchange site. But I do answer Lua questions on SO, because I know Lua and I frequent SO. Many of the smaller, more niche elements work this way. So while you don't get the branding of a specific site for every bit of programming technology, you do get cross-tech users who use their broad knowledge to good effect. I'd say that the later is far better than the former. – Nicol Bolas May 7 '12 at 17:00
@blunders: Your assumption ultimately is that the less frequented parts of SO would be better off as independent sites. Why? Because they'd have branding? Because they'd have the technology in the site name? Consider what you're saying: if Appcelerator isn't strong enough to stand on its own, what then? If SO didn't exist and Appcelerator couldn't sustain a site, then there would be no Q&A solution for Appcelerator. – Nicol Bolas May 7 '12 at 17:02
@blunders: We are not going to break programming bits into smaller and smaller pieces. Technology comes and goes. Appcelerator may be dead in 3 years. We don't want SE sites that exist only to eventually die. Whatever programming technology people use, it will still be programming, and Stack Overflow will provide that. – Nicol Bolas May 7 '12 at 17:04
@blunders: Every large tag on SO was small at one point. I'm not going to scrub SO's data dumps for frequency of question information on various tags so I can point out places where certain community participation on SO swelled. The fact is this: we don't allow duplicate sites. If all questions for a site would be legal SO questions, we want them on Stack Overflow, not on another site. If you want more Appcelerator questions on SE, bring those users to SO. – Nicol Bolas May 7 '12 at 17:21
@blunders: "For me to match the benefits of having a "dedicated" within a "sub" community I'd have to deploy another website off of SE and recreate those features." Are you saying that the only way to attract Appcelerator developers to SO is to put a special "Appcelerator" front-end on Stack Overflow? Again, that's sad and unfortunate, but I seriously doubt that you represent the entire Appcelerator community. So where is your evidence that this is necessary? – Nicol Bolas May 7 '12 at 17:28
@blunders: So you want SE to help you build a community within SO for a particular technology. While I'm not against that in principle, that's not what Area51 is for. Area51 is for creating valid SE sites. And personally, developing communities is what users are for. If you want to develop the Appcelerator community on SO, then you should actually do that. – Nicol Bolas May 7 '12 at 17:50
let us continue this discussion in chat – blunders May 7 '12 at 20:15
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The grant was used to help The Stage at Island Park, home of the Fargo Moorhead Community Theatre, upgrade its outdated lobby lighting system to a more energy efficient system, creating an aesthetically and culturally pleasing space for patrons, artists and renters who frequent the space.
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A specific structuring element-based opening method for rapid geometry measurement of weld pool
Liu, J., Hu, Y., Wu, B., Frakes, D. & Wang, Y., Sep 27 2016, (Accepted/In press) In : International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology. p. 1-13 13 p.
Welds
Binary images
Laser beam welding
Assessment of myoelectric controller performance and kinematic behavior of a novel soft synergy-inspired robotic hand for prosthetic applications
Fani, S., Bianchi, M., Jain, S., Neto, J. S. P., Boege, S., Grioli, G., Bicchi, A. & Santello, M., Oct 1 2016, In : Frontiers in Neurorobotics. 10, 11.
End effectors
A synergy-based hand control is encoded in human motor cortical areas
Leo, A., Handjaras, G., Bianchi, M., Marino, H., Gabiccini, M., Guidi, A., Scilingo, E. P., Pietrini, P., Bicchi, A., Santello, M. & Ricciardi, E., Feb 15 2016, In : eLife. 5, FEBRUARY2016, e13420.
A three dimensional micropatterned tumor model for breast cancer cell migration studies
Peela, N., Sam, F. S., Christenson, W., Truong, D., Watson, A. W., Mouneimne, G., Ros, R. & Nikkhah, M., Mar 1 2016, In : Biomaterials. 81, p. 72-83 12 p.
Autonomous control for mechanically stable navigation of microscale implants in brain tissue to record neural activity
Anand, S., Kumar, S. S. & Muthuswamy, J., Aug 1 2016, In : Biomedical Microdevices. 18, 4, 72.
Bio-inspired controller on an fpga applied to closed-loop diaphragmatic stimulation
Zbrzeski, A., Bornat, Y., Hillen, B., Siu, R., Abbas, J., Jung, R. & Renaud, S., Jun 16 2016, In : Frontiers in Neuroscience. 10, JUN, 275.
Self-Help Devices
Respiratory Muscles
Breast cancer cell invasion into a three dimensional tumor-stroma microenvironment
Truong, D., Puleo, J., Llave, A., Mouneimne, G., Kamm, R. D. & Nikkhah, M., Sep 28 2016, In : Scientific Reports. 6, 34094.
Cerebral Aneurysm Clipping Surgery Simulation Using Patient-Specific 3D Printing and Silicone Casting
Ryan, J. R., Almefty, K. K., Nakaji, P. & Frakes, D., Apr 1 2016, In : World Neurosurgery. 88, p. 175-181 7 p.
Changing head model extent affects finite element predictions of transcranial direct current stimulation distributions
Indahlastari, A., Chauhan, M., Schwartz, B. & Sadleir, R., Oct 5 2016, In : Journal of Neural Engineering. 13, 6, 066006.
Bioelectric phenomena
Characteristics and adaptive strategies linked with falls in stroke survivors from analysis of laboratory-induced falls
Honeycutt, C., Nevisipour, M. & Grabiner, M. D., Oct 3 2016, In : Journal of Biomechanics. 49, 14, p. 3313-3319 7 p.
Concentration of Sindbis virus with optimized gradient insulator-based dielectrophoresis
Ding, J., Lawrence, R. M., Jones, P. V., Hogue, B. & Hayes, M., Mar 21 2016, In : Analyst. 141, 6, p. 1997-2008 12 p.
Sindbis Virus
Lab-On-A-Chip Devices
Data-based reconstruction of complex geospatial networks, nodal positioning and detection of hidden nodes
Su, R. Q., Wang, W. X., Wang, X. & Lai, Y-C., Jan 1 2016, In : Royal Society Open Science. 3, 1, 150577.
Design and Verification of Novel Low-Cost MR-Guided Small-Animal Stereotactic System
Plasencia, J. D., Hu, L. S., Turner, G. H., Bennett, K. M. & Frakes, D., Aug 1 2016, In : Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering. 36, 4, p. 526-535 10 p.
Digit position and forces covary during anticipatory control of whole-hand manipulation
Marneweck, M., Lee-Miller, T., Santello, M. & Gordon, A. M., Sep 15 2016, In : Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 10, SEP2016, 461.
Discriminability of single and multichannel intracortical microstimulation within somatosensory cortex
Overstreet, C. K., Hellman, R. B., Wong, R. D. P., Santos, V. J. & Helms Tillery, S., Jan 1 2016, In : Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. 4, DEC, 91.
Somatosensory Cortex
Enhanced Motor Recovery after Stroke with Combined Cortical Stimulation and Rehabilitative Training Is Dependent on Infarct Location
Boychuk, J. A., Schwerin, S. C., Thomas, N., Roger, A., Silvera, G., Liverpool, M., Adkins, D. L. & Kleim, J., Feb 1 2016, In : Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair. 30, 2, p. 173-181 9 p.
Middle Cerebral Artery Infarction
Internal Capsule
Middle Cerebral Artery
Erratum: Biophysical separation of Staphylococcus epidermidis strains based on antibiotic resistance (Analyst (2015) 140 (5152-5161) )
Jones, P. V., Huey Hilton, S., Davis, P. E., Yanashima, R., McLemore, R., McLaren, A. & Hayes, M., Jan 7 2016, In : Analyst. 141, 1, p. 352 1 p.
Finite element modeling of human brain response to football helmet impacts
Darling, T., Muthuswamy, J. & Rajan, S., Feb 11 2016, (Accepted/In press) In : Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering. p. 1-11 11 p.
Strain rate
Loads (forces)
Five rules of thumb for post-ELSI interdisciplinary collaborations
Balmer, A. S., Calvert, J., Marris, C., Molyneux-Hodgson, S., Frow, E., Kearnes, M., Bulpin, K., Schyfter, P., Mackenzie, A. & Martin, P., Jan 2 2016, In : Journal of Responsible Innovation. 3, 1, p. 73-80 8 p.
Grasp performance of a soft synergy-based prosthetic hand: A pilot study
Gailey, A. S., Godfrey, S. B., Breighner, R. E., Andrews, K. L., Zhao, K. D., Bicchi, A. & Santello, M., Jan 1 2016, In : IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. 25, 12, p. 2407-2417 11 p.
Hand synergies: Integration of robotics and neuroscience for understanding the control of biological and artificial hands
Santello, M., Bianchi, M., Gabiccini, M., Ricciardi, E., Salvietti, G., Prattichizzo, D., Ernst, M., Moscatelli, A., Jörntell, H., Kappers, A. M. L., Kyriakopoulos, K., Albu-Schäffer, A., Castellini, C. & Bicchi, A., Feb 2 2016, (Accepted/In press) In : Physics of Life Reviews.
Hemodynamic characterization of geometric cerebral aneurysm templates treated with embolic coils
Nair, P., Chong, B. W., Indahlastari, A., Ryan, J., Workman, C., Babiker, M. H., Farsani, H. Y., Baccin, C. E. & Frakes, D., Feb 1 2016, In : Journal of Biomechanical Engineering. 138, 2, 021011.
Contact angle
Hyaluronic acid-laminin hydrogels increase neural stem cell transplant retention and migratory response to SDF-1α
Addington, C. P., Dharmawaj, S., Heffernan, J. M., Sirianni, R. W. & Stabenfeldt, S., May 1 2016, (Accepted/In press) In : Matrix Biology.
Neural Stem Cells
In vivo quantification of intraventricular hemorrhage in a neonatal piglet model using an EEG-layout based electrical impedance tomography array
Tang, T., Weiss, M. D., Borum, P., Turovets, S., Tucker, D. & Sadleir, R., May 20 2016, In : Physiological Measurement. 37, 6, p. 751-764 14 p.
Acoustic impedance
Lateralized motor control processes determine asymmetry of interlimb transfer
Sainburg, R. L., Schaefer, S. & Yadav, V., Oct 15 2016, In : Neuroscience. 334, p. 26-38 13 p.
Matching Complexity and Educational Goals in Simulation-Based Education
Pines, A. R., Sattur, M. G., Aoun, R. J. N., Halasa, T. K., Zimmerman, R. S., Frakes, D. & Bendok, B. R., Feb 1 2016, In : World Neurosurgery. 86, p. 10-12 3 p.
Advanced Cardiac Life Support
Multisensory interactions influence neuronal spike train dynamics in the posterior parietal cortex
VanGilder, P., Shi, Y., Apker, G., Dyson, K. & Buneo, C., Dec 1 2016, In : PLoS One. 11, 12, e0166786.
Nano-Enabled Approaches for Stem Cell-Based Cardiac Tissue Engineering
Kharaziha, M., Memic, A., Akbari, M., Brafman, D. & Nikkhah, M., Jul 6 2016, In : Advanced healthcare materials. 5, 13, p. 1533-1553 21 p.
Noise reduction method for quantifying nanoparticle light scattering in low magnification dark-field microscope far-field images
Sun, D., Fan, J., Liu, C., Liu, Y., Bu, Y., Lyon, C. J. & Hu, Y., Jan 1 2016, In : Analytical Chemistry. 88, 24, p. 12001-12005 5 p.
Nonsense-mediated RNA decay influences human embryonic stem cell fate
Lou, C. H., Dumdie, J., Goetz, A., Shum, E. Y., Brafman, D., Liao, X., Mora-Castilla, S., Ramaiah, M., Cook-Andersen, H., Laurent, L. & Wilkinson, M. F., Jun 14 2016, In : Stem Cell Reports. 6, 6, p. 844-857 14 p.
RNA Stability
Optogenetic neurostimulation of auricular vagus using flexible OLED display technology to treat chronic inflammatory disease and mental health disorders
Smith, J., Shah, A., Lee, Y. K., O'Brien, B., Kullman, D., Sridharan, A., Muthuswamy, J. & Blain Christen, J., May 26 2016, In : Electronics Letters. 52, 11, p. 900-902 3 p.
Organic light emitting diodes (OLED)
PNIPAAm-based biohybrid injectable hydrogel for cardiac tissue engineering
Navaei, A., Truong, D., Heffernan, J., Cutts, J., Brafman, D., Sirianni, R. W., Vernon, B. & Nikkhah, M., Mar 1 2016, In : Acta Biomaterialia. 32, p. 10-23 14 p.
Coculture Techniques
Polyclonal antibody production for membrane proteins via genetic immunization
Hansen, D., Robida, M. D., Craciunescu, F. M., Loskutov, A. V., Dörner, K., Rodenberry, J. C., Wang, X., Olson, T. L., Patel, H., Fromme, P. & Sykes, K. F., Feb 24 2016, In : Scientific Reports. 6, 21925.
Antibody Formation
Francisella tularensis
Reduced Graphene Oxide-GelMA Hybrid Hydrogels as Scaffolds for Cardiac Tissue Engineering
Shin, S. R., Zihlmann, C., Akbari, M., Assawes, P., Cheung, L., Zhang, K., Manoharan, V., Zhang, Y. S., Yüksekkaya, M., Wan, K. T., Nikkhah, M., Dokmeci, M. R., Tang, X. S. & Khademhosseini, A., Jul 20 2016, In : Small. p. 3677-3689 13 p.
Regenerative Rehabilitation and Genomics: Frontiers in Clinical Practice
Ambrosio, F. & Kleim, J., Apr 1 2016, In : Physical Therapy. 96, 4, p. 430-432 3 p.
Physical Therapy Specialty
Attitude of Health Personnel
Professional Role
Restoring motor control and sensory feedback in people with upper extremity amputations using arrays of 96 microelectrodes implanted in the median and ulnar nerves
Davis, T. S., Wark, H. A. C., Hutchinson, D. T., Warren, D. J., O'Neill, K., Scheinblum, T., Clark, G. A., Normann, R. A. & Greger, B., Mar 22 2016, In : Journal of Neural Engineering. 13, 3, 036001.
Ulnar Nerve
Median Nerve
Saliva protein biomarkers To detect oral squamous cell carcinoma in a high-risk population in Taiwan
Yu, J. S., Chen, Y. T., Chiang, W. F., Hsiao, Y. C., Chu, L. J., Seei, L. C., Wu, C. S., Tu, H. T., Chen, H. W., Chen, C. C., Liao, W. C., Chang, Y. T., Wu, C. C., Lin, C. Y., Liu, S. Y., Chiou, S. T., Chia, S. L., Chang, K. P., Chien, C. Y., Chang, S. W. & 5 others, Chang, C. J., Young, J. D., Pao, C. C., Chang, Y. S. & Hartwell, L., Oct 11 2016, In : Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 113, 41, p. 11549-11554 6 p.
Self-monitoring of tear glucose: The development of a tear based glucose sensor as an alternative to self-monitoring of blood glucose
LaBelle, J., Adams, A., Lin, C. E., Engelschall, E., Pratt, B. & Cook, C. B., 2016, In : Chemical Communications. 52, 59, p. 9197-9204 8 p.
Glucose sensors
Short-term practice effects in mild cognitive impairment: Evaluating different methods of change
Duff, K., Atkinson, T. J., Suhrie, K. R., Dalley, B. C. A., Schaefer, S. & Hammers, D. B., Sep 19 2016, (Accepted/In press) In : Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology. p. 1-12 12 p.
Trail Making Test
Verbal Learning
Practice (Psychology)
Siloxane Nanoprobes for Labeling and Dual Modality Functional Imaging of Neural Stem Cells
Addington, C. P., Cusick, A., Shankar, R. V., Agarwal, S., Stabenfeldt, S. & Kodibagkar, V., Mar 1 2016, In : Annals of Biomedical Engineering. 44, 3, p. 816-827 12 p.
Nanoprobes
Sleep quantity and quality during acute concussion: A pilot study
Raikes, A. C. & Schaefer, S., Dec 1 2016, In : Sleep. 39, 12, p. 2141-2147 7 p.
Actigraphy
State of science: occupational slips, trips and falls on the same level
Chang, W. R., Leclercq, S., Lockhart, T. & Haslam, R., Mar 31 2016, (Accepted/In press) In : Ergonomics. p. 1-23 23 p.
Sustained elevation of activity of developing neurons grown on polyimide microelectrode arrays (MEA) in response to ultrasound exposure
Khraiche, M. L., Phillips, W. B., Jackson, N. & Muthuswamy, J., Oct 22 2016, (Accepted/In press) In : Microsystem Technologies. p. 1-13 13 p.
Synthetic biology: Building genetic containment
Haynes, K., Jan 19 2016, In : Nature Chemical Biology. 12, 2, p. 55-56 2 p.
Bacterial Gene Expression Regulation
Containment of Biohazards
Synthetic biology and sharing big
Haynes, K., 2016, In : Museums and Social Issues. 11, 1, p. 21-24 4 p.
Tailoring sub-micron PLGA particle release profiles via centrifugal fractioning
Dutta, D., Salifu, M., Sirianni, R. W. & Stabenfeldt, S., Mar 1 2016, In : Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part A. 104, 3, p. 688-696 9 p.
Population distribution
Temperature responsive hydrogels enable transient three-dimensional tumor cultures via rapid cell recovery
Heffernan, J. M., Overstreet, D. J., Srinivasan, S., Le, L. D., Vernon, B. & Sirianni, R. W., Jan 1 2016, In : Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part A. 104, 1, p. 17-25 9 p.
Copolymers
Temporal assessment of nanoparticle accumulation after experimental brain injury: Effect of particle size
Bharadwaj, V. N., Lifshitz, J., Adelson, P. D., Kodibagkar, V. & Stabenfeldt, S., Jul 22 2016, In : Scientific Reports. 6, 29988.
Blood-Brain Barrier
The ictal wavefront is the spatiotemporal source of discharges during spontaneous human seizures
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Friday Apr 13, 2018
Sue Brooks
Co-Founder & Head of School International Friends School, Bellevue
“International Friends School coming to Bellevue in September, 2018”
Scribe: Kaj Pedersen Introduced by: Rourke O'Brien
In early 2016, Sue Brooks arrived in Seattle determined to bring a Quaker Friends School to students and families in the Pacific Northwest. A native of Wyoming, Sue first moved to China in 1975 with her parents in the diplomatic corps and siblings in tow. She has also lived in Nepal, Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Prague and Mexico City. After a first career in media and television, education and children grew into her professional passion that has spanned three continents and three languages. In 2006, Sue founded a premier early childhood center in Shanghai, but after a decade with her school and her parents and two grown daughters resettled in the United States, a move to the West Coast came calling. In her free time, Sue is pursuing an EdD in Educational Leadership and enjoys escaping to the mountains for a hike when time and weather allow.
BBRC
We kicked off the meeting with Ann Norman’s invocation that enlightened our membership about the end of tax season and its importance to the community as whole, before leading us into the pledge of allegiance. Colleen Turner introduced our guests attending the meeting, which is always a pleasure.
John Martinka tells us his vocational story
We kicked off the agenda with our vocational minute led by John Martinka, who reminded us about the importance of Rotary and its connections to support business. He recounted his own story of how Rotary connections helped him successfully develop business opportunities. A useful reminder of the value of our vocations, while still being focused on Service Above Self.
Randi Brazen addresses our club members
Chris Boland took the opportunity to rally us around the support our Race sponsors have provided this year. We had the opportunity to hear from one of our sponsors, Randi Brazen, who introduced us to the new Central Bar in Bellevue that the Brazen family are opening. The Brazen family have been long time supporters of the run, for which the BBRC are truly appreciative of over the many years that they have been involved with the event – thank you!
Welcoming our new member, Caitlin Devaney
We had the pleasure of inducting a new member into the club – Caitlin Devaney. Caitlin was joined by her fiancee, Nick Odeh. Caitlin was a prior member of Eastside Rotaractors, and we have been impressed with her involvement and commitment to the Rotary cause through this group. We look forward to seeing Caitlin become active with us at the BBRC, where she has already signed up to join the Preserve Planet Earth, Youth Services and World Community Service committees. These committees also seem to align well with Caitlin’s enthusiasm for the outdoors (skiing, hiking, biking, camping and CrossFit) and her work at as a youth minister at the Holy Family Parish.
Sue Brooks and Alli Frank, co-founders of IFS in Bellevue
Finally, our program was kicked off with Sue Brooks and Alli Frank who are co-founding the International Friends School in Bellevue. We learned about Quaker Education, the critical role that bi-literacy has in preparing students for their futures and a new way to implement the school calendar to minimize summer learning loss was thought provoking and makes a lot of sense.
We certainly wish them the best of luck in growing their attendance the first few years while IFS grows their class mix and reputation. At this time, we concluded our meeting with a quote from Nelson Mandela: “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
Community Svc: Rotary First Harvest
BBRC Host Rotary First Harvest for April
By Kaj Pedersen
We had a great crowd today at Rotary First Harvest – a program of Rotary District 5030 — 28 of us! It was our month to host — thank you to Howard Johnson, Desiree Yuzawa, Colleen Turner, Morris Kremen and Chuck Barnes for being there to help set up, greet guests and clean up.
Membership: New Member Committee
Welcoming New Member - Caitlin Devaney
Third Thursday April 19, 2018
Third Thursday at Central Bar
Social Event • Organized by Club Admin: Fellowship Committee
By Carmela Ramaglia
This month our beloved Third Thursday Happy Hour will be at the Central Bar in Bellevue. Friends and Family welcome and encouraged! The 3rd Thursday this month is the 19th. The party starts at 4:00!!
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The Metaphysical Hour, October 28, 2016
with Julia Cannon and guest Suzanne Spooner
The Metaphysical Hour with Julia Cannon and guest Suzanne Spooner
Guest, Suzanne Spooner
Suzanne Spooner
Guest Website:
https://suzannespoonerqhht.com/
Physics & Metaphysics
Guest Occupation:
QHHT Level 3
Guest Biography:
Suzanne Spooner is a Level 3 QHHT practitioner, moderates the QHHT global forum of practitioners and assists Julia Cannon in the United States QHHT classes. Suzanne is also the creator of the channeling method called The Art of Universal Knowing (TAUK) and the Universal Mind Project which is a guided theta experience to gain access to the High Self and attune the DNA energetically.
Julia Cannon
Julia Cannon carries on the work of her mother, Dolores Cannon, who authored 19 Books (so far) and was a Past-Life Regressionist and Hypnotherapist who specialized in the recovery and cataloging of Lost Knowledge. Dolores is widely acknowledged as a leading authority on Nostradamus and considered the World's Foremost Expert on his Prophecies. She passed to the next realm in Oct, 2014 and now continues to work and inspire from beyond the veil.
Dolores' powerful method, Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique (QHHT), was developed over the last 50 years as her technique to not only unlock the Lost Knowledge captured in her books but also to provide amazing and life changing physical, spiritual and emotional healing to her personal clients. Her method is still being taught by Julia and through a series of online classes that Dolores developed before her passing and is in use by over 5,000 practitioners around the globe today..
Julia, a renowned author in her own right (Soul Speak) continues to run the company's publishing, academy and media businesses in addition to bringing Dolores' vision of the Cannon University of Metaphysical Studies into reality.
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The Malalas you'll never meet
By Gayle Lemmon, author
Editor's Note: Gayle Lemmon, author of the New York Times best-seller The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, is a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. The views expressed are solely those of the author.
The attempted assassination in Pakistan of fourteen-year-old Malala Yousafzai by Taliban shooters is only the latest and most brazen attack on leaders brave enough to defy death threats and fight for a girl’s right to go to school.
Earlier this week gunmen boarded Malala’s school van, asked for her by name and shot her. The teenager now fights for her life in a hospital and receives visits from dignitaries who until her attempted assassination had not dared to challenge publicly the kind of extremism that views educated girls as an existential threat.
But there are many Malalas whose stories rarely are heard. Just as this courageous girl refused to silently abandon her right to education even at the risk of losing her life, women and men fight daily against a worldview that considers girls’ schools a call to action in their battle against modernity. Only Wednesday these fighters struck again in Afghanistan, bombing a girls’ high school in the largely peaceful Bamyan province. And their stories serve as a reminder of the stakes involved in the fight against extremism and for modernity.
Pakistan’s FM: Malala attack possible turning point for Pakistan
Khan Mohammad is one of these unheralded citizens battling the extremism that seeks to overtake his country. The head of the Porak girls’ school in Logar province, a mere hour from Afghanistan’s capital, Khan Mohammad ignored a series of Taliban warnings to stop teaching his students. In May 2011 Taliban shooters ended his fight to educate half the country with a series of bullets. He died near his home. Few headlines attended his murder, but he is and was not alone in his quest to keep girls in school.
For years I have interviewed young women as courageous and committed as Malala and Khan Mohammad who refuse to submit to threats to abandon their education and their future dreams. One young midwife told me that she decided to pursue her profession to save women’s lives after her father rushed her out of Kandahar during the Taliban’s rule of Afghanistan in the late 1990s. It seems a Taliban fighter wanted to marry her – an offer her father could never have refused – so he invented a family wedding in Pakistan and whisked all of his daughters back to Kabul where they lived until the Taliban fell in 2001. As soon as schools reopened in 2002 her father insisted she return to her studies. In 2004 she joined the first class of midwifery training.
This year the fight to keep girls in school has grown even tougher as the Taliban turns classrooms into battlefronts to a greater extent than ever before. The United Nations mission in Afghanistan says it verified 34 attacks against schools in just the first six months of this year, “including cases of burnings of school buildings, targeted killings and intimidation of teachers and school officials, armed attacks against and occupation of schools, and closures, particularly of girls’ schools.” Note the targeted killing of teachers and educators such as Khan Mohammad. And let us ask ourselves why, exactly, their fight matters?
Often I am asked whether we are “imposing America’s views” when it comes to promoting girls’ education in a country like Afghanistan? My answer is that those pushing this struggle forward are not foreign. They are people like Khan Mohammad, the teachers assassinated simply for going to work and the young midwife whose father pushed her to get an education and pursue her dreams of a career. All that the world can do is to support these homegrown education fighters.
Investing in girls’ education provides among the highest returns around when it comes to goals ranging from greater food security to more robust economic growth. According to a 2004 report from Barbara Herz and Gene Sperling, every additional year of primary education offers women a 10 to 20 percent increase in earnings, and each additional year of secondary education can increase future wages by 15 to 25 percent. As the World Bank notes, increasing the number of women who complete secondary education by merely 1 percent boosts annual per capita income growth by .3 percent. And in a desperately poor country like Afghanistan where per capita GDP hovers around $500, every bit of growth is needed.
But beyond the economic benefits, girls’ education fosters stability. Nobel Prize winner Amarty Sen argues that “perhaps there is no clearer route to economic development, political stability, and ultimately peace, than education.” Today close to 40 million of the 70 million children who are out of school come from countries struggling against armed conflict. And as Education Secretary Arne Duncan has said, “a better-educated world is a safer world because low educational attainment is one of the few statistically significant predictors of violence.”
And yet violence is what continues to greet those who say simply that going to school and educating girls is not a crime, but a right. Each day they venture out, unknown and unarmed, facing an adversary that sees homegrown leaders like Khan Mohammad as threats to be vanquished. But assassinating Khan Mohammad and shooting Malala Yousafzai will not extinguish girls’ desire to create their own, brighter future for themselves, their families and their communities, no matter where they are in the world.
Their push against forces that would take their countries backward in time and for the education that makes stability and prosperity possibility is a high-stakes battle. And everyone who desires a more peaceful world has a stake in the outcome.
A woman once in Malala’s shoes
You can follow Gayle Lemmon and her work on Twitter at @gaylelemmon.
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Alan Beasley
Obama calls her "bump in the road" ... it's gross!
America needs a President – not a golfer who swings by to check email...
And you think Mitt would be the right guy? I am not going to make a judgement on you based on your this statement but it give me picture of your thought process
biologixco
I didn't know Mrs BEASELY had a companion doll named Alan
What a disgusting misrepresentation of what the President said. That you should apply partisan politics to this tragedy is beyond cynical.
Partisan politics is when Mitt Romney keeps politicizing the Benghazi tragedy for political gain. During the 1984 Presidential debate between Ronald Reagan and challenger Walter Mondale, NOT once did Mondale mention the Beirut terrorist attack that killed 283 U.S. Marines. And during the 2004 Presidential debates between George W. Bush and challenger Al Gore, NOT once did Gore mention the 9/11 attacks on our homeland or the Iraq or Afghan wars as a means of scoring political points. let's face it, republicans are shameless, disgraceful and pathetic.
October 15, 2012 at 12:26 pm |
Let's face it, this person is a MORAN!
October 15, 2012 at 1:56 pm |
And let me guess.....you are proposing a president that will send us into another recession (near depression) like Bush? The Obama administration turned around the trend of rising unemployment for the first time in 11 years (in Oct 2009). The housing industry is climbing again for the first time since 2005. Pull you head out.
http://www.homefacts.com/offender-detail/IDSX21781/Andrew-Alan-Beasley.html
TALIBAN: They are not anti Women's Education, they are ANTI WESTERN Education. They call Western Education, Haram as most of the Western education in Under developed nations is done by Christian Missionaries, they convert people to Christianity by giving money, education and Jobs.etc
Another false claim. Educators in Afghan (and Pakistani) schools are locals, not foreign christians.
October 15, 2012 at 7:35 am |
HTofS
Sorry to disagree. The Talibs' idea of education is to sit in Madrasa's listening to a half ignorant leader who interprets the Koran for them (since they cannot understand it because it's in Arabic) as per medieval tribal habits which have (nor ever had) any place for women. Their's is a stone age mentality meeting the modern world.
Taliban can believe whatever ideology or go to hell. No one cares. For them to shoot a little girl, trust me if GOD exists these jerks will be burnt for eternity. YOU CANNOT justify killing kids in the name of an ideology. It is not like this was an accident or collateral damage, though that is sickening. What the hell is wrong with these people? Why would anyone kill in the name is religion? How can any god agree to that??
If you're actually supporting the Taliban's actions here then you should be waterboarded to death just like the rest of the Taliban.
Tammy B. Dail
Obama's perceived misstatement is not important. What's important to highlight and elevate is that this young woman did what armies, law enforcement and other leaders in Pakistan were unable to do – stand up to the Taliban !! She also brings to light the most ironic of all points – that the Taliban,with all their bravado, fear women and girls most of all –
I'm not sure how this conversation became political but I use to love putting molasses on my pancakes.
Pancakes? Got to be maple syrup for me. With some real butter. Never have cared for molasses on anything.
Hey, leave molasses out of this! I can't believe you brought religion/politics/personal opinions into this discussion of confectionery toppings! You must be a mayronic hayseed republicrat/democran/talislamitian! With more of these exclamation points I smite you!!!!
madamequeen
Some people really abuse freedom of speech. I see that you are no exception!
TribalBeat
What about the Malala's killed by US Drone attacks?
TribalBeat who wants to hear about them. they are killed by US not Taliban so they are not important at all.
Killing Taliban terrorist will save lives of girls like Malala. The Taliban are criminals.
Talebans of jewmerica are the real criminals , the ones which use drone at other people who don't agree with their so called democracy ! If they believe in democracy then why not let people choose what they want , but try to impose their laws on others ! America is in middle east not middle east in america ,THEY ARE THE REAL CRIMINALS WHO WILL BOIL IN HELL FIRE
@spider
Your theory washes out because the Taliban never give anyone a chance to vote. They just move in and take over at the point of a gun, beheading people who oppose them. Do you really think that the people of the Hindu Kush mountains want these evil, stinking and self-serivng people 'ruling' them with what they call Islamic law? Moron.
For Malalas there is no difference between Talaban and US. Both are the reason they are suffering.
kent grotz
More bumps in the road?
October 14, 2012 at 11:42 am |
Truthsayer
Malala and others like her are an inspiration to us all in Pakistan. However, as mentioned in the above comment, there are hundreds of Malalas and other children that have been killed in US drone strikes. US officials even refuse to comment on drone casualties, usually calling them all "militants". These unfortunate dead children are faceless and nameless. Would CNN care to publish the names and faces of these children killed by US drone strikes as well??
Drones target Taliban terrorist like those who tried to kill Malala. The Taliban are criminals.
Who told you drones target the Taliban? Oh right, the US government did. I would be wary of a Government that hides afar and sends Drones to do its wars. Shucks, I even have a hard time believing that they actually Killed Osama. Never saw his body even. Killed him like I killed my verizon wireless phone – Said it fell in the river. 😀 While nothing of the sort ever happened. But who is to say otherwise?
The Drones have killed 100s of Malala's you'll never know.
ANgryIrish
Maybe the Taliban should stop hiding amongst children and fight like real men instead of gutless cowards.
please provide us with the specific names and dates of children killed in drone strikes. Which village? How many militants also killed?
I trust the U.S. gov.t more than I trust some muslim on an internet message board. Honestly, the best long run solution is to nuke mecca and medina to ashes and flatten the rest of saudi arabia to the ground. Cut the head off the snake that is islam, and the rest of it will die.
maxamad cabdullaahi
TJ..... you are coward terrorist.... you are saying muslims should be masscred......... but is islam will eventually will destroy you ......... because you will never can destroy muslims......... you just coward
Amit-Atlanta-USA
Reminds me of what Hillary Clinton had said on a visit to India after the Mumbai attacks (ref: Pakistani newspaper Dawn story Oct 24th 2011-"US Talks up Pakistan role in Afghan Peace Talks")
She said Pakistan's relationship with the terrorists is such that "YOU KEEP SNAKES IN YOUR BACKYARD & EXPECT TO BITE ONLY YOUR NEIGHBORS" (sooner or later they will come after you!!!).
http://dawn.com/2011/10/24/us-...
Amit, that's true what Hillary said about the snakes and all. What she forgot to realize though was that most Pakistanis view the US as the biggest snake of them all. 😛 So yes the Talibans are snakes and yes the US is also viewed as a snake. Both have been biting Pakistan. 😉
The Taliban snake seems to have all the news coverage, thanks to their stupidity. The US snake has the same zing, only they got a better PR department than the Taliban snake. That and they also have significantly more power than the Taliban snake. Snakes snakes everywhere.
Everyone in the right frame of mind shares those sentiments and wish the brave girl a speedy recovery.
Having said that: the greatest winner in all these is the Pakistani govt, which will MISUSE the GOD SENT OPPORTUNITY to demand greater understanding (of its policy of aiding terrorists) and ASK FOR BILLIONS MORE to win the hearts & minds of those barbarians.
So, with Pakistan the cycle just goes on, the greater the attacks the greater they can GLEEN FROM THE WEST!!!
Why is at always “imposing America’s views”? It's not like America is the only place where women go to school. They go to school in every country in Europe, South America, Australia, eastern Asia and Canada among others.
Why does America get the blame for everything when most of these people aren't trying to "be like America", they're simply trying to be like the entire rest of the world.
Because America Judges these guys. The rest of the world does not get into everyone else's business. And as a Judge the US dictates foreign policy all around the world. Hence if you dictate your views, you are "Imposing Your views".
Nandan
There wouldn't have been any Taliban if the mothers of these people had received formal education. It is the mother alone and no one else who can put valued in the minds of children of impressionable age. By denying education to girls, a society is going to produce more and more barbarians. A society that does not respect its women has no place in the modern world.
Its all about Poverty. Wherever in the world there is poverty and a lack of Law enforcement, such problems exist. Look at Somalia, Look at Mali, Look at Sudan, Look at Afghanistan. All these places are poor with a lot of foreign powers flexing their muscles within.
How come nothing goes on in Nigeria? Togo? Liberia? Kenya? etc? These are poor nations too. The answer is nobody is butting into their affairs. In Pakistan you got India on one side who don't consider Pakistanis human – then on the other side of Pakistan they've got the crazy Afghanis whose Idea of peaceful life is a perpetual civil war. Then you have influx of 5 million of these Afghan refugees into Pakistan to run away from the war there.
The US led Mujahideen transform into the Taliban. Tada!
And then you got the US jumping up and down sending drone attacks, thinking its killing a finite enemy and not creating more in the process. Too many coaches.
Poor innocent Pakistan. She attacked India 3x.
attacked india or defended against india? you have your facts mixed up sir.
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Arvind, Please take care of your people first who were Murdered by your CM in the state of Gujarath in those famous riots where the Government and the Police turned who stood and watched when Civilians mostly Muslims were KILLED by hINDU MOBS in the most ghastly way possible. No thanks to the Muslim Rulers who turned India from their stone age system.
complete ignorance of what is happening in foreign relations around the world. Your statement is shot through with errors and falsehoods.
Go back to school.
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It's a shame that no issue, no matter how important, escapes the taint of politics (as in Mr. Beasley's case). Education for all, especially women is above partisan squabbling. It concerns the future of the world. This is a great editorial about a vital issue. To all the comments about US drones... I can't support remote control killing myself and think we should bring our soldiers home. In the meantime, if the CNN moderators read this, could you give us information about how we can help? I would like to support all the Malalas.
Education = Power. That is what radical Islamist fear most.
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The right to have an education is definitely not "an American view" since Islam calls for the pursuit of knowledge, especially for girls/women.
The Taliban refuses to acknowledge this and instead, ban girls from getting an education because they know, knowledge means power and that will mean, they might be challenged on their skewed version of Islam. Kudos to Malala and those other courageous people fighting for their right of an education!
Jinn the Kafir
100% false.
I don't stand alone in feeling compassion and helplessness for what military people do to innocent people the world over. War and the fight for freedom is never glamorous, but so many heroes emerge to stand tall and gain respect of others who also wish for a peaceful and harmonious planet. We know Malala is not alone and pray that one day the rights of her people to live a fulfilled life will be born of her valiant effort to make her world a better place.
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In 2008-09, the Taliban have tried to impose the so called Allah's law – Sharia in Swat region of Pakistan. Sharia, which in simple term means banning women from work and education, enforcing beards on men and head to toe covering on women, beating people for missing their daily 5 time mechanical prayers, public executions and stoning.. the list goes on and on. This girl is now facing death because she tried to exercise her freedom of speech and exposed what these neanderthals are doing using violent Islamic verses as excuse. The real culprit in all this, as anyone can see are the violent and misogynistic verses from Quran and Hadith, which Muslims are unable to refute as they are supposedly from Allah and his messenger. The moderate Muslims are beaten down into submission using the very scriptures that they believe in by the extremists.
Even if I were to agree with your assessment on Islam being the "Real" Culprit, what Religion is the US following? Because the US is just as much culprit as Islam. Had the US not been waging its War Of Terror, the region would not have been the way it has become. How many have you even been to Swat!? I was there in the 1970s, 1980s. It was much different back then. What happened between then and now? Islam obviously hasn't changed in 1400 years. So what else changed? I'll tell you what changed – the US decided to wage a war Of Terror. Drone strikes. Afghani civil war. And these things didn't happen by themselves – the US initiated them.
The US wages its war of terror – while We pakistanis are targeted, because the US itself isn't on the ground. Too afraid to lose the lives of its soldiers so they send drones. Then they have the audacity to tell us We aren't doing enough. Pakistan has lost 30,000 civilians to the US War Of Terror. How many has the US lost?! Give me a break. Find some other Culprit.
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so true, Americans don't see themselves as others do....
Poor Innocent Pakistanis
The US has repeatedly offered to send troops into Pakistan to help rid the taliban / al qaeda scourge. Are you saying that they should come? Your government says no.
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"the US decided to wage a war Of Terror. Drone strikes. Afghani civil war. And these things didn't happen by themselves"
Putting the cart before the horse aren't ya? Have you forgotten 911? Thats what started the whole thing and it was muslims that did. How convenient to forget that. Figures....
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For nottolate: Actually, it started before 9/11 if you look at the history of Afghanistan and the Taliban. During the Cold War, the former U.S.S.R sent troops in 1979 to Afghanistan to support the then Democratic Republic of Afghanistan in their fight with the mujahideen.
The mujahideen were supported, in turn, by Pakistan and the United States. The Soviets departed in 1988-89 under Gorbechev. The mujahideen continued to be supported by the United States, but ultimately, with "Arab" support (Al Quaeda), they turned on their former supporters. The Taliban are but one of the many mujahideen groups in Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere.
Actually, the term "mujahideen" arose around 1829 when mountain people in Afthanistan fought the British and, again, in 1857, during the India Mutiny of 1857, when Afghaniis supported those who fought the British in northwest India.
It would seem that the Taliban, then, are a peculiar creature of the West, whether formed in battle against colonialism or as supported by the West in a battle against the former U.S.S.R. Dissension between quite different sects in Islamic areas of the world add to the complex mixture of political, geographic, religious, and social influences. Anyone who takes a simplistic view, "us" vs. "them," is ignoring the long histories behind current events.
There is also a quite lively long-term political history between India and Pakistan, involving the West (the U.S. and Great Britain as well as the former U.S.S.R) that anyone commenting on these affairs would be wise to explore.
It's OK for Taliban and other Republicans to shoot anybody they don't agree with,,,,I think they put that in the "In God We Trust" bill back in the 50's
Whenever any leader world over gets angry, kills several common people... be it US, Pakistan, Taliban, China or anywhere else... Osama got angry with US policies, killed thousands of common americans... Bush got angry with Osama n killed millions in Afghanistan.. isn't it the same state with rest of the world as well.. life of a common man is the price to pay for every corrupt idiot selected as leader in world history be it Obama or Zardari...
Karachi is still very safe heaven for criminals. Actual big criminals are hiding in Karachi now.
sir you must be wrong. You didn't blame the problem in karachi on the USA,
mmi16
If the Paki's and Afghan's would grow some balls – the Taliban would be turned to dust and there would not be any need for the US to be involved.
Malala has more balls than all the men in that region combined!
That country has destroyed itself over you and your stupid people and ur agendas since 1970's and u still talking about balls. If you mother fuc^%$ has balls you wouldnt be hiding like cowards you co^% sucking bit^%
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Its truly amazing how the media and mind control works. It totally tragic of what happened to Malala. But what about the thousands of Malala's maimed and killed by American drones. Why dont they receive coverage??? werent they going to school or sitting in school when they were killed by drone attacks. Why dont we talk about them. Why dont we talk about thousands of student shot and killed in Palestine. What about those Malala yousafzai's. When are we gonna give coverage to them???? why are we not expressing sorrow for them????? can anyone answer??
You must mean the thousands of Palestinians killed by other Palestinians and other Muslims. ISrael retaliates for atrocities committed my Palestinian terrorists. They don't just decide out of blue to kill people. Israelis have treated more Palestinians in hospitals than you can count. Muslims have killed more than twice as many other Muslims than all western countries combined. So you must be taling about Muslims when it comes to killing Muslims. Perhaps if the Palestinnians would consider living peacefully with Israel as Israel has proposed many times, fewer palestinians would be killed when Israel responds to Palestinian terrorist attacks against Israelis.
Oh, I think Israeli's are prepared to kill anyone that stands in the way of a continued expansion and settlement of homelands formerly belonging to displaced Palestinians. They even killed a young American, Rachel Corrie, who stood in front of tanks trying to stop yet another aggressive "resettlement." I do believe we can recognize who is the aggressor in these cases, and it is not Palestinians.
For Art 2: And just in case you have doubts as to who are the aggressors, here is a quote from the wiki page on Rachel Corrie.
If you read the entire page, you'll also see that she found Palestinians to be following Ghandian and Martin Luther King tactics of non-violence by and large, whereas Israel promotes the militarization of its own nation in order to visit violence on innocent Palestinians all the time:
The director of Rafah's hospital, Dr. Ali Moussa said that 240 Palestinians, including 78 children, had been killed. "Every night there is shooting at houses in which children are sleeping, without any attacks from Palestinians."
We could get into arguments about who killed whom, and I'm sure you could come up with Palestinian atrocities as well. The point, however, is that your statement which creates a simplistic black-and-white dismissal of Palestinians is itself worthy of dismissal.
TALIBAN: They are not anti Women's Education, they are ANTI WESTERN Education. They call Western Education, Haram as most of the Western education in Under developed nations is done by Christian Missionaries, they convert people to Christianity by giving money, education and Jobs.
Post it as many times as you like. It'll be just as untrue each time.
Can you give examples of girls' schools that have been founded and supported by the Taliban?
Well, he does not need to give the names! He refers to all the madarsas or the religious schools run by the illiterate Koran wielding Mullahs
TALIBAN: They support Islamic scientific education for Woman........................They are not anti Women's Education, they are ANTI WESTERN Education. They call Western Education, Haram as most of the Western education in Under developed nations is done by Christian Missionaries, they convert people to Christianity by giving money, education and Jobs.
I tihnk most of you r getting this wrong.. one of the first pillars of Islam is education which by the world of Might Allah is that "it is necessary for every man and woman to get education".
Militants are not Talibans, Talibans are not militants. Taliban is a word which is derived from the word Talib which means 'student' in Arabic.
Stop attacking Islam as a religion of terrorism. It is not... this is not a religious war... this geographical war for resources. These militants were created to destroy russia and now Afganistan and Pakistan. InshAllah that will not happen.
No one has to attack you to destroy islam. It is a self-destructive religion. Isn't that also written up in your books? God eat dogs!
not the Taliban do not follow Islam they follow their own mind, we can not condemn Islam because of a group that does not respect the religion.
I love islam and study a lot about my religion.
they do not have fear of Allah and not the people and that is why Islam is viewed with horror because of some groups that cause terror.,. Inshallah more this will change one day. Allahu Akbar
In my fantasy, the politicians will suddenly be seized by the awareness of common sense and agree that conflicts
that are religiously-based are abominable to everyone and will at long-last negotiate to end the slaughter.
We should all pray that this occurs. Only those of us who have experienced combat can really know the horror.
Only by the education of everyone can we have some small hope for the future. The middle east and those
countries bordering the areas in conflict must solve their problems from within. Enough, with the western powers
sacrificing their youth and treasure to overcome fanatics. Einstein was right: The only thing that is infinite besides the
universe is human stupidity.
lbpaulina
The Taliban created a hero.
Gayle Lemmon says: ....But there are many Malalas whose stories rarely are heard.
As somebody said (and I like to think of him as of Confucius) "a falling tree makes more noise than a growing forest"
A fresh forest of strong-willed young girls is growing. Hope they represent the future of Middle-Eastern women.
They will thank this little, brave Malala, and the Taliban will be remembered for their blind, selfish denial.
The dilemma of our age is whether the world still makes room for the diversity of view which allows us to look from afar at an ancient male dominated culture struggling to place males and females in sharply defined roles. Or do we, like ourselves, embrace a greater equality in others which will forever change their cultures as it has ours? This young girl is so brave and so right to stand up for her views and the Taliban has shown itself incapable of dealing with its own population except through violence. The tide is turning...and only aged copies of National Geographics will preserve the mondo cane world that once was.
I wish the media would spend as much time on every child being killed every day,instead of one child for a whole week.
John Geheran
Definitely. But that would be like asking the media to exercise some responsibility and intellectual honesty or expecting Muslims to accept criticism of Islam without rioting.
Jyothi, St.Louis, MO
Malala happens to be a lucky girl to get media's attention. She may be okay for sometime once she is recovered. But what about hundreds of others like Malalas who raise their voice against the misjustice that is happenning to them, want to live in their home country and live like the rest of the world ?
Rasheed
Both Taliban & West are exploiting this real tragedy to further their own agendas. The Taliban is not as much at fault as the media portrays them to be. Neither is the US/west as innocent. (The Taliban didn't urinate on Americans' faces)
Not to take away from Malala's courage and smart choices, imagine what people say about a 15-year old who commits a crime – not mature enough to make own decisions, so must not be prosecuted same way as adult. Liberian child soldiers who killed Sierra Leonean innocents weren't blamed, but the ones who brainwashed/drugged them. So for now, let's reduce the DIVA status for Malala, but concentrate on the MEDICAL efforts from which she could benefit. And the anti-Western people could do well to wait for her recovery (or, unfortunately, passing) before politicizing her tragedy. HOLD YOUR HORSES, BOTH SIDES, AND PRAY FOR HER RECOVERY!
Sunil Datar
Best comment so far, Rasheed.
TheGreenMan
I am a "Mallala you'll never meet". I am an Englishman whose country is being demographically raped by an invasion of insular self-segregating islamic colonists from pakistan who are hell bent on setting up religious colonies and ethnicly cleansing the native Europeans from their Continent. I truly wish that the talib called had died at the hand of her taliban brethren as it would mean it is one less pakistani brought into Britain to live off my wage earnings as a settler in the national Health System (NHS) taking up an hospital bed. I am currently supporting over 16 million islamic settlers in England. The unwelcome imporation of "malala" into my Continent is another one too many.
Malala is clearly a new Prophet of Islam. The Taliban are now guilty of the ultimate blasphemy.
The Taliban are not the problem – extremism is. Simply put, Islam is extreme. Islamic theology stands alone in the world as being the only one whose sacred texts exhort, encourage and condone acts of violence, hatred and intolerance toward unbelievers. Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, once observed "This is Islam, an absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, a rotting corpse that poisons our lives". That about sums it up.
John, if Islam is really extreme, then the population of over 1 Bn Muslim people in this world today would have wrecked havoc across all the globe. Fact is most of Muslims are nice caring people as anyone else, since Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims are as progressive and peace loving as any other segment of human race.
Malala is a Muslim, her pursuit of education is supported wholeheartedly by almost entire nation of Pakistan, as you can see from the independent global media coverage. Now Taliban is an absolute minority, insignificant in absolute numbers, perhaps few thousands in 180 million population of Pakistan, and they don't represent a religion and ideology supported by vast numbers. You shall not mix a segment of people trying to 'hijack' Islam and using it for their agenda (of grabbing power), versus the billion plus peace loving Muslims. It may sound difficult to digest for you having a stereotyped mindset, but think about it.
Mercifully, the majority of Muslims do not apply, ignore or are unaware of the more extreme elements in the Islam belief system. Best estimates indicate that radicalized Islamists are in the 10-15% range. That said, in absolute numbers upwards of 150-200 Million or half the population of the US are militants. Bear in mind, card carrying Nazis and Communists were about 2% of their respective populations and they managed to murder tens of millions. In today's world, numbers tend to be irrevalent when it comes to wreaking havoc – 9/11 being one example.
Point taken. As a "Yank" peering across the pond, I see the political elite as being responsible for an immigration policy that is destined to turn back the clock 1400 years. Candidly spoken, educated Muslim women may be the only salvation. Once free of their Islamic chains, their voices might just become the source of sorely needed reform. Then again, I'm not holding my breath.
What the author says is true. The Taliban's shooting of Malala will not stop other young women from trying to pursue their goals of equal rights and education. In fact, it is only motivating them further and spurring them onward. What a brave little girl. If the world sees more like her, perhaps one day brutes like the Taliban will cease to exist.
I wonder till when, will we keep on printing such one eyed observations on media. The Talibans kill Malals if they go to school, the Drones kill Malaals no matter they go to school or not. War ain't NOT a solution. War Kills and feeds the terrorism and hatred. We need peace in the world...Peace for All!
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Legal experts: Cops lying about cell tracking “is a stupid thing to do”
Deception in legal filings could lead to bad consequences for police, attorneys.
Cyrus Farivar - Jun 20, 2014 4:38 pm UTC
Kerry Lannert
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Legal experts—including a former US magistrate judge—are dismayed and appalled at the stingray-related e-mails published late Thursday evening by the American Civil Liberties Union.
Cops hid use of phone tracking tech in court documents at feds’ request
As we reported last night, the 2009 e-mail exchange between police departments in Sarasota, Florida and North Port, Florida, shows that local law enforcement had concealed the use of cell phone-tracking devices, known as "stingrays," in court documents. This deception could lead to punishment for law enforcement officers or perhaps even their lawyers, the legal scholars said.
Specifically, one e-mail from Sarasota police to North Port police states, “In reports or depositions we simply refer to the assistance as ‘received information from a confidential source regarding the location of the suspect.’ To date this has not been challenged…”
The ACLU has been actively trying to learn about the use of stingrays by local law enforcement agencies in Florida. This month, it published new documents obtained through public records requests and filed a related lawsuit. Earlier this week, a Florida state judge allowed the seizure of stingray records by the US Marshals from the Sarasota police as a way to shield them from public disclosure laws.
One former magistrate judge in south Texas, who has actively been trying to shed light on related forms of digital surveillance, said that concealing stingray use from judicial oversight was “extremely bad.”
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“It supports my concern that the federal government is presenting applications for stingrays that may be misleading or not adequately notify the magistrate judge what the application is actually seeking in terms of electronic surveillance,” Brian Owsley, now a law professor at Texas Tech, said.
“The idea of attempting to seal an old probable cause affidavit and reissuing a new one that attempts to conceal certain facts or circumstances strikes me as potentially fraudulent or that the attorneys appearing in state court may be committing a fraud upon the court," he said. "If this were to be the case, that is an extremely serious matter in which attorneys could be sanctioned or reported to state bar officials and law enforcement officials could be held in contempt or sanctioned in other manners.”
Similarly, Fred Cate, a law professor at Indiana University told Ars that such an action by the police is “really serious.”
“Our system of checks and balances depends on judges knowing what they are approving when asked to issue warrants,” he said. “A deliberate effort by federal law enforcement authorities to deceive a judge is a profoundly serious matter. This is precisely what undermines public trust in what otherwise could be lawful surveillance and in the government authorities that conduct it. Moreover, it is a stupid thing to do because it can make the warrant invalid, thereby make the evidence obtained under it inadmissible in court. The real question now is what steps federal authorities take to investigate and to sanction officers involved in wrongdoing.”
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Meanwhile, Russell Covey, a law professor at Georgia State University, acknowledged that these devices may in fact be legal—there simply haven’t been enough high-level court rulings to be completely sure.
“However, the failure of law enforcement officials to disclose to courts the actual source of their information and to pretend that it came from a ‘confidential source,’ is deceptive and possibly fraudulent,” he told Ars. “Affirmatively misleading the courts about the source of evidence in sworn warrant applications would clearly constitute a constitutional violation.”
Brian Pascal, a research fellow with the University of California, Hastings Law School, told Ars that this level of deception has reached a “whole new level.”
“New technology makes it easier and easier for police to gather information and also to hide the source of that information,” he said. “In this kind of extreme case, it makes it almost impossible for a suspect to refute the evidence used against him. This isn't how our legal system is supposed to work. You don't get to lie about where your information came from.”
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Owsley also noted that the ultimate sanction for an attorney that engaged in such behavior would be disbarment. "That seems extreme to me, but it could be feasible," he said. "Similarly, if a judge were to find a law enforcement officer or an attorney in contempt, that person could actually be jailed for a period of time. Again, that seems extreme to me, but it could be feasible. In the end, the sanction is up to the discretion of the individual judge and thus if you asked five judges how they would handle a specific scenario, you would get seven opinions."
But his colleagues don't expect much to happen in terms of meaningful punishment.
"Realistically, the biggest risk to the government is that the judge is miffed and so views future warrant requests with greater skepticism," Cate said. "Theoretically, the judge could hold the requesting officer in contempt or could ask the Justice Department to investigate, which could in theory lead to termination or criminal prosecution. That will never happen—not with this administration. After all, if the [director of national intelligence] can lie to Congress without consequences, surely a law enforcement official can deceive a court without worrying about consequences."
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knbgnuArs Praefectus
Breaking the law is a bad idea from a legal perspective. What a surprise.
Cyrus Farivar Cyrus is a Senior Tech Policy Reporter at Ars Technica, and is also a radio producer and author. His latest book, Habeas Data, about the legal cases over the last 50 years that have had an outsized impact on surveillance and privacy law in America, is out now from Melville House. He is based in Oakland, California.
Email cyrus.farivar@arstechnica.com // Twitter @cfarivar
knbgnu Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius
reply Fri Jun 20, 2014 11:41 am
abenn Ars Scholae Palatinae
And what about all the people convicted with these potentially invalid warrants? Do you think they are going to sit on the side lines and do nothing. I see a swarm of appeals hitting the judicial system, with a possible outcome of the convictions being thrown out due to invalid warrants. The majority of those people probably are guilty, but they are going to be set free due to these invalid warrants.
potato44819 Ars Legatus Legionis
I actually hope that some of these cases against really bad people are overturned, forcing these cops and those who colluded with them to try and sleep with the knowledge that their failure to follow the rules has set murderers and rapists free. I hope the public outrage results in at least mass firings, at most jail time.
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arkiel Ars Praefectus
Nice summary of implications. Nothing actually new on the news front, right? Has Ars listed the names of the lawyers and officials involved anywhere yet? Clouding their Google search results is a praiseworthy action.
invinciblegod Ars Centurion
See the examples that the higher ups give. Since the higher ups were able to lie without punishment, the cops are doing it too. Know why China has high amounts corruption? Because then higher ups do it so everyone does it including judges. In a few more decades we will be just like them!
jdale Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius et Subscriptor
Owsley also noted that the ultimate sanction for an attorney that engaged in such behavior would be disbarment. "That seems extreme to me, but it could be feasible," he said. "Similarly, if a judge were to find a law enforcement officer or an attorney in contempt, that person could actually be jailed for a period of time. Again, that seems extreme to me, but it could be feasible."
That doesn't seem extreme to me. It seems overdue.
And it's not just the stingray cases where this is going on. The same types of practices, "parallel construction," are also being used to conceal the use of telephone metadata information from the courts. E.g. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/02/us/dr ... ss&emc=rss
The sooner consequences start rolling out for these fraudulent practices, the better.
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RickyP784 Ars Tribunus Militum et Subscriptor
Is that bacon I smell? Because some piggies are about to get their asses fried...
Baron von Robber Ars Praefectus
LEO: Gee, I'm pretty sure suspect #2904029 is up to no good. And I have a little bit of evidence and niffty device to help me. Maybe I'll get a warrant to use the device..................................naaaaaw!
cfarivar Senior Editor et Subscriptor
arkiel wrote:
The Sarasota police detective in question here is Michael Jackson. (Serious.)
willdude Ars Praetorian
This deception could lead to punishment for law enforcement officers or perhaps even their lawyers, the legal scholars said.
BWAHAHAHAHA! HO-HO! Classic!
...oh wait, they were serious?
bigdrew172 Ars Tribunus Militum
reply Fri Jun 20, 2014 12:00 pm
abenn wrote:
I think this is going to be the biggest consequence from the whole ordeal. The many guilty people who are going to be set free with damages paid, as well as the amount of money/time spent clogging up the appeal courts with something that should never have happened, and everyone knew should not be happening.
speedemon105 Ars Centurion
willdude wrote:
Lol, well technically that sentence is correct, it COULD lead to punishment.
It won't, we all know that, it's a pretty safe that nobody will be punished in any meaningful way.
infected Ars Tribunus Militum
cfarivar wrote:
Then it should come as no surprise that he is bad.
pallentx Ars Centurion
Police, lawyers, and anyone else involved should have serious jail time. This kind of thing erodes public trust and the integrity of our entire system (not that it has any). It should have the highest punishment. Its like treason IMO.
soulsabr Ars Praefectus
Cops lying about cell tracking “is a stupid thing to do”
Lie to the police you can go to jail. Police lie to you and it is legal. This about sums it up.
elizibar Ars Scholae Palatinae
Disbarment for attorneys, meager jail time for the police?
How about the penalty be real and meaningful? They get to serve out the sentence of the citizen that they victimized with their unconscionable deception.
lightspd Ars Tribunus Militum et Subscriptor
This is Florida, cops don't face punishment for anything. Just look up German Bosque, if there was ever a more perfect poster child for corruptness of cops and the system.
Honestly, I would love to see something come of this, but my hopes aren't high. The most I expect to happen is some political theater.
elizibar wrote:
I also advocate up to five years of nonconcurrent time be added as the actual punishment for their crime. Since they have the authority and power to utterly ruin a person's life they need to be dealt with in a harsher manner when they do try to destroy a person's life.
Considering that one can be too smart to be a cop, it should be no surprise that cops do stupid things.
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Deamon Ars Centurion
These legal "experts" are talking out of their ass.
Cops lie under oath. They do it all the time, everyone knows it, and there are never any consequences for said lying unless they manage to get caught in such a way that it's completely impossible to weasel out of it. And judges that ask too many questions about credibility tend to get shuffled off into oblivion or even fired.
There will be no consequences for these shenanigans.
GenocideOwl Ars Tribunus Militum
I just don't understand what the cops get out of hiding these details.
Officers are supposed to do business at the will of THE PEOPLE, and lying to them is a sure fire way to make them mad.
I have no personal problem with Stingray, but if cops want to lie about their use I would push for it to be illegal just to spite them for trying to hide something from the public.
Deamon wrote:
except that in those cases it is officer's word against "crooks" word
this is verifiable "you lied about a warrant/evidence for a case and we have undeniable proof"
in those cases stuff can and will happen, more likely to the lawyers than the cops(because they should know better, not that cops shouldn't either but....)
God. Dammit.
aquasub Ars Scholae Palatinae
It's staggering that we've come to simply accept such things.
bulldawg1964 Ars Centurion
surely a law enforcement official can deceive a court without worrying about consequences."
As if this new.
DMens Ars Centurion
knbgnu wrote:
It's a surprise because laws typically do not apply to agents of the state. Prosecutor discretion makes a mockery of equality before the law.
A recent example: http://reason.com/blog/2014/06/20/brickbat-police-state
A police chief is caught on camera admitting to breaking the law. There is zero chance he'll be prosecuted or even fired.
Second example: http://reason.com/blog/2014/06/20/flori ... nvicted-of
A prosecutor expresses dismay at having to "take down" the worst cop in Florida.
BitsandBytes Ars Tribunus Militum et Subscriptor
Good. If the cops, the prosecutor, or the judge don't follow the rules, then they don't get to put you in jail. That's how it is supposed to work, and how it should work, in my opinion.
AreWeThereYeti Ars Tribunus Militum et Subscriptor
reply Fri Jun 20, 2014 1:02 pm
Similarly, if a judge were to find a law enforcement officer or an attorney in contempt, that person could actually be jailed for a period of time.Again, that seems extreme to me, but it could be feasible.
This is what is wrong with the system right here. If a civilian tampered with evidence... off to jail you go! Law-enforcement... well, that would be extreme.
/s
crustytheclown Ars Praefectus
Harris Corp is so secretive about their unconstitutional equipment manuals.
https://premier.harris.com/WPG/Default. ... Url=%2fwpg
Buran Ars Tribunus Militum et Subscriptor
Why are they so intent on hiding stingrays when they don't (seem to) go to such lengths to hide other evidence-collection tactics that are just as intrusive into the personal lives of the innocent and just as invasive regarding privacy? Telephone wiretapping, GPS monitoring, and so on are all pretty invasive yet the police don't hide their use of those.
What are they so afraid of?
Brother Walter Ars Praetorian
It should lead to twenty-five to life.
theotherjim Ars Tribunus Militum
Dumb. Dumb. Dumb.
Buran wrote:
Perhaps they do something different than what they public say it does, or it's usage is typically different than what it is advertised for.
Rand Ars Tribunus Militum
GenocideOwl wrote:
Often there is video or other evidence that proves the lie, but it covered up.
For example, there was the recent case, which I believe was reported on Ars, where an officer failed to stop at a stop sign and nearly killed a woman; they arrested her for drunk driving despite the fact that her blood test came back negative AND there was video proving that the cop was lying. Eventually the truth came out, but the funny thing is that no one ever reported HOW.
Mutualin4mation Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
Not it wont. Nothing will happen to these cops.
nweaver Seniorius Lurkius
Although the use of Stingrays may prove legal with the right warrant, I think the lack of warrant is because those in charge don't believe it would be. Since these devices are interrogating not just a target phone, but all phones in the area, and perhaps keeping unknown amounts of information, I think there is a legitimate fear that, when push comes to shove, they will be ruled unconstitutional unless they were used with a warrant.
Its the lesson learned from the Kyllo v. United States case: Where, as here, the Government uses a device that is not in general public use, to explore details of the home that would previously have been unknowable without physical intrusion, the surveillance is a 'search' and is presumptively unreasonable without a warrant.
Even the dissent in Kyllo was "this device didn't penetrate the home, so its OK", which is certainly not the case with a Stingray.
If its a search to point an IR camera at the outside of the house, its sure as hell a search to probe the cellphones inside the house. Worse, since its not just a search of a specific house, but a mass search of all houses in an area, it becomes even more constitutionally suspect.
crustytheclown wrote:
I think you are trying to be sarcastic (but my sarcasm meter is offline, so who knows), but if that's the case I don't know what point you are making by linking a site that requires a log-in and clearly states "Only customers that have purchased WPG products or are eligible to do so may enter this site." Maybe you are logged in so you don't see that? If so, post their manuals online and let's see what their response shows about how secretive they are.
If you're not being sarcastic, then I really don't know what point you are trying to make.
Because the other monitoring is stuff they are getting a warrant for in the first place. Stingrays are clearly being used without a warrant, and then used to justify real warrants. The other cases require a warrant first.
nweaver wrote:
Cops have used forms of surveillance to establish the need for a warrant for years without lying to the courts about how they are doing so. For example, a police officer can trail a suspect to establish where he or she goes to show that they may possess drugs after repeatedly visiting known drug dealers or places of sale. This can then be used to obtain a search warrant, and the tailing did not require a warrant to perform.
And the police do not lie and cover this up like they do stingrays.
Furthermore, if the police use stingrays in ways they don't clearly disclose, they can... but as soon as they use them for something that requires public disclosure (signing a private contract doesn't count; a court of law trumps what a contract may say) then they must disclose. Check and balance, as intended.
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Soylent Sickness
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Developed by a technology entrepreneur, Soylent has produced a nutritional product claiming to meet all your daily requirements in a powder or bottle
Now facing their second production problem in the three years they’ve been in business, Soylent denies any issue with contamination or flaws in production
Soylent proudly uses as many GMO foods as possible, increasing your toxic load of pesticides and ignoring independent research demonstrating significant health effects
Life hacks are designed to be simple and quick solutions to some of life’s complex problems. Sometimes it’s a tip or another way of looking at a problem that makes it easier to address the challenge. In the case of Rob Rhinehart, serial entrepreneur, he decided to hack his food supply.
Having spent $100,000 without success from the $170,000 he and his partners had received from Y Combinator, Rhinehart stopped looking at technological advancements.
He had become fascinated with the idea of reducing his food bill and the time it took to cook and eat. Without any education in nutrition, food preparation or biology, he used the last of the money to start Soylent.1
While his new company has a large fan base, the product will have difficulty living up to the hype based on the nutritional premise behind the product line and the manufacturing foundation of the product.
Although using a meal replacement may allow you slightly increased productivity, eating meals with friends and family has a distinct emotional and psychological benefit to your health.2,3,4
In recent weeks their newest product line, Soylent Bar, has been recalled as consumers are suffering from hours of vomiting, dehydration and diarrhea, some requiring hospitalization. The first health issues were reported September 7, and the company is still struggling to determine the source of the problem.5
Can You Drink Your Daily Nutritional Requirements?
The primary premise behind Soylent is that you can drink your complete nutritional requirements and never have to eat food again. Taking advantage of a large community of people who continually strive to find more hours in their day, Rhinehart hit upon a marketing strategy that launched his company and built a strong fan base.
Other companies have produced liquid nourishment they claim are supplements to your regular food intake, reportedly designed to improve your vitamin intake without compromising taste and quality.
However, manufactured liquid food cannot adequately replace the nutrients and micronutrients your body extracts from organic, whole foods.
Ambronite, a self-proclaimed “supermeal” in a bottle, marketed as a meal replacement drink, has a similar idea about natural food sources. Founded in 2013 and carried in 35 countries,6 co-founder Simo Suoheimo told International Business Times:7
"The main thing with longer space voyages that we're currently seeing, the trend in this sort of research, is stemming from the fact that we haven't really solved nutrition science.
We're still very much in the beginning of understanding what nutrients play a part in human survival and indeed optimizing performance.
The fact is that with the current knowledge it's really hard to create a complete product with synthetics because we don't even know yet what we have to include in there. Whereas products based on real actual foods solve this pretty well."
Soylent Soy Not Soylent Green
In the 1973 science-fiction film “Soylent Green,” an overpopulated futuristic society was reduced to living on wafers, called Soylent Green. Only at the end of the film do consumers learn the wafers have been made of human flesh.
In the early months, Rhinehart was encouraged to change the name of his company, but said he liked the self-deprecating nature of the name. His idea was to poke fun:8 “The general ethos of natural, fresh, organic [and] bright — this is the opposite.”
The early recipes used canola oil for lipids and fats, maltodextrin (another name for sugar) and oat flour for carbohydrates, rice for protein and sucralose (key ingredient in artificial sweetener Splenda) to mask the taste of the vitamins.9
It is outwardly apparent from observing dietary habits that you can survive on less than optimal nutrition. But the resulting poor health, obesity, heart disease, diabetes, cancers and other illnesses make it less than an ideal choice.
Scientists are not yet aware of how your body uses phytochemicals and other nutrients that have not yet been identified. Dr. Walter Willett, Harvard School of Public Health chair of the nutritional department, was quoted in The New Yorker, saying:10
“It’s a little bit presumptuous to think that we actually know everything that goes into an optimally healthy diet. [You can live without plant chemicals.] But you may not live maximally, and you may not have optimal function. We’re concerned about much more than just surviving.”
Proud to Use Genetically Engineered Foods Despite Overwhelming Evidence of Risks
In this documentary you’ll discover some of what happens when we use genetically engineered (GE) foods. Scientists are only beginning to uncover the long-term effects of splicing the genes of one living creature into another.
However, Soylent isn’t convinced by independently funded research and has relied on information from the American Medical Association (AMA), World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Commission, claiming no credible evidence exists that genetically modified (GM) foods are unsafe.11 However, even WHO admits that:12
“Different GM organisms include different genes inserted in different ways. This means that individual GM foods and their safety should be assessed on a case-by-case basis and that it is not possible to make general statements on the safety of all GM foods.”
Then, in 2015, 19 of the 28 countries in the European Commission decided it was in the best interest of their citizens to say “No” to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) within their borders, and all 28 countries require labeling of foods containing GMO products.13 According to Soylent:14
“All of our products use bioengineered algae as a source of lipids and essential omega fatty acids. Produced efficiently in bioreactors, rather than on farmland, these single-celled organisms require far less resources than traditional agriculture.”
Genetic Engineering Is Not Clear Cut
Although many organization claim that “GMO foods are safe,” this statement is far from the truth for two different reasons. In the first place, genetically engineering any plant or animal is not as clear cut as moving one puzzle piece from one plant or animal to another.
This is a laboratory-based technique that has produced unexpected and toxic results when scientists begin tampering with the DNA of living organisms. Manipulating the genetics of a plant or animal is very imprecise.
Pesticide-producing plants designed to increase crop yield, and an inability to adequately predict the long-term effects of GM plants and animals in the food supply chain, only increases your risk of illness and disease.
In one 90-day trial researchers were able to detect organ disruption in the kidneys and livers of laboratory animals that “could be the onset of chronic diseases.”15
The researchers noted that at that time there was no time limit for studying the effects of GMO food on humans and suggested it should be made compulsory to study these effects longer than 90 days, and should include multigenerational studies to assess long-term health and fertility issues.
This is plain common sense, since no one alive today will eat GMOs for mere months unless they’re eating a wholly organic diet from birth until death.
Toxic Chemical Exposure Increases When Total Food Supply Is GMO
Soylent promises their customers that the drinks and bars they sell can meet all your nutritional needs. Some of their customers have taken this to heart and completely eliminated other food sources. This may be a very dangerous choice, as plant-based GMO products are genetically manipulated to withstand powerful pesticides allowing farmers to use higher and higher doses to kill weeds that are becoming resistant to chemical control.16,17
This means you are exposed to greater amounts of toxic chemicals with the increased number of GMO products you consume. If your total nutrition comes from a product using mostly GMO-based nutrients, then it stands to reason that unless those ingredients are first completely cleansed of pesticide residue and pesticides bred into the plant are removed (which is currently not possible), you are increasing your toxic load with each meal.
Current Bar Recall Is Not the First Problem Soylent Has Experienced
Soylent’s new bars are being recalled due to their causing severe illness, but this isn’t the first problem this company has faced since its inception in 2013. In 2015 they introduced 2.0, their signature drink in a bottle. Whereas before customers mixed a bottle of lipids with powder and water, the 2.0 drink came premixed in a slick white plastic bottle.
Mere weeks after the product’s introduction, shipments were delayed.18 Amid customer complaints, the company admitted that some of their bottles were growing mold on the exterior surfaces. However, images sent to Motherboard clearly show mold growth both on the exterior and interior of their bottles.19
The current problems with the Soylent bar will not disappear quickly. One Reddit user has compiled 58 reports of gastrointestinal distress since September 7.20,21 The original report in Ars Technica listed 33 reported illnesses on October 10, but the list jumped to 58 by October 16. Rosa Labs, manufacturers of the Soylent bars released this statement:22
“After these reports, we have retrieved remaining bars from our consumers and have personally consumed many of the remaining bars without adverse effects. We have also sent them for further microbiological testing and all tests have come back negative. Based on this we remain very confident in the safety of the bars.”
Soylent has theorized the problem results from an intolerance or sensitivity to one of the ingredients in the bars. Although Soylent said the manufacturing facility, Betty Lou’s in McMinnville Oregon, is inspected annually, an online U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) database indicates the last inspection was done in 2014 with a “voluntary action indicated” result.23
Is Artificial Sweetener to Blame?
BuzzFeed quotes sources close to Soylent’s production who believe the gastrointestinal problems may be related to the amount of sucralose in the bar, but the company has no current plans to reduce the amount.24 Each bar contains 30 milligrams (mg) of sucralose, the key ingredient in the artificial sweetener Splenda.25
Despite the company’s interest in laying responsibility for the vomiting and diarrhea at the doorstep of sucralose, Diet Coke and Pepsi One both have 40 mg of sucralose in one can of soda, 10 mg more than a Soylent bar.26
That said, sucralose does come with other health concerns. In 2013, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) downgraded sucralose from “safe” to “caution” after preliminary findings suggested sucralose consumption caused leukemia in mice.27 The study was finally published in early 2016, demonstrating male mice who consumed sucralose had a greater potential of developing leukemia and malignant tumors in their lifetime than did the female mice.28 The researchers concluded:
“These findings do not support previous data that sucralose is biologically inert. More studies are necessary to show the safety of sucralose, including new and more adequate carcinogenic bioassay on rats. Considering that millions of people are likely exposed, follow-up studies are urgent.”
Lisa Lefferts, senior scientist at CSPI, addressed concerns that in this study mice received doses of sucralose higher than currently recommended by the FDA. She was quoted by EatClean.com saying:29
"[E]ven if you consume less, that doesn't mean there's no problem. When something causes cancer at high doses, it generally causes cancer at lower doses, the risk is just smaller."
1, 8, 9, 10 The New Yorker, May 2014, The End of Food
2 The Washington Post, January 2015, The most important thing you can do with your kids? Eat dinner with them.
3 Time Magazine, April 2012, Why Families Who Eat Together Are Healthier
4 Psychology Today, March 2012, The Family Meal
5, 21, 22 ars Technica, September 2016, People get “violently ill” from Soylent bars; company stumped
6 Facebook, Ambronite
7 International Business Times, August 2015, Soylent 3.0: Bioengineered Algae Could Support Long-Distance Space Travel
11 Soylent, Blog, Proudly Made with GMOs
12 World Health Organization, May 2014, Frequently asked questions on genetically modified foods
13 EcoWatch, October 2015, It's Official: 19 European Countries say "No" to GMOs
14 Soylent
15 Environmental Sciences Europe, March 2011, Genetically Modified Crops Safety Assessments: Present Limits and Possible Improvements
16 Weed Science, Internation Survey of Herbicide Resistant Weeds
17 Take Action, How Weeds Become Resistant
18, 19 Motherboard, October 2, 2015, Soylent 2.0 Shipments Were Delayed Due to Mold
20 Google Docs
23 U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Inspection Classification Database Search
24, 25 BuzzFeedNews, October 13, 2016, Soylent Food Bars Made Some People Throw Up
26 Diabetes Self Management, AMOUNTS OF SWEETENERS IN POPULAR DIET SODAS
27 Center for Science in the Public Interest, December 2013, It's Sweet but is it Safe
28 Sucralose administered in feed, beginning prenatally through lifespan, induces hematopoietic neoplasias in male swiss mice
29 Eat Clean, March 2016, A Scary New Reason to Avoid Splenda
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Minnesota State Fair: $11.1 million improvements for 2018
The Minnesota State Fairgrounds will get $11.1 million in improvements prior to the 2018 Great Minnesota Get-Together. The State Fair’s board of managers approved $7.2 million in capital work and $3.8 million in maintenance projects for the coming year.
Included is the construction of a new restroom.
According to Lara Hughes, Marketing and Communications Supervisor for the Fair, the new restroom will be located on Murphy Ave. between Underwood and Cooper streets.
A new pet exhibition and demonstration area will include two pavilions and a courtyard. “The new pet exhibition and demonstration area will continue to be on the north end of the fairgrounds,” said Hughes. “It will continue to feature pet exhibits, a variety of agility demonstrations and pet-oriented concessions.”
Hughes said the pet exhibition and demonstration area will be an improvement for both exhibitors and visitors.
According to Hughes, some of the upgrades to the livestock complex includes upgrade wash bays in the Horse Barn, added fans to the Sheep & Poultry Barn, replace windows in the Swine Barn, and install an access door in the Horse Barn. “The shade cloth at the Visitors Plaza will be replaced, and miscellaneous roof repairs and painting projects across the grounds,” she said.
There will be more than $3 million in improvements to the State Fair’s utilities and transportation infrastructure. “Most of this amount will go towards utilities like the upgrading of electrical distribution, street light replacements, and phone system maintenance,” said Hughes.
Transportation improvements include paving projects at the Kidway, Swine barn loading dock, X-Zone, repairs on various sidewalks and curbs and improve pavement in the Transit Hub, according to Hughes.
All projects are funded through State Fair operating revenue and grants from the Minnesota State Fair Foundation. The Fair is financially self-supporting and receives no government aid of any kind.
The 2018 Minnesota State Fair runs Aug. 23 – Labor Day, Sept. 3.
About Barb Teed
Barb has a M.A. in Liberal Studies from Hamline University, St. Paul, Minn., a B.A. in Media Studies from New School University, NYC., and Associates of Arts degree in Anthropology from Normandale Community College, Bloomington Minn. I was born in Duluth, Minn.
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Phil Eglin (Ceramics, 1993)Five Jugs
We are immensely grateful for the financial support we have received since 1993 from Estates, Trusts and Foundations and individual donors who are listed below. This generosity has enabled us to continue giving £10,000 awards to winning artists as well as allowing all remaining finalists to receive £1,000 awards.
We thank wholeheartedly.
The David Collins Foundation
Launched in 2016 the Foundation has been set up in memory of the late designer David Colilns in order to honour his legacy and celebrate his love and contribution to the Arts. The organisation has partnered with the Arts Foundation in order to award fellowships across multiple disciplines to young artists, designers and artisans who, with the support, could help them move to another level. Established in 1985, the David Collins Studio is an architectural based consultancy which has redefined luxury interior design on a global scale.
https://www.davidcollins.studio/foundation#editorial
The Clothworkers’ Company
The Clothworkers’ Company has supported the Materials Evolution Award for the past five years. The Award aims to identify where the current shoots of enterprise are coming from in the UK, reflecting and encouraging new ways of thinking involving practitioners from different backgrounds involved in textiles and related material development.
The Clothworkers’ Company’s focus is on supporting textiles research, innovation, skills and links with industry; and on fostering wider participation in trusteeship and charity governance. Its sister organisation, The Clothworkers' Foundation, supports charities which are set up to improve the lives of people and communities particularly those facing disadvantage. To date it has awarded grants of more than £130m.
https://www.clothworkers.co.uk
The Yoma Sasburg Estate
Gifted by her daughter Roselyn in 2010 the Yoma Sasburg legacy has already funded many different artists including sculptors, installation artists and live performance artists. Thanks to the legacy it will continue to fund a fellowship in Fine Art into the foreseeable future.
Born in Amsterdam Yoma Sasburg was a professional ballet dancer. She married the prolific film composer Edward Clifton Parker and later trained as a sculptor under David Weekes becoming a founder member of the Devon Guild of Craftsmen.
Friends of the Arts Foundation
Lionel Bart Foundation *
Nancy Senior
Howell James
Nona Ann White
Old Possum Trust
Po Shing Woo Charitable Foundation
PRS for Music Foundation**
Shelley Warren
Stephen Spender Memorial Trust
Studio Frith
Virginia Hodge
* Supported a theatre award between 2012 and 2016. The categories changed annually and included Theatre for Children, Video and digital for Theatre, Playwriting and Theatre Directing).
** Supported a music-related award in 2016 (Producers of Live Music) and 2017 (Jazz Composition).
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Mitsui & Co. bringing cows to Indonesia for high-end dairy
Japanese trading house set to produce chilled milk with Australian animals
Nikkei staff writers May 28, 2019 16:37 JST
Japanese trading company Mitsui & Co. is shipping dairy cows from Australia to its farm in Java to meet growing demand in Indonesia for dairy products. © Reuters
TOKYO -- As Indonesians grow hungrier for dairy products, more businesses are entering the market to satisfy demand. One, Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co, hopes to begin selling premium quality milk in Indonesia in September through an Indonesian subsidiary.
The company plans to breed nearly 400 dairy cows from Australia and produce milk on a farm it has operated in West Java Province since 2017. The milk will be processed using an extended shelf-life method that delays spoilage. Mitsui wants to start supplying milk to local high-end supermarkets in September.
Traditionally, milk consumption in Indonesia has been low because little of the country is suited to dairy farming. People mainly consume powdered skim milk, as it can be stored at room temperature. Indonesians consume just 12 liters of milk per year, on average, compared with 90 liters a year in Japan and 40 to 50 liters in Singapore and Malaysia.
But tastes are changing as more people eat Western-style food. According to U.K. market researcher Euromonitor International, from 2013 to 2018, Indonesia's dairy market expanded 70% to $3.3 billion. The market for fresh milk doubled to $400 million over that period.
Several companies, including Ultrajaya Milk Industry & Trading Company, have started pumping money into extended shelf-life chilled milk. Mitsui will compete for a share of this growing market.
Mitsui has invested in Raffles Pacific Harvest, a subsidiary of Indonesian food processor ABC Group. Raffles Pacific Harvest has bred 1,500 dairy cows on its Java farm. The company has brought over 200 cows from Australia by air, with the rest to be sent in October.
Mitsui is also an investor in milk producer ABC Kogen Dairy. The company's plants are certified compliant with halal dietary practices, so Mitsui eventually hopes to export milk from Indonesia to Muslim countries in the Middle East and Africa.
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The Case of the Missing Mobster
BY: HAROL MARSHALL
A dead body, identified as Lenny Spinoli, washes up on Dockweiler Beach in Southern California. Spinoli was last seen on Santa Catalina Island, leaving on a fishing trip with his friend, Ricky Martin. When Ricky goes missing, his realtor wife hires Hollywood PI Polly Berger to find him. Meanwhile, Polly’s firm has been hired to tail the wife of a big-time Hollywood director of zombie movies, who claims his wife is cheating on him. Within days, the director’s wife dies of a purported suicide. Polly suspects the director of murdering his wife, but how can she prove it? And as she digs for clues to the whereabouts of Ricky Martin, the FBI horns in, demanding that she help with their investigation. But will they return the favor, or are they just using her as bait?
TAYLOR JONES SAYS: In The Case of the Missing Mobster by Harol Marshall, a body of a man shows up on the beach in Southern California. The dead man is identified as Lenny Spinoli, who was heading out for a fishing trip with his friend Ricky Martin, who is missing. Did Ricky kill Lenny, or is he dead too? And if he is not dead, where is he? This is the question Ricky’s wife wants PI Polly Bergin to answer. But no sooner does Polly start investigating than the FBI shows up asking for her help on the same case. She doesn’t trust them—after all, she is just a small-time PI, so why would they want her help?—but what can she do?
Fast paced, intense, and intriguing, this is a story that will grab you by the throat from the very first page and hold on tight all the way through.
REGAN MURPHY SAYS: The Case of the Missing Mobster by Harol Marshall is the story of an LA private investigator, Polly Bergin. As the story opens, a man in New York, named Lenny Spinoli, gets a call from his brother who delivers a message to Lenny from a mobster. Some time later, Lenny’s body washes up on the beach in California. Lenny was last seen with his friend, big-time LA realtor, Ricky Martin, who is now missing. Martin’s wife, Sally, hires Polly to find her husband and prove he did not kill Lenny. As Polly begins to investigate, she calls her cop ex-husband, Johnny, who tells her that the feds have taken over the case and he has been told to stay out of it. He tells Polly to stay out of it too. Then she gets a visit from the FBI who, to her surprise, don’t want her to stay out of it but to help them solve the case. Knowing they don’t really need her help, she doesn’t trust them, but how can she refuse?
Marshall has crafted an intriguing and enthralling tale, combing mystery, suspense, and superb character development to make The Case of the Missing Mobster one you won’t be able to put down.
Coxsackie, New York:
Lenny Spinoli was a dead man, thanks to unfinished business from his sordid past. Two questions danced in his head—not the why, but the how and when. If he could eliminate one of those two uncertainties, maybe he could beat the rap. After all, he was smarter and better educated than the mobster who put a price on his head. And he had a heart. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be in this bind, a predicament he’d thought about a hundred times, wondering how he’d feel, how he’d handle himself when the devil came calling. Now he knew.
He’d have quit on his own if quitting had been an option, but that was not how things worked. You didn’t quit the Mob. The Mob quit you. Like it or not, signing up amounted to a life sentence, a message drilled home to him when his brother Mickey phoned.
Lenny failed to put two and two together in the beginning. Figured the call was another effort to keep Mickey in their clutches. Mickey, who’d been walking the straight and narrow for twenty-five years. Hadn’t thought about the life, hadn’t missed it. Married a nice lady, had two kids, opened his own bakery in downtown Coxsackie. Lived well. Mickey was happy and Lenny was happy for him.
Lenny turned off the burner under his pasta when his cell phone chirped. Caller ID read Anita Spinoli. His sister-in-law. She never called him. Had something happened to Mickey?
“Nita. Somethin’ wrong?”
“It’s me, Mickey,” his brother said.
Must have forgotten to charge his phone. Not like him.
“What’s up, Bro?”
“Jeez, Lenny, I got a real scare today.”
Mickey’s voice shook, like he might be standing on one of those phony weight loss machines with the vibrating belt that jiggled your middle. Lenny wondered how anyone lost weight on those things. Maybe the shaking action liquefied your stomach contents so the food ran right through you instead of absorbing into your intestines. Only way he could see the thing might work, not that he ever used one. Losing weight wasn’t a problem for Lenny. He worried the pounds off.
“What happened? You in trouble?”
“Not now, Len. It’s over, but I tell ya, I thought I’d seen the last of this world today. All for doin’ a friend a favor.”
Lenny sighed, drained the pasta, and dumped it into his red clam sauce. His mouth watered at the sight, but he turned his attention back to his brother. He had a pretty good idea what this was about. “Who’s the friend and what was the favor?”
“See, Father Moretti was in the bakery picking up his weekly order of cannoli. He likes the ones with pistachios in the cream, which is my favorite too.”
“Father Moretti’s the friend?”
“No. He happened to be in the bakery when Eddie Dagostino comes in. Tells Father the cannoli are gonna make him fat. But Father says these are Holy Cannoli. Once he blesses them, they’re no longer sinful. So, we all have a laugh about that. Then after Father leaves, Eddie tells me he has a problem.”
I knew it, Lenny thought, stirring the pasta and stifling a sigh. “What kinda problem?”
“With his kid. Kid’s got no brains. Doesn’t know his butt from his elbow, but he got lucky.”
“If he’s so lucky what’s the problem?”
“Kid’s lucky his father called on me, that’s what. Problem is, his father called on me.”
“What’d the kid do?”
“I don’t ask. I’m guessin’ he screwed up a drug deal. Bottom line, some jerk downstate stiffed the kid. Owed him a lot of money and wouldn’t pay up.”
“So, what’s this got to do with you?”
“Eddie didn’t want his kid handling the problem alone. Asked if I’d accompany him when the kid went to collect the money.”
“Why you? Eddie’s got plenty of friends in the business. Collecting is what they do.”
“That’s the point. The deadbeat’s connected. Eddie didn’t wanna start a war or nothin’ so he needed somebody clean. Like me.”
“Let me guess. You were smart enough to turn him down, then he sent somebody to your place today to convince you otherwise, especially since you know he knows where your kids live.”
“No. I told him I’d do it.”
Lenny exhaled slowly, unsure what his brother expected him to say. Unsure what to say himself. A quarter of a century his brother had kept his nose clean. Started his own business. Worked hard, put two kids through college. Son earned an MBA and worked as an accountant, his daughter taught school. Mickey had a lot to lose saying yes to Eddie. More to lose saying no. That’s the business for you. Always squeezing their own.
“Guess you didn’t have a choice.”
“Me and the kid, we drive down to Brooklyn yesterday morning.”
“You packin’?”
“You kiddin’ me?”
“The SOB talks tough. Says if we don’t get out of his territory, meaning the City, we’re dead meat. You know the routine.”
Lenny nodded like they were on video chat. “Then what?”
“I put a gun to the creep’s head, and he saw the light. Handed over the money and we split. Kid’s happy, Eddie’s happy, I’m happy.”
“Until?”
“Until today. I close up the bakery and head out to my car with the last of the cannoli. Black SUV’s parked next to mine. Inside are three guys I never seen before. One of ’em gets out and tells me to get in. I say, ‘hold on a sec, gotta run back in the bakery and take a leak,’ but the guy opens the back door and tells me, ‘you ain’t goin’ nowhere except with us. Get in.’” Mickey paused. Lenny could sense his distress. “Guess he knew if I went back in the bakery I’d come out carryin’ heat. Anyway, right then, I think to myself this is it, my last day on the face of this good earth. Honest Lenny, tears came to my eyes when I thought of Nita and the kids. I couldn’t move, stood there like a freakin’ statue. I’m tellin’ ya, if I was captured by ISIS, I couldn’t o’ been more scared.”
“Where’d they take you?”
“Coxsackie Mall. Back of the parking lot I see this black limo. Thing looked like a hearse, which didn’t make me feel too good. Alls I can think is, how they gonna do this? Shoot me? Slit my throat and dump my body in the river?”
“Stop draggin’ out the suspense.”
“Just paintin’ a picture so’s you know why I’m so upset. I puked my guts out when I got home. Couldn’t settle down enough to call you. Told Nita I had a stomach bug.”
“Okay. Calm down, and tell me what happened.”
“We pull up beside the limo and stop. The back door opens up. I wait for somebody to get out, but instead, the goon in the seat in front of me turns around and tells me to get out and climb in the limo.”
Lenny was running out of patience. Mickey was the worst storyteller ever. Had to include every detail, no matter how insignificant. Drove his kids crazy. Every time he started another story, they’d wave their hands in circles telling him to speed it up. Lenny glanced down at his right hand drawing the same circles. He wondered how long this story would go on, and if in the end it was even worth listening to, but when it’s flesh and blood you do what you gotta do.
He sighed audibly, a hint for his brother to get on with it. “Since you’re on the phone talkin’ to me about this, I take it nobody bumped you off, so what’s got you so agitated? They threaten you, have another job for you? And who was in the limo, anyway?”
“One question at a time. I’m still shook up. Remember, this just happened to me. I ain’t recovered yet.”
“You tell Nita about it?”
“Of course not. I’ve never told her nothin’ about the life. You know that. She’d leave me in a heartbeat. Couldn’t deal with it. The kids neither. You’re the only person I can talk to, Lenny, and sometimes I just have to vent, you know?”
“I know. Go ahead and finish your story, but I haven’t got all day. I got things to do.”
“So, my knees are quaking, I almost break my neck climbin’ outta the SUV, but I make it without fallin’ on my face. When I slide into the backseat of the limo, I see Eddie sittin’ up front. He turns around, introduces me to the guy next to me, and sez, ‘sorry about this,’ and I think to myself, you little punk. I do you a favor and now you’re gonna have me wacked? But it wasn’t like that.” Mickey hesitated. Lenny could hear him catching his breath again. “Guess who he introduces me to? I’ll give you a hint. The limo had Connecticut plates.”
Lenny didn’t need a hint. He’d once worked with the Connecticut mob. They ran Coxsackie, so he guessed they sent a mid-level capo to town, maybe to put the fear of God into Mickey, or maybe sign him on for more work since he’d done such a good job, suck him back into the business now they had something to hold over his head.
“Sounds like your New York deadbeat was not just connected,” Lenny said, “but well-connected. I don’t suppose you looked into his background before you took the job, try to find out if maybe he was the son of somebody high up in the organization, a little higher up than Eddie, say?”
“Didn’t have time. What’s your guess? Who was in the limo?”
“Look, I don’t have time for games, but I’ll play because you’re my brother. Easy. Some bone-breaker with a vowel at the end of his name.”
“Wrong on both counts. The Big Boss himself.”
“Pauly Budin?”
“Jeez, Marie. What did he say?”
“Asked me about ‘that thing.’ I said, ‘what thing?’”
“Not the smartest answer.”
“I know. He says, ‘that thing this weekend in the City.’ I shrug and tell him I was doin’ a friend a favor, like I’d do for any of my friends if one of their kids was in trouble.”
“That it?”
“Hell no. He asks me a coupla more questions, then he says, ‘You dig up your gun?’”
“He asked that,” Lenny said, “’cause it’s an important question.”
“I know and I tell him the truth. I tell Pauly, ‘No. I been straight for twenty-five years. This is the first time somethin’ came up. It had nothin’ to do with the business.’ I say, ‘Eddie’s kid got in some kind of trouble that I don’t know nothin’ about, other than the kid was getting stiffed by some sleazebag in the City. Eddie was afraid to let his kid confront the guy alone, and I don’t blame him. Clearly the guy was connected, but he made a big mistake. Thought he could abuse his connections in order to make a little money off o’ one of our own. But we all know that ain’t the way things work.’ I mean, I said, ‘if your kid was in trouble, Pauley, and you asked me for help, I’d o’ helped you out, too. Don’t mean I’m back in the business because I ain’t.’”
“Pauley tells me I done good. I was so relieved, I handed him the box of cannoli sitting in my lap, told him they were Holy Cannoli blessed by a priest, and he could eat all he wanted without gainin’ a pound.”
“Pauly’s not known for his sense of humor,” Lenny said, “so that might not have been the wisest answer. More like a wise-ass one.”
“On the contrary. He opened the box of cannoli, stuck his finger in the cream, and licked it off. Said it was the best cannolo cream he ever ate. I told him I was glad he liked it. Then he looks me in the eye and says, ‘Now I’m gonna do you a favor. Tell your brother that Angel Bianchi found the two cannoli your brother was supposed to polish off, and Angel ain’t happy about it.’”
A chill ran through Lenny, like someone sealed him in a meat locker, one of those places where they slaughter animals and hang ’em in long racks. Lenny’s heart raced, but he controlled the tenor of his voice. “What else did Pauley say?”
“I ask him, ‘What’s that supposed to mean?’ But he shakes his head, tells me to pass along the message. Says you’ll know what it means, then he tells me, ‘get outta the limo, go home, and keep your nose clean,’ which is all I was hopin’ to do. I thanked him, said I was pleased to meet him, and split. The three goons drove me back to my car. Nobody, including me, said a word on the trip over or on the trip back.”
“Always best to keep your mouth shut when you don’t know what’s going down.”
“I know. I probably should keep my mouth shut now, but my curiosity is gettin’ the better of me. What’s this about you refusing to eat the cannoli Angel gave you?”
“Nothin’ to worry about,” Lenny said, knowing the message was about a contract on his life. He wondered about the price tag, but not about who placed the order and why.
One week after Lenny Spinoli received Pauly Budin’s bad news, two things happened: the first pertained to an apparently unrelated celebration of good news taking place inside the second-floor office of Berger Investigative Services, a small PI firm in Hollywood, California. The second occurred in Coxsackie when Mickey Spinoli received a visit from the FBI informing him of the drowning death of his brother Lenny, whose body washed up on a beach in Southern California.
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Best PA System for Guitar Players
October 13, 2019 October 13, 2019 by Beginner Guitar HQ Staff
How to choose your first P.A. system for live shows
P.A. stands for “public address.” In the music industry, a P.A. system is a means of projecting sound to a large crowd.
Then, a P.A. system consists of PA speakers, microphones, audio controller (mixer), cables, and stands. You can use this kind of setting for live music venues, as well as a home studio and studio settings. Aside from that, there are other applications for a P.A. system like public speaking, karaoke, conferences, auditorium classes and more.
I’m here to help you choose the gear you need to set your own portable P.A. system. Alternatively, you will learn what you need to identify the best live audio settings available for you to rent at any occasion and given any budget.
Let’s dive into it.
1 Following this guide, you will learn:
2 What is a P.A. system?
2.1 How the PA system works
2.2 Understanding the mixer or audio controller
2.3 Understanding the microphones
2.4 Understanding the loudspeakers
2.5 How to choose a PA system?
3 Are these PA systems budget?
4 What to look for in a PA system
4.1 Speaker specs
4.2 Size of the mixer
4.3 Mixer categories
4.4 PA system mics
4.5 Cables and other essentials
4.6 In summary
5 Top 10 PA systems
5.1 Fender Passport PA Portable Speakers
5.2 ION Audio Tailgater (iPA77) Portable Speaker
5.3 Behringer EUROPORT MPA40BT-PRO
5.4 Yamaha STAGEPASS 600I
5.5 Rockville RPG122K Powered Speakers
5.6 Bose L1 Compact
5.7 JBL EON208P Portable All-in-One 2-way PA System
5.8 Fishman SA220 Solo Performance System
5.9 Peavey APP Audio Performer Pack
5.10 Pyle PPHP1037UB Active Loudspeaker
6 Why do you need a P.A. system?
Following this guide, you will learn:
What is a P.A. system?;
Are PA systems budget?;
What to look for in a PA system?;
Top 10 PA systems;
Final considerations.
Here’s a good tutorial video about P.A. systems from music site Reverb:
What is a P.A. system?
We’re looking at this from the musical industry perspective. However, let me give you a quick rundown on what a PA system is:
A public address system that projects sound from voices, instruments, and other acoustic sources.
It consists of microphones, mixers, amplifiers (like an electric guitar amp), and loudspeakers (tweeters, subwoofers, crossovers, and monitors).
PA systems might be portable speakers with a single mic or large mixers with various speakers and microphones. You can check this guide by Sweetwater to learn how to set up your PA system with your mixer.
Either way, let’s review it very quickly.
How the PA system works
Let’s imagine we’re talking about a band ready to play live, and it’s your band. To set up your sound, you would wire your instruments as you normally do: the bass guitar into the bass amp, the guitar into the guitar amp, and so on.
The PA system starts with the microphone, which converts the sound it picks to pressure voltage. It means it turns the magnetic force of the output into small amounts of voltage.
The microphone is picking up the sound from the instrument’s amplifiers, drums, and the singer.
Then, it sends the voltage either into a mixer for EQ and volume control. The mixer’s job is to make every instrument audible and coherent. Lastly, the mixer sends the signal into the speakers or “power amplifiers.” The resulting signal is stronger and has better quality than what the mics originally captured.
Let’s review the chart down below where I’ll showcase how to set up your PA system.
Vector de Música creado por freepik – www.freepik.es
The singer or spokesperson always sings or talks directly into the mic, and the mic goes straight to the mixer. So, for example, an audio chain for a singer would go like this: singer – mic – cable – mixer – cable – power amp (if it’s an unpowered mixer) – cable – loudspeaker – audience.
There are variations of such setup like, for example, you can connect a bass guitar to a DI box, which is a link between the bass amp and the mixer.
Other times, the microphones are connected to a preamp to enhance the incoming signal. Additionally, you can send the signal from the mixer to a power amp, and then to the loudspeaker.
And lastly, you can also add signal processing racks to the mix, which pack effects like reverb, compression, EQs, delays, and anything you can imagine to give your performance a little more drama while adding a bunch more of complexity.
Understanding the mixer or audio controller
The mixer takes the mics signal and puts it to an EQ process. Its job is to make it loud, audible, and balanced, as much as possible.
A portable PA system’s mixer will only have a few inputs. However, professional mixers will have over 10 inputs to accommodate lots of mics. And each mic goes on a particular instrument like, for example, a guitar amp, a singer, or the hi-hat.
A mixer also has controllers consistingg at least of low, middle, and high-frequency knobs to adjust the sound (EQ). Each mic input represents a channel, and each channel has its own control knobs, which includes volume and gain.
Additionally, mixers have master controls knobs, buttons or switches. These are, at least, master gain and master volume. In the master section, it may also feature a master EQ knob and volume indicators, amongst other things.
More advanced mixers have built-in effects like reverb and delay, which are very good for vocals. Professional sound engineers can mix these effects as the song goes along. More so, some mixers can recall presets, which means you can save adjustments and use them on the go.
Audio controllers mix the signal from different mics and instruments in a live audio setting.
Understanding the microphones
We’ll cover what you need to know about microphones when you’re looking to hook one up to your own PA system.
Typical live audio microphones are known as “umbrella” microphones. There are two kinds of umbrella mics: condenser and dynamic.
Condenser microphone:
A condenser mic requires phantom power to function. Phantom power means it needs to be connected to a power source via the standard microphone cable.
Condenser microphones have three power standards:
P48: it needs 48 V;
P9: it needs 12 V.
Almost every mixer has built-in phantom power. Plus, you can use their internal preamps to adjust the gain, character, and effects of the microphone’s signal.
External preamps, though, can give you a better sound quality with more unique characteristics and less hum, buzz, and noise.
Condenser mics are good for portable PA systems because they are sturdier.
Dynamic microphone:
Dynamic mics have an overall better utility because they are multi-pattern. Multi-pattern mics can capture sound from various directions. Whereas condensers are very fragile and work best with higher frequencies, dynamic mics are sturdy enough to travel with you because they are not as prone to break as their counterparts.
Both condenser and dynamic mics can either be tubular or solid-state, just like electric guitar and bass guitar amplifiers.
In summary, tubular audio is a century-old technology that relies on empty glass tubes to amplify the sound. Tubular sound is traditionally vintage, warm, and rich, as it better manages the natural tones of whatever it amplifies than the solid-state (completely digital) counterparts.
Understanding the loudspeakers
Firstly, loudspeakers are also known as “Front of House Speakers” (FOH) because they are pointed towards the audience. On the other hand, monitors are faced towards the performers.
They can either be woofers, which reproduces low and mid-range frequencies very well (which covers the bass, the drums, the voice, and almost every musical instrument and sound effect out there); or they can be tweeters, which is a smaller alternative reproducing high-frequency audio.
More modern speakers include the mid-range speaker, which incorporates the three speakers into a single cabinet. This is called a “3-Way,” while a “2-Way” incorporates a tweeter and a woofer into a single enclosure.
Remember, though, that choosing the loudspeaker is not all about the size or the number of speakers. You could have a sub-par 3-way speaker sounding way worse than a well-chosen 2-way alternative.
If you can only afford one kind of speaker, go for the one covering the most frequency range, which is the woofer.
I must also mention the crossover, which is a special electronic circuit that assigns the correct frequency range to the different speakers in a 2-way or 3-way enclosure.
Crossovers have “frequency points,” which divides the frequency range between the different speakers.
A common 2-way crossover point is 3kHz: anything above that goes to the tweeter, while anything below goes to the woofer. A typical 3-way features a 160-200hz for the woofer’s mid-range, and then the 3kHz diving point.
There’re also subwoofers, which reproduces the lower-end frequencies and are common in recording studios and professional audio settings. Take a look at this article about studio sound if you’re in further doubt.
Lastly, speakers can either be passive or active. An active speaker features the amp within the cabinet of the speaker. A passive speaker has a completely separated amp, which is a device mounted in a rack. Connecting the passive speaker to its amp needs an additional st of ¼ speakers cable.
The maximum range of the human earing goes from 20 Hz to 20.000 Hz approx. Vectors by Vecteezy
I must also explain a speaker designed for a PA system usually comes as a speaker-amplifier (power amp) combo designed to amplify the human voice coming from a microphone, or the sound coming from any instrument amplifier.
Additionally, PA speakers may have in-built in inputs and outputs plus possible volume, tone, and EQ controls that give you the ability to create a light mix.
How to choose a PA system?
Your selection of a PA system depends on your specific needs. For example, if you’re a venue owner, you would need a stationary wattage powerhouse. However, if you’re a musician looking for on-the-go gear, you would need something light and portable.
Hence, the decision comes to power (size of the venues and audiences) vs. portability. Lucky for you, we’ve got both choices lined up down below.
So, here’s what you need:
Speakers;
Microphones;
Preamps (optional);
A mixer;
A set of cables;
Furthermore, I have to add each PA system works best in particular situations. For example, Bose PA systems carry a technology that makes these alternatives best for acoustic music.
Are these PA systems budget?
The price depends on the size of the system, which depends on your particular needs and desires.
Basically, we’re talking about two kinds of PA systems:
All-in-one portable loudspeakers
They are easier for people who don’t want to invest too much into the complexity of a PA system. Portable PA systems consist of a set of microphones plus the loudspeakers.
These speakers have built-in EQ (which leaves the mixer out of the equation), plus a power amp to boost the signal’s voltage.
A portable speaker is everything you need in a single unit and selling for affordable price points. They are also small units you can carry on the back of your car, set it up quick, and play.
As musical site Sweetwater explains, these all-in-one systems are great for solo performers or small acoustic shows. They integrate active speakers, effects, and signal processing into a compact design.
Overall, a portable PA system carry the loudspeakers (wich are one or two), a mixer or some form of mixing with the speakers, a mic (possibly), cables, stands (possibly), and a carry bag.
A great example of this portable PA system is the budget Fender Conference, which I greatly recommend.
However, you will miss the range of sounds larger setups can offer with their separated components.
These are more defined rigs that include everything I’ve said before. These systems are best for larger venues that require high-definition audio. On the downside, these are heavy, big, and hard to carry rigs. You or your roadie will have a tough time.
These options carry price tags with at least three zeros (we won’t go above that).
Here’s a quick video review on some good portable PA systems:
Some brands sell you a complete PA system in a single bundle, however it’s not very common. Often, you need to build a complete-rig PA system yourself by buying the pieces separately. That’s why our list is featuring mostly portable PA systems that miss on mics and stands. Whatever you may pick, there are a few things you need to consider first.
What to look for in a PA system
As choosing the loudspeakers is the most important part of the job, let’s start by the speakers.
Speaker specs
Here’re the main specifications to check the capabilities of these pieces:
Wattage: it indicates the volume power and clarity of the speaker. Higher numbers mean they are louder and have more headroom. Headroom means they can go up the volume lever without breaking the sound.
Weight & size: the measure of a speaker is diameter over inches. Larger speakers result in more expansive sounds. However, there’s a correlation between weight and zie, although weight varies a little depending on the construction materials of the speaker.
Sound quality: quality heavily depends on the price, as well as the brand. Brands like JBL, Fishman, Yamaha, Harman International, Bose, Sennheiser, Sony, and Phillips offer you the best quality you can get for the price you pay. Clarity also comes with the price, but that’s what musicians are looking for.
Active vs. passive: an active speaker comes with a power amp, whereas passive speakers need an external power amp to work. I suggest going for active speakers as they are easier to use and very common in today’s market. A passive speaker is better for professional performers as they can enjoy the modular experience they bring, which means they can couple the speaker with the power amp of their preference, thus tweaking their sound even further.
PA monitor speakers: your musicians always need monitors as they will be able to hear themselves and thus play better. There’s also the option of in-ear monitors, which are wireless in-ear speakers that allow the performers to hear an individualized mix. However, these are harder to use and take a longer time to set-up.
Monitor speakers face the performers so they can hear themselves during the show. Mixing boards often deliver the monitor mixes through the aux send connections.
Determining your system’s size is about knowing how big and how many loudspeakers does your show needs. The room and the amount of audience will tell you what type of speaker you need. Remember that each person from the room is absorbing sound from the speakers, so the more people attending, the more wattage you need.
The Musician’s Friend site adds there’re a lot of factors to consider when planning how many watts you need for a live venue. However, they made a simple two-point list:
A rock band playing in a medium-sized club needs about 1,500 watts, minimum.
A pop or jazz band playing in a medium-sized club needs about 750 watts.
If you already have a team of people behind you, I almost guarantee you’ll prefer the flexible experience of passive speakers. There are additional factors to consider when setting these systems up, like matching the amp’s IEC power rating (the watts capacity) to the speaker’s power.
Lastly, adding a subwoofer will give you a richer, more vibrant sound. If you need that extra bass power and fits your budget, add a subwoofer into the mix.
Size of the mixer
The audio controller balances, processes, and mixes the signal from microphones and instruments. Then, it sends an amplified signal to the monitors and the PA speakers.
Mixers go from 4 channels to hundreds of channels. In simple terms, a 4-to-12-channel mixer is an entry-level device, suitable for a band without too much sound requirements.
Channels accept microphones and line-level devices like signal processors, preamps, and amplifiers.
To narrow your mixer selection, you must ask yourself: “How many channels do I want and need?” As a general rule of thumb, you want to have more channels than what you think you require.
For example, a rock or pop band featuring five members (and five instruments) would need more than 12 channels:
1 channel for the singer;
1 or 2 channels for the backup singer(s);
1 channel for the bass amp;
1 channel for the guitar amp;
1 channel for the secondary guitar or piano/keyboards amp;
6 channels for the drums (two overhead mics for cymbals, one mic on each thumb, one mic for the snare, and one mic and the bass drum).
It brings you to a total of 12 channels for your rock band, although you’d want to go for a model with 16 channels so you have some room to expand and correct.
A smaller show, for example, one with a single speaker, would need the smallest mixer (a 4-channel controller).
Mixer categories
First of all, let’s learn the difference between mixer categories:
Digital mixers: the digital mixer has a wide range of dynamic effects you can pre-program, recall, and switch with several buttons. Check the Behringer X-Air XR18 for an example.
Many digital mixers are compatible with a software plug-in that extends its tonal shaping possibilities. You could tweak the sound on the computer and carry it over to the mixer with a USB flash drive. Furthermore, modern mixers are compatible with mobile devices via certain apps.
On the downside, these mixers are harder to use and require advanced knowledge. Many of their functions are hidden beneath digital menus and status screens.
Analog mixers: even with the advantages of digital mixers, analog counterparts are still popular because they are cheaper and easier to use. You control these devices with physical knobs, switches, and faders, so their use is much more intuitive than digital audio controllers. On the downside, analog controllers are usually bigger and heavier. Check this Soundcraft Mixer for an example.
Both analog and digital mixers transmit high-quality sound as the electronic circuits are fairly the same. In fact, sound engineers agree mic and speakers distortion and coloration is the biggest obstacle to overcome.
Speaking of mics, here’s the best recording mic for acoustic guitar which you can use as well with your PA system. Feel free to check that guide out.
In the meantime, check the video below to further attend your doubts about analog vs. digital mixers:
We also have powered and unpowered mixers. Powered mixers are lighter and easier to transport, as well as easier to set up and less expensive. Unpowered mixers, on the other hand, require extra separate and expensive power amps, while powered amps ship with on-board amplification.
The thing is unpowered mixers can give you an extra edge on your live venues because you can couple them with the power amps of your preference. It means you can further tweak the sound, however, it’s also harder to use and requires a team behind you to control the additional settings.
Furthermore, unpowered mixers are the best investment in the long run as you can upgrade it buying better and better power amps.
PA system mics
As dynamic mics are more durable than condenser mics, you’d want to go for dynamic mics always. Condenser mics are better for the studio and drum kits.
Keep in mind condenser mics for live sound require phantom power, so make sure your mixer has enough phantom power inputs. A good option is the Shure SM-57 LC or the Sennheiser E604.
For example, the budget Shure SM580 dynamic mic is a great option for the singer and instrument cabinets. It remains one of the most popular options out there with its sturdy construction and excellent quality.
To minimize feedback and noise, you’ll want a unidirectional mic (opposed to omnidirectional). Unidirectional mics have either cardioid, supercardioid, or hypercardioid pickups. Cardioid mics are your pick for live sounds because they pick up sound in a nice, directional concave which you can point towards your singer or cabinets.
Lastly, you’ll have to consider if you need either wireless or wired microphones. See, singers and speakers usually prefer wireless microphones, especially if they are not using an instrument. For everything else, choose the reliance and affordability of wired mics. Wireless mics only add further complexity.
Shure and Sennheiser are the best options regarding mics for live sound or studio recording.
Keep in mind most portable PA systems don’t ship with mics.
Cables and other essentials
Lastly, you have to carry all of the cables and essential things your PA system needs to deliver a clean sound.
In most cases, you need balanced XLR mic cables or TRS (stereo) 1/4” cables. Balanced cables reduce noise from electronic sources like lights. Newer SpeakOn cables have been replacing others because they further reduce noises and deliver a better quality sound.
You also want to go for “unbalanced” 1/4” connectors instrument cables use.
As for speaker cables, you need long cables with large conductor sizes o to carry the high current drive of the speakers.
Power amps should be as close as possible to the speakers for maximum efficiency.
You can’t switch speaker cables with instrument cables. Speaker cables are thicker and constructed differently.
You’d probably want a snake, a multichannel audio distribution array that allows you to have more inputs with fewer cables.
Check the video down below to quickly understand your PA system cables:
Lastly, your mics and speakers will need their respective stands.
These are the important factors to consider when picking a PA system:
The amount of power you need, which depends on the audience and the size of the space you’ll be playing in;
The portability of the system;
The budget you’re willing to invest;
Batteries or no batteries? PA systems with batteries are smaller but heavier, plus, they are easier to use in spaces with hard-to-access power sources.
Lastly, get to know your mixer, even before you buy it, and familiarize yourself with the effects it carries;
By now, you know everything you need to know about PA systems, so let’s dive into our selection:
Top 10 PA systems
Fender Passport PA Portable Speakers
Fender is famous for their electric guitars and bass guitar series. Leo Fender founded the American company in the ’50s and remains as one of the top musical enterprises in the industry.
This budget and portable and self-contained audio system packs all of the essentials. It will give you high-quality sound everywhere you go.
The Fender Passport delivers 175 watts of power. It’s ample enough for small and medium-sized venues.
It carries a five-channel mixer that allows you to balance small musical groups with intuitive mix lecture panels.
It’s easy to set up and carry. The whole system fits within a suitcase. You just need to flip it open and discover two full-range speakers, a powered mixer, and a set of XLR cables. Each speaker has a 2.75” tweeter and a 5.25” woofer.
The mixer features the standard knobs like master volume, a 3-band EQ, and master gain. You don’t need any technical knowledge to use it right out of the bat.
The Fender Passport PA system series offers bigger and more professional solutions than the Passport, which is the smallest of the line.
It’s good for…
Sporting events;
Religious or worship events;
Meetings, seminars, and conferences;
Educational events and auditoriums;
Small and medium gigs at clubs, coffeehouses, parties, and similar.
Up to 75 people.
ION Audio Tailgater (iPA77) Portable Speaker
ION Audio Tailgater
ION Audio is a 2003 company following the ideal of excelling the audio experience. Nowadays, the company is a worldwide leader in the audio industry because of its quality products and affordable prices.
ION audio brings the iPA77 as a portable PA budget solution with 50 watts of power for customers who prefer to keep things light and easy.
The PA system packs all of the goods in a fashionable manner. More so, it features BlueTooth connectivity so you can play music from your mobile devices as far as 100 feet away. It also has an Android/iOS app to improve your control.
The system packs a cable and a dynamic microphone you can set up very quickly. The box ships with a ⅛’’’ aux port you can use yo connect a CD player. Similarly, it has a built-in radio function, so you can tune AM/FM stations wherever you go.
Additionally, it packs a USB port you can jack to your computer, USB, or tablet, and give the speakers some extra juice.
The ION Audio Tailgater is a portable audio entertainment system. However, it runs on batteries and can go for about 50 hours on a full charge.
Aside from all of this, it’s a tough box built with reinforced corners to handle all of your travels.
Karaoke;
Small conferences, seminaries, and religious events;
Solo performers on small venues;
Classrooms;
Playing music on parties;
Similar events.
Behringer EUROPORT MPA40BT-PRO
Behringer EUROPORT
Behringer has been around since 1961, and it’s known as one of the best companies in the audio industry. The company produces a wide range of audio devices- They also have an excellent US-based after-sales service.
The MPA40BT-Pro is a lightweight and ultra-compact PA system. It carries a built-in 40 watts amp and an 8” woofer with a 1” tweeter. It delivers musical and vocal clarity.
It also packs a mixing panel on the back of the EUROPORT speaker. The mixer features an intuitive design with no LEDs, no switches, and no extra buttons. It has two channels, each one with its volume control, bass, and treble knobs.
It has 2 mic/line inputs with XLR jacks and ships with a Behringer dynamic mic.
It features a BlueTooth connection plus and AUX input jack to plug in your mobile device and control it with your mobile device.
The whole set comes in a durable a water-resistant polyester bag. As it weighs only 40 lbs., it’s easy-to-carry and fast to set up.
The system runs on a built-in battery. On a full charge, it runs for 12 hours. However, you can also connect it to a power source and forget about the battery.
Public announcements;
Classrooms and small auditoriums;
Background music;
Solo performers on a small venue like a coffeehouse, a library, or a restaurant;
Townhall meetings;
Indoor sports;
Similar events;
Yamaha STAGEPASS 600I
Yamaha STAGEPASS
Yamaha is an Asian company known not only for their instruments and audio devices but also for their bikes.
The company has a unique design when it comes to audio products. It has been so for 30 years, a period Yamaha has used to learn how to outperform its competitors delivering quality for the buck.
The STAGE PASS 600I portable PA solution features a single design that could take you about 1 minute to set up.
It packs 680 watts of power in two lightweight speakers. It also packs a detachable powered mixer, two speaker cables, and a power cord.
The speakers deliver great clarity and quality. Plus, its sturdy design gives you plenty of reliability. It seems big, but it’s light enough you can carry it with one hand. If you choose to, you can order the rolling case as well from Amazon to make traveling easier.
The mixer has 10 channels and, what’s best, it comes with a tutorial-of-sorts: drawings on the back panel of one of the speakers guiding you on how to connect a whole musical ensemble.
The mixer also has onboard effects including digital reverbs, a suppressor, a compressor, and a versatile EQ. Additionally, it has iPod and iPhone connectivity allowing you to control it from a mobile device. Lastly, it has a USB port you can use to charge your devices.
Band rehearsal;
Small studio set-up or home studio set up;
Small and medium venues at bars, outdoors, halls, parks, club, and similar;
Medium conferences;
Medium auditoriums;
Even when the product says it can handle a full band, I would recommend trying it out with no more than a band with 3 members.
Up to 250 people.
Rockville RPG122K Powered Speakers
Rockville RPG122K
This Rockville RPG122K is a portable party box built for the road. As it is, you’ll find it suitable for many applications.
It features two 12” (woofer) speakers with a combined force of 250 watts. The primary speaker is an active speaker that has a two-channel amplifier, which means is a stereo portable PA system.
The secondary speaker is passive. It connects to the primary with a 1/4” jack speaker cable that ships with the system.
It has two mic inputs (XLR or 1/4). Additionally, there’s a stereo RCA line input for karaoke or backing tracks. Extra inputs are an SD, BlueTooth, and a USB port.
Each input has its own volume control, which means you have some room to make a little mix. Besides, there’s a master volume control, as well as master treble and bass controls.
It has a LED that allows you to control a paired BlueTooth device with play & pause buttons, skip, and volume control.
The LED screen also allows you to move around audio settings with a pre-programmed equalizer.
The Rockville RPG122K ships with the two speakers, two speaker stands, a dynamic microphone, a remote control, and the cables you need to plug it all together.
Lastly, the remote control allows you to change the EQ settings, the volume, and BlueTooth settings.
Music playback;
Small church groups;
House parties;
School outdoor events;
Little league;
Solo performers on an acoustic guitar or a piano;
Acoustic ensembles;
Conferences, seminars, religious, and educational events;
If you want to play with a band with this system, consider adding a subwoofer, as the frequency response is not low enough to enhance the low-end side of the spectrum (bass and drums).
Bose L1 Compact
Although it doesn’t specify the watts it carries, the Bose L1 Compact is ultra-lightweight, compact, and powerful.
The Bose bundle packs an L1 Compact power stand for the subwoofer, an L1 Compact loudspeaker array (which has mid and high speakers), 2 x L1 Compact Extensions, the Extensions array bag, a power stand canvas speaker cover, and a power stand cord.
The speaker has three different heights you can choose from. It has a collapsed position, which has the mid/high inside the subwoofer and stands 16.5” high. It’s the best position for small conferences, lectures, and similar situations where the audience is seated and the speaker is standing.
You can instead place one of the extensions so the speaker stands at 4ft. It’s best for small venues, conferences, classrooms, and boardrooms.
And the last position is where the speaker stands at 6.5ft. high. Its purpose is for larger audiences, bands, and DJs.
The two extensions fit in the carry case and weighs about 2.3 lbs, so they are easy to carry. The subwoofer and speaker fit together in another bag and weight 27.6 lbs. combined. The Bose L1 fits in the trunk of any car or even the back seat.
As for inputs, it has a single XLR input with volume, treble, and bass knobs. The secondary input has both 1/4” an 1/8” jacks, plus a stereo RCA input. It has a separate volume control but nothing else.
Additionally, both inputs feature Bose’s ToneMatch® technology, which optimizes the sound for acoustic guitar or voice. If you’re looking for extra inputs, search for the T8S ToneMatch digital audio mixer designed for the Bose T1.
If you use any other mixer, you will need to connect it with the stereo RCA input.
One man band;
A duo band (but only one instrument);
Acoustic shows;
Corporate DJs;
Small venues;
Small DJ parties;
I don’t recommend using this set up with drums or other percussions as they will overpower the speakers. On the other hand, electronic percussions will work just fine with these speakers.
JBL EON208P Portable All-in-One 2-way PA System
JBL EON208P
JBL is a well-known brand in the audio industry. This particular PA system is an all-in-one live-sound setup solution that goes especially well with acoustic music.
The package carries a detachable 8-channel mixer with professional controls and BlueTooth audio; two speakers, a dynamic microphone, and the cables you need.
The inputs and outputs are as follows:
¼” / XLR (x4)
¼” balanced TRS (x4)
RCA jacks (x1 pair)
3.5mm jack (x1)
¼” balanced TRS RCA jacks output(x1 pair)
3.5mm jack (x1) output.
Overall, the mixer laid out two mono channels plus a stereo channel. Each channel has a 2-band EQ with bass and treble knobs. Also, each channel has its own reverb and volume controls. More so, there’s an on and off switch for the reverb you can use to change the sound quickly.
However, the stereo channel (the one with a 1/4” jack and RCA inputs), there’s no EQ and no reverb knobs.
The mixer’s main control panel has a master volume control plus a stereo monitor with RCA connection.
Lastly, it also has a 1/8” aux input to plug in a mobile device and play some background music.
The PA ships with two speakers with 160 watts of power. Each speaker has a 6.5” woofer plus a 1” tweeter.
The EON line is quite large, and the EON206P is the most compact and smallest of the series.
It’s a compact and convenient setup. As for the sound, expect a warm and rich quality with great mid-range and high-frequency clarity.
One man band playing in small venues like cafes, libraries, bars, and restaurants;
Outdoor acoustic guitar shows;
Indoor acoustic guitar shows;
3-member bands rehearsal;
Fishman SA220 Solo Performance System
Fishman SA220
This system is a single speaker delivering 220 watts of power. As Fishman commonly does, it also delivers great clarity and quality of sound.
The easy to carry and lightweight system is an array line of six custom high-excursion 4” midrange drivers plus a tweeter. It’s a unique combination you won’t find anywhere else, which offers you an ultra-wide dispersion and a deep sonic penetration. Besides, it has an enhanced bass response with its custom-designed woofers.
The speakers have two mic/instrument channels with an in-built preamp. It features a 3-band EQ, phantom power for condenser microphones, effect loops, an anti-feedback technology, and a reverb.
Plus, it has an aux input with volume level controls to plug some background music.
Lastly, it’s quite portable as it weighs only 25 lbs. and ships with a bag with wheels plus a speaker stand.
It’s specially designed for a solo singer and songwriter playing guitar, piano, or similar. Acoustic guitars and vocals are projected with extra clarity and power.
Peavey APP Audio Performer Pack
Peavy APP
Peavy has been making affordable musical gear since 1965. This particular Peavy AP System is a versatile and small enclosure that ships with two loudspeakers, two speaker stands, a 4-channel mixer, two dynamic cardioid mics, and cables.
The mixer has four mono channels with XLR and 1/4” inputs. Each channel has volume, tone, and reverb adjustments, although I don’t recommend using the reverb on this device. Additionally, each channel has a 3-band EQ.
On the rear of the mixer, there’s a 1/4” speaker output and a footswitch for internal effects. If you use a footswitch you would be able to mute and unmute the reverb without touching the mixer.
Also, you can find an RCA input/output plus a 1/4” output you can use to plug a subwoofer or a monitor.
As for the sound, the APP Audio Performer delivers much more than the 50 watts of power it has on each speaker. It’s loud and powerful. Each speaker features a 10” woofer plus a 1” tweeter, so the mids and highs have great clarity, great for vocals and musical bands.
It’s perfect for keyboards, acoustic guitars, and background music;
3 to 4 members band playing on small and medium venues;
Studio set-up;
Small outdoor venues;
Medium indoor venues;
School, churches, city halls, community centers and similar situations looking for an affordable live sound set-up for their speakers;
Mobile DJ, albeit it needs an extra subwoofer;
Pyle PPHP1037UB Active Loudspeaker
Pyle PPHP1037UB
Pyle has been building high-quality speakers since 1960. Their reputation has grown steadily in the United States. They are now known as a brand making technologically-advanced original speakers with the Pyle Driver line.
Closing up our list is the PPHP1037UB alternative from Pyle. This is an ultra-compact but powerful active loudspeaker. It’s a single-unit PA system with mono sound. If you want stereo sound, you should go for a couple of this.
It’s a loud 10” woofer speaker with a 1” tweeter. The speaker has a whopping 700 watts of power that easily projects voice and musical instruments across a whole sports field. It also has a wide frequency response, which means you don’t necessarily need a subwoofer unless you want to punch the bass up.
Overall, this speaker can reproduce the entire audio spectrum without getting drowned in large venues.
The PPHP ships with one cardioid dynamic microphone, one line-level (with RCA and XLR inputs), a 1/8 aux, USB, SD, and BlueTooth connectivity. It’s compatible with any media, so you can connect a DJ system or a mobile device for background music.
Each input has its volume control. Additionally, there’s a master volume knob plus bass and treble controls.
There’s also a LED control panel you can use to control BLueTooth functions like pause & play. The extra record feature will allow you to record what it plays directly to a USB or an SD card, and it will save it as a WAV file you can then transfer to your computer to edit.
You can also chain link multiple digital active speakers with an XLR cable from the line out port.
Although it’s heavy, it has a handle for you to carry these professional stage speakers from the concert to your home.
One man band or small bands looking to record their gigs;
Up to 3 members band on medium and large venues;
Outdoor musical events;
Outdoor sporting events;
Outdoor parties;
School and church events;
You can use this as side PA system for your on-stage monitors. The 15’’ version is better for the whole band.
As you have seen, not every PA system is good for your band or your performance. Be sure what you pick fits your requirements and remember amplifying a band with both bass and drums requires the most power and frequency range.
Why do you need a P.A. system?
I wrote this article because it’s hard to set up a P.A. system yourself, let alone choose the speakers and controller to do it.
Often, people leave this to third-party professionals, something I think damages your potential to sound great. See, every PA system is designed for specific situations, so you should know your situations, your needs, your sound, and your preference, and then choose or rent the one that will do justice to your performance.
I hope I guided you through your first or next PA system. Even though I haven’t said everything you need to know to set it up yourself, there’s plenty of extra resources on the article you can check if you’re in doubt.
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019: John Hanak | Purdue Ventures and Purdue Foundry
How do you create something that is greater than the sum of its parts? For decades, the foundries and steel mills of northwest Indiana, have melted and cast and forged metal into shape, creating something completely new from a few basic elements. At Purdue Foundry they bring together the basic elements of technology and talent and capital to bring innovations to life.
John Hanak and his colleagues created Purdue Foundry when Purdue’s innovative President Mitch Daniels saw an opportunity for Indiana to capitalize the university’s rich ecosystem of innovators. John is now the Managing Director of Purdue Ventures, a key component of Purdue Foundry.
The product of generations of steel workers, John was the first salaried steel worker in his family. He worked his way to the C-Suite at a major steel mill and then went on to lead high-tech startups before bringing his leadership to Purdue University.
Steve Vinson had the opportunity to hear John’s story and to pick his brain to find out how Purdue Foundry, Purdue Ventures, and Now the Discovery Park District is launching technology into the marketplace.
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Call for Justice for Santa Cruz 11
District Attorney Bob Lee said Indybay photojournalists Bradley Allen and Alex Darocy, two of those charged and not acquitted, “effectively served as the media arm of the organization; the group’s propagandists.”
In Media, Police
Journalists’ freedom to gather news is called into question
Santa Cruz should acquit the rest of the Santa Cruz 11
By City on a Hill Press , A Student-Run Newspaper at UCSC.
Illustration by Amanda Alten.
Eleven reporters and community activists were arrested last fall when Occupy Santa Cruz occupied a vacant Wells Fargo building. Only four of these 11, all community activists, have been acquitted thus far. The remaining seven are either journalists for independent news media organizations or media spokespersons for Occupy. These journalists and spokespeople should be acquitted as well.
The charges the seven journalists and spokespeople face: felony conspiracy to commit a misdemeanor, felony vandalism, refusing to leave private property and two misdemeanor counts of trespassing. These combined may constitute a maximum three-year prison sentence.
Santa Cruz District Attorney Bob Lee said “the act of newsgathering at an announced demonstration, which turned into an unannounced building occupation, constitutes felony conspiracy to promote trespass and vandalism,” according to Indybay.
Lee said Indybay photojournalists Bradley Allen and Alex Darocy, two of those charged and not acquitted, “effectively serv[ed] as the media arm of the organization; the group’s propagandists,” according to Indybay. Without equality in reporting, their rights as journalists were moot.
At the same Occupy event, a photographer from the Santa Cruz Sentinel, despite having pictures from inside the occupied building, was not arrested, according to Indybay. Photographers and reporters from all news outlets should be treated equally, and have the same freedoms to gather the news.
This crackdown on journalist efforts surrounding the Occupy movement is not an isolated one. In fact, around 70 journalists have been arrested in 12 cities around the United States as a result of Occupy, according to a report put together by Josh Stearns, Free Press journalism and public media campaign director.
Reporters Without Borders’ Press Freedom Index, released January of this year, found a significant drop in press freedom in the United States. This nation has been targeting journalists with “repeated crackdowns on journalists covering Occupy movements,” as reported by the Huffington Post earlier this year.
Journalists should be aware of their rights, especially in states with shield laws, or laws that protect journalists from sharing sensitive information they have gathered with the courtroom. The majority of states in the country have shield laws, including California.
When covering events like this occupation, journalists should also be sure to wear valid press passes and act according to their title with journalistic integrity and rigor.
However, this is not all to say that journalists’ freedom to report has not come into question with excessive, nationwide regulation endeavors surrounding the Occupy movement. This move puts all journalists and their profession at risk in a time when not government control, but inquiry and investigation are most important.
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Data Science Ireland November Meetup Recap
It was another fascinating evening at Huckletree D2 for November’s Data Science Ireland meetup, as our guests were treated to yet more world-class presentations.
This month’s meetup was in association with Alldus AI Workforce Solutions. We were delighted to have Alldus on board with us for the meetup and would like to say a big thank you to their team for their sponsorship and providing us with the delicious pizza.
First up, Bart Lehane told us all about the success of EdgeTier, who develop cutting-edge AI applications that move contact centres into a new era of efficiency and performance. He told us about their automated agent assistant ‘Arthur’ who uses AI and machine learning to work seamlessly with customer service agents to answer customer queries more efficiently and accurately, yet retaining a personal touch for every customer.
A lot of people believe the future of customer service lies with an army of bots that will understand everything you say and instantly providing you with all of the information you need. Bart showed that while a combination of Natural Language Processing, word embeddings and neural networks will make classification accuracy of over 95% possible on customer queries, customer service will also need that human touch.
Customer Service will take on a Human + AI approach as while AI is excellent for automating the repetitive tasks, transactions and information gathering, we the human are needed to understand the logic, show empathy and the negotiations. Robots will not take our jobs in the customer service world, but rather it will be a combination of the nuance of human communication with the speed and accuracy of AI and automation.
From one successful company to another, Luca Boschin discussed how “focus” helped LogoGrab‘s growth. LogoGrab’s logo detection API service monitors logos and branding in images and video, alerting companies when their image appears somewhere and providing them with how well their marketing is going. They work with some of the world’s most innovative tech companies, including eBay.
The AI is a mysterious jungle and there is a lot of hype as to where it is heading in the future? However, Logograb saw a lot of startups come and go since they were set up in 2012 but they lived by focusing on a specific challenge: Doing more with less data to exactly the kind of problem what a startup in the field could solve with a clever idea.
With this mind, Logograb focused on adding value through social media monitoring, sports sponsorship monitoring, brand safety & counterfeit detection and visual data monetization. Logograb plan to distribute a focused algorithm through their partnerships and build a product on top of this algorithm. Focus on what you are good at and do it well, there is no reason you can be a success. Less is more!
Last but not least, AI Ireland’s own Mark Kelly discussed what he learned from interviewing 100 leaders across the world for the AI in Action podcast. From innovations in Ireland such as voice recognition for eCommerce, the future of driving and facial recognition for cows to other incredible breakthroughs around the world such as AI Debaters, paintings & photographs created by AI and even robot Formula One drivers.
There is no doubt that Artificial Intelligence is creating a third technological wave and not one industry will be left untouched by AI and Data Science. AI Ireland and the AI Awards was set up to increase public awareness of AI and as other countries develop a national strategy, we hope Ireland will follow suit as there is no doubt the island of Ireland is making some groundbreaking developments in AI.
More and more businesses are making this shift and with the growing demand for data scientists and AI Engineers, this inspired Mark and his partners to set up Alldus AI Workforce Solutions. The Alldus team is going above and beyond the traditional staffing company with meetups, podcasts and mentoring to help both clients and candidates make sure they achieve success as AI transforms the very nature of work.
Thank you to the guys at Huckletree once again for hosting us at their fantastic venue. We also would like to say a big thank you to Bart, Mark and Luca for their incredible presentations and to all our guests who came along last Wednesday evening. I hope you all took plenty away from our three brilliant speakers to assist you on your career path in AI and Data Science.
We hope to see you all again at the next one on Wednesday 5 December at Huckletree D2. Speakers will be revealed in the coming weeks but you can now register and RSVP to book your seat at the 10th Data Science Ireland meetup.
AI Awards 2018: Limited Tickets Remaining
Connecting Ireland’s AI ecosystem for a higher purpose
The excitement levels keep rising by the day as we are now just 10 days away from the inaugural AI Awards, which takes place the Gibson Hotel on Thursday 22 November as we celebrate the great work being done in AI on the island of Ireland.
The AI Awards, in conjunction with principal sponsor Microsoft, is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to promoting, advancing and rewarding corporate and academic excellence in Artificial Intelligence (AI) innovation, research & development and products.
It is our mission to support the AI community by recognising the hard work and dedication of those working in the field and to help promote and market Ireland globally as the first-choice home for AI investment and job creation in research and product development.
There are limited tickets remaining so click here now to get your tickets for the 2018 AI Awards
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E38 Ben Duffy, Co-Founder and Lead Researcher with The M-Tank
The M-Tank’s Lead Researcher and co-founder Ben Duffy discusses what he’s learned from their publications, the impact of image captioning and visual speech recognition, is deep learning the future of AI and more
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E28 Parsa Ghaffari, CEO and Founder at AYLIEN
AYLIEN CEO Parsa Ghaffari discusses what motivated him to set up AYLIEN, benefits they bring to customers, the potential of NLP to improve human interaction with machines and much more
Our goal is to share with you the insights of technologists and data science enthusiasts to showcase the excellent work that is been done within AI in Ireland.
Today’s guest is Parsa Ghaffari, CEO and founder at AYLIEN. AYLIEN leverages Artificial Intelligence to empower thousands of forward-thinking enterprises and developers to collect, analyze and understand vast amounts of human-generated content. It provides an easy way for developers and enterprises to bring the power of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to the applications and solutions they build.
In this really fascinating episode, Parsa will chat about:
His background and some of the cool things that he has developed over the years
What AYLIEN is all about and what motivated him to set it up
Some of the challenges he faced in creating AYLIEN
The benefits that the AYLIEN platform can bring to customers
Leveraging Data Analytics to deliver a better service to customers
How the potential of NLP will help humans better interact with machines
His predictions on how AI and NLP will shape our lives in the future
His ultimate goal with AYLIEN
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AI Awards 2018: Deadline Closes This Friday!
There is just a few more days for you be in with the chance to take part in the inaugural AI Awards and have the opportunity to showcase your skills and expertise to the AI community on the island of Ireland as the deadline closes at 5pm on Friday 14 September.
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September Data Science Ireland Meetup Recap
It was an enjoyable evening with another packed-house at Huckletree D2 for the seventh Data Science Ireland Meetup, as our guests had plenty to learn from with three more world-class presentations from a great line-up of speakers.
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E17 Kevin Koidl, Research Fellow with the ADAPT Centre at Trinity College Dublin
In episode 17, Kevin Koidl, Research fellow with the ADAPT Centre at Trinity College Dublin discusses his belief that there is a lot more to come from AI in Education, the challenges businesses face adhering to the new GDPR rulings, Wripl Technologies and much more
Today’s guest on the show is Kevin Koidl. Kevin is a Research Fellow with the ADAPT Centre at the School of Computer Science and Statistics in Trinity College Dublin. His main research lies in content personalisation, the future of social networks, eLearning, data privacy and ethics.
Kevin completed his PhD in Computer Science at Trinity College in 2014 and he commercialised the findings of his research by setting up Wripl Technologies, which offers trend and engagement prediction software. He is also a speaker and writer focused on Social Network Innovation, AI and Machine Learning and has delivered presentations at likes of 3XE Digital and the Predict Conference.
In today’s episode, Kevin will tell you about:
His background and how he became interested in computer vision and data analytics
The potential of applying AI in the EdTech sector
Setting up Wripl Technologies and how it transformed into a social media dashboard
How Wripl’s predictive analytics platforms helped content producers increase customer engagement
The challenges organisations face in adhering to the new GDPR rulings
Predictions for the future of AI, including more transparency and a lot of realisation
https://aiinaction.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/kevinkoidlpodcast.mp3
What did you make of Kevin’s podcast? Where do you see the future of Artificial Intelligence heading in the next few years? I would love to hear your thoughts so please leave a comment below.
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E15 Declan McKibben, Head of Research and Innovation with the ADAPT Centre at Trinity College Dublin
Head of Design and Innovation in the ADAPT Centre at TCD Declan McKibben discusses exicting ADAPT projects in NLP, Machine Translation and in Computer Vision, how deep learning will effect the future of AI, the impact AI will have on jobs and much more.
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BLOCKCHAIN, PROOF OF ELAPSED TIME, INTEL SAWTOOTH PLATFORM , TEE, SGX , PART 14 - CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL
http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2017/11/blockchain-bitcoins-ponzi-part-13-capt.html
Let us hear what INTEL tells about their own achievements in their whitepaper ( extracts ) …
Info about block chain I have already covered and hence is a mere repeat.
Intel has developed the Sawtooth Lake Distributed Ledger Platform (SLDLP), that is targeted at building, deploying, and running distributed ledgers.
A distributed ledger can be thought of as a secure database that is implemented among a group of participants without a central authority or administration.
Participants in the ledger can submit transactions to add, remove or modify records in the database according to a set of rules that are guaranteed to be enforced by the ledger (for example, the ledger may ensure that you can’t spend money that you don’t have).
A blockchain is an immutable series of transactions that is shared by all participants in the ledger. Cryptographic signatures ensure correctness and guarantee “non-repudiation” (that is, that once a transaction is committed to the blockchain, it cannot be un-committed).
Distributed consensus algorithms ensure that all participants see the same series of transactions even if bad actors try to compromise the system. The most unique characteristic of a blockchain is that it can provide these capabilities without a central organization to provide authorization or administration.
The blockchain method got its name from the way it builds historical transactions: records of transactions are collected in blocks that are time/date stamped and chained together in chronological order.
A new transaction is appended with a timestamp as a new block to the back of the current blockchain. Each valid block in a blockchain contains a reference to the previous valid block, and this creates a chain of blocks that captures the history of a transaction.
Blockchain is a machine for creating trust: the blockchain allows a group of users who have no particular confidence in each other to collaborate without having to go through a neutral central authority.
Distributed ledgers based on blockchain technology present several advantages over current record handling methods that rely on a centralized database: 1) Central intermediaries are removed from the transaction, 2) Connections between counterparts are simplified because the data resides at every participant, and 3) Data is recorded on a tamper-proof and secure block chain.
Participants in a blockchain event each have their own copy of the stored data in what can be considered a secure, distributed, shared database. Changes to the data are validated by participants collectively, and updated across the network almost immediately.
There are three common types of distributed ledger in use: public (or open) ledgers, private (or permissioned) ledgers, and consortium ledgers. The main distinction among the types is who has access to the database.
Advantages of blockchain and distributed ledger technology are:--
• Convergence on a consensus for changes applied to the data
• Decentralized data and authority
• Non-repudiation of data (digitally signed information)
• Full replication of data (distribution of encrypted storage)
• Distribution of trust (fully auditable)
Disadvantages of blockchain and distributed ledger technology are:--
• Inefficient method for data transfer
• No service level agreement (needed for Enterprise applications)
• Many unanswered questions: validation, scalability, transaction complexity, number of participants, viability of privacy
The Intel Sawtooth Lake Distributed Ledger Platform (SLDLP) is a modular prototyping platform that is targeted at building, deploying, and running distributed ledgers. The Intel SLDLP consists of an SGXenabled SDK platform, an SGX distributed ledger toolkit (white boxes), and the distributed ledger
The SGX technology (integrated into Skylake) provides an add-on SGX DLT Toolkit to facilitate and streamline operations in eight areas of the distributed ledger environment.
• Secure Wallets: Secure management for credentials used to interact with the ledger
• Secure I/O: Secure path for information to ensure the integrity of information triggering smart contracts (technology that is in development)
• PoET: An algorithm that uses Intel’s Software Guard Extensions (SGX) to establish a globally consistent view of the ledger
• Sawtooth Lake: Intel’s platform for building distributed ledgers
• Secure Containers: Secure execution containers (technology that is in development)
• 3D XPoint™ Memory: Intel’s large scale persistent memory
• SGX: Intel’s Software Guard Extensions, an enclave that protects code and data from exposure and modification
• Crypto Accelerators: AES-NI and other accelerators that improve the performance of cryptographic algorithms
The SLDLP uses a Nakamoto-style consensus algorithm called Proof of Elapsed Time (PoET).
As a proof algorithm, PoET uses a lottery for leader election that is based on a guaranteed wait-time provided through a trusted execution environment.
For the purpose of achieving distributed consensus efficiently, this lottery function provides several characteristics:--
• Fairness: The function should distribute leader election across the broadest possible population of participants.
• Investment: The cost of controlling the leader election process should be proportional to the value gained from it.
• Verification: It should be relatively simple for all participants to verify that the leader was legitimately selected.
Blockchain provides mechanisms to:--
• Ensure that the contents of the records have not been changed ( as hash generated would be unique to the document contents)
• Provide an audit trail by adding timestamp to the records
• Restrict access to authorized users
• Enable attribution that encourages individual participation in large-scale projects
SBI blockchain rollout December
https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/indias-largest-bank-confirms-blockchain-rollout-december/
INDIA IS BEING USED AS A GUINEA PIG IN FINANCE
WE KNOW HOW BHARATMATA PAID THE PRICE FOR THE KOSHER" GREEN REVOLUTION " , THE KOSHER "WHITE REVOLUTION " AND KOSHER " EVIL PHARMA INDIANS AS GUINEA PIGS REVOLUTION "
WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING ?
This is TOTALLY reliant on Intel’s Software Guard Extensions(SGX) .
SO STATE BANK OF INDIA ( READ AS FINANCE MINISTRY RUN BY A LAWYER NAMED ARUN JAITLEY ) WANTS TO OPEN INDIAs BOTTOMS WIDE TO INTEL , RIGHT ?
PoET doesn't make sense for either private or public blockchains. ..
It's way too easy to create multiple layers of obfuscation that ultimately don't contribute to the underlying security model...
WE THE PEOPLE ASK ASK -- WHAT IS THE VESTED AGENDA ?
WHO IS CONDUCTING THIS CONTROLLED "SWAYAMVAR " SHADI BETWEEN BHARATMATA AND KOSHER INTEL ?
WE ASK—
ARE WE DIVING OFF THE DEEP END ?
IS THIS SYSTEM TRIED AND TESTED? WHERE IS THE PROOF?
IS THIS WHY MODI AND JAITLEY HAVE MERGED ALL INDIAN BANKS TO HOCK OUR NATIONs FINANCES AND FUTURE TO INTEL ?
WE WATCH--SOME PEOPLE WILL SOON GO TO JAIL FOR OFFENCES A MILLION TIMES WORSE WORSE THAN THE ENRON SCAM.
PUT THIS CRITICAL COMMENT IN THE WEBSITE OF ARUN JAITLEY, SBI CHAIRMAN , FINANCE MINISTRY, PMO, PM MODI, CJI, LAW MINISTER, HOME MINISTER, SWAMY , GURUMURTHY
SBI is constrained to use Intel hardware like SGX to execute code in a protected area that can't be inspected or tampered with.
Intel came up with a consensus algorithm which may find its way to cryptocurrency at some point in the future. This concept is known as Proof of Elapsed Time
Intel is exploring this distributed consensus model as part of their Sawtooth project.
Hyperledger Sawtooth is an enterprise distributed ledger (aka blockchain) project.
In Sawtooth, the data model and transaction language are implemented in a transaction family.
Consensus is the process of building agreement among a group of mutually distrusting participants. There are many different algorithms for building consensus based on requirements related to performance, scalability, consistency, threat model, and failure model.
Consensus is the validation mechanism that a blockchain network uses . These are the validation rules by which the network automatically validates a transaction . Consensus is required to maintain the world state of the blockchain network.
While deciding which Blockchain platform to choose it is important to understand the consensus mechanism that it deploys because the underlying philosophy and risk to business depends a lot on the chosen consensus mechanism.
The Proof of Elapsed Time consensus protocol is what is used by Intel Sawtooth now IntelLedger (under Linux Hyperledger Foundation) .
This consensus algorithm has vouched for a random leader election methodology. The leader can be any of the participating active nodes. The chosen leader finalizes the block .
The system ensures that the leader is chosen without manipulation and all participating notes verify the same and also deploy random leader distribution method.
Intel SGX is a set of CPU code instructions from Intel that allows user-level code to allocate private regions of memory, called enclaves, that are protected from processes running at higher privilege levels.
Intel designed SGX to be useful for implementing secure remote computation, secure browsing, and digital rights management (DRM).
PoET uses Intel special processor capability to regulate block frequency rather than computation
Sawtooth abstracts the core concepts of consensus and isolates consensus from transaction semantics. The interface supports plugging in various consensus implementations. Sawtooth provides two such implementations: dev_mode and PoET.
Dev_mode is a simplified random leader algorithm that is useful for developers and test networks that require only crash fault tolerance.
PoET, short for “Proof of Elapsed Time” is a Nakamoto-style consensus algorithm. It is designed to be a production-grade protocol capable of supporting large network populations.
PoET essentially works as follows... Every validator requests a wait time from an enclave(a trusted function). The validator with the shortest wait time for a particular transaction block is elected the leader.
Proof-of-elapsed-time (PoET), solves the computing problem of "random leader election," or selecting who will create the next block of transactions.
One function, say “CreateTimer” creates a timer for a transaction block that is guaranteed to have been created by the enclave.
Another function, say “CheckTimer” verifies that the timer was created by the enclave and, if it has expired, creates an attestation that can be used to verify that validator did, in fact, wait the allotted time before claiming the leadership role.
The PoET leader election algorithm meets the criteria for a good lottery algorithm. It randomly distributes leadership election across the entire population of validators with distribution that is similar to what is provided by other lottery algorithms.
The probability of election is proportional to the resources contributed (in this case, resources are general purpose processors with a trusted execution environment).
An attestation of execution provides information for verifying that the certificate was created within the enclave (and that the validator waited the allotted time).
Further, the low cost of participation increases the likelihood that the population of validators will be large, increasing the robustness of the consensus algorithm.
The Sawtooth platform is distributed in source code form with an Apache license.
The Apache License is a permissive free software license written by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) .
Like other free software licenses, the license allows the user of the software the freedom to use the software for any purpose, to distribute it, to modify it, and to distribute modified versions of the software, under the terms of the license, without concern for royalties.
The Apache License allows you to freely use, modify, and distribute any Apache licensed product.
PoET is notably designed to be used on a certain type of computer manufactured by Intel, called trusted execution environments (TEE).
The Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) is a secure area of the main processor. It guarantees code and data loaded inside to be protected with respect to confidentiality and integrity.
The TEE as an isolated execution environment provides security features such as isolated execution, integrity of Trusted Applications along with confidentiality of their assets.
In general terms, the TEE offers an execution space that provides a higher level of security than a rich mobile operating system open (mobile OS) and more functionality than a 'secure element' (SE).
The “Sawtooth Lake” platform, which promises to allow companies to run their own blockchain, providing a permanent digital record.
The Sawtooth Lake platform provides two consensus protocols with different performance trade-offs. The first, called PoET for “Proof of Elapsed Time,” is a lottery protocol that builds on Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) provided by Intel’s Software Guard Extensions (SGX) to address the needs of large populations of participants.
The second, Quorum Voting, is an adaptation of the Ripple and Stellar consensus protocols and serves to address the needs of applications that require immediate transaction finality.
PoET uses a TEE such as SGX to ensure a safe, random and robust lottery function without the specialized hardware and high power required by most proof algorithms.
Intel’s approach is based on a guaranteed wait time provided through the TEE. According to Intel, the algorithm scales to thousands of participants and will run efficiently on any Intel processor that supports SGX.
Algorithms for achieving consensus with arbitrary faults generally require some form of voting among a known set of participants. Two general approaches have been proposed.
The first, often referred to as “Nakamoto consensus”, elects a leader through some form of “lottery”. The leader then proposes a block that can be added to a chain of previously committed blocks. In Bitcoin, the first participant to successfully solve a cryptographic puzzle wins the leader-election lottery.
The elected leader broadcasts the new block to the rest of the participants who implicitly vote to accept the block by adding the block to a chain of accepted blocks and proposing subsequent transaction blocks that build on that chain.
The second approach is based on traditional Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) algorithms and uses multiple rounds of explicit votes to achieve consensus. Ripple and Stellar developed consensus protocols that extend traditional BFT for open participation.
Sawtooth Lake abstracts the core concepts of consensus, isolates consensus from transaction semantics, and provides two consensus protocols with different performance trade-offs.
The first, called PoET for “Proof of Elapsed Time”, is a lottery protocol that builds on trusted execution environments (TEEs) provided by Intel’s SGX to address the needs of large populations of participants.
The idea of Proof of Elapsed Time acts much like Bitcoin's Proof of Work lottery consensus, but does not require nearly as much electricity expenditure.
Participants can either enter low power mode whilst TEE is generating PoET and save on costs, or perform other functions if part of a cloud compute environment.
One potential consequence of PoET versus Bitcoin's PoW is a shift from OPEX to CAPEX as an economic deterrent to Sybil and 51% attacks on a blockchain network.
Bitcoin's miners are primarily using dedicated ASIC chips to solve the cryptographic puzzle, which are much faster and cheaper than running CPUs to perform the same task, but they burn through a lot of electricity.
This means you can reduce your initial CAPEX outlay by using cheaper ASICs, but have high OPEX electricity costs. With PoET, you have to purchase more expensive CPUs but reduce electricity OPEX costs.
Capital expenditure, or CapEx, are funds used by a company to acquire, upgrade, and maintain physical assets such as property, industrial buildings, or equipment. CapEx is often used to undertake new projects or investments by the firm.
An operating expense ( OPEX ) results from the ongoing costs a company pays to run its basic business.
Intel is the creator of the open source Hyperledger Sawtooth project, which enables blockchain usages for enterprise and other segments and is designed to run on the Intel Xeon platform.
While SGX technology is proprietary, the blockchain software that grew out of Intel’s experiments is not, and has since been open-sourced as the Hyperledger Sawtooth code base.
WHAT IS A BANANA REPUBLIC? IS INDIA A BANANA REPUBLIC?
BANANA REPUBLIC IS A DERISIVE TERM GIVEN TO A NATION WHICH IS RULED BY WHITE JEWS FROM ABROAD USING THEIR PUPPET LEADERS.
INDIA IS A BANANA REPUBLIC--EVEN 70 YEARS AFTER INDEPENDENCE
EXAMPLE ?
I WILL GIVE JUST TWO AMONG THOUSANDS
AAA) BASAVA WAS A GOD CREATED AND BACKDATED BY JEW ROTHSCHILD
BEFORE THE WHITE INVADER CAME TO INDIA, NOBODY IN INDIA HEARD OF BASAVA.
VEERASHAIVA LINGAYATHS BURY THEIR DEAD TODAY. IF YOU GO TO THEIR BURIAL YARDS YOU CAN SEE SHIVALINGAM / NANDI / SHIVA STATUE -- WHICH IS NOT ALLOWED.
NOW THEIR FOREIGN FUNDED NGOs HAVE DRIVEN SUCH HARTED TO SANATANA DHARMA THAT THE POLIICIANS WANT TO SPLIT FROM HINDUISM.
THEY HAVE GIVEN PROPAGANDA AND PROPPED UP A FELLOW NAMED VEMANA .
TODAY WE HAVE STAMPS OF VEMANA AND UNIVERSITIES . IN THE TEXT BOOKS OF SCHOOL CHILDREN THEY HAVE INCUDED "VEDAS OF VEMANA"
WANNA READ IT?
I ASK MY READERS --YOU MUST READ IT-- ONLY THEN YOU WILL KNOW THE MEANING OF BANANA REPUBLIC-- WHERE WERE ARE NO BETTER THAN MONKEYS HOLDING A BANANA.
SCROLL DOWN THIS POST --AND READ THE YELLOW RIBBON HIGHLIGHTED PARTS UNDER THE VEMANA STAMP.
WHAT IS ALL THIS ?
IS THIS FIT TO BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOL ?
ARE WE MAD ?
TELUGUS WENT ABROAD AS INDENTURED LABOUR ONLY BECAUSE OF A WHITE SKINNED BRITISH COLLECTOR NAMED CP BROWN-- WHO IS CONSIDERED AS A GOD IN TELUGU LAND . CP BROWN CREATED BASAVA FOLLOWERS , WHO WILL BURY THEIR DEAD.
CP BROWN DROVE TELUGUS AS SLAVES ABROAD BY DELIBERATE FAMINE HE CREATED IN TELUGU LAND
MODI RAN FASTER THAN USAIN BOLT TO INAUGURATE A STATUE OF BASAVA ON THE BANKS OF THE RIVER THAMES IN LONDON..
BBB ) MGR AND JAYALALITAA WERE STAUNCH HINDUS WHO WANTED TO BE CREMATED BUT BOTH WERE BURIED. MIND YOU THIS DUO WERE HEROES FOR TAMILS
MGR WAS MADE A PUPPET IN THE LAST YEARS OF HIS LIFE--HE WAS A VEGETABLE . DURING THIS PERIOD LTTE AND PRABHAKARAN BECAME CHRISTIAN .
http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2012/08/aidmk-dmk-misplaced-support-for-ltte.html
THE ENTIRE COASTAL BELT OF TAMIL NADU BECAME CHRISTIAN --AND THE MOTHER OF ALL SCAMS--THE THORIUM SCAM TOOK PLACE .
JAYALALITHA HAD PLUS SECURITY. SHE WAS ABANDONED IN A HOSPITAL--HER LEGS WERE CUT AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE VIDEO IN THE POST BELOW (YOU CANT MORPH IT ) .
PEOPLE IN POWER JUST PRETEND TO SLEEP . YOU TRY WAKING THEM UP
http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2017/09/inquiry-into-death-of-cm-of-tamil-nadu.html
THIS IS JUST TWO EXAMPLES AMONG MORE THAN A THOUSAND
AMERICAN ARE QUICK TO RIDICULE CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICAN NATIONS AS "BANANA REPUBLICS"
IN REALITY USA IS THE GREATEST BANANA REPUBLIC
ALL THEIR PRESIDENTS HAVE BEEN PUPPETS OF JEW ROTHSCHILD .
EXCEPT FOR ONE-- ANDREW JACKSON
THE FIRST US PRESIDENT GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS AN IMPOSTER . THE REAL MAN WAS MURDERED AND HIS PLACE TAKEN BY A GERMAN JEW NAMED ADAM WEISHAUPT
BANANA WAS UNITED FRUIT MAAL.
HOW DID WE LOSE ALL OUR HUMPED BULLS ? ( WHITE REVOLUTION )
HOW DID WE LOSE 90% OF OUR LAKES IN 55 YEARS FLAT ? ( GREEN REVOLUTION )
HOW DID INDIANS BECOME GUINEA PIGS FOR KOSHER EVIL PHARMA ?
HOW DID LAKHS OF SHELL COMPANIES COME TO INDIA?
NOW WE ARE SELLING OUR FINANCIAL SYSTEM -- TO KOSHER INTEL -- BY A "PROOF OF ELAPSED TIME" BLOCKCHAIN WHICH HAS NOT BEEN TESTED .
WE HAVE GUJJU NO 2 PRAYING TO GUJJU NO1 --AND RUNNING FASTER THAN USAIN BOLT ABROAD , TO INAUGURATE EVERY GANDHI STATUE MADE BY ROTHSCHILDs AGENTS .
THIS BLOGSITE WILL WRITE LEGACIES --NOT ROTHSCHILDs MEDIA OR HISTORIANS
BITCOIN HAS JUMPED TO 8270 USD .
WHEN SUCH A SPIKE HAPPENS IT MEANS SOMEBODY IS LAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO THE KOSHER BANK
Tether has issued more than 300m tokens over the past seven days. A staggering amount, to say the least. They keep issuing money – like a central bank – at an alarming rate. There is almost $1bn USDT in circulation at this time. For a currency pegged to the US Dollar, Tether is extremely shady
Tether used to have a different name – Realcoin.
It used to be an ordinary altcoin which was rather popular among traders but could not compete with Litecoin, Namecoin and other cryptocurrencies. Tether owners decided that rebranding will have positive impact on their business
Actually it's not that easy to explain how Tether works. If we simplify the system to the maximum possible extent we could describe Tether as a service turning USD, EUR and other fiat currencies into virtual (digital) tokens which are later send and received with the use of Bitcoin blockchain.
In other words Tether is kind of a digital tie to tangible assets of the real worlds. Technically it is not even a cryptocurrency – it is more a way for using fiat currencies like electronic currencies.
Basically Tether allows to make online transactions with tokens (which can be called a cryptocurrency too) equal to US dollars. That is a good alternative to volatile Bitcoin since USD exchange rate is much more stable .
One Tether token (USDT) is always equal to one US dollar. This cannot be changed and it convinces us that volatility typical for electronic currencies is not a serious threat for us.
Using Tether you never have to worry about currency exchange rate – USD is the most stable currency in the world and USDT is directly bound to the USD dollar. It means that you do not have to put much funds at the risk.
By combining principles of digital and fiat currencies Tether disturbs the balance of the global financial market. People who earn on buying and selling online have already realized that it's possible to earn a lot with Tether.
TILL THIS BLOGSITE PENNED AT 33 PART SERIES ON SHELL COMPANIES, LAKHS OF SHELL COMPANIES WERE BLEEDING BHARTAMATA
ALMOST EVERY SUPER RICH BIG FISH IN INDIA OPERATED SHELL COMPANIES .
IPL CRICKET TEAM OWNERS SIGNED THEIR CONTRACTS USING SHELL COMPANIES. LALIT MODI KNOWS WHO THEY ARE
JUST WHO THE HELL IS BCCI ?
AN NGO STARTED BY JEW ROTHSCHILD!
WHY WAS BCCI BEING MANAGED ( STILL BEING MANAGED ) BY POWERFUL POLITICIANS ( BOTH PANDAVAS AND KAURAVAS ) AND EX-ROTHSCHILDs OPIUM DRUG RUNNING AGENTS ?
ENRON RAPED BHARATMATA.
THERE WAS NOBODY IN INDIA SMART ENOUGH TO POINT OUT THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
ENRONs REBECCA MARKS CAME IN MINI SKIRT AND FLASHED HER PUSSY AT INDIAN MEN WHO MATTER
Rebecca Mark the high profile sexy high flying Globe-trotting in stiletto heels and a miniskirt Enron top executive who zoomed up the corporate ladder in a jiffy and who met Bal Thackeray at his home when Enron India was being set up.....
IS NOW MANAGING HER CATTLE RANCH IN TAOS New Mexico of course with millions of dollars in the bank...
http://archive.indianexpress.com/Picture-Gallery/1878/21/1
I KNOW WHICH ALL INDIANS REBECCA BABY MET --I HAVE KEPT TRACK
SOME IN PUBLIC-- SOME IN SECRET WITH EXTRA SHORT MINI SKIRT
SHE WON THE DHABOL DEAL BY ALLOWING INDIAN LEADERS TO SEE HER MICRO THONGS --SHARON STONE STYLE
https://www.xvideos.com/video158458/sharon_stone_pussy_shots
Rebecca Mark's name is NEVER uttered in the list of Enron's main miscreants. Her disappearing act is even more remarkable given the size and scope of the failed ENRON
She was too young and inexperienced to hold such a high post. She was a farmer's daughter who worked her ass off in the fields
When she worked at Houston Natural Gas --she was known to do a Monika Lewinsky to her boss JEW John Wing--who treated her like dirt
One prominent (female) stock analyst said " Rebecca got to the top on her back."
At a party to celebrate the bagging of ENRON project at Dhabol she brought a elephant into a resort outside Houston --at the same party, she was dressed in leather-and then she rode in on the back of a Harley-Davidson
I HAD MET AN ENRON EMPLOYEE IN USA WHO TOLD ME HOW SHE "CHARMED" SOME INDIANS TO GET THE DHABOL PROJECT --I KNOW THOSE BASTARDS WHO WANTED TO SEE HER IN A SARI.
WORLD BANK KNOWING THAT PUSSY POWER WAS HAPPENING AT DHABOL--REFUSED TO FINANCE THE ENRON PROJECT
By early December 1993, Mark had all the signatures she needed. The Indian government signed a contract requiring it to pay Enron about $1.3 billion per year, or about $26 billion over the life of the 20-year contract. It was, THE of the largest civilian or military contracts ever signed, anywhere on the globe --in a jiffy
Over the life of the contract, India would pay Enron and its partners nearly nine times what Dabhol had cost.
Furthermore, India was required to pay for any cost increases caused by price hikes associated with the plant's fuel, electricity transmission lines or plant maintenance.
The final insult of the contract was a stipulation that required India to pay Enron in American dollars, even though the Indian rupee was undergoing regular depreciation.
SOME DESH BHAKT INDIANS OBJECTED .
On August 26, 1993, Rebecca baby faxed a signed letter to CM of Maharashtra Sharad Pawar, complaining about an Indian named MISTER BEG and demanding that contract be signed
She was twice named as one of the 50 most powerful businesswomen in America by Fortune magazine –using PUSSY power
She used her femininity and no-nonsense manner first to disarm the men she dealt with, then bulldoze through any resistance that remained. She was a devastating success.
Rebecca baby using PUSSY power had negotiated a WIN -LOSE contract.
Between 1996 and 1998, in just two years her total compensation was more than 28 million USD -more than any other Enron employee during that time-- a huge amount of money those days
By 1998, she was named vice chairman of the Enron board and held voting power on more stock than anyone else on the board except for Robert Belfer, Lay and Skilling.
I HAVE SEEN SUCH WOMEN- I KNOW HOW THEY OPERATE USING SHARON STONE TACTICS
http://postcard.news/dhobal-case-congress-government-hire-pakistani-lawyer-fight-india/
WE INDIANS WANT THE ENRON BRIBERY CASE TO BE OPENED UP
EVERYBODY IN ENRON KNOWS WHICH BIG FISH INDIAN POLITICIAN WAS BRIBED !!
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/banking/finance/banking/sbi-to-use-blockchain-for-smart-contracts-and-kyc-by-next-month/articleshow/61715860.cms
WHITE IS BLACK
SUNRISE IS SUNSET
WOLF IS SHEEP
FOUR LEGS GOOD, TWO LEGS BAD
Like I said , Chipmaker Intel has come up with its own alternative consensus protocol called proof of elapsed time. This system works similarly to proof of work, but consumes far less electricity.
Further, instead of having participants solve a cryptographic puzzle, the algorithm uses a trusted execution environment (TEE) – such as SGX – to ensure blocks get produced in a random lottery fashion, but without the required work.
Intel’s approach is based on a guaranteed wait time provided through the TEE. According to Intel, the poof-of-elapsed-time algorithm scales to thousands of nodes and will run efficiently on any Intel processor that supports SGX. This is NOT tested and there is NO proof available.
INTEL TELLS INDIA- TRUST US.
YES WE TRUSTED THE WHITE JEW ROTHSCHILD BEFORE—
WE KNOW WHAT HAPPENED WITH ROTHSCHILD WHO CAME AS A SPICE TRADER AND THEN TOOK OVER INDIA
I ASK MODI AND JAITLEY—
WHY ARE YOU PUTTING TRUST IN KOSHER INTEL ?
IMPORTANT QUESTION:: WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF BLOCKCHAIN, IF YOU CAN WRAP YOUR FEEBLE KOSHER INFESTED / INFECTED MINDS AROUND IT ?
IS IT NOT TO GET AWAY FROM “SHEEP TRUSTING THE WOLF” SCENARIO ?
MODI AND JAITLEY AND YOUR SBI CHAIRMAN SIDEKICK — WHAT IS YOUR AGENDA ? DO YOU UNDERSTAND BASICS?
WHAT IS THE TEARING HURRY ?
BATAAO NAH ?
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WE THE PEOPLE KNOW WHEN TO PUT OUR RULERS IN JAIL — THOSE DAYS OF POLITICAL IMMUNITY AFFORDED BY POWERFUL JEWS FROM ABROAD ARE LONG GONE.
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Sawtooth Lake features an EXPERIMENTAL ( HULLO ARUN JAITLEY ??? IS INDIA A GUINEA PIG ??? ) experimental consensus algorithm called Proof of Elapsed Time (PoET) that relies on trusted computing to deliver a more efficient consensus.
Trusted execution environments (TEE), such as Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) included on recent Intel processors support the PoET algorithm, which scales to support thousands of participants.
Intel has since contributed the Sawtooth Lake code to the open source Hyperledger project, where it can be downloaded and appraised without need for SGX hardware.
However, being a simulation this is not a secure implementation but it provides one way of exploring an area of technology
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Bitcoin hit an all high of $US8270 for the first time yesterday . This is similar to the dotcom bubble and Dutch tulip mania of the 17th century. After a more than 700 per cent increase in value since the start of the year, bitcoin’s market capitalisation — the price multiplied by the number of bitcoins in circulation — now sits at more than $US137 billion
The market capitalisation of all cryptocurrencies, including Ethereum, Ripple and Bitcoin Cash — a “fork” of the main bitcoin line — is now more than $US243 billion.
Bitcoin is rising faster than any asset class we have seen over the last 400 years
According to Katsunori Sago, the chief investment officer at Japan Post Bank, the fair value of bitcoin should be around $US100 — nearly 99 per cent below its current level
Tether, the issuer of currency-pegged tokens USDT, announced a hack that happened on November 19, 2017, when more than $30 million's worth of USDT was withdrawn to an unauthorized address and hence lost.
The company announced that:--
" $30,950,010 USDT was removed from the Tether Treasury wallet on November 19, 2017 and sent to an unauthorized bitcoin address. As Tether is the issuer of the USDT managed asset, we will not redeem any of the stolen tokens, and we are in the process of attempting token recovery to prevent them from entering the broader ecosystem."
"The attacker is holding funds in the following address: --16tg2RJuEPtZooy18Wxn2me2RhUdC94N7r. If you receive any USDT tokens from the above address, or from any downstream address that receives these tokens, do not accept them, as they have been flagged and will not be redeemable by Tether for USD."
In essence, the hack has destroyed one of the larger USDT liquidity injections that happened in November and that some users link to a disproportionate rise in Bitcoin's price.
After the announcement, crypto assets lost the recent heights, with Bitcoin crashing from above $8,200 to $7,700.
Three days ago, experts noticed a strange move of Tethers to an address not belonging to Bitfinex or any known exchange on the Rich List. It turns out to be the hacker's address
Tether will offer new software builds that will freeze the funds and not allow them to be moved and exchanged. In the past day, users reported frozen wallets, and the freeze may continue, putting several exchanges and digital assets under stress.
CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL HAD PREDICTED THIS TWO DAYS AGO , RIGHT ?
IT IS ON RECORD IN THIS SERIES.
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--HER JOB IS TO GIVE HER BOSS MODI A FAALTHU EGO MASSAGE GHADI GHADI
CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL DECLARES--
EVERY HACK OF CRYPTO CURRENCY IS AN INSIDE JOB
Out of an estimated 1.6 billion USD invested in ICOs MORE than 200 million ended up in the hands of criminals --almost all are INSIDE jobs .
Some of these heists have been considerable. The DAO, for example, was famously hacked and saw 55 million siphoned off by cyber-criminals.
Omni Core is used by Tether integrators to support Omni layer transactions. Through the software, Tether has the authority to prevent the movement of stolen coins from the hacker’s address.
Such level of centralization exposes Tether of fund and network manipulation, considering that with pressure from the law enforcement, the Tether development team is able to prevent funds from moving the across the network and disable certain addresses indefinitely.
Public blockchain networks such as bitcoin are valuable because of their security value. Their immutable, decentralized, and unalterable nature eliminates the possibility of government interference, creating independent economies and protocols that operate by strict network rules.
The fact that addresses and funds within the Tether network can be easily altered and manipulated by a small group of network operators presents a dangerous vulnerability as a blockchain network, and also raises a question on the necessity of blockchain technology, considering that it is difficult to consider or justify Tether as a decentralized and public blockchain network.
Tether is not exactly a big player in the cryptocurrency scene, like bitcoin or Ethereum are. It’s only supposed to act as a proxy for national currencies such as the dollar, euro and yen, for tasks such as settling balances between exchanges.
It uses blockchain technology, but claims to avoid bitcoin’s volatility through its currency pegs.
Kraken is a US based the world's largest bitcoin exchange in euro volume and liquidity
In the past few weeks Tether has been providing unaudited, artificial liquidity to the Bitcoin markets and inflating the price.
Kraken, one of the main USDT markets for moving to fiat, has moved USDT offline, waiting for an upgrade to correct the tether theft.
Tether and Bitfinex must come under scrutiny for a form of hidden asset price manipulation.
One of the partners that uses Tether is crypto exchange Bitfinex, which itself lost 119,756 bitcoin — then worth $72 million but valued at over $950 million today — in a hack in Aug 2016 This was stolen from the exchange platform Bitfinex in Hong Kong..
The bitcoin was stolen from users’ segregated wallets..
The security breach came two months after Bitfinex was ordered to pay a $75,000 fine by the U.S. Commodity and Futures Trading Commission in part for offering illegal off-exchange financed commodity transactions in bitcoin and other digital currencies.
Bitfinex had announced a tie-up with Palo Alto-based BitGo, which uses multiple-signature security to store user deposits online, allowing for faster withdrawals.
The scandal highlighted the risks of companies using cryptography for their ledgers.. The more you rely on its benefits, the greater the potential for damage when keys are stolen
It is SURE that the theft was an inside job –as it is difficult for hacckers togain access to the system externally.
Yesterday’s hack ( 31 million USD ) is sure to throw up more questions about the relationship between Tether and the secretive exchange Bitfinex..
The duo are rumored to share owners, and have been accused of leaning on each other to manipulate the market.
Any idiot can figure out that this is an INSIDE JOB
Tether, with a market capitalization of $675 million, is the world’s 20th most-valuable virtual currency
Skepticism had already been building after the company behind the tokens said in April that all international wires had been blocked by its Taiwanese banks. That fueled questions about whether the tokens were fully backed back fiat currencies.
Tether’s users are unlikely to abandon it as long as it is supported by exchanges and no other credible pegged token appears
Devasini Giancarlo CFO at Bitfinex and Director at Tether was listed in the Paradise Papers.
Below: WHO THE FUCK IS APPLEBY ?
Tether and Bitfinex have insisted that the 2 operations are separate.
But leaked paperwork called the Paradise Papers, which had been made public this month, present that Appleby, an offshore legislation agency, helped Potter and Mr. Devasini, the Bitfinex operators, arrange Tether within the British Virgin Islands in late 2014.
The operations of law firm Appleby are under the spotlight after millions of its documents were disclosed in the Paradise Papers leak.
Appleby is one of the handful of major international "offshore legal service providers". Its business is to help clients, be they financial institutions, global corporations or high-net-worth individuals, to set up and register companies and trusts in overseas jurisdictions with low or zero tax rates and high financial confidentiality.
It's the kind of work which, inevitably, can lead to contact with KOSHER CLIENTS who have chequered backgrounds, controversial reputations or opaque motives.
Appleby was named offshore firm of the year by Legal 500 UK in 2015. Such reputations are hard won.
The first Appleby practice was established in Bermuda by Rothschild’s agent Major Reginald Appleby in 1890..
By 1903 he was a justice of the peace when he sat on the marine court of inquiry to take care of British East India Company ( owned by Jew Rothschild ) shipping matters ..
Appleby was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Rothschild.
Though the 119-year-old Appleby is not a tax adviser, it is a member of a global network that sets up offshore companies for clients eager to avoid taxes or keep their finances hidden.
Since expanding outside Bermuda in 1979, Appleby has transformed itself into a global institution with more than 700 employees across nearly every major tax haven from the Cayman Islands, to the Isle of Man, Mauritius and Hong Kong.
Appleby's corporate clients include Barclays Group, Citibank, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, HSBC Bank, JPMorgan Chase, KPMG, Lloyds Banking Group, PwC, Royal Bank of Scotland Group, Santander UK and Standard Chartered—and several Rothshild’s agents
Today, Appleby makes millions and is a key player in what insiders call the "offshore magic circle" — an informal collection of the world’s biggest offshore law firms. Anybody who treads on their toes is sued to eternity
Appleby’s internal records reveal a preoccupation with secrecy that pervades tax havens. For this reason, governments around the world are targeting the law firms that operate in tax havens, to force them to reveal the hidden transactions that deprive public coffers of trillions of dollars each year.
Unlike last year’s Panama Papers leak, which exposed Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, a firm that has been criticized as a bad apple in the offshore world, the Paradise Papers leak reveals the business of one of the world’s most prestigious blue-chip law firms, Appleby, which caters to the world’s biggest multinational corporations and the wealthiest families on the planet.
Documents found in the 6.8 million internal Appleby files in the leak show the firm was aware of multiple cases where it accepted dirty money. Appleby is already publicly associated with the Bermuda Longtail Trust, one of the biggest tax scams in recent Canadian history.
The scam, originally revealed by a Star investigation in 2007, duped almost 10,000 people, including nurses, teachers and at least one police officer, into making donations to bogus charities in order to receive a tax receipt worth four times more.
Appleby administered the trust for Canadian businessman Edward Furtak. The trust had collected more than $100 million by the time the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) got wise to the scheme, and a group of clients sued. Appleby settled the class action for $17.5 million last summer
The Sun Group, Jindal Steel, Apollo Tyres, Havells, Hindujas, Emaar MGF, Videocon, Amitabh Bachchan and the Hiranandani Group are among the major firms on the Paradise papers list.
At least 714 Indians are named in documents leaked from two financial companies – Bermuda’s Appleby and Singapore’s Asiaciti – that help the rich and the powerful move their money abroad and invest it in 19 tax havens.
The information was released by United States-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Nand Lal Khemka’s Sun Group, Appleby’s second-largest client with 118 different offshore entities, was also mentioned in the list..
Several prominent companies under the scanner of the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Enforcement Directorate are listed as Appleby’s clients.
These include firms named in the Sun-TV-Aircel-Maxis case, the Essar-Loop 2G case, the Rajasthan ambulance scam that is currently being investigated by the CBI. The investigating agency had named a company called Ziquista Healthcare, where Sachin Pilot and Karti Chidambaram were early honorary and independent directors.
Among the individuals named in the leak are actor Amitabh Bachchan, Union minister Jayant Sinha, Bharatiya Janata Party’s Rajya Sabha MP RK Sinha, and corporate lobbyist Niira Radia. Jayant Sinha’s name figures in the list because of his former role within the Omidyar Network.
This cache of documents were obtained by German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. Most of the papers scrutinised are from Appleby which helps its clients set up offshore companies and manage their bank accounts to help them either avoid or evade taxes, manage their real estate properties, open escrow accounts, or move millions across the globe..
These days, no exchange is bigger than Bitfinex, an opaque operation that provides no information on its website about where it is or who operates the company.
Bitfinex, which is officially incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, has been fined by regulators in the United States and cut off by American banks, and it has lost millions of dollars of customer money in two separate hackings, leading critics to question whether it even has the money it claims to hold.
The chief executive of Bitfinex and Tether is the same man- Jan Ludovicus van der Veld
The liquid nature of the Bitcoin markets, flowing round nationwide borders and legal guidelines, is a product of the digital forex’s uncommon construction. Bitcoin is saved and moved by means of a decentralized community of computer systems that aren’t underneath the management of any single firm or authorities.
This construction signifies that the digital forex continues to be a straightforward goal for individuals who need to manipulate its worth or use it to launder cash.
Unregulated, unregistered exchanges are a very big concern for the industry and the community broadly..
The most frequent face of Bitfinex is its chief technique officer, Phil Potter.. Potter,runs Bitfinex alongside Mr. Van der Velde, a Dutch-speaking man dwelling in Hong Kong, and Giancarlo Devasini, an Italian man who lives on the French Riviera, in accordance with firm filings in Hong Kong.
Before the 31 million hack two days ago, the firm misplaced 1,500 Bitcoin, value round $400,000, to a hacker in 2015. But probably the most damaging incident occurred in August 2016 when a thief obtained nearly 120,000 Bitcoin, value round $75 million on the time.
All three are inside jobs.
The firm unfold out the losses to all clients — even those that weren’t holding Bitcoin on the time of the hacking — by forcing clients to take a 36 % haircut or loss on any cash on the change.
Wells Fargo stated this year that it will not transfer cash from Bitfinex accounts. Shortly after, Bitfinex stated its major banks in Taiwan had been shutting it off.
Since then, it has moved between a collection of banks in different international locations, with out telling clients the place the change’s cash is saved.
Customers can purchase Tether cash on Bitfinex after which switch them to different digital forex exchanges, offering a strategy to transfer between international locations with out going by means of banks.
In current weeks, a couple of hundred hundreds of thousands ’ value of Tether has modified fingers each day throughout a number of exchanges
Again, the core of the Paradise Papers leak, totaling more than 13.4 million documents, focuses on the Bermudan law firm Appleby, a 119-year old company founded by Jew Rothschild , that caters to blue chip corporations and very wealthy people who laundered their dirty money.
Appleby helps clients reduce their tax burden; obscure their ownership of assets like companies, private aircraft, real estate and yachts; and set up huge offshore trusts that in some cases hold billions of dollars.
The predominantly elite clients of Appleby contrast with those of Mossack Fonseca — the company whose leaked records became the Panama Papers — which appeared to be less discriminating in the business it took on. The records date back to 1950 and up to 2016.
Appleby has offices in tax havens around the world. In addition to its Bermudan headquarters, it works out of places like the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean; the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey off Britain; Mauritius and the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean; and Hong Kong and Shanghai.
The documents come not only from Appleby, but also from the Singaporean company Asiaciti Trust and official business registries in places such as Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Lebanon and Malta.
On 15 November 2017, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) released its first story from the half a million documents leaked from the Singapore headquarters of AsiaCiti Trust.
AsiaCiti Trust is an international trust and corporate services provider with operations in Hong Kong, the Cook Islands, Dubai, Nevis, New Zealand, Panama and Samoa.
Both AsiaCiti and its Australian founder and Chairman Graeme Walter Briggs appear in the Panama Papers, including having shared ownership of several companies with the now-infamous offshore law firm Mossack Fonseca.
Singapore’s corporate tax rate is 17%, [rating] among the lowest in the world. In 2016 a report by Oxfam ranked Singapore as the world’s fifth worst corporate tax haven.
The report claims that these countries are creating a “race to the bottom” which undermines the entire global taxation system, through a combination of policies including ever-lower corporate tax rates and anonymity as a shelter from tax authorities in other jurisdictions.
Flows of wealth from other jurisdictions have helped to buoy Singapore’s private banking industry
Singapore and similar jurisdictions including Switzerland and the UK play a crucial role as conduits between jurisdictions where wealth originates and so-called ‘sink’ jurisdictions such as the Cayman Islands or Panama.
Conduit offshore financial centres generally have low or zero taxes imposed on the transfer of capital to other countries, either via interest payments, royalties, dividends or profit repatriation, and highly developed legal systems to help channel and disperse wealth to ‘sink’ jurisdictions.
This is exactly the pattern of behaviour which the Paradise Papers have exposed at AsiaCiti Trust, which takes in wealth from its clients in the USA, China, Switzerland, Romania, Nigeria, Thailand and South Africa and re-routes it via Singapore to corporations in Samoa, the Cook Islands and Panama
Again, Tether and Bitfinex have insisted that the two operations are separate.
But leaked documents , Paradise Papers, show that Appleby, an offshore law firm, helped Mr. Potter and Mr. Devasini, the Bitfinex operators, set up Tether in the British Virgin Islands in late 2014.
https://www.bitfinex.com/legal/terms
Devasini baby was fined 100 million Italian lira in 1996 for selling pirated copies of Microsoft software.
Mr. Davasini and Tether chief executive officer, Ludovicus Jan Van Der Velde, are the current directors of the Tether. Mr. Van Der Velde is also the chief executive officer of Bitfinex.
According to their terms of service Bitfinex consists of two BVI corporations, for U.S. customers: BFXNA Inc and for all other regions iFinex Inc
IFinex Inc. (BVI) operates as a financial technology company. The company owns and operates Bitfinex
Wells Fargo does NOT allow customers withdraw the money controlled by iFinex and Tether anymore
IFINEX, a BVI company, is the legal owner of Bitfinex, Tether and Blockstream, among others. One for trading, one for printing (out of thin air) USDT and one controlling Bitcoin development.
Blockstream is a blockchain technology company-- they provide funding for the development of Bitcoin Core, the predominant network client software.
Blockstream employs several prominent bitcoin developers.
Blockstream is one of the largest contributors of funding for Bitcoin Core-- the reference client of bitcoin. It is the reference implementation for bitcoin nodes, which form the bitcoin network. Through changes to Bitcoin Core, its developers make changes to the underlying bitcoin protocol.
Bitcoin Core includes a transaction verification engine and connects to the bitcoin network as a full node. Moreover, a cryptocurrency wallet, which can be used to transfer funds, is included by default The wallet allows for the sending and receiving of bitcoins.
It does not facilitate the buying or selling of bitcoin. It allows users to generate QR codes to receive payment. The software validates the entire blockchain, which includes all bitcoin transactions ever.
Blockstream participates in Hyperledger as a general member.. The Hyperledger project is a cross-industry collaborative effort to create blockchain based open standard for distributed ledgers for globally conducted business transactions.
Bitfinex is using Tether in its margin markets for wash trading.
“I GOT BITFINEXED” WILL SOON BE A TERM FOR ”I GOT FUCKED”
The Monetary Authority of Singapore, the country’s central bank, is pressing ahead with regulation that will bring a handful of retail payment services, including bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchanges, under a single legislation.
As regulator, the MAS will have oversight to look into money laundering and terrorism financing risks as well as ensuring safeguards for consumers’ funds.
When enacted, payment firms, as well as bitcoin exchanges, will be required to hold only one license under the new regulatory framework.
The new framework will expand the scope of regulation to include domestic money transfers, merchant acquisition and the purchase and sale of virtual currencies..
Bitfinex handles around 11% of the current Bitcoin trading volume, and at the moment.. . Again, the Bitfinex CSO Philip Potter is also listed as the director of Tether Holdings Limited, per the recent leak in the Paradise Papers.
BitConnect is a Cryptocurrency that facilitates the Lending of capital through Blockchain Technology. BitConnect was launched on November 15, 2016. It was released as an open source software in January 2017.
It's a peer-to-peer Cryptocurrency in which transactions take place between users directly, without an intermediary. These transactions are verified by network nodes and recorded in a public distributed ledger called the blockchain using Proof of Work(PoW) and Proof of Stake(PoS) algorithm..
BitConnect Coin mining differs from Bitcoin because it's mining is based on CPU/GPU, unlike Bitcoin which is based on ASIC miner.
The most brazen of BitConnect’s marketing is a pyramid info-graphic depicting different percentage awards depending on the “level” of member a user is. It’s little wonder therefore that the UK have given BitConnect an ultimatum.
BitConnect (BCC) has come under scrutiny from UK authorities. The company has been threatened with closure as well as having their assets seized if they’re unable to prove that they are not a ponzi scheme.
Failure to provide evidence of “cause to the contrary” would result in the UK Registrar of Companies forcing the closure of BitConnect.
BitConnect, was registered by a British man under the name Ken Fitzsimmons. Interestingly, the name doesn’t appear anywhere within BitConnect’s own literature leaving the community with considerable doubt about the legitimacy of the platform.
Bitconnect has been showing signs recently that its top promoters are jumping ship.
Accusations of wash trading at Bitfinex – “printing” tethers and using them to artificially bump the price of bitcoin before cashing out, sending the USD to Tether, and repeating the cycle – aren’t the only ones the exchange has been facing.
Why doesn’t Bitfinex reveal its current banking arrangements or where its money is stored? The company did produce a financial statement in September 2017, but it failed to prove that each tether is backed by a US dollar.
Bitfinex had a falling out with Wells Fargo, the last bank that was willing to process their transactions last year. And shortly after, they suffered the largest Bitcoin robbery since Mt Gox—in August 2016, the exchange lost 120,000 BTC to what it says was a hack.
It didn’t help that their decision to “distribute the losses equally” amongst user accounts was met with controversy. Neither did the fact that they gave no clear explanation as to how exactly the hack happened.
Although they were able to “pay off” users by offering them equity, the lack of transparency and refusal to submit to audit compliance did not sit well with the public.
Or maybe they do have a bank, but can’t admit it to the public because the bank they’re banking with unwittingly dealt with them through one of their shell companies.
To circumvent the banking problem, Bitfinex is likely employing Hawala banking.
Bitfinex essentially match-makes you with someone wanting to withdraw from their exchange, and you send the money directly to the other party withdrawing.
No major bank wants to partner up with Bitfinex, so they’re pumping the price of BTC in order to keep a steady flow of depositors and keep them from cashing out of the exchange.
And while the pump part of this isn’t scary from a HODLer’s perspective—it’s the dump that is.
HODL is used for "hold" - it's a term that was invented by a psycho who did a typo and it became famous. Whenever people talk here about holding their coins, they would rather say "hodl your bitcoins".
The minute the prices of Bitcoin turns bearish, and the prices continuously fall, eventually people will stop catching knives, money coming in comes to a trickle, and people are wanting to withdraw and nobody wants to deposit.
So, the only choice Bitfinex has, is to relentlessly manipulate the price of Bitcoin up for as long as possible so that people always want to deposit, until they are able to re-establish a legitimate banking partner
It has now emerged that Bitfinex has yet another new bank.
This time, its European home is with the obscure Bank Polskiej Spółdzielczości – also the home of CEX.io – under the name of CRYPTO SP.ZO.O.
Why isn’t Bitfinex using its own name and why is it with a bank that ranks 15th in Poland in terms of asset value and 26th in terms of number of outlets? The director of Bank Polskiej Spółdzielczości is Molina Lee Ivan Manuel who is also the director of numerous Panamanian shell companies.
Offshore shell companies are a recurring theme with Bitfinex; the so-called Paradise Papers, which leaked this month, show that Bitfinex’ operators used an offshore firm to help them incorporate Tether in the British Virgin Islands.
Tether itself has also been shady, marketing their tokens as “money for the internet,” yet repeatedly stating in the less conspicuous legal section of their website that Tethers are not money and that they are under no obligation to exchange users’ Tethers with actual money.
Despite shady banking, dubious use of tethers, another hack, and slow withdrawals, Bitfinex is flexing its muscles..
What Intel claims to be a Blockchain is a misnomer—it is a consensus protocol for distrusted systems….generically.
Proof of Elapsed Time is just one of the many useful capabilities that can be built based on Intel’s Secure Guard Extensions (SGX)
PoET as used in Intel’s Sawtooth platform will probably not see mass adoption in public networks due to its dependence on Intel chips – but for SOLD OUT bastards ( to white Jews ) and IGNORANT Indian politicians--
These CUNTS don’t know that relying 100% on Intel means total CENTRALISATION ( and not 100% decentralization boasted by blockchain )
For private and consortium networks it is a viable and superior alternative to proof of work (mining). Proof of Work induced mining wastes electricity
Intel’s SGX platform would allow you to execute an instruction which says ret=elapseTime(1omins);
Once you execute this statement, the SGX platforms will “discuss” amongst themselves and choose a single leader. The “discussion” will be according to Intel fair, reliable and secure i.e. leader selection is random and uniformly distributed such that everyone has a chance of becoming a leader.
Now lets say, i have 8 SGX chips and you have 2 SGX chips … between ourselves i have 80% chance of becoming a leader and you have 20%. Thus essentially it becomes a race as to who owns most number of SGX chips.
Bitfinex exercises control over Tether — enough to print off millions of unbacked Tether at their whim.
Tethers are being used to purchase Bitcoin, this is artificially inflating the price of BTC, since all the new Tethers are being used to purchase Bitcoin.
Tether is a bit of an unusual cryptocurrency. Unlike most coins, it’s not aiming for moon. It’s content to stay firmly on the ground, pegged to the US dollar.
The idea is to provide a way to trade USD (with all of its stability) with all the benefits of a cryptocurrency. Basically, crypto-freedom without crypto-volatility. All new Tether are created by the Tether Company. They will create as many new Tether as someone is willing to deposit dollars into their bank accounts.
The full amount will be stored in USD, and at any time, someone can redeem any amount of Tether back from the company for USD at a 1:1 ratio. All the exchange did was exchange one type of unbacked IOU (the BFX token) with another (Tether)!
Tether is primarily used to buy Bitcoin back, and it does have a tremendously high volume. It has 24h volume periods cracking half a billion dollars, regularly rivaling BCH or ETH. But its aggregate value is still under $700 million. That might seem like a lot, but is less than 0.5% of Bitcoin’s whopping $140 billion market cap.
Bitcoin uses the hashcash Proof of Work function as the Bitcoin mining core. All bitcoin miners whether CPU, GPU, FPGA or ASICs are expending their effort creating hashcash proofs-of-work which act as a vote in the blockchain evolution and validate the blockchain transaction log.
Hashcash is a proof-of-work system used to limit email spam and denial-of-service attacks, and more recently has become known for its use in bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies) as part of the mining algorithm.
In contrast to hashcash in mail applications that relies on recipients to set manually an amount of work intended to deter malicious senders, the Bitcoin cryptocurrency network employs a different hashing-based Proof-of-work challenge to enable competitive bitcoin mining. A bitcoin miner runs a computer program that collects unconfirmed transactions from coin dealers in the network.
With other data these can form a block and earn a payment to the miner, but a block is accepted by the network only when the miner discovers by trial and error a "nonce" number that when included in the block yields a hash with a sufficient number of leading zero bits to meet the network's difficulty target.
Blocks accepted from miners form the bitcoin Blockchain that is a growing ledger of every bitcoin transaction since the coin's first creation.
While hashcash uses the SHA-1 hash and requires the first 20 of 160 hash bits to be zero, bitcoin's proof of work uses two successive SHA-256 hashes and originally required at least the first 32 of 256 hash bits to be zero. However the bitcoin network periodically resets the difficulty level to keep the average rate of block creation at 6 per hour.
As of August 2017 (block #478608) the bitcoin network has responded to deployments of ever faster hashing hardware by miners by hardening the requirement to first 72 of 256 hash bits must be zero.
RECAPITULATION:
Proof of work is a requirement to define an expensive computer calculation, also called mining, that needs to be performed in order to create a new group of trustless transactions (the so-called block) on a distributed ledger called blockchain.
Mining serves as two purposes:---
To verify the legitimacy of a transaction, or avoiding the so-called double-spending;
To create new digital currencies by rewarding miners for performing the previous task.
When you want to set a transaction this is what happens behind the scenes:
Transactions are bundled together into what we call a block;
Miners verify that transactions within each block are legitimate;
To do so, miners should solve a mathematical puzzle known as proof-of-work problem;
A reward is given to the first miner who solves each blocks problem;
Verified transactions are stored in the public blockchain
This “mathematical puzzle” has a key feature: asymmetry. The work, in fact, must be moderately hard on the requester side but easy to check for the network.
All the network miners compete to be the first to find a solution for the mathematical problem that concerns the candidate block, a problem that cannot be solved in other ways than through brute force so that essentially requires a huge number of attempts.
When a miner finally finds the right solution, he announces it to the whole network at the same time, receiving a cryptocurrency prize (the reward) provided by the protocol.
From a technical point of view, mining process is an operation of inverse hashing: it determines a number (nonce), so the cryptographic hash algorithm of block data results in less than a given threshold.
This threshold, called difficulty, is what determines the competitive nature of mining: more computing power is added to the network, the higher this parameter increases, increasing also the average number of calculations needed to create a new block.
This method also increases the cost of the block creation, pushing miners to improve the efficiency of their mining systems to maintain a positive economic balance. This parameter update should occur approximately every 14 days, and a new block is generated every 10 minutes.
Proof of work is not only used by the bitcoin blockchain but also by ethereum and many other blockchains.
Proof of stake is a different way to validate transactions based and achieve the distributed consensus.
It is still an algorithm, and the purpose is the same of the proof of work, but the process to reach the goal is quite different.
Unlike the proof-of-Work, where the algorithm rewards miners who solve mathematical problems with the goal of validating transactions and creating new blocks, with the proof of stake, the creator of a new block is chosen in a deterministic way, depending on its wealth, also defined as stake.
No block reward
Also, all the digital currencies are previously created in the beginning, and their number never changes.
This means that in the PoS system there is no block reward, so, the miners take the transaction fees.
This is why, in fact, in this PoS system miners are called forgers, instead.
Ethereum community wants to exploit the proof of stake method for a more greener and cheaper distributed form of consensus.
Also, rewards for the creation of a new block are different: with Proof-of-Work, the miner may potentially own none of the digital currency he is mining.
In Proof-of-Stake, forgers are always those who own the coins minted.
If Casper (the new proof of stake consensus protocol) will be implemented, there will exist a validator pool. Users can join this pool to be selected as the forger. This process will be available through a function of calling the Casper contract and sending Ether – or the coin who powers the Ethereum network – together with it.
Using a Proof-of-Work system, bad actors are cut out thanks to technological and economic disincentives.
In fact, programming an attack to a PoW network is very expensive, and you would need more money than you can be able to steal.
Instead, the underlying PoS algorithm must be as bulletproof as possible because, without especially penalties, a proof of stake-based network could be cheaper to attack.
To solve this issue, Buterin created the Casper protocol, designing an algorithm that can use the set some circumstances under which a bad validator might lose their deposit.
He explained: “Economic finality is accomplished in Casper by requiring validators to submit deposits to participate, and taking away their deposits if the protocol determines that they acted in some way that violates some set of rules (‘slashing conditions’).”
Slashing conditions refer to the circumstances above or laws that a user is not supposed to break.
Thanks to a PoS system validators do not have to use their computing power because the only factors that influence their chances are the total number of their own coins and current complexity of the network.
So this possible future switch from PoW to PoS may provide the following benefits:---
Energy savings;
A safer network as attacks become more expensive: if a hacker would like to buy 51% of the total number of coins, the market reacts by fast price appreciation.
This way, CASPER will be a security deposit protocol that relies on an economic consensus system. Nodes (or the validators) must pay a security deposit in order to be part of the consensus thanks to the new blocks creation. Casper protocol will determine the specific amount of rewards received by the validators thanks to its control over security deposits.
If one validator creates an “invalid” block, his security deposit will be deleted, as well as his privilege to be part of the network consensus.
In other words, the Casper security system is based on something like bets. In a PoS-based system, bets are the transactions that, according to the consensus rules, will reward their validator with a money prize together with each chain that the validator has bet on.
So, Casper is based on the idea that validators will bet according to the others’ bets and leave positive feedbacks that are able accelerates consensus.
Hyperledger Sawtooth, developed by Intel offers a modular blockchain architecture. It consists of Proof of Elapsed Time (PoET), a consensus algorithm developed by Intel for high efficiency among distributed ledgers.
Sawtooth employs an EXPERIMENTAL consensus algorithm -- Proof of Elapsed Time, or PoET.
It’s a form of random leader election, wherein each validator node waits a random amount of time before trying to claim a block.
In other random leader election algorithms like Proof of Work, that randomness is enforced by searching for partial hash collisions. PoET replaces that work with trusted computing. The benefit of this is a more economical and greener algorithm (as compared to ASIC mining rigs).
Rather than chips churning on hash functions, the trusted computing functions allow each node to get on with other work until its timer expires, putting computing cycles into useful operations without wasted electricity.
PoET is a return to the Satoshi intent of “one-CPU-one-vote”. In its original form PoET exists near the unpermissioned end of the policy spectrum.
Any host that can provide certain cryptographic proofs about the correctness of its execution can publish a block. The sawtooth-core maintainers have begun adding scaffolding to support the more direct authorization models that consortia may require.
The first policies in this new framework include basic requirements of a validator such that it is running the correct version of the consensus algorithm and that it has a verifiably unique identity on the network (an anti-sybil feature of PoET).
The network itself validates authorization of each node as it joins the system. Once validated, those nodes and their authorization data are committed to a table on the ledger, called the Validator Registry.
Building on these new features, participants in a network can define arbitrarily elaborate (or simple) authorization policies. This authorization framework then lets the underlying PoET consensus algorithm be utilized across a wide swath of the public to private ledger spectrum.
While Ethereum is a public Blockchain, Hyperledger is a private blockchain. This means enterprises within the network know who is present on the peer nodes, unlike Ethereum.
Hyperledger is a permissioned network i.e., it has the ability to grant permission on who can participate in the consensus mechanism of the Blockchain network. Ethereum, on the other hand, is permissionless.
Hyperledger has no built-in cryptocurrency. Ethereum, on the other hand, has a built-in cryptocurrency, called Ether. Many applications don’t need a cryptocurrency to function, and using Ethereum there can be a disadvantage.
Hyperledger gives you the flexibility of choosing a programming language such as Java or Go, for preparing smart contracts. Ethereum, on the other hand, uses Solidity which is a lot less common in use.
Hyperledger is highly scalable — unlike traditional Blockchain and Ethereum — with minimal performance losses.
BITCOIN JUMPS FROM 738 USD TO 8315 USD IN ONE YEAR FLAT
ALL THOSE WHO SAYS , THIS IS NOT A BUBBLE
At its core, blockchain is a public ledger technology that uses cryptography to provide an authoritative record of secure transactions. The technology is deemed disruptive in that it eliminates centralization, which uses a trusted third party.
A trusted third party is a middle man facilitating a transaction between two parties. This centralized architecture underlies the brunt of transactions today.
Trusted third parties like banks and payment providers, dominate the financial services industry.
Blockchain threatens to disrupt this model.
BUT HEY ----ARUN JAITLEY AND SBI CHAIRMAN WANTS TO TRUST INTEL 100% WITH A NEW BLOCKCHAIN SYSTEM , FOR WHICH INDIANS WILL BE USED AS GUINEA PIGS-
THEY MERGED ALL INDIAN BANKS FOR THIS FINAL BRUTUS TYPE THRUST
THIS HAS BEEN THE STORY OF OUR LIFE IN INDIA EVER SINCE ROTHSCHILD TOOK OVER INDIA , RIGHT?
Blockchain technology leverages mathematics (digital signatures, cryptographic hashing, and consensus mechanisms) to enable untrusted parties to transact directly in a secure manner, without having to deal with a middle man.
This type of transaction is known as trustless trust, and it is paving the way for a radical transformation of established industries, notably in the financial services sector. In addition, blockchain technology could impact emerging markets, such as those forming around the Internet of Things (IoT).
The origin story of blockchain is in Bitcoin, and the associated terminology is best understood from this source. Blockchain is, therefore, a type of distributed ledger technology, but not all distributed ledgers are effectively blockchains.
The purpose of a consensus algorithm in a public Blockchain network is to make sure that the network’s participants agree on the current state of the Blockchain without the need to trust each other or to have a central authority.
It all started with Proof of Work
The use of Proof of Work mining was initially proposed to establish that a given block had required a certain amount of work to be mined. This allowed users to simply pick the longest valid chain with the highest amount of work as the correct chain.
However, Proof of Work is extremely inefficient in terms of energy consumption.
This makes it expensive and incentivizes miners to centralize the hashing power.
So, instead of pushing us towards a truly distributed network, these concentrated mining farms have become de facto authorities.
Another alternative was needed.
The focus switched to Proof of Stake
A Proof of Stake algorithm has nothing to do with mining. Instead, it is about validating. The specific actor responsible for the next block in the chain is determined by the Proof of Stake algorithm.
In order to avoid overly concentrating this power, the algorithm must have some kind of randomness. At the least, voting shares must be distributed properly to avoid morphing into a centralized system.
Without going into details about its advantages over Proof of Work, Proof of Stake eliminates the need to spend a huge amount of electric power to validate the blocks.
Instead, blockchain participants with the most stake in it are selected by algorithm for the right to validate the blocks. The assumption behind Proof of Stake is the following: those who hold a stake in a network are incentivized to act in its interests. All else equal, the more stake one has, the higher should be his or her interest in preserving the system.
In a Proof of Stake system, each validator must own some stake in the network. These stakes are bonded, which means that network participants deposit some money into the network using it as a collateral to vouch for a block.
In a Proof of Work network, everyone accepts the chain as valid because a significant amount of effort has been employed. Meanwhile, in a Proof of Stake network participants trust the chain with the highest collateral.
Within the cryptocurrency world Proof of Work remains the most widely adopted consensus algorithm. However, a few prominent projects including NXT, BitShares and Ethereum use or are migrating to Proof of Stake.
Even within the Bitcoin community, some members are considering trying to change the digital currency’s Proof of Work consensus mechanism to address scaling issues and improve the network’s operation.
While Proof of Stake might have certain advantages, it is not a panacea. The problem is that there is no guarantee that the validator with the highest collateral deposited for a block is going to operate the network in its best interests.
Proof of Stake coins are plagued with issues because rational people tend to act in their own self-interest. PoS works only because the best interests of the largest stakeholders usually do align with those of the network. In the case of a disagreement, however, the largest stakeholder might assume the role of the supreme commander
The distributed Proof of Stake algorithm was created to solve problems with the earlier Proof of Work algorithms. To make it work the decisions are weighted based on multiple factors.
First and foremost, the size of the stake and the interests of a validator are taken into account. Secondly, it is important to check when their decision last became the primary decision agreed upon by the network’s participants. Finally, it needs to be considered whether the outcome of this decision met with approval by the majority of the network participants.
The Ethereum platform has a difference with the Bitcoin blockchain . It includes a Turing-complete programming framework that enables users to create contracts that are more complex than the simple transactions allowed by Bitcoin.
Ethereum is essentially a public blockchain-based distributed computing platform that includes a programming language (Solidity), a runtime environment (Ethereum Virtual Machine), a cryptocurrency (Ether), and APIs, among other features. The general idea is that smart contracts effectively represent contractual agreements between two or more parties.
For example, they can release funds, communicate information, record and embed data, or even make purchases; all this in a pre-programmed, self-executing, autonomous manner. Digital identities can be created for physical property and intangible assets, whose ownership and functioning can be controlled through smart contracts on the blockchain.
Moving even beyond smart contracts is the idea of software-based DAOs. They can also be created for societies and corporations. At the core, they are AI-based autonomous agents. They can be a party to a smart contract, and are best defined as a set or class of long-lasting
smart contracts. DAOs can be used to implement more complex governance structures, such as owning, exchanging, and trading resources, interacting with other parties (human and machine), and executing pre-defined tasks.
A decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), is an organization that is run through rules encoded as computer programs called smart contracts. A DAO's financial transaction record and program rules are maintained on a blockchain.
The best-known example was The DAO, a DAO for venture capital funding, which was launched with $150 million in crowdfunding in June 2016, implementing its smart contracts through Ethereum, and was immediately hacked and drained of US$50 million in cryptocurrency.
This hack ( an INSIDE JOB ) was reversed in the following weeks, and the money restored, via a hard fork of the Ethereum blockchain. This decentralized bailout was made possible by a majority vote of the blockchain's hash rate.
The DAO hack on the Ethereum blockchain in June 2016 forced stakeholders and core developers to overturn parts of the blockchain and backtrack to a previous state.
This bitterly divided the Ethereum community and revealed that the blockchain is not truly immutable. Without going into detail about the hack, it revealed essentially that code is unable to discern intent and will function regardless, allowing both good faith and malice to guide it.
Smart contracts are, therefore, not likely to take the form of complex legal contracts anytime soon until issues surrounding liabilities and dispute resolution can be more effectively addressed.
However, the problem of legal applicability could eventually be resolved. Recognition and support by government and law enforcement on blockchain could provide a clearer legal status. As for The DAO hack, the issue was resolved without recourse to the judicial system, which leaves many legal questions unanswered.
Further, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently weighed in on The DAO hack, stating that the tokens traded in the Initial Coin Offering were effectively securities. While the SEC did not leverage any penalties, the published decision aims to direct future ICOs in the space and possible compliance requirements with U.S. securities laws
Smart contracts and DAOs can be used for numerous applications: digital identities, voting, governance, smart property, asset tracking, engineering-related transactions, smart diagnostics and machine maintenance, supply chain tracking, M2M transactions, tracking supplier identity and reputation, registry of assets and inventory, etc.
Through these evolving technologies, blockchain will affect and perhaps radically transform all kinds of interactions, including business, legal, social, and political.
Although major blockchain activity exists in the financial technology market, there is little commercial activity in other verticals. The reason for this is the embryonic state of the new concept, as well as lack of understanding in these end markets, which are currently in a state of digital transformation.
private centralized permissioned ledgers may jeopardize the concept of immutability. Blockchains are already potentially susceptible to colluding attacks whereby one or more nodes exceeding 51% of mining power could cheat the network into accepting unlawful transactions or other nefarious action.
For example, the colluding forces could engage in a “hard fork” of the network and move together to an amended blockchain. The challenge is that such an attack would require a large number of colluding parties
Private and permissioned blockchains, and new applications on public blockchains, are vulnerable to this type of manipulation.
Beyond the core issue of immutability, blockchain technology still has to overcome other barriers, notably with regard to regulatory compliance, scaling, processing and redundancy costs, and, finally, privacy and security.
Currently, cryptocurrencies, DAOs, and smart contracts exist in an extra-judicial bubble governed solely by code without input or oversight by a central authority, such as a financial authority, trade commission, law enforcement entity, or other government authority.
There are open-ended questions on dispute resolution, liability, and redress. Within highly regulated sectors, blockchain might not be a suitable solution if it is not in compliance, and existing regulation is often designed with a central authority to govern and identifiable parties that can be made liable in case of breach or error.
It will take time to adapt existing regulation to blockchain technologies for usecases in more complex settings as they relate to the IoT, the legal profession, or even in financial services beyond digital payments.
Scaling is another critical obstacle to overcome. The distributed feature requires all nodes to record all transactions within a common shared ledger. The Bitcoin ledger is currently over 100 GB in size, served by 6,900 full nodes-- forecasts 27 billion connected IoT devices by the end of 2017.
Scaling blockchain technology to that kind of size is going to be difficult and costly. Even within the Bitcoin blockchain, there is a move toward using centralized intermediaries to clear payments. In fact, Bitcoin recently underwent a hard fork, with a new cryptocurrency emerging, Bitcoin Cash, after years-long debate. The reason behind it was to scale Bitcoin to more users with Bitcoin Cash blocks effectively increased to 8MB (as opposed to the 1MB of Bitcoin).
Add to that the operational costs (in terms of processing power and energy consumption) to mining and verifying transactions on the blockchain, and it becomes clear that scale and decentralization are at odds with each other and a trade-off will need to be found, notably in light of IoT blockchain applications
There are major issues revolving around privacy and security. While the Bitcoin blockchain does not record accountbalances (only transactions), it is possible to extract information about users based on the transactions (through public keys). This may be a barrier for those applications that require a higher level of privacy protection and confidentiality
As for security, The DAO hack shows that the blockchain is vulnerable. There have been other DAO hacks since, most recently in July 2017, when USD$7 million was drained from CoinDash’s ICO, again an INSIDE JOB .
Whether through bugs in code, or by finding a loophole in smart contracts, there will always be interest by malicious parties to exploit it, and this interest will grow alongside blockchain’s popularity.
Blockchain security relies on verification of transactions and proof of work. Should the incentive for mining the blockchain be centralized within the entity funding the miners (as will likely be the case in permissioned and private blockchains), then the risk of a single point of failure is high. Security needs to be stronger for a more open and decentralized blockchain system.
There are currently competing concepts: public and private; permissioned versus permission-less. Various endeavors are employing different algorithms and methodologies to address issues in energy consumption and security, i.e., proof of work (Bitcoin), proof of stake (Peercoin), delegated proof of stake (BitShares), practical byzantine fault tolerance (Hyperledger), etc.
Ethereum is planning to switch from proof of work to proof of stake before the end of 2017, citing energy consumption concerns primarily. In time, successful adoption and widespread usage will inform standards work in the future, and determine which technology will ultimately provide the most cost-effective, secure, and efficient solution.
Ultimately, blockchain technologies have a long way to go before commercial applications beyond cryptocurrencies can be successfully implemented.
WE ASK ARUN JAITLEY AND MODI NOT TO HOCK BHARATMATA IN KOSHER INTELs MANDI.
WE THE PEOPLE WONT ALLOW IT ..EVEN IF YOU BUY RETIREMENT HOMES IN ISRAEL
Blockchain must undergo its fair share of trials and errors and we must don’t dive off the deep end , throwing caution into the winds –just because Modi has been hugged by a white Jew and called LANGOT YAAR.
OODHAR -- SABOOR -- AAARYAAAA
READ THE POST BELOW FIRST
WE MUST NOT DIVE OFF THE DEEP END AND ADOPT BLOCKCHAIN -ULU (OR IS IT UDU? )
WHY DO OUR THINK TANKS HAVE SHIT FOR BRAINS?
HOW DID ENRON HACK AND BLEED BHARATMATA ? ARE WE "ALICE IN WONDERLAND " ?
PMO,
SMRITI IRANI ( SHE WILL SURELY SAY -- YEH APNA ARTICLE MEIN NAHIN LIKHELA HAI )
CMs OF BOTH TELUGU LANDS
FAYE SORPOTEL DSOU#A ( TELL HER IT IS EASIER THAN POTHOLES )
ARNAB GOSWAMI ( TELL HIM IT IS EASIER THAN VVIP RACISM )
AND WEBSITES OF SENSIBLE DESH BHAKT LEADERS
In December 2016, the Philippine central bank legalized bitcoin as a legal currency, enabling expat workers and local employees to use bitcoin to process remittance payments.
Disgracefully India has aped the Filipinos .
The Indian government not offered any clarity apart from the fact that bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are not illegal in the country.
India’s major exchanges and trading platforms such as ZebPay, Uncoin and Coinsecure have continued to operate, serving Indian users and processing payments for general consumers.
The Indian think tanks has SHIT FOR BRAINS
When China banned Bitcoins, the government there had given around 3 weeks for the people as well as the Exchanges to comply.
Coins.ph, the largest bitcoin brokerage and remittance startup in the Philippines, gained 2 million active users, establishing itself as the most used mobile app in the Philippines.
Square, one of the largest payments apps in the world, has three million active users. Coins.ph, a local Philippine remittance app, has a similar user base as Square, a $16 billion financial company.
Zebpay is abitcoin exchange in India. It has offices in Ahmedabad, India. They provide only app to trade bitcoin. Zebpay supports only Bitcoins.
Unocoin has offices in Bengaluru, India. It also supports swapping of cryptocurrencies like Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, Litecoin, Monero, Ripple, Lisk and Factom to Bitcoin.
Coinsecure has offices in Delhi, India and supports only Bitcoins
Bitcoin-India has offices in Hyderabad, India—the supports Bitcoins, Ethereum, Litecoin and Dashcoin.
BITCOIN IS 9761 USD TODAY (27th Nov 2017 ).
INDIA CANNOT TRUST BITCOIN NOR BLOCKCHAIN WHOSE “PROOF OF WORK” MINING DEPENDS ON BITCOIN
Bitcoin has risen more than 40% over the past two weeks and over 850% so far this year.
Meanwhile, Ethereum (ETH/USD), Bitcoin’s rival, also followed suit and went to record fresh all-time highs at $ 490.75
Cryptocurrency market has cracked $300 billion.
RECAPITULATION : Competing for coins. So, that's how miners 'seal off' a block. They all compete with each other to do this, using software written specifically to mine blocks.
Every time someone successfully creates a hash, they get a reward of 12.5 bitcoins, the blockchain is updated, and everyone on the network hears about it.
When a block is discovered, the discoverer may award themselves a certain number of bitcoins, which is agreed-upon by everyone in the network.
Currently this bounty is 12.5 bitcoins; this value will halve every 210,000 blocks.
The first block is known as the genesis block. The first transaction recorded in the first block was a single transaction paying the reward of 50 new bitcoins to its creator.
Additionally, the miner is awarded the fees paid by users sending transactions. The fee is an incentive for the miner to include the transaction in their block. In the future, as the number of new bitcoins miners are allowed to create in each block dwindles, the fees will make up a much more important percentage of mining income.
Mining is the process of adding transaction records to Bitcoin's public ledger of past transactions .This ledger of past transactions is called the block chain as it is a chain of blocks.
The block chain serves to confirm transactions to the rest of the network as having taken place. Bitcoin nodes use the block chain to distinguish legitimate Bitcoin transactions from attempts to re-spend coins that have already been spent elsewhere.
Mining is intentionally designed to be resource-intensive and difficult so that the number of blocks found each day by miners remains steady. Individual blocks must contain a proof of work to be considered valid.
This proof of work is verified by other Bitcoin nodes each time they receive a block. Bitcoin uses the hashcash proof-of-work function. The primary purpose of mining is to allow Bitcoin nodes to reach a secure, tamper-resistant consensus.
Mining is also the mechanism used to introduce Bitcoins into the system: Miners are paid any transaction fees as well as a "subsidy" of newly created coins. This both serves the purpose of disseminating new coins in a decentralized manner as well as motivating people to provide security for the system.
Bitcoin mining is so called because it resembles the mining of other commodities: it requires exertion and it slowly makes new currency available at a rate that resembles the rate at which commodities like gold are mined from the ground.
To process Bitcoin transactions, a procedure called 'mining' must take place, which involves a computer solving a difficult mathematical problem with a 64-digit solution.
To compensate for the growing power of computer chips, the difficulty of the puzzles is adjusted ( WHAT BULLSHIT IS THIS ? ) to ensure a steady stream of new Bitcoins are produced each day.
To ensure the longevity of the system, the cryptographic problems involved in the mining get progressively harder, meaning it takes longer to earn them.
HERE IS AN INDIAN MINER IN THE VIDEO BAOVE
IS HE PART OF THE INNER KOSHER CLUB WHO CONTROLS MINING ?
IF NOT , WHAT IS BLOCKCHAIN ?
A COMMUNIST SYSTEM?
DECENTRALISATION IN THE GARB OF CENTRALISATION ?
PROPAGANDA THAT PEOPLE RULING IN A COMMUNIST COUNTRY— WHEN ACTUALLY A INNER CORE OF COMMUNIST PARTY DESPOTS RULE ?
Miners are turning to more powerful computers to complete these tasks and earn bitcoin.
As a result, mining (and on the flipside, bitcoin transactions) are sucking up greater and greater amounts of electricity.
There are currently about 16 million Bitcoins in existence.
To receive a Bitcoin, a user must have a Bitcoin address - a string of 27-34 letters and numbers - which acts as a kind of virtual post box.
Since there is no register of these addresses, people can use them to protect their anonymity when making a transaction.
These addresses are in turn stored in Bitcoin wallets, which are used to manage savings.
The record high for one Bitcoin of $9,700 was reached today on November 26 2017.
The dramatic rise of Bitcoin value is due to surging demand in China, where it is used to channel money out of the country says Capt Ajit Vadakayil.
‘Bitcoin miners’ is somewhat a misleading term.
The miners are actually ‘book-keepers’ and ‘validators’ of the network. It is called as Mining because the algorithm somewhat approximates the declining supply of gold and the miner wins an award (which are the new bitcoins created) for their effort.
Bitcoin miners run a software program (which is the Bitcoin client) on their host machine. In the very initial days it could be done even from a laptop but nowadays you need expensive and dedicated machines worth thousands of dollars and very high processing power.
Functions of mining —
Book-keeping: The bitcoin client downloads and syncs in real time the entire blockchain of the bitcoin network. Hence the miners are called as book-keepers as the blockchain has list of every transaction processed by the network.
Network guardians: Miners also safeguard the network against hacks and validate each transaction. Bitcoin mining gives a probabilistic solution to Byzantine’s General problem with the underlying assumption that at least 51% of the miners are honest.
Settlement and clearing: The bitcoin network works as a settlement and clearing house for all the transactions without depending on any 3rd party service.
Creation of new bitcoins-- : As discussed in the Monetary policy of Bitcoin, 12.5 Bitcoins are created out of thin air every 10 minutes.
This is the incentive for contributing processing power and keeping the network safe.
It is important to understand that the primary function of mining is not for the reward, but rather keeping the network safe and executing transactions smoothly.
Bitcoin mining is an interesting way of trying to make a few bitcoin tokens on the side, but it also serves a very important purpose in maintaining and keeping the bitcoin blockchain secure. Whenever a transaction is made in bitcoin, a record of it is made on a block containing other recent transactions, like a page in a ledger.
Once the block is full, bitcoin miners compete against each other to verify and validate the block and all its transactions by solving a complex cryptographic problem.
The first miner to accomplish this is awarded a set amount of bitcoin, based on the mining difficulty at the time. The verified block is then added to the blockchain, a history of all blocks verified since the beginning of bitcoin, and transmitted to all users of bitcoin so that they can have the latest blockchain.
At the heart of bitcoin mining lies a hard, mathematical problem. The goal is to ensure that the process of adding a new block to the blockchain requires a lot of work. SHA-256 – the mining algorithm used by bitcoin – is a one-way
cryptographic algorithm.
When you pass a word through SHA-256 you will be given back an unrecognizable string of letters and numbers called a “HASH”.
Bitcoin mining involves three variables: the block, the mining difficulty and a random number. This arduous process of randomly trying to find a number that gives the solution is what makes bitcoin mining such a computationally expensive process and as more miners join the network the harder it gets.
As of November 2017, a regular home computer working alone, ie, not an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and not part of a cloud mining network, would take 2.7 million years to mine one block.
This has led to the rise of ASIC computers built specifically for mining, and to an increase in cloud mining.
Evolution of the mining computer-----
CPU mining. In the early days of bitcoin, mining difficulty was low and not a lot of miners were competing for blocks and rewards. This made it worthwhile to use your computer’s own central processing unit (CPU) to mine bitcoin. However, that approach was soon replaced by GPU mining.
GPU mining. A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a powerful processor whose sole purpose is to assist your computer’s graphics card in rendering 3D graphics. GPUs are not built for executive decisions (like CPUs) but to be very good laborers, hence GPUs are able to execute over 800 times more instructions in the same amount of time as a CPU. Mining is a repetitive process that does not require any intelligent decisions, leading to GPUs replacing CPUs in the mining world.
FPGA mining. Next came mining with field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). These greatly outperformed GPUs and CPUs in the mining process as FPGAs are processors that can be programmed to execute specific instructions, and only those instructions (instead of being repurposed for mining, like GPUs were).
ASIC mining. Similar to FPGAs, application-specific integrated circuits are chips designed for a specific purpose, in our case mining bitcoin, and nothing else. ASICs for bitcoin were introduced in 2013 and, as of November 2017, they are the best processors available for mining bitcoin and they outperform FPGAs in power consumption.
Mining pools. To offset the difficulty of mining a block, miners started organizing in pools or cloud mining networks. Whenever a miner in one of these pools solves a block, the reward is shared with everyone in the pool in a ratio representative of how much work you put into the pool (even though you personally never solved the puzzle).
Cloud mining. Clouds offer prospective miners the ability to purchase mining rigs in a remote data centre location. There are many obvious advantages, the most obvious being: no electricity costs, no excess heat, and nothing to sell when you decide to hang up your virtual pickaxe.
Once miners receive bitcoin, they are given a digital key to the bitcoin addresses. You can use this digital key to access and validate or approve transactions.
You can keep these digital keys safe with a number of wallet options:--
Desktop wallets. Software like Bitcoin Core allows you to send and store bitcoin addresses and also connects to the network to track transactions.
Online wallets. Bitcoin keys are stored online by exchange platforms like Coinbase or Circle and can be accessed from anywhere.
Mobile wallets. Apps like Blockchain store and encrypt your bitcoin keys so that you can make payments using your mobile device.
Paper wallets. Some websites offer paper wallet services, generating a piece of paper with two QR codes on it. One code is the public address at which you receive bitcoin and the other is your private address you can use for spending.
Hardware wallets. You can use a USB device created specifically to store bitcoin electronically and your private address keys.
Making money mining bitcoin is much more difficult today. Some of the issues contributing to this difficulty include:
Hardware prices--. The days of mining using a standard CPU or graphic card are gone. As more people have begun mining, the difficulty of solving the puzzles has too increased. ASIC microchips were developed to process the computations faster and have become necessary to succeed at mining today. These chips can cost $3,000 or more and are guaranteed to further increase in cost with each improvement and update.
Rise in corporate miners. Hobby miners must now compete with for-profits — and their bigger, better machines — when mining to make a buck.
Puzzle difficulty. Bitcoin’s protocol adjusts the computational difficulty of the puzzles to finish a block every 2,016 blocks. The more computational power put toward mining, the more difficult the puzzle.
Power costs. Power in the United States is more expensive than it is in other parts of the world, making it further difficult to compete with big-miner money.
So, will the small reward you earn from bitcoin mining be enough to offset the cost of power consumed?
If you’re using CPU/GPU/FPGA to mine, the answer is a definite no. As of November 2017, the BTC reward is so small that it doesn’t pay for the energy your computer will consume to verify a block.
This leaves us with Pools, ASICs and Cloud Mining. If you’re not willing to invest heavily in mining, your best bet could be to get a cloud mining rig. These are relatively low cost, and require no hardware knowledge to get started, no extra electricity bills, and you won’t end up with a machine you can’t sell when bitcoin mining is no longer profitable.
The rising costs of mining effectively and competing against large mining pools have made it harder for the hobbyist to profit on mining bitcoin.
It’s virtually impossible to mine enough bitcoin to recoup your initial investment in equipment and electricity.
APUN BHI MINER IS JUST A PIPE DREAM
INDIRA GANDHI GAVE UP HER LIFE BY NATIONALIZING ROTHSCHILDs PRIVATE BANKS IN INDIA
KHALISTANIS WERE USED LIKE A CURRY LEAF TO MURDER INDIRA GANDHI
WHAT DO WE SEE NOW ?
MODI AND ARUN JAITLEY ARE GIVING OUR INDIAN BANKS BACK TO JEW ROTHSCHILD
I HAD AN ACCOUNT IN STATE BANK OF TRAVANCORE. THE BANK WAS EFFICIENT
NOW IT IS CALLED STATE BANK OF INDIA. MODI AND ARUN JAITLEY HAVE DECIDED TO MERGE INDIAN BANKS INTO A BEHEMOTH
AND THEN THEY WANT TO HAND OVER THIS BEHEMOTH BACK TO ROTHSCHILD-- USING A MINDLESS EXCUSE OF "APUN BHI BLOCKCHAIN-ULU "
BLOCKCHAIN IS MEANT TO DECENTRALISE.
BUT WHAT IS MODI / JAITLEY ACTUALLY DOING ?
THEY ARE HANDING OVER INDIAN BANKING HOOK LINE AND SINKER TO INTEL -- ROTHSCHILDs AGENCY
CENTRALISATION IS DECENTRALISATION ?
WAR IS PEACE ?
BLACK IS WHITE ?
SUNRISE IS SUNSET ?
KOSHER INTELs "PROOF OF ELAPSED TIME " IS UNTESTED AND UNTRIED TECHNOLOGY. WHY ARE WE DIVING OFF THE DEEP END ? WHAT IS THE AGENDA ?
WE WATCH !!
MODI SAID YESTERDAY ON LIVE TV--I ONLY SOLD TEA, CONGRESS SOLD INDIA
OH YEAH ?
SOME KOSHER DARLINGS WILL GO TO JAIL SOON
PUT THIS COMMENT IN THE WEBSITES OF PMO, PM MODI, ARUN JAITLEY, RAJNISH KUMAR ( SBI CHAIRMAN ), LAW MINISTER, CJI, SUPREME COURT BAR COUNCIL, YOGI ADITYANATH, SWAMY, GURUMURTHY, EDUCATION MINISTER, SUSHMA SWARAJ, SMRITI IRANI , HOME MINISTER, DEFENCE MINISTER, COMMERCE MINISTER AND WEBSITES OF DESH BHAKTS
WE ASK THE GOVT OF INDIA
ASK ALL INDIANS WHO HOLD BITCOINS TO DECLARE IT WITH AADHAR NUMBER
ALL NRIs WITH INDIAN PASSPORT MUST DECLARE BITCOIN WITH PASSPORT NUMBER
India’s first bitcoin exchange Zebpay says there are more than 1.5 million bitcoin users in India and 200,000 users are being added each month. Most of these users buy bitcoins for bribery, tax avoidance and laundering money
CRIMINALS ARE ASKING FOR RANSOM IN BITCOINS
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/cyber-attack-malware-hits-jawaharlal-nehru-port-operations-in-mumbai/story-xGtbHwvZI4bX5RgJCUBN3L.html
Bitcoin has found a small but growing Indian fanbase following demonetization--and BIG FISH criminal politicians are involved
Just one Indian Bitcoin exchange app had been downloaded more than 500,000 times.
The currency’s supporters are circulating an online petition addressed to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, asking him to make Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies legal. (It has gathered more than 16,000 signatures.)
WE KNOW WHY BENAMI MEDIA IS SUPPORTING BITCOIN IN INDIA
As bitcoin exchanges are not currently required to report the trading activities of their users the government cannot know what you may have earned or lost in trading bitcoin, though as a law abiding citizen, you are supposed to report it on your tax return.
Cash can be found easily. And if you bring it to the bank you are still in the government checking circle. If you get paid in Bitcoin, there’s no bank around, and the government doesn’t know anything.
WHY IS ARUN JAITLEY AND MODI ENCOURAGING A PARALELL ECONOMY.. ARE THEY WORKING FOR BHARATMATA OR SOME JEW ?
MODI/ JAITLEY ARE AFTER SHELL COMPANIES--BUT YOU IGNORE BITCOIN , WHY ?
put this comment in websites of
SCI CHAIRMMAN
https://www.deepdotweb.com/2017/11/07/bitcoin-money-laundering-lands-six-court/
Back in 2008 – 2009 the USA economy took a gigantic hit and it collapsed the stock market. This was a DELIBERATE move to induct BITCOIN and MINING for BLOCKCHAIN
The miners originally started as CPUs (processors) on computers, computing transactions and validating every transaction that was ever made with the previous ones. Eventually we realized that CPUs can only do linear computation but GPUs (graphic cards) can do much more complex computations and compare and contrast abstract numbers which speeds up the mining process.
The transactions held in one block can be quickly validated with the previous blocks and transactions can be processed much faster which makes sending money from point A to point B much faster than any current ACH method used by banks.
Later on we developed ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuits) miners which were made to ONLY work on the bitcoin blockchain network. These miners are manufactured to specifically work in computing the mathematics of the bitcoin blockchain architecture. These miners are able to process transactions even faster than GPUs.
Hashing through these blocks takes a tremendous amount of computational power. It would take a single computer a very long time to hash through one block which is why pools were created.
A pool is a group of miners working together to hash out one block, by working together they can work through the blocks much faster and if a block with a reward is found then the reward is distributed evenly according to how much work was performed by each miner.
The bitcoin blockchain protocol was created to only allow the creation of 21 million bitcoins. The block reward folds in half every 210,000 blocks or roughly every 4 years
Bitcoin is a pan-global means of exchange. Transfers are made via computer immediately with low transaction fees. Bitcoin does not flow through the traditional banking system; rather it flows from one computer wallet to another. Bitcoin cannot be held or kept in a pocket or wallet like currency; it is purely a computer-based means of exchange.
Ethereum can ONLY be mined with the memory of GPU’s (Graphic Cards). The powerful ASIC miners that were developed for bitcoin mining cannot be used to taint this new platform, as the protocol and computation is completely different than what the Bitcoin ASIC miners were designed to compute.
The FCC is now planning to abolish something we refer to as Net Neutrality which is essentially the notion that any website or service on the Internet should receive the same amount of bandwidth; nothing gets a fast lane and everything is treated equally.
This allows the 10 year old to create a website and become as successful as the billionaire sitting in New York.
If Net Neutrality is abolished we will live in a world where we will have “Internet Fast lanes” or “Internet Service Packages”
How would you like to pay $50 to have an Internet connection, in addition to that you have to pay $15 extra to have access to the “Social Media Package” which might include twitter, facebook, google +, Tumblr, and Instagram.
$15 extra to have access to the “Voip Package” which includes Skype, Google hangouts, Discord, What’s App.
$15 extra for the “Gamer Package” which might include access to Steam, Origin, Microsoft Games, PSN, Xbox live.
$20 extra for the “Video Streaming Package” which might include Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Video, Youtube and Twitch. In addition to all of this you have a 500 GB or less data cap. I don’t know about you, but this seems like a completely stupid idea.
This gives immediate privilege to the companies that are already established and make it impossible for new startups to create a better service to compete. Youtube was once an obscure website which not many people knew about, fast forward to today and you can see now it’s mainstream, but it could have never been elevated to this level if we had these net neutrality restricting rules in place.
The Internet is meant to be a convoluted place, it’s the last place where we can still exercise freedom of speech. Passing these new laws will silence the little guys while giving more power to the already powerful.
http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2015/04/we-will-not-allow-net-neutrality-to-be.html
We ask TRAI to POLICE NET NEUTRALITY in India , with severe fines and jail on second offence. In India only jail works
We ask TRAI ( Telecom Regulatory Authority of India ) to reward whistle blowers and form a committee consisting of representatives of ISPs, content providers, and consumer groups to police net neutrality violations across the country.
TRAI previously prevented Facebook from pushing Free Basics, a zero-rated service that granted access to select sites and services on its platform for free, while operating as a gatekeeper that could decide which sites would be allowed in.
Internet.io is a partnership between social networking services company Facebook and six companies (Samsung, Ericsson, MediaTek, Opera Software, Nokia and Qualcomm) that plans to bring affordable access to selected Internet services to less developed countries by increasing efficiency, and facilitating the development of new business models around the provision of Internet access.
The app delivering these services was renamed Free Basics in September 2015. As of November 2016 40 million people are using internet.org.
It has been criticized for violating net neutrality, and by handpicking internet services that are included, for discriminating against companies not in the list, including Facebook's rivals.
With Free Basics, Facebook said it wanted to bring more unconnected users online.
At a town hall held at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi last December, Zuckerberg said Free Basics had already brought 15 million users online, of which a million came from India. And that's not all — he claimed half of people who came to Free Basics opted to pay to access the whole Internet.
In February 2016, regulators banned the Free Basics service in India based on "Prohibition of Discriminatory Tariffs for Data Services Regulations". The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) accused Facebook of failing to pass on the four questions in the regulator's consultation paper and also blocking access to TRAI's designated email for feedback on Free Basics.
On February 11, 2016 Facebook withdrew the Free Basics platform from India.
Facebook's carrier partners were using Free Basics to retain customers by helping them access Facebook for free, while subscribers on other networks had to pay for it. No wonder carriers were willing to foot the cost of serving Free Basics.
Free Basics is a Facebook-developed mobile app that gives users access to a small selection of data-light websites and services. The websites are stripped of photos and videos and can be browsed without paying for mobile data.
The promotion of certain sites and services through zero-rating the data also infringes on net neutrality, the idea that internet service providers (ISPs) should treat everyone’s data equally to prevent a tiered system, in which some content providers have an unfair advantage.
Rather than giving unlimited access to a restricted Internet, Facebook could have served India better by giving limited, free access to the entire Internet.
Free Basics offered the company another treasure trove of data: all user activities within the app are channeled through Facebook’s servers. This means Facebook can tell which third-party sites users are looking at, when and for how long.
Free Basics, Facebook’s free, limited internet service for developing markets, was neither serving local needs nor achieving its objective of bringing people online for the first time.
Facebook's Free Basics was treating India as the third world. Facebook is now skating on VERY THIN ICE –we do not allow CULTURAL TERRORISM in India by JEWS anymore
BE SURE—WE THE PEOPLE ARE WATCHING ARUN JAITLEY AND HIS KOSHER TANGO WITH INTEL OVER BLOCKCHAIN FOR STATE BANK OF INDIA -- CENTRALISATION IN THE GARB OF DECENTRALISATION
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government created by statute to regulate interstate communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the media, public safety and homeland security, and modernizing itself.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai ( BASTARD –FORMER VRION LAWYER ) on Nov. 21, 2017 proposed killing the FCC’s 2015 net neutrality rules and allowing broadband providers such as AT&T Inc. and Comcast Corp. to block websites or charge more for faster speeds on their networks, as long as the companies disclose their practices
Net Neutrality is the internet’s guiding principle: It preserves our right to communicate freely online.
Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers must treat all data on the Internet the same, and not discriminate or charge differently by user, content, website, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or method of communication. For instance, under these principles, internet service providers are unable to intentionally block, slow down or charge money for specific websites and online content.
Comcast is the largest home Internet provider in the US, with more than 23.5 million residential Internet subscribers.
A widely cited example of a violation of net neutrality principles was the Internet service provider Comcast's secret slowing ("throttling") of uploads from peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) applications by using forged packets. Comcast did not stop blocking these protocols, like BitTorrent, until the FCC ordered them to stop
With Republican Ajit Pai now in charge at the Federal Communications Commission, Comcast's stance has changed and they want to kick Net Neutrality
Comcast now vaguely says that it won't "discriminate against lawful content" or impose "anti-competitive paid prioritization." The change in wording suggests that Comcast may offer paid fast lanes to websites or other online services, such as video streaming providers, after Pai's FCC eliminates the net neutrality rules next month.
Net Neutrality is the basic principle that prohibits internet service providers like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon from speeding up, slowing down or blocking any content, applications or websites you want to use.
Net Neutrality is the way that the internet has always worked.
In 2015, millions of activists pressured the Federal Communications Commission to adopt historic Net Neutrality rules that keep the internet free and open — allowing you to share and access information of your choosing without interference.
But right now this win is in jeopardy: Trump’s FCC chairman, Ajit Pai, wants to destroy Net Neutrality. In May, the FCC voted to let Pai’s internet-killing plan move forward.
The FCC will vote on Pai’s proposal on Dec. 14. 2017
Net Neutrality means an internet that enables and protects free speech. We have the freedom to say that only FIVE million Jews were killed during WW2 – not SIX
Net Neutrality means that ISPs should provide us with open networks — and shouldn’t block or discriminate against any applications or content that ride over those networks. Just as your phone company shouldn’t decide who you call and what you say on that call, your ISP shouldn’t interfere with the content you view or post online.
Without Net Neutrality, cable and phone companies could carve the internet into fast and slow lanes. An ISP could slow down its competitors’ content or block political opinions it disagreed with. ISPs could charge extra fees to the few content companies that could afford to pay for preferential treatment — relegating everyone else to a slower tier of service. This would destroy the open internet.
The internet without Net Neutrality isn’t really the internet. Unlike the open internet that has paved the way for so much innovation and given a platform to people who have historically been shut out, it would become a closed-down network where cable and phone companies call the shots and decide which websites, content or applications succeed.
This would have an enormous impact. Companies like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon would be able to decide who is heard and who isn’t. They’d be able to block websites or content they don’t like or applications that compete with their own offerings.
THE BENAMI MAIN STREAM MEDIA SUPPORTS KICKING NET NEUTRALITY—BECAUSE SOCIAL MEDIA HAS RAPED MAIN STREAM MEDIA
Net Neutrality is crucial for small business owners, startups and entrepreneurs, who rely on the open internet to launch their businesses, create markets, advertise their products and services, and reach customers. We need the open internet to foster job growth, competition and innovation.
Net Neutrality lowers the barriers of entry by preserving the internet’s fair and level playing field. It’s because of Net Neutrality that small businesses and entrepreneurs have been able to thrive online.
No company should be allowed to interfere with this open marketplace. ISPs are the internet’s gatekeepers, and without Net Neutrality, they would seize every possible opportunity to profit from that gatekeeper position.
DONALD TRUMP MUST KNOW THAT JEW ROTHSCHILD IS USING AJIT PAI TO SCREW HIM
TRUMP –DO YOU HAVE BRAINS ?
OR HAVE YOU FLUSHED IT DOWN THE TOILET ?
SNOPES IS BEING USED TO CENSOR TRUTHS
The big players in the GMO and agrochemical industry – Monsanto, Bayer, Dow, Syngenta, DuPont – are engaging in an extensive public relations, advertising, lobbying and political campaigning to make sure that genetically engineered crops (GMOs), and the chemical pesticides they require, continue to proliferate in the U.S.
To improve their public image, they are attempting to manipulate everything we see and hear about GMO crops and pesticides in the media and on TV, the internet and print articles – using propaganda-laden commercials, “mommy-blogger” articles, farmer endorsements, hired operatives to change Wikipedia, and front group websites.
The GM biotech industry and EVIL pharma is feeling threatened, and their profits hang in the balance.
They are trying to silence the truth!
A lot of people trust the website Snopes.com and use it to fact-check things they hear on the internet.
For no reason whatsoever, this CHOOTIYA mom-and-pop website has been put on a pedestal as if they are the be-all and end-all of truth on the internet.
Facebook recently teamed up with Snopes, allowing them become an arbitrator of fake news circulating on their network, essentially elevating them as an authoritative source of information
If SNOPES does not agree it is fake news -- extreme censorship
Snopes is now 50% owned by an ad agency (Proper Media) and they make money by generating millions of views on the 3rd-party advertisements on their website. It simply makes sense for them to seek out articles that are viral to “debunk”, so that they can piggy-back on that traffic and generate more advertising revenue.
Now GOOGLE is using Snopes --whose kosher SHIT DOES NOT SMELL
Snopes was founded by a husband and wife team who are now in the middle of a contentious divorce in which founder David Mikkelsen has been accused of embezzling $98,000 of company money to spend on “himself and prostitutes”.
Snopes doesn’t have a formal screening process for hiring fact checkers and for evaluating applicants for any potential conflicts of interest. Without such standards, it is very easy for them to be infiltrated by those who work with the industry and who have a hidden agenda.
Monsanto has used SNOPES to smell of roses
KOSHER Monsanto has a long and sordid history of infiltrating the government and regulatory agencies such as the FDA and EPA.
Remember: Snopes makes all of their money from advertising !!!
SNOPES SUPPORTED HILLARY CLINTON WHOLESALE
WHEN I POSTED MY 11 PART SERIES ON DONALD TRUMP--GOOGLE USED ALGORITHMS AND BURIES MY POSTS . BEING THE NO 1 ON SOCIAL MEDIA--BY MILES-- MY POSTS SHOULD HAVE COME ON PAGE 1
Snopes has its own political affiliations
Google made the partnership announcement when Snopes was on the brink of collapse after being accused of lies, fraud and using company expenses on prostitutes and honeymoons.
BITCOIN HISTORY:--
May 2010 $0.01
July 2010 $0.08
April 2011 $1.00
Dec 2011 $2.00
Dec 2012 $13.00
June 2013 $100
Nov 2013 $350
Mar 2014 $450
Sept 2016 $600
January 2017 $800
April 2017 $1,210
May 2017 $2,000
August 2017 $4,400
September 2017 $5,000
13 October 2017 $5,600
6 November 2017 $7,300
25 November 2017 $9,000 .
28 November 2017 $10,000
WE SHALL FIND OUT WHY TETHERS ( UNBACKED ) ARE ISSUED WHENEVER BITCOIN FALLS
Declare that all Indians ( with AADHAR / PAN ) and NRI ( PASSPORT ) must declare their Bitcoin transactions over the past year ( above a limit of 10,000 USD)
Compare this with digital exchanges .
Warn of jail if LIES are declared ( fines don’t work )
KASHMIRI TERRORISM AND PUNJAB KHALISTANI CHINESE DRUG MAFIA ARE NOW FUNDED BY BITCOINS
Coinbase, has exchanged over $50 billion since its launch in 2012
https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/29/16717416/us-coinbase-irs-records
We ask , why is India silent on regulatory framework for bitcoin. Hullo KOSHER darlings !
Why is our ELECTED EXECUTIVE like Alice in Wonderland when it comes to legality of Bitcoin in India?
India remains as the largest remittance market in the world, with more than $71 billion in annual payments received by Indian employees or expat workers. The expats are now aping expat Filipinos
INDIA MUST NOT TREAT PHILLIPINES AS A ROLE MODEL.
INDIA MUST NOT JUMP INTO BLOCKCHAIN-ULU ( OR IS IT UDU ) WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING THE BITCOIN SYSTEM
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-markets-bitcoin/bitcoin-loses-over-a-fifth-of-its-value-in-less-than-24-hours-idUSKBN1DU1Z3?ref=hvper.com
WE KNOW WHY MODI, ARUN JAITLEY , AND SBI CHAIRMAN IS SILENT ON BITCOIN
WE INDIANS ARE NOT FOOLS
http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.com/2017/11/blockchain-proof-of-elapsed-time-intel.html
PU THIS COMMENT IN THE WEBSITES OF PMO, PM MODI, ARUN JAITLEY, RBI GOVERNOR, SBI CHAIRMAN, CJI, LAW MINISTER , SUPERME COURT BAR COUNCIL, SWAMY, GURUMURTHY, I&B MINISTERY, EDUCATION MINISTER, YOGI ADITYANATH
http://trak.in/tags/business/2017/11/30/infosys-launches-blockchain-banking-solutions/
NR NARAYANA MURTHY DID NOT WANT TO EMBARASS HIS WHITE SKINNED GUESTS BY PLAYING INDIAs NATIONAL ANTHEM
NR NARAYANA MURTHY SOLD ANCIENT INDIAN GLORY AND SANATANA DHARMA TO A HINDU HATING FELLOW NAMED SHELDON POLLOCK
NR NARAYANA MURTHYs SON IN LAW HAS PLANS OF BEING BRITAINs PRIME MINISTER
MODI/ JAITLEY --WE ARE NOT STUPID
PUT ABOVE IN THE WEBSITES OF--
AND WEBSITES OF DESHBHAKTS
Capt. Ajit Vadakayil December 1, 2017 at 8:11 AM
BLOCKCHAIN-ULU ( OR IS IT UDU ? ) SEEKERS ARUN JAITLEY AND SBI CHAIRMAN HAS JUMPED FROM INTEL ( PROOF OF ELAPSED TIME ) BOAT TO INFOSYS BOAT ?
WHERE IS THE WHITE PAPER OF INFOSYS ?
IN USA INFOSYS ATTRACTS ONLY BOTTOM DREGS TALENT.
THEY PAY HIGH SALARIES TO CEO/CTO-- BUT VERY POOR SALARIES TO THE EMPLOYEES
INFOSYS SALARY IN USA CANT EVEN PAY THE FLAT RENT ON MY ELDER SON .
BUT HEY
WHAT ABOUT THE TIER ONE COMPANIES LIKE GOOGLE/ FACEBOOK/MICROSOFT / GOLDMAN SACS/ BLOOMBERG ETC ?
THE EMPLOYEES ARE ALL HAND TO MOUTH THERE --IN USA INCOME TAXES ARE HIGH--MEDICARE IS HIGH
SORRY-- WE KNOW
EVERY NOW AND THEN BENAMI MEDIA GIVES THE PERKS OF THESE TIER ONE COMPANIES
BALLS TO THESE CHOOTIYA PERKS.
NONE OF THESE COMPANIES GIVE BREAKFAST / LUNCH / DINNER
IN MY ELDER SONs COMPANY --ALL THREE ARE FREE -- CATERED FROM 5 STAR HOTEL-- LAVISH CLASSY SPREAD --NO ITEM IS REPEATED FOR A MONTH-- IF YOU BRING YOUR FAMILY TO OFFICE FOR A VISIT, FOOD IS FREE
THROUGHOUT THE DAY --SNACKS AND BEVERAGES ARE FREE -- THIS INCLUDES FANCY DRINKS LIKE RED BULL ETC/ CHOCOLATES / FANCY FAST FOOD
MEDICARE IS FREE -- LAUNDRY IS FREE-- GYM IS FREE - PETS IN OFFICE --TRANSPORT INCENTIVES ETC ETC
UNLIMITED SICK LEAVE!!!! ( NO NEED FOR ADVANCE NOTICE ) -- UNLIMITED WORK AT HOME
SO SO SO-- THE WEST THINKS INDIANS ARE BEGGARS ?
THE PLACE I STAY HAS HUNDREDS OF IT COMPUTER SCIENCE EMPLOYEES-- THERE ARE 3 LARGE SWIMMING POOLS AND A HEATED INDOOR POOL, JACUZI / 2 GYMS, TENNIS / OUTDOOR AMPHITHEATRE / BASKET BALL/ TT SHEETTEE/ LARGE LIBRARY / HOSPITAL/ VEG- GROCERY STORES/ -- CHEAP LABOUR /COOKS -- THE WORKS
I KNOW WHAT IS AVAILABLE IN THE BEST FLATS / CONDOMINIUMS IN USA
BALLS TO ALL THIS "LAND OF MILK AND HONEY " STORIES OF USA
TAXI DRIVERS ( AVOID TAX ) IN USA LIVE MORE COMFORTABLY THAN THE EMPLOYEES OF THE INDIAN IT MAJORS IN USA
SO WHAT BLOCKCHAIN-ULU ( OR IS IT UDU ) ARE YOU GETTING FROM INFOSYS ?
WE AWAIT THEIR WHITE PAPER FOR BLOCKCHAIN
Below: In between Indian banks ( not knowing if they are coming or going ) have been pussyfooting with PROOF OF CONCEPT of MonetaGo.
People have been advocating blockchain-ULU ( or is it UDU ? ) as a magic wand to solve many global problems (like securing nuclear weapons and managing the power grid);
Hey, how about making FRY EGGE ?
The only reason a blockchain not rewarding miners could survive is if they had a centralized mining system fueling the blockchain.
Blockchain is best known as the technology behind the virtual currency Bitcoin. The two were almost synonymous at one time. That, however, started to change when central banks around the world voiced their reservations about virtual currencies.
For those working with the blockchain technology, this meant that blockchain had to be separated from bitcoin if central banks and commercial banks were to be persuaded to look at it seriously.
WE HAVE THE CMs OF TELUGULAND JUMPING UP AND DOWN LIKE ORANGUTANS—APUN BHI BLOCKCHAIN-ULU ( OR IS IT UDU ?)
Proof of Concept (PoC), in explicit terms, refers to providing a proof that your concept will work. However, its inference differs across the industries. In software development industry, it means verifying the technical viability of a product.
PoC is a demonstration, the purpose of which is to verify that certain concepts or theories have the potential for real-world application. POC is therefore a prototype that is designed to determine feasibility, but does not represent deliverables.
A proof of concept is usually small and may or may not be complete.
PoC is a demonstration with the aim of verifying that the idea has practical potential. It can be a proof of one technology talking to another or an aim to determine the solution to some technical problem or to demonstrate that a given configuration can achieve a certain output.
Blindly doing something because a potential client has asked us to do might put us in a tight spot during the actual project execution if the idea itself does not resonate with any practical purpose towards a solution.
Jesse Chenard, chief executive officer of MonetaGo, declared in a grandiose manner “The idea is to get Indian banks to adopt blockchain by integrating it in their existing processes such as payments, remittances and trade-finance settlement. One example of this is the setting up of a State Bank of India led consortium which is looking for ways to use blockchain technology to prevent frauds in the system by sharing a negative list of defaulters among participant banks . We showed ‘proof of concept’ for trade finance and trans-information payment systems during the IDRBT trial . One strong use case of blockchain is integrating it with payment and remittance systems. India has a number of well established payment networks like Immediate Payment Settlement System (IMPS) and Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) . These systems can be made more secure and efficient through the use of blockchain technology. We don’t need to provide a new payment system. We need to integrate with it. We need to ensure that settlement agents are represented on the blockchain and have authority over any application that touches the payment. But the settlement still happens at the bank and the report comes from the National Payments Council of India.To bring a blockchain implementation to fruition, CIOs will need to tee up a proof of concept and a field test before going to full production”
BLAH BLAH FUCKIN’ BLAH ! ”.
PIECE OF FUCKIN’ CAKE , RIGHT ?
Most of the time in these PoC projects was spent developing code and building capabilities that surrounded the blockchain, often referred to as “scaffolding.”
In broad terms, blockchain is a data store. More specifically, a blockchain is a cryptographically authenticated, shared, distributed ledger.
Technically, blockchain refers to the original bitcoin implementation and other implementations are shared ledgers using a chain of blocks with various types of cryptographic authentication, distribution, and block architectures and capabilities. For clarity, however, the industry refers to all of these offerings as blockchains.
Building blockchain PoCs can be a time consuming and costly endeavor. Are we Indian taxpayers gonna pay for a halfbaked idea ?
Microsoft announced a framework for accelerating enterprise-ready proof of concept (PoC) blockchain deployments in their Azure cloud platform
Microsoft is taking steps to reduce both the lead time and costs associated with blockchain PoCs. Microsoft identified that most of the time in these PoC projects was spent developing code and building capabilities that surrounded the blockchain, often referred to as “scaffolding.” That scaffolding typically required building a responsive web client, writing and deploying a gateway API, implementing support for off-chain storage in technologies such as SQL DB, building out reporting and analytics, and integrating identity and key vault services into the solution. The blockchain PoC framework will provide customers with the ability to publish underlying code and Azure services using Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates. ARM templates are JSON files that consist of expressions and parameters which drive the provisioning of a service in Azure. Within the blockchain PoC framework, customers can quickly provision: a gateway API, a responsive web application, Azure Active Directory integration, Azure Key Vault integration and SQL DB. In this scenario, the SQL DB can be configured to collect on-chain data. In order to provide the right level of attestation, Microsoft will also provide Hashing and Signing services. Since the blockchain data is being replicated into an off-chain store, Microsoft allows organizations to leverage their existing skillsets to enable additional capabilities using Power BI, chat bots, machine learning, R and Azure Data Factory. Underpinning this framework is Microsoft’s high-scale publish/subscribe ingestion engine called Azure Event Hubs. Using Azure Event Hubs, customers can also wire-in additional Azure services like Azure Stream Analytics and Azure Data Lakes. Microsoft is also trying to make the experience of building web applications on top of the blockchain simpler.
Swift has launched a proof of concept (PoC) to EXPLORE whether blockchain/distributed ledger technology (DLT) can be used by banks to improve the reconciliation of their nostro databases in real time
ARE WE FACING SOME IMMINENT CRISIS –THAT WE HAVE TO DIVE OFF THE DEEP END – OR INDIA WILL DISINTEGRATE ?
The Institute for Development & Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT) is a unique institution exclusively focused on Banking Technology. Established by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in 1996, the Institution works at the intersection of Banking and Technology. It is located in Hyderabad, TELUGULAND India
I COULD PUT AN EXAM PAPER ON BASICS OF BLOCKCHAIN ON THE IDRBT THINK TANK — THEY ALL WILL FAIL MISERABLY
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/money-and-banking/rbi-arm-to-launch-model-platform-for-blockchain-technology-soon/article9840772.ece
INDIANS HAVE BEEN USED AS GUINEA PIGS BY THE WHITE MAN FOR EVERY THING – WHEN WILL WE EVER LEARN ? DID WE NOT LEARN ANYTHING FROM WHITE REVOLUTION, GREEN REVOLUTION ETC ?
ARE WE MISSING THE BUS?
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Proof-of-Stake (PoS), pays interests to stake holders and centralizes control in proportion to stake (coin ownership), which is an unevenly distributed, finite resource. As a result, numerous vulnerabilites impair the security of PoS coins.
Attacking the currency is a one-time cost of stake that sustains forever, whereas for PoW the attacker must continue to expend resources on mining to maintain an attack.
A consensus protocol is said to be objective if a new node joining the network can independently arrive to the same state as the rest of the network based solely on protocol rules (e.g., a definition of the genesis block) and messages propagated across the system (e.g., a set of all blocks).
PoW consensus as used in Bitcoin is an example of an objective protocol; as long as a new node is connected to at least one “honest” user, it will always regard the blockchain with the highest computational difficulty as the valid chain. Forks pose no threat to newcomers.
Classical PoS, on the other hand, lacks this crucial property. Anyone who can build a fork longer than the actual chain will confuse new nodes which are not able recognize the canocial chain as such. It appears that PoS history has no verifiable longest chain.
While long range forks can be rejected by existing users of the system who keep track of the chain’s history (e.g. by limiting the length of possible forks), newcomers must rely on additional information about the recent state of the blockchain.
Such a consensus protocol is called “weakly subjective” since joining users need to have access to the current block from a trusted, reliable source. This compromises the blockchain’s trustlessness.
Blockchain systems, especially private blockchains don't necessarily have MINING requirement, instead operating like cloud network computers, where the distributed computing nodes are trusted and controlled
In any public blockchain *anyone* an add blocks to the blockchain. However, the transactions within that block will only become active if the rest of the network accepts this new block. ‘Accepting’ means that it comply to the rules of that particular cryptocurrency.
For instance, you solved a particular puzzle (Proof of Work), or via an algorithm dependable on the wealth (Proof of Stake), or in another algorithmic way, for instance ‘Algorand’ .
Bitcoin is the most ambitious kind of blockchain. Anyone can use bitcoin’s cryptographic keys, anyone can be a node and join the network, and anyone can become a miner to service the network and seek a reward. Miners can walk away from being a node, return if and when they feel like it, and get a full account of all network activity since they left.
Basically, anyone can read the chain, anyone can make legitimate changes and anyone can write a new block into the chain (as long as they follow the rules). Bitcoin is totally decentralized. It is also described as a 'censor-proof' blockchain.
For these reasons, it’s known by its widest description, a public blockchain. But, this is not the only way to build a blockchain.
Blockchains can be built that require permission to read the information on the blockchain, that limit the parties who can transact on the blockchain and that set who can serve the network by writing new blocks into the chain.
For example, Ripple runs a permissioned blockchain. The startup determines who may act as transaction validator on their network, and it has included CGI, MIT and Microsoft as transaction validators, while also building its own nodes in different locations around the world.
A blockchain developer may choose to make the system of record available for everyone to read, but they may not wish to allow anyone to be a node, serving the network’s security, transaction verification or mining. It’s a mix-and-match situation that is reflected in the various ways entrepreneurs are experimenting with the technology.
With permissioned blockchains, this may or may not involve 'proof of work' or some other system requirement from the nodes. There is some politics around this, as there are those who consider private blockchains that do not use any proof of work (that is, blockchains with no mining) to not be blockchains at all, but simply shared ledgers.
In a Public Blockchain, anyone can read and write the data stored on the Blockchain as it is accessible to everyone in the world. A person can become a member of the Blockchain network and can store, send and receive data after downloading the required software on his device.
A Public Blockchain is completely decentralised as the permissions to read and write data onto the Blockchain are shared equally by all the connected users, who come to a consensus before any data is stored on the database. A Public Blockchain is based on a completely trust-less system where no user is given special privileges on any decision.
The most common implementations of a Public Blockchain are Bitcoin and Ethereum where the public nature of Blockchain allows users from various backgrounds to come on a common platform for making transactions and eliminates the need for third party vendors by making transactions direct between users.
As it is decentralised, a Public Blockchain is also mathematically very hard to hack as the cost of hacking becomes too high for a system where every node connected is synced with the entire Blockchain database and more importantly, once a hack is discovered, the value of the hacked coins would diminish exponentially — thus incurring huge losses on the hacker (he had to invest a lot of hardware to overtake the network hashrate)
Since all transactions in a public Blockchain need to be verified by thousands of users, the transaction verification process can become very time consuming. The users pay a larger amount of transaction fee here as compared to the Private and Permissioned Blockchain.
In a Public Blockchain, here the permissions to write data onto the Blockchain are controlled by one organisation which is highly trusted by the other users. This organisation may/may not allow users to have access to read the data, as public readability might not be necessary in most cases.
In some situations, the organisation might want the public to audit the data. Limited/restricted read permissions also provide a greater level of privacy to the users, a feature not available in Public Blockchains.
The organisation in control has the power to change the rules of a Private Blockchain and may also decline transactions based on their established rules and regulations.
In a Private Blockchain, the transactions are quicker as they can be verified be a small number of devices. Thus, the users pay lesser amounts of transaction fees since the number of people verifying the transaction is fewer than in a Public Blockchain.
Also, the devices are very well connected and any faults can be fixed by human intervention, which can be easily approved by the users since the users trust the single organisation in control of the Blockchain.
A Permissioned Blockchain is a type of Private Blockchain and shares many features of the latter. A Permissioned Blockchain provides a hybrid between the ‘low-trust’ provided by Public Blockchains and the ‘single highly-trusted entity’ model of Private Blockchains.
Popularly called a Consortium Blockchain, it is one where instead of allowing any person with an internet connection to participate in the verification of the transaction process or allowing a single company to have full control, a few selected nodes are predetermined.
For example — imagine a consortium of 10 companies, each of which operates a device connected to the Blockchain network. If company ‘2’ only trades and shares its invoices with ‘3’, ‘4’ and ‘5’ there is no need for the other companies to be given the permissions to read the shared data.
Although some degree of decentralisation is maintained in their structure, the participants have the power to grant read/write permissions to other participants, leading to the ‘Partially Decentralised’ design of Permissioned Blockchains.
The transactions are quick to verify in a Permissioned Blockchain as there are a handful of verifiers, with the transaction fee miniscule thus increasing the overall efficiency of transactions. Like Private Blockchains, the Permissioned Blockchains maintain the privacy of a user’s data, without consolidating power with a single organisation.
The main concerns surrounding Public Blockchains are privacy and scalability. Both can be mitigated to some extent but are not completely solved at present.
Similarly, Private Blockchains have a single point of failure and bringing various organisations to use a common model remains a concern.
The terms public, permissioned, and private refer to who has the ability to be a user of, or run a node on, the Blockchain (a node is a computer that host the blockchain and validates transactions).
Each type of Blockchain places a different level of importance on anonymity, immutability, efficiency, and transparency.
On a public Blockchain anyone can be a user or run a node.
Generally speaking public Blockchains such as Bitcoin value anonymity, immutability, and transparency over efficiency. This means your identity can be safe as you purchase goods online .
Permissioned Blockchains are operated by known entities such as stakeholders of a given industry. They value immutability and efficiency over anonymity and transparency. The Financial industry would use such a Blockchain to reduce the time of international payments from days to seconds.
A permissioned blockchain restricts the actors who can contribute to the consensus of the system state. In a permissioned blockchain, only a restricted set of users have the rights to validate the block transactions. A permissioned blockchain may also restrict access to approved actors who can create smart contracts.
Permissionless blockchain is contrary to what you read above – Here anyone can join the network, participate in the process of block verification to create consensus and also create smart contracts. A good example of permissionless blockchain is the Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains, where any user can join the network and start mining.
In a permissionless world, you do not have to prove your identity to the ledger. As long as you are willing to commit processing power to be part of the network and extending the blockchain, you are allowed to play.
Any miner who is playing the game by the rule may be able to solve the hash puzzle and verify the block of transactions to win the mining reward (Higher the mining power, better the chances of winning the mining reward).
In the permissioned blockchain world, you need to be an approved actor in the system to participate in growing the chain as well as building consensus. Many of the blockchain consortiums that build private blockchains for financial institutions and other enterprises follow this model.
One other critical difference between these two is the underlying mining model – permissionless blockchains use Proof of Work(PoW) mining where hashing power is offered to build trust
As long as 51% of the nodes are honest players, network consensus is reached. (Read about 51% attack here). While Bitcoin uses PoW mining, Ethereum uses a Proof of Stake model (PoS) for reaching consensus.
Proof of stake mining asks users to prove ownership of a certain amount of currency (their “stake” in the currency). Instead of buying computers and electricity for mining in a PoW system, a PoS systems uses the capital to acquire the coins/tokens that allow you to validate transactions.
Permissioned blockchains do not have to use the computing power based mining to reach a consensus since all of the actors are known; They end up using consensus algorithms like RAFT or Paxos.
There are also other PBFT algorithms that can be used to reach consensus without PoW mining. Permissioned blockchains offer an access control mechanism so that peers are allowed or rejected based on a control value (an address, a certificate, etc.).
Private Blockchains are operated by one entity. These Blockchains value efficiency over anonymity, immutability and transparency. I wouldn’t say that they are useless, but their use cases are limited.
Private blockchains are private because of the genesis block they are using. Their blocks do not match with any other blockchains (you cannot link blocks from the main net to blocks of a private net with a different genesis blocks as the block header hashes won't match).
Note that any node can connect to a private blockchain if it knows a bootstrap node address to sync, the network id, and the genesis file. This node can perform any action on the private net; mine, make transactions, deploy contracts, etc.
The first primary difference between a properly conceived permissioned blockchain network and an unpermissioned blockchain network is whether the participants in the network have an ability to restrict who can participate in the consensus mechanism of the blockchain’s network.
When Bitcoin was released as open source code, blockchain was wrapped up together with it in the same solution. And since Bitcoin was the first application of blockchain, people often inadvertently used “Bitcoin” to mean blockchain. That’s how the misunderstanding started.
Bitcoin was launched with the intention to bypass government currency controls and simplify online transactions by getting rid of third-party payment processing intermediaries. Of course, accomplishing this required more than just the money itself. There had to be a secure way to make transactions with the cryptocurrency.
Bitcoin transactions are stored and transferred using a distributed ledger on a peer-to-peer network that is open, public and anonymous. Blockchain is the underpinning technology that maintains the Bitcoin transaction ledger
The Bitcoin blockchain in its simplest form is a database or ledger comprised of Bitcoin transaction records. However, because this database is distributed across a peer-to-peer network and is without a central authority, network participants must agree on the validity of transactions before they can be recorded. This agreement, which is known as “consensus,” is achieved through a process called “mining.”
After someone uses Bitcoins, miners engage in complex, resource-intense computational equations to verify the legitimacy of the transaction. Through mining, a “proof of work” that meets certain requirements is created. The proof of work is a piece of data that is costly and time-consuming to produce but can easily be verified by others.
To be considered a valid transaction on the blockchain, an individual record must have a proof of work to show that consensus was achieved. By this design, transaction records cannot be tampered with or changed after they have been added to the blockchain.
The blockchain that supports Bitcoin was developed specifically for the cryptocurrency. That’s one of the reasons it took a while for people to realize the technology could be adapted for use in other areas.
The technology also had to be modified quite a bit to meet the rigorous standards that businesses require. There are three main characteristics that separate the Bitcoin blockchain from a blockchain designed for business.
Bitcoin thrives due to anonymity. Anyone can look at the Bitcoin ledger and see every transaction that happened, but the account information is a meaningless sequence of numbers.
On the other hand, businesses have KYC (know your customer) and AML (anti-money laundering) compliance requirements that require them to know exactly who they are dealing with. Participants in business networks require the polar opposite of anonymity: privacy.
For example, in an asset custody system like the one being developed by Postal Savings Bank of China, multiple parties, including financial institutions, clients, asset custodians, asset managers, investment advisors and auditors are involved. They need to know who they are dealing with but one client or advisor doesn’t necessarily need to be able to see all transactions that have ever occurred (especially when those transactions relate to different clients).
Consensus in a blockchain for business is not achieved through mining but through a process called “selective endorsement.” It is about being able to control exactly who verifies transactions, much in the same way that business happens today. If I transfer money to a third party, then my bank, the recipient’s bank and possibly a payments provider would verify the transaction. This is different from Bitcoin, where the whole network has to work to verify transactions.
The benefits of blockchain for business are numerous, including reduced time (for finding information, settling disputes and verifying transactions), decreased costs (for overhead and intermediaries) and alleviated risk (of collusion, tampering and fraud).
Permissionless blockchain is contrary to what you read above - Here anyone can join the network, participate in the process of block verification to create consensus and also create smart contracts. A good example of permissionless blockchain is the Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains, where any user can join the network and start mining.
One other critical difference between these two is the underlying mining model - Permissionless blockchains use Proof of Work(PoW) mining where hashing power is offered to build trust. As long as 51% of the nodes are honest players, network consensus is reached.
Permissioned blockchains do not have to use the computing power based mining to reach a consensus since all of the actors are known; Hence they take the Proof of stake approach where the speed of settling transactions are faster compared to PoW model.
Proof of stake mining asks users to prove ownership of a certain amount of currency (their "stake" in the currency). Instead of buying computers and electricity for mining in a PoW system, a PoS systems uses the capital to acquire the coins/tokens that allow you to validate transactions.
Sawtooth supports both permissioned and permissionless deployments. It includes a consensus algorithm, Proof of Elapsed Time (PoET). PoET targets large distributed validator populations with minimal resource consumption. Transaction business logic is decoupled from the consensus layer into Transaction Families that allow for restricted or unfettered semantics.
Permissioned platforms have semi-trusted members where only known participating nodes that are part of a consortium, are verified and registered. These groups are expected to be small in number and therefore can employ alternative consensus mechanisms.
Achieving consensus in a distributed system has known solutions in the research literature, e.g. Paxos, RAFT, and various Byzantine Fault Tolerance algorithms. Permissioned blockchain platforms have largely adopted these consensus algorithms.
As blockchain platforms are being challenged to meet rigorous real-world application requirements, such as low latencies, immediate transaction finality, high performance and good scalability, limitations of existing consensus models are being recognized.
On one hand, while PoW models support open-ended participation, they are a poor match for applications that need immediate transaction finality and have high transaction rates
The consensus mechanism maintains the sanctity of the data recorded on the blockchain. The blockchain system will safeguard the transaction and block order thereby safeguarding all the key properties of blockchain, such as immutability and auditability only when the underlying assumptions are correct and the consensus model can uphold the state of the blockchain under failure and adversarial conditions.
Poor choice of a consensus mechanism can render the blockchain platform useless thereby compromising the data recorded on the blockchain. Below are some of the issues that can result when the consensus mechanism fails.
Blockchain Fork – A blockchain fork can result in different nodes in the system converging on different blocks as being part of the blockchain. In Bitcoin, though temporary forks may exist due to network latencies, the protocol is designed such that all nodes will eventually converge on a single chain. A blockchain fork can wreak havoc on applications leading to completely inconsistent view of data recorded on the blockchain thereby forcing applications to behave in an unpredictable manner. The Stellar network, which originally forked code from Ripple, experienced a fork in the Stellar blockchain due to a misconfiguration .
Consensus Failure – Certain consensus algorithms may not guarantee the ability to reach consensus. For e.g. if the consensus algorithm requires a super-majority vote from a certain percentage of nodes, failing to reach this number because of node or network failures, non-compliant nodes or as a result of valid honest nodes not being able to make a decision due to inconsistent messages received from other nodes, may result in consensus failure.
Dominance – Consensus round outcomes can be manipulated by a single or group of entities if it is not designed to be resilient against Sybil attacks, where one or handful of nodes can generate millions of identities that they control. Having such dominance allows the dominating group to confirm the transactions and blocks as per their rules, even include transactions that can double-spend the cryptocurrency. Dominance can also be achieved by other means, such as controlling 51% of mining power in a PoW network .
Cheating – Validating nodes either individually or in collusion can independently maintain parallel forks in the blockchain of fraudulent transactions or altered reality that can been provided as proof to the auditor or external third party. The consensus and blockchain reading mechanism has to ensure that such attacks cannot be carried out on the blockchain platform.
Poor Performance – Based on the design of the consensus algorithm, it may require more time under certain conditions for consensus to converge. These conditions could be dynamic where other nodes have turned malicious or a network partition may delay messages that are exchanged between nodes, etc. This may manifest as inconsistently high latencies in applications.
Consensus algorithms have to be resilient to failures of nodes, partitioning of the network, message delays, messages reaching out-of-order and corrupted messages.
They also have to deal with selfish and deliberately malicious nodes. Several algorithms are proposed in the research literature to solve this, with each algorithm making the required set of assumptions in terms of synchrony, message broadcasts, failures, malicious nodes, performance and security of the messages exchanged.
For a blockchain network, achieving consensus ensures that all nodes in the network agree upon a consistent global state of the blockchain. A consensus protocol provides fault tolerance if it can recover from failure of a node participating in consensus
The Fischer Lynch Paterson impossibility result (FLP) states that a deterministic asynchronous consensus system can have at most two of the following three properties: safety (results are valid and identical at all nodes), guaranteed termination or liveness (nodes that don’t fail always produce a result), and fault tolerance (the system can survive the failure of one node at any point). This is a proven result.
FLP Impossibility Result, states that no deterministic consensus protocol can guarantee safety, liveness and fault tolerance in an asynchronous system. While fault tolerance is crucial for globally distributed networks to operate, distributed systems tend to choose between safety and liveness depending on their system requirements and assumptions.
Fault tolerance refers to two types of faults in distributed systems. Fail-stop faults deal with node failures that cause nodes to stop participating in the consensus protocol. These are benign faults caused by hardware or software crashes. When a fail-stop fault occurs, the node just stops responding. The second category of faults are Byzantine faults, which cause nodes to behave erratically
Byzantine faults or failures can occur because of software bugs or as a result of the node being compromised. A Byzantine node can lie, can provide ambivalent responses or completely mislead other nodes involved in the consensus protocol.
The consensus protocol has to be able to operate correctly and reach consensus in the presence of The Byzantine Generals Problem A group of generals, each commandeering a part of the Byzantine army has surrounded an enemy city.
To attack the city, all generals have to agree on a battle plan. Generals can communicate via messengers only.
The messengers might be captured by the enemy and the message might never reach the other general. The difficulty in the agreement is that one or more generals might be traitors and are interested in sabotaging the battle plan.
To this end, they might send false messages, distort messages or not send any messages at all. All loyal generals will act according to the plan. A small number of traitors should not cause the loyal generals to adopt a bad plan. Byzantine nodes as long as the number of Byzantine nodes within a distributed system are limited.
Blockchain platforms use a range of consensus models which are PoW and PBFT in their original form or variations of it providing certain advantages desired over the original model. Bold new models are also proposed, such as Proof-of-Stake (PoS) and Proof-of-elapsed-Time (PoeT) and variations of PBFT appear as viable alternatives.
Proof-of-Stake algorithms are designed to overcome the disadvantages of PoW algorithms in terms of the high electricity consumption involved in mining operations.
PoS completely replaces the mining operation with an alternative approach involving a user’s stake or ownership of virtual currency in the blockchain system.
Putting it another way, instead of a user spending say $2000 buying mining equipment to engage in PoW algorithm and winning a mining reward, with PoS she can buy $2000 worth of cryptocurrency and use it as stake to buy proportionate block creation chances in the blockchain system by becoming a validator.
The PoS algorithm pseudo-randomly selects validators for block creation, thereby ensuring that no validator can predict its turn in advance. Naïve PoS algorithms suffer from a problem called Nothing-at-Stake. These implementations do not provide incentives for nodes to vote on the correct block.
Therefore nodes can vote on multiple blocks supporting multiple forks to maximize their chances of winning a reward as they do not “expend” anything in doing so as opposed to in PoW, where the node would be splitting up its resources to vote on multiple forks. This is the Nothing-at-Stake problem which needs to be tackled for a correct and efficient implementation of PoS.
Ethereum’s PoS algorithm, called Casper, is perhaps the most advanced PoS algorithm. Though multiple rounds of PoCs are released, it is still in testing and is expected to be released in the Serenity v version of the Ethereum platform. Casper uses the concept of security deposits and bets to achieve consensus.
Nodes are allowed to be bonded with the Ethereum system by making significant security deposits set by the protocol. These nodes are bonded validators and show commitment and interest in advancing the Ethereum blockchain via staking their security deposits.
The initial list of bonded validators is tracked by a special contract known as the Casper contract. From there on, the bonded validator list can evolve based on newer nodes joining in and older ones leaving the system.
Each validator is pseudo-randomly selected to produce a block from the active validator set, with the probability of selection linearly weighted by each validator’s deposit. If a validator is offline, a different validator is selected and this process repeats until an online validator is found that creates a block.
If a validator produces a block that gets included in the chain, they receive a block reward equal to the total ether in the active validator set. If the validator produces a block that does not get included in the chain, the protocol works such that the validator loses the security deposit equal to the block reward.
This mechanism proposes to solve the Nothing-at-Stake problem where it stop nodes from producing blocks that won’t get included in the main chain. Proof-of-Stake was first designed and a naïve version of it used by PeerCoin. Different variations of PoS are also used by BitShares, NXT and Tendermint.
IntelLedger or Intel SawtoothLake is a blockchain platform developed by Intel and subsequently open sourced for use by the community. IntelLedger uses a consensus algorithm, designed by Intel, called Proof of Elapsed Time (PoET) intended to run in a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), such as Intel’s Software Guard Extensions (SGX).
PoET uses a random leader election model or a lottery based election model based on SGX, where the protocol randomly selects the next leader to finalize the block.
The random leader election algorithm uses this model to deal with untrusted nodes and open–ended participation of nodes in the consensus algorithm. For the consensus to work correctly, it has to randomly distribute the leader election among all available participating nodes and it needs a secure way for other nodes to verify that a given leader was correctly selected without any scope for manipulation.
This is achieved using the TEE to guarantee the safety and randomness of electing a leader.
Leader election works as follows. All validating or mining nodes have to run the TEE using Intel SGX. Each validator requests a wait time from the code running inside the TEE. The validator with the shortest wait time wins the lottery and can become the leader. The functions within the TEE are designed such that their execution cannot be tampered with by external software.
When a validating node claims to be a leader and mines a block, it can also produce proof generated within the TEE that other nodes can easily verify. It has to prove that it had the shortest wait time and it waited for a protocol designated amount of time before it is allowed to start mining the next block.
The randomness in generating wait times ensures that the leader role is randomly distributed among all validating nodes. The only drawback of this algorithm is the reliance on specialized hardware.
Hyperledger Fabric, which is the most popular permissioned blockchain platform being developed by the Linux Foundation provides a flexible architecture with a pluggable consensus model.
Fabric is designed for consortiums where the group of participants in the consortiums is not only known, but their identities are registered and verified with a central registry service running within the system. It also supports smart contracts on the blockchain, also known as chaincode.
Hyperledger currently supports two consensus models – the popular Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance algorithm (PBFT) and its variation SIEVE that is able to handle non-deterministic chaincode execution.
Ripple and Stellar are two blockchain based platforms and payment protocols that use variations of the Byzantine Fault Tolerance consensus models by making them open-ended with respect to node participation.
These blockchain platforms target financial use cases and the payments domain in particular. They provide payment protocols, which can settle cross-border transactions in a matter of seconds as opposed to today’s infrastructure that takes days for the same.
The participants in such systems are end users, financial institutions that act as gateways and market makers that can be either users or financial institutions. End users generate payment transactions using client software and must trust some gateways to hold their payments.
Gateways are like banks that people use in the real world to hold their money. Gateways hold user funds issued to the gateway in fiat currencies and create equivalent issuances in the Ripple/Stellar network, which reflect as an account balance in the global blockchain.
A payment transaction can be verified by all nodes by referring to account balances in the global blockchain. Transaction settles by adjusting balances in the blockchain. Market-makers provide the required liquidity in this network.
Market-makers maintain accounts with multiple gateways and in multiple currencies. They can trade in multiple currencies and their liquidity is used to settle trades and payment transactions. Since most transactions deal with payments in fiat and other cryptocurrencies, it is of utmost importance that the protocol orders transactions consistently to prevent double spend attacks.
Ripple and Stellar use their own consensus models that are a derived form of Byzantine Fault tolerance modified to include open-ended participation from users, gateways and market-makers.
Ripple Consensus Protocol Algorithm - Ripple protocol requires each node to define a Unique Node List(UNL). The UNL comprises of other Ripple nodes that are trusted by the given node not to collude against it.
Consensus in the Ripple network is achieved by each node by consulting other nodes in its UNL. Each UNL has to have a 40% overlap with other nodes in the Ripple network .
Consensus happens in multiple rounds where each node collects transactions in a data structure called “candidate set” and broadcasts its candidate sets to other nodes in its UNL. Nodes validate the transactions, vote on them and broadcast the votes.
Based on the accumulated votes, each node refines its candidate set and transactions receiving the largest number of votes are passed to the next round. When a candidate set receives a super-majority of 80% of votes from all nodes in the UNL, the candidate set becomes a valid block or in Ripple terms a “ledger”. This ledger is finalized and considered the “Last Closed Ledger (LCL)” and added to the Ripple blockchain by each node.
Next round of consensus is started with newer transactions and pending transactions that did not make it into the last round of consensus. Consensus in the entire network is reached when each individual sub-network reaches consensus.
Stellar Consensus Protocol - Stellar Consensus protocol algorithm uses the concept of quorums and quorum slices. Quorum is a set of nodes sufficient to reach agreement.
A quorum slice is a subset of a quorum that can convince one particular node about agreement. An individual node can appear on multiple quorum slices. Stellar introduces quorum slices to allow each individual node to choose a set of nodes within its slice thereby allowing open participation.
These quorum slices and quorums are based on real life business relationships between various entities thereby leveraging trust that already exists in business models. To reach global consensus in the entire systems, quorums have to intersect. Overall consensus is reached globally from decisions made by individual nodes.
Consensus models used by popular blockchain platforms today are largely driven by the type of applications the platform expects to cater to and the threats it envisages to the integrity of the chain.
Typically the permissionless platforms are achieving robust consensus among very high number of untrusted peers using computational or memory complexity while sacrificing transaction finality and throughput.
On the other hand, the permissioned, consortium blockchains are opting for a less scalable but much higher throughput model that ensures faster transaction finality.
When looking at Blockchain to solve a business problem, it is imperative to look at the scale of the intended network, the relationships between participants, and both functional and non-functional aspects (such as performance and confidentiality) before determining the right platform and the right consensus model to use.
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Criminal organizations are increasingly using cryptocurrencies to launder money or otherwise pay for illicit activities in India.
Foreign funded NGOs in India now deal in crypto currencies .
Virtual currencies are the newest major method for hiding criminal proceeds—especially from drug trafficking by Khalistanis in Punjab
Desh drohis are increasingly using cryptocurrencies to escape detection from law enforcement.
Cryptocurrencies are convertible virtual currencies, as they can be exchanged for fiat money such as pounds, dollars and euros and this facilitates their use for settling commercial transactions.
Bitcoin is now an acceptable form of payment in exchange for goods and services by household names such as Microsoft, Expedia and Subway. At the same time, blockchain technology is being adopted by more businesses.
Hard-to-track criminal activity isn’t the only threat from the use of cryptocurrencies – there’s also the possibility of their use to finance terrorism, given that the formal banking sector is now adept at spotting suspicious movement and mobilisation of monies through the banking system
The fact that they can be converted into pounds, dollars and euros does make regulation of cryptocurrency more feasible. It can be done at the point of their conversion through virtual currency exchanges – which, as financial institutions, can be regulated.
Payments can be easily affected cross-border because conversion of the likes of bitcoin through currency exchanges can be transacted in different parts of the world – including in jurisdictions with lax financial regulatory regimes and weak KYC/AML measures.
This means that, while jurisdictions with stronger regulatory powers may clamp down on criminal activities, such efforts can be easily wiped out because perpetrators are likely to migrate to countries with lax regimes.
On November 28, 2017, the Department of Homeland Security published the written testimony of chief special agent Matthew Allen before a Senate Committee on the Judiciary hearing titled "S.1241: Modernizing AML Laws to Combat Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing."
Allen’s testimony focused on the money laundering activities of transnational crime organizations (TCOs) that have turned to cryptocurrency as a means of anonymous value exchange.
Due to this trend, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Homeland Security Investigation (HSI) are considering expanding the scope of their AML-related probes to encompass cryptocurrencies.
Allen described the allure of cryptocurrency to criminals trying to hide their identities:
"HSI agents are increasingly encountering virtual currency, including more recent, anonymity-enhancing cryptocurrencies (AECs), in the course of their investigations. AECs are designed to better obfuscate transaction information and are increasingly preferred by TCOs."
In one case, Utah resident Aaron Shamo, organizer of a fentanyl pill scheme, had $2.5 million worth of bitcoin seized from him by HSI agents. Shamo was arrested in December 2016.
I WAS A LIVING LEGEND AT SEA, PRIMARILY OF MY ABILITY TO CUT THE CRAP.
CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL WAS ALWAYS THE FIRST TO POINT OUT AT THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM – OR — THAT THE EMPEROR IS NOT WEARING CLOTHES
MY SHIP HAD REAL WORK – NEVER ACTIVITY TRAPS.
http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2009/07/real-work-and-activity-traps-capt-ajit.html
WHEN YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE CHAKRAVYUH OF ACTIVITY TRAPS , REAL WORK TAKES A BEATING AND THE SHIP BECOMES UNSAFE. THE SHIP HAS A LIMITED WORKFORCE WHO HAS ONLY 24 HOURS IN A DAY.
BY ELIMINATING “ACTIVITY TRAPS” I DID EFFECTIVE TIME MANAGEMENT.
I WAS AN “EFFECTIVE LEADER” AT SEA – MY CREW LITERALLY WORSHIPPED ME BECAUSE THEY KNEW NO WORK IS DONE OF BOARD BECAUSE SOME POMPOUS CUNT ASHORE WANTS IT THAT WAY.
http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2010/12/predictive-maintenance-on-chemical.html
I TOOK ON MIGHTY SHORE FORCES AND WON .
WHEN THIS HAPPENS EVERYBODY IN POWER HATES YOUR GUTS.
I CREATED A “CERTAINTY” ON/ OFF SWITCH AND KEPT THAT IN MY POCKET. AS A CAPTAIN I SNATCHED AWAY THE VETO POWER FROM MY SHORE BOSSES AND SHORE POWERS .
THIS TAKES GUTS .
I FLUSHED “STATIC” RISK ASSESSMENT DOWN THE SHITPOT AND INTRODUCED THE CONCEPT OF “DYNAMIC “ RISK ASSESSMENT TO BE DONE BY THE BEST AND MOST TECHNICAL FORCES ON BOARD
MY POST ON BLOCKCHAIN STILL CONTINUES—IT IS NOW AT PART 14
WHAT THE FUCK IS BITCOIN MINING ?
IS IT REAL WORK OR AN ACTIVITY TRAP?
IT IS PROOF OF WORK --- OR PROOF OF “REAL “WORK.
BIG BROTHER PUTS THE DUMBED DOWN MASSES INTO AN ENDLESS CHAKRAVYUH.
KOSHER MINING CONSORTIUMS CONTROL BITCOIN MINING. “APUN BHI MINER” DOES NOT WORK – HE IS JUST A WORM WHO DOES NOT MATTER .
KOSHER BIG BROTHER COALSCED 166 “MAIN STREAM MEDIA “ INTO SIX MAIN STREAM MEDIA BEHEMOTH FORCES –ALL CONTROLLED BY BILDERBERG CLUB AND OWNED BY HIM.
WHEN ARNAB GOSWAMI OF NEW TV CHANNEL REPUBLIC JUMPS UP AND DOWN ( LIKE A DEMENTED COCAINE SNORTING ORANGUTAN ) , HOLLERING THAT MENSTRUATING WOMEN MUST BE ALLOWED TO ENTER SABARIMALA ILGRIMAGE— YOU MUST KNOW WHOSE ORIGINAL KOSHER VOICE HE RELAYS .
HAVE YOU SEEN HOW THE ENTIRE INDIAN BENAMI MAIN STREAM MEDIA SUPPORTS HILLARY CLINTON OVER DONALD TRUMP? OR HOW THEY ALL SUPPORT “PADMAVATHY “ ?
WHY DID JEW OBAMA COME RUNNING TO INDIA TO MEET RTHSCHILDs APCO BRANDED MODI TWO DAYS AGO ?
JUST WHO THE HELL IS JEW OBAMA TODAY ?— JUST ROTHSCHILDs AGENT CONTROLLING THE KOSHER SHADOW GOVT OF USA . YES— THIS IS THE MEANING OF POINTING OUT TO THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM.
SO WHAT DOES THE KOSHER CONTROLLED BEHEMOTH BITCOIN MINING CONSORTIUM DO ?
THEY CONSUME THE ELECTRICITY OF 157 NATIONS OF THIS PLANET. IN REALITY , AS PER MY CALCULATIONS IT IS 162 NATIONS .
IT IS COMPULSORY FOR ALL MY READERS TO CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW.
https://www.rt.com/business/411777-bitcoin-mining-electricity-states-power/
TODAY BITCOIN HAD RALLIED UP TO 11891 USD . LAST YEAR SAME TIME IT WAS 700 USD.
ANY IDIOT KNOWS WHAT THIS MEANS ?
WE ASK BLOCKCHAIN-ULU ( OR IS IT UDU ) TELUGULAND CUNTS-- CAN THIS HAPPEN TO GOLD OR ANY OTHER COMMODITY –OTHER THAN DUTCH TULIPS ?
AS BITCOIN VALUE HAS SURGED , BITCOIN MINING HAS GONE FROM PRIVATE MINING ENTHUSIASTS TO GIANT KOSHER GANGS.
THESE BEHEMOTH KOSHER CONSORTIUMS MAKE BILLIONS OF USD
Nearly a decade after an online user named Satoshi Nakamoto published a paper describing how "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" does not need to rely on trusted institutions, individual bitcoin mining is growing more difficult, while large KOSHER enterprises have emerged.
Mining bitcoin requires high computing power to solve a complex mathematical equation, proving that an anonymous miner used the process the network agreed upon to build the blockchain record of transactions.
This is a method to who gets mining rewards in Bitcoins
ANY HONEST MAN CAN BE FRAMED FOR MURDER OR DRUG RUNNING TODAY.
WHEN NATIONS LEGITIMIZE SYSTEMS WHERE CRIMINALS AND TERRORISTS OPERATE THIS IS VERY EASY.
The propaganda is that it is essentially impossible to forge transactions. That changing a block involves a huge computational load and the chaining means that all subsequent blocks must also be changed to make them consistent. Having done all that, the changed copy would simply be thrown out by the software that maintains the consistency of all the blockchain copies.
But hey -- the only way to make a forgery stick is to make the same forgery on 51% of the thousands of blockchain copies.
The Krypton blockchain was attacked; hacked twice in August 2016 by an anonymous group calling themselves the “51 crew.” The Shift chain was also robbed.
51 crew employed a deadly blockchain exploit, only recently revealed by Ethereum, which allowed 51 crew to manufacture their own version of the KR chain offline and push that into production as the real KR chain by combining large amounts of hashing power and DDos attacks on KR nodes.
Lacking the network hashing power provided by a vast number of coin miners, there seems to be no way to defend against this exploit. Krypton decided on the following course of action in order to protect KR from being stolen from exchanges through a double spend: Krypton is moving KR from an Ethereum-based proof-of-work blockchain to a Bitcoin-based proof-of-stake blockchain.
In May 2016, when the Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), was attacked by a hacker exploiting a vulnerability in its smart contract code, dealing a blow of around $60 million. It led to a forking of the Ethereum blockchain into Ethereum and Ethereum Classic.
In typical "proof of work" networks like bitcoin, a lot of computing power is spent to prove that a transaction is genuine. If more than 50% of the bitcoin network participants agree to a block, it is deemed as accepted.
In this situation, anyone who can hack into machines and divert the computing power to his own account can control large pieces of the network. This would allow the hacker to create a chain longer than the authentic chain, essentially allowing a dual transaction.
To mitigate this, many platforms are moving towards "proof of stake" consensus. That ensures that instead of computing power, the ability to ratify a transaction is dependent on the stake the participants have in the network. Clearly, people who are invested in a currency will not want its value crashing by ratifying rogue transactions.
For permissioned blockchains, since addition of nodes is a controlled activity, it would be difficult for a hacker to take over the network. Most enterprise applications are likely to use permissioned blockchains with some level of oversight from a governing body or participants themselves.
As the DAO example showed us, software is written by humans, and is always subject to DELIBERATE human error. Most hacks are inside jobs –done by people who have injected DELIBERATE vulnerabilities
One area in blockchain systems that has not attracted much attention so far is external system integration. These complex systems are built on blockchains requiring integration with external systems; these integration points are a weak link that hackers can target.
Many current solutions rely on "oracles", where an oracle is a particular agent trusted by blockchain participants. Such reliance on an external agent poses many questions around system reliability and security.
The DAO hack shows one way hacks can be handled—by doing a hard fork of network and having participants ratify that fork instead of the longest chain prevailing. This puts into question the principle that "blockchains are immutable", and businesses need to have clear plans for handling situations where their network is compromised.
A key component of technology maturity cycle is discovery of software defects, attempts to hack, leading to further robustness in the technology and maturity of best practices.
As blockchain evolves, law enforcement will need to have better skills and guidelines to investigate and prosecute security breaches.
DOES INDIA HAVE THE REQUISITE LAW ENFORCEMENT WITH BASIC SKILLS TO NAB CRIMINALS DOING INSIDE JOBS ( WITHOUT TAKING THE HELP OF THE WHITE OR YELLOW MAN WHO WAS BEHIND IT ) ?
THE ANSWER IS “HELL NO !” — WE ALL KNOW IT
A key element of the adoption of any new technology is also the evolution of best practices around security management
https://www.coindesk.com/bitfinex-vs-bitfinexed-exchange-hires-law-firm-challenge-critics/
ONLY JEWS THREATEN LEGAL ACTION WHEN CAUGHT WITH THEIR PANTS DOWN
WE ALL KNOW WHAT TETHER IS DOING TO BITCOIN
Tether's surging supply is the major driver behind Bitcoin's explosive appreciation.
Tether is a cryptocurrency controlled by Tether Limited. Unlike Bitcoin, Tether is issued (not mined) and seeks to maintain a stable exchange against the dollar (i.e. tethered). This is accomplished through a reserve based model, whereby each Tether is backed by one US dollar in the company’s bank.
One can acquire Tether directly through the website or trade through an exchange. One can convert Tether to USD at Tether Limited, though Tether Limited has the right to refuse for any reason.
If Bitfinex were to successfully take its nemesis to court, it would need to lay bare its own operations to prove the accusations to be false. And that is exactly what the whole world wants
Bitfinex has the knack for filing and then retracting lawsuits, having done similar against Wells Fargo earlier this year.
The hiring of KOSHER Steptoe & Johnson as evidence of Bitfinex trying to deter mainstream media outlets – which have greater legal obligations than anonymous social media commenters – from investigating its dealings.
Bitfinex can silence future dissenters who may be tempted to emulate Bitfinex’ed and start slinging mud.
Until Bitfinex publishes the long-overdue audit of its accounts, speculation will continue.
Does $814 million of a digital token known as tether really exist?
What is tether's connection to Bitfinex, the world's biggest bitcoin exchange?
SELF AUDIT IS LIKE SELF GYNECOLOGY--IT CUTS NO FUCKIN' ICE !
Initial coin offerings (ICOs) can easily net millions of dollars from enthusiastic investors, but a number of countries are starting to regulate them. ( China has banned ICOs ) . The Philippines is the latest country to join this growing club.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission won an emergency asset freeze to stop an initial coin offering that the agency said has defrauded investors by promising a 13-fold profit in less than a month.
SEC sued Dominic Lacroix and his company PlexCorps who has raised $15 million since August marketing and selling a product called PlexCoin over the Internet.
An ICO is a crowdsourced fundraising practice that allows companies to raise capital by issuing their own cryptocurrencies.
China banned bitcoin trading and initial coin offerings (ICO) nearly three months ago.
Bitcoin’s (BTC) rise to $ 12588 raises important questions around risk and transparency for investors and exchanges alike, and whether a crash is looming.
The issue is that, like any investment vehicle, the value of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies (forms of digital money) is subject to manipulation by large entities that have a stake in it, especially large-scale traders. The cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex is the main actor to think about here.
Bitfinex’s CEO is also the CEO of a company called Tether Limited, which issues tethers (also known as USDT), a pegged cryptocurrency; that is, the tether’s value is pegged directly to that of the U.S. dollar. To do so, Tether commits to keep the dollar equivalent of all USDT value in reserves at all times.
Tether offers a way to own and move fiat currency across different cryptocurrencies and exchanges without the need to convert crypto assets into dollars. That means transactions are fast and cheap, yet the price of the currency is as stable as the U.S. dollar, in theory.
But that tether-to-dollar relationship seems weaker these days, partly because 50 million tethers were printed in just one week in November. It’s unlikely that these newly minted currencies truly represent $50 million in today’s dollars, which throws off the assumption about the tether’s real value.
Tether sends these mint USDT directly to Bitfinex. While it’s unclear what exact transactions take place with them after, what we observe is that once these USDT enter the Bitfinex exchange, the price of bitcoin jumps, as has happened multiple times recently.
That means it’s likely the new tethers are used to buy bitcoin. As demand for bitcoin surges, its price goes up, investors see that and want to get in on it, more bitcoin is bought, and the cycle continues.
It’s hard to say how well backed up the USDT really are. Bitfinex has assured investors that the cryptocurrencies it trades are backed up—but more vaguely than hoped: The exchange says it has adequate “resources” to back them up
Specifically, if Bitfinex doesn’t have the liquidity to survive a large-scale cash-out of tether, bitcoin, or any other cryptocurrency traded there, we could see something similar to what happened in 2014, when the Mt. Gox exchange collapsed under similar circumstances.
Investors lost everything they’d put into the cryptocurrencies in question, though the currencies regained investor confidence afterward, led by bitcoin.
The group that should probably pay the most attention to the implications here is cryptocurrency investors or would-be investors less familiar with the dynamics of this currency. These investors may pay attention only to the exuberant rise in bitcoin’s value, not recognizing the steep plunge that could follow if that value is poorly backed.
This could be akin to the formation and bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2000, where those who “followed the herd” without a good understanding of the market dynamics that helped push valuations up felt the decline particularly strongly.
In the case of Bitcoin, the impact of the fall might be even more widespread, as the collapse of one exchange directly impacts all other exchanges and cryptocurrencies.
amith mishra December 6, 2017 at 8:45 PM
http://www.financialexpress.com/market/still-thinking-of-buying-bitcoin-at-13000-warning-rbi-has-a-message-for-you/963533/
THERE IS A BITFINEX / TETHER SCAM GOING ON --PEOPLE HAVE NOT WOKEN UP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitfinex
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tether_(cryptocurrency)
Bitfinex has dominated the world’s Bitcoin trade on exchanges, with a 41.72% market share over the last SEVEN DAYS . (The next biggest player is the US-based exchange, Coinbase, with 25.78% market share.)
In May 2015, 1 500 bitcoins were stolen from Bitfinex during a hack. Then in 2016, Bitfinex was the subject of another hack in which $72m worth of bitcoin was stolen.
Wells Fargo dumped Bitfinex earlier this year, resulting in Bitfinex experience problems in its banking services
Bitfinex not being completely transparent about being key in creating and establishing a cryptocurrency called ‘Tether’ (USDT), which is intended to be pegged to the US dollar at a rate of 1:1. There are now questions about whether Tether itself is backed with sufficient funding in case of a run on the markets (and in some instances if you even just want to withdraw dollars out of Tether).
It is obvious that Bitfinex has been instrumental in driving up Bitcoin prices, partly via Tether. Nobody dares bell the cat as Bitfinex has been threatening to sue skeptic bloggers in court
Tether currency, which started trading in 2015, is described as a stable alternative to bitcoin’s wild price swings.
A restaurant owner who accepts bitcoin but fears its volatility could shift bitcoin into tether, which can be easier to do than exchanging bitcoin for dollars.
Its price has stayed near $1 for most of its life because Tether, the company behind the digital token, says that every tether is backed by one U.S. dollar held in reserve.
Since there’s $814 million of tether circulating, there should be $814 million parked in bank accounts somewhere.
Tether’s website makes a claim that’s unusual among cryptocurrencies: “every tether is always backed 1-to-1 by traditional currency held in our reserves.” The site also says each tether can be redeemed for $1.
But its terms of service say: “There is no contractual right or other right or legal claim against us to redeem or exchange your tethers for money. We do not guarantee any right of redemption or exchange of tethers by us for money.”
On Dec. 2, 2017, Bitfinex released a quarterly report announcing it would no longer serve U.S. customers because it’s too expensive to do business with them.
Neither Tether nor Bitfinex disclose on their websites or in any public documents where they’re located or who’s in charge
Jan Ludovicus van der Velde is CEO of both Bitfinex and Tether
Phil Potter is a Tether director. He’s also the chief strategy officer at Bitfinex
Bitfinex engages HAWALA to remain in business.
Bitfinex once claimed that they would play cat-and-mouse tricks with banks by continuously creating shell companies every time their accounts were shut down.
DO WE HAVE A FINANCE MINISTRY IN INDIA?
DO WE HAVE A PM IN INDIA?
OR IS OUR PM ONLY FOR MILKING VOTES AND GIVING FAALTHU MANN KE BAATH BULLSHIT TO SHINE PERSONALLY ?
https://www.gadgetsnow.com/slideshows/bitcoin-surges-above-12000-rbi-has-6-warnings-for-you/RBI-has-constituted-a-group-to-look-at-the-possibility-of-having-a-government-backed-cryptocurrency/photolist/61943248.cms
ARUN JAITLEY HAS WOKEN UP
7th December 2017 $16,815
A quarterly shareholder update from Bitfinex has been leaked, evidencing that Bitfinex is one of the major institutions purchasing USDT from Tether – intensifying the controversy and scrutiny surrounding the relationship between the two companies.
Since April, the vast majority of all Tether issuances have been occurring through Bitfinex
Because Bitfinex and Tether have common principles and banking, there is no limit to the timing or amount of money that can flow between the two entities even if inbound and outbound customer wires are limited.
Bitfinex holds the vast majority of its customer USD balances in the form of USD bank balances. Bitfinex typically only holds less than 20M Tethers for customer withdrawal.
When that balance approaches zero, Bitfinex moves money (typically $20M) from the Bitfinex bank account to the Tether bank account at the same bank in order to purchase additional tether from Tether Limited.
To be clear, when this happens, cash is credited (or removed) from Bitfinex’s balance sheet and debited (or added) to Tether’s
Bitfinex simply acts as an aggregator of customer demands for bulk creation and acquisition of Tethers.
Creation of USDT has nothing to do with the USD lending market – addressing speculation that many of the Tethers recently produced have been used to fund margin trading on the exchange.
Bitfinex has failed to provide evidence of their associated banking partners, going as far as agreeing to provide such information to a reporter on the condition that they sign a non-disclosure agreement.
Digital currency exchange NiceHash says bitcoin worth nearly $64 million hacked
https://tech.thaivisa.com/digital-currency-exchange-nicehash-says-bitcoin-worth-nearly-64-million-hacked/26130/
NICEHASH LOST 4700 BITCOINS
In Japan, following the failure of bitcoin exchange Mt Gox, new laws were enacted to regulate bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies.
Mt. Gox shut down in February 2014 having lost more than 850,000 bitcoins, to hackers.
ALL SUCH HACKINGS ARE INSIDE JOBS
NOTE: When Tether/ Bitfinex becomes insolvent Bitcoin may crash back to 1800 USD levels
In order to perform a transaction on Blockchain today, all computers, or nodes, in the network must validate the transaction or execute a smart contract, a piece of code stored in the network that delineates the conditions necessary for the transaction to be carried out.
If all nodes achieve the same result and reach a consensus, the transaction is confirmed. As you can imagine, this takes time.
Sharding, on the other hand, runs on the parallel processing power of multiple networked machines that split up the workload of verifying transactions.
It automatically divides networks into smaller sections, or “shards,” each of which runs a smaller-scale consensus protocol.
Processing in parallel, such a network is capable of churning out hundreds of transactions per second per shard, for a total of thousands of transactions per second.
As more nodes join, the network will become increasingly faster at validating transactions
In a traditional database system, the solution to scalability is to add more servers (i.e. compute power) to handle the added transactions. In the decentralized blockchain world where every node needs to process and validate every transaction, it would require us to add more compute to every node for the network to get faster.
As a result, all public blockchain consensus protocols that operate in such a decentralized manner make the tradeoff between low transaction throughput and high degree of centralization.
In other words, as the size of the blockchain grows, the requirements for storage, bandwidth, and compute power required by fully participating in the network increases.
At some point, it becomes unwieldy enough that it’s only feasible for a few nodes to process a block — leading to the risk of centralization. In order to scale, the blockchain protocol must figure out a mechanism to limit the number of participating nodes needed to validate each transaction, without losing the network’s trust that each transaction is valid.
Sharding in the blockchain world is similar to database sharding in traditional software systems. With traditional databases, a shard is a horizontal partition of the data in a database, where each shard is stored on a separate database server instance. This helps spread the load across different servers.
Similarly, with blockchain sharding, the overall state of the blockchain is separated into different shards, and each part of the state would be stored by different nodes in the network. Transactions that occur on the network are directed to different nodes depending on which shards they affect.
Each shard only processes a small part of the state and does so in parallel. In order to communicate between shards, there needs to be some message-passing mechanism.
Overall, sharding the blockchain requires us to create a network where every node only processes a small portion of all transactions, while still maintaining high security..
Well, for one, the blockchain protocol assumes that all nodes in the network don’t trust each other. Still, the transactions need to agree on a common state despite being processed on different computers.
Since each node does not trust one other, it is not enough for a node processing transactions on shard A to simply say to the nodes processing transactions on shard B that a transaction occurred; rather, it would need to prove it to them somehow.
Additionally, since the goal of sharding is to not have every node validating every transaction, we need to figure out a mechanism that determines which nodes validate which shard in a secure way, without creating opportunities for an attacker who might have a lot of power in the system to disrupt the network.
Another reason it’s difficult to implement sharding is because a transaction executed on the blockchain can depend on any part of the previous state in the blockchain, which makes it challenging to do things in parallel. Moreover, with parallelization, you now need a fool proof way to mitigate with race conditions and the like.
Again--sharding is to automatically split up a large network of machines processing transactions into parallel sub-committees or “shards.”
Each shard processes its own microblock in parallel with other shards, and resulting micro-blocks are merged into one last one.
In its current state, today’s mainstream public blockchains aren’t suitable for running computation-intensive tasks. This is because any of the computation tasks would have to be repeated at all full nodes on the blockchain for validation.
Although they are secure, such a fully redundant programming model is prohibitively expensive for running large-scale computations.
WE ASK MODI/ JAITLEY -- WHAT IS INDIAs POLICY ON BITCOIN?
As the bitcoin price has surged, so has the supply of a digital token called tether. Tethers are tokens backed by US dollar deposits, with each tether always worth one dollar.
This allows cryptocurrency traders to cash in and out of bitcoin quickly, using tethers to transfer proceeds to other exchanges or digital wallets while avoiding the lengthy process of converting the sums in and out of fiat currency.
But the usefulness and legitimacy of tether rests on the claim by its issuer, a British Virgin Islands-based entity of the same name, that the tokens are indeed backed by dollar deposits.
If the tokens aren’t fully backed by deposits, it means the bitcoin price could have been bid up by tokens that aren’t worth what they say they are.
Questions about the company’s purported cash deposits are growing louder, as the bitcoin price surpassed $17,000 in intraday trading today. It began the year at around $ 900. The value of tethers in circulation is now more than $820 million.
Tether has long had a murky relationship with Bitfinex, the world’s biggest bitcoin exchange by trading volume. Documents leaked as part of the Paradise Papers cleared things up: The two entities share the same operators, Phil Potter and Giancarlo Devasini.. Potter is chief strategy officer at Bitfinex and a director at Tether. Devasini is a director of both companies
Neither Tether nor Bitfinex had confirmed their relationship. Their relationship provides a key channel for tethers to enter cryptocurrency markets.
When tethers flow to the Bitfinex exchange, the price of bitcoin often appears to increase.
Last August, Bitfinex lost nearly 120,000 bitcoins, worth about $60 million at the time, to a hack. It made customers take a 36% haircut on funds held with the exchange as a result.
Tether reported a $30 million hack last month. Another major exchange, Bittrex, based in Washington, has caused alarm because some of its customers have been unable to withdraw their funds
TETHER MUST BE IMMEDIATELY AUDITED BY A PREMIUM AUDITOR TO VERIFY THAT IT HAS ENOUGH CASH IN RESERVE TO BACK ALL THOSE TOKENS.
SUCH A BITCOIN RALLY IS IMPOSSIBLE UNLESSVESTED FORCED ARE DELIBERATELY PUMPING UP THE VALUE OF BITCOIN
The price of Bitcoin came close to hitting $20,000 today before settling down around a still-insane $17,000. The cost of one Bitcoin began the year around $900 and surprised investors when it first hit $10,000 just 9 days ago.
The most lucrative ICOs are driven, not only by gullible rubes, but also by bitcoin millionaires who want to diversify their investments without paying tax by cashing out of cryptocurrencies, which would trigger a capital-gains tax. ICOs fulfill that need.
Many ICO investors first convert their cash into bitcoin before buying tokens in a new cryptocurrency. As Tim Lee argues, this makes bitcoin the "reserve currency" of the crypto economy.
Just as the U.S. dollar benefits from its status as the world's reserve currency, accepted worldwide in lieu of or in exchange for the local currency, the same is often true of bitcoin in cryptocurrency markets.
It's possible that these factors work together in a feedback loop, where bitcoin millionaires seeking diversification raise the profile of ICOs, which increase the value of bitcoin.
Another factor in Bitcoin's recent explosion in value is the announcement that Bitcoin-based derivatives will launch on two major financial exchanges — the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange CME — starting on December 10 2017
The wild spikes in Bitcoin's value could reflect a deliberate ploy by investors trying to maximize their profits when they ultimately bet against, or "short," Bitcoin on the exchanges. Bitcoin players are pumping the price before betting against it and dumping their holdings.
Since Bitcoin is a digital currency with no intrinsic value, it's worth as much as people think it's worth — and there might be a bit of herd mentality going on in that regard right now.
Ethereum, Litecoin and other less famous cryptocurrencies aren't being lifted by the rising tide of Bitcoin, and no one really knows why. In the last 24 hours, bitcoin has left its erstwhile rivals in the dust, gaining 25% in value while the others have fallen anywhere from 3% to 10%.
The tremendous growth of cryptocurrencies has created an exponential demand for computing power. As bitcoin grows, the math problems computers must solve to make more bitcoin (a process called "mining") get more and more difficult — a wrinkle designed to control the currency's supply.
Today, each bitcoin transaction requires the same amount of energy used to power nine homes in the U.S. for one day. And miners are constantly installing more and faster computers. Already, the aggregate computing power of the bitcoin network is nearly 100,000 times larger than the world's 500 fastest supercomputers combined.
For payment in Bitcoin on the DARKWEB , we could get a computer hacker to “destroy a business or a person’s life”, buy drugs, passports, cloned credit cards and counterfeit money or even order acid attacks, rape and murder.
One truly disturbing site is Slayers Hitmen. The online agency claims to have 48 operatives worldwide who will inflict all sorts of physical attacks in return for Bitcoin.
An assassination by shooting costs the Bitcoin equivalent of £11,185. An acid attack is £3,000, rape £1,500 while a “scare” comes in at £750. The site asks for 50 per cent of the fee to be deposited upfront in an online Bitcoin wallet.
Bitcoins only exist as lines of computer code and are created and stored online–and the surge in value means that criminals who had previously been paid in Bitcoin are seeing their wealth rise astronomically.
Bitcoin’s rapid rise is fuelled by the fact there is a limited supply — only 21million will ever exist — and that it is completely unregulated by banks and governments, making it attractive for criminals or those who want to keep their transactions secret.
We are seeing criminals using Bitcoin to buy drugs and firearms on the Dark Web and also laundering money with it.. Cash is hard to move for criminals but cryptocurrency is an easy way to move assets across borders
Cryptocurrencies are not illegal, but they are unregulated, decentralised currencies that can be quickly transferred across borders then converted into the currency of the country where the funds are received
Several major criminals who use Bitcoin and the Dark Web for “the supply of drugs, firearms, modern slavery and child exploitation”.
Bitcoin terminals offer an easy way for drug dealers and other criminals to launder cash without having to go through any bank checks.
They are stored in a virtual wallet on a PC or mobile phone app and can then be withdrawn from another Bitcoin machine in the local currency.
This system makes the cash almost impossible to trace. There is a £400 limit on deposits, but there is no limit on how many deposits you can make and no identity checks
After notes have been converted into Bitcoins, they can be moved anywhere in the world electronically then withdrawn as clean cash.
There are more than 1,300 cryptocurrencies in use, with new ones emerging all the time.
Regulation of crypto-currencies is long overdue so the funding of these activities by worldwide criminals, in even the darkest region of the web, ceases.
BUT. HEY MODI AND JAITLEY IS STRANGELY QUIET ..
SOMEONE ASKED ME--WHY DO YOU SAY THAT THE SUDDEN SURGE IN VALUE OF BITCOIN IS A CONJOB
WELL FOR THIS YOU MUST UNDERSTAND HOW A BITCOIN MINING / BLOCKCHAIN SYSTEM WORKS
YOU CANT HAVE BITCOIN JUMPING FROM 6500 USD ( WHEN I FIRST WROTE PART ONE OF THIS SERIES ) TO 17000 USD ( WHILE ON PART 14 OF THIS SERIES ) IN A VERY SHORT TIME JUST LIKE THAT
Bitcoins grow in value when enough people possess them. This makes other people wanting Bitcoins-- making Bitcoins grow in value even more-- making even more people wanting Bitcoins-- making them grow in value even more-- and so on.
IGNORANT PEOPLE ARE DUMBFOUNDED AND DONT KNOW WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING --THEY PRETEND TO KNOW THE SYSTEM--SO THAT THEY CAN SHINE IN FRONT OF OTHERS .
NOBODY DARES TO POINT OUT THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM. THEY DONT HAVE THE BALLS OR THE KNOWLEDGE
BLOCKCHAIN IS NO ROCKET SCIENCE-- EVEN CUNTS CAN UNDERSTAND IT
In todays systems we depend on individual third-parties to establish trust between ourselves.The problem is that they are singular in number and if a chaos has to be injected in the society, all it requires is ONE person/organization to go corrupt, intentionally or unintentionally.
Blockchain is a method to maintain that register among TWO parties cutting out the middleman.
The requirement of this method is that there must be enough people who would like not to depend on a third-party and only then these people can maintain the register on their own.
How many people is enough? Three at least. We will assume ten individuals want to give up on banks or any third-party for our example. They have details of each other’s accounts all the time upon mutual agreement, but they don’t know the other’s identity.
Everyone contains an empty folder with themselves to start with and all these ten individuals will keep adding pages to their currently empty folders. And the register that tracks the transactions will be formed from this collection of pages.
Everyone in the network sits with a pen and a blank page and in their hands and they are all ready to write any transaction that happens within the system.
For example, #2 wants to transfer $10 to #9.
To make the transaction, #2 shouts and tells everyone, “I want to send $10 to #9, so, everyone, please make a note of it on your pages.”
Everyone checks if #2 has enough balance to send $10 to #9 and everyone then makes a note of the transaction on their blank pages if she has enough balance.
We consider this transaction to be complete now.
More people in the network feel the need to transfer money to others as the time passes. Whenever they want to make a transaction, they announce it to everyone else and as soon as a person listens to the announcement, (s)he writes it on his/her page.
This exercise continues until everyone runs out of space on the current page and assuming a page has space to record ten transactions, everybody runs out of the space as soon as the tenth transaction is made.
It’s time to put the page away in the folder and bring out a new page. After that, repeat the process from the step 2 above.
We need to seal the page with a unique key that everyone in the network agrees upon before we put it away in our folders. By sealing it, we will make sure that no one can make any changes to it once its copies have been put away in everyone’s folder. Once in the folder, it will always stay in the folder — sealed, and moreover everyone trusts the contents of the page if everyone trusts the seal. The sealing of the page is the crux of this method.
It is called MINING on the page to secure it. However, we’ll keep calling it ‘sealing for the simplicity of it.
The middleman/third-party gave us the trust earlier that whatever they have written in the register will never be changed. This seal will provide the trust instead in a distributed and decentralized system like ours.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAgA43WEKwA
Imagine a machine surrounded by thick walls and if you send a box with something inside it from the left, it will spit out a box containing something else.
This machine is called ‘Hash Function,’
Suppose, you send the number 4 inside it from the left. We’d find that it spat out the following word on its right: ‘dcbea.’
No one knows how it converted the number 4 to this word, but it is an irreversible process. Given the word, ‘dcbea,’ it is impossible to tell what the machine was fed on the left, but the machine will always spit out the same word, ‘dcbea’ every time you’d feed the number 4 to it.
Let’s try sending in a different number, for example 26.
Interesting! This time we got ‘94c8e’, which means that the words can contain the numbers too.
What if I ask you the following question now:
„What should I send from the left side of the machine such to get a word that begins with three leading zeroes from the right side of it, e.g. 000fa, or 00098, or 000ab, anything among the others.“
It was extremely difficult to calculate the input given the output, but at the same time, it will always be incredibly easy to verify if the predicted input yields the required output. The machine spits out the same word for a number every time.
If I give you a number, say 72533, and ask you the question: „When you feed the number into the machine, does it yield a word that begins with three leading zeroes?” how difficult do you think the answer is?
Just throw the number in the machine and see what did you get on the right side of it and that’s it.
The most important property of such machines is that — “Given an output, it is extremely difficult to calculate the input. However, given the input and the output, it is pretty simple to verify if the input leads to the output.”
How to Seal a Page Using These Machines?
We’ll use this magic machine to generate a seal for our page and we’ll start with an imaginary situation, like always.
Imagine you get two boxes from me and the first box contains the number 20893. After that, I ask you: „Can you calculate a number that, when added to the number in the first box and fed to the machine, will give us a word that begins with three leading zeroes?”
This is a similar situation as we had previously. We have learned that by trying every number available in the whole universe is the only way to figure out such a number.
We’ll stumble upon a number, say 21191, after several thousand attempts. This number, when added to 20893 (i.e. 21191 + 20893 = 42084) and fed to the machine, will yield a word that satisfies our requirements.
This number, 21191 becomes the seal for the number 20893 in such a case. Suppose there is a page that contains the number 20893 written on it. We will put a badge labelled ‘21191’ on top of it to seal that page (i.e. no one can change the contents of it). The page is sealed once the sealing number (i.e. 21191) is stuck on it.
The sealing number is called ‘Proof Of Work.’ This means that this number is the proof that efforts had been made to calculate it. But for our purposes, we are good with calling it ‘sealing number.’
All that you need to do to verify whether the page was altered is to add the contents of the page with the sealing number and feed to the magic machine. The contents were untouched if the machine gives out a word with three leading zeroes. We can throw away the page if the word that comes out doesn’t meet our requirements because its contents were compromised, and are of no use.
We’ll seal all our pages using a similar sealing mechanism and eventually arrange them in our respective folders.
We’ll need to figure out a number that when appended to the list of transactions and fed to the machine, we get a word that begins with three leading zeroes on the right to seal our page that contains the transactions of the network.
Note: The phrase ‘word starting with three leading zeroes’ is used only as an example. It illustrates how Hashing Functions work, but the real challenges are much more complicated than this.
Once that number is figured out after spending time and electricity on the machine, the page is sealed with that number. The sealing number will allow anyone to verify the integrity of the page if someone tries to change the contents of the page.
Now it’s time to go back to the time when we had finished writing the tenth transaction on the page, and we ran out of space to write more.
As soon as everyone runs out of the page to write further transactions, everyone in the network indulge in calculating the sealing number for the page so that it can be tucked away in the folder and the first one in the network to figure out the sealing number announces it to everyone else.
Instantly, on hearing the sealing number, everyone verifies if it yields the required output or not and, if it does, everyone labels their pages with this number and put it away in their folders.
But what if the sealing number that was announced doesn’t yield the required output for someone, say #7. Such cases are not unusual and the possible reasons for this could be:
The transactions that were announced in the network might have been miswritten.
The transactions that were announced in the network might have been misheard.
When writing transactions he might have tried to cheat or be dishonest, either to favor himself or someone else in the network.
#7 has only one choice — to discard his page and copy it from someone else so that he too can put it in the folder. He cannot continue writing further transactions unless he doesn’t put his page in the folder. This means that he is no longer part of the network.
Then why not sit idle and wait for the announcement and why does everyone spend resources doing the calculation when they know that someone else will calculate and announce it to them?
Interesting question because this is where the incentives come in the picture. Everyone who is the part of the Blockchain is eligible for rewards and the first one to calculate the sealing number gets rewarded with free money for his efforts (i.e. expended CPU power and electricity).
Simply imagine, #5 gets rewarded with some free money, say $1 if he calculates the sealing number of a page. The money gets minted out of thin air, which means the account balance of #5 gets incremented with $1 without decreasing anyone else’s account balance.
That’s how Bitcoin got into existence, because it was the first currency to be transacted on a Blockchain. And in return, people were awarded Bitcoins to keep the efforts going on in the network.
SOMEONE ASKED -
WHAT IS THIS BULLSHIT ABOUT THE LONGEST CHAIN ALWAYS BEING THE HONEST CHAIN
As a new blank page comes up, once everyone tucks away the page in their folders. The whole process is repeated all over again — doing it forever.
Think of a single page as a Block of transaction. Also, think of the folder as the Chain of pages (Blocks), therefore, turning it into a Blockchain.
And that is how Blockchain works.
Imagine there are five pages in the folder already. They are all sealed with a sealing number. If I go back to the second page and modify a transaction to favor myself the sealing number will let anyone detect the inconsistency in the transactions. Or what if I go ahead and calculate a new sealing number too for the modified transactions and use that number to label the page?
There’s a little twist to how a sealing number is calculated to prevent this problem of someone going back and modifying a page (Block) as well as the sealing number.
Remember how we referred to two boxes? One box contained the number 20893 and another was empty for you to calculate. In reality, instead of two boxes, there are three to calculate the sealing number in a Blockchain. Two are pre-filled and one to be calculated.
The answer that comes out from the right side must satisfy the required conditions when the contents of all those three boxes are added and fed to the machine.
One box contains the sealing number, one box will contain the list of transactions and the third box will contain the output of the magic machine for the previous page.
We have made sure that every page depends on its previous page with this neat little trick. Therefore, if someone has to modify a historical page and keep the chain consistent, he would also have to change the contents and the sealing number of all the pages after that.
If one individual tries to cheat and modify the contents of the Blockchain (the folder containing the pages with the list of transactions), he would have to adjust several pages and also calculate the new sealing numbers for all those pages. Therefore, one dishonest individual in the network cannot beat the nine honest individuals because we know how difficult it is to calculate the sealing numbers.
What will happen is, from the page the dishonest individual tries to cheat, he would be creating another chain in the network. However, one individual’s efforts and speed cannot beat cumulative efforts and speed of nine so that chain would never be able to catch up with the honest chain. This means that the longest chain in a network is the honest chain.
BUT IF YOU WRAP YOUR HEARD AROUND ALL THIS-- MINING POOL MAFIA CAN CHEAT --AS IF HAPPENING BOW
If any collective group of miners ( KOSHER pool) were ever able to account for 51% of the total hashing power on the network, those miners would be able to exert significant power over the entire blockchain
51% attack refers to an attack on a blockchain – usually bitcoin's, for which such an attack is still hypothetical – by a group of miners controlling more than 50% of the network's mining hashrate, or computing power.
The attackers would be able to prevent new transactions from gaining confirmations, allowing them to halt payments between some or all users. They would also be able to reverse transactions that were completed while they were in control of the network, meaning they could double-spend coins.
Majority holding miners can prevent other miners from mining valid blocks and earn its rewards. It would corrupt the blockchain and render the whole system unsafe
If an POOL owns 51% of the total computing power of the Bitcoin network to reverse any transaction you feel like and have total control of transactions which would appear in blocks.
This is the 51% attack. Ideally a miner may need up to 65% of the network mining power (hashrate) or more. But, that’s too ambitious a number to be allowed to be acquired by an individual.
In 2016, CREW 51 specifically targeted smaller Ethereum based blockchains and held it for ransom. They claimed to have in possession 7000-8000 blocks which they would fork, if their demands weren’t met. As no deals were struck, they gained money by double-spending the coins in their possession. They also, hijacked the blockchain leading to losses.
In Aug 2016, Krypton blockchain was attacked twice by an anonymous group known as the 51 crew. The first step was overpowering the network with at least 51 percent of the hashing power to enable a roll back on transactions, and subsequently spending the same coins twice. The second step was employing DDoS nodes to increase network power.
n typical "proof of work" networks like bitcoin, a lot of computing power is spent to prove that a transaction is genuine. If more than 50% of the bitcoin network participants agree to a block, it is deemed as accepted.
To mitigate this, many platforms are moving towards "proof of stake" consensus. That ensures that instead of computing power, the ability to ratify a transaction is dependent on the stake the participants have in the network.
What could be the role of a coin in a blockchain?
A way of monetization for founders
A stake of the particular blockchain startup
An accounting method, a digital asset
A reward method for miners
A preventive method that stops double spending in PoS and PoW
A payment method between participants
A membership fee
Any proof of stake blockchain does not need a coin. Rather, what is needed is an ideal payment method (or currency) which is recognized by everybody. This universally acknowledged payment method would allow for the handling of security deposits by the miner (security of proof of stake mainly relies on confiscating a stake in case of misbehavior)
FBA blockchains (Ripple, Stellar) don’t need a coin at all. In this scenario coin neither increases stability nor effectively defeats spam. Validators are not paid with the fees in any case. They can use any existing coin (bitcoin, ether, etc.) to execute settlements with the highest efficiency.
Private blockchains don’t need a coin by default. Although they can operate based upon a digital asset (representing fiat), or some synthetic currency (e.g., SDRs issued by the IMF). But, until this blockchain becomes the primary source of information about fiat accounts, they must always be backed by something.
WHO IS THE MAFIA PUMPING UP THE VALUE OF BITCOIN--AND WHY?
WELL IT IS FOR SURVIVAL ( in this peabrained system ) AND IT IS AN INSIDE JOB !
SMALL TIME PRIVATE MINERS HAVE ALL MELTED AWAY , AS IT IS NO LONGER PROFITABLE --OR JOINED MAFIA MINING POOLS .
The current fiat price of Bitcoin is; critical for calculating profitability –read this line a hundred times .
Mining is NOT profitable at a small scale unless you have access to really cheap electricity ( or you are stealing electricity ).
PoW hashing ensures the proper function of the Bitcoin blockchain. Miners compete to solve a cryptographic “puzzle,” known as a hash.
There are no shortcuts in this process, which can only be solved with raw computational power.
By correctly hashing the current block, miners prove their investment of work and are rewarded with a certain number of newly-created bitcoins.
The number of newly-created bitcoins, awarded to whichever miner creates a block.
This number was initially set to 50, halved to 25 in late-2012, and halved again to 12.5 in mid-2016. The next halving event expected is around mid-2020.
This halving process will continue in this fashion, halving the block reward approximately every four years / 210,000 blocks, until all 21 million bitcoins are created.
Achieving the block reward is the only valid way in which new bitcoins can be created; by miners according to the code’s rate and limit.
Hashrate is the measure of a miner’s computational power.
The higher their relative power, the more solutions (and hence, block rewards) a miner is likely to find.
In early 2017, Bitcoin’s collective hashrate reached nearly 4 Exahash. This represents a tremendous investment into mining hardware, the R&D of such hardware, and electrical expenditure.
With hashrate shooting up over the years, it would seem blocks would be found by miners ever more rapidly.
Bitcoin’s Difficulty measure is what prevents this from happening. It adjusts to hashrate to ensure that blocks are found roughly every 10 minutes.
When total hashrate rises, the Difficulty of POW hashing adjusts upwards – and the inverse also applies.
Difficulty auto-adjusts every two weeks (or 2016 blocks).
Unless you command a tremendous hashrate, your odds of solving a block by yourself (i.e. “solo-mining”) are extremely low.
By banding together with other miners in a so-called pool, your combined odds of solving a block rise proportional to the pool’s total hashrate.
Whenever they solve blocks, pools reward individual miners according to their contributed hashrate (minus commissions and the like).
PRIVATE MINING WILL DIE UNLESS THE BITCOIN VALUE IS KEPT ARTIFICIALLY HIGH--AND THEN MAFIA POOLS WILL TAKE OVER.
There is this ever-changing nature of the Difficulty modifier and danger of low Bitcoin value—which reduces miners’ incentive.
The AntMiner S9 is a modern mining rig which offers a good hashrate for its power consumption.
Bitcoin’s total hashrate – and thus its difficulty, has been consistently rising since the early years
Some big, corporate KOSHER miners found their profit margins under threat from the resulting steep spike in competition. Indeed, in mid-2016, Swedish Bitcoin mining firm KnCMiner declared bankruptcy.
The primary reason for the closing was the upcoming reduction to just 12.5 bitcoins per block mined. Without a significant increase in Bitcoin price, and a high Swedish energy tax, the board of directors and the company’s investors decided to get the HELL out while it was still possible.
Imagine now--why HOME mining is literally dead-- with some APUN BHI MONER CUNTS in India still chugging along on SNAIL equipment --not knowing if they are coming or going
The rate of obsolescence in Bitcoin mining hardware is quite fast! New, more efficient mining hardware ( SUPER EXPENSIVE ) may be released at any time, although we are reaching the technological limits of improved efficiencies.
The average home miner has found it IMPOSSIBLE to rake in moolah to even recoup the cost of mining hardware and electricity.
The situation may improve in future once ASIC mining hardware innovation reaches the point of diminishing returns.
What, or who, adjusts the difficulty target of solving the cryptographic puzzle (every 2 weeks) to add the new block to the Bitcoin blockchain?
The network does.
Every two weeks (or 2016 blocks), the Bitcoin software does a calculation across all created blocks to see how long it took to create them. If the average block creation time is <10 difficulty="" if="" increased.="" is="" it="" minutes="" s="" the="">10 minutes, the difficulty is lowered.
The reason this needs to be done is because the hashing power on the network is dynamic. New miners can come online and drop off as they please. In order to adjust for this variation, the network has to keep recalculating the optimal network difficulty through this process
With the value of bitcoin soaring to new heights — more than US$ 17,000 ( two days ago ) — you may be tempted to invest in the latest equipment necessary AGAIN to begin “mining” for it. But while bitcoin mining echoes the Gold Rush of the 1850s, it may take a bit more than simply showing up, pan in hand.
Mining bitcoin is how this cryptocurrency is released to the world. For you to mine bitcoin, you must attempt to complete a “block” containing recent bitcoin transactions. These transactions are recorded in a digital ledger called blockchain. Once a block is complete, a specified amount of bitcoin is given as a reward.
Bitcoin miners across the globe race to solve a computational puzzle — called a “hash” — that will add the next block to the blockchain. Once the block is validated, a miner is issued a “block reward.”
A block reward is an amount of bitcoin given to the person who adds a new block to the blockchain. This amount is cut in half every time 210,000 blocks are solved. In 2009, the block reward began at 50 bitcoin per block. That value was halved to 25 in 2013 and was further reduced to 12.5 in 2017.
You can keep these digital keys safe with a number of wallet options:
Online wallets. Bitcoin keys are stored online by exchange platforms like Coinbase or BTC Market and can be accessed from anywhere.
Hardware wallets. You can use a USB devices created specifically to store bitcoin electronically and your private address keys.
Yes, people will be willing to make money mining bitcoin ( only if the vaue is pumped high artificially ) . The wildly fluctuating BUBBLE has made large nations wary--and this does not augur well for Bitcoin driven Blockchain.
With the value of 1 bitcoin rising to over US$ 17000, a block reward of 12.5 bitcoin is a lot of money. When mining first began, there was less competition, and to complete a block required a lot less power. Mining could be done using CPUs found on standard desktop computers.
Hardware prices. The days of mining using a standard CPU or graphic card are gone. As more people have begun mining, the difficulty of solving the puzzles has too increased. ASIC microchips were developed to process the computations faster and have become necessary to succeed at mining today. These chips can cost US$3,000 or more and are guaranteed to further increase in cost with each improvement and update.
Power costs. Running mining equipment all day long can consume a lot of electricity, which you’ll need to weigh up against any mining profits generated.
It came to a stage where only HUGE KOSHER POOLS were making money.These collectives pool the resources of its members and then divide the block reward according to shares. The pool gives these shares to members who can prove how their mining equipment contributed to completing the block-- a mafia controls this
The mining pool is an arena that will help the Bitcoin miners to share cost the price of a platform. They unite as a team, and once they make money, they have a predetermined KOSHER way of sharing it.
Pooled mining is a mining approach where multiple generating clients contribute to the generation of a block, and then split the block reward according the contributed processing power. Pooled mining effectively reduces the granularity of the block generation reward, spreading it out more smoothly over time.
With increasing generation difficulty, mining with lower-performance devices can take a very long time before block generation, on average. For example, with a mining speed of 1000 Khps, at a difficulty of 14484 (which was in effect at the end of December, 2010), the average time to generate a block is almost 2 years.
To provide a more smooth incentive to lower-performance miners, several pooled miners, using different approaches, have been created. With a mining pool, a lot of different people contribute to generating a block, and the reward is then split among them according to their processing contribution. This way, instead of waiting for years to generate some measly coins ( like Oliver Twist waiting for his gruel ) , a smaller miner may get a fraction of a Bitcoin on a more regular basis.
A share is awarded by the mining pool to the clients who present a valid proof of work of the same type as the proof of work that is used for creating blocks, but of lesser difficulty, so that it requires less time on average to generate.
The problem with pooled mining is that steps must be taken to prevent cheating by the clients and the server.
Many people read about mining pools and think it is just a group that pays out free bitcoins. This is not true! Mining pools are for people who have mining hardware to split profits.
Many people get mining pools confused with cloud mining. Cloud mining is where you pay a service provider to miner for you and you get the rewards.
Bitcoin mining tends to gravitate towards countries with cheap electricity.
As Bitcoin mining is somewhat centralized, a dozen mining companies have claimed the vast majority of network hash power.
With many of these companies in the same country, only a number of countries mine and export a significant amount of bitcoins.
China mines the most bitcoins and therefore ends up “exporting” the most bitcoins.
One of the big selling points of Bitcoin is that it's meant to be decentralised but it doesn't look like this plays out. Proof of work seems to inevitably lead to all the power going to MAFIA parties that can afford specialised hardware who are in countries with low electricity costs.
In order to successfully 51% attack Bitcoin network, all that's needed is a combined hashrate higher than the genuine hashrate.
When Bitcoin driven Blockchain was born--nobody had the BRAINS to figure out its inherent weakness --that the system is susceptibileto fraud if a group of nefarious KOSHER miners control a significant portion of compute power on chain, because verification is based on consensus. Jews getting rich without working has been the story of this planet , right ?
Bitcoin uses SHA-256 for encryption. If this algorthim is cracked ( by an INSIDE JOB ) then bitcoin is doomed.
SHA-256 and ECDSA are considered very strong currently, but they WILL be broken in the near future. If that happens, Bitcoin MUST shift to a stronger algorithm.
An attacker that controls 51% of the network's computing power can, for the time that he is in control, exclude and modify the ordering of transactions. This allows him to:-----
Reverse transactions that he sends while he's in control. This has the potential to double-spend transactions that previously had already been seen in the block chain.
Prevent some or all transactions from gaining any confirmations
Prevent some or all other miners from mining any valid blocks
The attacker can't:-----
Reverse other people's transactions without their cooperation
Prevent transactions from being sent at all (they'll show as 0/unconfirmed)
Change the number of coins generated per block
Create coins out of thin air
Send coins that never belonged to him
Note that the above limitations only apply to the perspective of Bitcoin as seen by full nodes. Some lightweight nodes work by trusting miners absolutely; from the perspective of Bitcoin as seen by lightweight nodes, miners can steal BTC, etc. This is one of the reasons why lightweight nodes are less secure than full nodes.
With less than 50%, the same kind of attacks are possible, but with less than 100% rate of success. For example, someone with only 40% of the network computing power can overcome a 6-deep confirmed transaction with a 50% success rate
It's much more difficult to change historical blocks, and it becomes exponentially more difficult the further back you go. As above, changing historical blocks only allows you to exclude and change the ordering of transactions. If miners rewrite historical blocks too far back, then full nodes with pruning enabled will be unable to continue, and will shut down; the network situation would then probably need to be untangled manually (eg. by updating the software to reject this chain even though it is longer).
Since this attack doesn't permit all that much power over the network, it is expected that rational miners will not attempt it( OH YEAH ? ).
A profit-seeking miner should always gain more by just following the rules, and even someone trying to destroy the system might find other attacks more attractive. Probably the most likely scenario where this attack would be employed would be for a government to try to get control over Bitcoin by acquiring a majority of hashing power (either directly or by enforcing rules on private miners within its borders). Then this government could use the transaction-censorship power listed above to do things like:---
Prevent any transactions spending "stolen" coins, effectively destroying those coins. If the coins clearly are stolen, then there is a risk that this action will be accepted by the Bitcoin community, but this would set a very damaging precedent. If it becomes possible for coins to be blacklisted in this way, then it is a slippery slope toward blacklisting of other "suspicious" coins.
Prevent all transactions from unknown people, so everyone has to register with the government in order to transact.
The appropriate response to any long-term attack by miners is a hardfork to change the proof-of-work function. This fires all existing miners, and allows totally new ones to replace them.
It is illegal in some countries to possess/distribute certain kinds of data. Since arbitrary data can be included in Bitcoin transactions, and full Bitcoin nodes must normally have a copy of all unspent transactions, this could cause legal problems. However, Local node policy generally doesn't permit arbitrary data (transactions attempting to embed data re non-standard), but steganographic embedding can still be used though this generally limits storage to small amounts.
Bitcoin was officially released by an unknown person who used a Japanese pseduonym, 5 days before Obama was elected. This person does not exist.
Secondly, bitcoin mining is designed to solve hashes in the SHA-256 algorithm. SHA-256 is a 256-bit version of an algorithm that is used to encrypt messages sent over the internet.
The NSA invented SHA-256.
SHA-2 (Secure Hash Algorithm 2) is a set of cryptographic hash functions designed by the United States National Security Agency (NSA). Cryptographic hash functions are mathematical operations run on digital data; by comparing the computed "hash" (the output from execution of the algorithm) to a known and expected hash value, a person can determine the data's integrity.
For example, computing the hash of a downloaded file and comparing the result to a previously published hash result can show whether the download has been modified or tampered with. A key aspect of cryptographic hash functions is their collision resistance: nobody should be able to find two different input values that result in the same hash output.
As people's computers mine bitcoins, they are discovering solutions to SHA-256 hashes, which then get stored in to the blockchain, which is a digital record and repository of all activity within bitcoin to date.
Each block is like one SHA-256 puzzle, that the computers try to solve. The only way to solve it is to guess the right answer randomly out of billions or trillions of choices. There is no algorithm or method to find the right solution other than guessing and then doing the computation to see if you were correct or not, due to how the algorithm is constructed (which is exactly what makes it good for security). So when computers mine for bitcoins, they are guessing solutions to that particular block's SHA-256 puzzle. When a solution is found, 12.5 bitcoins are rewarded to the miner who found the solution.
So it's a lottery of sorts. This is why people pool together to form mining pools, where the winnings are shared proportionally among everyone, weighted by their total number of attempted solutions. That helps take the luck out of it so everyone can get more reliable income.
Anyway, these solutions are so hard to find that even with all the computers across the world mining for bitcoins, it still takes 10 minutes to solve just one single puzzle.
This is why it's CONSIDERED secure.
If you want to hack a system that uses SHA-256 (which is a very encryption common system to use, alongside SHA-128 which is even weaker) then hacking it CONSIDERED difficult because you have to guess over and over to solve this large prime number problem.
However, if you have a list of all the prime numbers and their solutions (including many really huge numbers that haven't been computed except for this list) then that is a speedup to cracking a particular system using SHA-256, because you don't have to run all those calculations, you can simply look them up. In the blockchain.
So there is a potential the blockchain is an open distributed-computing SHA-256 solution repository, which enables hackers who know how to use it (like the NSA).
IN INDIA WE DO NOT RELY OF IMPORTED CHIPS ANYMORE BECAUSE THEY HAVE BACKDOORS IMPLANTED --MISSILES WILL NOT REACH THEIR TARGETS IN WAR.
NSA can spy on us - and hack or bypass SSL, SSH, PGP, etc-- we can expect NSA to PLANT weaknesses into systems.
The National Security Agency (NSA) is a national-level intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence. The NSA is responsible for global monitoring, collection, and processing of information and data for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes, specializing in a discipline known as signals intelligence (SIGINT). The NSA is also tasked with the protection of U.S. communications networks and information systems.
The NSA relies on a variety of measures to accomplish its mission, the majority of which are CLANDESTINE.
BILDERBERG CLUB LOVES BITCOIN DRIVEN BLOCKCHAIN!
THEY LOVE MODI AND JAITLEY TOO.
HUMARA KOSHER BANANA KITHE ?
SCRATCH SCRATCH !
THE PRESIDENT CAN BE IMPEACHED IF 51% OF THE MEDIA SAYS HE DESERVED TO BE IMPEACHED
WE THE STUPID PEOPLE THINK THAT THERE MUST BE ONE LAKH INDEPENDENT AND FREE MEDIA OUTFITS
WHAT IS THE NAKED TRUTH ?
JEW ROTHSCHILD OWNS 90% OF THE WORLD MEDIA
51% IS BAAYE HAATH KA KHEL FOR HIM!
BRAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYY !
LET US ALL DANCE TO THE SONG BELOW--
WHEN ARE WE JUMPING OFF THE DEEP END INTO BLOCKCHAIN ULU ( OR IS IT UDU ?)
ANYBODY HEARD OF SHA-256 AND NSA ?
KAUN SA KHET KA BEET ROOT HAI YEH ?
SEND THIS COMMENT TO --
SMRITI IRANI ( LET HER THINK IT IS A NEW SONG TO DANCE TO -LEST SHE SAY, IT IS NOT MY JOB AS USUAL )
FAYE SORPOTEL BABY --THERE IS MORE TO JOURNALISM THAN POTHOLES AND VVIP RACISM
I ASK --WHAT IS OUR BENAMI MEDIA WORTH?
This, in block chain, is the last thing a rutta maar mind would think, first doubt that comes to the intuitive.
hi tc,
CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL DECLARES-- NSA IS SATOSHI NAKAMOTO
Satoshi Nakamoto means “Central Intelligence” in Japanese --Satoshi is "quick witted " --Nakamoro is "Central " --people with this surname are found mostly in the Ryukyu islands
Bitcoin IS the ‘one world currency’ of KOSHER BIG BROTHER .
BIG BROTHER CAN MONITOR AND MANIPULATE EVERYTHING ON THIS PLANET.. HE HAS EVERYTHING ENGRAVED ON STONE EXCEPT WHEN HE WANTS STONE TO BECOME SOFT LIKE BUTTER--AT HIS CONVENIENCE
In the bitcoin website they say in BIG letters - “Bitcoin is not anonymous”
THE WHITE MAN WILL NEVER ALLOW THE BROWN MAN TO LORD OVER HIM.. INDIA WILL BE THIS PLANETs NO 1 SUPERPOER IN 16 YEARS.
WE KNOW THE DESH DROHI BASTARDS WHO WANT LAND / DEFENCE/ FINANCE TO BE INTEGRATED INTO BLOCKCHAIN
WE KNOW THE WHITE JEWS WHO WERE PUSHING CORRUPT / NAIVE INDIAN POLITICIANS TO EARLY ADOPTION OF BLOCKCHAIN FOR FINANCE AFTER MERGING ALL SMALL EFFICIENT INDIAN BANKS INTO A INEFFICIENT BEHEMOTH TO BE BLOCKCHAINED
ALMOST ALL OUR PAST RBI GOVERNORS WERE HANDPICKED BY JEW ROTHSCHILD AND BILDERBERG INNER CLUB
THE WHITE MAN CAN DO HONI OUT OF ANHONI AND ANHONI OUT OF HONI -IF WE DO THIS
Bitcoin was officially released by an unknown person who used a Japanese pseduonym, Satoshi Nakamoto, 5 days before Obama was elected.
This person does not exist. The person alluded to, said several times that he did not found Bitcoin.
Meanwhile several white con-men have claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto.
Craig Steven Wright an Australian computer scientist and businessman claimed be the real person behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, which is bullshit.
Bitcoin mining is designed to solve hashes in the SHA-256 algorithm. SHA-256 is a 256-bit version of an algorithm that is used to encrypt messages sent over the internet. The NSA invented SHA-256.
SHA-2 (Secure Hash Algorithm 2) is a set of cryptographic hash functions designed by the United States National Security Agency (NSA).
Cryptographic hash functions are mathematical operations run on digital data; by comparing the computed "hash" (the output from execution of the algorithm) to a known and expected hash value, a person can determine the data's integrity. ( but with the BACKSIDE OPEN to make ANHONI OUT OF HONI and viceversa )
Each block is like one SHA-256 puzzle, that the computers try to solve.
When computers mine for bitcoins, they are guessing solutions to that particular block's SHA-256 puzzle. When a solution is found, 12.50 bitcoins are rewarded to the miner who found the solution. So it's a lottery of sorts
BUT LOTTERIES ARE RIGGED BY INSIDERS WHO KNOW HOW THIS WORKS --this is why everything is kept deliberately complicated.
Miners pool together to form mining pools, where the winnings are shared proportionally among everyone, weighted by their total number of attempted solutions. That helps take the luck out of it so everyone can get more reliable income.
If you have a list of all the prime numbers and their solutions then that is a speedup to cracking a particular system using SHA-256, because you don't have to run all those calculations, you can simply look them up. In the blockchain.
The blockchain is an open distributed-computing SHA-256 solution repository, which enables hackers who know how to use it (like the NSA).
NSA has a backdoor to the SHA-256 algorithm
NSA HAS A BAD TRACK RECORD
All Bitcoin transactions are stored publicly and permanently on the network, which means anyone can see the balance and transactions of any Bitcoin address. However, the identity of the user behind an address remains unknown until information is revealed during a purchase or in other circumstances. This is one reason why Bitcoin addresses should only be used once.
The Fiat money system is doomed, all what you can read online is true (just sensationalized) – it’s a debt based system based on nothing. That system was created, originally in the early 1900’s and refined during Breton Woods
JEW Adam Smith is the hero of Amartya Sen's Rothschild JEWESS wife.
Adam Smith was the "one man think tank" to the owner of British East India Company Rothschild who ruled India . Adam Smith advises Rothschild on how to set up his banking cartel and set up a blue print on how to control the world.
PM Chandrasekhar was reduced to selling our Gold in 1991, and World Bank and IMF would NOT give a loan unless Manmohan Paaji was made Finance Minister. And later Italian Queen Bee Sonia would NOT have anyone else except "unelected" Manmohan Paaji as PM-- going against the Indian Constitution for a democracy.
Rothschild had done the same with SIR Chintaman Dwarakanath Deshmukh ( won Magsaysay award twice ) who was knighted in 1944 just because he had a Jew British wife.
Rothschild would NOT give India a loan to procure wheat from USA unless our JEW SIR Chintamani baby was made Finance Minister of India.
Rothschild used Edwina to arm twist Nehru and install him as the Finance Minister in the Union Cabinet (1950–1956).
SIR Chintaman Dwarakanath Deshmukh attended the Breton Woods Conference to create IMF on invitation of Rothschild in July 1944 . ) Rothschild liked this Chitpavan JEW and he was a member of the Board of Governors of both of IMF for the next ten years
Rothschilds controls the US Federal reserve, all the Central banks of all the countries of the world --except Libya, Syria, Iran, North Korea and Cuba. Libya has been taken out. The next in the pecking order is Syria ( failed thanks to IRON MAN Putin ) --then Iran.
Opium traders Rothschild took over India officially vide the Battle of Plassey in 1757 , and stopped all pretense of being traders, by amazing deceit which sprung from the warped brains of GAY ANAL SEX RECEIVING JEW Adam Smith..
Adam Smith was MAD --he has extreme OCD - his house used to look like a garbage dump as he hoarded everything.
When such people with OCD write the gospel of economics, " The Wealth Of Nations" you know what you will get.
Much later Milton Friedman effectively took many of the basic principles set forth by Adam Smith and the classical economists and modernized them.
INDIA HAS TO SACK 90% OF OUR PREMIUM BUSINESS SCHOOL ECONOMICS PROFESSORS
RIGHT NOW DONALD TRUMP IS CROWING ABOUT RISE OF GDP AND GROWTH-- THIS INCLUDES EXPENSES FOR PUTTING OUT FOREST FIRES, RECOVERING AFTER TWO MAJOR HURRICANES, MONEY SPENT IN PURSUING CRIMINALS AND CONTAINING THEM IN JAILS, BUILDING THE MEXICO WALL ETC
This is the reason why economists fall into the same hole again and again and again.
http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2011/02/are-you-mentally-sick-capt-ajit.html
The Battle of Plassey itself is a huge lie. It never took place. History was fudged. It is so easy when you control the peer reviewed media and publishing houses.
Bitcoin is not the ‘one world currency’ per se, but laying the framework for larger cryptocurrency projects. In the case of central banks, who control the global monetary system, that would manifest in ‘Settlement Coin’
NSA/CIA works for KOSHER BIG BROTHER .. it was kept under wraps till Trump told he will DRAIN THE SWAMP and take on ROTHSCHILDs SHADOW GOVT RUNNING USA AND CONTROLLING EVERYTHING --like Mannargudi Mafia in Tamil Nadu
BITCOIN IS THE BRAINCHILD OF BILDERBERG INNER KOSHER CLUB
EURO WAS CREATED BY THE SAME KOSHER CLUB
The FX markets currently represent the exchange between ‘major’ and ‘minor’ currencies. In the future, why not too they will include ‘cryptocurrencies’ – we’re already seeing the BTC/EUR pair popup on obscure brokers.
When BTC/USD and BTC/EUR are available at major FX banks and brokers, we can say – from a global FX ( forex ) perspective, that Bitcoin has ‘arrived.’
Unlike the Euro, Bitcoin is being adopted at a near exponential rate by demand
WE KNOW WHY ROTHSCHILDs APCO BRANDED MODI IS QUIET ABOUT BITCOIN --E SPOKE ABOUT IT A COUPE OF TIMES --PRAISING IT--IT IS ON YOUTUBE
So why Elite E Services is not actively involved in Bitcoin the answer is that previously, you can’t trade Bitcoin. They have been trying hard to declare it as a COMMODITY --like Pakistanis
When we can trade BTC/USD just like EUR/USD you can bet your cotton pickin' ass , that EES ( Engineering Equation Solvers ) and a host of other algorithmic FX traders will be all over it!
The NSA ( controlled by KOSHER FED ) has the capability, the motive, and the operational capacity – they have teams of cryptographers, the biggest fastest supercomputers in the world
NSA employs the best mathematicians and cryptographers in the world-on a NEED TO KNOW basis -making whistle blowing by NON-KOSHER and non-white difficult.
NSA was one of the first organizations to describe a Bitcoin-like system--12 years before Satoshii Nakamoto did.
The NSA white paper alternatively refers to the currency outlined as “coins” and “tokens.”-- a precursor to beloved Bitcoin, which utilized SHA-256
ONLY NSA HAS THE MOTIVATION TO DELARE THAT BLOCKCHAIN DATA IS ENGRAVES ON ROCK WHEN IT IS ONLY ENGRAVED ON BETTER TO BE MELTED AND ENGRAVED WITH FAKE DATA
WE ASK MODI , JAITEY, RBI GOVERNOR-- ARE YOU REALLY BABES IN THE WOODS AS YOU PRETEND ? DO YOU NEED A BLOGGER TO SPELL THIS OUT ?
IS OUR BANAMI MEDIA A POOL OF TRAITORS --OR ARE THEY REALLY NAIVE TO DEAL ONLY IN POTHOLES, NON-EXISTENT MOLESTATIONS ( LIKE GOD DIGGIN' ZAIRA WAHID / VARNIKA KUNDU ), CRICKET , BOLLYWOOD ETC ?
BOTTOM LINE: NSA IS TIED TO SHA -256 HASH FUNCTION -- ARE WE TO ASSUME THAT NSA IS "ALICE IN WONDERLAND"-AND THEY DONT KNOW HOW TO CREATE A BACKDOOR TO DO EXTREME HERA PHERI AND FORGE TRANSACTION AND ITS TIME ?
SREESHANT WAS FIXED BY "TIME" HIJACKING --TO PROTECT BIG FISH IPL OWNERS
http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2013/06/travesty-of-justice-sreesanth-and.html
ALL INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION COURTS ARE KANGAROO COURTS CONTROLLED BY KOSHER BIG BROTHER
HULLO MODI / RBI GOVERNOR/ JAITEY LISTEN UP -- Certainly, anonymity is one of the biggest myths about Bitcoin. In fact, there has never been a more easily traceable method of payment. Every single transaction is recorded and retained permanently in the public “blockchain”.
The idea that the NSA would create an anarchic, peer-to-peer crypto-currency in the hope that it would be adopted for nefarious industries and become easy to track would have been a lot more difficult to believe before the recent leaks by Edward Snowden and the revelation that billions of phone calls had been intercepted by the US security services.
We are now in a world where we now know that the NSA was tracking the pornography habits of Islamic “radicalisers” in order to discredit them and making deals with some of the world’s largest internet firms to insert backdoors into their systems.
ASK PUTIN --THE KGB MAN--HE KNOWS WHAT NSA IS UPTO WITH BITCOIN AND BLOCKCHAIN
MP Andrei Svintsov, demanded that bitcoin and digital currencies should be banned as part of a broader effort to stop capital flight. President XI knows flight of capital from China--and he is controlling it.
ONY MODI IS LOST LIKE "LITTLE BO PEEP "--HIS MANN KE BAATH IS ALL ABOUT PRAYING TO GANDHI AND BR AMBEDKAR --NOTHING USEFUL EVER COMES OUT OF THIS RIDICULOUS TALK--OR MODIs TWITTER TALK--IT IS ALL ON RECORD
Svintsov told Russian broadcast news agency REGNUM:-"All these cryptocurrencies [were] created by US intelligence agencies just to finance terrorism and revolutions.”
WHY IS THE VALUE OF BITCOIN DIFFERENT IN ZIMBABWE? TODAY BITCOIN VALUE IN ZIMBABWE IS 27900 USD WHILE THE REST OF THE PLANET IS 15800 USD.
I HAD PREDICTED TO MY WIFE THAT ZIMBABWE WILL HAVE A COUP SOON, KNOWING HOW BITCOIN VALE WAS SPIKING THERE
Because of pesky ‘domestic’ laws, the NSA doesn’t control the internet in foreign countries. But by providing a ‘cool’ currency as a tool, they can collect information from around the globe and like Facebook, users provide this information voluntarily.
It’s the same strategy they use like putting the listening device in the chips at the manufacturing level, which saves them the trouble of wiretapping, electronic eavesdropping, and other risky methods that can fail or be blocked.
It’s impossible to stop a cellphone from listening to you, for example (well not 100%, but you have to physically rewire the device). Bitcoin is the same strategy on a financial level – by using Bitcoin you’re giving up your private transactional information.
By itself, it would not identify you per se (as the blockchain is ‘anonymous’ but the transactions are there in the public register, so combined with other information, which the NSA has a LOT OF – they can triangulate their information more precisely.
Bitcoin allowed NSA to collect a host of criminals on a network called “Silk Road” and who knows what other operations that happened behind the scenes.
Silk Road was an online black market and the first modern darknet market, best known as a platform for selling illegal drugs. As part of the dark web, it was operated as a Tor hidden service, such that online users were able to browse it anonymously and securely without potential traffic monitoring. The website was launched in February 2011
WHEN YOU DONT WANT MOHAMMAD TO GO TO THE MOUNTAIN --HAVE THE MOUNTAIN COME TO MOHAMMAD
I HAVE USED THIS METHOD --AT SEA-LIKE IN THE MOVIE BELOW--SET MYSELF AS THE BAIT
http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2014/10/the-quick-and-dead-hollywood-movie.html
I ASK MY READERS TO SEND THIS MESSAGE TO SMRITI IRANI AND I&B MINISTRY SEARATELY---
MADAMA SMRITI,
EVERY TIME "WE THE PEOPLE" SENT YOU OR YOUR MINISTRY A PETITION-- WE GET THE SAME STOCK ANSWER
"THIS IS NOT OUR JOB"
WE ARE APPALLED THAT THE I&B MINISTRY DOES NOT KNOW THEIR JOB PORTFOLIO
WHAT IS YOUR JOB-- CAPT AJIT VADAKYIL WHO WAS A SHIP CAPTAIN FOR 30 YEARS , KNOWS THE MEANING OF "PIC OF COMMS "
MADAME SMRITI " WE WERE APPALLED WHEN YOU CHOSE TO CALL UP DESH BHAKT GEN BAKSHI "LIVE" ON A TV DEBATE -TO PATRONISE HIM .. THIS CAUSED THE BRAVE GENERAL TO CRY..
WHY DID YOU DO THIS SMRITI IRANI ? -- WHY DID YOU PREFER THE BOLLYWOOD MELODRAMA ROUTE WHEN IT CAME TO AN OLD GENERAL ?
THIS WILL GO AGAINST YOU--NO MATTER WHAT REPARATIONS YOU MAKE IN FUTURE .
I AM ENCLOSING A LINK FROM MY LATEST BLOGPOST BELOW
IF YOU CAN UNDERSTAND IT—READ IT ( OR GET EXPERT ADVISE ) AND REACT ON IT ..
WE ASK YOU “ARE YOU AWARE THAT VINEET JAINs TIMES OF INDIA HAS BECOME A PORN NEWSPAPER UNFIT FOR SCHOOL GIRLS TO READ ?”
IS ABOVE PART OF YOUR JOB ? DOES YALE ENDORSED “LEADERSHIP CAPABILITY” ALLOW YOU TO INCLUDE THIS IN YOUR JOB PORTFOLIO ”
CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL RETIRED 6 YEARS EARLY FROM A HIGH PAYIING — SO THAT HE CAN BE PART OF NATION BUILDING..
PUT THIS COMMENT IN WEBSITES OF GEN BAKSHI, ARMED FORCE CHIEFS ( ALL 3 ), DEFENCE MINISTER, PM, PM MODI, SWAMI, GURUMURTHY, LAWMINISTER, CJI, HOME MINISTER , YOGI ADITYANATH, EDUCATION MINISTER, FINANCE MINISTER, SUSHMA SWARAJ AND WEBSITES OF ALL DESH BHAKTS..
CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL WHO REPRESENTS “WE THE PEOPLE” DECLARES -- “ EVERY PAST JUDGEMENT OF COLLEGIUM JUDGES IS NULL AND VOID –REASON—BECAUSE ALMOST ALL THESE CASES TOOK TOO LONG TO SETTLE . ALL THESE CASES WERE JUDGES ON ROTHSCHILDs “JUSTICE IS BLIND” SYSTEM. MOST DIRECT WITNESSES WERE PRODUCED OUT OF THIN AIR.. IF THESE PAST JUDGEMENTS ARE LOOKED ON AS A BEACON IT WILL NOT SERVE JUSTICE –AS THEY WILL BE OUTSIDE THE PERIMETER OF CONTEXT AND WILL NOT FOLLOW THE PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL JUSTICE ( DHARMA).
WE HAVE A TWO FINGERED BLOGGER WRITING ABOUT BLOCKCHAIN AND SHELL COMPANIES
PRANNOY JAMES ROY WITH AN IRISH MOTHER CONVERTED HIMSELF INTO AN INTELLECTUAL BY TALKING MINDLESS SHIT ABOUT ELECTION RESULTS
WHAT DOES THE CHOOT MAIN STREAM MEDIA DO?
THEY ARE ENGAGED IN VVIP RACISm, HINDU FRINGE ELEMENTS, POT HOLES, BOLLYWOOD, CRICKET , HINDI HEARTLAND POLITICS
I ASK THE MODI GOVT
CHANGE THE RULESs
JOURNALISTS MUST COMPULSORILY DO MATH -- SO THAT THEY CAN THINK FOR PEANUTS
PUT THIS COMMENT IN THE WEBSITES OF SMRITI IRANI, PM MODI, PMO, FINANCE MINISTER , LAW MINISTER, CJI, SWAMY, GURU MURTHY, EDUCATION MINISTER
WHY MATH FOR JOURNALISTS?
WELL CAN YOU EVER MAKE THAT PEA BRAINED FAYE SORPOTEL DSOUA UNDERSTAND
THAT IN A NATION LIKE INDIA WITH 1300 MILLION PEOPLE
HAVING ONE RAPE EVERY HOUR MEANS NOTHING ?
A EUROPEAN NATION HAVING 13 MILLION PEOPLE-- ONE RAPE PER DAY MEANS SOMETHING
WHEN BASTARD ISLAMIC PAINTER MF HUSSAIN SHOWED SITA HAPPILY PREENING HER HAIR SITTING NAKED ON RAVANAs LAP AFTER ILLICIT SEX, THE COLLEGIUM JUDICIARY CRIED “ VERY GOOD. GREAT ARTISTIC FREEDOM”
WE KNOW THESE BASTARD DROHI JUDGES .. THEY HAVE RETIRED...
HINDUS HAVE WOKEN UP
RAJPUTS WILL DEFEND THEIR HONOUR
JUST WHO THE HELL IS THE FELLOW SANJAY LEELA BHANSALI— A MAN WITHOUT WIFE AND CHILDREN AT THE AGE OF 55 ? .
HIS SERVANTS HAVE BLOWN THE WHISTLE. WE KNOW WHO HE IS.
WE KNOW THE SEXUAL PREFERENCES OF MF HUSSAIN TOO.
Below: DROHI woman ( who looks like a man in a sari ) immediately called MF Hussain an ANGEL -- this KALANK celebrates when Bharatmata bleeds and is one of the most hated women in India.
EVERY LAW CREATED BY COLLEGIUM JUDICIARY IS NULL AND VOID AS PER OUR CONSTITUTION
WHAT IS THE WAY OUT ?
COLLEGIUM JUDICIARY MUST CREATE A TRANSPARENT WEBSITE
PUT DOWN ALL LAWS THE JUDGES HAVE CREATED
WITH A REQUEST ( NOT AN ORDER ) TO THE ELECTED LEGISLATURE TO SECOND IT AND CONVERT IT TO LAW
WE THE PEOPLE , THE WATAN AND DHARMA (NATURAL JUSTICE ) ARE ABOVE THE CONSTITUTION
THIS BLOGSITE REPRESENTS "WE THE PEOPLE"
FOREIGN FUNDED DESH DROHI NGOs ARE THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND ALMOST ALL PILs--VESTED WITH ULTERIOR MOTIVE
WE THE PEOPLE ALSO DECLARE-- BURN ALL PAST MELORD JUDGEMENTS --MADE BY "JUSTICE IS BLIND" ROTHSCHILD SYSTEM
JUSTICE MUST NEVER BE BLIND --IT MUST BE WITHIN THE PERIMETER OF CONTEXT AND MUST NOT KICK NATURAL JUSTICE ON ITS TEETH
AND ALL DESH BHAKT LEADERS.. SPREAD ON SOCIAL MEDIA
CHECK OUT WHAT THIS MENTAL AND PHYSICAL MIDGET ( NO WIFE NO CHILDREN ) SAYS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke92sTG9bL0
WE KNOW WHY JEW DARLING MODI LOVES USELESS AND EXPENSIVE KOSHER RAFALE
can you describe what a vaanara looks like? what about asuras [most modern hindu mythology serials as barbaric uncouth and stupid]
MAHARISHIS WHO WROTE ARANYAKAS ( PART 3 OF VEDAS ) WERE VANARAS
VANARA MEANS DENIZEN OF FOREST
THE WHOLE OF ARANYAKAS ( CONTAINING MATH / SCIENCE ) WAS STOLEN BY THE WHITE INVADER
VEDAS CONSIST OF SAMHITAS, BRAHMANAS , ARANYAKAS AND UPANISHADS.
PRANAVIDYA WAS PART OF ARANYAKAS
Aranyakas are generally regarded as a link between the Brahmanas and the Upanishads.
SOMEBODY ASK ME TO GIVE ONE EXAMPLE OF KNOWLEDGE STOLEN FROM ANANYAKAS
ANANYAKAS HAD KNOWLEDGE ABOUT VULCANISATION OF RUBBER
SO WHICH WAS THE BEST WAY TO STEAL IT AND HIDE THE SOURCE?
JUST DESTROY THE SOURCE.
THE WHITE INVADER WROTE THAT INDIA DID NOT HAVE ANY RUBBER TREES AND THEY PLANTED IT
SORRY-- RUBBER EXISTED FIRST ON THE WAYANAD MOUNTAINS ON THIS PLANET
WE HEATED RUBBER SAP WITH SULPHUR-- SO THAT IF YOU PULL THE RUBBER IT COMES BACK TO ITS ORIGINAL SHAPE
IN SANSKRIT AND MALAYALAM SULPHURE IS CALLED GANDHAKA -- WHEN WE USED THIS TERM ( BOOK RASASHASTRA ) , THE WHITE MAN WAS RUNNING AROUND NAKED USING GRUNT GRUNT FOR LANGUAGE
AYURVEDA USED SUPHUR FOR SKIN CREAMS
Sindhoor ( red pigment vermilion ), a pure form of mercuric sulfide, is traditionally obtained by reaction of mercury ( produced by reduction from cinnabar ) with sulfur, since the past 9000 years in India.
In India , Hindu women show a vermilion dot on the forehead and a line on the hair parting above the dot ( see first picture ) to show that they are married and the husband is still alive.
The sindoor on the parting in the bride's hair is first applied by the bride groom as a part of the wedding ceremony. After that the bride puts it on her own every day after a bath, till she becomes a widow.
When the married woman applied the sindoor on her hair parting everyday, she remembers her husband with gratitude .
THIS IS CALLED VULCANISATION
I KNOW MORE ABOUT RUBBER AND LATEX THAN MOST ON THIS PLANET
http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2011/02/latex-on-chemical-tankers-capt-ajit.html
WHEN RAM CROSSES OVER FROM KERALA TO SRILANKA --HE MADE A BRIDGE WHICH WAS FLOATING IN CERTAIN AREAS -- COIR AND RUBBER ( like mattresses ) WERE USED EXTENSIVELY
EVEN TODAY WE IN KERALA PREFER COIR RUBBERISED MATTRESS-- I SLEEP ON ONE .
IT IS THE BEST MATTRESS EVER-- COOL DUE TO AIR CIRCULATION --SUPPORTS THE SPINE
While coir (coconut fibre) by itself does not have any resilience, once processed with latex solution, the coir sheets get resilience and ability to conform to our body shape.
MAYA DANAVA TOOK RUBBER AND VULCANISATION TO PERU
GOOD YEAR WAS NOT EVEN THE WESTERN INVENTOR OF VULCANISATION
A BRIT NAMED THOMAS HANCOCK WAS THE FIRST TO LIFT THE KNOWLEDGE FORM KERALA
Jarana, is a method of stadial consumption or digestion of ever increasing quantities of mica or sulfur by mercury, until mercury is de-toxified and harnessed ( for making PARAD SHIVA LINGAM ) .
Mercury is the representation of male (Shiva) form and the chemical element sulfur associated in the solidification process considered as the representation of female (Shakti or Gauri, consort of Shiva) form
Siddhar Tirumular spake:--
"Enter the tenth one."
I took what was given me
and put it in my mouth.
And a bunch
of mercurial amalgams
I tied onto my wrist.
Off I went.
Entering the universe
of fire and light.
BALLS TO THE LYING WHITE HISTORIAN BASTARDS !
I ASK MY READERS --YOU MUST READ IT-- ONLY THEN YOU WILL KNOW THE MEANING OF BANANA REPUBLIC--WHERE WERE ARE NO BETTER THAN MONKEYS HOLDING A BANANA.
NOW WE ARE SELLING OUR FINANCIAL SYSTEM -- TO KOSHER INTEL-- BY A "PROOF OF ELAPSED TIME" BLOCKCHAIN WHICH HAS NOT BEEN TESTED .
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/social-humour-karni-sena-is-at-receiving-end-of-jokes-for-their-threat-to-Deepika/humour/61723441.cms
POOR BENAMI MAIN STREAM MEDIA
PEOPLE WILL NOT EVEN THROW SHIT ON THEIR TRAITOR FACES - THEY ARE NOT EVEN WORTH THIS EFFORT-- WORMS !
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/social-humour-karnisena-trolled-for-threatening-deepika/humour/61687998.cms
DEEPIKA IS A KALANK TO INDIAN WOMENHOOD
WE ALL SAW HER SITTING IN THE FRONT ROW OF AIB ROAST AND GUFFAWING LIKE A DONKEY WHO HAS SEEN FRESH SH1T AT EVERY FILTHY ANAL SEX JOKE
AND OF COURSE WE KNOW WHERE HER FINGER WAS WHEN SHE SAID SHE PRODUCED BABIES WITH VIN DIESEL IN HER HEAD
AAAARGGGHHH PPTTHHEEOOYYYY
C Prabhu November 21, 2017 at 9:28 AM
Have been posting your comments to PM, PMO, S Gurumurthy(at http://www.vifindia.org/author/shri-s-gurumurthy), Swamy(at swamy39@gmail.com, and his aide Jagadish Shetty from Virat Hindustan Sangam at jagdishshetty@gmail.com) and other ministers in BJP.
I have a hunch that SBI is being setup for pump and dump. Once a suitable crisis is thrust, a solution will be offered to deposit our temple gold in the bank (promising that it is temporary) to tide over. I am sure our Gujju-2 will be again rise to the occasion to save us, the way he did with Demonitisation. I remember in earlier occasions, Tirupati and Siddivinayak temple management were forced to park their gold in the SBI which in turn moved to RBI, which will find its way to London.
Shrikant Agarwal November 21, 2017 at 9:37 AM
CAPTAINS EFFECT
Govt sets permissible limits for antibiotics use in chicken
FSSAI will direct poultry farms to adhere to good animal husbandry practices and monitor the use of antibiotics and veterinary drugs in meat and chicken, says CEO Pawan Kumar Agarwal
Maximum permissible limits of 37 antibiotics and 67 other veterinary drugs are prescribed for chicken, the health ministry said in a statement. Photo: Mint
Neetu Chandra Sharma
New Delhi: The Indian government is trying to make sure that the chicken on your plate is free of excessive antibiotics and veterinary drugs that may be harmful for human consumption.
The ministry of health has notified an amendment to the Food Safety & Standards (Contaminants, Toxins & Residues) Regulations, 2011, under which maximum permissible limits have been specified for the presence of antibiotics and other drugs in meat and meat products, including chicken.
“Maximum permissible limits of 37 antibiotics and 67 other veterinary drugs are prescribed for chicken,” the health ministry said in a statement on Monday.
The ministry, through the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), has also sought comments from all stakeholders, including individual citizens. The comments will be placed for consideration before the scientific panel of the FSSAI on residues of pesticides and antibiotics.
“We will direct poultry farms to adhere to the good animal husbandry practices and monitor the use of antibiotics and veterinary drugs in meat and chicken,” said Pawan Kumar Agarwal, chief executive officer of FSSAI.
AVK November 21, 2017 at 12:19 PM
Knox November 21, 2017 at 10:13 AM
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pa39vv/eric-schmidt-says-google-news-will-delist-rt-sputnik-russia-fake-news
Showing their true colours.
Shrikant Agarwal November 21, 2017 at 10:35 AM
Mahindra & Mahindra open 1st car plant in Detroit in 25 years
Shrikant Agarwal November 21, 2017 at 3:47 PM
Indian companies saving Detroit
U r right captain
U said Tata but even Mahindra group jump in the chaddi of Tata
IN THE PAST TWO YEARS
WE KNOW WHO ALL HAVE PUSHED FOR SCRAPPING INDIAN VEHICLES --QUOTING FAALTHU REASONS
ALL THESE BASTARDS ARE IN THE PAYROLL OF KOSHER FORCES
I HAVE INSIDE INFO FROM TATA IN DETROIT
DETROIT IS A DEAD CITY--JUST SHOWS WHAT USA IS WORTH
WE INDIAN TAX PAYERS ARE REVIVING THIS DEAD CITY
JRD TATAs MOTHER WAS A FRENCH WOMAN SUZANNE BRIERE ( SOONI ) …. CYRUS MISTRY IS AN IRISH CITIZEN…. HIS MOTHER PATSY IS IRISH… Noel Tata's mother ( Ratan Tata's step-mother ) is Simone Dunoyer -a Frenchwoman. ….Only idiots will set up business in Britain, where people want money without working for it…. The John Bull is very conscious of his rights and pension demands….. Tata Steel was awarded the '2015 World's Most Ethical Company' award under the Metals category by the Ethisphere Institute. …….This was the third time, that Tata Steel won this award… BRAAAAYYYYYYYYY!...... SOMETIMES TO GET SUCH AN AWARD , YOU HAVE TO BECOME A CH0OT AND SIT ON CHANNE KA JHAAD…… Tata Steel acquired the steel giant Corus in 2007……To fend off a Brazilian rival, Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN) (this was a Rothschild signature trick for which only their ex-opium drug running agents fall )….. Tata had to pay a 70% premium over the stock price…… Mind you, Jew Rothschild was brought in to advise Tata Steel— in addition to ABN Amro and Deutsche Bank—late in the game after the Brazilian company CSN upped the stakes ( a game for CHO0TS )…….. On 30/31 January an auction was held by the Panel for Corus's shares, with Tata outbidding CSN at £6.08 vs £6.03 per share…….. CSN's bid had been supported by Goldman Sachs whilst Tata's was supported by ABN Amro, Rothschilds, and Deutsche Bank………….. SAAB ROTHSCHILD KI LEELA THA, WITH AN EX –OPIUM BUSINESS PARTNER !...... Tata paid only $4bn (£2.8bn) of the estimated $14bn final price out of its own funds – the rest was borrowed, mainly from Indian public sector banks. Corus steel was acquired by Tata of India in 2007, and renamed Tata Steel Europe in September 2010……. In September 2010, Corus announced that it was changing its name to Tata Steel Europe and adopting the Tata logo……… WE THE PEOPLE OF INDIA WANT TO KNOW WHY ARUN JAITLEY AND MODI IS ONLY AFTER VIJAYA MALLYA……. WHAT ABOUT THE LOANS TAKEN BY TATA AND OTHERS ?....... Even if Tata steel sells , the humongous GBP 15 billion British Steel Pension Scheme, a part of Tata Steel UK, has 130,000 members and will not be taken over by the new buyer….. This means the liability stays with Tata Steel……. Do you have any idea how much is 15 BILLION POUNDS ? ……. Are these PATHETIC meat and potato Limey steel workers lords and dukes?....... Why were Indian taxpayer-funded Public sector banks so willing to lend to TATA to buy up an overpriced and defunct CORUS steel , even as they denied loans to Indian farmers committing suicide and small-scale cottage industries?........ Repayment of those loans was supposed to be made out of the profits of Tata Steel Europe. But those profits never came…. Only idiots invest in British industry…… British who never sweated in their lives, want to retire in luxury by making Indians pay for them ........WE HEARD RATAN TATAs CONVERSATIONS WITH NIRA RADIA …..65 PARSIS WERE KNIGHTED BY JEW ROTHSCHILD BEFORE 1947, WE KNOW WHY TODAY.. capt ajit vadakayil ..
Now e-vehicles news are everywhere
Is it good for India or we should run on deisel vehicle
Write something on E-vehicles in india
Captainji, is there a connection between Mount Mainaka and Mount Mauna Kea?
IF ANY MINISTER, ANY GOVT BABU OR ANY MINISTRY SPAMS YOUR COMMENT ( WHICH I ASK YOU TO POST ) LET ME KNOW
I WILL NAME AND SHAME THEM
I WILL ADD THEM TO MY LIST OF DESH DROHIS
Pratik November 21, 2017 at 12:52 PM
aye aye captain !!
Whenever we mail PMO, atleast we get the reply that it has been received and reference number
But with other minister we don't get such thing so we can check the result of out complaint
I WANT FEEDBACK FROM OTHER READERS
LET ME KNOW WHO ARE THE BASTARD DESH DROHI MINISTER WHO SERVE APCO BRANDED MODI --AND NOT BHARATMATA
REMEMBER BHARATMATA WAS IN CHAINS FOR 800 YEARS -BECAUSE OF DESH DROHI SELFISH BASTARDS WHO RULED INDIA
I HAVE INSIDE INFO TOO --WHO ARE THE FOREIGN CONTROLLED BASTARD MINISTERS IN MODIs CABINET
Aiswarya r November 21, 2017 at 7:01 PM
Thyaga November 21, 2017 at 9:18 PM
No ack or confirmation of receipt from a list of email Id's that I sent. Info@sureshprabhu.in and pmo@govmu.org bounced back. And, not even a single confirmation from the below list of recipients :(
narendramodi1234@gmail.com,
privateoffice@govmu.org,
pmo@govmu.org,
yogiadityanath72@gmail.com,
nsitharaman@gmail.com,
2009vidisha@gmail.com,
jpnadda@gmail.com,
pjavadekar@gmail.com,
vijaympingale@gmail.com,
spprabhu1@gmail.com,
snmridula@gmail.com,
anandchaudhary2009@gmail.com,
Debdoot Sarkar November 22, 2017 at 9:28 AM
Hello Tyaga,
"Govmu" is a govt of Mauritius of Mauritius's Top Level Domain, used for their govt departments.
MODI AND JAITLEY AND YOUR SBI CHAIRMAN SIDEKICK—WHAT IS YOUR AGENDA ? DO YOU UNDERSTAND BASICS?
Knox November 21, 2017 at 6:58 PM
Jayasree Narayanan Pillay November 22, 2017 at 6:23 AM
nanaskhar guruji sent mails Yogi.Adityanath@sansad.nic.in
PP Chaudhary ppchaudhary@gmail.com
Posted.
is this chrohns disease a bad karma for all the traitor jews ??
KanDyFloes November 21, 2017 at 2:44 PM
Hello Ajitetta,
Whenever you go to Kannur, try food from Ondhen restuartant, the fish is super good ! Enjoy!
THE WESTERN GHATS ( WAYANAD MOUNTAINS ) IS THE MOST PRICELESS PART OF THIS PLANET
WE ASK MODI TO CONSERVE IT
NGT DOES NOT HAVE THE CEREBRAL WHEREWITHAL
ALSO PRESERVE SNAKE GROVES OF KERALA
PUT THIS COMMENT IN NGT, ENVIRONMENT MINISTER, PMO, PM MODI , LAW MINISTER, CJI , HOME MINISTER , HEALTH MINISTER WEBSITES
I AM NOT BOASTING
TO BE FRANK
MODI MUST HAVE A "VADAKAYIL MINISTER " IN HIS CABINET
Pixar6 November 21, 2017 at 6:57 PM
Indeed, the ppl of our country would be grateful to have 'Vadakayil Minister'in the cabinet.
Mohan November 21, 2017 at 10:43 PM
The forest encroachers first made use of the tribal wisdom to explore the dense jungles. Unlike other parts of the world the tribal in India were more cooperative with the foreigners especially the Brits. At that time the Western Ghats were very much undisturbed, dominated by wild beasts and tall trees. The local people were afraid of going inside the forest due to the dangerous landscape, fear of wild beasts like snakes, tigers and malarial disease. For an outsider the chances of getting lost in the wild jungles are too high. But the Tribal people knew the exact location of trails passing in between the woods.
The earliest organized trekking was the annual pilgrimage to the Sabarimala temple on top of the thick forested area at the upper region of river Pamba. This is also an example of peaceful co-existence of human and wild life. Vehicles cannot proceed beyond Pampa. Earlier people used to walk through the mountain trails that start from Erumeli and ascend the Karimala hills barefoot covering a total distance of approximately 50 km. The general belief among the pilgrims is that the wild elephants and tigers will never harm the devotees of Lord Ayyappa, since Tiger is Lord’s vehicle. Before venturing into the forest barefoot and unarmed, people used to observe strict asceticism for about a month.
The ambitious European planters reached the wild and unexplored landscape of Munnar in the later half of 19th century. Mr. John Munro, who was on an official visit to Munnar, literally fell for the beauty of the region. The entrepreneur in Munro won the confidence of the local Raja in getting 588 square kilometres of hills on lease. With the assistance from Kannan Thevar, the tribal chief of Anchunadu, Mr. Munro and his companions took over some of the mountains and hills of Munnar. The Kannan Devan Hills Produce Company was formed in 1897 to manage these estates.
The natural beauty and the wealth of spices available in Wayanad were so captivating for the British. They made several failed attempts to cut roads for taking spices and timber out of the forest. The tribal knew the terrain very well. One of their youths by name Karinthandan showed the British engineer the shortest route to reach Wayanad. He guided a British engineer through the secret trails to Lakkidi. But after learning the route and to take credit for the discovery, the British engineer killed the youth. After that the spirit of the dead youth used to haunt the place, disturbing travelers and terrifying them to death, especially unwary foreigners who happened to pass along. It is believed that a Christian clergyman chained the ghost to a tree near Lakkidi to facilitate a trouble-free journey for the British
Great idea.. imagine every dept has a Vadakayil minister.. what a nation we would be..
Soujanya V November 22, 2017 at 9:15 AM
ps2mefcc@gov.in
mcitoffice@gov.in
rg.ngt@nic.in
ngt.admn@gmail.com
jp.nadda@sansad.nic.in
Sent to all these e-mails, Thanks
Kapil Agarwal November 21, 2017 at 7:12 PM
There is a sinister plan to put Hindus in the same terrorist line as Muslims. Media is churning out news of chopping head,nose, recently chopping Abdullah tongue for his pro Pakistan remarks. They are probably fanning it not so Hindus give such provocative remarks and get entangled.
Mohan November 21, 2017 at 9:47 PM
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/thiruvananthapuram/kerala-police-firm-on-arrest-of-bjp-councillors/articleshow/61733361.cms
The saffron terror was designed with the purpose of breaking the Indian national spirit and make Hindus self loathing. It was a covert operation by CIA, ISI etc. The by-election to Municipal Corporation in Pappanamcode ward of Thiruvananthapuram in July 2016 was termed one of the closely contested by-elections in the city. The fourth number booth committee office of CPM was burnt by the BJP and a case was registered against BJP councilors. The ruling party misused its official facilities to spread false allegations. From the CCTv visuals, it was confirmed that the arson was done by CPM activists. At present, the entire Kerala state government machinery has become a chamcha of communist goons, now targeting the growing power of BJP
Her need YOU as a two in one minister for defence and environment. Rest all will flow automatically.
"VADAKAYIL MINISTRY " WILL BE HEADED BY SOMEONE WHO CAN GLEAN MY BLOGPOSTS AND ACT ON IT
Buga Sharma November 21, 2017 at 11:37 PM
I am interested. Put me in VADAKAYIL Ministry. Don't worry someone in future really act on your posts.
" VADAKAYIL MINISTER " IS SOMEONE WHO HAS THE BRAINS TO GLEAN FROM MY POSTS AND IMPLEMENT IT
AT November 22, 2017 at 2:50 AM
No one better than your self
Please conduct a test from your blog for the people who wants to nominate themselves for the Vadakayil Minister position, any existing politician can also participate right ??
You are the perfect one.
Abhishek Sharma November 21, 2017 at 7:24 PM
Revive Sanatana Dharma series. Propel it from 40% to 60% at least!
Subhash Rao November 21, 2017 at 8:48 PM
Dear Cap'n & readers, IIT Kanpur has developed a site which provides for reading/translation of Yoga Sutras, Bhagwat Gita, Upanishads etc in multiple languages (along with various translations including English, where available).
The 'Vedanta map' in itself, is a worthy mention.
Hope more people read & contemplate on our ancient texts.
With Audio reciting.
Aloke November 21, 2017 at 10:46 PM
Pls revive the sanatan dharma series it's the best part of your blogging sojourne.people need the power of knowledge.only you can give
RN Murthy November 21, 2017 at 11:01 PM
Sir Robert Mugabe quits as President of Zimbabwe after 37 years...it's Rothschild pressure and people are fooled ;-)
Div November 21, 2017 at 11:20 PM
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1831065180256814&id=1205218532841485
Probably Kerala's video. Family feeding elephant.
Gunjan arya November 21, 2017 at 11:26 PM
The Indian government has been pushing for linking internet users' unique identification numbers with social benefit schemes and financial transactions tracking mechanism. However, there have been major concerns about privacy breaches as the unique identification system captures biometrics as well as personal details.
https://sputniknews.com/asia/201711211059292519-indian-citizen-data-compromised/
lone wolf November 21, 2017 at 11:40 PM
I feel your silent revolution in my life. I now feel that the DNA itself guides the path of Sanatan Dharma. I could never answer or understand what makes us moral or where does the morality come from or does it have any basis apart from religious dogma. Your blogs have made me understand this.
If we could ignore fear and greed ( which is the free will), we will automatically on the path of Sanatan Dharma.The voice of conscience has never been stronger in me ......ever since I read your blog.
Please complete the Sanatan Dharma series.....even though what you have already written is enough to be fully understood...and followed.
Respected Captain, Yes please.. It is infact a mind opener for all of us and there has been silent revolution and changes are being felt - Kindly complete the series and enlighten us more.. The thoughts/ actions of this blog and comments are being passed on as word of mouth and at all possible situation to the people we know via all platforms..
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https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/delhi-being-a-union-territory-its-govt-cant-claim-power-privileges-of-state-govt-centre-tells-supreme-court/articleshow/61742390.cms
DELHI CM DOES NOT HAVE THE POWERS OF A REGULAR STATE CM
https://thenortheasttoday.com/art-of-living-members-arrested-in-meghalaya-for-arranging-unauthorized-meeting-with-hnlc/
WARN SRI SRI RAVISHANKAR TO STOP HIS EXTREME OPPORTUNISM FOR SELF GLORY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izLlYX-CX5Y
WHEN TWO PEOPLE WITH SHIT FOR BRAINS MEET
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS !
namaste captain, yesterday my husband and me escaped from a major accident. god protected us.
I TELL MY WIFE OFTEN--
AFTER 40 YEARS AT SEA, I AM STILL IN ONE PIECE
I FEEL GOOD WHEN I TELL THIS
Rk abhay November 22, 2017 at 7:32 AM
Why its forbidden to buy certain things on saturday?
Is it just a farce?
I bought slippers on saturday. Mom says its bad to buy. Also since then I am getting scolded from mom, bro. Uncle and sis are getting aloof. Uncle and sis both love me a lot.
Now cant even do wokr as mom is angry , i can't bear it. ( Dad is no more , so its only mom who helps me.)
Ranjeet kumar,
Not able to change name from unknown to ranjeet, will do it soon.
Div November 22, 2017 at 8:27 AM
Does marriage at night in north has anything to do with Islamic invasion and attack ?
Almost every second custom is Islam infected. Veil , dahej , patriarchy , Urdu , non veg, bali on and on.
Sagnik D November 22, 2017 at 1:50 PM
Bengalis tend to marry at night and everyone knows of the past Islamic influence on their culture i.e. meat eating 'brahmins'.
shivoham November 22, 2017 at 8:53 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZMpGZGyyc4
just like you always said,koshÉr dròne crashes into oil tank storage facility in Kôchi.....kill swit£h activated by unit 82ôô ??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXKM9VuOwCE
BIRIYANI PACKET CHALAA GAYAAAA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTo7MHDhh18
HILLARY CHEATED IN HER FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE --SHE GOT HER QUESTIONS IN ADVANCE --LIKE HOW AKKAL KA DISHMAN GOT IT AT US BERKELEY
AFTER SHE GOT CAUGHT BY THE BLOGSITE-- IT WAS DOWNHILL FOR HILLARY FROM THEN ON
READ ALL 11 PARTS--
Evil woman Hillary Clinton spake-- “I think Donald just criticized me for preparing for this debate. And yes I did. And you know what else I prepared for? I prepared to be president. And I think that’s a good thing.”
The first presidential debate was held and Hillary Clinton was proclaimed the runaway winner by the media. But I noticed from her body language that she got her ENTIRE SET of questions in advance
THIS IS WHAT US MEDIA CONTROLLED BY JEW ROTHSCHILD IS WORTH
Hillary got leaked debate questions from former Democratic National Committee chairwoman Donna Brazile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irj8JvfRkIg
During the first and second ( out of 3 ) debates—Hillary used a secret ear piece through which she got answers –and rejoinders to what Trump said
US HAS A SYSTEM WHERE ANAND JON GETS 59 YEARS JAIL – FOR TAKING BLOWJOBS ( YOU CANT FORCE A WOMAN TO GIVE A BLOW JOB, RIGHT )
JEW ROMAN POLANSKI GETS APPRECIATED FOR “DRUGGING ANALLY AND RAPING” SEVERAL MINOR GIRLS
Since 1978, JEW Polanski has been a fugitive from the U.S. criminal justice system for drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl and then fleeing the country. In Europe he made several faalthu films and got several Oscar and Academy awards
THE ONLY REASON WHY HILLARY CAMP DID NOT HIJACK THE ELECTION WAS BECAUSE DONALD TRUMP WARNED ( INDIRECTLY ) THAT THE SECOND AMENDMENT WOULD KICK IN AND HIS FOLLOWERS WOULD TAKE OUT THEIR GUNS AND CONDUCT AN ARMED REVOLUTION
POOR HILLARY-- SHE COUNTED ON BEING PRESIDENT BY ACCUSING TRUMP OF "GRABBING PRIME PUSSY"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SZYBXuepYo
Knox November 22, 2017 at 9:47 AM
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/destinations/europe/italy/photos-of-life-alone-on-a-paradise-island/
Meet the Man Who Has Lived Alone on This Island for 28 Years.
Mauro Morandi's failing catamaran was carried to Budelli Island nearly three decades ago by chance. He never left.
Rakesh Kumar Khandelwal November 22, 2017 at 10:26 AM
An offbeat question....
Why does love hurt so much...Why is it so difficult to confess it to someone...The fear of not getting accepted, kind of like, sapping all courage in life...
And yet the sweet pain becoming unbearable day by day...How to get rid of this...
May be it is easier said then done...To Love & Not be, in return...
No amount of knowledge / enlightment seems to be working...neither is spirituality... seems prayer is the only answer...
I am sorry Sir.putting such weak thoughts in the midst of all this.No one else to ask.
WHY YOU TRY TO HURT SOMEONE YOU LOVE, YOU WILL HAVE NO PEACE OF MIND
THIS IS A LITMUS TEST
WHEN TWO PEOPLE IN LOVE DO "BLOW HOT AND BLOW COLD" AT EACH OTHER -- THE CRACKS WHICH APPEAR WILL NOT HEAL
YOU ARE WILLING TO BREAK ALL RULES FOR A PERSON YOU LOVE
Free Spirit November 23, 2017 at 3:27 AM
Golden words, sir! Thank you.
Gunjan arya November 22, 2017 at 10:29 AM
Every Third American Woman Faces Sexual Harassment - Poll
https://sputniknews.com/us/201711221059316188-usa-sexual-harassment-poll/
By the way it is every second girl.
Indian media should report on this 24/7. But that won't make Indians self-loathing so back to being the rape capital of the world.
I beg your readers to avoid watching the national media channels. Let their ratings plummet into oblivion.
I am afraid my friend thats not possible because rating is also controlled by those bastards. I have seen tv since 2015. I dont watch tv or any entrainment like movies etc.
Best way to aware about everything is ajit sir blog( its like a encyclopedia.) and other freelance reports. But always check your source of information because its built ur perception.
Wyatt November 22, 2017 at 12:49 PM
"Capt. Ajit Vadakayil November 21, 2017 at 12:51 PM
MY 12 PART SERIES ON POLICE REFORMS IS JUST 40% -- I STOPPED IT THINKING OUR ROTTEN SYSTEM WILL NEVER IMPROVE"
All it takes is one person in authority to pick up what you have written on police reforms to get the ball rolling for changes, Capt. Ajit Vadakayil. It could be a year from now, 5 years, maybe 10 years. And who knows that person could be one of your die hard readers who maybe in the position to do so.
But if you don't complete 100% what you started, your 40% on police reforms may become useless. All series started must have an end, 100% complete. Your series maybe for specific current targets, but you also have to factor in the future generations reading and implementing what you have written for the well being of Bharat Mata.
Prapulla November 22, 2017 at 2:10 PM
Comments and suggestions for virtual currency adoption in India:
https://www.mygov.in/group-issue/commentssuggestions-invited-existing-virtual-currencies-framework/
I could not post the comments here. The discussion was closed in May.
Rk abhay November 22, 2017 at 3:00 PM
Now I have a name.
I was commenting as unknown, you ordered me to have a name.
I took it as a blessing. I will make a name for myself in the world.
Stars will rain tonight.
The rains will have a shine.
I am rainstar.
Stars rain through my eyes.
My eyes shed tears of joy and pain.
They have seen a lot in terms of pains.
They have had joys as life is meaningless without joys.
They have been fooled to believe that,
You have seen everything.
Nothing of value exists in your family.
The country that you feel for is a cultural wasteland.
The people here are best to be lured to far lands.
A single great act was not done here.
No powerful thinker exists who can open your eys.
I am a slow thinker, accept things after much thought,
Will complete it later.
I need to do a lot. Simply writing based on what I read here.
I will be creating ways, new ways...That my conscience asks me too.
On saving lives
https://www.newbusiness.co.uk/articles/international-trade/british-safety-council-opens-office-india-help-save-lives
and writing curriculums..
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/sme-sector/facebook-to-help-small-businesses-in-the-country-train-half-a-million-indians-by-2020/articleshow/61751484.cms
World Bank signs US$98 million Loan Agreement with Indian Government for setting up solar parks
http://opengovasia.com/articles/world-bank-signs-us-98-million-loan-agreement-with-indian-government-for-setting-up-solar-parks
R is all about the loans. Usury. That is the trap. That is the devil's temptation. Indian government can donate billions to other countries but must take 98 million loan for solar parks - does the public not see the ridiculousness of it all!!
End of the road for Rafale.
Brahmos tested from Sukhoi.
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-india-successfully-test-fires-brahmos-supersonic-cruise-missile-today-2561785
Kunal November 22, 2017 at 3:43 PM
https://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/modi-government-cancels-israeli-missile-deal-worth-500-million-reason-will-make-you-feel-proud/939857/lite/&ved=0ahUKEwiQ6_ek9tHXAhUBOY8KHVfEAtsQFghEMAk&usg=AOvVaw3W7b5BLjQGFJBQonJQnW3H&cf=1
Namaskar Captain one out way question can nirmali seeds clean hard water for drinking also there is big loophole in mineraliser RO company like Kent are mixing same water to make tds only what I got is lg & Whirlpool RO pls guide which mineraliser RO is safe or we can manage by nirmali seeds.
Moringa seeds can purify water. It is NOT a chemical like Alum which causes clumping of colloids causing to to be heavy and sink to the bottom
Filteration is easy as the colloids form flocs due to electrostatic attraction. Moringa protein is positive , while mud colloids are negative
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hZ5ixwcKno
THE WATER DRUNK IS GOOD FOR FUCKI FUCKI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGfZk35-Tia
MORINGA LEAVES PUT IN DHAL CURRY GIVES PROTEIN, CALCIUM , IRON, INC, POTASSIUM , LIVER / BRAIN PROTECTING PYTHOCHEMICALS ,
SADGURU JAGGI VASUDEV HAS BEEN PLANTING MILLIONS OF USELESS TREES WHICH SUCKS OUR GROUND WATER BY TRANSPIRATION .
MORINGA TREES ARE PRICELESS .
EVIL PHARMA DES NOT WANT THIS INFORMATION TO BE SPREAD.. AS THEIR MEDICAL DRUG SHOPS WILL SHUT DOWN.
In Kerala most homes depend of wells NOT municipal water. My home in Calicut has a well – we have NO municipal tap water connection
TO PREVENT DOG/ RAT/ LAWN FERTILISER SHIT FROM ENTERING MY WELL THE INTERIOR OF THE WELL WALLS IS CEMENTED TO A DEPTH OF 15 FEET , BELOW GROUND LEVEL IN DRY SUMMER MONTS ANY HOLE ( WATER INGREE PUSH ) IS REPAIRED .
THE EXTERNAL PART OF THE WELL WAS DUG LIKE A TRENCH THREE FEET WIDE AND WATER REPELLENT GRANITE CRUSHED POWDER WAS FILLED-- IN ADDITION TO CEMENTING TO 8 FEET )
Most wells in Kerala introduce an aquatic plant resembling lotus (Nelumbium or Nelumbo nucifera)—which floats on water .This gives a pleasant smell to the water.
THE WHITE INVADER BASTARDS DID PROPAGANDA THAT THEY INTRODUCED MORINGA INTO INDIA FROM SUDAN .. BALLS – THIS MORINGA TREE IS MENTIONED IN CHARAKA SAMHITA 6200 YEARS AGO WHEN THE WHITE MAN WAS RUNNING AROUND NAKED DOING GRUNT GRUNT FOR LANGAGE—BASTARDS !
THESE BASTARD LEARNT FLOCCULATION FROM AYURVEDA .
ON CHEMICAL TANKERS WE ARE EXPERTS IN DE-FLOCCULATION AND DE-AGGLOMORATION – THE ULTIMATE EXPERTS ON THIS PLANET
http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2014/12/flocculation-of-colloids-on-chemical.html
http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2012/06/cargo-recirculation-at-sea-onchemical.html
EVERY CHEMICAL TANK HAS DIFFUSERS TO PREVENT SEDIMENTATION OF CARGO WHICH WILL CEMENT THE PUMP
In Kerala we also use Nirmali or Strychnos potatorum seed ( where Moringa seeds are not available ) . The ripe nirmali seeds are utilized as a natural coagulant to clean muddy water.
In kitchens we have clay pots with KHAS KHAS . To purify water, roots of Khas-khas are laid in the clay jar with a couple of tiny holes on its bottom and turbid water is strained through this filter. Water filtered thus is not only clear, but has a most pleasant odor as well.
http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2011/02/naive-sailor-purifiers-and-clarifiers.html
MORINGA IS AN ANT-NAG NAG NAG TREE.
WOMEN WHOSE HUSBANDS EAT MORINGA DO NOT NAG – THEY CAN NEVER BE LIKE THESE FRUSTRATED CHUTNEY SORPOTEL MARYS WHOSE PICKLE JOHN HUSBANDS CANT GET IT UP AFTER TWO MONTHS OF MARRIAGE …
PUT ABOVE COMMENT IN WEBSITES OF PMO, PM MODI, HEALTH MINISTER, WATER MINISTER, HOME MINISTER, EDUCATION MINISTER , CJI, LAW MINISTER, SUPREME COURT BAR COUNCIL, I&B MINISTER AND DESH BHAKT LEADERS
PUT ABOVE IN FAYE SORPOTEL DSOUAs WEBSITE.. TELL HER MORINGA SAMBHAR IS BETTER THAN PIG SORPOTEL
They have spread a false superstition, that Moringa tree should not be planted inside your compound and it's shade should not fall on your house. How did this happen ? Was that a ploy to fool Indians not to grow them and use its' benefits ?
Sir you had said Bimal Gurung should be locked up. Now look with the SC has done:
http://www.news18.com/news/india/bimal-gurung-wants-probe-against-chief-minister-mamata-banerjee-after-supreme-court-restrains-west-bengal-govt-from-arresting-him-1582943.html
Essentially protecting him from his crimes. How can the BJP back this separatist anti-national as the Central Government? It sounds insane, no other country would do this. Can you please explain the logic.
THE DAY IS NOT FAR
WHEN SOME DESH DROHI SUPREME COURT JUDGES WILL GO TO JAIL---
BIMAL GURUNG IS NOT PROTECTED BY THE INDIAN CONSTITUTION AS HE IS A TRAITOR LEADING A SEPARATIST MOVEMENT USING PEOPLE HOLDING FOREIGN GUNS
Meanwhile, they get a bonus!
..For all their hard work presumably
http://www.livemint.com/Politics/zrAtHKBcXcUTa8jMFw8g2M/Cabinet-approves-proposal-to-hike-salaries-of-SC-HC-judges.html
Unconstitutional judiciary dictates to thousands of years old natural justice system.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/gram-panchayat-certificates-no-proof-of-citizenship-supreme-court/articleshow/61755713.cms
I got to know from a banker that gov of India may introduce 5000 rs note. Is Thu true?
abcindiagogo November 22, 2017 at 6:20 PM
I was busy for last 3 days. So I couldn't share anything to any officials. BUT, now I am making up for it by sharing as much as possible via Twitter and E-mail.
As usual, absolute silence from all officials.
Your list of desh-drohis will look more like Organizational chart of Indian Govt. That is how bad the scenario is.
See my handle if you don't believe me that I share your comments with officials.
https://twitter.com/abcindiagogo/with_replies
Sorry for the wrong link. One needs to be logged in to view my tweets & replies.
Here is a link that does not require login.
https://twitter.com/abcindiagogo
Buddha Zorba November 22, 2017 at 6:29 PM
Almost nothing is impossible. If you have to "see to believe," you'll
never see it. The best way to make absolutely no progress is by
talking an attitude of "I'll believe it when I see it." A belief is just a
thought you keep thinking over and over again. You keep thinking
that new, more productive thought more evidence will show up, and
you'll believe it even more. You believe it even more, and keep
believing it, you will see it. No way around it. So instead of looking at
"facts" that other people created, start taking control of your own
destiny.
--- shraddha is the key here
This is my style when filling grievance in PMO Feedback forms
Honorable Officials, protect the Nation by preventing misuse of authority by judiciary,
Quoting from deshbhakt Captain Ajit Vadakayil's blogsite
QUOTE ----
EVERY LAW CREATED BY COLLEGIUM JUDICIARY IS NULL AND VOID AS PER OUR CONSTITUTION. WHAT IS THE WAY OUT ? COLLEGIUM JUDICIARY MUST CREATE A TRANSPARENT WEBSITE. PUT DOWN ALL LAWS THE JUDGES HAVE CREATED. WITH A REQUEST ( NOT AN ORDER ) TO THE ELECTED LEGISLATURE TO SECOND IT AND CONVERT IT TO LAW. WE THE PEOPLE , THE WATAN AND DHARMA (NATURAL JUSTICE ) ARE ABOVE THE CONSTITUTION. THIS BLOGSITE REPRESENTS "WE THE PEOPLE".
---UNQUOTE
Read more about this issue in his blog --- https://tinyurl.com/yb6c5zlu
If you publish this comment, I'll assume that you are okay with this format. I prefer to give links to your blogsite because it is countless times better to read it from the man himself.
http://photogallery.indiatimes.com/celebs/celeb-themes/paparazzi-photos-of-malaika-arora/Paparazzis-obsession-with-the-gorgeous-Malaika-Arora/articleshow/61751654.cms
WHEN THIS PATHETIC BEHENJI TURNED MOD ( BTM ) DISPLAYS HER PRIVATE PARTS IN PUBLIC
SHE WILL WEAR DARK GLASSES
YOU SHOULD SEE HER EYES DART HERE AND THERE -- TO CHECK OUT WHO IS WATCHING HER PRIVATE PARTS
AAARRRGGGHH PPTTHHEEOOOYYYYYYYY
ALL THESE PAID NEWS WONT FETCH HER A JOB
What are biophotons, and how are they connected to light and consciousness?
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/mulayam-singh-yadav-justifies-police-firing-on-kar-sevaks-in-1990/articleshow/61754186.cms
WE ASK CM YOGI ADITHYANATH TO LEVEL CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST MULAYAM SINGH YADAV--FOR KILLING UNARMED KAR SEVAKS WHO COULD HAVE BEEN EASILY ARRESTED
28 PEOPLE DIED BY BULLET INJURIES.
THE REAL FIGURE OF DEATHS ( MORE THAN 82 ) IS SUPPRESSED , AS FROM CALICUT A BAND OF RSS FOLLOWERS WERE AT THE THICK OF MATTERS
PUT THIS COMMENT IN PM MODIs, HOME MINISTERs, LAW MINISTER, CJI , YOGI ADITYANATHs WEBSITES
Jayasree Narayanan Pillay November 22, 2017 at 9:10 PM
namaskhar guruji mail sent Yogi.Adityanath@sansad.nic.in
abishek venkat November 22, 2017 at 9:35 PM
Pmo, yogi, Amit shah
In ancient Kerala Kalari warriors ate MUTHIRA – the most potent source of PROTEIN. It has more protein than RED MEAT— listen up Kancha Ilaiah SQUEAK .
They gave it to their horses too , this is why it is called HORSE GRAM..
Horse gram (Macrotyloma uniflorum) is a pulse crop. It does not require too much water to cultivate this pulse.
It does NOT cost and is literally a poor man’s food. Fishermen have it as it keeps their body warm in winter , cold spraying seas. It is good food for diabetics and heart patients
I LOVE HORSE GRAM—IT IS THE MOST TASTY BHAJEE I HAVE EATEN
As per 6000 year old Ayurveda this humble horse gram gives enough energy and there is NO need to overeat and become obese
OTHER NAMES--
In Hindi: Kulthi
In Bengali: Kulthikalai
In Tamil: Kollu
In Telugu: Ulavalu or Guggillu
In Kannada: Hurule
In Oriya: Kolatha
In Gujrati: Kadthi Ni Dal
Men must know—Horse Gram ( Muthira in Malayalam ) increases the sperm count and gives you a hard on like BIJLI KA KHAMBAA
PATHAR PAR MARENGA TOH TUNGGG BOLENGA..
BACCHA LOG SOCHENGA PATHSHAALA MEIN CHUTII HO GAYA..
YIPPEEEEE...
Muthira addresses female menstrual problems as per Ayurveda . This can help women in excessive bleeding and irregular menstrual cycle.The iron content of the seed helps to maintain the haemoglobin count.
MY WIFEs RECIPE:--
Soak overnight required quantity of gram in water. Next day in pressure cooker , cook the gram along with salt , litlle chillie powder , a teaspoon of corriander powder. Once the whistle blows reduce heat and cook on low heat approx 10 - 12 mins. Switch of flame . After draining excess water if any add GRATED coconut and curry leaves and stir over flame. Season with jeera and red chillie. Add desi ghee for flavour ..
FOR PHOTO— SEE THE LINK BELOW-
http://healthyliving.natureloc.com/horse-gram-muthira-resist-diabetes-weight-loss/
PUT ABOVE COMMENT IN WEBSITES OF PMO, PM MODI, HEALTH MINISTER, FOOD MINISTER, WATER MINISTER, HOME MINISTER, EDUCATION MINISTER, I&B MINISTER , YOGI ADITYANATH, CJI, LAW MINISTER
Nelson s November 22, 2017 at 10:14 PM
captainji even in odisha Horse Gram is widely consumed especially in villages. its daal is one of my favourite . whenever i visit village i have this everyday . we have been cultivating this pulse in our fields.
Horsegram is very good for those who are facing stone related problems
AT November 22, 2017 at 10:58 PM
Thanks for the translation in various languages and for recipes
Captain can we eat kulthi seeds in form of sprouts. Because this way we can eat daily without constrain from family as they will not prepare same subzi every day.
Can kulthi be eaten as sprouts?
U talked about this war crime in Bosnia in ur post
Now see this news
'Butcher of Bosnia' found guilty of genocide
UN judges today sentenced former Bosnian Serbian commander Ratko Mladic to life imprisonment after finding him guilty of genocide and war crimes in the brutal Balkans conflicts over two decades ago.
The trial of the man dubbed "The Butcher of Bosnia" was the last before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and comes as the court prepares to close its doors next month.
The court found him guilty on 10 counts including genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the 1992-1995 war that killed 100,000 people and displaced 2.2 million as ethnic rivalries tore apart Yugoslavia. But they found him not guilty of genocide in the municipalities.
"For having committed these crimes, the chamber sentences Ratko Mladic to life imprisonnement," presiding judge Alphons Orie said, adding the crimes were "amongst the most heinous known to human kind".
After rumours he would not attend the hearing, the former general, 74, who once cut a swathe of fear against Bosnia, gave a thumbs-up as he entered the courtroom in The Hague.
But in extraordinary scenes he was ordered to be dragged from the court, when in an outburst he accused the judges of lying, after they refused to adjourn because he had high-blood pressure.
"The circumstances were brutal. Those who tried to defend their homes were met with ruthless force. Mass executions occurred and some victims succumbed after being beaten," Orie said, outlining the facts of the case against Mladic.
"Many of the perpetrators who had captured Bosnian Muslims showed little or no respect for human life, or dignity."
Today's verdict has been long awaited by tens of thousands of victims across the bitterly-divided region, and dozens gathered early outside the courtroom in The Hague, many clutching photos of loved ones who died or are among the 7,000 still missing.
"Bosnia and Herzegovina: No impunity for war criminals!", read one banner, while another had a picture of Mladic with a human skull saying: "Guilty of all!"
"We will see today. Will he be found guilty or will he be seen as a hero?" Munira Subasic, president of the Mothers of Srebrenica, told AFP before the verdict.
Prosecutors said Mladic and his political counterpart Radovan Karadzic sought through ethnic cleansing to "permanently remove" Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats from areas claimed by Bosnian Serbs.
Caught after 16 years on the run, Mladic was found guilty of the 1995 massacre in northeastern Srebrenica, where troops under his command slaughtered almost 8,000 Muslim men and boys.
The killings, in which the victims were marched away, shot in the back and dumped in mass graves, was one of the darkest episodes in the conflict, and has been called the worst atrocity on European soil since World War II.
Once a brutish military commander who strode around in combat fatigues, Mladic was also found guilty of "personally directing" a 44-month campaign of sniping and shelling to terrorise citizens in Bosnia's capital Sarajevo, which left about 10,000 dead.
Mladic was also found guilty of taking hostage more than 200 NATO military personnel and keeping them as human shields to prevent NATO air strikes against the Bosnian Serb army.
Prosecutors had called for a life sentence, after a five-year trial in which almost 600 witnesses testified and more than 10,000 exhibits were presented.
But defence lawyers -- who in the past few days filed a flurry of requests to have their ailing client's health assessed -- have slammed his trial as "political", had called for an acquittal.
After suffering at least three strokes, Mladic has been left with "part paralysis of the entire right side of his body," lawyer Dragan Ivetic said.
RATKO MLADIC IS A HERO .
His trial by a KANGAROO COURT formally began in The Hague on 16 May 2012 and was concluded on 22 November 2017 finding him guilty and sentencing him to life in prison
Ratko Mladic was Chief of Staff of the Army of Republika Srpska in the Bosnian War of 1992–1995
Rothschild used the EVIL Clintons and his own army NATO to do genocide on Serbia--the whole idea was to corner the RARE EARTHS of Kosovo
Ratko Mladicc's daughter Ana was shot dead on 24 March 1994, aged 23. This murder was converted by JEWS to suicide .She was not married and had no children.
Upon his arrest, he was allowed to leave his cell and visit the grave of his daughter where he spent a few minutes
SERBIANS HAVE BEEN AT THE RECEIVING END OF ROTHSCHILDs JEW AGENTS
http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2017/05/genocide-at-srebrenica-false-flag.html
http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2017/05/massacre-genocide-at-racak-false-flag.html
MY FIRST POST WAS ABOUT GENOCIDE DONE ON SERBIANS-- AM I A FOOL TO POST ON SERBIANS , MY VERY FIRST VENTURE INTO WRITING ?
MY FIRST POST WAS ON ANTE PAVELIC-- A HENCHMAN OF THE JEW POPE PIUS XII-- JEW HITLERs POPE
http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2009/05/indigo-adult.html
http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2010/12/last-crusader-of-last-inquisition-capt.html
THE WHITE JEW THOUGHT HE CAN BURY TRUE HISTORY USING WIKIPEDIA, KOSHER MEDIA HOLLYWOOD, JEW HISTORIANS, GOOGLE, FACEBOOK , TWITTER AND COMMIES ?
THINK AGAIN !
WE ASK "ALICE IN WONDERLAND " MODI GOVT TO UNDERSTAND WORLD INTRIGUE.. DONT JUST HUG EVERY KOSHER CUNT.
NOW ROTHSCHILD WANTS TO CAPTURE NORTH KOREAs RARE EARTHS .. HE CANT , AS NORTH KOREA HAS MASSIVE SECOND STRIKE CAPABILITY--THEY HAVE 5 MORE SUBMARINES THAN USA .
PMO, PM MODI, EDUCATION MINISTER, I&B MINISTER, SUSHMA SWARAJ, HOME MINISTER, LAW MINISTER, DEFENCE MINISTER , SUPREME COURT BAR COUNCIL, YOGI ADITYANATH
I WANT MY READERS TO SPREAD ABOVE COMMENT ON SOCIAL MEDIA..
WE WILL NOT ALLOW JEW DARLING MODI TO SELL BHARATMATA AT THE JEWISH MANDI--COME WHAT MAY !
namaskhar guruji mail sent mvnaidu@sansad.nic.in
C Prabhu November 22, 2017 at 8:22 PM
Received a reply from Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. I also removed few of text as I could not post more than 4096 characters here.
Forwarded to : US Child Health
Contact Address : Nirman Bhawan New Delhi
Grievance Description : HONOURABLE PRIME MINISTER JI, TWO DAYS AGO I WAS WATCHING A MALAYALAM NEWS CHANNEL TO CHECK OUT ACTOR DILEEPs BAIL AT THAT TIME I HEARD A NEWS CLIP-- " HEALTH MINISTER OF KERALA HAS WARNED PEOPLE AGAINST SPREADING FALSE RUMOURS ABOUT VACCINES" HE USED THE TERM "KARSHANAMAAYA NADAPADI " -- VERY STRICT PUNISHMENT ( LIKE JAIL ) LISTEN WHEN A COUPLE HAS A CHILD --THEY WANT THE BEST TO HAPPEN MMR HAS CAUSED DAMAGE TO CHILDREN ALL OVER THE PLANET . ROTHSCHILD MEDIA SUPPORTS MMR BUT DONALD TRUMP HAS DECIDED NOT TO ALLOW IT IN USA . http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-autism-anti-vaccination-vaxxer-myth-injection-health-campaigners-a7580941.html WHAT IS THE NEED TO HAVE A 3 IN 1 VACCINE ? ARE WE MISSING THE BUS IF WE HAVE A 1 IN 1 OR A 2 IN 1--- INSTEAD OF A 3 IN 1? http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2015/10/autism-in-india-and-triple-vaccine-mmr.html WILL YOU ALLOW YOUR SMALL GIRL CHILD TO BE VACCINATED IN SCHOOL WITH HPV VACCINES ( WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE AND PERMISSION ) IS YOU SMALL DAUGHTER SOME WHORE--LIKE IN THE WEST ? NOT A NON-SMOKER REQUIRES ANTI-NICOTINE VACCINE LISTEN--I AM A CHEMICAL TANKER MAN TRAINED IN BAD EFFECTS OF TOXINS ON THE HUMAN BODY AND BRAIN THE TOXIC/ CARCINOGENIC / MUTAGENIC CHEMICALS WE CARRY AT SEA ARE FAR WORSE THAN THESE VACCINES SEVERAL OF MY CHEMICAL TANKER FRIENDS HAVE HAD CHILDREN WITH SLIT UPPER LIP http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2016/03/say-no-to-hpv-vaccination-for-indian.html MODI AND JP NADDA HAVE WASHED THEIR HANDS OFF HPV VACCINATIONS DONE IN PUNJAB . IN PUNJAB / DELHI SMALL SCHOOL GIRLS ARE ADDICTED TO HARDCORE OPIUM DERIVATIVES LIKE HEROIN INJECTIONS . THESE DRUGS DONT COME CHEAP . CONGRESSMAN CAPT AMARINDER SINGH ( CM OF PUNJAB ) IS DOING A GOOD JOB-- http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2012/07/jewish-russian-mafia-capt-ajit-vadakayil.html http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2011/03/white-slavery-capt-ajit-vadakayil.html THE IAS OFFICERS OF TAMIL NADU ( MANNARGUDI MAFIA PAYROLL ) HAD THREATENED PARENTS WHO REFUSED TO ALLOW THEIR DAUGHTERS TO HAVE HPV VACCINATION MANY VACCINES CAUSE MYELIN SHEATH DAMAGE.. YOU MUST KNOW THAT I HAVE A GREAT "DOCTOR" FOLLOWING .. THEY KNOW I HAVE THE PERCEPTION AND GUTS TO POINT OUT THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM. http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2017/02/vaccine-induced-encephalitis-mylelin.html BRAIN EXPERIMENTS CANNOT BE DONE ON LAB RATS--AS THESE CREATURES DO NOT HAVE CONSCIOUS BRAIN --PASS COLOUR AND MIRROR TEST.. IT HAD TO BE DONE ON EXPENDABLES--POOR THIRD WORLD NATION POPULATIONS THERE IS A FLU SHOT CONSPIRACY IN INDIA-- POLITICIANS HAVE RECEIVED KICKBACKS IN THEIR FOREIGN ACCOUNTS AM I CRAZY TO WRITE A 4 PART SERIES ON FLU VACCINES ? I HAVE WRITTEN IT FOR PM MODI ALONE-- http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.com/2017/05/flue-shots-pneumococcal-vaccines-capt.html Regards, C Prabhu
Date of Action : 13 Nov 2017
Details : A reply has been sent to petitioner vide our letter no. PMOPG/E/2017/0542544 dated on 06 Oct 2017
I could not copy paste the attachment, so, it is:
"Please refer to your grievance Regstration No. PMOPG/E/2017/0542544 dated 06.10.2017. This is intimated that the vaccines under Universal Immunication Programme(UIP) of this Ministry are not mandatory. It is added that HPV is not in UIP of this Ministry.
With reference to other issues raised i.e. illegal trial of dru/vaccines etc, your representation is also being sent to Drug Regulation Section of this Ministry, Govt of Tamilnadu, Govt of Delhi and Govt of Punjab for necesary action.
Sd. D.K.Sahu
Under Secretary to Govt. of India
Tel: 011-23062666 "
WE ASK THE MODI GOVT TO PUNISH BENAMI MEDIA WHO DO EXTREME RABBLE ROUSING ABOUT VVIP RACISM
ELECTED REPS OF THE PEOPLE SHALL GET PRIVILEGE OF THE POST
http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2012/07/example-of-word-rant-capt-ajit.html
sub BLOCKCHAIN AND SHELL companie namaskhar guruji sent mail to the below people pseam@mea.gov.in
https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/70-shell-firms-in-sasikala-search-187914
THIS IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG
FIND OUT THE JUDGES, TOP POLICE OFFICERS, TOP IAS BABUS AND TOP POLITICIANS IN THE PAYROLL OF MANNARGURDI MAFIA
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR THE IRANIAN JEWESS IS THE BITCH WHO DID MAXIMUM FALSE REPORTING AGAINST SERBIANS
http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2017/04/the-most-evil-journalist-capt-ajit.html
Slasher November 22, 2017 at 9:42 PM
Abc:
I am going the same route. Thanks for showing the way. I also make two small changes : I remove all swear words. And I change captain's all cap writing style to sentence style so it doesn't seem like we are yelling at the minister. Subtle change but I believe it makes a difference in readability and people's ingrained attitude against all-caps. We want our Captain's words to be read and acted upon. That's all.
ASHISH SHETTY November 22, 2017 at 9:44 PM
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/assams-national-register-of-citizens-1-2-cr-names-yet-to-be-verified-mha-seeks-more-time-from-sc-4948803/
The next surprise from Narendra Modi will be the outster of illegal Bangladeshi Muslims in Assam from India.
There is a process going on for updating the National Citizens Register (NCR) in Assam. It is aimed at removal of the names of illegals from Indian ration cards. It will fulfill the long standing demand of the indigenous people of Assam that all illegals be sent back. Around 50 lakhs Muslims will be stripped of their citizenship as they are living illegally in India.
The list was to shown in December end but it has been extended by six months. This move is likely to help BJP in the 2019 elections as it will bolster ratings of PM Narendra Modi
Sagnik D November 23, 2017 at 9:56 AM
Let us pray this happens.
Samvid November 22, 2017 at 9:51 PM
Respected and Beloved Captain,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8aETK5pQR4
A masterpiece by Mrs Indira Gandhi..The Lady of Iron Balls who confronts and stripes naked the hypocrisy of media...and judiciary...
A must watch by all deshbhaktas.
SBBJECT ---TRUTHS ABUT QUEEN PADMAVATHY AND ALAUDDIN KHALJI
RANI PADMINI WAS A PRINCESS FROM CALICUT .
HER GREAT BEAUTY AND QUALITIES WERE KNOWN ALL OVER
SHE WAS RENAMED PADMAVATHY BY HER RAJPUT KING HUSBAND.
SHE DID NOT HAVE A SWAYAMVAR. RATHER RAJPUT KING RATAN SINGH CAME TO KERALA AND ASKED HER FATHER FOR HER HAND IN MARRIAGE .
RATAN SINGH MARRIED HER IN KERALA AND MADE HER THE QUEEN OF CHITOOR.. THE GRACEFUL AND STATELY QUEEN FROM KERALA WAS REVERED BY THE RAJPUTS AS THEIR MOTHER ..
Fascinated by Padmini's description, Allauddin Khilji went all the way to Chittor in order to acquire her.... Khilji’s request to have a glimpse of the queen was turned down as Rajput culture forbade women from meeting strangers. ... .
Khilji then waged a war against Chittor where King Ratan Singh fell in battle…. As soon a Rani Padmini ( Padmavati --was the name given by Ratan Singh ) heard of her husbands death she along with the entire young women in the fort committed
JAUHAR… THIS WAS NOT SATI… IT WAS FUSING THE VAG1NA SO THAT KHILJI COULD NOT EVEN RAPE HER DEAD BODY..
JAUHAR , THE HEROIC PRACTISE OF RAJPUT WOMEN JUMPING INTO THE FIRE IN FRONT OF THE LIVE HUSBANDS AND FATHERS , ON THE LAST NIGHT OF A LOSING BATTLE , IS NOT SATI.. . IT WAS BETTER TO DIE THAN LAND UP IN A ISLAMIC MANDI ( WH0REHOUSE ) TO BE REPEATEDLY USED AS A SEX SLAVE ....
PADMAVATI WAS NOT A RAJPUT WOMAN-- -- SHE WAS A MALAYALI PRINCESS FROM NORTH KERALA WHO EXCELLED IN ALL 64 KALAS OF A HINDU WOMAN
Somnath temple was looted, destroyed by Islamic invaders and resurrected 17 times by Hindus
Alauddin Khalji (1296 – 1316) was the second ruler of the Khalji dynasty
Alauddin was a nephew and a son-in-law of his predecessor Jalaluddin Firuz Khalji who was the founder and first Sultan of the Khalji dynasty…
In 1296 the Somnath temple was destroyed by Allauddin Khilji and his army. Somnath had been rebuilt after Mahmud of Ghazni had plundered it almost 275 years earlier
Alauddin Khalji's army, led by Ulugh Khan, defeated the Vaghela king Karna, and sacked the Somnath temple. According to Taj-ul-Ma'sir of Hasan Nizami, the Sultan boasted that "fifty thousand infidels were dispatched to hell by the sword" and "more than twenty thousand slaves, and cattle beyond all calculation fell into the hands of the victors"
Alauddin Khiljiw as addicted to ANALLY RAPING both small boys and girls. He changed them after one sexual intercourse . He needed variety.
It is a LIE that Khiljis repulsed a Mongol invasion.
Alauddin Khalji subjugated the Hindu kingdom of Chittor in 1303
Mahmud of Ghazni ( 971 –l 1030), was the most prominent ruler of the Ghaznavid Empire. In 1024, the Somnath temple was razed by terrorist Islamist ruler gay king Mahmud of Ghazni.
PUT THIS COMMENT IN THE WEBSITES OF PMO, PM MODI, CJI, SUPREME COURT BAR COUNCIL, LAW MINISTER, HOME MINISTER, EDUCATION MINISTER, I&B MINISTER , DEFENCE MINISTER, SUSHMA SWARAJ , AJIT DOVAL AND CM OF RAJASTHAN , YOGI ADITYANATH
Sir, thanks for the Mongol stuff! By the way, how deep did Mongols come to India? Earlier, you had said Genghis Khan was of Karn lineage. Anyways, what was the extent of little bit Mongol conquests in India?
Mohan November 23, 2017 at 5:50 AM
Timur had taken the mantle of Genghis Khan building an empire which stretched from Europe to Eastern Asia. Timur sacked Delhi with brutal ferocity. Later his great great great grandson Babur established the Mughal(Mongol) dynasty. Timur is a national hero in Uzbekistan. Babur’s home is now a museum. Parks and monuments are dedicated to him. The Uzbekis even have an organisation – the Babur International Foundation – expressly devoted to the study of Babur’s history.
Tashkent is in Uzbekistan. In 1966, the Soviets moderated peace talks during the 1965 War. Former PM Shastri had a sudden death immediately after the peace agreement was signed. His official cause of death was a heart attack but his family suspected foul play. Nothing, however, could be ascertained since no postmortem was conducted
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/woman-confronts-union-minister-kj-alphons-for-flight-delay-at-imphal-airport/articleshow/61755538.cms
FROM BODY LANGUAGE THIS WOMAN I SAW ON TV SUFFERS FROM HYSTERIA
Thanks for the reassurance. Something was not right. All this unnecessary drama. Playing to the camera.
Jayasree Narayanan Pillay November 22, 2017 at 10:32 PM
namaskhar guruji mail sent Date: Nov 22, 2017 9:00 PM
Subject: TRUTHS ABUT QUEEN PADMAVATHY AND ALAUDDIN KHALJI
To: , , , , , , , , "Sushma Swaraj" <2009vidisha@gmail.com>, , "Ravi Shankar Prasad" , "Narendra Modi" , , , , , , , , "Nirmala Sitharaman" , "mridula sinha"
Sushanta Kumar Das November 22, 2017 at 10:39 PM
Hi Ajit,
I couldn't comment in the previous Post .I am so happy to know that the Calculus Thief Newton Caught below his pant by the same White people of Manchester University :http://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/indians-predated-newton-discovery-by-250-years/
Sushanta Das
Buddha Zorba November 22, 2017 at 11:04 PM
I got inside information from vegetable vendors that indian onions are being exported abroad and india is importing rotten pakistani onions at Rs. 40 per kg.
all the best grown organic stuff are going abroad and we indians are getting shit foreign stuff
Check this kid out
https://www.facebook.com/thelogicalfeed/videos/2005110353035818/?hc_ref=ARSbX6qrULXshVmyXuXxj0Zi0bLG2r3--jlJsOMMaOUynbVAvCzHgdBKuSBfh-pu9PM&fref=gs&dti=157922590915148&hc_location=group
HIS FATHER IS A COMPUTER PROGRAMMER
THIS IS NO BIG DEAL
THIS IS LIKE WILLIAMS SISTERS AND MARIA SHARPOVA GOING TO PLAY WITH RACKETS LARGER THAN THEMSELVES AT THE AGE OF 4
TheCosmicSparkle November 23, 2017 at 2:03 PM
Exactly, captain. It's also projected as using Watson APIs is a genius thing to do!
https://www.khaleejtimes.com/international/india/dubai-bound-passenger-flies-hungry-as-indigo-refuses-to-accept-indian-currency
WHO IS THE REAL FOREIGN OWNER OF THIS BENAMI AIRLINE ?
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Pay-in-dollars-on-domestic-airlines-flying-abroad/articleshow/38984729.cms
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-2832814/Flight-delayed-90-minutes-pilot-refuses-passenger-apologises-staff-complaining-late-running-service.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3554181/IndiGo-passenger-arrested-recording-video-flight-attendants.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wv3Ya9nskA
Dear Sir,The above music is a purely based on RAAG SHIVARANJINI e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wv3Ya9nskA listen from 0.25-0.35 the same tune.
Rob Watson November 23, 2017 at 5:59 AM
Captain, For your interest, http://www.thedailysheeple.com/the-cia-documented-long-range-planning-for-a-drugged-and-debilitated-society-opioids-are-perfect-fit_112017
As always captain is always right.
Final nail in the coffin for the lunatic lefties.
https://www.infowars.com/the-end-of-angela-merkel-chancellors-fall-from-top-to-come-quickly/
Sir I was reading commentary on Rousseau's Emile.
They say it was the first book ever on raising a kid , written around 1770. Blatant lie and inferiority complex of whites.
Our samskaras have been around for millenniums.
Sir, you should please write a blog exposin these so called 'best philosophers of all time'(the list never has shankaracharya).
Kant , Socrates , Plato are always presented in divine light. ............What was their worth?
Best known when we read them. Mere copy paste of inferior quality.
Receipt : 19 Sep 2017
Grievance Description : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/rohingya-issue-govts-domain-not-courts-centre-to-sc/articleshow/60739224.cms WE THE PEOPLE , HAVE A LIST OF COLLEGIUM JUDGES WHO HAVE INTERFERED WITH BHARATMATAs SECURITY AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN .... THESE COLLEGIUM JUDGES ALWAYS TOOK THE SIDE OF THE POISONOUS FOREIGN BLACK MAMBA WHO TRIED TO KILL BHARATMATA --NEVER THE SIDE OF DESH BHAKT JAWANS WHO FIGHT THEM TO PROTECT BHARATMATA. WE ASK THE MODI GOVT TO DISMISS THESE SERVING JUDGES AND STOP THE RETIREMENT BENEFITS OF THE ONES WHO HAVE RETIRED--NAME AND SHAME THEM... WHY IS NHRC AND NCM ALWAYS ON THE SIDE OF DESH DROHIS AND NAXALS ? WHAT IS THE CATCH ? WE DONT WANT LOSER LAWYERS TURNED JUDGES TO SAVE BHARATMATA... THESE ARE THE BOTTOM DREGS OF THE SCHOOL CEREBRAL BARREL.. SHALL WE TAKE IN SOME NIGERIAN MUSLIM DRUG RUNNERS TOO AS REFUGEES ?.... KASHMIRI PANDITS WERE IGNORED BY NHRC AND COLLEGOUM MELORDS..... WHY ?... http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2017/08/right-to-privacy-in-india-is-not.html Put above comment in the websites of PM, PMO, DEFENCE MINISTER, ALL THREE ARMED FORCE CHIEFS, HOME MINISTER, LAW MINISTER AND EVERY DESH BHAKT POLITICIAN ASK FOR AN ACK.. I ASK ALL MY READERS TO USE EVERY WHICH WAY--TWITTER, FACEBOOK, WHATSUP ETC WE HAVE TO STOP THIS BULLSHIT JUDICIAL OVERREACH NOW. capt ajit vadakayil ..
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Grievance Description : Capt. Ajit VadakayilOctober 12, 2017 at 3:02 PM DONALD TRUMP LISTEN UP AND LISTEN GOOD PUNISH ROTHSCHILDs MEDIA NBC FOR LYING " TRUMP SAID HE WANTS A TEN TIMES BIGGER NUCLEAR ARSENAL" EVERY WAR / REVOLUTION/ COUP ON THIS PLANET IN THE PAST 300 YEARS HAVE BEEN TRIGGERED BY ROTHSCHILD MEDIA LIES.. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION WAS CREATED BY A LIE THAT QUEEN SAID " IF PEOPLE DONT HAVE BREAD LET THEM EAT CAKE " http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2015/11/the-french-revolution-conceived-and.html AND THEN ROTHSCHILD USED HIS FREEMASON LODGES TO WHIP UP THE FRENCH REVOLUTION http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2011/08/freemason-lodge-of-calicut-capt-ajit.html THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION WAS KICK STARTED BY THE KOSHER LIE THAT THE QUEEN ALLOWED HER LOVER MONK NAMED RASPUTIN TO GOVERN RUSSIA .. http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2013/07/exhuming-dirty-secrets-of-holodomor.html RASPUTIN WAS ACTUALLY A GREAT HEALER WHO CURED THE CZARS ONLY SON ( HEIR ) OF A DEADLY DISEASE.. http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2010/12/rasputin-and-his-wart-capt-ajit.html THE CHINESE REVOLUTION WAS CREATED BY FAKE NEWS THAT CRYPTO JEW MAO WALKED 12500 KMS FOR HIS CHINESE PEOPLE AND HENCE IS A GREAT HERO .. ACTUALLY ROLY POLY JEW MAO TOOK ROTHSCHILDs SHIP FROM START TO FINISH , HE DID NOT WALK AT ALL ... http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2013/08/chinese-revolution-biggest-genocide-on.html THE CURRENT RULING ELITE OF USA ARE ROTHSCHILDs DRUG RUNNERS WHO WERE FREEMASONS. LIES LAST FOR CENTURIES... http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2010/12/dirty-secrets-of-boston-tea-party-capt.html BR AMBEDKARs GRANDFATHER WAS A FREEMASON.. AND SO WAS GANDHI, NEHRU, PATEL , VIVEKANANDA ETC http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2015/10/the-only-dalit-freemason-of-india-capt.html NARENDRA DAMODARDAS MODI--WHY ARE YOU ALIVE IN WONDERLAND? GUJJU NO2 WHY ARE YOU MOST LOST THAN LITTLE BO PEEP? WHY ARE YOU IGNORANT IN WORLD INTRIGUE? PM MODI, WE WANT ALL FREEMASON LODGES IN INDIA TO BE BANNED ... WE CANT HAVE JUDGES AND LAWYERS RUBBING SHOULDERS AND SCRATCHING EACH OTHERS BACKS QUID PRO QUO.. WE KNOW WHO THESE TRAITORS ARE.. capt ajit vadakayil .. Capt. Ajit VadakayilOctober 12, 2017 at 3:07 PM PUT THIS COMMENT IN THE WEBSITES OF THE FOLLOWING-- 1) PMO 2) PM MODI 3) CJI 4) SUPREME COURT BAR COUNCIL 5) DEFENCE MINISTER 6) ALL 3 ARMED FORCE CHIEFS 7) HOME MINISTER 8) LAW MINISTER 9) IB MINISTER 10) EDUCATION MINISTER 11) FINANCE MINISTER 12) ALL DESH BHAKT LEADERS SPREAD ON SOCIAL MEDIA THIS IS A WATERSHED MOMENT --TIME TO OPEN EYES ALL READERS CO-OPERATE .. ALMOST ALL MY READERS ARE SELFISH GREEDY BASTARDS capt ajit vadakayil ..
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People have cancer because of their sins, this is divine justice: Assam health minister
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/people-have-cancer-because-of-their-sins-this-is-divine-justice-says-assam-health-minister/articleshow/61757698.cms
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Shopping on Cyber Monday? Follow these tips to shop safely
by Patty Hardy
— Dec 3, 2019
It's expected that this year's Cyber Monday online sales will top $9.4 billion, which would be a 19 percent increase over last year.
"Scammers and con artist know people are out there online shopping", Eastern Idaho Marketplace Manager for the Better Business Bureau Jeremy Johnson says. Consumers spent $7.9 billion on online purchases on Cyber Monday past year, and those dollar figures are expected to remain high in 2019.
Among those, is to be on the lookout for fake websites, created to impersonate authentic online stores when in reality their sites created to lure you in, only to steal your money and information.
The BBB warns that scammers are well aware of that, and are keen to take advantage.
Shop with trustworthy sellers on secure sites only: Be wary of businesses you aren't familiar with, and make sure the web page is secure.
Also, keep your anti-virus software up-to-date to protect against any viruses that might try to infect your computer.
Armed student shot by officer at Oshkosh West High School
A student resource officer (SRO) immediately responded to the classroom where the armed student was located. Around 11am EST the Okshkosh Police Department announced a shooting broke out at Oshkosh West High School.
Sen. Kamala D. Harris is ending presidential bid
Harris, 55, was seen as a rising star, representing the more youthful and diverse voters that have become the base of the Democratic party.
Greta Thunberg sails in for climate summit
Her arrival coincided with a new scientific report saying there is mounting evidence that the world is getting ever hotter. She says she travelled by catamaran instead of plane to "send a message it is possible" to live a sustainable lifestyle.
Beware of false advertising: If a company is selling the hottest item at a price that seems too good to be true, it probably is.
Offers from online retailers can be misleading; so you are urged to price check before you buy.
For online shopping, always use a credit card, instead of a prepaid debit card or wire transfer, because you can track questionable charges and dispute them later.
"The credit card gives you just a little more protection credit card companies can work with you a little bit more", Johnson says.
If you have any questions, check the Better Business Bureau's website.
Newly Discovered StrandHogg Vulnerability Puts All Android Users at Risk
How underwater acoustics could help with coral reef restoration
Huawei's Mate 30 smartphone contains no United States parts - teardown study
What's happening with the war in Libya? | Start Here 1/20/2020
Donald Trump team says his trial is ‘unlawful’ 1/20/2020
Toyota showers billions on United States plants 1/20/2020
China moves on takout containers in bid to reduce plastic waste 1/20/2020
World’s billionaires have more wealth than 4.6 billion people 1/20/2020
International Monetary Fund boss says global economy risks return of Great Depression 1/20/2020
Buhari leaves Nigeria after meeting with security chiefs 1/20/2020
Best Buy launches probe against allegation of misconduct by CEO Corie Barry 1/20/2020
Video shows grandfather dangle Chloe Wiegand before fatal fall on cruise ship 1/19/2020
Amazon to create 1 million new jobs in India by 2025 1/19/2020
Concerns about low vaccination rates of children for influenza in Wakefield District
The CDC said even if you have put off getting your vaccine , it can still be beneficial during most of the season. For information about Health Department services contact the Genesee County Health Department at 344-2580, ext.
Trump Loses Appeal Over Lawmakers’ Deutsche Bank Subpoenas
Supreme Court, which recently handed Trump a temporary victory , blocking the subpoena in the Mazars case. The split decision from the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals is another setback for the White House.
Liam Hemsworth Just Found Out What a Thirst Trap Is
Hemsworth responded, "I just googled thirst trap". Liam didn't know what a thirst trap was. You learn something new every day.
U.S. facing possible french fry shortage due to weak potato harvest
Cold weather has led to a potato shortage in the USA , threatening the availability of French fries, Bloomberg has reported. Of the nine states that grow potatoes - Idaho, Oregon, North Dakota, Colorado and ME - all saw a dramatic drop in crops.
Top US career diplomat rejects Ukraine meddling theory
The New York Democrat deliberately did not name the Republican senators he alleged were spreading Russian propaganda and lies, only saying, "They know who they are".
Oil rises as Saudi Arabia pushes for further supply cuts
New shipping fuel regulations, the so-called IMO 2020 effect, are expected to create more demand for crude oil in the near-term. Some in the group are wary measures to support prices will encourage more US production.
Jehad Serwan Mostafa now highest-ranking USA terrorist
Mostafa is on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist List and the organization is fearful he may be planning an attack in the U.S. He joined al-Shabaab in approximately 2006 and federal officials say he began rising in the terrorist group's ranks.
Mal's Music Memory - RIP "Greedy" Smith, Mental As Anything
Intellectual as whatever become inducted into the Australian recording industry affiliation hall of reputation in 2009. Smith had served as godfather to one of her children. "I spoke to him two days ago.
Tiger Woods defeats Jordan Spieth to win inaugural Bahamas event
The Presidents Cup , compared to its biennial match counterpart, the Ryder Cup , has been a civil affair. The International Team last won in 1998, when the tournament was played in Australia for the first time.
Resident Evil 3 Remake Seemingly Added To PSN Listings
We can only hope! Stay tuned to PSU.com for more details on the Resident Evil 3: Nemesis Remake. There are two covers for Resident Evil 3 , as usual, both of which prominently feature Nemesis.
Russian Federation starts pumping gas supplies to China
Ahead of the launch, officials also said work had been completed on the first road bridge between Russian Federation and China. Here is a list of facts to know about Power of Siberia prior to its historic launch on 2 December.
Samoa government to close amid fatal measles outbreak
Just 31% of the population had been vaccinated prior to the epidemic, according to the World Health Organization. So far, 58,000 people - more than a quarter of Samoa's population - have been vaccinated, Tuilaepa said.
Samsung to unveil its Galaxy A 2020 series next week
We checked and the Amazon deal is even cheaper than what you get on Samsung's own website, where it's priced at $769. The Samsung Galaxy A series is undoubtedly one of the more successful mid-range lineups the brand has ever had.
Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order Doing Better Than Expected
Otherwise, the few extra cosmetic items are a nice touch, but probably won't be worth the additional cost. Regular Edition differences ultimately come down to added bonuses.
Premiers to meet and try to find consensus amid host of issues
SMRs are nuclear fission reactors that are smaller than normal reactors, and that can be assembled more easily. I'm going to preclude what British Columbia is going to say (and) what Quebec is going to say.
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THE WEEKLY// Life
It’s pretty clear from the first five minutes what Life is trying to be, a strange kind of hybrid of Alien and Gravity, with an unhealthy dose of John Carpenters’ The Thing thrown in to liven things up. They say in space no-one hears you scream, but Life bucks this trend and boy do we get a lot of screaming.
The plot, for what it’s worth, centres around a group of ‘scientists’ (Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson and Hiroyuki Sanada amongst others) on board the International Space Station, tasked with catching (quite literally), a returning probe containing soil samples from Mars. In the samples, they discover the first incontrovertible proof of life on Mars, which after some poking and prodding, they find is none too friendly. Carnage ensues.
Life is a lot of fun. It’s complete tosh, but it’s hard to argue that it’s not fun. With its B-movie aesthetic, Life barrels along at the speed of a passing comet, with the so-called scientists making some truly stupid decisions. Decisions, that lead to plot contrivance after plot contrivance and some grisly, but not entirely undeserved, deaths. Spoiler warning – not everyone makes it back.
While Life may be dumb, silly and lacking an original bone in its alien body, it is at the same time solid genre filmmaking. I can’t deny that in-between all of the floaty space cam and questionable decisions, I had a good time. In fact, it is pretty much perfect Friday evening beer and pizza fodder.
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Hiroyuki Sanada, Jake Gyllenhaal, Life, Rebecca Ferguson, Sci-fi
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Figurative Sculpture Abstract Spiritual
Alvar Sunol Munoz-Ramos was born on January 29, 1935, in Montgat, a Catalan fishing village on the Mediterranean coast near Barcelona. He started painting oils at age twelve and at age seventeen was accepted at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de San Jorge, the prestigious fine art school in Barcelona.
Before graduating from the Bellas Artes, he gave his first solo exhibition at Galleries Layetana in Barcelona in 1957. Alvar also won the Bolsa de Viaje Alhabra de Granada, a summer scholarship study trip to Granada. At age 18, Alvar entered a painting in a competition for the Young Painters Prize sponsored by the City of Barcelona. His painting won the grand prize and it is now in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modem Art, Barcelona, Spain.
Due to his early artistic successes, Alvar received many invitations for shows in other Spanish cities. During his military service he submitted one of his canvases for the Institut Francais awarded him the grand prize and a scholarship to study in Paris. Alvar arrived in Paris to paint in 1959. He met Juan Fuentes, a fellow Spaniard and director of the prestigious Parisian Galerie Drouant. Fuentes encouraged Alvar in his painting and brought Alvar's first group of Paris oil paintings to the gallery. Fuentes' gallery sold the paintings in one week.
In 1960 Alvar returned to Barcelona to marry his childhood sweetheart, Rosella Berenguer. They returned to Paris and lived there for ten years. Alvar's paintings were exhibited in the United States for the first time at the Monede Gallery, New York in 1962. Alvar produced his first original lithographs for a one man show at Galerie Drouant in 1963.
Since a decisive solo exhibition in Paris in 1963, Alvar has exhibited regularly throughout Europe, the United States, Canada and Japan. In 1978, a retrospective exhibition of his lithographs was held by the Musee Hyaninthe Riguad in Perpignan, France. His lithographs, paintings and sculptures have been presented in major shows at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City in 1982 and the Wichita Art Museum in 1983. In 2000, l'Abadia de Sant Miguel del Fai in Catalonia, Spain mounted a retrospective exhibit honoring Alvar's contribution to the Spanish art community. In 2001, three additional retrospective exhibits were mounted, two by the Instituto Cervantes in Toulouse and Bordeaux, France, and one in Athens, Georgia at the Georgia Museum of Art. The Kumamoto Museum and the Fukoka Museum, both in Kyushu, Japan, have purchased his lithographs for their permanent collection. His hometown of Tiana became home to his latest permanent public installation. In September 2001, a commissioned mixed media mural by Alvar was unveiled. The mural reflects on the four seasons, and is affixed to The Four Seasons Building, named in reference to Alvar's mural.
In 1993 a book devoted to the artist's paintings was published in Spain and the United States. In that same year, ten solo exhibitions of Alvar's works in painting, graphic works, sculptures and drawings, were held throughout the United Sates. In 2001, Alvar: Thirty Years of Lithography, a book chronicling the lithographic creations of Alvar was published. since 1999 Alvar has presented his works at numerous exhibitions and gallery shows in the United States, including six in 2001 and four in 2002.
Alvar now lives in Tiana and continues to create art in the mediums of oil, lithography, watercolor, bronze, ceramic bas relief and precious metal sculpture.
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Entrada De Jesus En Jerusalem
La Pesca Milagrosa
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Series (1 of 5) Moises y Las Tablas de la Ley
Series (2 of 5) Jesus Ante Poncio Pilato
Series (3 of 5) Camino del Sepulcro
Series (4 of 5) Cena de Emaus
Series (5 of 5) Juicio de Salomon
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Duex Amis
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Flautista en Grupa
Horas de Rodigio (Hours of Rain)
Horas de Vermeer
Interior Repos
Interior Siete Veinticinco
Interior Tecnica Mixta
Le Mesa de la Contemplacion
Le Reveuse nu Rose
Los Cuatro Elementos de la Naturaleza
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Concierto Suite - Concierto de Tarde
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Homenage a Pau Casals
Inspiring Creation
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La Pintora Mexciana
Le Repos
Les Portadores de Natures
Maternitat Suite - Maternitat, en el Poble
Maternitat Suite - Maternitat, Natural Pau
Musica Per El Colom
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Musical Suite - Musica per el Colom
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Pittsburgh Caregiver
Community Health Choices
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Caring For A Sick Spouse
By Rick Carr
When Caring For A Sick Spouse Shakes A Marriage To The Core
By Judith Graham, Kaiser Health Network
For a dozen years, Larry Bocchiere, 68, didnt find it especially difficult to care for his wife, Deborah, who struggled with breathing problems. But as her illness took a downward turn, he became overwhelmed by stress.
I was constantly on guard for any change in her breathing. If she moved during the night, Id jump up and see if something was wrong, he said recently in a phone conversation. Its the kind of alertness to threat that a combat soldier feels. I dont think I got a good nights sleep for five years. I gained 150 pounds.
As her chronic obstructive pulmonary disease worsened and heart failure set in, Deborah was taking 24 medications each day and rushing to the hospital every few weeks for emergency treatments.
Toward the end, I couldnt stay in the same room with her for too long because I couldnt stand to watch her being so sick, Bocchiere said. His wife died in 2013.
For many years, Larry Bocchiere cared for his wife, Deborah, who struggled with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. When a spouse is seriously ill, Bocchiere says, we lose our best friend, our love, our future. But your children, friends, relatives they don’t get it.
Marriages are often shaken to the core when one spouse becomes sick or disabled and the other takes on new responsibilities.
You have to rewrite the relationships expectations. And the longer youve been married, the harder that is to do, said Zachary White, an associate professor of communications at Queens University of Charlotte. With Donna Thomson, hes the author of The Unexpected Journey of Caring: The Transformation From Loved One to Caregiver.
Compared to adult children who care for their parents, spouses perform more tasks and assume greater physical and financial burdens when they become caregivers, an analysis of 168 studiesshows. Symptoms of depression as well as strains on relationships are more common.
Communication often becomes problematic, as husbands and wives feel disoriented and uncertain about how to respond to each other. Especially early on, illness tends to heighten emotion and short-circuit communication, write Barbara Kivowitz and Roanne Weisman in their book, Love In The Time of Chronic Illness: How to Fight the Sickness Not Each Other.
Both women were cared for by their husbands (Kivowitz suffered from chronic pain; Weisman had a stroke). We were gobsmacked by how much illness took over the relationship, Kivowitz said earlier this year in avideo presentation.
Complicating these issues is isolation. We often hear about family members who wont get involved or are overly critical of the well spouse but never pitch in or visit, said Robert Mastrogiovanni, 72, president of theWell Spouse Association, which offers support groups to members. And then there are lifelong friends who drop out of the picture.
Most of the time (55%), older spouses are caregiving alone as husbands or wives come to the end of their lives, without help from their children, other family members or friends or paid home health aides, according toresearch published earlier this year.
The risk is that marriages will be undermined by illness and essential emotional connections lost.
The well spouse can go from being a partner and a lover to a nurse and a caregiver, which is an entirely different kind of relationship, said Mastrogiovanni, who cared for his wife, Kathleen. She had multiple sclerosis for 50 years before she passed away last year.
Or spouses can become distant as they struggle with feelings of loss, fear, and, frequently, misunderstanding and anger.
He wouldn’t talk to me. He would seem like he was angry at me, but I didn’t really understand, said Terri Corcoran, 69, whose husband Vincent had Fragile-X associated tremor/ataxia syndrome, a neurodegenerative disorder.
It took five years for Vincent to get a diagnosis. During that time, Corcoran said, I felt like I married someone I didn’t know. It was devastating. It took me a long time to realize his brain was impaired.
Terri Corcoran’s husband, Vincent, had Fragile-X associated tremor/ataxia syndrome, a neurodegenerative disorder. Although Vincent couldnt talk, Terri says she would sit with him and talk to him about what she was feeling: He would put his arms around me, and I would say I’m doing the best I can. I know this isn’t your fault, but it’s really hard. And I always ended up feeling better.
How can older couples navigate these challenges and protect their relationships an essential source of comfort and support when illness strikes? Several experts offered suggestions:
Reset expectations.
Couples need to face what is being lost as a result of illness and, at the same time, focus on what remains intact.
Dr. John Rolland, an adjunct professor of psychiatry at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and author of Helping Couples and Families Navigate Illness and Disability: An Integrated Approach, tells of a couple in their early 70s hes counselling. Both were working when the wife started having symptoms of Parkinsons disease five years ago.
In retirement, the couple had planned to do a lot of biking, hiking and adventure travel. Now her mobility is limited, hes down in the dumps and tension has invaded the relationship.
Rolland’s advice: Figure out what you can do together and what each of you can do separately. He helped them see that they can share some cherished activities reading books together and attending the theater and add new ones, such as cooking. And the husband can still go biking, without worrying about making his wife feel bad, so long as they communicate openly about respecting each others needs.
Divvy up responsibilities.
Couples need to retain a sense of balance in their relationships, to the extent possible. Often this is threatened as one spouse becomes less able to function and the other takes on more responsibilities.
Kivowitz has a practical suggestion: Create a list of everything that needs to be done in your household, then divide up tasks. If there are things that neither of you wants to do, brainstorm ways to find help.
In her video, she describes how she and her husband Richard did this. Kivowitz signed up for laundry, meal preparation, keeping medical records in order, researching her condition and arranging help at home. Richard took on grocery shopping, getting medications, dealing with insurance, paying bills, financial planning and working to keep the household afloat. Neither wanted to do housecleaning a task that could be given to someone else.
Robert Mastrogiovanni cared for his wife, Kathleen, who had multiple sclerosis for 50 years before she passed away last year.
Include the ill spouse.
Avoid assigning the ill spouse to a passive role of being cared for. To the extent possible, set boundaries around caregiving and maintain reciprocity in the relationship.
Rolland tells of a woman with polycystic kidney disease whose husband helped administer home dialysis three times a week: They would go into a room where all the equipment was kept, and, when dialysis was over, close the door and focus on being a couple.
When Mastrogiovanni retired from an accounting job with the government, he and his wife bought a van with a ramp and traveled all over the country. When she could no longer feed herself, they’d still go out to restaurants where he’d feed her by hand something the couples therapist had encouraged.
When joint activities are no longer possible, just being with someone can express closeness and solidarity.
Although Corcoran’s husband couldn’t talk, shed sit with him and talk to him about what she was feeling: He would put his arms around me, and I would say I’m doing the best I can. I know this isn’t your fault, but it’s really hard. And I always ended up feeling better.
Expand your network.
If friends and family members don’t seem to understand what you’re going through, find people who do. Well and ill spouses may need to find support in different places.
Bocchiere, who’s chairman of the Well Spouse Association, said that when a spouse is seriously ill, we lose our best friend, our love, our future. But your children, friends, relatives they don’t get it.
The first time he went to one of the associations support groups and listened to other spouses tell their stories, I was home, he said.
Make meaning. At some point, White said, you have to be able to make meaning of what you’re going through as a caregiver and incorporate this into a new sense of identity.
For many people, meaning revolves around the notion of fidelity commitment to their spouse, their vows and the we of their relationship, he said.
Corcoran converted to Catholicism the year that her husband was diagnosed and found solace in her faith and her church. I kept praying that our marriage would have meaning, she said.
Learning that people from her church saw her marriage as loving gave a deep sense of satisfaction. Ultimately, Corcoran came to understand this is a cross my husband and I were carrying together.
Kivowitz has observed a profound shift in herself and others, from caregiving as a set of daily responsibilities to caregiving as an expression of compassion.
Measure success, she said, by how well you connect, love and feel loved.
Kaiser Health Newsis a nonprofit news service covering health issues. It is an editorially independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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Yucho Chow Studio 3
Yucho Studio 1
Wands Studio 1
Yuchow Chow Studio 1
Hoy, Mrs. Geraldine 2
Hong, Wong Mon 1
Wing, Eva 1
Wing, David 1
Hong, Pat 1
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Hand tinted wedding photograph, Vancouver.
Black and white photo. A Chinese wedding. Bride, Groom, and four people to the wedding party. Flowers and faces have been hand tinted, pink, yellow and green. Background of curtains and a plant on the right side. Bottom right corner of photograph ...
Wands Studio
Unidentified Chinese man on the 200 block of East Hastings Street in Vancouver; circa 1950.
This print image depicts a Chinese man standing next to a car on a street in Vancouver. See also P6318. Identified as Paddy Wing in front of C. S. Wing's confectionery store on East Hastings St. in Vancouver
Unidentified woman and two men near a concrete structure with a Chinese dragon motif in Vancouver; circa 1930.
CA Barkerville Historic Town BARK_1986.1306.0001.125
A young woman who is shown standing in front of a large concrete stone structure on the top of which appears an item with Chinese designs that include a relief dragon. In the background can be seen low bushes, while in the background can be seen a...
Black and white photo. A Chinese Bride, Groom and two persons to the wedding party. Flowers, ties and the women's faces have been painted, red, pink, blue, and yellow. Curtains and a scene in the background. Photograph is mounted in a 1 mm gr...
Yucho Chow Studio
Black and white. A Chinese wedding. Bride, groom and six other persons to the wedding party. Curtains and scene in the background. Photograph is mounted in a 1 mm gray frame, 35.6cm x 30.3cm. Flowers and faces have been hand tinted, yellow, blue, ...
Group of unidentified Chinese men and women in the 200 block of East Hastings Street Vancouver; circa 1950.
This print image depicts four Chinese men and three Chinese women standing and kneeling on a paved street in front of a 1950's car on the 200 block of East Hasting Street in Vancouver. In the background are buildings that house businesses inc...
Five month old Douglas at Union Station (Now Pacific Central Station) in Vancouver; June, 1938.
Black and white photo. An unidentified baby sitting on the grass who appears to be crying. Buildings in the background. Photograph has dirt marks. Reverse side reads: "June, 1938, This is the baby taken on June, oul (?) Vancouver, C. N. R. St...
Group of unidentified Chinese men, women and children in a decorated hall, possibly a Chinese Freemason's gathering in Vancouver; taken in 1947.
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Wong Mon Hong (Bill Hong) and his wife Fay with their children, left to right, May, Louie, Lil, Pat and Ray in Vancouver; circa 1936.
Group portrait of a Chinese family: mother father, three boys and two girls. All are dressed in Caucasian clothing, except the mother who is wearing a traditional silk dress. Hong Family
Yucho Studio
Three unidentified Chinese men, Vancouver.
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Unions Are Attempting To Destroy The Great American System Of Franchising, Which Brings Opportunity And Jobs To So Many.
June 1, 2019 / by David Barr via wsj.com
Americans love a small-business success story, but not every small business is a mom-and-pop bakery or a stand-alone hair salon. Many are franchises. The franchise model of pairing local entrepreneurs with national brands has created millions of jobs in dozens of industries nationwide. But labor unions and trial lawyers are pushing state legislators in Alabama and elsewhere to change longstanding rules governing franchise arrangements, upending the business model and hurting companies, customers and communities.
I own 18 Kentucky Fried Chicken and Taco Bell locations employing 750 people across Alabama and Georgia. I’ve seen firsthand that franchising works. It allows entrepreneurs to launch small businesses while benefiting from valuable brand recognition and a tried-and-true set of business practices.
The franchise model isn’t broken, but that hasn’t stopped progressive activists from looking for ways to fix it. The Coalition of Franchisee Associations and the Service Employees International Union have been trying for four years to convince lawmakers around the country the system is unfair. The Protect Alabama Small Business Act passed the state Senate earlier this month with the CFA’s support. The group has pushed nearly identical franchise-reform bills in four other states.
If the bill passes the Alabama House and becomes law, it would limit the types of contracts brands and local businesses could sign. The state would be in a position to dictate when and why national brands could sever ties with franchisees. Franchisees who violate the terms of a contract—or even commit a felony—would be largely immune from immediate action by the company whose name hangs above the door. The law would be applied retroactively, meaning Alabama’s 12,000 franchise owners could see their contracts rewritten overnight.
Unions back the bill because it weakens the franchise industry, a longtime target for their organization efforts. The new system would drive up the cost of franchising, making national brands less likely to strike deals with local businesses. Unions imagine these brands would opt to open and operate local stores themselves. This would make employees easier to organize, and give the unions a toehold in right-to-work states like Alabama. More likely, national brands will choose to leave the state, setting Alabama back economically.
By making it harder for brands and franchisees to part ways, the legislation creates new opportunities for lawsuits alleging breach of contract and other offenses. Many brands will settle—even when they’re in the right—rather than deal with a slew of bogus claims and bad press.
But while unions and lawyers win, most others lose—including job seekers and entrepreneurs. Market research firm FRANdata estimates the new law would kill 4,500 jobs and 400 franchise businesses in Alabama over the next four years. The final tally would be more than $300 million in lost economic activity. If the unions and trial lawyers get their way, this devastation will spread to all 50 states.
Legislatures in Florida, Maine and New Hampshire all killed versions of CFA’s franchise bill. Lawmakers in California passed their version of the bill in 2014 but then-Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed it. “The bill’s changes would significantly impact California’s vast franchise industry that relies on the certainty of well-settled laws,” he wrote in a statement.
In Alabama, the bill was rushed through the Senate, but the House is taking a more thoughtful approach. Unfortunately, two House hearings failed to derail it, and it’s possible the legislation enjoys the support of a majority of lawmakers. While Gov. Kay Ivey hasn’t indicated whether she’ll sign the law, her veto can be overridden with a simple majority.
The Protect Alabama Small Business Act is a solution in search of problem that doesn’t exist. Homegrown franchise operators such as Chicken Salad Chick and Taziki’s Mediterranean Cafe have already signaled their opposition to the bill, as have nearly 100 brands that operate franchises in the state. Most important, customers aren’t complaining.
Alabama’s House could vote as early as next week. It should put a stop to the union-backed effort to interfere in this classic American success story.
Mr. Barr is chairman of PMTD Restaurants and chairman of the International Franchise Association.
Tags: Economic Opportunity, Franchising, Lobbying, Unions
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Many a true word is spoken in jest: Twitter accounts that mock, self-ridicule and bring a smile to academia.
Academic Twitter is more than just sharing research articles and live-tweeting at conferences. Andy Tattersall gives an overview of the humorous accounts that aim to pull back the curtain on the Ivory Tower and share its oddities, culture and inconsistencies. Despite the silliness, the following accounts often discuss issues rarely touched on in the academic community. These accounts offer a lighthearted take on a business that takes itself too seriously and for that, we are immensely grateful.
For many academics Twitter stands out above any other social media tool as their platform for open and scholarly engagement – partially thanks to its immediacy, reach and convenience but also because it can be a break from the formality of academic writing and dissemination. Twitter’s limit of 140 characters means academics have to think carefully not just about what they say but also how they say it. Twitter allows communications to be snappy, sharp and on many occasion quick-witted. If Twitter has done anything for the academic community it has brought the research conversation out into the public domain. As a by-product, a small number of accounts that mock, self-ridicule and bring a touch of humour to the very serious world of research have flourished. Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of academic Twitter.
Research Wahlberg @ResearchMark 1239 Tweets, 15.1k Followers
Sup. Have a great weekend 🙂 pic.twitter.com/9UeEWDdE5J
— Research Wahlberg (@ResearchMark) March 25, 2016
Research Wahlberg is reminiscent to an old Tumblr blog titled ‘Hey girl, I like the library too’, that was a collection of memes of fellow Hollywood heartthrob Ryan Gosling. The purpose of that blog was to post images of Gosling, smouldering and sexy, saying things like: ‘Hey girl you know I would never publish in anything but an open access journal, because changing the existing unsustainable model of scholarly communication is really important to me, you know?” @ResearchMark we see a similar collection of memes interspersed with retweets that aren’t as masterful as Gosling’s chat up lines, but we are open to the idea that Research Wahlberg has a bit more to him than just cheesy chat up lines this time.
Shit my Reviewers Say @YourPaperSucks 597 Tweets, 11.4k Followers
“I am afraid this manuscript may contribute not so much towards the field’s advancement as much as toward its eventual demise.”
— ShitMyReviewersSay (@YourPaperSucks) November 13, 2014
Potentially started out of angst and annoyance to the peer review model, Shit my Reviewers Say aim is in; “Collecting the finest real specimens of reviewer comments since 1456”. Twinned with a Tumblr blog of the same name it sets out to document the malicious, pinnikity and sometimes confusing world of blind peer review. The pinned tweet sums up the collection nicely as one poor researcher is put to the sword with the line; “I am afraid this manuscript may contribute not so much towards the field’s advancement as much as toward its eventual demise.” Most academics who have ever been on the receiving end of reviews that required major corrections will know that sinking feeling they get when reading such barbed feedback. Whether all of these comments are fact or fiction, or amended we do not know, but there is plenty for researchers to take solace in, especially when they next receive such joyous feedback on their paper.
Shit Academics Say @AcademicsSay 3,038 Tweets, 171k Followers
How to win at work-life balance:
1. Define work as life.
2. All done.
— Shit Academics Say (@AcademicsSay) February 26, 2016
A social experiment by Associate Professor Nathan C Hall, Shit Academics Say is a mixture of funny one liners, memes and clever irony. With an impressive 171,000 followers it is fair to say that this feed has resonated with the academic community and possibly beyond. Certainly well worth following if you are after reassurance, a good laugh or to gawp at what academics can be capable of delivering. The accompanying blog explains why the micro-blog feed appeared with Hall saying: “Like many academics, I have never been completely comfortable with the peculiarities, predilections, or pretensions of our profession.” With snippets of advice in less than 140 characters such as; “If you can’t say anything nice, say it as a question.” and “I don’t make mistakes. I create teachable moments” there is much to take from this stream of consciousness.
Lego Academics @LegoAcademics 66 Tweets, 55.5k Followers
"My question is more of a 25 minute comment…" #conferencehashtag pic.twitter.com/FzGRpAIysZ
— Lego Academics (@LegoAcademics) March 30, 2016
Another academic Twitter account with an impressive number of followers for this visual collection of tweets where female academic problems are captured in scenes acted out by Lego characters. Sadly just one tweet so far in 2016 but still worth keeping an eye on, especially if you work in a lab. Whilst the Lego Research Institute might be something you ask for next time your birthday comes round.
PHD Comics @PHDcomics 1,610 Tweets, 93.8k Followers
What to call your academic event. https://t.co/AYvwo5x6ou pic.twitter.com/m65gPpr1uy
— PHD Comics (@PHDcomics) January 25, 2016
Another visual account that does not fall short when it comes down to effort. As you can imagine from the the title, this is a comic, or series of cartoons. With an accompanying website and movies PhD The Movie 1 and 2. Created by Jorge Cham in 1997, PhD Comics is about ‘life (or the lack thereof) in academia’. The website has impressive pageview stats into the tens of millions each year and has moved on from the original monochrome version to full colour. The sheer breadth of content and issues touched on around undertaking a PhD and working in academia is incredible. For those who have an adverse fear of failure it might be reassuring to follow the latest tweets and know that you are not alone.
Improbable Research @improbresearch 8,230 Tweets, 8,252 Followers
Algorithmic Distinguishing of Novelists from their Punctuation Patterns – https://t.co/hjwFn1n8ZN pic.twitter.com/x2shqHtYsh
— Improbable Research (@improbresearch) March 19, 2016
Improbable Research aims to ‘highlight research that first makes people laugh and then think’. With the accompanying website http://www.improbable.com/ and YouTube account It has its own Ig Nobel Prize Cermemony and Lectures. The Ig Nobel Prizes aim to celebrate the unusual, honour the imaginative and spur people’s interest in science, medicine and technology. The recording of 25th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony can be viewed here. All the improbable research captured by the Ig Nobel Prize can be followed through their Twitter account. Tweets are interspersed with updates from previous prize winners, videos and events. From the outside looking in at this account, especially the 2015 prize ceremony video, it makes academia look like a weird cult – which of course it is, but we don’t like to talk about that.
There are no shortage of fictitious and spoof social media accounts, especially on Twitter. Most fail miserably or dry up after a few carefully scheduled tweets, it’s reasonable to consider that some probably start as an axe to grind and soon disappear or run out of ideas. As with some of the aforementioned accounts, when it is done well it can be profound, hilarious and even add quality to the academic conversation. Most communicate in a language that is coherent to those outside of the ivory towers, and perhaps by the number of followers some accounts have, highlights that more academics have a funny bone than we give them credit for. Despite the silliness of the above accounts they do often discuss issues in the academic community rarely touched on so publically. They are if anything a light take on a business that often takes itself too seriously. When we pull back the curtain we do see a different side to academia that can be a very strange business, filled with its own language and culture. So if you are on Twitter, love academia, occasionally feel alone, an imposter or are after some geek humour there is an online world out there waiting for you to follow
All of the accounts and a few more can be followed on this Twitter list
Featured image: John Snape CC BY-SA
Note: This article gives the views of the author, and not the position of the LSE Impact blog, nor of the London School of Economics. Please review our Comments Policy if you have any concerns on posting a comment below.
Andy Tattersall is an Information Specialist at the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) at the University of Sheffield. His role is to scan the horizon for Web and technologies opportunities relating to research, teaching and collaboration and maintain networks that support this. Andy has a keen interest in new ways of working by employing Altmetrics, Web 2.0 and Social Media but also paying close attention to the implications and pitfalls for using such advances. @andy_tattersall
April 13th, 2016|Social media|14 Comments
Chris April 13, 2016 at 12:12 pm - Reply
And don’t forget the geeky hashtag games like these:
#AcademicHipster
https://twitter.com/peterbroks/status/715110633071591426
#AcademiaABandName
https://twitter.com/mc_hankins/status/710575722767765506
Andy Tattersall April 15, 2016 at 12:25 pm - Reply
Thanks for this – AcademicHipster – of course that all started in academia, the big beards, lumberjack shirts and tattoos…
Oh sorry, am thinking about lumberjacks
RedPenBlackPen April 13, 2016 at 9:13 pm - Reply
These are great and what I aspire to. Taking yourself too seriously (as an individual or group) is unhealthy. Readers who liked those accounts above may also like:
https://twitter.com/AcademiaObscura
And (warning: shameless self promotion)
https://twitter.com/redpenblackpen
https://twitter.com/redpenblackpen/status/705257243185274881
Thanks for this – and the shameless self-promotion – but if you don’t do it – who will. I’d like to think of it as awareness and communication – with a hint of mischievousness
Viola April 14, 2016 at 10:03 am - Reply
The twitter handle for Improbable Research is not “@improbableresearch”, but “improbresearch”. #servicetweet 🙂
oops – sorry, my bad – will get changed
Graham Steel (@McDawg) April 14, 2016 at 10:19 am - Reply
Great post Andy.
Hey RedPenBlackPen, thanks for adding Academia Obscura. An excellent resource 🙂
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I am pretty sure pinnikity -> pernickety
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“It’s only really many years later when you have the benefit of hindsight that you look at the idea, the art direction, the soundtrack, the platform… and it’s all just perfect timing. Those moments don’t come along very often.”
– Nick Burcombe, co-creator, WipEout (1995)
WipEout hit 1995 with the force of an earthquake. Its sci-fi vision of armed anti-grav craft battling it out at 1,200kph for gold and glory on twisting, vertigo-inducing race tracks couldn’t have been further removed from the quintessentially English pub in which it was conceived. Yet it felt perfectly in sync with the world it roared into like a supercharged sci-fi colossus.
Birthed in Liverpool, England and deployed on PS One’s bleeding edge tech, WipEout dropped into the eye of a raging cultural storm that was gripping the United Kingdom. Yet while it embodied the zeitgeist of ‘Cool Britannia’ – a celebration of the country’s beautiful collision of movies, music, art, club culture – its impact wasn’t restricted by geography. Cool Britannia’s epicentre was the British Isles. WipEout’s was anywhere a PlayStation was hooked up to a TV.
How the future of racing was birthed in an English pub
WipEout was the child of a concept pitch and a vivid memory. The two met in a pub just outside Liverpool in the early ’90s, introduced by a pair of Psygnosis developers – designer Nick Burcombe and artist Jim Bowers. The drinking establishment was a regular haunt for studio staff of which Bowers and Burcombe were two. They’d regularly meet and bounce ideas of each other.
Years earlier, Bowers had created a concept movie of two wedged ships dogfighting along a race track, firing missiles at one another before soaring round a huge loop.
He’d showed it to Burcombe, who recalled the footage when regaling Bowers with a story of how he’d overcome a particularly difficult race in Super Mario Kart by turning the TV’s volume off and cranking up a trance track (‘Age of Love’ by Age of Love) on his hi-fi.
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He envisioned doing the same to Bowers’ concept, setting the piece to a Liam Howlett cover of surf track ‘Wipe Out’ that broke out into the Prodigy’s ‘No Good’.
“I think that was the moment we could both see immediately what the game could be,” Nick says. “Even if it was in our slightly sozzled minds’ eye.”
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Initial focus was on perfecting track design. Trackside details, the game’s overall tone and theme were secondary.
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The designer also had a clear idea about the weapons pilots could use during the races, stating that everything initially designed made it into the final game.
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“For some bizarre reason, I’d use vocal sound effects to really emphasise the weight of something or the inertia and drift,” recalls Burcombe of trying to convey the feeling of anti-grav to the rest of the team. “So I’d have to say it is a testament to the programming team who actually understood what I was trying to achieve.”
How the iconic soundtrack of WipEout came about
You can’t talk WipEout without discussing its soundtrack. At a time when licenced music was a rarity in the industry, it was a combination of Sony’s extra marketing heft – specifically tapping into Sony’s music label – and an early demo of the game that secured the title’s first artist. Burcombe headed to London to meet Phil and Paul Hartnol – better known as dance outfit Orbital.
“We got talking about [the demo we showed them] and they were really enthused.They took us down to the studio to play me a track they had called P.ET.R.O.L. After some remixing and reworking – this track actually ended up on the disc. I think once that contact had been made, it was easier to get some others.”
Leftfield and The Chemical Brothers soon followed, and the game’s success greenlit further collaborations in sequels with the likes of FSOL, Fluke, Underworld, Prodigy, Photek and more. “It was a who’s who of the ’90s dance scene,” Nick says as he runs down the artist list.
Restarting the project and finishing the game
Yet despite discussing the initial concept at length and fine-tuning it before full production began, creating a fully textured, real-time 3D game proved challenging, to the point that at one stage, the team had to restart the entire project, rethinking its approach to its production and programming pipeline.
“There was a moment when Ken Kutaragi came to the Liverpool studio and left believing we couldn’t make our launch dates,” Nick reveals. “But that was like a red rag to a bull for a team that had already worked very hard on it. The final few months of WipEout’s development was extraordinary, and I think being there for the European launch was a monumental achievement.”
“Looking back on it now, if it was just reverse psychology – it worked,” Burcombe admits.
Even when discussion shifts to the game’s launch, and acknowledgment of the fact that WipEout was on every early adopters’ wishlist come the PS One launch night at the studio’s local HMV, in typical developer fashion Burcombe mainly remembers the less enthusiastic critical responses.
“We were reading the 7s more than the 9s and nodding about the things that could be improved. It really focused our attention on what we needed to achieve for a sequel.”
After celebrating its success the team rolled up its sleeves and immediately started work on the next entry: WipEout 2097.
The improvements WipEout 2097 brought, and the price it came at
In the original game, weapons were deployed only to slow the competition down, give you time to overtake. In 1997 follow-up WipEout 2097, the studio introduced ship energy bars, meaning competitor – and player – ships could be destroyed if you didn’t recharge via trackside pit lanes. It added a new layer of strategy to races; WipEout’s version of F1 tyre changes mid-race.
Ships would now scrape up against walls, sparks flying, rather than coming to abrupt halt. While the original’s difficulty had its fans – including XDev’s John McLaughlin (“This is also why it is loved so much,” he says. “Once mastered you become one with the handling model, zipping through tracks, bounding over boost pads”) – the team wanted to make a more rewarding experience.
But the development turnaround proved creatively tough. Coming directly off finishing the original, the studio now had just less than eight months to develop and release the sequel. Despite 2097 bettering the original in every way, some of the original staff needed a break. As a third game went into production, Burcombe became a bystander to the franchise’s future. Nick eventually left Psygnosis – or Studio Liverpool as it was rebranded – to form his own independent label, Playrise, and work on recently-released console racer, Table Top Racing.
“I was able to stand back and watch as WipEout 3 launched, then Fusion on PS2 and then the PSP, PS3 and PS Vita versions.” But he remains upbeat about seeing the series continue without him. “Watching it evolve from afar has been great and I know so many of the people who have worked on all these different versions – improving and building on it each time.”
“I think it’s one of those games that actually conveys something of the team in it. It is a game with a soul and I think people get that,” Burcombe concludes. “The ideas, the graphic design, the music and the PlayStation all combined to make it perfect for that moment in time.”
The origin story of the WipEout Omega Collection
“It’s a unique game; there’s nothing else like it. It defined a generation.”
– John McLaughlin, XDev, Omega Collection
December 2016, Anaheim, California. A packed auditorium’s roars are only emboldened as the tease of a bass-heavy electronica track kicking in merges with stunning HD visuals to confirm WipEout is returning. The Omega Collection couples PS3’s fan favourite tag-team of WipEout HD and Fury to PS Vita’s WipEout 2048 for an upgraded, remastered package on PlayStation 4.
It’s a welcome surprise for fans. For John XDev’s McLaughlin – one of those lifelong franchise fans and brainchild behind WipEout’s rebirth – “it seemed a simple and obvious choice” to bring the series back.
Though he admits it couldn’t be his decision alone, he made sure he was in the best possible position when pitching the idea.
“I managed to pry [WipEout HD’s] codebase from IT and got it over to Hustle Kings developer EPOS”. Together with CEO and programmer Staffan, McLaughlin worked out how they could conceivably make a PS4 remaster happen and worked up a timeline for development. To achieve it, they’d have to reach out to Clever Beans studio (When Vikings Attack) to partner with. The pitch worked. WipEout was on its way back.
The original plan, according to McLaughlin, was just to work on the HD/Fury package. “But very early on in development we looked at the 2048 code,” he explains. The PS Vita launch title is the most recent entry into the franchise, but its fiction provided a glimpse into an earlier era of the Anti-Grav Racing League. “We thought it would be great to bring all of the tracks and ships from that game too.”
Artwork was reworked, details added. SFX was totally remastered. Split-screen was coded in – a first for the previously handheld only 2048 – and a couple of nods to the classic era added (“we set about bringing back a couple of defunct teams from yesteryear and brought back Tigron and Van Uber teams.”).
And today, some months short of WipEout’s 22nd anniversary, the futuristic racing franchise is reborn on PS4.
Back in 1995 there wasn’t anything like WipEout. In 2017, there still isn’t.
WipEout Omega Collection is available now both at retail and on PlayStation Store. Nick Burcombe’s latest racer with his new studio Playrise, Table Top Racing: World Tour, is available on PlayStation Store.
Your favourite race track from the franchise…
While Burcombe has the very first WipEout track, Altima VII, as a highlight (“I purposely put it first so you get that “wow” moment from the rollercoaster style downhill section”), it’s pipped by the game’s later course Arridos.
“It has a brilliant flow to it,” he remembers. “There’s some insane airborne shortcutting and great air-brake drift corners too. I also love that it looks carved into the landscape; the location seems plausible.”
For McLaughlin, it’s a pair of Sols – Sol2 from HD and Sol from 2048 – that are closest to his heart. “I love being thousands of feet in the air, zipping along at 1200KPH knowing I can fall off the edge at any moment. Real seat of your pants stuff!”
Your favourite WipEout team…
Maybe because it’s the default team come the ship selection menu of many a WipEout, but both Burcombe and McLaughlin favour the Federal European Institute of Science and Research, better known under their acronym, FEISAR.
Though McLaughlin “has some affection” for Triakis, Burcombe points out the story behind FEISAR’s naming may be why it’s his only choice.
“It was a bit of a political joke. The UK had just signed the Maastricht Treaty in ’92 and it was a sort of prediction on where the UK and EU might be heading.”
Your favourite music track…
Despite not making its WipEout debut until 1997 sequel 2097, Prodigy and dance classic Firestarter is what immediately comes to mind for both men.
“It’s embedded in everyone’s brain,” Burcombe sums up simply. “Even though the version in [WipEout 2097] is the instrumental, it’s so engrained in the UK psyche, your mind just fills in Liam’s incredible vocal without even thinking about it.”
Your favourite piece of fan appreciation…
Much as WipEout is a unique melting pot of near-future techand killer tracks, so too is fan love spread across mediums, styles and disciplines. Burcombe points to seeing WipEout tattoos (“it blows my mind that its influence is strong, they felt the need to etch it into their skin forever”) but also that he “still gets regular emails” from fans thanking him for getting them into PlayStation, dance music or becoming DJs themselves. For McLaughlin though, a homage to the in-fiction ships wins out. “I simply love this model.”
Celebrate WipEout Omega Collection’s launch with its iconic art and music
Listen to WipEout Omega Collection’s soundtrack on Spotify here, and check out 25 stunning pieces of unseen WipEout artwork from across the franchise’s history here.
Celebrate the franchise’s stunning artwork with a collection of WipEout League t-shirts and hoodies, available from tomorrow exclusively on PlayStation Gear. The tops which were debuted on stage at PSX last year, feature a variant of the iconic Anti-Gravity Racing League logo – which dates back to the original game. Check them out below and head to PlayStation Gear here.
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killbot-xD 07 June, 2017 @ 20:11
I was a young man in 1995 and as the opening paragraphs of this article hints at, I don’t think WipEout could’ve been made anywhere else other than in the UK, or maybe only in the North West of England. Football, music, clubs, drugs, politics and PlayStation, it was all going off… it was an exciting time.
Videogames were for the first time being marketed at adults and WipEout pretty much encapsulated everything that was going on in the UK at the time into a videogame. Every version of the game transports me back to that time and Omega is no exception. Some of the faces may have changed, but the Omega Collection still has WipEout at its soul.
If anyone who’s worked on the games drops into this article, I want you to know that over the years WipEout has had a profound impact on my life and I thank you for help make such an amazing game. Cheers!
torl_porl 08 June, 2017 @ 12:59
Thanks, mate, that means a lot.
I worked, in some capacity, on almost every SKU of the franchise (I just missed the Vita one and this new one!) so I know the hard work, dedication and, most importantly – love and pride that every member of the team put in to these games.
I’m looking forward to playing Omega.
Asadleghari 07 June, 2017 @ 20:49
?❤️
anlygi 07 June, 2017 @ 23:59
How about the inside story on how or why you KILLED IT?
Z-U 08 June, 2017 @ 00:04
Just gonna add a small correction to this. Where it says I left Psygnsis to setup Playrise, that’s not quite right. Myself and 5 others left to go and set up Curlymonsters. In 2005, I’d returned to Studio Liverpool to work on F1 2005, 2006 and F1 Championship Edition. In 2012 we set up Playrise Digital as a small indie dev studio, making Table Top Racing and TTR World Tour, which many of you might have played when it launch on PS Plus as one of your subscription games in May 2016. BIG difference between being an indiedev and working on big studio franchises like Wipeout and F1. Hopefully that clears things up a little.
MaxDiehard 08 June, 2017 @ 09:49
One thing that i’m astounded at is how desperate SCEE and SCEA want to forget Vita ever existed.
On the PlayStation UK Facebook page, there was a Wipeout Omega trailer showcasing the game on every PlayStation system since its inception, but they purposely left out PSP and Vita, ignoring Pure and Pulse. They showed 2048 gameplay, just didn’t show the console that hosted it.
One thing that needs to make this version special on PS4 is VR. Even if it doesn’t include cockpit views, just standard third person view like TrackMania, it could make it something special, rather than just a bog-standard port.
Other than that, it was my childhood alongside Crash and Spyro.
Nothing triggers my memories better than hearing CoLD SToRAGE’s ‘Messij’. AG Systems will always be my go-to team.
Ikkarus 08 June, 2017 @ 10:10
I was tempted by the hoodie but it’s showing out of stock. :(
Specky_Geek 08 June, 2017 @ 11:27
The game is excellent well done bringing it to the ps4 , thanks.
I’d love PSVR support. Doesn’t even have to be cockpit, just third person camera like Trackmania.
Would make the PS4 version feel fresh rather than just another remastered port.
Kemixtry 09 June, 2017 @ 11:21
Wipeout hit at the right time and everything about it clicked with the users. Music, tracks and overall feel. 2097 got it right on the spot as that game was a 10/10 for everything. Gameplay, design, music and fun. Wipeout has always been one of my top 3 of all games and I hope they do something new in the future. I can see this is a refurb and a probable tester for future games and hope it is successful.
iamtheju 10 June, 2017 @ 01:06
Isn’t Omega Collection really just a port of 2048 and it’s DLC? This does look like a great port though. I’ll certainly get it once I’m sick of playing 2048 on Vita.
It’s a real shame that Studio Liverpool isn’t around to make a new one. This was very interesting, but it would be really great to have a full, uncensored, documentary of the history of Studio Liverpool.
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Uganda: Receiving Beds, Receiving Hope
WRITTEN BY BRYNN HUGHES
MOTHER AND HER NEWBORN BABY IN AKALO HEALTH CENTRE II
The phrase “bed shortages” gets used in Canada quite often but these words mean something very different in a country like Uganda.
Health centres throughout the Kole and Mukono districts of Uganda struggle with severe bed shortages.
For example, one of the local centres had the capacity to hold 40 beds but only had 17 functional ones! This meant that anyone who was not in a bed had to sleep on the ground on a simple blanket.
Food for the Hungry’s (FH) International Medical Equipment Distribution (IMED) program partners with health centres in areas like these to provide medical equipment to people who desperately need it.
EQUIPMENT BEING DELIVERED OUTSIDE HEALTH CENTRE
Supplying cargo shipments of beds, blankets, sheets, surgical gowns, and wheel chairs to health centres empowers and equips the workers in these centres to serve their communities with a higher degree of safety and care.
As you would imagine, however, the process to deliver these supplies can take a lot of time and many different forms of transportation, but the cargo is worth the wait!
This precious cargo traveled from IMED in Saskatoon, Canada across ocean and land to Uganda in Africa.
LOCAL UGANDAN TRUCKS LOADED WITH IMED EQUIPMENT
The trip was long, but the local government, Food for the Hungry staff, and churches all helped out to make sure this shipment arrived at it’s final destinations safe and sound.
Once it arrived, the staff didn’t waste any time to unpack and start using the equipment. Mr. Emokol Jimmy was one of the local government officials who was waiting on pins and needles for this moment to arrive: “I would like to say that the supplies were well received and are already being utilized!”
These beds and resources represent so much more than just objects; they represent the thousands of people that will receive better care, and that is something to be excited about!
One of the local doctors, Dr. Eyiga from the Kole district, was filled with joy when the shipment arrived at his health centre.
“This contribution to the service of our people will go a long way in improving our service delivery, I would like to express my sincere appreciation to FH for all they have provided.”
Food for the Hungry Canada strongly believes in empowering local communities to thrive on their own, however, there are some special items like beds that we, as Canadians, can supply. These items allow communities to function with ease and efficiency.
Local governments long to support their communities as best as they can and partnering with Food for the Hungry's IMED program has allowed them to do just that.
With a little help from IMED, the health centres in Kole and Mukono are now able to provide a service that all people need. And now, these remarkable doctors and nurses no longer have to tell their communities that they have bed shortages.
Help IMED send maternity beds and desperately needed medical equipment to clinics like these!
HEALTH CENTRE STAFF
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Food for the Hungry: Uganda: Receiving Beds, Receiving Hope
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‘Charlie Sheen effect’ on HIV
Posted on February 23, 2016 by r | Comments Off on ‘Charlie Sheen effect’ on HIV
Google searches for HIV hit a record high in the US in the hours after actor Charlie Sheen announced that he was HIV positive, research reveals.
Investigators found 2.75m more Google searches than expected, based on previous trends, shortly after Sheen had appeared on US TV in November. Web searches for condoms, HIV symptoms and HIV testing also rocketed. The researchers say the ‘Sheen effect’ should be capitalised on, to further raise HIV awareness.
Story Via BBC
In relative terms, all HIV searches were 417 percent higher than expected on the day of Sheen’s disclosure.
Condom searches, such as “buy condoms”, increased 75%. HIV symptoms, such as “signs of HIV”, and HIV testing, such as “find HIV testing” searches increased 540% and 214%, respectively, the day of Sheen’s disclosure, and remained higher for three days.
Speaking in the Journal of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine, researcher Professor John Ayers, from San Diego State University, said: “While no one should be forced to reveal their HIV status and all diagnoses are tragic, Sheen’s disclosure may benefit public health by potentially helping many learn more about HIV and HIV prevention.
“More must be done to make this benefit larger and lasting.”
Back in November, Sheen, former start of sitcom Two And A Half Men, said he had gone to great lengths to keep his HIV status private.
He revealed to NBC presenter Matt Lauer that he had paid “enough to take it into the millions” to keep people from going public about his illness.
“I have to put a stop to this onslaught, this barrage of attacks and of sub-truths,” he said, adding he was diagnosed four years ago.
During that interview he said: “If there was one guy on this planet to contract this that’s going to deliver a cure, it’s me. It’s me. Seriously.
“I’m not going to be the poster man for this, but I will not shun away from responsibilities and opportunities that drive me to helping others.”
He’s not the first celebrity with health issues to cause a ripple effect in public behaviour.
Awareness of breast removal and reconstruction ops increased massively after Angelina Jolie’s experiences were reported in the media.
Likewise, cervical cancer screening uptake went up after reality TV star Jade Goody died from the disease.
Alex Sparrowhawk, Membership Officer of Terrence Higgins Trust said there was no question that Charlie Sheen’s forced disclosure had a huge impact, not only in the US but worldwide.
“As the UK’s leading HIV and sexual health charity, Terrence Higgins Trust website had its busiest day ever on 17 November, with almost 20,000 page views. The most popular covered ‘Stages of HIV infection’, ‘Getting Help Now’ and ‘What are HIV and AIDS’?
He said the “media circus” surrounding the Sheen story and the public reaction showed some attitudes were ignorant and outdated.
“There is definitely more work to be done in educating the public on HIV, but also in how the media report on HIV. It must be more widely understood as the long-term manageable health condition that it now is.”
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On Nintendo & Mobile Gaming
It’s been an exciting time in the world of mobile gaming. Apple Arcade launched with an exciting and fascinating slate of games. Google announced its Play Store subscription service, which kicked off a fascinating discourse about its unfavorable payment models. And at the lower end of the totem pole, Nintendo and its partner DeNA released
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Instant Replay: Dave Robinson enshrined in the Hall of Fame
Posted by Duke Bobber on August 4, 2013 – 1:59 am
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DAVE ROBINSON VIDEOS
Dave Robinson presented into HOF by his son(3:40)
Former Green Bay Packer and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2013 Dave Robinson is presented for enshrinement by his son, David Robinson
“Best day of the 21st century” for Dave Robinson(1:26)
Packers.com editor Vic Ketchman interviews former Green Bay Packers Linebacker Dave Robinson in Canton, Ohio after his election into the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Jim Taylor: Robinson fit right into the Packers(2:33)
Packers.com editor Vic Ketchman interviews former Green Bay Packers Fullback Jim Taylor in Canton, Ohio for Dave Robinson’s election into the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Willie Davis: Robinson was one of the best(1:33)
Packers.com editor Vic Ketchman interviews former Green Bay Packers Defensive End Willie Davis in Canton, Ohio for Dave Robinson’s election into the Pro Football Hall of Fame
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Packers.com editor Vic Ketchman interviews former Green Bay Packers Tackle Forrest Gregg in Canton, Ohio for Dave Robinson’s election into the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Dave Robinson receives his Gold Jacket(0:58)
From Canton, Ohio, Packers.com editor Vic Ketchman reports on former Green Bay Packers linebacker Dave Robinson as he received his gold jacket at the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Dave Robinson honored at Gold Jacket Dinner(2:34)
Packers.com editor Vic Ketchman interviews Rick Gosselin of the Dallas Morning News from the Gold Jacket Dinner in Canton. Gosselin was one of the members of the senior committee that pushed for Robinson’s election into the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Robinson: Nobody could beat the Green Bay Packers(4:22)
Packers.com’s Larry McCarren sat down with former Packers linebacker Dave Robinson who talked about legendary coach Vince Lombardi
Dave Robinson’s road to Green Bay(3:31)
Packers.com’s Larry McCarren sat down with former Packers linebacker Dave Robinson who talked about how he arrived to the Green Bay Packers and how he became a starting linebacker
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Newest HOFer, Dave Robinson, to announce Packers’ 2nd- & 3rd-round picks
Posted by Mike Spofford on April 19, 2013 – 1:28 pm
The newest Green Bay Packers player to enter the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Dave Robinson is scheduled to announce the Packers’ second- and third-round draft picks at the 2013 NFL Draft on Friday, April 26.
The NFL has made it a tradition in recent years to have alumni of all of the league’s teams take the podium during the second day of the draft to announce his former team’s selections. LeRoy Butler and Jim Taylor have done the honors for the Packers in the past.
A linebacker in the Vince Lombardi era, Robinson was a senior committee nominee for the Hall of Fame this year and received the necessary votes for induction. He’ll be inducted at the usual ceremony in Canton, Ohio, this summer.
Robinson is the 11th Packers player from the Lombardi era to make the Hall of Fame, and the first since Henry Jordan in 1995. The last Packers player to be inducted was the late Reggie White in 2006.
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Kevin Greene again named finalist for Pro Football Hall of Fame
Posted by Mike Spofford on January 11, 2013 – 10:32 am
For the second straight year, Packers OLB coach Kevin Greene has been named a finalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Greene is one of 15 modern-era finalists to join two senior nominees — one of whom is former Packers LB Dave Robinson — for consideration for election to the Class of 2013 when the selection committee meets the day before the Super Bowl.
The selection committee will elect a class of between four and seven members. No more than five can come from the 15 modern-era finalists. A class of six or seven can be achieved if the senior nominees are also chosen.
Greene has reached the semifinalist stage since 2008 and was named a finalist for the first time last year.
Here is the complete list of finalists:
· Larry Allen – G/T – 1994-2005 Dallas Cowboys; 2006-07 San Francisco 49ers
· Jerome Bettis – RB – 1993-95 Los Angeles/St. Louis Rams; 1996-2005 Pittsburgh Steelers
· Tim Brown – WR/KR/PR – 1988-2003 Los Angeles/Oakland Raiders; 2004 Tampa Bay Buccaneers
· Cris Carter – WR – 1987-89 Philadelphia Eagles; 1990-2001 Minnesota Vikings; 2002 Miami Dolphins
· Curley Culp* – 1968-1974 Kansas City Chiefs; 1974-1980 Houston Oilers; 1980-81 Detroit Lions
· Edward DeBartolo, Jr. – Owner – 1977-2000 San Francisco 49ers
· Kevin Greene – LB/DE – 1985-1992 Los Angeles Rams; 1993-95 Pittsburgh Steelers; 1996, 1998-99 Carolina Panthers; 1997 San Francisco 49ers
· Charles Haley – DE/LB – 1986-1991, 1999 San Francisco 49ers; 1992-96 Dallas Cowboys
· Art Modell – Owner – 1961-1995 Cleveland Browns; 1996-2011 Baltimore Ravens
· Jonathan Ogden – T – 1996-2007 Baltimore Ravens
· Bill Parcells – Coach – 1983-1990 New York Giants; 1993-96 New England Patriots; 1997-99 New York Jets; 2003-06 Dallas Cowboys
· Andre Reed – WR – 1985-1999 Buffalo Bills; 2000 Washington Redskins
· Dave Robinson* – 1963-1972 Green Bay Packers; 1973-74 Washington Redskins
· Warren Sapp – DT – 1995-2003 Tampa Bay Buccaneers; 2004-07 Oakland Raiders
· Will Shields – G – 1993-2006 Kansas City Chiefs
· Michael Strahan – DE – 1993-2007 New York Giants
· Aeneas Williams – CB/S – 1991-2000 Phoenix/Arizona Cardinals; 2001-04 St. Louis Rams
*senior nominee
Here are the bios on Greene and Robinson as provided in the Hall of Fame news release:
Kevin Greene
Linebacker/Defensive End … 6-3, 247 … Auburn … 1985-1992 Los Angeles Rams, 1993-95 Pittsburgh Steelers, 1996, 1998-99 Carolina Panthers, 1997 San Francisco 49ers … 15 seasons, 228 games … Selected by Rams in 5th round (113th player overall) in 1985 draft … Played primarily on special teams as rookie, only season he didn’t register a sack … Did not have any starts in second season, but played in all 16 games and managed seven sacks … Added 6.5 sacks in 1987 and by fourth season was bona fide pass rusher for Rams, registering career-high 16.5 sacks, including career-best 4.5 sacks in win over 49ers in season finale that clinched playoff spot for Rams … Following year matched his 16.5 sacks total … Had double-digit sack totals 10 times, second in record book at the time … Only time missed recording 10 sacks in any of last eight seasons was 1995 when he had team-leading nine sacks for Steelers … Named to Pro Bowl five times (once with the Rams, twice with Steelers and Panthers) … Selected first-team All-Pro, 1989 with Rams, 1994 with Pittsburgh and 1996 with Carolina … Captured league sack title twice, 1994 and 1996 … A member of NFL’s All-Decade Team of 1990s … Played in six conference championship games and one Super Bowl … Led team in sacks 11 times and amassed 160 total sacks, third all-time at time of retirement … Also had three safeties, 26 opponent fumble recoveries, and five interceptions … Born July 31, 1962 in New York, New York.
Linebacker … 6-3, 245 … Penn State … 1963-1972 Green Bay Packers, 1973-74 Washington Redskins … 12 seasons, 155 games … Selected in 1st round (14th player overall) by Packers in 1963 NFL Draft … Chosen in 3rd round (17th player overall) by San Diego Chargers in AFL Draft … Signed with Green Bay and quickly built reputation as big-play performer on Vince Lombardi-coached Packers dynasty … Started at left outside linebacker in three straight NFL championship wins, 1965-67 … Starting OLB in Packers victories in Super Bowls I and II … Recorded two tackles, five assisted tackles, one fumble recovery and pass defensed in Green Bay’s 33-14 win over Oakland Raiders, Super Bowl II … Rebounded from Achilles tendon injury in 1970 to regain form as one of game’s finest linebackers … Intercepted 27 passes which he returned for 449 yards in career … Lone interception return for touchdown came in first season with Washington … Named All-Pro second-team in 1968 and 1969 … First-team All-NFL selection three straight seasons, 1967-69 … Elected to three Pro Bowls … Named to the NFL’s All-Decade Team of the 1970s … Born May 3, 1941 in Mt. Holly, New Jersey.
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Hall of Fame nominees announced
Posted by Mike Spofford on September 28, 2012 – 11:37 am
Four individuals with ties to the Packers were among the 127 nominees announced this week for the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s class of 2013.
Outside linebackers coach Kevin Greene, former safety LeRoy Butler, former GM Ron Wolf and Clay Matthews Jr., father of current LB Clay Matthews III, are all on the list.
The list of nominees will eventually be pared to 15 finalists, who will join former Packers LB Dave Robinson, a senior nominee, for the final stage of consideration. Greene was a finalist last year after being a semifinalist in previous years.
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LB Dave Robinson nominated for Hall of Fame
Posted by Mike Spofford on August 22, 2012 – 2:44 pm
Former Packers LB Dave Robinson, a member of Vince Lombardi’s three championship teams in the mid-1960s, has been nominated for the Pro Football Hall of Fame by the senior committee.
The other senior nominee for 2013 is former Chiefs, Oilers and Lions DT Curley Culp.
Robinson, a linebacker from Penn State, was drafted in the first round by Green Bay in 1963. He played in 127 games over a decade (1963-72) with the Packers. He was named a Pro Bowl starter in 1966 and 1967 and made a third Pro Bowl squad in 1969. A consensus first-team All-Pro in 1967, Robinson is a member of the NFL’s all-decade team from the 1960s. He played the final two seasons of his career (1973-74) with the Washington Redskins.
Robinson compiled 27 interceptions over the course of his career, 21 of them with the Packers.
Senior committee nominees, whose careers were completed at least 25 years ago, must receive the same minimum of 80 percent of the vote from the full selection committee for induction. The two senior nominees will be added to the list of 15 other finalists the selection committee chooses. Either one or two players have been inducted into the Hall of Fame via the senior committee route each of the past nine years.
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1-Beetroot
The beetroot is the taproot portion of the beet plant, usually known in North America as the beet and also known as the table beet, garden beet, red beet, or golden beet. It is one of several of the cultivated varieties of Beta vulgaris grown for their edible taproots and their leaves.
2-Onions
The onion, also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium. Its close relatives include the garlic, leek, chive, and Chinese onion.
3-Garlic
Garlic is a species in the onion genus, Allium. Its close relatives include the onion, shallot, leek, chive, and Chinese onion. Garlic is native to Central Asia and northeastern Iran and has long been a common seasoning worldwide, with a history of several thousand years of human consumption and use.
4-Vegetable
Vegetables are parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food. The original meaning is still commonly used and is applied to plants collectively to refer to all edible plant matter, including the flowers, fruits, stems, leaves, roots, and seeds.
5-Lemon juice
The lemon, Citrus limon Osbeck, is a species of small evergreen tree in the flowering plant family Rutaceae, native to South Asia, primarily Northeastern India.
6-Yogurt
Yogurt, yogurt or yogurt is a food produced by bacterial fermentation of milk. The bacteria used to make yogurt are known as yogurt cultures. The fermentation of lactose by these bacteria produces lactic acid, which acts on milk protein to give yogurt its texture and characteristic tart flavor.
7-Green tea
Green tea is a type of tea that is made from Camellia sinensis leaves that have not undergone the same withering and oxidation process used to make oolong teas and black teas. Green tea originated in China, but its production and manufacture have spread to many other countries in Asia.
8-Ginger
Ginger is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger root or ginger, is widely used as a spice and folk medicine. It is a herbaceous perennial which grows annual pseudostems about a meter tall bearing narrow leaf blades.
9-Carrot
The carrot is a root vegetable, usually orange in color, though purple, black, red, white, and yellow cultivars exist. Carrots are a domesticated form of the wild carrot, Daucus carota, native to Europe and southwestern Asia.
10-Cucumbers
Cucumber is a widely cultivated plant in the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae. It is a creeping vine that bears cucumiform fruits that are used as vegetables. There are three main varieties of cucumber: slicing, pickling, and seedless. Within these varieties, several cultivars have been created.
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KIWI.com: A rocket from #brnoregion
“How to handle our rapid growth – that’s the biggest challenge we’ve had to face. Currently, we have almost one thousand employees in the Czech Republic, and together with their colleagues from our outsource centres all over the world it’s almost two thousand,” says Oliver Dlouhý, CEO at Kiwi.com.
Do Business stories
Already as a boy, Oliver Dlouhý wanted to do business. He sold blueberries at the Czech-Austrian border and collected cheap jukeboxes for pub owners in his hometown. In 2012, he established a company named Skypicker (today’s Kiwi.com) and started to develop a unique algorithm which, in last four years, has helped increase its sales by 7,000%.
And the competitive advantage? Acquisition of data and a method to count it
It all began with planning a trip to Portugal. In 2011, when searching for flight tickets, it occurred to him that he could create an algorithm to connect airlines that didn’t cooperate yet. And the main benefit for the customers? Usually a substantially lower price, mainly for trips to rather distant destinations. Oliver Dlouhý and Jozef Képesi started to develop their own flight search engine. There was no time to lose, so with the help of JIC Starcube program and financial support by various investors Skypicker was born.
A few months later he sold first dozens of flight tickets, but today – after the rocket growth – it’s about selling different numbers completely. Its monthly revenue exceeds 1.5 billion Czech crowns with an average of eight thousand orders placed daily.
And all this under a new name, as in 2016 the company rebranded and became Kiwi.com, today well-known all over the world. It’s become so globally successful that Oliver Dlouhý appeared in prestigious 30 Under 30 Europe 2018 by Forbes which lists the most talented people from Europe under 30 years of age in a number of industries, ranging from entertainment to finance and technologies.
It’s all about finding and keeping talented people
During a visit to the Brno offices of Kiwi.com it’s hard not to notice several things. The offices are full of young people from all over the world and their perfect design is innovative and adjusted to the demanding work of the employees, both developers, whose work on the Kiwi.com website forms the core of the product, and customer services staff, available 24/7 to the travellers who are often in crisis situations caused by unfavourable weather or political situation abroad.
It’s no wonder that one of the most important subjects in the company is its employees and efforts to offer them the best possible work conditions. “Of course, we deal with recruiting, just like most companies these days. And recruiting is related to the company culture – to maintain it and tune it in some ways during a period of rapid growth – because more demanding situations emerge as you grow. Last but not least, refinement has been a very important subject for us; refinement of who we are, where we’re going, and how we behave in order to remain successful,” Oliver Dlouhý describes the current situation and adds that flexibility is still a key ability of Kiwi.com.
“For such a rapid growth it’s necessary to set all the company processes as simple and flexible as possible, so that they can be quickly changed and adjusted if needed. And with a growth like this it’s needed quite often.”
When “the sky is the limit” is no longer true
One of the greatest challenges Kiwi.com has to face these days is to get its feet back on the ground. Its long-term goal is to create a one-stop-shop and offer a personalized set of services for the customers to use when travelling. In other words, in addition to the flights the package could contain accommodation, lounge, restaurants or tourist attractions in the given destination etc. The hardest part will be to set the entire service correctly so that the system of service selection for each customer works as best as possible and offers all this at the right time and through just one click. Kiwi has already taken several steps in this direction.
“Not long ago, we launched a combination of flights and buses, and in general we’d like to offer the best possible connection from one place to the other; it all began with flight tickets for several European low-cost airlines and today there are over 650 airlines. At the end of last year, we also added land transportation, such as four European rail carriers and first bus connections. We’ve been combining all these in order to offer absolutely unique travel itineraries,” says Oliver Dlouhý on the future growth of the company.
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Telegram Cryptocurrency ‘Gram’ Available by October
Reading Time: 2 minutes by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel on August 28, 2019 Altcoins
Telegram has hinted that the first batches of its Gram cryptocurrency will be available to a select group of investors by October 2019 and the Pavel Durov-led firm also plans to make the Gram wallet available to the nearly 300 million users of Telegram shortly, reports The New York Times on August 27, 2019.
Telegram Forges Ahead with GRAM
Per sources close to the matter, in a bid to fulfill its promise to investors, Telegram is putting preparations in top gear to make its Gram tokens available to some investors within the next two months.
Just like Facebook’s Libra, Telegram’s Gram token is designed to function as a global currency, making it easier for people to move money across the globe in a secure and cost-efficient way, however, unlike Libra, Telegram has hinted that Gram will be entirely decentralized.
Telegram claims its distributed ledger, Telegram Open Network (TON) will be run by node operators scattered across the world, similar to the Bitcoin blockchain. In essence, even Telegram itself will have no control over Gram transactions.
Racing Against Time
As reported by BTCManager earlier in February 2018, in a first of its kind, Telegram successfully raised a whopping $850 million during its initial coin offering (ICO) pre-sale, which was open to only high net worth individuals and venture capitalist firms.
Reportedly, Telegram previously promised its high-profile backers which includes Benchmark and Lightspeed Capital, as well as Russian investors, that they’ll have access to the purchased Gram tokens by October 31, 2019, or get refunds.
In a bid to meet the scheduled release date of Gram to these investors, Telegram is reportedly looking to launch the testnet of Gram network in the coming weeks, to make certain there are no bugs that could scupper its plans.
If all goes as planned, some investors will be able to trade their Gram tokens on supported exchanges, however, those who participated in its pre-ICO may have to wait a little longer.
While Facebook’s Project Libra is yet to receive the “blessings” the of financial regulators both in the U.S. and overseas, it is still unclear how Telegram plans to scale these huge regulatory mountains awaiting its multi-billion-dollar crypto project.
In related news, on August 26, 2019, BTCManager informed that Telegram users will soon be able to trade bitcoin and altcoins on the platform via Button Wallet.
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Hot shooting Pioneers blow past Bruins, 118-90
#13 MidAmerica Nazarene (D1)
Bellevue (12-7) 42 48 90
#13 MidAmerica Nazarene (D1) (9-4) 59 59 118
Pts: Mike Cardenas - 22
Reb: ROBINSON, Carl - 7
Ast: ROBINSON, Carl - 5
Pts: Page, Jonas - 22
Reb: Arnold, Marshawn - 9
Ast: Syrie, Nick - 13
Carl Robinson registered 16 points, seven rebounds and five assists in the loss.
OLATHE, Kan. -- MidAmerica Nazarene University shot 63 percent from the field and connected on ten 3-pointers to score a 118-90 victory over Bellevue University in non-conference men's basketball action Saturday afternoon at Bell Family Arena.
The Bruins fell to 12-7 on the season with the loss. MNU, ranked No. 13 in NAIA Division I, improved to 9-4 overall.
Mike Cardenas led three Bruins in double figures with 22 points. He finished 8-of-16 from the field and hit 4-of-10 from 3-point range. Carl Robinson registered 16 points, seven rebounds and five assists. Nicolus Guzman finished with 12 points and four boards.
Jonas Page led a balanced MNU offense with 22 points, as seven Pioneers finished in double figures.
After a 3-pointer by Olutola Olushola gave the Bruins a 23-22 lead at the 12:33 mark of the first half, the Pioneers scored eight-straight and closed the period on a 37-19 run to take a 59-42 advantage at the break.
A jumper in the paint by Guzman brought the Bruins to within 14 at 71-57 at the 15:17 mark, but that was as close as BU would get the remainder of the contest as MNU cruised to the 28-point victory.
The 118 points were the most points the Bruins have given up this season.
The Bruins will travel to Point Lookout, Mo. next Tuesday-Wednesday Jan. 5-6 to complete in the College of the Ozarks Cam Jam Classic. Bellevue will take on the University of Saint Mary (Kan.) in its first contest at 5 p.m. on Tuesday.
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July 21, 2018 / 5:18 AM / 2 years ago
Busch edges Truex for pole at New Hampshire
LOUDON, N.H. - Early bird Kurt Busch ran his best lap of the day in the final round of Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series knockout qualifying at New Hampshire Motor Speedway to earn the top starting spot for Sunday’s Foxwoods 301 (2 p.m. ET on NBCSN, PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
Jul 13, 2018; Sparta, KY, USA; NASCAR Cup Series driver Kurt Busch (41) prior to qualifying for the Quaker State 400 at Kentucky Speedway. Mandatory Credit: Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODAY Sports
The first driver on the track for decisive Round 3, Busch covered the one-mile distance in 28.511 seconds (133.591 mph) to edge reigning series champion Martin Turex Jr. by .019 seconds. Truex will start from the front row for the seventh time this season.
“I don’t want to second-guess anything, so when the crew chief (Billy Scott) says ‘Go,’ you just go,” said Busch, who won his first Busch Pole Award in 35 races at the Magic Mile, his third of the season and the 25th of his career. “I like the way we made the right changes through each of the rounds, and we stuck to a game plan.
“That’s exactly what you hope to have each time you go to qualifying, where you don’t have to deviate away from the plan you set in place.”
In fact, the three rounds of qualifying for Busch followed a script that had written before the first round began.
“We discussed it, and the call was made back at the hauler before the qualifying session started,” Busch said. “it was almost like a non-discussion. It was ‘This is what’s going to happen in Round 1, this is what’s going to happen in Round 2, and here’s what’s going to happen in Round 3’-and we stuck to our plan.”
Truex felt he lost what could have been a pole-winning run in the first corner.
“I just missed Turn 1 just slightly there in that last run on the first lap, but overall lit was a solid day,” Truex said. “We had a decent practice - a short practice, you know, because we waited a little bit for the VHT (traction compound) to kind of get run in, and we went out there and ran and were probably a little bit off further on balance more than we needed to be at the end of practice.
“So made some changes for qualifying, and the guys did a good job of getting it right and we were close. So couple thousandths, a few inches here or there in a different spot on the race track and might have been able to make it up, but a solid effort for us, and we can go get them on Sunday from second.”
Led by his brother, Kyle Busch, Toyota drivers occupied the top five positions in Round 2, but Kurt Busch broke the monopoly in the round that counted in his No. 41 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford. Kyle Busch ended up third, followed by Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Denny Hamlin, as Camry drivers claimed positions two through four on the grid.
Hendrick Motorsports driver Alex Bowman earned the eighth starting position in the fastest Chevrolet.
“To come here and qualify a solid top 10 means the car is probably a whole lot better than that, which is a good thing for me come Sunday,” said Bowman, who entered this race weekend with an average starting position at Loudon of 30.8 and previous best qualifying effort of 18th.
With Erik Jones earning the seventh position and Daniel Suarez qualifying ninth, JGR drivers placed all four cars in the top 10. Surprisingly, Busch was the only Stewart Haas driver to make the cut for the 12-driver final round.
The Team Penske Fords of Ryan Blaney and Brad Keselowski will start fifth and sixth, respectively, on Sunday.
Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Qualifying - Foxwoods Resort Casino 301
1. (41) Kurt Busch, Ford, 133.591 mph.
2. (78) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 133.502 mph.
3. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 133.431 mph.
4. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 133.361 mph.
5. (12) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 132.720 mph.
6. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 132.715 mph.
7. (20) Erik Jones, Toyota, 132.674 mph.
8. (88) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 132.618 mph.
9. (19) Daniel Suarez, Toyota, 132.581 mph.
10. (9) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 132.462 mph.
11. (24) William Byron #, Chevrolet, 132.383 mph.
12. (21) Paul Menard, Ford, 132.190 mph.
13. (10) Aric Almirola, Ford, 132.586 mph.
14. (4) Kevin Harvick, Ford, 132.554 mph.
15. (14) Clint Bowyer, Ford, 132.402 mph.
16. (47) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 132.379 mph.
17. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 132.259 mph.
18. (31) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 132.200 mph.
19. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 132.094 mph.
20. (42) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 132.039 mph.
21. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 131.925 mph.
22. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 131.738 mph.
23. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 131.447 mph.
24. (37) Chris Buescher, Chevrolet, 131.238 mph.
25. (13) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 131.247 mph.
26. (95) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 130.954 mph.
27. (43) Bubba Wallace #, Chevrolet, 130.860 mph.
28. (32) Matt DiBenedetto, Ford, 130.783 mph.
29. (34) Michael McDowell, Ford, 130.568 mph.
30. (38) David Ragan, Ford, 130.532 mph.
31. (6) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 130.483 mph.
32. (15) Ross Chastain(i), Chevrolet, 129.213 mph.
33. (72) Corey LaJoie, Chevrolet, 129.151 mph.
34. (00) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 129.134 mph.
35. (99) Kyle Weatherman, Chevrolet, 127.577 mph.
36. (51) BJ McLeod(i), Chevrolet, 127.555 mph.
37. (23) Blake Jones, Toyota, 124.556 mph.
—By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service. Special to Field Level Media.
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We're playing @EvilHatOfficial's #FateCore right now in #Roll20CON raising money for @CybersmileHQ! Join us at http://www.supergeekedup.com
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hey there @Blaze
Let's Play Cthulhu Confidential, The Fathomless Sleep. In case you wanted to listen to me and a certain Brian play a game.
Current plan is for weekly updates, we'd already recorded a session's worth of episodes.
@Magician Better than an uncertain Brian
Is it though?
I'm not certain. (I'm also not a Brian)
@doppelgreener ah fair enough
doppelgreener
Hey folksies, what's that D&D 5e service that lets you write up book-like entries in markdown?
aha, found it -- the homebrewery
Dr R Dizzle
@doppelgreener Wow, starred. That looks insanely useful.
@DrRDizzle As long as you want D&D formatting
@eimyr I only play D&D lol, so it's pretty perfect for me.
Time to branch out!
@eimyr Maybe if we format other games using the homebrewery, people will find them and think that they are cool D&D homebrews and we'll trick them into branching out? WHAT CAN POSSIBLY GO WRONG?
@Anaphory so you're saying we should coax the players into playing the game we want them to play through deception? Why not just play World of Darkness then, it's the same thing.
@DrRDizzle it's super.
@doppelgreener that is super cool
@NautArch no you
@doppelgreener awwww shucks
The lesson of this Midsummer was: never tempt fate. Especially when on a boating trip with your fellow RPG players. I praised our group for our excellent discipline and safety and lo, the boat starts leaking and we found ourselves shipwrecked on an uninhabited island four kilometers away from home base.
Was thinking about Unearthed Arcana and how they update some entries, some entries get put into final publications, but all receive feedback. Would it be a Stack question to ask if they ever 'retire' Unearthed Arcana?
(We managed to partially plug the leak and bail fast enough to salvage both ourselves and the vessel)
@kviiri please clarify whether this was a real life boat or in-game boat
because i'm very concerned and i think you mean the first
but want to know whether i should be that concerned first xD
@doppelgreener A real one. There was no real danger of loss of life, though. I brought a big bail.
After the initial shock of realizing the boat leaked, we could expel water far faster than it came in.
@kviiri glad to hear you made it to shore! Whose boat was it?
@NautArch It's just a simple rowboat, and belongs to the family of our host. He was really chill about the whole incident, possibly in part because the boat came back in one piece too.
@kviiri HE was chill? I'd expect some sort of concern/apology. That's crazy to have a watercraft that isn't safe and let others use it!
@NautArch you mean 'retire' in the sense of "is never published and development stops on it"?
@Adam Or even 'removes from being an option"
@NautArch The craft itself was safe. It has one of those little holes in the bottom for emptying water splashings and minor leakage when ashore. They're plugged with little rubber plugs when operational. The plug we had slipped through the hole when there was some rough weather, something none of us had anticipated could happen.
@kviiri Hmm. "slipping through the hole" seems like something a plug shouldn't do :)
@NautArch Sure. I really blame myself for not checking the plug, but it's one of those things that just happens. We crafted a new plug from a piece of wood when ashore so we could be towed back to base.
I'm really glad we had extra people on board, would've sucked to bail and keep the hole plugged with my hand at the same time.
@kviiri as am I! GOod adventure, still! :)
@NautArch A very good one. Also, we found the geocache we went for. Both the target island and the one we had to land on were beautiful as heck, too.
Also, an important life lesson: even if you think you've prepared for everything, something can go wrong. But even then, being prepared can be very useful. In this case, bringing the bail was probably a defining good move of the trip ;)
Also, since our in-universe party is conveniently on the shore of a lake, we agreed they had a similar trip in-universe for giggles.
@kviiri Give yourself Inspiration!
marks on the character sheet
@kviiri sounds well handled. nice work.
godskook
@kviiri "probably"? PROBABLY Clearly irrelevant.
@godskook Heh, right. We had an empty soda bottle but it probably would've been quite a struggle to manage with that!
onewho
@NautArch What defines my comment in rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/102262/… as an answer and not a comment?
Comments are for improving existing questions or answers. Answers are for solutions to questions.
Your suggestion is a solution to the question rather than an improvement to it.
Q: Should users refrain from answers (or partial answers) in comments?
There are situations, when you know SOMETHING that is related to the question but its insubstantial to be a proper answer, in example lets imagine a question: In which edition of game X dwarves are allowed to play as mages? Now lets say that I know a bit of game X, but I haven't played a wh...
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It's attempting to work toward a solution (or part of a solution), which is the domain of answers. The domain of comments is to work toward a question more capable of receiving solutions that help the asker.
I've removed the comment.
Partial answers get negative credit around here. Why would we give them as answers?
you either do more research to make your partial answer a full answer, or suggest it as an improvement to an existing answer, or you don't post.
this means we're not really in the business of hosting partial answers in any capacity
Yeah, I'm not sure if I agree with the reasoning behind this... I know my comment is a mere suggestion and has no official rules to back it up; there isn't a way to flesh this out into a proper answer since it doesn't have rules supporting it; it's simply a comment suggesting a possible way to view the process of "drawing a staff from a tree".
I find it strange that this site doesn't accept comments like this, every other stack exchange site I'm active in supports these kinds of comments.
Answering in comments bypasses the voting system AND the site's search functions, so your answer won't be sortable or findable by others. It also discourages others from giving full, well-researched answers.
@onewho, I'm with you on this, but this seems rather ingrained into the culture at least on this stack.
A: Should users refrain from answers (or partial answers) in comments?
I'll step in and provide some background here -- the reason why you see things that resemble "partial answers" in other Stacks is because troubleshooting is an iterative process. "Try turning it off and on again" is not an answer -- yet it may not be possible for anyone to answer the question we...
@BESW, considering it provides research for such answers, by what mechanism does it discourage people from giving full answers?
Read the links in the comments from there.
Comments are also often cleaned up, so a "good comment" you left could be removed.
@godskook Again, this is answered by fully reading the answers and comments in the linked meta material.
These are not new concerns or conversations, and it's a good idea to familiarize ourselves with the existing dialog when entering an ongoing debate.
Otherwise we'll either get ignored or waste everyone's time going over the same ground again and again.
@godskook Based on the number of times I've seen answers fleshed out in the chat between two people, I would say it's in part because we're too nice. If somebody else does the leg work, they deserve the rep. Many of us feel that way and won't make answers out of somebody else's work because of that, even if they say "no, please, take my rep. I don't want it"
@BESW, the post @onewho made is the very type of comment @Shalvenay was saying "we don't make" in the linked material. So no, that's not answered fully by a post that's blind to the use-case being discussed here.
And, of course, all the "other Stacks do it differently" argument needs to first be familiar with the standard from which all Stacks may choose to deviate and perhaps look at why different Stacks do it differently.
@godskook For the question of "discouraging people from giving full answers," I'm referring to the comments under this answer.
No Stack should accept "other Stacks do it differently so you should too" as a sufficient argument, as each Stack has its own context and exterior community patterns to deal with.
And I think it's important not to underestimate the difficulty we've had with fine differentiation between types of participation. One kind of comment answer is okay while another is not? Not gonna fly--if entirely different Stacks are being used as examples of why a comment here should be permitted, how much harder will it be for people to recognize a subtle variation in use case? (This is not rhetorical; from experience, it's very very hard.)
Again, there's a lot of history behind our choices in moderating answers-in-comments. We're, of course, always open to suggestions and criticisms. But they need to come from a position of familiarity with why we do it this way now, or it's not gonna be helpful.
So basically regardless of how helpful a comment might be it's not going to be accepted here, is what I'm reading...
A comment is not the appropriate place for all kinds of helpful things one might say, no.
Remember the lesson of Pokémon Go: a public space is not suitable for all activities just because it's public.
@onewho I wouldn't necessarily say that. A comment on the question itself which is geared toward answers isn't accepted. But if you stuck that same comment on an answer and said "this answer could be improved by talking about [this stuff that doesn't belong on the question]" that could very well be fine.
Comments have a particular purpose, and we've found that opening them up to unrelated purposes dilutes their usefulness and diverts energy from other more important things like full answers which give the site lasting, sortable quality content.
RPG enforces a very firm comment policy which requires that comments be used only for certain specific tasks, and not for other things (lest they be removed or, sometimes, moved to chat).
@onewho I agree with @Adam. It's a matter of purpose. Comments are to clarify a question/answer - not to provide one.
Per our current policy, as a body we're not interested in having mercy or much laxness in that regard.
I feel tempted to point out that our stack has a fairly large amount of questions that are objectively very difficult to answer correctly: for instance, "Does X exist?" (where X is, for example, published stats for some DnD monster). Easy as pie as long as one can really find X somewhere to confirm it exists - but otherwise, they'll have to confirm a negative, which is hard.
You're welcome to use meta to challenge the site's current stance on this subject--but it'll only be useful if your challenge acknowledges and addresses the experience and discussion which led to the current stance; otherwise you're asking us to unfix a solution.
Chat is not the place for getting policies changed.
@kviiri It is OK for questions to sit unanswered for a considerable period.
Not saying that's an appropriate way to use a comment, though - it's best to pour in a reasonable amount of effort into finding X, and then answering negatively while listing places where one looked.
@kviiri I agree with that.
It's even okay for questions to be literally unanswerable (because proving a question is unanswerable is HARD, and makes for a good answer itself).
"Here's all the places I looked, and I found nothing" has been the basis of multiple well-received "help me find this thing" responses.
Contextually, RPG.SE exists in a hobby space which major flamewars breaking out over benign disagreements are a norm. The early moderators of the site decided to come down hard on comments to prevent our site from just becoming more of the same, and so we've drawn the line at "use comments for the purposes for which they're intended and nothing else", and it's worked fairly well.
Thus far any time comment moderation has relaxed, both content and temperament have suffered a marked drop in desirability.
It'd be lovely to learn a way to be more lax about comments without the site catching fire.
@BESW The commments under that answer kinda prove my point, thanks for linking!
Alex Agapov
hello folks! i have brought you a question
as an aspiring worldbuilder and a D&D GM, how much of my actual world data (geography, legends, tales and such) can i reveal to my players? those players are all scattered across the realm, having some nice quests and adventures locally but completely oblivious to the wide world. this doesn't seem like a decent Stackexchange question, so i come to you. any related experiences, cool stories and advice would be appreciated :)
@AlexAgapov I like having my players as clued in as possible, so we can collaborate to have maximum interest/drama happen to their characters. It's more fun when players can be the audience who sees the monster in the dark or the bomb under the table--that's what makes a scene tense, knowing what the characters don't. The same goes, in my experience, for worldbuilding elements.
(Also, my players always have more ideas than I do, so the story is better with their input on the world as we go.)
so you'd rather have them know every detail about the world they explore?
@AlexAgapov, that's....absurdly broad :P The best I can tell you quickly is that they should at least know everything that'd be common knowledge for their characters to know, and this is especially cool if their characters had different sets of "common knowledge".
However much is reasonable. Depends a lot on the group's playstyle preferences and the kind of story you're playing.
@AlexAgapov, the more they know, the less they can explore, but the more they can contribute to the kinds of inter-woven stories BESW seems to like to run.
Often a few mysteries are fun to keep back and surprise folks with, but I try to never keep secrets for their own sake.
you're both right. short answer to my "question": it depends :D
yeah, intentional secrets are a nasty thing to have
i mean, if player characters should have known this but you kept it hidden - that's bad
but other than that, i'd say it's okay to have the default condition set to "unknown"
@AlexAgapov, otoh, what qualifies as that sort of thing is quite arbitrary.
A lot of my recent games have involved a collaborative worldbuilding session before we start, so everyone has a hand in making sure it's a setting we're going to enjoy.
Some people even use microscope to build a whole era of history and then choose where in it they'll adventure with a more traditional system.
i just thought that in simple, small and unsophisticated (or completely explored prior to the game's events) worlds it's often common sense to reveal the map from the start. and that's both tasty (let us see what's in that funny-looking ruined city on the other side of the world!) and disappointing (there's no mysteries for us to unravel, how sad is that!)
@godskook @onewho I'll confirm we're open to having our comment policies re-evaluated on meta, but BESW is right on the money when he says that needs to be done with awareness of the current context: the comment policies against partial answers, comment policies in general, the benefits of them, etc. I'm happy to speak about that to the extent I can provide answers, and so might many others here.
collaborative worldbuilding is a fun idea - i actually never thought of that
lots of issues and risks are bound to arise, though
@AlexAgapov There are a number of systems and techniques to give it structure.
@AlexAgapov, I'd consider the geography, as best you can portray it and as best locals can record it, to be "common knowledge".
for example, some cool feature might not bet implemented because players A and B had completely opposite feelings about it
microscope is a popular framework, and fate has several different variations of its take on the concept.
@AlexAgapov That's part of collaboration: finding the common ground and not pushing for something that makes someone else uncomfortable.
@AlexAgapov A nice middle ground might be to make your map, say, 1/6th of the actual world. That should provide enough area that players can collaborate on that area, set up some adventures, and provide backgrounds to everybody, but if you guys want some "explore the wild blue yonder" type adventures, you just have to go to the edge of the map.
@doppelgreener RE: incomplete answers... every now and then I get a +10 from Arqade, which I don't frequent. It's from a question that only has one, very incomplete answer that also has been upvoted reasonably. I hate the answer and I hate how the site is reminding me of it!
Remember, RPGs are still just games with friends, and the friendships are more important than anything in the game.
microscope sounds a lot like dwarffortress legends mode
MadMAxJr
Need to read this copy of Cthulhu Dark 0, now that the KS has closed.
Microscope can be fun. I find it to be a great way to collaboratively build a small setting with creative friends.
@MadMAxJr Urrgh, I need to smack my bank around until they approve the charge.
On it's own it's more a storytelling engine than full fledged RPG.
But it's a really good story building tool.
great to know, thanks! i never used it before
My first time with Microscope wasn't great, because I got some bad advice on how to use it. But the second time was a lot of fun.
@AlexAgapov My preferred way of doing things is to just start the first adventure in a town, or small area, and then key in on my player's backstories after the game, and build more of the world around that. So they "collaborate" in that they become part of the world, but they don't necessarily need to see the map, unless I want to show it to them, or be a part of the actual building.
@Adam yes, that's a great way of making the world alive
Another thing I used to do was draw a big world map to share with the players, and only design the details of places as they became important to the adventure.
this is nice too
I gave my fairly new players a slice of world-building through a mock newsletter that's published of the happenings of their world. It's also an exposition tool, but they can establish stuff as canon by submitting written content to me for inclusion between the sessions.
i actually started a new game last week and made lots of features around the players' backstories. but at some point their influence on the world has stopped, and "the lands beyond these mountains" are yet unknown to anyone but me
@kv
still learning to use this chat, hehe
@kviiri ;_;!
Alright. Here's our map. John has added the Kingdom of Ruul, a dwarven civilization focusing on mineral riches from a vast cliff-face. Great. Dave... What have you writen on the map Dave? "Disneyland but with cybernetic wolfmen, laser robots, and blackjack...."
@kviiri newspaper sounds like a fun thing to implement :)
yeeeah, crazy people are crazy
that's what stops me
@MadMAxJr If you're not using Dave, can I borrow him?
@BESW Feel free.
i know my players as fantastic people who can do great things with their characters and contribute to the fun, but god forbid i actually let them make the world. no, no, no
I'm pretty sure he'd love masters-of-umdaar.
This is why Microscope has a VERY important first phase where you establish the 'ingredients'. You can setup 'adds' and 'bans'. Things you specifically encourage to see, and specific topics to not have in your story.
@AlexAgapov I really recommend it if you're into writing. We've been having great fun with it so far! It gives me a tool to provide exposition between the sessions and foreshadow important events.
have any of you guys played dwarf fortress?
Some people write encyclopedias of their homebrew fantasy worlds, but the whole newsletter thing works.
Many, many moons ago.
@AlexAgapov Sure, but not in a few years.
@kviiri Sounds like it could be especially useful in a Marshes game.
When carp would still launch out of the river to fight dwarves.
the stories this game generates are just awesome
And a single elephant could end dwarf civs.
and get a following
Yes.. The AI in that game is unusual.
Dwarf is working. Dwarf very, very far away dies. Working dwarf, "I need his shoes. I should go get them."
you mean the AI itself or just the pre-defined range of events that can happen?
@AlexAgapov Our setting is basically slightly campy fantasy where people gather in the Society of Heroes and Adventurers to receive quests against evil. The newsletter is, in-universe, written by this slightly geeky researcher working for the society but occasionally features quest writers from the Society's administration.
Both in some cases.
Also playing with the files is fun. If I recall, creatures have XML files that use keywords to tell how they're built. Such as parts of the body and what they're made of.
Turns out if you replace 'flesh' with 'obsidian' apparently you could have dwarves that live inside lava.
@kviiri pathfinder society, huh? :)
yeah, and you could also have dwarves melt in the sun
@AlexAgapov Err, sorta, I guess. I didn't learn of the similarity until afterwards.
@doppelgreener How does one flag a "read the book to me" question?
or do we just do the legwork and answer it?
Basically, four out of five of the others in the party (I'm the GM) are total newbies to DnD and RPGs in general. We discussed the idea of having a fairly minimalistic, simplistic plot at first so they could familiarize the mechanics.
Now it's developing into a darker direction, as they've been uncovering evidence of an Asmodean conspiracy seeking to take over the region...
And wherever they go and whatever they do, they always discover in retrospect it went exactly as the conspiracy planned ;)
this is really nice. all my players are newbies, i'm a newbie with 6-months experience in D&D, and we're already exploring deep caverns and doing some pretty-openworld stuff. the folks love it so far, but the openness scares me sometimes
@NautArch The officially forbidden type of "read the book to me" question is the kind where someone doesn't have the book and is literally requesting we reproduce a section for them to help them violate copyright. Listing all the ways something might work may be too broad, circumstantially. Note "too much work" is not itself a close reason.
so i'm steering onto the side of "make a huge world with some generic history, races and areas, and get yourself ready to improvise whenever you need to add detail"
seems to work nicely
I prefer to run DnD in a half-railed fashion. We've experimented with total sandbox, but it wasn't as fun. So I usually prepare a set of quest hooks for my players and see what they do with it.
yeah, quest hooks are a must
If someone asked "what are all the ways I can inflict {extremely common status condition}" I would vote to close it as too broad, leaving a comment saying "I'm voting to close this as too broad, as there are an enormous number of ways to do this. Could you filter this down and tell us what you're trying to do and tell us about the character build you're trying to do this with?"
What are all the ways I can inflict pain?
npc's needing help, evil baddies making evil plans, treasure maps left under beds, that sort of thing
@NautArch For the moment I'm voting to close this as unclear. Comment on it incoming.
If I wanted to make a more open game, with the players really picking their own agenda without my cues, I would go for something other than DnD.
@AlexAgapov All good stuff!
i've come up with a neat way of making the world lively and getting some actual sleep at night, not needing to detail every tree
I also do this, where when I have more than one player absent but the rest still want to play, that I just tell them upfront that "since I don't want to advance the plot that much when the others are gone, it's SIDEQUEST TIME!" and then they go on a treasure hunt in a Kobold infested mine or a cultists' hideout.
@doppelgreener Ah! I had though Read the Book To Me was more about the "i'm too lazy to look this up myself" and less "can you please infringe on copyright and post the details I need?"
sidequests :D
that's a nice touch
Yeah! That's not to say they're less interesting for the players or me. And I like to incorporate bits and pieces of them to the main campaign too.
@doppelgreener love the homebrewery. I even use it to do up pregens for new players, because it makes them feel like it's such an "official" character.
@nitsua60 What do you mean by Pre-Gen?
For example, in their last session, three out of five party members were present and helped recover an egg belonging to a slain dragon from a Kobold cult revering it, in order to prevent a future dragon crisis. Said egg was delivered to the Society of Heroes and Adventurers, but it's not exactly out of the story yet ;)
@NautArch People may also be adopting it to refer to the former. There definitely are a number of banal "list all the ways to {thing}" requests I've noticed for D&D 5e, but AFAIK we've had no meta on those directly. The latter doesn't have exclusive rights over the term, it's just the one kind of read the book to me question we have an official meta decision on.
@NautArch Characters to have on hand, created without the player's input.
so here's my way of making the world and saving time: just do a general outline of what the world looks like and where are all the major sights, maybe even treat yourself to some tasty details here and there, but don't go into finest details everywhere. just make yourself a means of procedurally generating detailed content on the fly
for example, if there's a huge forest with lots of monsters and caverns, just make a general "probability table" that defines how likely are the players to meet each type of monster, and draw a couple of those caverns to get an idea of how they look so that yo…
@nitsua60 It's been on my mind to use it to make a Stack Exchange Elemental, with a Help Pile ability that makes its target explode after too much help has been rendered (a la a Positive Energy Elemental with its murder-via-healing)
@nitsua60 Ah - I was thinking also to 'simplify' a Class/race combo to have all the info and fluff in one place without bits that they didn't choose. Once someone has chosen their path, put it all in this and then they can have it as a resource.
IME many D&D players' first experience is "yay! let's play! First we need to make you a character..." [what follows is a series of seventy questions about the character they'd like, almost none of which the player has information to formulate an answer with, accompanied by a growing sense that 'I'm making wrong choices, and this is going to screw me over =]
@doppelgreener That may have applied to the Silent Image/Trompe L'oeil question :)
A little too realistic, perhaps?
@nitsua60 Aye.
@AlexAgapov I think you'll find that D&D GMs will run the gamut from "I tell them only what they ask" to "I don't build the world, I simply prod my players into doing it," and that at all points on that spectrum you'll find groups who were either ecstatic or miserable playing that way.
@kviiri So I tend to try and have four or five "vanilla" ones around so I can simply say "do you want to focus on pew-pew or smash-smash or talky-talky or something else? Then, once you've seen some and played with this character, we can make changes to it or make you a completely new one--this is a no-risk choice."
@nitsua60 It really doesn't help that DnD classes aren't exactly always that intuitive in their differences. Like, describing the difference between the Warlock, Wizard and Sorcerer.
@AlexAgapov personally, I love it when players get involved in worldbuilding. "Hey, you know that kingdom over yonder you heard rumors about. Alice--you want to design it? Here are three things I know to be true about it, here's one thing that cannot be true, other than that have at it!"
"Well Wizard is a spellcaster by academic expertise, a Sorcerer is a spellcaster by innate ability and a Warlock is a spellcaster by a pact with some extradimensional deity... no, not a cleric, just a... urgh."
@kviiri Luckily, if we're talking about the hypothetical new player, I'm not going to even offer them that choice. If they like pew-pew and would like their pew-pew to be magic-based (that's the follow-up question), then I'm handing them a sorcerer.
@nitsua60 That might be a smart idea.
@kviiri Clerics are just Warlocks with more cred.
Clerics are just Warlocks with a holier-than-thou attitude. Although they can usually back said attitude up with actual proof.
[crafts warlock of Pelor]
@nitsua60 Having recently jumped into 5e, I find the character creation process quite streamlined. The only mechanical choices you have to make are Class (which is easily explained by general archetype), race (mostly fluff), and stat distribution (which is mostly composed of a bunch of obvious choices, followed by some basically meaningless ones).
Warlocks are just fighters with magic and no heavy armor :D
@GreySage How many other RPGs and, specifically, D&D editions had you played before 5e?
@Yuuki My favorite interpretation of a DnD cleric is that they receive their magical power through ordination, not direct divine intervention. Then they still have to deal with crises of faith because they can't know for sure whether the ritual that gave them magic is truly divine or just "normal" magic.
@nitsua60 that is an amazing idea, actually. letting players design a certain part of the world with some limitations
Well, actual proof isn't necessarily direct divine intervention. Namely just presenting a certificate of "yes, I'm an ordained priest of the Church of <Deity>" is usually enough proof that one is in fact holier than thou.
@NautArch That's where I tend to downvote, not close-vote. "Does not show research effort" is part of the DV tooltip, and "It would take reading the book(s), which I don't care to do" hits that one right on the head for me.
@nitsua60 Oh! That's an interesting idea. My problem is I enjoy doing that kind of research. You know, because I'm a sadist and I like research for small use-cases :)
@nitsua60 Mostly 3.5 and pathfinder
@NautArch I'm the resident researcher of my party too. It's not always a very satisfying position :P
@AlexAgapov For me it's almost necessary. I'm not a spontaneously creative person, but rather my creativity takes a big step up once the constraints reach a certain magic threshold. I.e. given a blank page I'm largely useless, but given "there's a lone mountain in the middle of a desert covered in ice, which is thought to be cursed by humanoids but a is a pilgrimage location for Kenku" I'm off to the races with a hundred ideas.
@GreySage I think, if we put ourselves in the mindset of one who hasn't already mastered some form of D&D, it feels a lot less streamlined. (I'll agree it's more streamlined than other versions, but I contend that D&D is absolutely horrible at presenting itself to newcomers, across all editions.)
@NautArch Which is great--you'll probably get a highly-voted answer to a low-voted question. The Stack works =D
As a newcomer to DnD 5e with prior experience in DnD 4e, Savage Worlds, Apocalypse World and Dungeon World, I'm not too keen on 5e chargen. I think I liked the discrete per-class powers of 4e more than the spells of 5e.
My first impression with DnD 5e was a definitely positive one, though.
As our party has grown in power, I've noticed it getting somewhat less appealing, mainly because our fighters are nowhere near as cool as our casters.
@GreySage consider: it tells you about ability scores first. So I'll pick some scores. Then I'll grab a race, which modifies some of those scores. Then I'll look at classes, and now that I've read those dozen descriptions maybe I'll realize that I actually should have a good score in X. So maybe I'll change score, or even race. Alright, lemme choose some skills.
Oh, but a skill I like is in a crap stat, so lemme go back to scores... actually, this skill thing is kinda cool, maybe I'll pick a different class that gives me an extra skill or two... no, this is good. Equipment's pretty easy, an…
@kviiri I've heard that only 4e ever solved that problem.
@Adam IMO 2e and before solved that problem completely. (See an historical reflection.)
uhoh, I just got access to Moderator tools
The notion of a L15 PC still going on dungeon-delves with a small party strikes me, attached as I am to the ethos of TSR's high-level play, as a sort of self-inflicted Peter Pan Syndrome.
@NautArch Welcome to the club.
I mean in a way I could see that. With Fighters getting keeps and controlling nations, or guilds or all that and MUs researching and creating spells. But then the higher level players need to go on more involved adventures on a grander scale, or you switch from D&D to a wargame. At that point, fighters are still just better at swinging a sword, where MUs can bend reality to their will
I mean, if at 7th-10th level you were expected to retire to your tower or keep for the rest of time and not actually fight anything, why stat out up to 20th level?
@Adam 4e was pretty good, yep.
@nitsua60 love that bit...and Mitch!
@Adam That's my point. It was expected to transition from small-party adventurer to not a wargamer, but a kingdom-gamer. (Which might include wars, true.)
I used to hate 4e, but that was before I realized that it just wants a specific playstyle - an action-packed hack 'n' slash romp. Then I found other games that did the casual social narration better but lacked the appeal of tactical combat. Both do their own thing well.
Well, reasonably well. 4e at least used to suffer from the ridiculously low damage-per-turn versus total hp on later levels.
@Adam I guess I'm just saying that I don't see build a keep, assemble a warband, fight an orc army, carve out a kingdom as not-D&D, which your statement seems to imply. To me that is high-level D&D.
And you have to stat out higher levels because occasionally you do have to strap on your old adventuring gear to root a dragon out of its hole, or deal with a planar incursion. Or a demigod.
I guess my question would be: why do high level wizards not take high level fighters' keeps?
(Back when dragons were actually fearsome beasts.)
@Magician They've got better things to do? =D
What makes fighters good at owning keeps/gathering warbands?
@Magician too busy studying, keeps are beneath them
@Magician hoi polloi like to follow them.
Ah, so the only reason wizards don't rule the world is because they don't care to?
@Magician And the masses would revolt.
That still strikes me as "fighters are idiots with metal sticks", though.
@nitsua60 that certainly wasn't my intention. Frankly, I wouldn't even say that I know what D&D is. This is like a sage arguing with a fool. I, the fool, don't really have a chance, nor the goal to convince you of anything. Only trying to convey what I have been led to believe by listening to others
And they're smart enough to avoid the hassle of ruling the world.
they're too busy playing Bosses & Bookkeeping
@Adam No sage here--I'm just trying to do the same thing: present to you a concept of the game you might not have yet heard described.
i'm being facetious, there's no good reason a wizard shouldn't be the one ruling a kingdom, or a druid, or a monk, or etc
@nitsua60 Don't be so modest
I 'unno, I'm not fond of the idea of "fighters working as intended, they can do stuff people with actual power don't care about".
personally i became a moderator here because i felt i had the capacity to do it and do well at it, and i had the opportunity to do it.
likewise a wizard could easily be a wise, kind, benevolent and cunning ruler guiding his kingdom and taking good care of his people. like King Solomon.
@Magician Same here.
@doppelgreener Or they could just cast mass brain control spells
@doppelgreener areyouawizard.jpg
Also, if some of the players are meant to bother with ruling and others as simply being awesome superheroes, it sounds like it's hard to maintain a cohesive party.
@Adam Yes, possibly also malevolent :D
"Cool, I get a keep and an army and I become king!"
-"Yeah! That's Awesome! And I get to learn new magic that could turn you to dust in an instant, decimate your army, and enslave the survivors...Does this mean we can't be friends anymore?"
@Adam I have this headcanon of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup (a game with extremely little actual canon to work with) novice Ice Mages being employed as refrigerators on the surface.
And as they gain experience, slowly progressing to the machines of destruction we all know and love.
@Magician I'm just trying to say that's baked into the DNA of the D&D family tree. (Howzat for a mixed metaphor!?) If that's not your cuppa--and that's, of course, fine--then you can make changes, but they need to be thought out at the fundamentals-level.
Well, yeah, there's no doubt about that. D&D's legacy is a mixed bag.
(i just went back to fact-check something and now i'm not sure how I got the idea that plants have RNA and not DNA)
Rats, I forgot to write out and submit my 200 word RPG for this year's contest.
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ping me if there's any Cool RPG Stuff we should add to our pin. :)
On the same cottage trip where we had our little maritime mishap, I encountered some cool RPG stuff of our own: 7th Sea.
A friend of mine had hyped the system and setting for ages, but I didn't even realize how cool the entire theme park version of European history was before getting to read the book myself.
woo! pirates!
remember though
(courtesy of Disney, which appears to not fully grasp the concept of pirates)
@doppelgreener I always found Lazy Town to be extremely overzealous with their definitions when they accused all lovers of sailing of piracy.
they what?
You know, in the song. "Yarr harr feedle-de-dee, if you love to sail the sea, you are a pirate!"
oh, right :P
It pleases me how Iceland, of all places, managed to produce such a popular and high-quality kids' show.
...although it appears the bulk of the production happened elsewhere. :<
No wait, they actually had a studio in Reykjavik! Nice.
I'm happy with that too!
I think Finland's most successful media export is the Moomin family, but their best-known incarnation is made mostly in Japan.
SevenSidedDie
@kviiri Oh! I always thought they were from Sweden and just about Finnish trolls, but huh, no! A quick dig just now taught me that they're Finnish in nationality, but Swedish in language. This explains my confusion.
@SevenSidedDie Yeah, curiously quite a many Finnish "national heroes" are/were of the Swedish-speaking minority.
I had to cheat a bit by looking it up in Wikipedia, but even our national poet Runeberg is one.
@kviiri Interesting, I didn't know that. I do know the national-linguistic situation in both countries is somewhat complicated. I wonder if it's just chance, or if there's some effect biasing that towards Swedish-speakers? I don't know enough about the social demographics to even guess if or what that could be.
@SevenSidedDie There is a reason for the earlier cases at least. I'm by no means a historian, more a history enthusiast, but Swedish used to be the main language used in formal and academic contexts until the late 19th century when nationalism helped raise the status of Finnish.
I guess that gave Swedish families an advantage in literary fields, although academic Finnish speakers had to pick up Swedish too.
@kviiri Ah, that would very much do it, I would think. I knew Norway and Sweden were ruled by Sweden at one point; was that true of Finland too?
For more modern instances like Tove Jansson or Linus Torvalds, it's likely to be just numbers doing their work - about one Finn in twenty speaks Swedish natively, so a respectable amount of Finnish "great people" will be Swedish-speaking too.
@SevenSidedDie Yep, from 1323 (Treaty of Nöteborg) to 1809 (Treaty of Fredrikshamn) after which Finland became a mostly-autonomous part of Russia.
Cthulhu Dark Zero has some pretty straightforward combat rules. "If you try to fight a supernatural creature, you will die. Instead, roll to hide or escape."
The treaty of Nöteborg really split the modern-day Finland between Sweden and the Russian republic of Novgorod, but "Finland proper" remained under Swedish control, and later wars between the Swedish and Russian realms led to Eastern Finland falling under Sweden as well until 1809.
@MadMAxJr Yeah, I like that too! Also, how it's not necessarily still a bad move.
You can achieve stuff by attacking a supernatural creature, but those achievements are paid with one's life.
I'm just picturing a powerpoint slide where the left half is a million billion workflow paths on how to do a combat action in CoC, where in CD0, it's just a bunch of action names that all point at 'die'
'Cthulhu Dark is a game about doomed investigators' Heh. Welllllll with that on the tin, only two of my players will ever touch this.
@kviiri (I should read more history of Northern Europe. That tidbit is fascinating, and startlingly relevant to the shape of modern relations.)
@MadMAxJr An investigative duo might be even more thematically appropriate than a full party. I often find that the party-based assumption is a poor fit with some RPGs, but it's stuck in there for pragmatic audience-related reasons.
Unfortunately for the immediate future, I am responsible for the entertainment of a group of four every other week, so I need something a little more broad. But it was a cheap KS and I like reading up on 'keep it simple' systems as opposed to the things I end up running.
Game uses collaborative judgement. I like games that press this. The GM can call for rolling insight to see if you go crazy, but players should be doing it themselves when they think 'yup, that's gonna tick my sanity'.
@SevenSidedDie Me and my SO watched this historical drama series Hovimäki that had some great commentary on the evolution of the Finnish, Swedish and Russian societies during the 19th century. Unfortunately, the bits that aren't historical (the main characters' soapish love lives, for example) aren't quite as appreciable as the historical events depicted.
I wonder if an English fan-sub exists...
Part of the reason why 7th Sea seems to nice to me is that its version of European history catches a lot of cool bits.
Finland. I have a friend from there. I asked about Åland. All he could say is "That's complicated."
Åland is slightly complicated, but there's little active debate around it. The real complicated bits are in the Sami territories up North.
Anyway, veering off-topic fast and have to leave anyway. See you later!
@nitsua60 what was that for?
@nitsua60 Are accepted answers the exception to the rep cap?
@NautArch Yes
@ACuriousMind cool
erp - i think i'm about to ask a cheez question @KorvinStarmast
T.J.L.
I've got the crackers!
I searched for Tiny Hut, but couldn't find if you could put it on a mobile craft (train/cart/boat)
KorvinStarmast
@KorvinStarmast is that cheesy enough?
The only way to find out is to ask ... and see how gouda 'tis. :)
Rep capped today, will ask tomorrow in time for my gameday wednesday
@NautArch couldn't remember if we'd ever made the dicebot accessible.
@nitsua60 nice!
@NautArch Yes, as well as bounties, accepted suggested edits, maybe an un-downvote if the sequencing is right...?
You guys be good, gotta go.
That last one might not be right. Maybe it's the deletion of a post on which you've DVed, subject to a five-minute window? I.e. if you're at the cap, then all within 5 min you DV (now +199), receive an upvote (+200 per cap), the answer you DVed is deleted (refund of 1, for +201)? There're some strange little edge-cases like that which I think I've seen.
@KorvinStarmast Peace.
(That seemed a little too assertive with the (!) there.)
@nitsua60 You'll be peaceful and like it!
@NautArch "Ride on the peace train!" Cat commanded the audience.
@nitsua60 I've now got a very different version of the song in my head
Q: PCs Using Disciplinary Talk from DM as Leverage, Leading to Group Dysfunction
This is a follow up from my previous question based on what I think to have been an unfortunate development since I originally posted the question. The 2 players from the previous question are still in our game, however, a new problem has emerged: they are now dominating the game, to the detrime...
dnd-5e gm-techniques group-dynamics
Am I the only one who reads this guy as being an unreliable narrator of his own story?
@godskook A bit yeah, although I loved the mental image I got when he mentioned his barbarian flipped the ship.
@godskook I had that thought, too, but decided to just take it at face value.
Although I don't need to frame-challenge to point out his DM wasn't unjustified in shifting his alignment for murdering a boatful of people because they said mean things to him. I just can't write-up a good answer atm. It'll take too long.
@godskook I was giving benefit of the dumb there... 'cause honestly, I can't see any plausible way for a man-sized being in the water to capsize a ship. I think the DM was silly for allowing it and excessive for changing an alignment over it. Plus, capsizing the ship isn't going to instantly kill them all.
@T.J.L., except that's what the narrator is claiming now to have wanted to happen.
If the result was out of proportion with his post-hoc stated desires, I'd have some willingness to give doubt there.
@godskook I'm not sure what you're saying... The GM put the boat there (fine). The GM allowed him to flip it (dumb). The GM changed his alignment (excessive).
He is a level 20 Barbarian, not sure what type, but could have some crazy lifting capacity.
1.The DM put the boat there.
2.The player decided to flip the boat
@NautArch Um... in-water? :) What's he lifting against?
3.The DM let the player succeed at what he wanted.
4.The DM adjusted his alignment accordingly.
but either way, if the DM approved the action - he could have told him that there may be a consequence (or gave very strong hints)
@T.J.L. his awesomeness :)
#2 and #3 agree with each other completely.
@godskook The DM's response should have been "Um... no. That's stupid. You can't flip a boat in the water while you're in the water. That's absurd".
Fundamental problem: they're playing L20 characters, but are not an L20 table. You'd think they'd have worked out communication and playstyle issues during the 18 mo. of weekly sessions it'd take to go from L1 to L20....
But, as previously established, the DM seems kind of spineless.
@T.J.L. That's what I thought, then I started to think about how it could be done
I took even allowing it to succeed as evidence of the GM's ineptitude.
@T.J.L. My theory is the barb grabbed the bottom of the boat and pushed/swam REALLY hard, until it capsized
@T.J.L., have you ever touched a boat in the water? I have, and have flipped them, from in the water. I have ~10-12 Str and 1-2 levels, by D&D standards.
@GreySage Have you ever been sailing, or studied sailing? There are huge forces involved in anything that could be considered a ship.
Perhaps you're assuming the boat is sufficiently large to make the DM's adjudication dumb?
@godskook Meet me in Boston Harbor and I'll watch you take a whirl a tipping over Old Ironsides.
@godskook The word "ship" was used.
So it was....
I don't know why I got on boat.
If it was a smaller boat, there's even LESS justification for an alignment shift. If it was, he dumped some guys in the water; he didn't kill anybody.
Perhaps a shift towards Chaos would be inline, but the character was already Chaotic, so it's moot.
@T.J.L. I'm not saying its reasonable, I'm saying it's possible given a stupidly powerful force (for which a lvl 20 barb adjudicated by a weak DM qualifies)
@T.J.L., "I wasn't worried about drowning because of Str, Con and being level 20" implies to me that lesser men would be worried about drowning in that situation.
@godskook i was going to ask a question about a boat?
@GreySage It's not plausible, but a weak GM allowed it... an important distinction.
@T.J.L., why does it matter why the DM allowed it, in terms of the player's alignment?
Its what the player wanted to happen.
@godskook If the DM hadn't allowed it, the alignment shift would be entirely unjustified. As it is, even with the DM allowing it (bad DMing), I think it's excessive (more bad DMing). If you're trying to convince me otherwise, you're wasting your bits.
@T.J.L., why do you think its excessive?
Mind you... I'm not saying the player is terribly good, but the question wasn't about game mechanics. The question was about social issues. And he has done a fairly decent job on both the linked questions explaining his position. Assuming ill-intent on the part of the OP is unfair.
@godskook Irrelevant to the original poster's question, so I'm not going to take the time to justify it.
@T.J.L., I'm not assuming ill-intent, I'm assuming unreliability.
:38385132 Its very much relevant to the answer I plan to give when I get home. Because I plan on asserting the opposite.
Interesting....that doesn't work like I'd expect :(
My reasoning should not factor into your answer.
The question is about what the player should do in light of the GM's activity. Trying to shame the querent is inappropriate.
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World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth is the seventh expansion pack for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft, following Legion. It was announced at BlizzCon on November 3, 2017. In contrast to previous expansions, which went live at midnight in each time zone, Battle for Azeroth had a simultaneous release for all regions, corresponding to midnight Central European Summer Time on August 14, 2018.[1][2][3]
New to Patch 8.1 is a new leveling flask called the Draught of Ten Lands which increases all primary and secondary stats by 20 and experience gained by 10%. This effect lasts for one hour and persists through death, similar to other battle flasks. This item can be purchased using a new Patch 8.1 currency called 7th Legion Service Medal or Honorbound Service Medal which can be earned doing the new incursions and Warfront activities. Simple earn these medals on your main character, purchase the flasks, and send them to your other characters. The cost is 10 of the medals.
Azeroth paid a terrible price to end the apocalyptic march of the Legion's crusade—but even as the world's wounds are tended, it is the shattered trust between the Alliance and Horde that may prove hardest to mend. As this age-old conflict reignites, join your allies and champion your faction's cause—Azeroth's future will be forged in the fires of war.[8]
The term “role-playing game” also means that you play the role of a character that lives in a fantasy world. How deep you connect with the character – is up to you: some people come up with habits, manners, and the whole biography of their game counterparts. Diving into the virtual world can bring a lot of fun, but the choice is yours – perhaps such a game style simply doesn’t suit you. This role component is voluntary, but we provide some role-playing worlds for those, who prefer to play with a full immersion in the world.
Azeroth paid a terrible price to end the apocalyptic march of the Legion’s crusade—but even as the world’s wounds are tended, it is the shattered trust between the Alliance and Horde that may prove hardest to mend. As the fires of war continue to roar, take the battle to both new and familiar lands with the Tides of Vengeance update, and join your allies to champion your faction’s cause.
Leveling used to be a treat in WoW. New, unique abilities drove you forward and made getting past the horrible grind worth it to some extent. Now it just feels like everything is set to grind. More than it used to be. Once it was tolerable, rewarding even, but now you grind to unlock an allied race through reputations barely connected to most of these races, only to have to level up that character to get their unique armor set (compelling you to not just boost your character and instead suffer through the slog of ANOTHER group of alts), then you get back to current content and grind some more with a random chance to drop the item you need to get your ilvl up to finally enjoy the single warfront available (as I write this).
PLUNDER THE ISLANDS OF THE GREAT SEA – Explore Azeroth’s uncharted isles in Island Expeditions. Battle in groups of three as you race against cunning rival intruders (or enemy players) to collect the island’s resources and fuel the war effort. Constantly evolving challenges await as you traverse frozen landscapes near Northrend, open the gates of an abandoned Gilnean castle, navigate a war between elementals, and more.
No he's just not paying attention. The wanted quests are built into both the leveling guides and the "Zandalar Forever" achievement guide. They aren't in the rep guide because they are not repeatable and by the time you hit max level they should be done. You'll also notice the rep guide doesn't contain every single possible completable quest that rewards rep. It is designed to focus on repeatable objectives, world quests, large quest lines, and missions.
Another thing that disappointed me was how Zygor artificially separated their Pet & Mount, Titles Reputations & Macros from the Achievement & Profession guide to inflate their prices. This angered a lot of their existing customers like myself. Those guides should have been included with the Achievement guide because things like Pets, Mounts, Titles and Reputation involve completing a lot of achievements.
World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth is the seventh expansion for World of Warcraft revealed at BlizzCon 2017 and announced for release on August 14, 2018.[1] The Alliance, led by King Anduin and Genn Greymane, attacked Lordaeron, Warchief Sylvanas' base at Undercity, in response to the Horde burning down Teldrassil. The factions are at war. Between the Alliance-controlled Eastern Kingdoms and the Horde-controlled Kalimdor is the Great Sea. It is in this Sea that a majority of the expansion will take place.
The prepatch for Legion, for example, offered players in-game demon invasions throughout the world of Azeroth, presenting opportunities for new appearances, feats of strength, a pet, a toy, gear that provided a catch up in power for those with alternate characters or who hadn't played in a while and the opportunity to infect other players via an in-game mechanic.
Hi, cool addon, but I have one problem with it, the objective quest location is now changed into the top of screen and cannot be moved, because I also use "MoveAnything" addon and I use that addon to locate my quest objectives, now I think both addons are causing a problem where I can't move the objective with neither of addons, for example even if I unlock and try to move using Dugi, it won't move, it is stuck in the top of screen just above my minimap.
To give you some perspective I leveled both a LF Ret Paladin and BE Rogue (so one started from level 20 and the other from level 1). I focused on getting the achievements I was missing for the Loremaster, so not the most efficient route by any means. I was using full enchanted heirlooms (minus the ring) and the WoW-Pro addon though, as well as having War Mode turned on all the way.
I do not recommend going for TBC, although I remember Hellfire peninsula to be decent, everything else is rather slow. Instead go for WotLK, Borean Thundra gets you levelled very fast, and then you can head straight for Icecrown at 67, which is also insanely fast, although admittedly has a few elite quests. You can go to Sholazar Basin alternatively. 2 zones should get you 60-80 no problem.
The game guide to the World of Warcraft Battle for Azeroth is a handy set of practical advice and guidelines that will help you in getting answers to the most important questions about the new expansion. Battle for Azeroth is the latest expansion set to the much-loved MMO game. Since its launch the game has collected great reviews and everything indicates that Blizzard has delivered another exquisite in-game content for months to come.
Footholds into enemy territories can be done as you grow in levels and should be completed before reaching Level 120. Take the time after completing your first zone to do your first foothold, or you can choose to complete one as soon as you gather your 100 War Resources which will prompt you to return to your mission table area where the first foothold quest can be obtained. Similar to how your initial zone selection was largely irrelevant, this selection is, as well. Simply pick one and complete it to earn your Mission Table second champion. Send your champions out on missions, recruit troops, and then head back out to quest in your second zone selection.
And... that was it. New NPCs offered a glimpse of some truly amazing armor and weapons, none of which are currently available to players (and datamining suggests it may be a while, if ever, before they are.) There were no new appearances for players to farm, no items or pets or toys or titles to obtain, no achievements to complete. There was no repeatable, truly farmable content.
Island Expeditions:[5] 3-Player co-op with optional 3v3 gameplay. Players will explore uncharted isles across the Great Sea. There is azerite and other unclaimed resources bubbling to the surface that is highly sought by both factions. Complete varied and dynamic objectives with a large variety of challenges to overcome. Race against advanced AI opponents designed to thwart players using tactical and strategic moves that consistently change. Optionally, players can choose to race against other players, creating a 3v3 PvP environment.
If you’ve seen or heard people getting excited for World of Warcraft because it’s “getting back to its roots,” thanks to a renewed focus on the shared hatred between the game’s two major factions—Horde and Alliance—in its new Battle for Azeroth expansion, maybe you’re tempted to sign up and give the game a whirl. Or, if you haven’t played in years, perhaps you’re curious to see what’s changed.
5% was admittedly an exaggeration, just felt that low. I'd say it was probably closer to the 30-40% range. It was Artifacts of the Blacksilt, spent a good 10-15 minutes killing Blacksilt Seers to get two damn idols to drop. A quest that had me killing Elder Brown Bears for bear flanks also took quite a while, though that was less due to drop rate and more due to how spread out they were.
Kul Tiran human (8.1.5) - "Kul Tiras was founded by fearless explorers who sailed uncharted waters in search of adventure. As a key member of the Alliance of Lordaeron, the Kul Tiran navy dominated the seas of Azeroth with its legendary fleet. But after years of turmoil and hardship, the kingdom grew isolated and vulnerable to dark influences. Thanks to the help of brave heroes, House Proudmoore has been restored and Kul Tiras is poised to fight alongside the valiant Alliance once more."
EXPLORE TWO FABLED KINGDOMS – As a champion of the Horde, travel to Zandalar to persuade the trolls to lend their naval might to the war effort. As a defender of the Alliance, sail to the seafaring kingdom of Kul Tiras, home of Jaina Proudmoore, and rally its inhabitants to fight for your cause. Once you’ve successfully recruited one of these proud kingdoms to your faction, infiltrate the enemy’s newly claimed territory.
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Windy City Bulls Preview for the 2016-17 Season
By Michael Walton II
The inaugural season of the Windy City Bulls is almost upon us. With that being said, it may be safe to assume the average basketball fan is not familiar with the current roster of Chicago's new D League franchise. Well never fear! Your resident hip-hop-and-hoops-head is here to inform you that the team is stocked with talent and is sure to compete this upcoming season.
The starting lineup will most likely be a small-ball group. They should play fast and emulate the style that Chicago Bulls head coach Fred Hoiberg would like his team to play.
Projected Starting Lineup:
PG- Kiwi Gardner
SG- Jerel McNeal
SF- Wesley Saunders
PF- Jamal Jones
C- Ralph Sampson III
Casey Prather
Akeem Richmond
Booker Woodfox
Justin Dentmon
Jon Octeus
Xavier Thames
Ian Chiles
Jamal Jones will get the start if he assimilates well with the rest of the group. The Windy City Bulls could go super small and elect to start Casey Prather (a 6-foot 5 athletic swingman from the University of Florida) or one of their other guards, but Jones will get the nod because of his natural size for the power forward position at 6 foot 8. (Jamal Jones scores 26 points on the Erie BayHawks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B65Bsz2TydA)
Jones can get out in the passing lanes in a hurry on defense. On offense his size and leaping ability make him a great finisher in transition, but he could still add a bit more bulk to his frame. The fact that he is a former point guard (in high school) is icing on the cake, as ball-handling from the forward spot is ALWAYS a plus. He played one year at Texas A&M and actually was the offensive leader on the team.
The rest of the lineup is very intriguing as well. Former Creighton and Texas Legends guard Booker Woodfox has one of the cooler names in the NBA D-League. On top of that great name the man is an absolute knockdown three-point shooter. He shot 39 percent from three-point range last season with Texas Legends.
Kiwi Gardner is a 5-foot 7 guard with explosive quickness and slick handles. His ball-handling and shooting ability make him valuable, but his streakiness and size are his biggest disadvantages. Jerel McNeal is a veteran and Chicago native who starred at Marquette in the mid-2000's, but has been fighting for an NBA spot for several years now. He had a brief breakthrough during the 14-15’ NBA season where he played six games with the Phoenix Suns. He spent the last year playing in the Greek A1 league where he scored 14 points per game also shooting 37% from three.
The most interesting pick in the expansion draft was the Windy City Bulls' first one, Wesley Saunders, who was a former Ivy League Player of the Year at Harvard. He hasn’t produced much in the NBA D-League, but he is also the youngest player on the Windy City Bulls so there's plenty of time for him to grow. He sports shaky shooting mechanics, but his offensive versatility will make him very useful to the Windy City Bulls. He operates well as a facilitator, especially in the pick-and-roll, so he, McNeal, Woodfox, and Gardner could conceivably all play well together in various backcourt combinations due to Saunders' ability to get others the ball in their favorite spots on the floor.
The Windy City Bulls will surely having growing pains, just like any expansion team would. But the fact that the Bulls were able to land three players below the age of 25 who could go on to NBA roles is an encouraging sign. When you have players that young with that much potential and you put them on a team with hard workers like Chicago's own Jerel McNeal, you are putting guys in a situation that is built for them to succeed. The expansion draft marks a new era for the Chicago Bulls organization going forward. The collection of talent on the Windy City Bulls roster certainly points towards a bright future for that era.
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Review: Man from Nebraska (Redtwist Theatre)
Broad collection of fervent scenes doesn’t quite make a whole
Redtwist Theatre presents
Man From Nebraska
Directed by Andrew Jessop
at Redtwist Theatre, 1044 W. Bryn Mawr (map)
Redtwist Theatre has pulled off wonders within the confines of its black box theater space, such as morphing into a cheerfully bland New York hotel lobby with Lobby Hero (our review ★★★½) or, for their production of The Pillowman (review ★★★), a claustrophobic interrogation room adjoined by macabre mini-theaters at both ends. But they may have bit off more than they can chew staging Tracy Letts’ 2003 play Man From Nebraska. Stephen H. Carmody’s set design does all it can with movable stages that serve for car and hotel scenes; Christopher Burpee’s lighting design can be impressively transformative at the right moments; Andrew Jessop’s video provides sly and suggestive white noise when the television becomes an extra character in a scene. Still, the play’s stop-and-start shifts are hell for any director to draw a cohesive arc from. Though Jessop’s direction crafts gorgeous, singular jewels with each theatrical moment, it cannot ameliorate the overriding fragmentary nature of Letts’ writing, which seems more relevant for the screen than the stage.
Only one abiding element comes close to binding the production—Chuck Spencer’s performance, authentic to the bones, as Ken Carpenter, a man who awakens in the middle of the night to question everything he once held true. Jan Ellen Graves provides quiet backup as Ken’s sorely tested helpmeet, Nancy, but the show remains Spencer’s in every way. One could consider his portrayal of Ken as the bookend to his 2009 triumph as Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman at Raven Theatre (review). He seems born to play the quintessential life of quiet desperation.
The opening scenes do everything to depict Ken and Nancy’s somnambulant routines and corn-fed complacency, right down to silently shared dinners over chicken-fried steaks and mashed potatoes. But then Ken’s midnight crisis of faith hits hard and stands in abrupt, violent contrast to everything that’s gone before. Ken, Baptist born and raised, realizes to his horror that he does not believe in God–Spenser successfully sells every raw moment of Ken’s lifetime of belief pulled out from underneath him.
The rest of the play Ken searches for what he truly believes in; how various people respond to his earnest and heartfelt quest eventually reflects more on them than the protagonist. Small theatrical moments shine with humor, veracity, warm simplicity, yet sometimes we are never really far from a sharp Lettsian edge. Reverend Todd (Michael Sherwin) proves to be as cheerfully vapid and materialistic a clergyman as Satan could ever send to test the faithful, yet it is on his recommendation that Ken take a vacation that shapes his quest. Equally, daughter Ashley (Julie Dahlinger) seems too caught up in the things of this world to ever understand her father’s driven personal inquiry. In worldly company, Ken seems like an oddity—the guy who cares too much about spiritual matters that everyone else has let go of long ago.
Spencer is up to giving a performance that makes Ken more than an accidental tourist in the realms of moral ambiguity. Unfortunately, the script itself doesn’t plumb the depths of Ken’s emotional or spiritual quest but leaves a lot of it inchoate. Furthermore, the play’s fragmentary nature makes it difficult to tie in Ken’s search for truth with what is going on with Nancy at home. So many actors give strong and mature performances, it’s a shame that the whole struggles to gel. It’s worth it just to go and view the production as an assortment of excellent scenes in the hands of sure and capable craftsmen. Certainly, Ken and Nancy’s powerful reunion will stays long after the show is over. But, all in all, we have to accept Man From Nebraska as a lesser work of Chicago’s currently most successful playwright.
Man From Nebraska continues through April 24th at the Redtwist Theatre, 1044 W. Bryn Mawr, with performances Thursday-Saturday at 7:30pm and Sundays at 3pm. Tickets are $25 on Thursdays, $27 on Fridays and Sundays, and $30 on Saturdays, and can be bought online or by calling 773-728-7529. Reserve seats by e-mailing reserve@redtwist.org.
Filed under: 2011 Reviews, Paige Listerud, Redtwist Theatre, Tracy Letts | Tagged: Adrian Snow, Amy Crater, Andrew Jessop, Andrew Pond, Anna Eisenbraun, Christopher Burpee, Christopher Kriz, Chuck Spencer, Emily Guthrie, Jan Ellen Graves, Jane deLaubenfels, Joelle Beranek, Johnny Garcia, Julie Dahlinger, Lindsay Bartlett, Man From Nebraska, Marssie Mencotti, Michael Colucci, Michael Sherwin, Olivia Baker, Paige Listerud, Redtwist Theatre, Sam Perry, Shauna Warren, Stephanie McSharry, Stephen Carmody, Tracy Letts | Leave a comment »
Review: The Homecoming (Mary-Arrchie Theatre)
Mary-Arrchie excels at stripping away social restrictions
Mary-Arrchie Theatre presents
The Homecoming
Written by Harold Pinter
at Angel Island Theater, 735 W. Sheridan (map)
After experiencing Belarus Free Theatre’s powerful Being Harold Pinter (our review) earlier this year, I wasn’t sure how any traditional Pinter production would resonate going forward. Mary-Arrchie’s production of Pinter’s 1964 play, The Homecoming has answered that question: more than ever. While Pinter’s domestic wars have always proved powerfully apparent and has inspired plays such as Tracy Letts’ August: Osage County, Belarus Free Theatre’s Pinter unearthed the immediacy and politics of his writing in such a way that American audiences now have a new frame of reference with Pinter’s writing. In Mary-Arrchie Theatre’s loft storefront, Director Geoff Button crafts an absurdly detailed production that hits all of the most vital aspects of this play dead on. The comedy and relationships are sharp. The rhythm of Pinter’s dialogue is surgically articulated. The sexually charged faceoffs are bubbling. Ultimately, this Homecoming stays with you after exiting out onto Sheridan Road.
American audiences were appalled, fascinated, and viscerally affected when The Homecoming made its American debut in 1967. As the play has aged, the shock may have worn off, however, the parallels in family relations is perhaps more recognizable. The brilliance lies in how subtly Pinter transcends from the everyday to the absurd. It’s as if we travel from Kansas to Oz without the tornado. The story is set in 1964 London in the home of Max (Richard Cotovsky) where he lives with his two sons Lenny (Vance Smith), Joey (Dereck Garner) and his brother Sam (Jack McCabe). Max speaks loudly and carries a shiny stick. There are references made to his dead wife which was also the death of a female figure in this home. Daily domestic conversations are instantly off kilter on topics such as cooking, “Why don’t you buy a dog? You’re a dog cook.” This world is turned on end with the return of Max’s third son Teddy (Luke Hatton) and new wife Ruth (played by Michaela Petro in one of the most riveting performances of the season).
Smith and Petro begin the “game” in their first scene together. Smith’s Lenny is deadly blunt and comical. Their banter revolving around a simple glass of water is thrilling, “Have a sip. Go on. Have a sip from my glass.” As events unfold, social rules disintegrate. Jealousies and desires revolving around Ruth play out literally in front of her husband, Teddy. Petro’s Ruth is captivating in how she is objectified and yet never victimized, always winning the battle of wits. All the while, Hatton is fascinating while adulterous actions are played out in broad daylight. He avoids playing aloof and instead makes us question the limits of civility.
Amanda Sweger’s set is detailed. The fray of the wallpaper still hangs from the ceiling where a wall used to be. Sweger makes her own set glow evocatively like a Chinese light box in her double duty as lighting designer. Sound designer, Joe Court has the audience sit in silence during the preshow, listening to an amplified clock’s ticking time bomb effect before the start. However, his use of distorted gong-like effects adds unnecessary gravitas at moments, which conflicts with Pinter’s much more powerful uses of silence. Costume designer Izumi Inaba is faithful to Pinter’s text while giving Petro the most perfect shade of red in a suit that highlights Ruth’s sensuality and assertiveness.
One element that proves difficult for any ensemble of American actors is the English dialect in this play. When most effective, the dialects are differentiated by class (something that may not land as clearly on an American audience’s ears anyhow). Unfortunately, the dialects all but disappear with a couple actors during the performance which distracts slightly. In addition, on the night I attended, Pinter’s words began to trip the actors up somewhat during the final scene. However, when Cotovsky, on his knees says, “I am not an old man” it strikes right at the chord Pinter intended.
One of the strongest elements of this production is Button’s staging. His attention to proximity between characters tugs and pulls at the tension. There is a time when a pause plays better at ten feet and other times where it is more effective at three inches. Button plays with this notion to its fullest extent and creates visually telling pictures.
There are numerous levels at which to enter this play. One is the simply thrilling entertainment of seeing social restrictions stripped away. What if people did and said what they wanted and felt at any given moment? We all know of families in which small battles are blown out of proportion – perhaps all too well. We also know of instances of jealousy and flirting played out amongst siblings and parents when an outside party, especially an attractive one, is brought into a home. Pinter has turned the volume up and shined a spotlight on these moments. Button and his cast excel at making the unrealistic dangerously truthful.
The Homecoming continues at Angel Island Theater through April 10th, with performances Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 7pm. Running time is 2 hours with one 10 min. intermission. Tickets are $18 (Thursdays and Sundays), $20 (Fridays) and $22 (Saturdays), and can be bought online or by calling the box-office at (773) 871-0442. For more info, visit: www.maryarrchie.com.
All photos by Benjamin Chandler.
Filed under: 2011 Reviews, Angel Island Theatre, Harold Pinter, Jason Rost, Mary-Arrchie Theatre | Tagged: Amanda Sweger, Angel Island Theater, August: Osage County, Benjamin Chandler, Coco Ree Lemery, Dereck Garner, Geoff Button, Harold Pinter, Izumi Inaba, Jack McCabe, Jason Rost, Joe Court, Kathy Logelin, Luke Hatton, Mary Patchell, Mary-Arrchie Theatre, Matt Hawkins, Michaela Petro, Pinter's The Homecoming, Richard Cotovsky, Shannon Clausen, The Homecoming, Tracy Letts, Vance Smith | Leave a comment »
REVIEW: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Steppenwolf)
Posted on December 20, 2010 by Scotty Zacher
All’s fair in love and total war
Steppenwolf Theatre presents
Directed by Pam MacKinnon
at Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted (map)
through Feb 13 | tickets: $20-$75 | more info
Don’t go to Steppenwolf’s current production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf expecting histrionics—at least, not at the level of scene chewing wrought by many other productions or in the famous movie with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. Director Pam MacKinnon, who brought Edward Albee to Chicago for consultation at the beginning of the cast’s rehearsal, keeps a tight, controlled, and calculated rein on George (Tracy Letts) and Martha’s (Amy Morton) endless war. Theirs is a Cold War that begins casually enough with Martha’s little insults at George and George constantly correcting Martha’s language. Of course, their digs, jibes and strategic one-upmanship quickly escalate to a hot war—a hot war that requires an audience in Honey (Carrie Coon) and Nick (Madison Dirks), newcomers to the university George teaches at. One suspects a hot war is what they’ve wanted all along, no matter what the devastating costs to themselves or how many innocent corpses they leave in their wake.
Watch out, Nick and Honey. Who knew university life in a small town could be so fraught with danger? But George and Martha, bogged down in their own marriage and stifled career prospects, show the newcomers a taste of things to come at New Carthage’s institution of higher learning. George’s lack of advancement in the university’s history department gives Martha plenty of ammunition to assault his manhood; while the sexual accessibility of university wives, give Nick and George plenty of excuse to deprecate the whole notion of marital fidelity or professional advancement according to merit.
Happily, MacKinnon’s deliberate, exacting and controlled direction pays off in spades. The casual, understated and fluid way in which George and Martha debase each other or, from time to time, throw sidelong insults at their guests, practically draws the whole audience into the living room—into George and Martha’s “theater of war.” Only having a drink every time George pours a round would increase the feeling of familiarity with this situation and this couple. Once one is in, one is hooked. The cast almost seamlessly builds the tension to the point of no return. Steppenwolf’s production is within a hair’s breathe of perfection, what with Coon and Dirks freshly backing up old masters Letts and Morton at their seasoned finest.
Don’t be taken in by Steppenwolf’s advertising image for the show: Morton projects a Martha considerably more louche and tipsy on the poster than she ever gets to onstage. Onstage, her Martha, just as she boasts, really can hold her liquor; all the better to keep up controlled, savage verbal attacks as the night worsens. She and Nick clearly play “hump the hostess” for George’s cuckolded come-uppance and professional advantage, Martha’s sex appeal downplayed to a bit of cleavage. Thankfully, what Morton does not downplay, but expertly times, is Martha’s gathering, seething resentment at George. As for Letts, his performance pulls George deeply into himself, to instinctively attack from a defensive position, until his rage over Martha’s humiliation of him in front of Nick and Honey becomes too much.
To watch George’s face flush bright red just before an outburst is to know the depth of Letts’ craft and discipline. One does not–one cannot–dismiss George’s threats, no matter how soft-spoken or tossed off they seem. One takes them all the more seriously and feels all the more uneasy once they’re let loose. I’ve heard some say that this production exposes Martha as the greater monster. Not so. Letts’ George is equally monstrous to anything Martha can dish out—he simply chooses to talk softly while he’s figuring out his next move or his next lacerating remark.
As Honey, Coon does daffy drunk girl to perfection. She can go from silly to pathetic in a nano-second and signify both mindless fun and desperation in Honey’s jokes or interpretive dancing. The most vulnerable of all the characters, Honey easily reflects the damage a truly decadent environment wreaks on the naïve. Too clueless to know what is happening, she can neither oppose nor defend herself against the havoc George and Martha have drawn her and Nick into. Indeed, her abandonment by Nick, once Nick begins to try swimming with the sharks, seems almost a foregone conclusion. Coon earns that pathos and at moments steals the show from the other three.
Indeed, only Dirks reveals some blind spots in his interpretation of Nick. Laying low with Nick’s low-key participation the first act, Dirk’s performance really takes off in the second act, building clear camaraderie with George as he first gains Nick’s confidence, shifting into revenge when George betrays it. But Nick’s intentions become cloudy in the third act when, diminished to the humiliating status of “houseboy,” why Nick chooses to stay and wait out the final round between George and Martha becomes a muddled mystery. Nothing in the script explicitly indicates why. But Dirks has to form a clear motivation for that choice and play it distinctly for the audience or the credibility for Nick and Honey’s presence during the last stage of George and Martha’s total war is lost. It’s a small but critical omission in Dirks’ otherwise sterling performance.
Flaw aside, nothing stops George and Martha’s train to destruction. You’ll find few things more riveting this season than Morton’s depiction of Martha’s emotional devastation or Lett’s hint of sadistic control in the final tableau.
Revisit Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and you’ll see once again how Albee’s masterpiece not only captures the disturbing dynamic by which some couples love/hate each other, but also how skillfully he grafts America’s Cold War game playing onto the portrait of a marriage. Throughout the play George and Martha’s marriage–marriage in general–is on trial. But so are America’s wars by proxy, its fallacious attempts at nation building and its imperialist misadventures. When will we ever learn that, in the end, whatever we call “victory” just doesn’t make up for the body count?
Tracy Letts, Amy Morton, Carrie Coon, Madison Dirks
Designers / Authors / Production
Author: Edward Albee
Directed by: Pam MacKinnon
Scenic Design: Todd Rosenthal
Costume Design: Nan Cibula-Jenkins
Lighting Design: Allan Lee Hughes
Sound Design: Michael Bodeen, Rob Milburn
Stage Manager: Malcolm Ewen
Assistant Stage Manager: Deb Styer
Filed under: 2010 Reviews, Edward Albee, Paige Listerud, Steppenwolf, Tracy Letts | Tagged: Allan Lee Hughes, Amy Morton, Carrie coon, Chicago theater review, Deb Styer, Edward Albee, Elizabeth Taylor, Madison Dirks, Malcolm Ewen, Michael Bodeen, Nan Cibula-Jenkins, Paige Listerud, Pam MacKinnon, Richard Burton, Rob Milburn, Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, Todd Rosenthal, Tracy Letts, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf | 5 Comments »
REVIEW: Kid Sister (Profiles Theatre)
Posted on November 19, 2010 by cateysullivan
Loud and Louder
Profiles Theatre presents
Kid Sister
Written by Will Kern
Directed by Joe Jahraus
at Profiles Theatre, 4147 N. Broadway (map)
through Dec 19 | tickets: $30-$35 | more info
Review by Catey Sullivan
Holy mother of swamp rat excrescence! I suppose there are more repetitive, unimaginative and utterly pointless plays out there than Kid Sister, but none come to mind. If we didn’t have 15 years of solid Profiles productions still in memory, their latest would be enough to make us swear off the Broadway Avenue black box. Because taking in Will Kern’s drama of Flo}rida misfits is just about as entertaining as watching a bunch of mean drunks scream at each other for 80 solid minutes. And I’m not talking witty drunks. I’m talking the sort of dumb, depressing drunks whose verbal skills make the repartee on Jerry Springer look positively Coward-esque by comparison.
It’s tough to believe this waste of space, time and good actors is by the same author as Hellcab. One wonders what befell playwright Will Kern in the years between that earlier effort – a whipsmart, insightful comedy peopled with characters of razorsharp definition – and Kid Sister. Hellcab ran for nearly a decade in Chicago, and deservedly so. Kid Sister should not run beyond opening night. And that’s being generous.
On the surface, Kid Sister invites comparisons to Killer Joe (our review ★★★½), Tracy Letts’ thrilling and twisted comedy of matricide, sociopaths and trailer trash (and a huge hit for Profiles earlier this year). Like Killer Joe, Kid Sister’s set is a single room filled with strewn junk food wrappers and booze bottles, furnished by a grimy refrigerator, a battered card table, and a couch that looks like a health hazard. The similarities continue: There’s a murder involving trash bags, and an ensemble of characters who lack the basic vocabulary to make themselves understood. But where Killer Joe was brilliantly funny and edge-of-your-seat suspenseful, Kid Sister is neither. Instead of dialogue, Kid Sister gives us people screaming at each other with all the verbal skills of slow middle schoolers.
Which would be fine if Kern gave us characters worth caring about. He doesn’t. Not for a moment in Kid Sister is there ever a single person to empathize with, and thus not for a moment does it ever feel like anything is at stake. You’re simply watching people act out, moving from one scene of shrieking degradation to another.
Directed by Joe Jahraus, Kid Sister begins with 19-year-old Demi –making the skanky most of both boobs and legs in a tatty denim miniskirt and a dollar-store hoochie mama top – screeching and waving a gun as her sadsack boyfriend Babe comes home from a shift at a local fast food joint. Despite the barrage of c*nts and f*cks and other profanities Demi hurls, the scene isn’t so much shocking as it is boring and repetitive. After the first three or so c-words, the shock turns into tedium.
That tedium isn’t broken up by any gradation in emotion either – Demi (Allison Torem) starts at 10 on the shrill-o-meter and remains there for the duration of the production. It’s a one-note performance: Imagine someone blasting a referee’s whistle for almost an hour and a half – that’s the overall tone of Kid Sister.
But it’s not just the grim, monotonous invective that makes Kid Sister such a non-starter despite its high-decibel attempts to be otherwise. Demi, the character at the center of the plot, is so over-the-top in her delusional self-centeredness that she’s never once believable. I get it – she’s supposed to be up to her eyeballs in denial about the bleak reality of her situation and/or profoundly damaged by years of drugs and abuse. But even taking such limitations into account, it’s simply not believable that a 19-year-old with a functioning brain stem would be so mired in fairy tale-level delusion. Prattling on about how she’s going to be rich, famous and hanging out with Gwen Stefani in six months, Demi sounds like a bratty five-year-old.
Even if Demi’s extreme pipe dreams were believable, Kern gives us no reason to care about them – or her or any one she interacts with. His plot is a series of unfortunate events strung together with all the dramatic tension of so many non-sequitors. When Demi’s stalker (Marc Singletary) finally shows up, it’s a shrugging so-what kind of moment. When Demi’s brother (Darrell Cox) makes an unexpected revelation , it’s about as momentous as a traffic report. When splatter-film-worthy violence erupts in the piece’s denouement, the result isn’t edginess or horrifying – it’s just cheesy gory like a scene out of a bargain basement haunted house. But unlike a low-budget haunted house scene, this Sister is simply no fun.
Rating: ★
Kid Sister continues through Dec. 19 at Profiles Theatre, 4147 N. Broadway. Tickets are $30 Thursdays, $35 Fridays,Saturdays and Sundays, For ticket information, click here or go to www.profilestheatre.org.
Filed under: 2010 Reviews, Catey Sullivan, Profiles Theatre | Tagged: Allison Torem, Catey Sullivan, Corey Weinberg, Darrell Cox, Jeffrey Levin, Joe Jahraus, Marc Singletary, Mattison Voell, Myron Elliott, Profiles Theatre, Roger Wykes, Tracy Letts, Will Kern, Will Kern Hellcab | 4 Comments »
Next Theatre announces their 30th-Anniversary Season
Posted on August 21, 2010 by Scotty Zacher
Scene from last season’s “The War With the Newts” ★★★½
Next Theatre announces their
30th-Anniversary Season
Next Theatre Company announces their 30th anniversary season, complete with three main stage plays receiving their Midwest premieres, along with their What’s Next Series focusing on new Chicago artists. All productions, plus the What’s Next Series, are presented at Noyes Cultural Arts Center, 927 Noyes Street in Evanston.
Main Stage Shows
November 4 – December 5, 2010
The Piano Teacher
Written by Julia Cho
Directed by Lisa Portes
Midwest Premiere
When the sweet, cookie loving Mrs. K, the epitome of the caring grandmotherly piano teacher, reaches out to her old students, she discovers a chain of startling secrets that she can no longer keep hidden inside her piano bench. With breath-taking theatricality and stunning language, Julio Cho takes us on a journey of discovery that brings international responsibility into the sanctity of our family kitchen.
Written by J.T. Rogers
Directed by Kimberly Senior
Director Kimberly Senior and internationally recognized playwright J.T. Rogers, the pair who brought you The Overwhelming, team up again to offer audiences another gripping thriller. In the same hotel room overlooking the Spanish steps in Rome, three Americans across three different moments in time find themselves alone. A sister, a mother and a family friend grapple with loss, regret, and the nature of truth. Using his trademark cunning insight and grippingly eloquent characters, J.T. Rogers weaves a haunting story about the mysterious disappearance of a loved one, and the unexpected consequences that bring a family closer together.
April 14 – May 8, 2010
The Metal Children
Written by Adam Rapp
What responsibility do artists have for the impact of their work? Provocative New York playwright and Pulitzer Prize finalist Adam Rapp offers a powerful portrait of small-town censorship and the American divide over family values in his newest play fresh from a sold-out Off-Broadway run, The Metal Children. A gifted New York writer attempts to defend his young adult novel to the same small American town hell bent on banning his work, causing an explosive encounter from which no one in the small Midwestern town will recover.
All tickets for Main Stage shows are $20 – $40 with subscriber and student discounts available. Tickets may be purchased at nexttheatre.org or by calling 847-475-1875 x2.
After the fold (click on “Read more”):
30th Anniversary Season new programming
“What’s Next Series” schedule
“What’s Next” Lab
Dean Evans in last season’s “Magical Exploding Boy” ★★★
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Collaboraction announces 2010-2011 Season
Collaboraction announces their 15th-Anniversary Season
* including their 11th annual SKETCHBOOK Festival *
From the critically-acclaimed 2005 production of Guinea Pig Solo
Anthony Moseley, Collaboraction’s executive and artistic director, has announced the line-up for the company’s 15th season to be staged in its entirety at the Chopin Theatre, 1543 W. Division Avenue:
September 13 – October 10, 2010
World premiere by Jason Grote
The Chopin Theatre, 1543 W. Division Street
Seth Bockley takes the directing reins of the season’s first production, Jason Grote’s ambitious 1001, a wild time-bending re-imagining of The Arabian Nights. Interweaving Scheherazade’s tales with contemporary Manhattan, 1001 examines East and West in the post-9/11 world.
This Chicago premiere takes the audience on a surrealist politically charged, Monty Python-esque journey through the precarious world of the 21st Century.
Guinea Pig Solo
By Brett C. Leonard
Directed by Anthony Moseley
The Chopin Theatre, 1543 W. Division
The season continues with Collaboraction’s revival of its 2005 critically acclaimed production of Guinea Pig Solo by Brett C. Leonard. The play is loosely based on Buchner’s “Woyzeck” and follows the difficult return to society of Iraq War veteran Jose Solo. The remount will feature Dale Rivera and Sandra Delgado reprising their original roles as Jose and Marie. (pics below are from the 2005 production)
Anthony Moseley directs the revival as part of the “The Woyzeck Project”, a collaborative exploration around Buchner’s seminal work anchored by full length productions by Collaboraction, About Face Theatre and The Hypocrites, as well as featuring short plays, visual art and film.
Jun18 – July 3, 2011
11th Annual Sketchbook Festival
Collaboraction rounds out the season with the 11th-annual SKETCHBOOK Festival of short plays, visual art, video and music, also at the Chopin Theatre. Since 2000, this unique festival has provided an incredible platform for emerging and established playwrights, actors, directors, videographers, musicians, artists and more.
SKETCHBOOK is Collaboraction at its best: breaking down the walls that divide theater, music, visual art, video, and the internet. Selected from hundreds of submissions, SKETCHBOOK once again brings together the collective talents of more than 200 pioneering directors, designers, actors, musicians, and artists from Chicago and around the country for a jaw-dropping evening of creativity, experimentation, and celebration.
Flex Pass Tickets Now Available
Collaboraction’s season Flex Pass, which grants tickets to every performance of the 2010-2011 season, is now available. If subscribers miss a production, the tickets can be applied to any of the performances in the rest of the season. A four-pack of tickets is available for $75 and a 10-pack for $150. Reservations must be made in advance and tickets are subject to availability. To purchase a Flex Pass, call 312.226.9633 or go to collaboraction.org.
Pictures from Sketchbook 9
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New Books! (August)
September 5, 2015 August 23, 2018 Civilian Reader New Books Adam Roberts, Alison Littlewood, Andrew Michael Hurley, Andy Weir, Anna Waterhouse, Barry Lyga, Ben Bova, Ben Tripp, Black Library, Bradley Beaulieu, Broadway Books, Charlie Fletcher, Da Capo Press, David de Sola, Derek Haas, Gav Thorpe, Gerrard Cowan, Ian McDonald, Ian Winwood, Jo Fletcher Books, Julia Knight, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kieran Shea, Kyle Mills, Lila Bowen, Lilith Saintcrow, Matthew de Abaitua, Max Wirestone, Mike Lawson, Orbit, Peter Facinelli, Pyr Books, Rajan Khanna, Robert DeFranco, Sam Hawken, Seth Dickinson, Seth Patrick, Simon and Schuster, St Martin's Press, Stephen Aryan, T.R. Richmond, Titan, Tom Doyle, Vince Flynn, Yrsa Sigurdardottir, Zen Cho
Featuring: Matthew de Abaitua, Stephen Aryan, Bradley Beaulieu, Ben Bova, Lila Bowen, Zen Cho, Robert DeFranco, Seth Dickinson, Tom Doyle, Peter Facinelli, Charlie Fletcher, Vince Flynn, Ryan Gattis, Derek Haas, Sam Hawken, Andrew Michael Hurley, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Rajan Khanna, Andrew Klavan, Julia Knight, Mike Lawson, Alison Littlewood, Barry Lyga, Ian McDonald, Kyle Mills, Seth Patrick, T.R. Richmond, Adam Roberts, Lilith Saintcrow, Kieran Shea, Yrsa Sigurdardottir, David de Sola, Gav Thorpe, Ben Tripp, Anna Waterhouse, Andy Weir, Ian Winwood, Max Wirestone Continue reading →
Review: ALICE IN CHAINS by David de Sola (Thomas Dunne)
August 12, 2015 August 11, 2015 Civilian Reader Review Alice in Chains, Biography, David de Sola, Grunge, Music, Non-Fiction, Rock, St Martin's Press, Thomas Dunne Books
The tragic tale of one of America’s most influential bands of the 1990s
Alice in Chains were one of the loudest voices out of Seattle, iconic pioneers who mixed grunge and metal in ways that continue to influence today’s artists. Theirs is a story of hard work, self-destruction, rising from the ashes and carrying on a lasting legacy.
Four years after their first meeting at a warehouse under Seattle’s Ballard Bridge, Alice in Chains became the first of grunge’s big four — ahead of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden — to get a gold record and achieve national recognition. With the charismatic Layne Staley behind the microphone, they became one of the most influential and successful bands to come out of the Seattle music scene. But as the band got bigger, so did its problems.
I am a big grunge fan. Ever since I took notice of music, and especially the guitar-driven genres, I have listened to Alice in Chains. Given my relative youth, though, I only discovered them shortly before Nothing Safe: Best of the Box came out (I picked it up in LA during my first visit to the city). This, naturally, led me to delve into their back catalogue of albums, and I quickly became hooked on Dirt and Facelift. Then, only a handful of years later, Layne Staley’s death was reported in the various music magazines I religiously read at the time. It is quite strange, as de Sola mentions in this book, that no proper biography of the band has been written until now. I’m happy to say, though, that de Sola’s book is a great tribute to Alice in Chains, and a must-read for any fan of their music and the scene they helped create and nurture. Continue reading →
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With over 30 years of experience in innovation, new product development and commercialization in both the consumer and B2B space, Peter has worked with both corporate giants such as Kimberly-Clark Corp, 3M, SC Johnson and with open innovation partners and start-up companies. Peter holds over a dozen patents and has been instrumental in developing and commercializing a award winning diverse portfolio of products including consumer wipers, industrial hygiene products, medical supplies, HVAC air filters, and agricultural frost and freeze protection products. Notable examples include: • 2014 Edison Award Winner for Scott*24 Hour Surface Sanitizer Spray • 2012 IDSA IDEA Award Winner for the Kimberly Clark Professional The Healthy Workplace Project* Breaking the chain of germ transmission at work and in schools • 2012 ISSA Innovation Award for KLEENEX* MOD* Towel and Soap Dispensing Systems • 2004 Business Week’s One of the Best New Products of 2004 for the Gillette Oral-B® Brush UpsTM Finger Toothbrush And in total, his products have generated well over $1 Billion in sales.
Johannes E.
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Founder, Klug Motor Technik - Executive. Entrepreneur & International Business
Greater Denver Area
Entrepreneurial executive with over 15 years experience directing product life cycles from concept, development and launch, to feedback and refinement. Unique blend of creativity, design, strategy and senior executive management skills. • Founder / CEO Openspace Store - retail store for all things digital • Founder / Moderator New Tech • Founder / VP Product OneRiot – real time search (sold to Walmart) • Founder / CEO of Ecosystems – content management software (sold to Me.dium) Lecturer on Media and Business Design at University of Colorado (CU), named inventor and contributor on 6 patents, advisory board member of Silicon Flatirons, board member BDW, Openspace Store, OneRiot and Ecosystems
Robert Khedouri
Founder/CEO at MusicGremlin (sold to SanDisk 2008) and Founder/Director at PeerIQ (2014 FinTech startup). Former strategy consultant (McKinsey) and corporate attorney (Cravath), senior executive at SanDisk. Private investor. Advisor to multiple startups and Mentor at eRA NYC.
Richard Rodman
Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area
I am a passionate entrepreneur. I love taking an idea, building a team, and making it into a product. 530Funds has been my favorite project thus far due to the excellent team structure and endless excitment with new features coming out left and right. I have had ADHD since I was in grade school, and couldn't channel it correctly until after high school, but have been in a race for success ever since. A bad work experience led me to create my first company, which financially propelled me through my first two years in college. My second company won many awards and recieved seed stage funding. It is currently available in the Apple App Store for download. I have recently been spending my time with the crowdfunding industry. I have found a lot of passion in both individuals and companies, which is infectious. Learning from failures of other successful entrepreneurs is what I love to do. Please contact me to learn from my mistakes!
Bogdan Florin
I'm tech avid, former entrepreneur, passionate blogger, marketing ardent and overall fan of advertising.
Jiayi Hu
Dr. Jiayi Hu is currently a resident physician in Plastic Surgery at McMaster University. He co-founded My Degree (MD) Consultants, a Canadian educational consulting company that focuses on professional program admissions. Jiayi grew up in China and Australia prior to attending the University of Toronto where he co-founded Magna est Veritas, a pre-med club with an over 90% success rate for medical school admissions. He is passionate about both medical research and networking opportunities that are targeted and longitudinal. Jiayi is a two-time graduate of the University of Toronto (MD 2013 & HBSc 2009).
Alex Puig
Barcelona Area, Spain
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Founder of ShoTools.com, entrepreneur, Social Media ex-boyfriend.
Muharrem Derinkök
Istanbul, TR
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A gold collar worker, with “can do” attitude, who is; Passionate about: Internet, Social Entrepreneurship, Renewable Energy Wondering about: Industrial Design, Data Science, M2M, Mobile World, Behavioral Psychology
Kestutis Tirksliunas
Experience includes business development, marketing, project management, products development (expert in database design and development) and mentoring. Huge fan of customer development, lean startup methodology, agile development and growth hacking.
Ilana Hirsh
Ilana Hirsh: Creative Guro, Merchandising Genius, Social Addict, Retail geek and a young go-getter making it big in NYC
Tom Altman
My expertise is bringing a fresh/strategic/innovative perspective to business problems. I think differently than most, tell you exactly what I think - some people like that, some don't. :)
Product and proposition leader, with extensive product, strategy and marketing experience. Experience from both corporate super brands and challenger start-up ventures. Expert in unlocking growth from product portfolios and market opportunities.
Thomas Frederick
Consultant who uses polymer science and engineering expertise and extensive innovation and product development experience to develop new products, from concept through to product industrialization. Collaborated with manufacturing, ensuring quality, assessing future process needs in support of product innovation, and provided product technology training. Senior Scientist with 25+ years working in polypropylene R&D for LyondellBasell who has spearheaded more than 25 successful new product developments in the packaging, housewares, automotive and other industry segments, resulting in more than 500 million lbs. of annual business, many of which are market leaders today. Master of Science in Materials Engineering (Polymer Toughness Focus), Drexel University Bachelor of Chemical Engineering (Materials Concentration), University of Delaware
Thomas Varghese
Executive with entrepreneurial background and unique combination of business, product, marketing, sales and technical skills. Proven ability to set strategies and business models in rapidly emerging markets and create companies that are thought leaders and visionary. Proven ability to grow company from 0 to profitability by recruiting key talents and providing strategic direction and vision to execute on plans successfully.
Valeria Soto Lupi
Buenos Aires, Acassuso
I have general knowledge on methodologies within the startups sector, such as lean startup, customer development and business model generation.
Alejandro Maldonado
Passionate about the power of entrepreneurship and innovation, using the power of design to turn ideas into action. As a serial entrepreneur, he has done a variety of roles, from marketing and business development to financial and general management. After his first successful exit and forming his first multinational company, he turned looked into increasing his toolset and improving his leadership skills by joining the Executive MBA program at Berkeley - Haas. While not working in one of his companies or a new startup he enjoys consulting and helping other companies and entrepreneurs reach their goals by using design thinking and lean methodologies, establishing actionable strategies, marketing, operational and financial goals and improvements or just sharing his experience in a candid, no BS manner.
David Overbo
Helping to build great systems through user need analysis/identification, system validation and system verification. System experience includes: FDA regulated remote patient monitoring, M2M wireless, business jet cabin pressure control, residential home finance, electronic medical record, online payment and e-commerce.
Booker Fritz
MarketingBooker.com is a internet marketing company. I started this because I know and love technology. Plus it's the fastest way I can start achieving my "Why". To find out more about MarketingBooker.com please visit our website.
Ben Holbrook
Founder & CEO @Brainblox; Divisional President @RealPage (Nasdaq - RP); Founder @LevelOne sold to @RealPage, start up experience in valley, MBA, 9 early stage investments
Danielle Tait
Founder, The Interview JM - a Caribbean tech startup with the aim of bringing the right people and the right companies together; serial entrepreneur; serious about innovation, career progression, and continuous learning as a means of upliftment.
Emil Wallnér
Minimalist and a learning addict. I’ve been anointed chief of a village in West Africa, studied at five universities, worked as a consultant at the business school in Oxford, and co-founded Emerge Education - Europe’s leading education technology accelerator. I’m currently building a new education technology startup, Myelin. I love acidic coffee, well-designed products, nature, and authentic people. Sculpture, A.Kapoor.
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Full "Nuclear Witnesses, Insiders Speak Out" 1982 http://www.ratical.org/radiation/inetSeries/DDnot2late.txt
Glow in the dark food and humans
It has been posited that an ambition of the proponents for a global regime is to cull the workforce to less than a billion. The preferred method being radiation. There have been reactor meltdowns, Fukushima is ongoing. Chernobyl continues to be hazardous. There may be another Chernobyl in the Ukrain's biggest reactor which is close to Donbas where rumours of a plan by federalists to use a dirty bomb are being mongered in the zio controlled W. MSM. In the UK Windscale was renamed after a series of accidents left the public in no doubt about the hazards of nuclear energy production. The Irish Sea has been its waste disposal site since construction. All reactors leak radiation. There are already plans with funding to make thousands of new reactors on a production line to replace coal. Not a good idea.
Which is more horrific, the bombs or the radiation they leave?
Then we have ongoing nuclear bomb testing. Use of nukes in conflict has been practiced since the war crime committed by the US against Japan at the end of WWII. The Israeli regime has developed, been given or stolen tech to make small nuclear bombs and uses them, notably on Syrians and allegedly on Palestinians. Then we have the practice of weaponising depleted uranium as a means of disposing of waste in foreign countries both by making the tips of bombs, shells and bullets from the metal and by creating dirty bombs. The US destruction of Iraq left so much depleted uranium that radiation caused deformities in new borns is an ongoing major disaster.
Taxpayer Funded Underground Cities
Underground US Government Bases Exposed
Hal Turner Apr 27, 2009
At great personal danger, fans of the Hal Turner Radio Show have successfully infiltrated and taken photos of vast, underground government facilities. When government decides to ":cull the herd" and by intentionally infecting us with bio-weapons, they plan on being protected while we are killed. My thanks to the countless men who risked their lives and their freedom to surreptitiously obtain this vital information.
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Proof Something is Going Down
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Ozarks Jesse Ventura Show
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Global nuclear war or is that a fallback if the asteroid scam fails?
Don't Be Fooled it's A Fake Asteroid to Hit Sep! My Thoughts
Joanne Steen
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Are We Being Culled?
"Deadly Deceit, Low-Level Rad., High-Level Coverup," It's Not Too Late
Examining low-level radiation effects of nuclear bomb tests/reactors
7 Dec 1992 Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
(Dave Ratcliffe)
This 1991 book, "Deadly Deceit" provides a wealth of information about the the reality of low-level radiation created in the fallout from nuclear bomb detonations and from nuclear reactors, and how exposure to such material via the food chain may have done far more damage to humans and other living things than previously thought. The possibility of continued operation of civilian and military nuclear reactors will do irreversible harm to future generations as well. The chief findings in this book revolve around statistical estimates of excess deaths that have never before been part of the public debate on the dangers of low-level radiation. The information is "out there." The question is, are we willing to study it and act upon its implications? Or are we "too busy"?
Excerpts follow from Chapter 11, (included in its entirety below) examining some of the consequences of "an almost complete absence of serious debate in American scientific and medical journals about the effect of ingested or inhaled fission products on the hormonal and immune systems. -- ratitor
There has been an almost complete absence of serious debate in American scientific and medical journals about the effect of ingested or inhaled fission products on the hormonal and immune systems. A distinction should be made between the nuclear scientists who permitted national security to take precedence over unwanted truths, and the majority of scientists and physicians who have been unaware of the evidence that free radical-induced biological damage may be thousands of times more efficient at low doses of radiation than at high ones. . . .
These scientists would have been hard pressed to envision the perverse nature of the food chain that causes certain ingested fission
products to accumulate in much higher concentrations than naturally occurring isotopes. For example, when cows graze over large exposed areas, the radioactive iodine will concentrate in them. When people ingest contaminated milk, water, root vegetables, or fruits, the adverse effects continue to multiply as the radioactive substances concentrate in organs such as the fetal thyroid or the bone marrow of young women prior to pregnancy. Finally, who could have expected the perverse supra-linear nature of the dose response, with lower levels of radiation potentially being hundreds to thousands of times more efficient in producing the free radicals that penetrate and destroy the blood cells of immune systems?
If this knowledge is deemed subversive and is thus excluded from established scientific journals, physicians will never consider the
potential effect on the immune systems of their patients. . . . The cost to dispose of all nuclear facilities in the next century
will at least be on the same order of magnitude as the cost of constructing them. A rough estimate of four decades of defense
expenditures earmarked for nuclear weapons and three decades of federal subsidies to the civilian nuclear industry yields a figure in
the range of two trillion dollars. And right now, when one considers the associated drain on scientific manpower and other human resources, it becomes clear why our deficit-ridden economy can no longer compete with the demilitarized economies of Japan and West Germany. A recent {New York Times} editorial traced American economic ills to diminishing productivity growth since 1965, at a cost, ironically, of two trillion dollars.[191] . . .
It may be more than a mere coincidence that U.S. productivity gains have sagged just as the damage to immune systems of the baby-boom generation appeared to emerge among young adults.
Concludes: Even if you made an agreement to abolish all nuclear weapons, but you left established power structure in the U.S. and the USSR, they'd go on to research mind control or some chemical or biological thing. My view is, there exists a
group of people in the world that have a disease. I call it the "power disease." They want to rule and control other people. They are a more important plague than cancer, pneumonia, bubonic plague, tuberculosis, and heart disease put together. They can only think how to obliterate, control, and use each other. They use people as nothing more than instruments to cast aside when they don't need them any more. . . .
In my opinion, what we need is to move toward being nauseated by people who want to be at the top, in power. Can you think of anything more ridiculous than that the Chinese, Russian, and American people let their governments play
with superlethal toys and subject all of us to these hazards? The solution is not to replace one leader with another or to have more government. Society has to reorganize itself. The structure we have now is, the sicker you are socially, the more likely it is that you'll come out at the top of the heap.
--Dr. John W. Gofman
The constant in all that is going down is confusion and stress in the W. and chaos and terror in the MENA region, increasing loss of freedom, health and wealth is the product for normal people.
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Microsoft makes Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2 Generally Available
Microsoft today announced the General Availability of the newest versions of its Operating Systems Windows, both Windows 8.1 for clients and Windows Server 2012 R2 are now available for download after Microsoft released them on August 27th this year. Both Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 were made available earlier for its Technet and MSDN subscribers as reported by cloudcomputing.info in September.
Now the product suite to also manage these new Operating Systems; System Center 2012 R2 is also available to download from Technet, MSDN and all the other channels available for customers and partners.
Some links detailing all the new functionality:
Windows Server 2012 R2:
What’s new in Windows Server 2012 R2
System Center 2012 R2:
What’s new in System Center 2012 R2 App Contoller
What’s new in System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager
What’s new in System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager
What’s new in System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager
What’s new in System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator
What’s new in System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager
What’s new in System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
Microsoft isn’t putting any effort in further developing the Unified Installer it seems, since no update was provided. The Unified Installer was the component which could orchestrate the installation of the whole System Center Suite. There are other efforts currently from Microsoft which are capable of installing the System Center suite though, mainly the PowerShell Deployment Toolkit coming from Microsoft, but also the Hydration Kit which is a community solution based on the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit developed by Mikeal Nystrom, an Microsoft MVP. Both solutions aren’t updated yet to support the R2 final release.
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De’Aaron Fox suffers ankle injury at practice, Kings medical team doing testing to determine severity of injury
Sacramento Kings point guard De’Aaron Fox suffered an apparent ankle sprain at practice on Monday, according to Adrian Wojnarowski and Zach Lowe of ESPN.
The medical team is doing testing to determine the severity of the injury and if Fox needs to miss any time:
Sacramento's De'Aaron Fox suffered an apparent ankle sprain at practice today, sources tell @wojespn and me. Kings medical team is doing testing to determine the severity of the injury, and if Fox needs to miss any time, sources say.
— Zach Lowe (@ZachLowe_NBA) November 11, 2019
Fox is averaging 18.2 points, 4.0 rebounds and 7.0 assists per game on the season. He’s shooting 43.0 percent from the field, 33.3 percent from beyond the arc and 71.0 percent from the free-throw line.
The Kings are 3-6 on the season. Fox is the franchise player in Sacramento. Kings fans are holding their breaths and hoping the lefty didn’t suffer a serious injury.
Fox put up 11.6 points and 4.4 assists as a rookie in 2017-18. Last season, Fox averaged 17.3 points, 3.8 rebounds and 7.3 assists — making that second-year jump Sacramento wanted to see.
Fox improved his shooting numbers last season, too. The Kings’ floor general shot 45.8 percent from the field, 37.1 percent from the 3-point line and 72.7 percent from the charity stripe.
The Kings have already given the keys to the offense to Fox, who is wise beyond his years. The speedster withdrew from Team USA before the FIBA World Cup and started to focus on the upcoming season. He wants to be the guy who leads Sacramento back to the playoffs after more than a decade of postseason drought.
JUST IN: Bucks’ Khris Middleton out several weeks with leg injury
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The 2018 State Of Media & Entertainment
Adobe Inclusion
By the time we ring in 2023, more than two-thirds of the global population will have a subscription to mobile Internet service, and most likely on a high-speed connection, according to PwC. The implications are astounding, particularly for the media and entertainment (M&E) industry, whose digital transformation has been, perhaps, more pronounced than for any other business sector and very much in sync with consumers’ expectations for content at their disposal.
What will it take for M&E brands to succeed now and going forward? The answer involves a combination of factors, which continues to evolve along with advances in technology, engagement strategies, and sheer imagination. Read on as we examine them all in this month’s special series about the state of media and entertainment.
Marketers Plugging Into Massive Momentum For E-Sports
For the uninitiated, e-sports might seem like a passive pastime—perhaps a group of “Call Of Duty” fans gathered around a computer to watch others compete in the popular title via video-streaming site Twitch. It’s anything but.
What’s The Biggest Growth Opportunity For M&E Brands?
The M&E industry is no stranger to digital disruption. In fact, it was one of the first industries to experience it. The brands that have made it this far have embraced the opportunity. And plenty more--meaning disruption and opportunity--awaits, according to industry experts.
Filmmakers Set The Scene For Successful Storytelling
Who better to advise marketers looking to call “action” on video than directors and creatives from the world of film? CMO.com spoke to some of the best in the business to get their take on how to communicate through film.
BT’s CX Strategy Is Backed By Its Own Type Of Data Plan
Bob McNinch is an executive with a lot of data to decipher. But BT’s director of digital and data for the telecom giant’s multibillion-dollar business and public-sector division loves the challenge of combining data from disparate sources to provide an unrivalled experience for the company’s customers.
6 Brands That Have Mastered The Art Of Storytelling
Consumers’ ability to share their stories with the world every day on multiple channels and platforms has led to the democratization of publishing. And where consumers go, so do brands.
15 Mind-Blowing Stats About Digital Trends In Media & Entertainment
Few industries understand digital disruption, and its profound impact on consumer behavior, as well as the M&E world. These companies embraced the challenge and have become even more creative with their marketing and content strategies.
5 Trends Shaping The Future Of Media And Entertainment
While the M&E industry is one of the first sectors of business to have to navigate digital disruption, its transformation is far from over. That’s the key finding of PwC’s annual “2018 Media & Entertainment Outlook,” which projects that industry revenues will reach $792.3 billion by 2022.
Media Brands Lean On Emerging Tech To Reinvigorate Storytelling
Emerging technology is all around us, as brands test, experiment, and make big bets on augmented and virtual reality, voice, artificial intelligence, chatbots, and the like. For the M&E industry, specifically, the use cases involve new forms of storytelling to appeal to younger and connected audiences.
5G To Shape The Future Of Mobile
While the exact types of new applications that 5G will spur remain to be seen, experts in the technology have identified the following four use cases where it can enable the world of what’s possible.
At The Financial Times, Integration Grabs The Headlines
The Financial Times’ transition from a printed newspaper to a digital content business is one of the internet era’s publishing success stories. A key figure in that move has been chief communications and marketing officer Darcy Keller.
USA Today President: Be ‘Comfortable With Discomfort’
Maribel Perez Wadsworth is committed to building an agile organization. Step one: Fostering a pioneering culture.
3 Ways NASCAR Is Using Emerging Tech To Attract Younger Audiences
Indeed, other sporting leagues are on a similar track as they compete for Millennial time and attention. But according to Tim Clark, VP of media at NASCAR, his company has figured out the secret to appealing to youngsters.
Cineworld Sets The Scene For A ‘World Of More’
Europe’s second-largest cinema operator is tearing up the traditional cinema rulebook by digitising both its operations and marketing to compete in what it sees as an increasingly competitive, out-of-home leisure market. Justin Skinner, SVP of marketing, takes us behind the curtains.
Hiring Top Talent in a Buyer’s Market
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in PROTOTYPES
SPACEGRAF ZERO-G
After launching the Spacegraf to honor the mission of the last French astronaut in space, once again YEMA collaborates with the National Center for Space Studies (CNES) to introduce the YEMA Spacegraf Zero-G. This new partnership celebrates the 30th anniversary of the CNES’s parabolic flights.
NOVEMBER 08th, 2019 UPDATE
The Spacegraf Zero-G project in collaboration with CNES is reaching progress, our first prototype was tested in real conditions during a parabolic flight last October 15th, 2019.
The aim was both to test the Epson YM 90 movement and its chronograph function during the parabolic phases as well as to validate the good behaviour of the watch in weightlessness.
We entrusted this first Spacegraf Zero-G prototype to Sebastien Rouquette (Head of the Parabolic Flights program) aboard the A310 Zero G that took off from Bordeaux-Mérignac airport in the south-west of France.
October 15, 2019: First parabolic flight of Spacegraf Zero-G
The weather conditions allowed a flight off Brittany, in a relatively calm air mass and a clear sky above 6000m of altitude, offering good flight conditions in weightlessness.
09h00: Closure of the aircraft doors. Taxiing to the runway.
09h30: Beginning of the takeoff roll. Takeoff from runway 23.
09h50: Beginning of the paraboles. At the announcement “1 minute!” made by the captain, the Spacegraf stopwatch is started.
The flight profile is as follows: During 2 hours, 30 parabolas are made in 6 series of 5 parabolas separated by 5 minute breaks, in order to allow the scientific teams to re-calibrate the measuring instruments and/or to change the samples. Within each series, the parabolas follow each 3 minutes.
The tempo is very precise and is followed with a digital stopwatch from the cockpit. In the experimental zone, the Spacegraf’s countdown is rigorously calibrated as shown by the photos taken during the flight, where one can see the stopwatch hand in the red range corresponding to the zero-g phase.
At all times during the flight, the synchronisation between the cockpit team and the Spacegraf team at the experimental zone was perfect. It was demonstrated that the Spacegraf Zero-G measuring instrument is perfectly adapted to what it has been designed for.
12h15: Landing on runway 23 at Bordeaux-Mérignac airport.
MODELS & LAUNCH PLANNING
During this flight, Sebastien Rouquette tested a Spacegraf Zero-G prototype with a glossy PVD black coating. After several coating tests and in agreement with CNES, we finally opted for below PVD black matt coating:
Available for order as from December 2nd at yema.com, the new Spacegraf Zero-G in 39mm black stainless steel case will be proposed at US$449 while two 39mm steel case variants (choice of textured black or blue dials) will come at US$399 with black or blue canvas straps.
JULY 3rd, 2019 UPDATE
Sébastien Rouquette, head of CNES’s parabolic flights program, collaborated with YEMA in the design of the Spacegraf Zero-G
This chronograph meets the CNES standards and will be equipped by a chronometer which allows the user to perfectly situate himself/herself in the parabolic time-space. More precisely said, in the rhythmic pace of the trajectories that follow every 3 minutes, especially between 22 seconds and 44 seconds (Zero-G stages). This timepiece gathers every aspect of this demanding activity that I love. As a civil pilot, I love the precision and fluidity aerial trajectory. Being passionate about space and science, I am pleased to have helped YEMA in designing this watch which will offer technology in contributing to the benefit of science.
Sébastien Rouquette
Inspired by the Spacegraf, this new moonwatch has been entirely reworked into a design that offers high readability and functionality in harmony with the technical characteristics of a Zero-G flight.
The YEMA Spacegraf Zero-G will be subject to a series of sub-spatial flight tests to validate its strength and functionality related to the atmospheric conditions presented during space missions and parabolic flights.
THE A310 ZERO-G
The A310 ZERO-G is operated by the French company NOVESPACE ( a subsidiary of CNES) to perform french parabolic flights. The A310 ZERO-G is an A310-304-type aircraft fitted out as a scientific research laboratory, specially adapted for parabolic flights. The Airbus Zero-G is now the world’s largest zero-gravity aircraft in terms of passenger capacity and experiment surface area, enabling scientists and the general public to access gravity-free conditions.
PARABOLIC FLIGHTS
Parabolic flights (or “0G flights”) are completed by aircrafts which, by performing a series of parabolas provoke a period of 22 seconds weightlessness. With very impressive and unusual trajectories, these flights allow the realization of scientific experiments without the influence of gravity.
SPACE TOOLWATCH
The dark black case (PVD) and dial combined with the white hands and indexes ends up as high contrast. The watch is equipped with a chronometer (red between 22 seconds and 44 seconds) and a matching red second hand which helps to define the zero-g timelapse easily during a parabolic flight. A minute counter has also been added at 6 O’clock. The tachymeter bezel allows the measuring of the average speed (kmh) of a moving body on a given time period. It is also used with a chronometer.
Domed markers The domed and embossed white markers are treated with SuperLuminova to offer perfect readability.
PVD Case The 39mm / 19mm lugs case of the Spacegraf Zero-G is treated with PVD, a high quality coating known by its inalterability, hardness, corrosion resistance, and excellent scratch resistance.
Hands The hands sport an aviator style in tribute to the A310 ZERO-G used for parabolic flights.
Tachymeter Bezel The tachymeter bezel allows the measuring of the average speed (km/h) of a moving object over a certain period of time. It is also used with the chronometer.
Signed Crown Screw-down crown with vintage Y Yema logo engraved.
Caseback The caseback beautifully displays the official logo of the National Center for Space Studies (CNES) in the center. It is also engraved in French: “YEMA -First French watch in orbit” and “30th anniversary of parabolic flights 1989 -2019”.
Movement The reason why a quartz movement has been chosen instead of a mechanical one is that when traveling to space, the movement is subject to a series of changes in temperature and atmospheric pressure. In addition, quartz movements are more precise than mechanical movements. For an astronaut, time measurement is a highly sensitive matter and needs to be done with high accuracy (to the nearest second). We hence chose Epson YM90 for its reliability and also its minute chronograph feature at 6 O’clock. This allows the Spacegraf Zero-G to be used to perfectly locate oneself in the space-time between the Zero-G period. This is done with the help of a specific marking on the dial. The minute counter, on the other hand, can be used to anticipate the parabolic stages.
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Top 10 Gigs of 2015
This is my final ‘best of 2015’ list and I've saved what I think is the most important until last. For me, it's the most important because I believe that what makes a good band great is their live performance. If a band can make me feel something when I see them live then I'm pretty much a fan for life. Here are my top ten gigs of 2015.
10. NOFX/Alkaline Trio/Lagwagon/Capdown at Brixton Academy 5/7/15
I can't ever remember going to a gig that had this much star power. Co-headlined by NOFX and Alkaline Trio, with special guests Lagwagon and, on this show of the tour, legendary UK skacore act Capdown the line up was special enough but then you had to throw in the fact that NOFX played the entirety of their classic album Punk In Drublic and Alkaline Trio played From Here To Infirmary from beginning to end, things I never thought I'd get the opportunity to see.
9. Teenage Bottlerocket/Wonk Unit at The Underworld 9/8/15
This was my second time seeing Teenage Bottlerocket and the first time I'd got to see them headline a show. I enjoyed them in a support slot at a Dropkick Murphys show in 2013 but having the opportunity to see them headline their own show proved to me why they are the best pop punk band on the planet. Their set was full of so much fun and energy and their enthusiasm for the music spilled into the crowd. This was a feel good punk rock show if ever there was one. The thing that stood out the most to me throughout the set was Teenage Bottlerocket drummer Brandon Carlisle's performance, I don't think I've ever seen a drummer put so much into a set and to see the enjoyment he got from drumming was something special. Sadly this was the last time I would had the pleasure of seeing Brandon drum live as he sadly passed away in November. This performance will stay in my head for a long time. Wonk Unit also played the best set I've ever seen them play.
8. Frank Turner/Ducking Punches at The Waterfront 26/8/15
I was incredibly lucky to get tickets to this gig which was a warm up show for Frank Turner's solo headline shows at the Reading and Leeds Festival. I'd been wanting to see Frank play a solo set for many years as I'd only ever seen him play live with his band, The Sleeping Souls, and him being supported by Dan Allen of Ducking Punches playing a home town show made it feel like a very special evening. Playing a selection of songs from Dance Before You Sleep and upcoming new full length Fizzy Brain, Dan was joined by various members of Ducking Punches throughout the set. I love Ducking Punches and this set was an absolute delight. Frank Turner had some work to do to top Dan's set but he somehow managed it. If I'm being 100% honest I've fallen a bit out of love with Frank’s music over the past couple of years but I will always love his live performances. I love how much of himself he puts into a performance every single time he plays, whether it is with or without his band. My overriding memories of the set are him playing Once We Were Anarchists, the song that turned me into a Frank Turner fan, and a cover of Meat Loafs Bat Out Of Hell, which was just amusing.
7. [spunge]/Whitmore/Phinius Gage at the Garage 26/9/15
A big part of my decision to include this gig on my list is for very personal reasons. Regular Colin's Punk Rock World readers will know that [spunge] were my gateway band into underground punk rock music, a reason to be excited for the gig alone. But what made this gig extra special for me was that I got to take the woman that I love to see the band that changed my life. I can't imagine I'll ever get that opportunity again. The whole gig filled The Garage with a feeling of nostalgia as [spunge] plus supports Whitmore and Phinius Gage came together and put on a fantastic show throughout. Whitmore were fantastic, I'd forgotten just how much I liked Whitmore back in the day but it was of course [spunge] who were the highlight of the night. I've seen them so many times throughout the past few years but they never fail to get me smiling, dancing and singing along.
6. Frenzal Rhomb/Mike TV/Direct Hit/Maladroit at The Underworld 30/4/15
Australian punk heroes Frenzal Rhomb played a show in the UK! It had been 11 years since they had been over here and I never expected it to happen again. The Underworld put on an amazing line up of punk rock with French band Maladroit, Americans Direct Hit and the UK's own Mike TV. Mike TV and Direct Hit are two of my favourite bands in the world and both played brilliant sets and I could have gone home a very happy man before Frenzal had even played a note. Then Frenzal Rhomb took to the stage and I was amazed by just how good they were. They played songs from their entire discography, whipping the crowd into a frenzy in the process. The Underworld crowd were so thankful for Frenzal Rhomb returning to our shores and the band seemed just as thankful for the crowd for showing up. As I looked around the room it was clear that everyone was having the best night, on stage and on the floor.
5. The Movielife/Gnarwolves/Apologies, I Have None at The Electric Ballroom 18/6/15
Much like with Frenzal Rhomb, I never ever expected to get the chance to see The Movielife live. The band reunited earlier in the year for a few shows in the USA before announcing a short tour of the UK. This got a lot of people very excited and then I think they showed a stroke of genius in booking Gnarwolves and Apologies, I Have None as their support - two of the biggest bands in the UK scene. Gosh I was excited for this show! First up were AIHN who played a fantastic set full of excellent sing-alongs. Then it was Gnarwolves with what was my favourite set I've seen them play. They always play hard and fast and get a great reaction. A lot of times at Gnarwolves shows the crowd go crazy with ridiculous stage dives that put me off getting to close to the front but this didn't happen at The Electric Ballroom and I was very thankful. Then it was time for Long Island legends The Movielife. The Ballroom was full of nostalgia as the five-piece played through their back catalogue of songs. I hadn't listened to The Movielife for a while and had forgotten just how many fantastic songs they had. To finally hear them live was amazing.
4. Masked Intruder/Murderburgers/Waco at The Borderline 17/5/15
This show was really, really fun. I assume that everyone who is reading this blog will know who Masked Intruder are by now so I won't go into detail about their criminal gimmick. I, like many other punks, are not normally into a gimmicky type punk band but Masked Intruder just do it so perfectly. Not only do they write some of the best sugary sweet pop punk but they also play it perfectly. Sometimes on record the songs can be a little too poppy for my tastes but when I see and hear them live they are just fantastic. Their set included girls dancing on stage and Officer Bradford dancing with the crowd and then stripping off to a thong on stage. Only at a Masked Intruder show will you see a grown man pretending to be a policemen strip down to his underwear! To add to the fun Masked Intruder were joined by The Murderburgers and Waco. The Murderburgers were the perfect band for this tour being the UK's best pop punk band. I'm always amazed by Fraser’s ability to sing and play guitar as fast as he does. Waco really amazed me during their opening set. Their own brand of punk rock & roll really caught my attention and I immediately went and checked out their brilliant debut EP Sundown.
3. Red City Radio/Harker/Burnt Tapes at The Brixton Windmill 17/7/15
This show felt like a proper punk rock show. At the tiny Windmill pub in Brixton, Red City Radio, Harker and The Burnt Tapes played one of the sweatiest gigs I have ever been to. Starting were London-based Greek punks The Burnt Tapes. The Burnt Tapes are one of my favourite newer bands in the UK scene and I'm predicting big things for them in 2016. Obviously influenced by bands like Red City Radio they play, loud, melodic, gruff punk brilliantly and are always a real treat to watch. Brighton's Harker were next. What always impresses me with Harker when I see them is how much more intensity comes out of their live shows than their recordings. To me this shows a band that really care about what they’re playing and who play each set like it could be their last. Harker have just released a brand new EP titled A Lifetime Apart on Paper + Plastick Records and No Panic! Records and it's fantastic. They’re another band with a big year ahead of them. Red City Radio must be one of the hardest working bands in the world. This year the Oklahoman band managed to get to England on three separate occasions and wowed crowds every time. There's always is a feeling of positivity swirling around Red City Radio's music and this feeling is amped up when they play live. Garrett Dale is incredible as a front man, really getting the crowd going crazy. When I watch him it's like watching a preacher address his congregation (a room full of sweaty and often drunk punks) who lap up every word he says.
2. The Smith Street Band/Muncie Girls/Shit Present at The Lexington 1/8/15
I've lost count of the amount of times I've said that The Smith Street Band are the most uplifting and basically therapeutic band I've ever seen. This gig was at the beginning of their European tour that finished with their debut shows at Reading and Leeds Festivals (they were fantastic at Reading). Despite being jetlagged the Aussie boys put on a superb set playing songs from all of their amazing albums. Ably supported by Muncie Girls and Shit Present the whole event was a joyous occasion. This was one of Shit Present’s first London shows and it was great to see Iona Cairns (bassist of Great Cynics) show off some of her own material. Their debut album that came out later in the year was extremely well received and this show gave a taste of how good they are. They also played a cover of The Ergs classic Pray For Rain, which I loved. Exeter's Muncie Girls have been one of the best punk bands in the scene for a number of years now. Every time I see them I'm amazed at how much they seem to have improved. Everything about them now shows what a great band they are with confidence, skill and fantastic songs. Muncie Girls debut album finally comes out next year and I'm really excited for it.
1. Random Hand/Sonic Boom Six/River Jumpers/Faintest Idea at Camden Underworld 13/9/15
There was no other show that could go at the top of this list. Random Hand’s final ever show (for now hopefully) at their home-from-home the Camden Underworld. This show was always going to be a massive and emotional party before the support acts were announced but when the support bands were announced it was clear that this would be the most unmissable show of the entire year. Long-time friends of Random Hand Sonic Boom Six as well as River Jumpers and Faintest Idea ensured that this night would be crazy. Faintest Idea started things off with a set showing why many people are expecting the Kings Lynn ska punks to take up Random Hands mantle of the country's premier ska band. Next up it was Brighton melodic pop punks the River Jumpers who played with a great amount of enthusiasm but felt slightly out of place at a ska punk show. That said I still loved everything about their set. Since frontman Nick put down his guitar the whole of River Jumpers’ stage presence has improved and they are a much more entertaining live band. It was great to see Sonic Boom Six playing this show and it seemed only right that they did considering the history both bands have together. Because of this The Boom played a mostly old-school set, which the crowd at the Underworld went bananas for. Sonic Boom Six are one of the most respected bands from the ska punk world. Their long awaited new album will finally come out next year, without a doubt it will be a banger. Finally it was time for Random Hand. This was probably the best I've ever seen them play, unsurprisingly they put everything that possibly had into the set and the entire Underworld responded in the same way by jumping, skanking, moshing and stage diving constantly throughout the set. The set was a long run and they seemingly played everything from the entirety of their impressive discography. It's clear how much Robin, Joe, Dan and Sean love being Random Hand and it's a massive shame that they felt it was time to stop. They went out on top and with a massive bang, including a huge stage invasion for the final track - the classic Scum Triumphant. Random Hand will never, ever be forgotten.
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Top 20 Albums of 2015: Part 2
Here is part two of my top twenty albums of 2015.
10. The Regressives by The Regressives
New York's The Regressives came out of nowhere with this release. Street punk feels like a genre that is on the decline so this release was refreshing. Displaying a great variety of songs this fourteen track album always manages to keep me interested from beginning to end.
9. Bird by Bangers
I've always enjoyed Cornish punk rockers Bangers but 2015's Bird really helped cement their place in my list of favourite UK bands. Roo, Andrew and Hamish create a sound that is distorted and raw but full of pop punk hooks and massive choruses. You will be singing the words to I Don't Feel Like I'll Ever Be Clean Again for days.
8. Math The Band The Band The Album by Math The Band
This album is fast, fun, unpredictable and in your face. Math The Band are clearly a band that don't take themselves too seriously and this is shown throughout the album. That's in no way meant in a negative way though; it's why I love it. This album just makes me want to dance as quickly as I can.
7. MakeWar by MakeWar
Since changing their name and becoming a full electric band, MakeWar have excelled. Their debut self-titled album is a fantastic break-up album full of heartfelt and honest sing-along punk gems. It will break your heart as well as giving you the urge to throw your fists in the air. Sounding like a cross between Against Me! and The Movielife, MakeWar are a band I can't wait to hear more from in 2016.
6. I Feel Weird by Great Cynics
When Giles, Bob and Iona - the trio known as Great Cynics - release an album it's a big deal. When I Feel Weird was released on the fantastic Specialist Subject Records I was incredibly excited to hear it and it did not disappoint. Everything I love about Great Cynics is on full display on I Feel Weird; upbeat, joyous songs with smart and catchy lyrics and excellent vocals from both Giles and Iona. It's a crime that Great Cynics aren't recognised as one of the best bands in the UK.
5. Dead Weight by Jake and the Jellyfish
Jake and the Jellyfish are a band I've been aware of for a while but never given much attention to. Then I caught them live at the Late Summer Skank Fest at The Fleece in September and I was hooked. One of the first things I did when I got home after the festival was check out their album Dead Weight. It's an album full of folk/ska/reggae punk that helps make Jake and the Jellyfish one of the most unique bands in the scene.
4. Hit Reset by Random Hand
When Random Hand announced their upcoming hiatus at the beginning of the year punks up and down the country were gutted. Thankfully they did one final, massive tour and put out one final album (called Hit Reset). Most bands would have just phoned one last album in, but this is not Random Hand’s style. It's an unstoppable force of ska punk done by the best ska punk band this country has ever seen. As much as I love this album there is also an element of sadness to it - it will be a long time, if ever, till I get to see these songs performed live.
3. Leave The Suburbs! by The Exhausts
When I first heard Leave The Suburbs my socks were well and truly blown off. The Exhausts have created a sound that is full of as much spite as it is fun. Deep down it's an indie pop punk album with the intensity really ramped up. I can't help but smile when I listen to this album and the fact that it is only third on my list shows just how good the top two albums are.
2. We Cool? by Jeff Rosenstock
Jeff Rosenstock is one of the most respected and loved men in punk rock today. His 2015 album We Cool? was one of the most anticipated of the entire year and with good reason. With former bands Arrogant Sons Of Bitches and Bomb The Music Industry Rosenstock proved what a fantastic songwriter he is and this is continued on his debut solo album. The overall theme of the album is getting to a certain age and wondering whether or not you are in the place you want to be. As you would expect from Jeff Rosenstock, it's raw, honest and full of passion.
1. The Anachronists Cookbook by Will Tun And The Wasters
If I'm being completely honest I didn't expect anything to beat Jeff Rosenstock to number one on my top albums list. Then I stumbled across Will Tun And The Wasters. The Anachronists Cook Book is a brilliantly unique album combing ska, punk, Baltic, reggae and folk music. You never know what will come next on the album, with it’s variety of different instruments, vocalists and sometimes even languages, but nothing ever feels out of place. It's an album with plenty of strong messages as well, including topics such as immigration, looking at your life, feeling like you can't go on and fracking. There is literally nothing I dislike about this album, it's absolutely perfect.
Originally I was going to do a top ten albums of the year but there was just too many good albums released this year so I decided to do a top twenty (bit of a copout I know). Here are albums 20 to 11.
20. Red City Radio by Red City Radio
Oklahoma's Red City Radio are a band that keep going from strength to strength. In 2015 they released their third full-length album on Staple Records and it continued on from the excellent second album Titles. The album's first single Two Out Of Three Ain't Rad is the best song of the year.
19. Better Whenever by Elway
Elway are a band that have become known over the years for producing some of the best sing-along punk rock music in the world. This year they released Better Whenever, an album which showed a more mature side to the Colorado four-piece. They slowed the pace down and showed off some absolutely fantastic song writing ability.
18. Make The Noise by Rehasher
Whenever Roger from Less Than Jake finds the time to release music under the Rehasher moniker it's a very exciting time. This third Rehasher album did not disappoint. This album isn't quite as aggressive as Rehasher's previous efforts but features some brilliant fast-paced pop punk. I wish Rehasher would be more active, and find a way to play some UK shows.
17. Back To The Drawing Room by Smokey Bastard
Smokey Bastard are one of the top folk punk bands in the country. Late in the year, after a very successful Pledge Music campaign, they released the excellent Back To The Drawing Room. Sometimes folk punk can be kind of samey but this is certainly not the case here; it's a varied album that sees Smokey Bastard play all types of folk punk and play them all very, very well.
16. Paper Bones by Science Made Us Robots
Science Made Us Robots released a pop punk album in a style like I have never heard before. Titled Paper Bones, musically it's fast, fun three-chord punk rock at its best but the vocals deliver a fantastic Celtic tone. There is so much energy and passion displayed throughout the fifteen songs on the album that it’s a must listen.
15. Pocket Universe by Don Blake
Don Blake are another band that released a pop punk album with a more mature sound. Pocket Universe was put out by Round Dog Records and features such topics as dealing with insecurities, dealing with the effects of suicide and learning from your mistakes. I love this record because it shows that great pop punk doesn't just have to be played at a rapid pace and just be about girls.
14. Apologies/Apathy by Dynamite Dynamite
With Apologies/Apathy Dynamite Dynamite really stepped up their game. Utilising two different vocalists with two unique styles these Scunthorpe boys really came into their own with this album. It combines fast skate punk with some excellent melodic punk and features some of the best harmonies heard on any album this year.
13. To The Moon by Popes Of Chillitown
I always love when a band can transfer their live performance to record without losing any of the energy in the recording. This was definitely the case on To The Moon by London's Popes Of Chilltown. Combining rapid fire vocals, big choruses, an excellent horn section and a fine back beat it won't be long until the Popes are the biggest ska band in the scene.
12. Lifestyle Brand by Imperial Leisure
I wasn't the biggest fan of Imperial Leisure's second album Death To The One Trick Pony so when Lifestyle Brand was released I did approach it with a bit of caution. There was absolutely no need for that at all as Imperial Leisure seemed reinvigorated when this album was released early in the year. If you want a good time, party album this is it, from the ultimate good time party band. Probably the only album this year to feature a song about the vajazzle as well.
11. Tales From Wyoming by Teenage Bottlerocket
Teenage Bottlerocket's Tales From Wyoming was a very special album before the tragic passing of drummer Brandon Carlisle in early November. It cemented my belief that Teenage Bottlerocket are the best pop punk band on earth and is a very fitting album for what sadly turned out to be Brandon's last. Teenage Bottlerocket have always had an ability to write insanely catchy songs but on Tales From Wyoming they managed to add a lot of heart to go along with the humour in the songs.
Top 10 EPs of 2015
There have been a lot of great punk EPs released in 2015. Here are my top ten of them.
10. Modern Baseball - The Perfect Cast
This EP felt like it came out of nowhere. In the summer Modern Baseball pulled out of some festivals and tour dates so bandmember Brendan could deal with some mental health problems. During that time away they wrote this strikingly honest EP about living with mental health issues.
9. Spineless Yes Men - The Death Of Denmark
I randomly met some members of Spineless Yes Men on the tube after a Red City Radio gig and they told me about their band. When I got home and listened to this EP I fell in love with the sing-along pop punk. It had me reminiscing about growing up listening to Drive Thru Records pop punk bands such as Allister and Home Grown.
8. WACO - Sundown
WACO are one of the biggest surprises of the year for me. In all honesty I didn't expect to enjoy this band as much as I have this year. Sundown features five punk rock gems perfect for singing along with your friends. Agitation is one of the very best songs of the year.
7. The Fur Coats - Short-Brain
I first discovered The Fur Coats through a Make-That-A-Take Records compilation and I was hooked. This is brilliantly fun and unique pop punk music; lead singer Marc Ruvolo has a brilliantly distinctive voice.
6. The Kimberly Steaks - Chemical Imbalance
Scotland's three-piece pop punks released a great EP that I feel is about the journey you go on when you are struggling with your mental health. Combining Ramonescore with early 90s Lookout Records pop punk, The Kimberly Steaks have become one of the most talked about bands in the genre. There is also a fantastic cover of Something Good by Herman's Herbits.
5. River Jumpers - River Jumpers
2015 was quite a year for Brighton's River Jumpers. They had an almost complete line-up change and became a five piece instead of a four. Before all this change they released a new self-titled EP, which is classic River Jumpers, containing five brilliant melodic punk tracks that will have you singing along in no time at all.
3 & 4. Less Deceived - Average Songs About The Best Days Of Our Lives/It'll Never Get Better Than This
Hull's Less Deceived have had a very prolific year, releasing two of the best EPs of the year. They are both so good I couldn't pick between them on this list so they are having two places on it! Less Deceived play gruff-voiced, melodic punk that will have you singing and throwing your fists in the air in equal measure. This band have the potential to be absolutely massive!
2. Forever Unclean - Shreds!
Denmark's Forever Unclean are another wonderful find that I discovered through Make-That-A-Take Records. They got announced for the label’s Book Yer Ane Fest so I checked them out and became hooked on the EP Shreds! Shreds! is a six song EP containing some fantastic fast and furious skate punk. The band barely pause for breath throughout and the whole thing is incredibly catchy. Absolutely fantastic live as well.
1. The Briggs - The Briggs
I may have missed something but The Briggs seemed to come out of absolutely nowhere with a brand new self-titled EP this year. I have adored the LA based band for years now and had kind of given up hope on any new material from the band. Then I saw on Bandcamp that this EP had been released and I was super excited and then slightly worried that it wouldn't live up to my high expectations of the band. I had no need to worry though, as The Briggs released an absolute classic of an EP. It's a more grown-up sounding Briggs than we're used to, focusing more on intelligent lyrics and musicianship than they perhaps have in the past. Every song is amazing, now here's hoping they find their way back to the UK so I can finally see them live.
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Beware the cult of independence
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|By John Redwood MP
John Redwood MP believes it is time we moved back to a system where Ministers set policies based on public need, rather than the whims of supposed experts.
The rise and rise of EU powers which has so damaged UK democracy has been accompanied by the doctrine that many things are better run by experts than by politicians taking professional advice. It has been the mood of the last 20 years that independent quangos staffed by experts will do a better and fairer job than elected Ministers.
It was with this in mind that both main parties in office have paid lip service to the idea of Bank of England independence. Gordon Brown claimed to have given independence to the Bank of England in a much spun change of policy in 1997. Instead he gave the Bank limited new powers to control interest rates in return for taking away from the Bank the main regulatory powers over commercial banks and giving them to the FSA. This meant that the Bank lacked crucial powers to deal with the emerging banking crisis and crash in 2008, and spent part of the pre-crisis period in a turf war with its rival independent body. The elected official, the Chancellor, left these two warring institutions to get on with it, with disastrous results.
We have now suffered from 20 years of a so called independent Bank. During that time period we have seen two speculative bubbles, in 2000 and again in 2008, a banking crash in 2008-9, the Great recession which resulted from the crash, the adoption of more extreme monetary policies based on printing extra cash and the buying up of government bonds. Far from creating stability, the Bank has supervised market extremes, substantial economic volatility and two stock market crashes, including one with a banking crash.
The Bank has demonstrated it is not independent, whilst governments have continued to interfere behind the scenes. Gordon Brown changed the powers of the Bank, then changed its inflation remit. Alastair Darling rightly overrode the Bank to get interest rates down in the middle of the banking crash. Governor Carney’s independent judgement looked very similar to the Remain campaign in the referendum.
The same thing has happened with the Environment Agency. The Agency developed its own policy of allowing parts of the country to flood. It removed pumps and failed to keep ditches clean and rivers dredged. It allowed substantial new development to be added without always making necessary provision for handling surface water and household waste water. The whole system broke down in the Somerset levels, prompting Ministerial intervention to demand pumps and dredging be resumed.
It is time we moved back to a system where Ministers set policy based on public needs, rather than relying on experts who can offer policies that are not wanted allied to incompetence in delivery. In the end the public thinks the Chancellor is to blame for the economy and the Environment Secretary for flooding, however much power has in theory been delegated.
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John Redwood is the Member of Parliament for Wokingham in Berkshire. He was formerly Secretary of State for Wales in Prime Minister John Major's Cabinet. He is currently Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party's Policy Review Group on Economic Competitiveness.
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Forces of Commonly Used Chiropractic Techniques
for Children: A Review of the Literature
FROM: J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2016 (Jul); 39 (6): 401–410 ~ FULL TEXT
Angela J. Todd, BAppSc(Chiro), Grad Dip, Matthew T. Carroll, PhD,
Eleanor K.L. Mitchell, PhD
Angela J. Todd, BAppSc(Chiro)
Sale, VIC 3850, Australia
Objective The purpose of this study is to review the available literature that describes forces of the most commonly used chiropractic techniques for children.
Methods Review of the English-language literature using search terms Chiropract* and technique, protocol, or approach in databases PubMed, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Allied and Complementary Medicine, and Index to Chiropractic Literature and direct contact with authors of articles and book chapters.
Results Eleven articles that discussed the 7 most commonly used pediatric chiropractic techniques and the forces applied were identified. Chiropractic techniques reviewed described forces that were modified based on the age of the patient. Force data for mechanically assisted devices were varied, with the minimum force settings for some devices outside the age-specific safe range recommended in the literature when not modified in some way.
Conclusion This review found that technique selection and application by chiropractors treating infants and young children are typically modified in force and speed to suit the age and development of the child.
Key Indexing Terms: Chiropractic Manipulation, Children, Review of Literature
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More than 30 million child visits to doctors of chiropractic occur in the United States every year. [1] It is estimated that more than 19.1 million chiropractic visits occur in Australia annually [2] and other studies estimate that 8.6% of all visits are from children. [3] By combining these two studies findings, we can estimate that in excess of 1.6 million child visits occur in Australia every year. Given this estimate, the published cases of serious adverse events in infants and children receiving chiropractic or other types of manual therapy are exceedingly rare, [4–6] and there have been no cases of death associated with chiropractic care of children reported in the academic literature to date. [4–6] Nonetheless, studies of the amount of force used on children for safety purposes should still be considered.
In Australia and the United States, chiropractic students undertake extensive theoretical and practical training at the university level, including study of and experience with the pediatric population. [7] Chiropractors are trained to perform a thorough history and examination to determine whether chiropractic care is appropriate and identify a suitable technique, given the age and neurologic presentation of the child. Chiropractors have a range of techniques available to them and can modify these to suit the age and condition of the patient. The process of selecting one type of chiropractic technique over another is based on many factors, including the techniques the practitioner is clinically experienced in applying and the perceived effectiveness of each, as well as the practitioner's understanding of the biological plausibility of using a particular therapy and the associated research evidence base. [8] It should be noted that health professionals of all types face the same considerations when determining appropriate treatment approaches. [9–11]
Data from the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners identified that three-quarters of chiropractors use traditional styles of chiropractic spinal manipulation (diversified or Gonstead technique) and more than half use an Activator instrument or the sacro-occcipital technique (SOT). [12] Although these data are not age specific, a 2010 cross-sectional survey of 135 chiropractors with pediatric diplomate qualifications in the United States [13] revealed that reduced-force diversified technique (spinal manipulative technique that has been modified to be lower force and amplitude) was used by 59% of pediatric chiropractors; 63% reported using an Activator instrument, 59% a drop-section table, and 77% cranial therapy. In addition, this study found that cranial and Activator techniques were used mainly for children 5 years and younger, and that modified diversified, Activator, and drop-section table adjustments were used on older children. The Activator instrument, SOT, toggle, touch and hold, and modified spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) were typically used by chiropractors for restoring joint and neurologic function, [14] and particularly in children to reduce neck pain, back pain, and joint stiffness. [13]
Given the diversity of styles of chiropractic manipulation, there are currently no peer-reviewed articles that review the amount of force used in commonly used pediatric manipulation techniques. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to review the available literature that describes forces of the most commonly used chiropractic techniques for children.
Excluding mechanically assisted techniques and modified SMT, many of the methods used by chiropractors are similar to those of other manual therapists, [45, 46] including osteopaths using craniosacral therapy with a force of 1 N20 and physical therapists using spinal manipulation/mobilization with a force of 22 N measured in adults. [19] In his recent article, Rome [45, 46] notes that much of the concern about chiropractors using SMT on children is found in English-language medical practitioner journals, which seem to ignore the fact that their medical colleagues practicing manual medicine in Europe have been using SMT on children since the 1960s. Although it is known that medical manual therapists apply pediatric manual therapy with forces ranging from 50 N to 70 N, [27] specific force data on chiropractic modified SMT in children have yet to be measured. The information on forces applied and reported adverse events, if any, should assist therapists in selecting the most appropriate technique.
“The decision to apply a specific grade of mobilization or manipulation should be based on the patient age, weight, height, sex, neurologic development, muscular control, patient preference, and the clinical confidence and experience of the practitioner.” [11] In addition to these key factors, practitioners should also take into consideration the “safe limits” proposed by Marchand [15] to ensure that the forces associated with each technique are age appropriate. These safe limits suggest that low-force, low-speed therapies are more suitable for children younger than 2 years, increasing to moderate force with moderate speed in children aged 2 to 8 years, and then moderate force with high speed up to 18 years. Furthermore, Marchand recommends the newtons of force applied in the cervical spine be less than 20 N for infants and less than 85 N for 3– to 8–year-olds. The results of this literature review demonstrate that these limits are achievable with the appropriate application of several of the modern mechanical instruments and with touch and hold, mobilization, modified SMT, modified Toggle, or sacro-occipital technique.
The values in Marchand's safe limits are based in part on the 2002 article by Koch et al [18] that reported that short-lasting apnea and bradycardia were associated with the use of around 50 N to 70 N of medically applied spinal manipulation in the cervical spine of a sample of 1–year-old infants. Those younger than 3 months were twice as likely to have severe bradycardia than those between 4 and 12 months of age. [18, 27] It has been argued that for these measurements to accurately reflect the force likely to be experienced by the patient, allowances should be made for the compliance or flexibility of human tissue. This was noted by Liebschner et al [24] in their study of handheld adjusting devices, where the measurements were made using a soft tissue analog to better reflect a thrust into a spine on either an adult or a child (Fig 2).
The diversity of measurement approaches for mechanical instruments has led to confusion in the literature regarding the levels of force associated with different devices and settings, with initial levels of thrust of the NMI and Activators III and IV reported by Colloca et al [22] as being very high (>112 N) when on the lowest setting. However, the most recent research by Liebschner et al [24] indicates that the forces of Activator II, IV, and V are considerably lower when the measurements are conducted in a way that is analogous to the real-world application to the human spine.
Liebschner et al [24] indicate that individual patient characteristics may change the level of force received, with an infant/child with a hyperflexible spine receiving a lower peak thrust force than a more hypoflexible adult spine at the same power setting, and handheld instruments further reduced the peak thrust force as it increased tissue compliance. It is unknown how this affects the forces from these instruments. The depth of subcutaneous tissue is also larger in an adult and less in a child, and measurements for a flexible spine with a thinner polymorphous overlay may produce more accurate forces for children using an Activator instrument. The specificity of any of the instruments measured is also unknown because the applicator tip on most of them is larger than most cervical vertebrae in an infant. [16, 22] Considering all of this information, the application of the NMI, HAI, and each of the Activator II, IV, and V instruments to the cervical region of children younger than 3 months delivers a force less than the 50 N to 70 N [18] where medical spinal manipulation on children was recorded by Koch. In addition, the forces applied at the lowest settings of the Activator II and NMI were both at the 20 N range recommended by Marchand as a maximal safe limit for infants younger than 3 months [15]; however, the Activator IV and V minimum settings transmit forces above the 20 N level recommended by Marchand for children below 3 months of age when applied directly to the cervical spine.
This review did not include force data from other professions that share similar technique applications as chiropractic, and no data on joint displacement or laxity in children were collected or examined. All of the papers in this study where published in English, with the exception of one paper published in German that was translated into English. There is a need for research to be done on the forces applied with some mechanically assisted devices when used according to recommended protocols (such as through the thumb for a newborn child); therefore, some techniques were not included in this review because the research is not available. Finally, although adverse events from chiropractic and other manual therapies are rare, [6] this literature review found that the forces applied with manual modified SMT by chiropractors for children of any age have been estimated, not directly measured, and thus require further evaluation. Although there is a growing body of research on the forces associated with different techniques, there are numerous gaps relating to particular techniques. This information should be considered when applying this information in a clinical setting. [47]
This review found that technique selection and application by chiropractors treating infants and young children are typically modified in force and speed to suit the age and development of the child.
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Many around the Labour leader credit the 2017 General Election manifesto for limiting the scale of Corbyn’s defeat at that election and their strategy for the 2019 election has placed huge stock in the ability of this manifesto to reframe the campaign. This has been matched by the bold claims the party has made for it, describing it as “the most radical, hopeful, people-focused plan in modern times”. There are undoubtedly significant policy announcements here, many of which are likely to be significant whoever wins the election, but Labour strategists will judge its success by the extent that it shifts the election debate. They have sought to achieve this by a dramatic hardening of tone. Corbyn’s rhetoric has always had a clear ‘us versus them’ dimension but his remarks today place considerably more emphasis on confronting ‘them’, going as far as to welcome the ‘hatred’ of the rich and powerful.
Labour believe that their support is fundamentally split on Brexit and on the associated issue of immigration but that a radical social and economic prospectus can reach beyond their core support. This belief will have been reinforced by the ongoing third-party squeeze on the Lib Dems, fuelling an assumption that motivated Remainers will have to settle for Labour in the absence of any other credible route to a second referendum. Their second strategic gamble is their hope that historically Labour-identifying leave voters will not be spooked by the prospect of a final say and can be attracted with ambitious pledges on jobs, investment and public services.
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Global demand for protein is anticipated to skyrocket in the coming decades. Aquaculture has the potential to produce a significant proportion of the world’s nutrition. And while the current aquaculture industry is a vital producer for the global fish market, supplying 58 percent of the fish we eat, much aquaculture (particularly predatory fish and prawn) remains unsustainable, degrading both land and marine habitat, risking the introduction or spread of invasive and genetically modified species and pathogens, and polluting surrounding ecosystems. Many aquaculture farms are also economically unsustainable. Ninety-five percent of aquaculture occurs in the developing world where access to current technologies and capital, coupled with weak regulation, are barriers to change. Moreover, while aquaculture is a direct response to depleted fisheries, as an industry it relies heavily on wild-caught fish to feed captive fish. The following constraints need to be overcome to solve this grand challenge.
Develop aquaculture technologies, products, and systems that are more sustainable, reduce harmful by-products or environmental degradation, and replace less sustainable products & systems. Aquaculture has the potential to transform global food systems for the better. To do so requires innovations in three areas: system design, inputs, and product innovation.
Sustainable Design: Aquaculture farms, particularly those farming carnivorous fish, are inefficient, result in significant pollution, and can threaten human health. The challenge is to produce whole-system aquaculture farms that produce multiple species and products in a closed-loop system that generates both safe, nutritious food and does not harm the environment. Current threats to the ocean environment from aquaculture include escapement and species invasion (non-native/GMO), disease transfer from cultured fish to wild fish, and conversion of critical habitat, such as coastal wetlands and mangroves, to ponds. New designs and technologies need to address water pollution from antibiotics, herbicides, pesticides, piscicides, disinfectants, suspended solids, and other effluents. Further elements to the challenge could include rethinking where aquaculture should take place – alternative ideas may include aquaculture within cities, on barges, in reclaimed land, or farther offshore in the open ocean.
Rethinking Feed: The challenge is to create highly nutritional feed for aquaculture products that is sourced without environmental degradation. We would be seeking solutions for aquaculture that reduce the burden on the natural environment to produce food for people. At present, marine ingredients in feed for fish come in large part from wild fish stocks. This can deplete natural fishery populations. By incentivizing the creation of replacements for wild fish in feed, aquaculture could become significantly more sustainable, nutritious, and profitable.
New Ocean Products: The vast majority of aquaculture farms produce just a few products such as shrimp and certain finfish. The challenge is to vastly expand the range and quality of aquaculture products to meet rising human demand for protein while decreasing aquaculture’s environmental footprint. Fish and other species from aquaculture farms can be less nutritious than wild fish and even potentially unhealthy for humans as a result of bioaccumulation of antimicrobial carcinogens, antibiotics, and toxic algae. In addition, there is little effort to domesticate new wild fish species or to develop non-fish or shellfish products. The opportunity for more production from algae, invertebrates, and low trophic-level fish species could result in significant increases in the production of nutritious food.
State of global aquaculture: While fisheries globally are nearing the point of collapse, the worldwide demand for protein is expected to continue to grow rapidly. Aquaculture as a solution is expected to at least double in outputs by 2050. To date, aquaculture food supply per capita and total production value have grown at an annual rate of almost 9% for decades, and farmed seafood has overtaken production from capture fisheries. Fish farming has enabled seafood consumption (and access to protein) to continue to increase even as marine fisheries production has flat-lined. Production is heavily concentrated in Asia, particularly China [FAO]. Given that agriculture already uses 11% of the world’s land surface [FAO], and that climate change particularly threatens global rice production [IRRI], aquaculture presents an important opportunity to meet rising demand for food.
Aquaculture as a solution is expected to at least double in outputs by 2050
Environmental health: Most aquaculture occurs in natural systems (lakes, coastal ecosystems) using underwater cages or man-made rafts, longlines or racks, which have a variety of effects on the local biogeography and overall environmental health. There is a higher risk of disease or parasite outbreaks within farms and between farmed and wild fish where highly intensive farming practices are used in small containment areas. Escaped fish may weaken the genetic strength of wild populations, bring novel diseases, and introduce exotic invasive species into ecosystems. Local waterways and ecosystems risk pollution and depletion of ecosystem health as a result of excessive fish and aquaculture waste. Just as with production of terrestrial crops, excessive use of chemicals including fertilizers and pesticides can harm marine organisms and human health. Conversion of critical coastal habitat such as mangroves, estuary mouths, sea grass beds and other sensitive systems to aquaculture is leading to the destruction of vast stretches of valuable ocean habitat and species globally.
Inputs:While helping to relieve pressure on at-risk and collapsed fisheries, aquaculture has its own unique sustainability challenges. The most prominent sustainability challenge is the feed used in aquaculture, which accounts for 40-70% of production costs and puts heavy demands on wild fisheries, which are the primary source of current feeds. With the dramatic growth in the aquaculture industry, prices for fishmeal and fish oil - prime constituents of many aquaculture feeds - are skyrocketing [Lux Research]. Fishmeal and fish oil largely come from harvested pelagic fish like anchovies and for one kilo of farmed fish it can require anywhere from 0 to 20 kg of wild fish. Further, many of the species harvested for fish meal and oil are targeted indiscriminately and even referred to as “trash fish” when in actuality the catch from these trawl catches can include numerous fish of high value and ecological significance, but which are not of any market value because of their size.
While redesigning aquaculture systems to reduce their environmental impact on coasts, we may alternatively rethink the need to grow fish in coastal waters
Market structure Aquaculture as an industry is poorly managed and relatively unregulated globally. According to the FAO, around 90% of the world’s 18.9 million fish farmers are small-scale producers from developing countries. Aquaculture is currently facing major economic pressures in the form of rising feed prices, which may present opportunities to introduce better and more sustainable feed technologies. Sustainable businesses can also demand higher prices for their products, create new distribution networks that help producers access larger or higher value markets, and be better insulated from price volatility.
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Hey Incels! My Name is Becky And I’m Proud To Be Your Enemy
Becky Sarwate
In 1992, during the summer after I graduated eighth grade, rapper Sir Mix A Lot released his ubiquitous ode to the female derriere, “Baby Got Back.” For the better part of the next three decades, friends and acquaintances were known to greet me with a familiar line, more frequently than could ever be funny:
“Oh, my, god, Becky, look at her butt. It is so big.”
As a self-conscious teenager looking to nurture an inclusive roster of friends, this marking of my name as synonymous with superficial whiteness was a double-edged sword. A familiar, teasing conversation starter with some, a limiting barrier with others.
However, this was only the beginning of my first name’s synthesis with white girl-ism. In 2016, superstar Beyonce introduced pop culture to the next iteration of “Becky” with her smash album, Lemonade. On the track “Sorry,” rumored to be Bey’s response to husband Jay-Z’s marital infidelity, “Becky with the good hair” became a faceless stand-in for the morally dubious, if nonetheless attractive other woman. Although I was 37 years old when the album dropped, and long inured to Valley Girl-accented Sir Mix A Lot callouts, I wasn’t quite ready for what came next.
Writer Tim Teeman of The Daily Beast sums it up:
“This is no gentle parlor game: It’s Becky-hunting season…
According to Urban Dictionary, ‘Becky’ is a reference ‘to the act of fellatio.’
The dictionary cites Plies’s 2010 song ‘Becky,’ and references the singer makes to getting blow jobs. This links to the female name Becky ‘because of the widely held notion and/or stereotype that Caucasian women are somewhat more sexually liberal in terms of frequency of encounters, random partnering, and overall lasciviousness.’”
Then “Becky” moved from big butts and marriage wrecking into the fight for social justice. For the last two years, I’ve come across social media posts from people of all races and genders calling out the “Beckys” who make life harder for other women and people of color. Pals are usually careful to add an editorial comment absolving me of categorization – “of course not YOU Becky Sarwate.” But seeing the name by which I’m known continually and casually conflated with toxic female whiteness does occasionally sting. It’s ironic that a woman who strives to develop herself as an ally to all, is undercut by the noxious brand associated with her moniker.
However the English language is nothing if not living and fluid. Very recently I became aware of another application of my name to stereotype. Only this time, instead of resignation or revulsion, I welcome the association with proud and open arms. I relish the combative occasions that the misappropriation affords. This Becky feels redeemed.
In April the incel community foisted itself upon mass cultural consciousness when one of its terrorists mowed down 10 pedestrians in Toronto with a van. Heretofore, the community of “involuntarily celibate” men who share a mutual hatred of women largely kept to the Internet fringes where they belong. Rebecca [Becky] Jennings of Racked writes:
“What makes the attack different from many other forms of terrorism is that incel isn’t an organized militant group united by political or religious beliefs — its main grievance is with women’s ability to choose their own sexual partners.”
Incels distill a world with billions of diverse women into just two categories, neither of which includes ladies who will give these dangerous losers the time of day. To the group of pathetic, delusional morons, we are either “Beckys” or “Stacys.”
And what exactly is a “Becky” to the (mostly) white male sociopath?
“an ‘average’ woman… wearing ‘loose baggy clothing to hide small tits/flat ass’ and needing to wear ‘super tight yoga pants to get a few looks…’ a feminist who ‘will likely die [sic] her hair green, pink, or blue after attending college’ and ‘posts provocative pictures because she needs attention despite being a ‘6/10…’
While incels seem to believe that the untouchable (and seemingly nonexistent) Stacy will never sleep with them, they feel as though they are owed attention and sex from Becky.”
My hair color does indeed contain a streak of blue and I love yoga pants. You got me there, incels. And I also confess that my favorite past-time in the Trump era is disabusing the entitled, (mostly) white male patriarchy of its pretentions to control over the bodies and minds of my sisters. I am after all, just your average 40 year-old, 6/10. I must have plenty of time on my dateless hands, right?
It frees me up to excoriate the online basement dwellers who threaten women on Reddit, as well as their mainstream apologists, such as conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat. In an Op-Ed earlier this week entitled “The Redistribution of Sex,” Douthat asks:
“If we are concerned about the just distribution of property and money, why do we assume that the desire for some sort of sexual redistribution is inherently ridiculous?…
At a certain point, without anyone formally debating the idea of a right to sex, right-thinking people will simply come to agree that some such right exists, and that it makes sense to look to some combination of changed laws, new technologies and evolved mores to fulfill it.”
I just can’t…
No wait I can. As a Becky of “evolved mores,” I wholeheartedly reject the idea that sex should be equally distributed so that incels feel less murderous. Perhaps it’s safer and more logical to assume that a version of Darwin’s Law is at work here – garbage humans are less likely to get laid, and thus reproduce. This is a win for genetics, not another life-threatening burden for women to carry.
As to the continued use of my name by the incel community to spread misogynistic hate…bring it. After all, I survived the BeyHive.
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Becky is an award-winning journalist, Op-Ed columnist and blogger. On March 29, 2018 her first book, Cubsessions: Famous Fans of Chicago’s North Side Baseball Team, will be published by Eckhartz Press. She is a proud Chicago resident, where Becky lives with her husband Bob. Check out her collected work at BeckySarwate.com, and follow her on Twitter @BeckySarwate.
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IPL 2018: Basil Thampi Reveals Sreesanth ‘Motivates’ Him as a Bowler
Ankush Das, 2 years ago 3 min read 393
Basil Thampi's Duleep Trophy hit by Kerala Floods. Credit: BCCI
Young seamer from Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH), Basil Thampi has admitted that he seeks advice from suspended cricket Shanthakumaran Sreesanth whenever the former feels low.
Meanwhile, Thampi rose to fame in the 2017 edition of Indian Premier League (IPL) where he won the Emerging Players Award. Since then he has never looked back as his career has taken an upward slide.
However, Thampi never forgets to thank all those who shaped his career — from his childhood club mentor – to his Kerala state cricket seniors.
Sreesanth, whose career took a downfall since spot-fixing allegation in 2013 finds an important mention in Thampi’s list.
“Yeah, I speak with Sree bhai also when I have some doubt. If I am feeling low, I message him and he replies. He tells me what to do in certain situations or things that I ought to have done. He motivates me,” Thampi said in an interview.
Credit: BCCI
The 24-year-old Thampi credited IPL for his success and admitted that he got confidence because of this. He also revealed that chairman of selectors MSK Prasad suggested him to practice hard.
“Now everyone knows me. It happened after the last IPL. I got confidence in my bowling. After the 2017 edition, I got a chance in Deodhar Trophy, Duleep Trophy, India A (Away tour of South Africa and home series against New Zealand). I got selected in the India team also for the Sri Lanka tour. MSK Prasad recently texted me to keep practicing hard,” he added.
I am not competing with anyone: Thampi
Thampi’s rise has come at a time when the India team has quality pacers in their ranks. From Bhuvneshwar Kumar to Jasprit Bumrah, the competition is too tough.
Even in his new IPL team Sunrisers Hyderabad, Thampi has the likes of Bhuvneshwar, Siddharth Kaul, and Sandeep Sharma for a company.
“I am not competing with anyone. I know my bowling well. I don’t have that much swing. What I can do is hit the right length with great speed. Last year, I consistently bowled yorkers. This time, I just want to mix the deliveries, maybe two yorkers and then a slower one. I am still working on it,” Thampi added.
Meanwhile, Thampi picked two for four in 1.5 overs against Mumbai Indians in the last match. He also played a crucial role in defending his team’s total of 118 runs.
Moreover, Thampi also worked with the legendary bowler Glenn McGrath at the MRF Pace Foundation in Chennai.
In addition, Basil Thampi revealed that the former Australian seamer advised him to study the batsmen well and not reduce his pace.
“He advised me to study the batsman well. He told me of different situations during his playing days. He said I should not reduce my pace, even if that means the ball does not swing. This is not the first time I have worked with him. He and Tinu Yohannan have helped me a lot grow as a bowler,” he concluded.
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FXRA: Aluminum Frame Custom
By GeoffJune 26, 2018Uncategorized
Located in Costa Mesa, California, is a shop called The Harley Doctor, and the owner, Geoffrey Gaites, has been healing sick bikes since 1996. He has a PHD in Harley Davidson tech from M.M.I. and has been a practicing bike doctor since 1989.
His mission was to be able to achieve maximum tuning of the engine with a dyno to get seat-of-the-pants horsepower. But after years of fixing and hot rodding other people’s bikes, he needed a break and decided to build his dream bike. Geoffrey planned his bike with two things in mind: it had to be as light as possible, and it had to be the fastest bike around based on an 80ci Evo motor.
Now that Geoffrey had a roller, the motor was the next step. He had a blueprint for power in mind, and his starting point was 80ci. The S&S cases hold H-D flywheels and Eagle I-beam rods topped with JE pistons. The cylinders are Axtell and the heads are Johnson Engine Technology, with some special attention given to the ports and valves. To bring it all home, a Woods cam was installed with adjustable pushrods, and a modified S&S G carb was bored to 48mm. Then, exhaust pipes by Cycle Shack were bolted on. To transfer power to the rear wheel, Geoffrey used an H-D five speed trans case, with Andrews’ gears, and a BDL primary drive and clutch set.
Geoffrey was itching to get this bike started, so the first thing he did was chase down a frame. He went to Wildcat Engineering to have a rubber-mounted aluminum frame made, with 31 degrees of rake, no added stretch, and a weight of only 28 pounds when finished. The frame was then polished to match the JMC swingarm Geoffrey had already bought. For suspension, a set of A&A Racing triple-trees hold Roma legs from KTM that have external compression and rebound adjusters for the best handling at high speeds up front. He then put a set of Works Performance shocks out back, and to get it rolling, a pair of P.M. wheels – a 19-inch front and an 18×5.5-inch out back. Both are covered in Dunlop rubber, with floating rotors and calipers by Brembo.
The Doc was still making house calls for sick bikes while working hard on his own bike. Geoffrey feels that all Harley-Davidson’s should be black, so the sheetmetal and paint were easy and simple. He had an H-D FXDX tank and a WCC rear fender sent over to Danny Martinez, who molded in a flush gas cap and cut the rear fender down to just clear the center of the wheel. He then sprayed on House of Kolors Jet Black, buffed it out, and shipped it.
When it arrived, Geoffrey mounted Krome Works bars with P.M. grips to a set of A&A risers and added hand controls by H-D, foot controls by Kuryakyn, and a headlight and taillights from Weekend Concepts. He had a seat made by Bitchin’ Rich and wired up the bike.
This bike took a little longer to build than Geoffrey had planned on, but everything else was just what the Doctor ordered – a light bike that looks like a stock 80ci Evo but puts out heavy power, like 113.7 hp at the rear wheel and a top speed of 158 mph. He calls it a fun bike to just ride around on, but if he feels up for some seat-of-the-pants speed, it is there with a twist of the wrist.
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Our Racist President
America’s first black billionaire gets police involved after hotel refuses to check him in
Walter Einenkel / Daily Kos (09/05/2018)
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Bob Johnson is the co-founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET) and the official first black American billionaire. He’s a prime example of what some in this country call “proof” that racism isn’t a real issue anymore. But as WPBF reports, on August 24 of this year, Mr. Johnson could have had all of the money in the world, he was just some black guy with expensive prescription sunglasses to the check in attendant at Eau Palm Beach, a “5-star luxury hotel.” After giving his car to the valet, his bags to hotel staff he was asked for identification on his two night reservation. According to Johnson he gave them three forms: American Express, Florida driver license, and his government issued passport. But, that wasn’t enough for the hotel betty who said he needed to take off his sunglasses. She told Johnson she couldn’t and wouldn’t check him in without doing so.
Johnson says that when traveling internationally it is customary to have to take ones sunglasses off; but not domestically, and not when the identification you are providing are both federal and in state. He told the lady that she should call the police. According to WPBF, police came but were unable to broker a “compromise,” and Johnson left.
Eau Palm Beach spokesman Nick Gold said the policy is for the protection of guests.
“It is standard operating procedure in the industry to ask to make sure that the person who is presenting themselves to check-in and they present identification that it does match and if they’re wearing dark glasses with a ball cap low over their face, you want to make sure that it is the same person, much like what would happen at TSA rules going through the airport,” Gold said.
Personally, I don’t care much for billionaires like Bob Johnson. But I do care about racism. Bob Johnson owns a hotel investment company—RLJ Lodging Trust. In fact, it’s the country’s largest hotel investment company, after merging. Spokesman Gold said he hoped Johnson would come back to visit. I suspect, if Johnson does come back to that hotel it will be with the deed in hand.
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“I suspect, if Johnson does come back to that hotel it will be with the deed in hand.”….and a letter firing the reception clerk.
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Alchemists have claimed him as one of their own. He introduced into Greece the gnomonthe sundial and cartography.
With regards to the new Marvel et al paper, I find that: First, the fact that global climatemodels project more positive climate feedbacks in the future does not in any way prove that the models are correct in doing so.
Secondly, the more detailed explanation in the paper itself supports the statement with several different, mainly invalid, arguments: The evidence for argument a is weak. The second is relevant to increases in CO2 concentration from a doubling to a quadrupling, but its findings are fully explicable by the fact that CO2 forcing increases very slightly faster than logarithmically with concentration.
In these models the pattern of SST warming changes over time after forcing is applied, and on average the feedbacks applying to the later warming pattern are more positive. However, ECS inferred from simulations in which sea surface temperatures are prescribed according to observations is lower still.
But, as I will show, a better interpretation is that estimating ECS by using changes over a twenty-six year period is unwise. They used the well-known energy-balance estimation formula: They reported that simply subtracting the first decade from the last yielded similar results.
Given the wide spread between CMIP5 models in, inter alia, the level of aerosol forcing, and in estimated ERF from CO2, this will likely cause considerable inaccuracy when using equation 1 to estimate ECS for individual models.
Averaged over all models, the inaccuracy will be smaller. However, post the changes in aerosol ERF are relatively small, so there may be little downwards bias. Figure 1 shows the resulting ECS estimates Marvel et al. Models are ordered by increasing estimated long-term ECS. Reproduced from Figure 1 of the Supporting Information for Marvel et al.
The period is particularly unsuitable for ECS estimation since strong negative volcanic forcing arose during its first half, but not thereafter.
There is evidence including from Marvel et al. It is simple enough to investigate the effect on short-period ECS estimation of avoiding significant influence from volcanism. I do so by using historical simulation data from the almost identical period and Marvel et al. I made up the base ten years by combining the volcanic-free and periods.
I took average changes from the base ten years to the final decade,which is also free of eruptions.
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Doing so avoided the El Chichon and Mount Pinatubo eruptions and the main parts of the recoveries from each of them. Figure 2 shows the resulting ECS estimates, upon applying equation 1. Where several historical simulation runs were carried out by a model, the ECS estimates using mean values from its ensemble of runs red triangles are less wild.
But the interesting point shown in Figure 2 is that, across all models, the median of the long-term ECS estimates blue line: ECS estimated from non-volcanic periods in recent historical simulations. Blue triangles show estimated long-term ECS.
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The red and blue lines which overlap show the multimodel-ensemble medians of respectively ensemble-mean ECS estimates and long-term ECS estimates.After yesterday’s post about what determines temperature, I thought I would revisit one of the most convincing evidences of Earth’s greenhouse effect..
As I’ve mentioned before, a handheld infrared thermometer is a great little tool to help gain physical insight into the thermal radiative (infrared) effect the atmosphere has on surface temperature.
Blackbody radiation is the electro-magnetic radiation emerging from a small hole in a perfectly black box containing electromagnetic radiation at a high temperature. Scientists were interested in setting standards for the electric and thus measured the distribution of the total electromagnetic energy in a black box among the different.
BLACKBODY RADIATION Introduction. This chapter briefly summarizes some of the formulas and theorems associated with blackbody for example, to be used for repeatedly opening and closing the door separating the two cavities. We have thus.
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For example, when the universe was one second old, it had . By Elmer Beauregard. The Senate voted this week on whether Climate Change is real or a hoax, I think it’s a hoax and here’s why. I’m sure you’ve heard in the .
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Create a Statement
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The Digital Asset Links protocol and API enable an app or website to make public, verifiable statements about other apps or websites. For example, a website can declare that it is associated with a specific Android app, or it can declare that it wants to share user credentials with another website.
Here are some possible uses for Digital Asset Links:
Website A declares that links to its site should open in a designated app on mobile devices, if the app is installed.
Website A declares that it can share its Chrome user credentials with website B so that the user won't have to log in to website B if it is logged into website A.
App A declares that it can share device settings, such as location, with website B.
Principal: The principal is the app or website making the statement. In Digital Asset Links, the principal is always the app or website that hosts the statement list.
Statement list: Statements are contained in a statement list that contains one or more statements. A statement list is cleartext and publicly accessible, in a location that is controlled by the principal and difficult to spoof or tamper with. It can be a free-standing file, or a section of another, larger item. For example, on a website, it is an entire file; in an Android app, it is a section in the app manifest. Statements can be viewed and verified by anyone, using non-proprietary methods. See the statement list documentation for more information.
Statement: A statement is a tightly structured JSON construct that consists of a relation (what the statement says to do, for example: Enable sharing credentials) and a target (the website or app that the relation applies to). Therefore, each statement is like a sentence, where principal says relation about target.
Statement consumer: A statement consumer requests a statement list from a principal, checks for the presence of a statement against a given principal, and if it exists, can perform the action specified. See the statement comsuming documentation for more information.
Quick usage example
Here's a very simplified example of how the website www.example.com could use Digital Asset Links to specify that any links to URLs in that site should open in a designated app rather than the browser:
The website www.example.com publishes a statement list at https://www.example.com/.well-known/assetlinks.json. This is the official name and location for a statement list on a site; statement lists in any other location, or with any other name, are not valid for this site. In our example, the statement list consists of one statement, granting its Android app the permission to open links on its site:
"relation": ["delegate_permission/common.handle_all_urls"],
"target" : { "namespace": "android_app", "package_name": "com.example.app",
"sha256_cert_fingerprints": ["hash_of_app_certificate"] }
A statement list supports an array of statements within the [ ] marks, but our example file contains only one statement.
The Android app listed in the statement above has an intent filter that specifies the scheme, host, and path pattern of URLs that it wants to handle: in this case, https://www.example.com. The intent filter includes a special attribute android:autoVerify, new to Android M, which indicates that Android should verify the statement on the website described in the intent filter when the app is installed.
A user installs the app. Android sees the intent filter with the autoVerify attribute and checks for the presence of the statement list at the specified site; if present, Android checks whether that file includes a statement granting link handling to the app, and verifies the app against the statement by certificate hash. If everything checks out, Android will then forward any https://www.example.com intents to the example.com app.
The user clicks a link to https://www.example.com/puppies on their device. This link could be anywhere: in a browser, in a Google Search Appliance suggestion, or anywhere else. Android forwards the intent to the example.com app.
The example.com app receives the intent and chooses to handle it, opening the puppies page in the app. If for some reason the app had declined to handle the link, or if the app were not on the device, then the link would have been sent to the next default intent handler matching that intent pattern (often the browser).
Important considerations and limitations:
The protocol does not authenticate the principal making the statement, but the statement is located in a specific location strongly associated with the principal, and under control of the principal.
The protocol does not authenticate the statement target, but it provides a means for the caller to authenticate the target (for example, a statement identifies mobile app targets by certificate hash and package name).
The protocol does not natively perform any statement actions; rather, it enables the ability to expose statements, which a consuming application must validate and then decide whether and how to act upon. Android M natively performs these steps for you; for example, if a website delegates link handling to a specific app, Android checks and verifies the statement, verifies the target app, and then offers the app the option to handle the given link.
The protocol does not enable making statements about two third parties: that is, website A can make a statement about website B, but website A cannot make a statement about website B's relationship to website C. However, if website B trusts website A, it can check website A for a statement granting permission to website C, and decide to implement that.
See if there is explicit documentation for your use case.
Learn about creating a statement.
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Something Very Big is Coming, Part II: Is Wikileaks About to Drop the Nuke?
Part One: Something Very Big is Coming, Part II: Is Wikileaks About to Drop the Nuke?
Part Two: Exposing the Cabal
Part Three: 4Chan Insider, Seth Rich and Wikileaks
Part Four: The Latest Disclosures
Are we on the verge of stunning, public announcements that will change everything we thought we knew?
In 2009, we began providing direct insider leaks from “The Alliance”. Everything they told us is now coming true.
The 4Chan insider from our last article is “singing like a songbird” and we will summarize the newest intel in this article.
If what we are hearing is true, Wikileaks is on the verge of dropping a much more damning set of information than October 2016 — literally at any moment.
This would then set the stage for a much larger announcement that will directly expose the ugly secrets of the FBI, CIA and Fed for the last 60 years.
The Vegas mass shooting may well have been a desperate attempt to distract the public from these impending, epic geopolitical developments.
We have every reason to believe that this collection of data provides signposts that a very big announcement may lead to a defeat of the Cabal.
[UPDATE: Many have reported ridiculous hacks happening, particularly for Part Four. Try a different browser or use an Ipad or Iphone if you have it.]
[UPDATE II: A tragic event occurred to one of David’s top insiders just a half hour after posting this. We are very glad he is alive. Read at the end of Part Four.]
CLICK HERE FOR “VEGAS TERROR AND DISCLOSURE: IS SOMETHING VERY BIG ABOUT TO HAPPEN?”
THE OFFICIAL NARRATIVE IS RIDICULOUS
Just to briefly review what we discussed, the Vegas mass shooting was almost certainly not the work of a “lone gunman” with no clear motive.
Instead, there were multiple signatures of this being orchestrated by a powerful international organization we have been calling “the Cabal”.
Las Vegas is just 13 miles from Nellis AFB, which is enormous — and less than three hours from Groom Lake, site of the infamous Area 51.
Multiple insiders have revealed that there are secret elevators in these casinos, leading to underground shuttles that take you to these very bases.
Certain individuals will have “cover jobs” working at casinos while they actually hold jobs requiring a security clearance at the same time.
The shooter had last worked for one of the most notorious “black ops” defense contractors in the world — Lockheed — and showed clear signs of mind control.
He would blow 10 to 30 thousand dollars a day in casinos, was a well-known VIP, and took multiple cruises to countries like Jordan and United Arab Emirates.
He may well have been a black-ops employee involved in smuggling weapons, drugs and / or humans, making tons of cash, and was then set up as a patsy.
FACING IT HEAD ON INSTEAD OF COWERING
Although this may cause fear, anxiety and paranoia, we need to look at this head-on if we ever want this global nightmare to stop.
The international alliance opposing the Cabal is very real, and the most recent events have made that clearer than ever, as we will again discuss.
Information can release fear and inspire confidence. The Cabal is on its last legs. Everyone knows the truth. They are the proverbial wounded lion lashing out.
One young woman who posted about there being multiple shooters, and wanted to organize a group of witnesses, was found dead just five days later.
Her testimony was that gunners on the ground were shooting from both directions, as she and other survivors ran back and forth trying to avoid them.
Yes, she did have pre-existing health conditions, but the timing of 28-year-old Kymberly Suchomel’s death is extremely suspicious.
There are multiple classified technologies, some satellite-based, that can be used to nudge someone over the edge if they already have health problems.
This could be as simple as a carefully-targeted microwave beam while someone is lying motionless during sleep.
A sinister group like this would not have killed Kymberly Suchomel if they were winning the game, and successfully controlling the narrative.
Instead, this is another act of extreme desperation that allows us to reach a solution much faster than would otherwise be possible.
As you read in the previous article, we had already been warned not to single out any of the witnesses of multiple shooters for this very same reason.
However, the ones that have been exposed in this Infowars compilation are already out there, so you can visit this link to learn more.
MULTIPLE WEIRD CLUES THAT MAY HAVE BEEN DELIBERATELY ENGINEERED
This event featured symbolic and numerical clues that were left behind much in the style of a classic serial killer — but on a corporate-sized level.
The hotel name Mandalay may be a reference to a mandala — an organized pattern that carries a deeper spiritual meaning.
Senior management of the hotel’s parent company, MGM, conducted a mass sell-off of stock just weeks before — all at 33 dollars a share.
The beloved American rock / country icon Tom Petty died almost simultaneously as the timing of this tragic event, with no easily conclusive explanation.
“Stephen” means Crown and “Paddock” is an enclosure for farm animals. Names often have symbolic codes in them when dealing with events like this.
The shooter’s name may hint at how the Cabal (Crown) had their victims gathered in a paddock-type enclosure, and wants to turn us all into their slaves.
A Robbie Williams song from 2002 features him going to the 33rd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel with a gun, and ending up in a likely shootout.
The massacre occurred directly in front of a pyramid, sphinx and obelisk. The pyramid has a glowing “Illuminati” capstone that beams up into space.
The movie Mars Attacks (1996) featured an ET-driven massacre in the exact same spot, where the key to defeating the ETs was playing country music.
The movie The Hangover (2009) opens up with a helicopter shot of the exact corner and floor of the hotel where the shooting occurred.
The song at this moment says “Got a number 13 tattooed on my neck,” just like we saw in the photo of the killer that the media released.
Notice also that an Egyptian-styled obelisk appears at the right-hand side of the frame.
These types of clues are not random. Psychopaths in the Cabal love it if they can construct something with this many tie-ins to previous visible markers.
Furthermore, it is even possible that an event of this nature had been planned years ago and held onto “for a rainy day,” as these people might say.
A 4Chan insider telegraphed the entire event three weeks in advance, on 9/11, warning people to stay out of large crowds in Las Vegas.
This is absolute, written proof that Stephen Paddock did not act alone. At the very least, several others were aware of what he was going to do.
The insider revealed the deeper purpose of this assault would be to have body scanners put in place for just about everything.
WHERE IS THE SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE?
Multiple eyewitness reports reveal several ground-based shooters as well as shooters stationed in other hotels besides just Mandalay Bay.
The taxicab driver film that has been so widely circulated in countless YouTube videos shows irrefutable proof of gunshots from more than one location.
The original location of this 18 minutes of footage was deleted almost immediately, as have many other copies of it since then.
A shortened 10-minute version still works as of today, so download and save it — as you will probably only have a few hours to do so once I post this article.
The concert area where the Route 91 Harvest took place undoubtedly has extensive security cameras, as do the hotels themselves.
Multiple workers have said the Vegas casinos have the most advanced security systems in the world.
Cheaters might only move their thumb a fraction of an inch to pull out a concealed card. If they do, the casinos want to have a precise recording of it.
Yet, not one piece of surveillance footage has been released, either from inside or outside the Mandalay Bay hotel.
JESUS CAMPOS = JESUS CAMP
Our 4Chan insider said the Cabal planned on releasing tactical bits of information to the public depending upon how much of a mass awakening occurred.
Any piece of information they released would be intended to try to satisfy the “conspiracy theories” with supposedly plausible explanations.
This prediction turned into visible reality with the story of a security guard who was apparently shot by the assassin from his room.
The name of this all-important, mainstream-media-approved public witness is Jesus Campos.
This again is an in-your-face symbolic reference encoded into a name — even more obviously than “Stephen Paddock.”
CONSIDER THE EVIDENCE
The Cabal has a highly derogatory view of the demographic that would listen to country music, particularly after the 2016 election.
The movie Jesus Camp (2006) features an extremely embarrassing and incriminating portayal of a fundamentalist Christian summer camp for kids.
[Notice also that the letter P in “Camp” is a stylized Tubal Cain symbol. We go into detail about this symbol halfway down Part Two of the article linked here.]
The Jesus Camp film includes a scene where the children stretch out their hands in prayer towards a life-sized portrait of George W. Bush.
Notice also that the girl in the center of the image is holding out her arm in a fashion very similar to a Hitler-style Nazi salute.
Carefully notice that the girl may also have a green All-Seeing Eye-type symbol on her T-shirt, complete with yellow beams coming off of it.
This symbol appears to be hiding in there even if the design could also be written off as something else.
Either way, Jesus Camp was a very clear attempt to mock and dehumanize the Christian Right.
This then encourages those on the left to see them as brainwashed zombies, drunk on the religious opiate of the masses.
This softens the leftists up and is intended to make them more comfortable with these people losing their freedoms and even being killed.
We are seeing the classic “divide and conquer” strategy the elites have used to get us to turn against one another, instead of realizing our common oppressors.
The stylized letter P in the title may be one “signature” the Cabal left behind to tip off their members about their involvement in the making of the film.
The Tubal Cain symbol is central to the Cabal’s religion, which is essentially the exact opposite of Christianity, as we will review in Part Two.
CAMPOS MAY HAVE BEEN MANIPULATED AND LATER THREATENED
Jesus Campos is a real person, with that being his real name.
He may also have been deliberately manipulated into that deadly position — by the same employers who sold off their MGM stock before the event.
It is very suspicious that Campos went missing for days, only to resurface for one incredibly awkward, stage-managed appearance on Ellen.
That’s right — “Jesus returned… on a talk show.”
Ellen wore an odd, military-style black uniform with six buttons along the sleeves. Jesus was led by the hand and guided on exactly what to say.
[Update: There are only five buttons. This can happen when you rush to summarize this much in two days! Either way it is an oddly militaristic costume.]
He also made it clear that he would not be giving any other interivews.
The days during which he was missing could well have involved a “sit-down” where he was given lethal threats for everyone he loves if he did not play along.
In fact, Daily Mail revealed on October 19th that the owners of the hotel had insisted that Campos only do this one interview — ostensibly to avoid huge lawsuits.
The article reveals very incriminating information just by itself.
The official narrative on the timing of these events has already changed three different times.
LET’S READ SOME OF THE ARTICLE
This is important enough for us to pull a long quote from the Daily Mail article. It clearly reveals how Campos’ union boss witnessed the beginning of the threats:
10/19: Mandalay Owners Insisted Jesus Campos Only Appear on Ellen, Fearing Massive Lawsuits
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4996918/Hotel-insisted-Jesus-Campos-appear-Ellen-fearing-lawsuites.html
‘MGM was behind the decision to call off all the interviews and did a deal with Ellen, knowing she would not play hardball on the timeline as long as she had the exclusive,’ a TV insider told DailyMail.com….
Campos had originally agreed to do five interviews, all on Thursday last week, but suddenly went missing, his union boss, who was helping set up the deal, told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview.
David Hickey, president of the Michigan-based International Union, Security Police and Fire Professionals of America, would not confirm that MGM was behind the decision, but said the company certainly influenced Campos.
‘I was in a meeting with MGM’s upper management and they were definitely concerned about how tough someone like Hannity would be on him and they voiced their opinions,’ Hickey said.
He said all sides had agreed parameters for the interviews. ‘Everyone knew he wasn’t to talk about security protocols, staffing or training or give out names of employees.’
But he said the company — that, like most of Vegas’s casino industry, obsessively controls what employees are allowed to say to the media — was pressuring Campos not to give too much away.
‘I thought they were being negative, telling him that someone was going to be tough and how they were worried about his health.
[DW: This is a classic Mafia-style threat. Just imagine Marlon Brando saying he is “worried about your health” in his Godfather voice.]
It wasn’t the thing he needed to hear four hours before the interviews were going to begin.’
Hickey said he met with the MGM executives at a location in Las Vegas where Campos was staying.
They met in the living room but he wanted a word with some of the management team in private, so they went into the bedroom.
When they returned, Campos had gone, and Hickey said he hasn’t seen or heard from him since.
The next thing he knew, the security official had bailed on the five interviews.
Then he learned on Monday that instead of appearing on a news show, he would go on Ellen….
When he went through his recollection of the night, [Ellen] did not press him to clarify some of the lingering questions about the official timeline —
Such as whether he or hotel officials delayed calling police for six minutes after he was shot.
If that version is proven to be true, it could open MGM to massive costs from lawsuits.
IT COULD HAVE BEEN A LOT WORSE
The level of threat that Campos experienced after he went missing may well have been far worse than what David Hickey, the union leader, had witnessed.
No surveillance footage of Campos’ shooting has been provided up until now — over three weeks later.
Nor have we seen any other footage inside or outside the hotel and the area itself.
Yep, that’s right. The only “official” analysis of the worst mass shooting in American history… was on a famous comedian’s talk show.
Another Cabal / MSM insult to the informed public.
Ellen could have been chosen for this role by design, to further agitate the Christian Right.
Ellen? Seriously? Since when did a comedian’s talk show become a replacement for a full federal investigation?
It’s Jesus Camp. They literally see us as no different as the people in the movie. Hence Jesus Campos’ name was part of the “inside joke.”
You can think this is all a “wild conspiracy theory,” but the pieces all interconnect — and it fits in perfectly with intel we have been leaking for many years.
ALLIANCE FILMS LEAK THE IDEA THAT GOOGLE IS COMPROMISED
The Cabal is in so much trouble on this one that they are hoping they can just ignore the whole thing and wait for everyone to forget about it.
Alphabet, the parent company of GooTube, has been working overtime to suppress as many Vegas conspiracy analysis videos as possible.
The film Jason Bourne (2016) is a clear example of an Alliance production, revealing how Google was taken over by the CIA — an “Alphabet” agency.
This is only thinly veiled, where the name “Deep Dream” is used instead of Google. Once you make that connection, it becomes extremely obvious.
[UPDATE: This is further made clear when you realize that Google has an AI prototype program called Deep Mind.]
A dead-ringer lookalike for Google founder Sergey Brin is directly threatened by Tommy Lee Jones, as a top CIA don, in the movie.
Sergey Brin Wearing Google Glass
An article in Bustle.com figured out the Jason Bourne film was possibly leaking real-world intel, but theorized it was about Mark Zuckerberg instead of Brin.
This profound censorship is part of why I put any analysis of this sort in writing, on a site that we pay almost a thousand a month to be very hard to hack.
Videos are just too vulnerable right now. It is so easy for the Cabal to take them down if you only have the resources to do one here and there.
We are not yet in a position to be able to chunk them out on a regular basis from home, and hopefully that will be changing fairly soon.
For now, I would rather just create material that allow others to make their own videos. [That does not include robo-voiced clone copies, which is plagiarism.]
Either way, this staged event was so badly botched that it could well be the burst of oxygen we need to bring down the whole house of cards.
DISCLOSURE IS ARRIVING AT WARP-DRIVE SPEED
Our previous article was chock-full of new intel on this situation, and reached almost a quarter-million views in just over a week thanks to your support.
It would be very helpful for you to read or review that article if you find this one interesting.
The Cabal has disturbing occult beliefs, and surprisingly comprehensive control over Western governments, corporations, militaries and media.
This includes the “too big to fail” banks that stole some 29 trillion dollars under Bush and Obama — enough to build entire civilizations from scratch.
They defend against exposure with deadly force. This is why you don’t hear more from the insiders who are dedicated to fighting them.
Nonetheless, the defeat of the Cabal is well underway, thanks to a powerful international alliance comprising most of the world’s nations.
Without our help in spreading the word, the Alliance’s job would be much more difficult — if not impossible.
Though key witnesses could be in danger, such as in the case of this shooting, there are far too many of us for the Cabal to harm the vast 99.9999% majority.
Up until now, our education on the truth has still been a voluntary process anyone can choose to ignore — but that may soon be changing.
THE ALLIANCE IS MAKING ITS FINAL MOVES
Since 2009, we have been getting direct briefings from an international alliance that is working at a high level to defeat this fearsome group.
This began with Pete Peterson, who had Alliance briefings in surveillance-free SCIF (Secure Compartmented Information Facility) “clean rooms”.
He revealed that there has been a comprehensive plan for disclosure, mass arrests and a currency reset in place since at least the 1950s.
The US military will emerge from all of this in a surprisingly heroic capacity once the dust settles, and I applaud them for their ceaseless efforts.
Everything we thought we knew about wars will have to be fundamentally rewritten in the aftermath of a victory of this nature.
Some of the military and intelligence community is still held under sway by the Cabal, so we are dealing with a civil war within the US and abroad.
Life on earth will become like an epic thriller movie with a plot twist so stunning — for most people — that you will have to do a “life review” and rethink everything.
Those of us who are already doing that will be of key importance in helping others cope — such as having them even want to get out of bed.
MEGANON MAY BE ON TO SOMETHING
Part Four of our latest article featured very exciting testimony from an insider on 4Chan, going by the name “MegAnon.”
This person appears to be working for the US intelligence community on the Alliance side, in at least a medium to medium-high-level capacity.
He apparently was part of a team that personally inspected the hotel room where the Vegas shootings took place, as one example.
In Part Three, we will reveal that this person appears to have been leaking intel he got from the FBI on 4Chan since at least July 2nd, 2016.
He gained quite a bit of recognition when the October 2016 Wikileaks disclosures matched perfectly with what he had telegraphed in July.
If his disclosures are true, we soon could see a major public statement from the Alliance that could absolutely expose and defeat the Cabal:
10/10: 4Chan Insider on “The Storm” Planned for Release Against the Cabal
https://divinecosmos.com/start-here/davids-blog/1220-vegas-meta-analysis?showall=&start=3
It will be a literal “mic drop” on the world’s stage.
No one ever again will have the ability to question who’s responsible for, involved [in] coordinating, etc. ANYTHING that has ever happened and been considered a “conspiracy theory”, ever again….
Anonymous (ID: vy3Y5hFc) 10/06/17(Fri)17:35:26 No.144293569
I know it sounds ridiculous but that’s simply because I’m trying to convey the broadness and scope of what will be publicly disclosed.
My only point is that after it’s all over, no one will be able to turn away from the truth.
The masses will never again be able to claim with 100% certainty that 9/11 DIDN’T have inside, US-sponsored and funded, department/ agency coordination, allocated resources and assistance.
No one will EVER be able to NOT believe that our own f–ing agencies and departments and former admins. didn’t play a huge role in shit like JFK, OKC, 9/11, ISIS, Pizza, Vegas, etc.
They won’t be able to turn a blind eye to what they consider “conspiracy theories” today, simply because the MSM told them to.
The only thing that everyone will be able to agree on when it’s all said and done is that we’ve all been horrifically lied to on incomprehensible levels….
[There will be] 3 different disclosures…
A 3 letter (federal) agency
A 3 letter (central) department
And 3 letter (federally sanctioned) economic org.
These 3 HUGE F—KING “ROCKS” ARE “FALLING.”
[DW: It seems obvious that he is talking here about the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Reserve.]
Once you’re given the truth, the credibility and validity of all 3 will be erased for the last almost 60 years.
IT COULD BE A PRESIDENTIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
The US president may be one of the people to deliver this message, as this insider has repeatedly stated.
However, this is something that has been planned for decades before he ever ran for office.
As I always say, you may not like Trump the slightest bit — and believe me, there are many things I am not happy with.
Nonetheless, no one can deny that there is an open, shooting war between this administration and the mainstream, corporate media.
Never before in US history have we seen anything like this. And the drama is only ratcheting up more and more as time goes on.
If the media were truly independent and concerned with journalistic integrity, this could be an open-and-shut case of them exposing malfeasance.
However, they are widely seen as a propaganda mouthpiece for the elite, which is the reason they were already in a horrific collapse long before the 2016 election.
This was even confirmed by a 15-year veteran, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist named Chris Hedges, as we covered in the preceding article.
YOU MAY NOT LIKE EITHER SIDE….
In American terms, this is predominantly a civil war between an occult, violent Cabal and a conservative element of the US military and intelligence community.
Many of these conservative elements believe they are literally fighting against an embodiment of the Devil — “the adversary”, as it is described in the Bible.
Most of them started out as foot-soldiers for the Cabal. They were taught to follow orders.
They also swore an oath that they would protect and defend the US Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
The Cabal is so compartmentalized that many of its employees have no idea what they are really supporting.
People who are paid to attack journalists like me have undoubtedly been fed a raft of lies that are intended to make us look like scumbags.
I notice many people feeling disappointed that the Alliance does not line up more closely with their own projections of what heroism might be.
KEEP AN OPEN MIND
Trump is a very flawed human being, and I do not believe for a minute that the Cabal ever expected him to actually win the 2016 election.
Never in a million years would I have thought I would even partially defend this man… believe me.
However, I do feel that we should have an open mind about the possibility that the Alliance was able to gain the upper hand in this administration after his victory.
Simply put: He’s already in there now. We are hearing very, very interesting things about what his team is planning to do.
If their plans for disclosure are really true, and they emerge into the public eye, that is a very exciting thing that could save us from far worse disasters.
Everyone who works in this arena has dirt on them. A person with compromising personal details can still choose to step up and become a hero.
Let’s not forget what former Democratic congressman Dennis Kucinich, a man very aware of the truth, said this past February:
2/16: Leading Progressive Says Even Americans Who Hate Trump Should Defend Him Against Attempted Coup by the “Deep State”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-16/leading-progressives-say-even-americans-who-hate-trump-should-defend-him-against-att
Former liberal congressman and presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich said Tuesday:
“What’s at the core of this is an effort by some in the intelligence community to upend any positive relationship between the U.S. and Russia….
There are people trying to separate the U.S. and Russia so that this military industrial intel axis can cash in….
What’s going on in the intelligence community with this new president is unprecedented.
They’re making every effort trying to upend him.”
ORGANIZING THE NEW INTEL
Our 4Chan insider has continued “singing like a songbird” ever since we wrote the Vegas article. The amount of new information is voluminous.
It is very difficult to track information on a site like 4Chan, much less organize it, so as a public service we have done it for you in Parts Three and Four.
Before we get to that, it is important to fill in some additional details on the Cabal that you may not be aware of, even if you have “done your homework.”
CLICK HERE FOR PART TWO: EXPOSING THE CABAL
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Lyrics kitaab on December 18, 2019 at 11:38 pm
Thanks for all the information you shared with us
Stair on October 16, 2018 at 8:11 am
ND IT GAVE SOME CONVOLUTED DETAIL ABOUT A MILITARY EXERCISE OF SORTS being conducted days before by DHS to emulate CROWD CONTROL tactics! But the article disappeared very quickly. Then there was anoher one in which an Asian prostitute with whom Stephen had had some “dealings”, and who…swore that Stephen had freqnently claimed that his “brain was hacked”
Francesca Fleming on August 16, 2018 at 7:42 pm
I found an extensive article about Stephen PAddock’s having The same doctor as worked for Dept. of Homeland Security. aND IT GAVE SOME CONVOLUTED DETAIL ABOUT A MILITARY EXERCISE OF SORTS being conducted days before by DHS to emulate CROWD CONTROL tactics! But the article disappeared very quickly. Then there was anoher one in which an Asian prostitute with whom Stephen had had some “dealings”, and who…swore that Stephen had freqnently claimed that his “brain was hacked”
Well, we know about programming being done by the CIA, as well as death cuasing powder, or projecting rays or sounds, etc which can cause death. Also I saw a photo of Stephen’s girlfriend standing in front of a Dubai landmark on a very early article the day after. Wonder of all wonders, that article disappeared also!!!! This all sounds very fishy, and I beleive in the CABAL, since i’ve come to beleive that it’s DEEP STATE, certain CIA rogue agents, probably John Brennan, of course Soros,Obama, Schumer, and the usual suspects in the Democratic party and RHINO Republicans. Hence I’m now an INDEPENDENT. “A POX ON BOTH THEIR HOUSES”!!!!
aman on December 16, 2019 at 9:44 pm
it is nice nice.
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Recent Report on the State of Care (CQC / DHSC / BBC News / NHS England / SCIE)
Summary The Care Quality Commission (CQC) recently released their annual State of Care report, which examines the performance and effectiveness of health and social care in England, on every front. It appears that patients’ experiences of care tend to depend on how well the components … Continue reading →
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Emerging Strategy for the Application of Behavioural and Social Sciences to Improving Public Health (PHE / BBC News)
Summary Public Health England (PHE) has investigated the extent to which the behavioural and social sciences might be applied to reduce health inequalities and improve population health and wellbeing. “The strategy was developed in partnership with the Association of Directors … Continue reading →
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Recent Developments Regarding the Role(s) of Technology in the NHS (BBC News / Health Foundation / Institute for Fiscal Studies / King’s Fund / Nuffield Trust / NHS England / RCN / HEE / WHO)
Summary Matt Hancock, the new Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, has spoken of a £487 million investment into “Tech Transformation” in the NHS. Of this, £412 million has been pledged for improving technology in hospitals and increasing … Continue reading →
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Brexit Dividend to Cover NHS Funding Settlement: Assisted by Undisclosed Tax Increases? (BBC News)
Summary The announcement of a 3.4% annual funding increase, over the next five years, represents a significant and politically astute compromise development, in advance of the NHS’s 70th birthday. Wise heads in the Treasury wanted to limit annual NHS budget … Continue reading →
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Growing Consensus on NHS and Social Care Sustainability; and the Need for Tax Increases? (BBC News / Health Foundation / IFS / IPPR / King’s Fund)
Summary The Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Health Foundation estimate that the NHS needs an additional 4% funding, per year, over the next 15 years (as opposed to the currently projected 2%). These estimates are timed in anticipation of … Continue reading →
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Seven Principles at the Heart of the Government’s Planned Social Care Green Paper (Department of Health / SCIE / BBC News)
Summary Jeremy Hunt, the Health and Social Care Secretary, has made a speech outlining the seven key principles for social care which will feature in a Green Paper expected to be published by Summer 2018. The principles, announced on World Social … Continue reading →
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New Year – Same Old NHS Winter Pressures: Some Recent Responses to Excess Public Demand for Services (BBC News / RCGP / NHS England / King’s Fund)
Posted on January 3, 2018 by Dementia and Elderly Care News
Summary Other Northern European nations, North America etc. have more extreme and colder Winters, yet their health systems appear not to buckle under these predictable seasonal pressures. Here are some recent responses and initiatives, as mentioned in the news, aiming … Continue reading →
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Harvest of Greed – the Merger of Bayer and Monsanto
Posted on June 14, 2018 by Luther Blissett
Source: Waking Times
The featured documentary, “Harvest of Greed,” investigates a number of the many issues brought about by the merger of Monsanto and Bayer AG. The merger was initially announced in May 2016, when Monsanto accepted Bayer’s $66 billion takeover offer — the largest all-cash buyout on record.1,2,3
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) approved the merger in April this year,4 following the European Union’s (EU) approval in March. As a condition of the DOJ’s approval, Bayer will sell some of its assets to BASF — its German competitor — before the finalization of the merger.
This includes its soybean, cottonseed and glufosinate weed killer businesses, which overlap with Monsanto’s and were antitrust sticking points. Combined, Bayer and Monsanto used to control nearly 60 percent of the American cottonseed market. Monsanto also owns the rights to 80 percent of corn and 90 percent of soybeans grown in the U.S.5 The EU also demanded Bayer eliminate about $7.4 billion-worth of its various firms “to ensure fair competition.”6
Mega-Entity Now Controls Large Portion of Global Seed Supply
This new entity is now the largest seed and pesticide company in the world, controlling more than 25 percent of the global seed and pesticide supply. In all, just three companies now dominate the global seed and pesticide market.7 (In addition to the Bayer-Monsanto merger, the DOJ has also given the Dow-DuPont merger the green light, and the Federal Trade Commission recently approved ChemChina’s acquisition of Syngenta.)
The Bayer-Monsanto merger generated deep concerns right from the start, and anti-competition regulators were urged to investigate the takeover. Bernie Sanders went on record saying the takeover poses “a threat to all Americans” and needed to be blocked.8 He also urged the DOJ to “reopen its investigation of Monsanto’s monopoly over the seed and chemical market.” Farmers have also expressed concern over what the merger might do to prices, as less competition inevitably tends to lead to price hikes.
As just one example, the price of a bag of seed corn has risen from $80 to $300 over the past decade alone — a price hike attributed to the consolidation of seed companies and reduced competition. The merger of Bayer and Monsanto is predicted to make matters worse. Farmers also worry that consolidation will result in lower quality products by reducing incentive for innovation. Organic farmers have their concerns as well. As noted by Food and Power:9
“For Kristina Hubbard, director of advocacy and communications for the Organic Seed Alliance, the merger presents a particular threat to organic farmers. She notes that the National Organic Program’s regulations on organic seeds generally dictate that growers must use organic seeds to grow their crops. But there is an exception granted for non-organic seed when ‘an equivalent organically produced variety is not commercially available.’
Acceptable non-organic seeds are generally owned by the giant seed companies. ‘That exemption is important because currently the supply [of organic seeds] isn’t sufficient to meet the diverse and regional needs of all organic farmers,’ she says. With continued consolidation in the seed industry, she says farmers that rely on those non-organic seed options may find themselves faced with even fewer options as the merged companies cut down on research and development.”
Bayer-Monsanto Merger Unlikely to Benefit Anyone but Its Shareholders
Bayer AG’s CEO, Werner Baumann, has stated that “it is not our plan or our ambition or our intent to prevent farmers from having choice.”10 But the history of Monsanto and Bayer both suggest it would be naïve to believe him. As noted by Mark Connelly, an agriculture analyst at the investment group CLSA Americas, “These companies want to make more money, they want to raise prices. No company in this industry needs these deals in order to innovate.”11
Indeed, there can be little doubt that the Bayer-Monsanto merger will give the subsequent entity even more power to bully farmers into paying more and pressuring and manipulating governments into accepting the unacceptable risks posed by genetically engineered (GE) crops and mounting use of ever more toxic pesticides.
One example of Monsanto’s strong-arm tactics included in the film is that of India, where more than 300,000 farmers have committed suicide due to farm-related debt. When the government attempted to regulate the price of seed — the main cause leading to these debts — Monsanto sued the Indian government.
Between 1997 and 2014, Monsanto also sued 147 farmers for “improperly reusing patented seeds.”12 They never lost a single case, even in cases where organic fields were contaminated or cross-pollinated with unwanted GE seeds.
Billions Against Bayer
In response to the announcement of the merger in 2016, the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) launched a boycott against Bayer. The “Billions Against Bayer” campaign is essentially a continuation of the successful “Millions Against Monsanto” campaign. Following the DOJ’s April approval of the merger, OCA renewed its call for consumers around the world to join the boycott. You can follow the campaign and get the latest news updates on Facebook.13 As noted in a September 2016 press release:14
“Two of the world’s most foul corporate criminals will be one. Monsanto will pack up its headquarters and head overseas. The much-maligned Monsanto name will be retired. But a corporate criminal by any other name — or size — is still a corporate criminal.
This merger only heightens the urgency, and strengthens our resolve, to hunt down the corporations that are poisoning everything in sight. We will follow them to the ends of the earth, if need be. We will expose their crimes. We will end the toxic tyranny. We will become the Billions Against Bayer. And we will need your help …”
Even many Bayer employees are leery of the merger. While both companies have checkered pasts, Bayer has managed to escape the brunt of the kind of criticism, if not hatred, leveled at Monsanto over the years.
According to the featured documentary, Bayer claims the merger has widespread support among its staff, yet when Bayer employees were approached under the promise of anonymity, the general consensus was one of dismay at inheriting Monsanto’s tarnished reputation. Such fears are likely to come true sooner rather than later. Activists in Argentina, for example, promise Monsanto’s ill reputation cannot be washed clean but will now transfer over to Bayer.
Glyphosate — A Toxic Legacy
Both Bayer and Monsanto insist that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s weed killer Roundup and other herbicide formulations, is “a very safe product when used properly.” In the video, Bayer CEO Werner Baumann stresses that more than 3,000 studies support the chemical’s safety. Yet numerous studies have reached the converse conclusion, showing it poses toxic risks to soil, animals and humans.
“The things you hear in the public debate are ultimately based on misinformation about the risks of this product,” Baumann says. “So, we think glyphosate, even if it does belong to our company, is a good product, and its license should be renewed.”
At the end of 2017, the EU did indeed renew its approval of glyphosate for the next five years,15 but the process was not without its critics, such as Martin Häusling, member of the Green Party and the European Parliament, who noted that many of the studies exonerating glyphosate were funded by Monsanto itself, while independent research keeps finding problems.
Indeed, scientists have discovered it not only may be carcinogenic,16 but may also affect your body’s ability to produce fully functioning proteins, inhibit the shikimate pathway (found in gut bacteria) and interfere with the function of cytochrome P450 enzymes (required for activation of vitamin D and the creation of nitric oxide and cholesterol sulfate).
Glyphosate also chelates important minerals, disrupts sulfate synthesis and transport, interferes with the synthesis of aromatic amino acids and methionine, resulting in folate and neurotransmitter shortages, disrupts your microbiome by acting as an antibiotic, impairs methylation pathways, and inhibits pituitary release of thyroid stimulating hormone, which can lead to hypothyroidism.
Recent Government Tests Show Roundup Is More Toxic Than Glyphosate in Isolation
Most recently, toxicology testing17 by the U.S. National Toxicology Program (NTP) concluded the Roundup formula is actually far more toxic than glyphosate alone.18 The NTP testing was done by request from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) following the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) reclassification of glyphosate as a Class 2A probable carcinogen three years ago.19
At the time, the IARC noted concerns about glyphosate formulations possibly having increased toxicity due to synergistic interactions. As it turns out, that’s exactly what the NTP testing found. According to the NTP’s summary of the results, glyphosate formulations “significantly altered” the viability of human cells by disrupting the functionality of cell membranes.
Mike DeVito, acting chief of the NTP Laboratory commented on the results saying, “We see the formulations are much more toxic. The formulations were killing the cells. The glyphosate really didn’t do it.”
Internal documents from Monsanto, obtained through previous Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, reveal Monsanto’s own employees have not been convinced the product is harmless either. For example, in a 2002 email, Monsanto executive William Heydens said, “Glyphosate is OK but the formulated product … does the damage.”20
Monsanto Charged With Crimes Against Humanity
October 16, 2016 (on World Food Day), Monsanto was put on trial for “crimes against nature and humanity” at a tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands. The steering committee21 included Vandana Shiva, Corinne Lepage (former environment minister of France), Giles-Eric Séralini (toxicologist researching toxicities of GMOs and glyphosate), and Olivier De Schutter (former U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food), among others. The legal opinion on the evidence presented at the tribunal was delivered April 18, 2017. As reported by Corporate Europe Observatory:22 “The tribunal concluded that:
Monsanto has violated human rights to food, health, a healthy environment and the freedom indispensable for independent scientific research
‘Ecocide’ should be recognized as a crime in international law
Human rights and environmental laws are undermined by corporate-friendly trade and investment regulation”
When asked if Bayer will continue Monsanto’s underhanded business practices, Baumann said the new entity will be managed “according to our standards,” adding that “Bayer stands for transparency, reliability and a different style of debate.”
Monsanto — A Destroyer of the Natural World
In addition to GE seeds and its flagship product, Roundup, Monsanto has also been a leading producer of Agent Orange, PCBs, DDT, recombinant bovine growth hormone and aspartame — the history of which is summarized in “The Complete History of Monsanto, ‘The World’s Most Evil Corporation,’”23 originally published by Waking Times in 2014.24
Monsanto also made its mark on history by participating in the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bomb, thereby becoming a “war horse” ally to the United States government — an alliance that still holds today. As noted in “The Complete History,” article:
“To add insult to world injury, Monsanto and their partners in crime Archer Daniels Midland, Sodexo and Tyson Foods write and sponsor The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009: HR 875.25 This ‘act’ gives the corporate factory farms a virtual monopoly to police and control all foods grown anywhere, including one’s own backyard, and provides harsh penalties and jail sentences for those who do not use chemicals and fertilizers. President Obama … gave his approval.
With this Act, Monsanto claims that only GM [genetically modified] foods are safe and organic or homegrown foods potentially spread disease, therefore must be regulated out of existence for the safety of the world … As further revelations have broken open regarding this evil giant’s true intentions, Monsanto crafted the ridiculous HR 933 Continuing Resolution,26aka Monsanto Protection Act, which Obama robo-signed into law as well.
This law states that no matter how harmful Monsanto’s GMO crops are and no matter how much devastation they wreak upon the country, U.S. federal courts cannot stop them from continuing to plant them anywhere they choose. Yes, Obama signed a provision that makes Monsanto above any laws and makes them more powerful than the government itself.”
Bayer Also Has a Long, Dark, Destructive History of Genocide
Despite having a far “cleaner” public reputation than Monsanto, Bayer is really just more of the same. Founded in Germany in 1863 by Friedrich Bayer and Johann Wescott, it too has a long, sordid history of creating poisons and mass destruction.27 During World War II, Bayer (then I.G. Farben) produced Zyklon B gas, used in the Nazi gas chambers to eradicate 11 million people whose only crime was to be born a Jew.
According to Alliance for Human Research Protection, the company was also “intimately involved with the human experimental atrocities committed by Mengele at Auschwitz.”28 In one case, Bayer purchased 150 healthy female prisoners from the camp commander of Auschwitz for use as test subjects for a new sleep drug. All the test subjects died, and another order for prisoners was placed.
While some of its board members ended up being arrested and tried for their crimes against humanity, others escaped and helped create the Federal Reserve.29 If you think the passing of time might have made this corporate entity kinder, safer and gentler, think again.
In 2003, it was revealed Bayer sold blood-clotting medicine tainted with the HIV virus to Asian, Latin American and Europe in the mid-1980s.30 The drug, Factor VIII concentrate, was worth millions of dollars, and the company continued to sell the tainted drug for a year after the contamination was discovered. In Hong Kong and Taiwan alone, more than 100 hemophiliacs contracted HIV and died after using the medicine.
Bayer’s drug Trasylol — used to control bleeding during surgery — was also eventually found to be responsible for at least 1,000 deaths each month for the 14 years it was on the market.31 In 2006, documents proved Bayer hid evidence showing unfavorable results from the drug in order to continue selling it. Lawsuits have also been filed against Bayer for the untimely death of 190 young women taking their birth control pill Yaz, which raises your risk of blood clots by 300 percent.
Bayer Unlikely to Shift Public Perception of GMOs and Toxic Agriculture
Between 2006 and 2007, Bayer was also responsible for contaminating U.S. rice imports with three unapproved varieties of GE rice under development by Bayer CropScience. Bayer also makes neonicotinoid pesticides, suspected of being responsible for mass die-offs of bees around the world, thereby threatening the global food supply, and made the plastic chemical bisphenol-A, now known to have a dangerous impact on the human endocrine system.
In short, Bayer’s history is just as dark and unethical as Monsanto’s, if not more, and some have rightfully referred to the merger of these two destructive behemoths as a “marriage made in hell.”32 While change is possible, it seems improbable that this new Bayer-Monsanto mega-entity will radically change, and based on their combined histories, the world better get ready for a monumental fight.
Biotech Companies Are Gaining Power by Taking Over the Government
Monsanto and their industry allies will not willingly surrender their stranglehold on the food supply. They must be resisted and rolled back at every turn. There is no doubt in my mind that GMOs and the chemical-intensive agricultural model of which they are part and parcel, pose a serious threat to the environment and our health. Yet, government agencies not only turn a blind eye to the damage they are inflicting on the planet, but actively work to further the interests of the biotech giants.
This is not surprising. It is well-known that there is a revolving door between regulatory agencies and private corporations. This has allowed companies such as Monsanto to manipulate science, defang regulations and even control the free press, all from their commanding position within the halls of government.
Consider for a moment that on paper, the U.S. may have the strictest safety regulations in the world governing new food additives, but has repeatedly allowed GMOs and their accompanying pesticides such as Roundup to circumvent these laws.
In fact, the only legal basis for allowing GE foods to be marketed in the U.S. is the FDA’s tenuous claim that these foods are inherently safe, a claim which is demonstrably false. Documents released as a result of a lawsuit against the FDA reveal that the agency’s own scientists warned their superiors about the detrimental risks of GE foods. But their warnings fell on deaf ears.
Don’t Be Duped by Industry Shills!
In a further effort to deceive the public, Monsanto and its cohorts spoon-feed scientists, academics and journalists a diet of questionable studies that depict them in a positive light. By hiring “third-party experts,” biotech companies are able to take information of dubious validity, and present it as independent and authoritative.
Industry front groups also abound. The Genetic Literacy Project and the American Council for Science and Health are both Monsanto-funded. Even WebMD, a website that is often presented as a trustworthy source of “independent and objective” health information, is heavily reliant on advertising dollars. It is no coincidence that they promote corporate-backed health strategies and products.
There’s No Better Time to Act Than NOW — Here’s What You Can Do
The biotech giants have deep pocketbooks and political influence, and are fighting to maintain their position of dominance. It is only because of educated consumers and groups like the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) that their failed GMO experiment is on the ropes. We thank all of the donors who helped OCA achieve their fundraising goal. I made a commitment to triple match all donations to OCA during awareness week. It is with great pleasure to present a check to this fantastic organization for $250,000.
At the end of the day, we must shatter Monsanto’s grip on the agricultural sector. There is no way to recall GMOs once they have been released into the environment. The stakes could not be higher. Will you continue supporting the corrupt, toxic and unsustainable food system that Monsanto and its industry allies are working so hard to protect?
For more and more people, the answer is no. Consumers are rejecting genetically engineered and pesticide laden foods. Another positive trend is that there has been strong growth in the global organic and grass fed sectors. This just proves one thing: We can make a difference if we steadily work toward the same goal.
One of the best things you can do is to buy your foods from a local farmer who runs a small business and uses diverse methods that promote regenerative agriculture. You can also join a community-supported agriculture (CSA) program, where you can buy a “share” of the vegetables produced by the farm, so that you get a regular supply of fresh food. I believe that joining a CSA is a powerful investment not only in your own health, but in that of your local community and economy as well.
In addition, you should also adopt preventive strategies that can help reduce the toxic chemical pollution that assaults your body. I recommend visiting these trustworthy sites for non-GMO food resources in your country as well:
Organic Food Directory (Australia) Eat Wild (Canada)
Organic Explorer (New Zealand) Eat Well Guide (United States and Canada)
Farm Match (United States) Local Harvest (United States)
Weston A. Price Foundation (United States) The Cornucopia Institute
Monsanto and its allies want you to think that they control everything, but they are on the wrong side of history. It’s you, the informed and empowered, who hold the future in your hands. Let’s all work together to topple the biotech industry’s house of cards. Remember — it all starts with shopping smart and making the best food purchases for you and your family.
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Golf wins with Tiger Woods back at the Masters
Tiger Woods is back at The Masters for the first time since 2015. That's good for golf."When Tiger plays, fans...
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Tiger Woods is back at The Masters for the first time since 2015. That's good for golf.
"When Tiger plays, fans tune in, it's as simple as that," said Jon Stainer, managing director for Neilsen Sports.
His return to Augusta National Golf Club Thursday comes after years spent struggling with injuries.
This season, Woods appears resurgent. He's done well in his last three tournaments and comes to the Masters with momentum.
The Masters has always been a sweet spot for Woods.
He's won the tournament four times and finished in the top 10 on nine of his other appearances. His return, coupled with the prestige of the Masters, will mean even bigger returns for the game of golf.
"His return to fitness and form will [draw] swaths of viewers around the world to tune in and increase golf's following dramatically this weekend," Stainer said.
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Stainer noted that Woods also gets more time on screen than any other player, and sponsors are aware of that disparity.
Woods earned 580 minutes of exposure during tournaments, according to Neilsen, by mid-March. That's more than double the average of the next 10 golfers when ranked by exposure. His dominance in screen time comes despite the fact that Woods competed in fewer tournaments.
Bridgestone Golf, which has partnered with Woods since 2016, can attest to the effect. The company said that with Woods golfing well this year, retailers are selling 15% more Bridgestone golf balls than they did over the same period last year.
When it comes to sponsors, Neilsen ranks Woods as the top revenue generator in the golfing world. He's brought in $1.4 million more in media value than Jason Day, the golfer who ranks next behind Woods in exposure.
His presence at a golf tournament also brings in more viewers and more social media engagement.
In the four tournaments in which Woods finished in the top 25 this year, viewership was boosted by 93% compared with the previous year.
The popularity of the Masters will only increase Woods' effect. Not only is it the most-watched golf tournament in the world but it has the fewest numbers of players of any other Major. The tournament also has tighter parameters for on-screen sponsors, so brands that are shown on players' apparel and gear get a bigger boost.
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Everyone, from sponsors to fans to the sport itself, wins when Woods golfs. Everyone except fans hoping to score tickets to The Masters.
Ticket prices are nearly the most expensive they've ever been. They're second only to the prices for last year's tournament when Sergio Garcia, 38, had a remarkable run and won the Masters.
Garcia, a one-time teen golf phenom who had never won a major, captivated audiences in 2017 when he finally marched to victory. His long-awaited success drove prices up with ticket averages reaching over $3,000.
Were it not for that, this year's ticket prices would be setting records.
The average ticket price for the 2018 Masters is $2,458 on sites like TicketIQ. The average set in 2017 was $2,593. This year's prices will likely continue to rise if Woods plays well in early rounds.
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It's the first time since 2015 -- the last time Woods played -- that prices have gone over $6,000. The average price for the package is over $7,000 and one buyer spent over $21,000 for a set of four-day passes.
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The Trussell Trust runs the largest network of foodbanks in the UK, giving emergency food and support to people in crisis. Thirteen million people live below the poverty line and in the last year we gave 1,583,668 three-day emergency food supplies to people in crisis.
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We don’t think anyone in our community should have to face going hungry. That’s why we provide three days’ nutritionally balanced emergency food and support to local people who are referred to us in crisis. We are part of a nationwide network of foodbanks, supported by The Trussell Trust, working to combat poverty and hunger across the UK.
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Around the World in 100 Hours: British Airways First Class London Heathrow to San Francisco
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London Heathrow (LHR) to San Francisco (SFO)
Depart: 11:45am
Arrive: 2:35pm
Aircraft: Boeing 747-400
Seat: 4K
Prior to the flight, I had been monitoring the British Airways new first class tracker to see what the odds would be that we would have the new first class product on our flight. While this didn’t guarantee anything, I did see that this flight on Tuesdays had been served by the new product for the past 5 weeks, so I felt reasonably confident that I would get to experience the new first class.
I also checked the seat map about 24 hours out and saw the bassinet in front of 5F, which made me doubly confident that the plane would have new first. But then I asked an attendant in the Concorde Room if the flight had new first and she typed a couple of things in her extremely old-looking interface and said that it would not. Sad pandas.
When I relayed this to my travel companion, he suggested potentially switching to the later flight. At this point, I had my spa appointment, so I told him to go for it if the later flight had new first. When I came back from my spa appointment, he told me that the lounge attendant had been mistaken and that our flight did indeed have new first. We went to talk to the same attendant, and she told me that she had just learned how to look up whether or not a flight would be served by new or old first and before she had just guessed. I can’t blame her for being unable to use an archaic computer system, but she was so confident in her earlier proclamation when she was just guessing…
Anyway, onto the flight itself. The first class cabin is in the nose of the plane on the lower deck of the 747, but they add in 4 more seats than carriers like Cathay Pacific. So the cabin definitely felt a little crowded, and there’s not as much privacy or space as other first class products. It’s probably comparable to some of the nicer business class hard products like the new US Airways Envoy Class or Cathay Pacific Business.
First class cabin
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As for seating advice, I would definitely avoid the middle seats in the 4th row as they have the least amount of privacy. Being in 4K, I could see everything that 4F was doing just by turning my head.
My seat, 4K
Footrest with seatbelt and in-flight entertainment
Motorized window shades
Compared to the overworked and unhelpful service I got in the Concorde Room, I loved the service that the crew provided on this flight. It was a group of older British gents serving the first class cabin, and they were friendly, jocular, and willing to serve. I think they also won the prize for addressing me the most times by my name. Every single time I interacted with one of them, it was, “Mr. ____, what can I do for you?”
They passed out amenity kits and sleeper suits prior to departure. I was pretty excited as I’d read good things about British Airways pajamas, and they’re branded oh-so-subtly and say “First” where a logo normally is. In terms of comfort, though, Emirates has them beat hands down (and surprisingly, the Emirates pajamas are less ostentatious than the BA ones).
Amenity kit
Sleeper suit aka pajamas
While most people started with the main meal service, I asked for turndown service immediately after taking off. I hadn’t slept at all in London, and I wanted to readjust to San Francisco time (do you need to readjust when you’ve been traveling continuously?), so I figured I would try to sleep for as long as I could after takeoff.
This turned out to be a great plan, as I slept soundly for over 6 hours (and didn’t have any jet lag upon returning to San Francisco). The in-flight entertainment system also happened to be inoperable during the flight, which didn’t really matter to me as I slept for so long, but probably sucked for most passengers since this was a daytime flight.
After waking up, I decided to get some food. I knew that I had to try the tea service, but I also ordered some appetizers from the main menu just to sample more.
Sandwiches for tea
Poached lobster and cod timbale
Asparagus with poached egg in truffle sauce
Scones and clotted cream
Tea pastries
I really enjoyed the scones and clotted cream, and I was surprised that the truffle sauce on the asparagus actually had a slice of truffle in it. Overall, I thought that the food was good, but I would have thought that they would have served something more substantial than tea service as the second meal on a 10+ hour flight.
Prior to landing, the crew apologized profusely for the inoperable in-flight entertainment, and they proactively handed out cards for everyone to fill out so we would get compensation. I thought it was the right way for them to handle the situation, and it was a nice 20k Avios bonus for this flight.
While British Airways might not have the nicest hard product in first class, I loved the service and slept really well, which is as much as one can ask for. I would happily fly them again, although it’s not as aspirational as many other carriers.
This entry was posted in British Airways, Travel, Trip Reports and tagged british airways, travel, trip report on June 20, 2013 by Edward.
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Luke Cage: Long Live the Chief
October 11, 2016 October 11, 2016 D Leave a comment
Back in the day (well, 2011), I wrote about an emerging TV writer called Cheo Hodari Coker, who was working on the greatest cop show of all time (SouthLAnd, fool), in a blog with the title Coker Plays The Blues. Coker went on to write some of SouthLAnd‘s greatest episodes, as well as work on Almost Human, NCIS: LA and Ray Donovan.
But now he’s stepped up to create and run a show that’s been dominating social media for most of the summer, without even being released. So when Netflix dropped the most buzzed about show in its history at the end of September, expectations were sky high.
2016 is an especially charged year for a show about a bulletproof black man, a fact not lost on Coker. So he did the only right thing, the thing he’d been intending to do all along: he leaned into that, hard. Luke Cage dives deep into the African American experience: it’s the show’s beating heart, the blood in its veins, its soul, and its purpose. And in that respect, the show couldn’t be any better.
The show’s foregrounding of what it means to be black in America is so long overdue in TV (or on any size screen) it’s ridiculous: how has it taken this long? (Yes, I know why: institutional bias, AKA, racism). Luke Cage is what TV (and America, and the world) needs now more than ever. Coker cast people of color in every level of role (which, shamefully for society and pop culture, was a revolutionary act in itself) and hit hard with his signature dropping of references in the scripts, which means the show is stacked deep with truly excellent actors and performances, namechecks everything from Chester Hines to A$AP Rocky… and then there’s that soundtrack… damn, that soundtrack is sweet. Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad bring the funk with a gritty, slinky, soulful Wu-Tang meets Shaft vibe that gives the show a whole extra dimension of cool.
It has been called the Wu-Tangification of Marvel (by Coker), but on watching the show, you realize that that’s not strictly true… it’s more classic and less agitated than that. It’s more like the 70s Isaac Hayes-ification of Marvel, which is still intensely, deeply cool, but not quite as savage and frenetic as the Staten Island collective. The reason for that is the pace of the show. When Jessica Jones (which gave us our first look at Cage) dropped, some people complained about its novelistic pacing, and how not every episode stood alone in terms of stuff happening specific to each episode. Personally, I dug the hell out of it, but here’s the thing: Luke Cage is paced much more slowly than JJ.
It’s beautifully made, but it’s also an extremely deliberate, measured, slow burn, which is why it’s more Motown than RZA. It’s personal preference as to what you make of that. For this reviewer, it did feel early on as though all the bandwidth was being taken up with some very long conversations. The conversations were, of course, important texturally, and in themselves, they’re joyously great (that opening scene was beautifully played out); but you can’t help wondering if there could have been a way to combine the texture with the action, instead of separating them out. The show makes texture, subtext, theme and action all one thing later on to brilliant effect (e.g. the dashcam video, Misty explaining why an innocent black man would be on the run from cops who think he’s guilty and are armed with special bullets), which makes you long for some of that at the start.
Those early conversations are about books, meditations on the nature of power and society, and what it means to be a man. Those are all powerful things to fill a show with, but this is a genre show that’s part of the Marvel universe. For the first half of the season, it didn’t necessarily feel that way: it lacked fire and, literally, punch.
OK, there’s some punching…
Luke Cage is, especially early on, a somewhat passive and reactive character. The premise for the show is that he’s hiding out in Harlem, trying to be invisible (I’m not sure we needed the lingering shot of Cage staring at the cover of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, but…). That’s a low key place to start, but necessary for Cage’s arc from hideaway to hero. Thirteen hours is a long time for that type of arc to play out, though. That means the show takes some serious time working through those beats. The pattern for the first few episodes is a lot of talking, and maybe a minute or less of action at the end. You need to get on board with the slowed down rhythm. The lack of fire and tension is compounded too by some head-on framing (perfectly composed and very still wide master shots are a trademark of Sherlock director Paul McGuigan, who directed the first two episodes and set the tone), scenes that are very, very cool but run long (e.g. Cottonmouth walking very slowly towards his picture window to get the perfect framing of the Biggie picture’s crown on his head), and editing that lingers slightly too long on some moments, all of which contribute to letting the air out of a lot of scenes.
Don’t get me wrong: there’s a certain glee to moments in the first three eps. Luke beating down Cottonmouth’s thugs at the end of the first, Luke’s iconic attack on the Crispus Attucks building to the sounds of Bring Da Ruckus in three (which, although it lacks some visual clarity, is still damn cool), to the closing seconds of that episode, when Cottonmouth shoots a f**cking rocket at Luke—it’s undeniably a kickass moment—which kicks us into ep 4, which is full of flashbacks. That ep takes its time, but lets us know exactly what happened to Luke to make him bulletproof, which justifies the speed of the revelation.
The transitional episode is probably the fifth, “Just To Get A Rep.” This features some of the most clumsy and purely functional dialogue to date in the show, and it has scenes thrown together that don’t really flow, creating a jarring effect. But it’s the ep’s epic non-dialogue scenes that tilt the show towards its remaining (and generally much more successful) episodes. Firstly, Jidenna singing Long Live The Chief in the club is f**king HUGE. It hits HARD. Goddamn, I loved that. Suddenly, the club and its music IGNITE in terms of storytelling. Chills, baby. Secondly, and, sorry, even more awesomely, is the reappearance of Claire Temple, played by the legendary, extraordinary, miraculous Rosario Dawson. While everyone on the show is phenomenal (more on that later, but gotta shoutout Simone Missick right here), it’s Dawson that brings the fire to Luke Cage. She’s walking through Harlem, some punk steals her bag… so she runs him down and beats the shit out of him. Perfect. Welcome back, Claire.
And just to point out, those two were actually ONE SEQUENCE. Hats off. Jidenna in the club interweaves with Claire beating down her attacker. It’s how the ep starts and it’s JUST. SO. GOOD. You’re on your feet yelling at the TV because this is exactly what TV should be.
From here on, the fire set in episode five begins to burn more steadily. There are some bumps along the way—the pacing is still uneven, the dialogue can be stilted in places, and the reveal of Diamondback lacked clarity, which detracted from the impact of his appearance (the very low-key, very low-impact handling of shooting Luke with the second Judas bullet didn’t help)—and there’s another significant dip in episode 10, “Take It Personal”, which has much less effective dialogue than ep 5, and in terms of outline and execution, is often confusing and bemusing (so much is made earlier of how catastrophic it would be for Luke to get shot with a second Judas bullet, but ep 10 forgets that second bullet is even there — Claire only takes out one set of fragments. That’s severely jarring, and takes you out of the story.).
But, on the heels of that, we get “Now You’re Mine,” the eleventh and absolutely the best episode by far. Shout out to the writer, Christian Taylor, and the director, George Tillman Jr. It’s amazing. It’s like the show needed to follow Diamondback’s advice in the early moments of the ep: “Later for that pre-written shit… sometimes you gotta freestyle.” Hell to the yes. The dialogue sings sweetly, characters spit wisdom and fire, the storytelling is tense, fraught, suspenseful, the directing is ferocious, and the whole thing is just fantastically and gleefully dark and intense. It also features one of Claire and Misty’s finest moments as they beat down Shades and help each other try to escape the club. Magnificent, towering performances from Dawson and Missick make this some of the best TV of 2016. This is what the show needed to be. Not in the sense that it had to come out of the gate at an 11, but there needed to be signs that this was coming; that this could happen in this world.
Episode 12, “Soliloquy Of Chaos” (we have to give Coker kudos for naming every episode after a Gang Starr track, because it works perfectly), continues to bring the fire. Which EXPLODES in the finest final moments of any ep in the show: the always brilliant Ron Cephas Jones finally—FINALLY—gets a bunch of lines worth a damn and absolutely kills with them (“What the hell what type of Jean-Paul Gaultier shit is this? What are you, a pimp stormtrooper?” GREATEST LINES ON TV IN 2016), and the show plunges head-on into full genre insanity, when Misty speaks for all of us and says, “kick his ass, Luke.” Diamondback, tricked out in his pimp stormtrooper high-tech-as-shit outfit, and Luke finally rush each other… and we cut to black. Genius. Everything about this episode works so perfectly it hurts.
The final episode drops us right into the fight we’ve been waiting for, and it’s refreshing, and appropriate, that it’s more of a drag-out, knock-down Rocky style brawl in the street. It does kind of just, end, though — and the hints of sci-fi that have been given during it (lingering shots of the power unit on Diamondback’s… back… powering up and down) are not really capitalized upon. And, the fight is at the opening of the episode, which doesn’t leave the rest of the hour with too many places to go. The sudden end to the fight, and the story’s subsequent adrenaline crash, take us back to a slower pace, which foregrounds the key concern of the show: Luke’s lack of agency. Although there are a few key moments when he takes control, for the majority of the thirteen episodes, things happen to him, and he reacts. Which could have worked, except the finale to the show is Luke, in one sense, giving up, reacting one last time and allowing circumstances to dictate his path in life. You can, clearly, read his final decision as noble, and can see some justification for it in his general world-weariness. But it’s an oddly low-key, anticlimactic end. That said, the very final shot, applause over the New York skyline, is pretty goddamned amazing and thrilling.
But Luke isn’t in that shot, and that reminds us that in this show, some of the things that are the most awesome don’t involve Luke at all.
Including, and especially, the other characters. Theo Rossi threatens to steal the show as Shades. Simone Missick gives Misty such a wonderful, wounded intensity. Erik LaRay Harvey tears up Diamondback’s dialogue and spits it in finely deranged fashion. Alfre Woodard truly delivers Mariah’s tipping between powerful and powerless. Mahershala Ali is positively and ferociously Shakespearean as Cottonmouth. Ron Cephas Jones needed more lines because he could say anything and make it sound kick-ass. Rosario Dawson… shit, why doesn’t she have her own Netflix Marvel show at this point? Expose Claire to some experimental rays or serums or some shit and give her powers and let her tear it up! (One of the show’s coolest moments is Claire’s final shot, where she tears off the number for the self defense classes… she’s so gonna own Iron Fist).
But we can’t forget the main man, the power man. Mike Colter. He really brings the brooding, haunted, conflicted Cage to vivid life. Despite the fact the Luke has a habit of being pushed to the back of the action, Colter mesmerizes in every shot, and makes it his own. One of the best cast Marvel heroes of all, no doubt.
So this is where we end up: there is so much to love with Luke Cage. It’s an important show, an essential show, frequently beautiful to look at and experience, and it does many, many things really f**king well. But in the interest of brutal truth: it is uneven (you can clearly feel the different writers on the show), there are pacing and dialogue issues, and its hero often seems detached from the action (in some cases literally off-screen for major stretches of time). Coker is absolutely one of the finest TV writers we have, and has curated a supremely bad-ass and massively, poignantly relevant piece of iconic pop culture with Luke Cage. For what it’s worth, I hope he uses those final few episodes as the template for season 2. This show is too good, and too important, for anything less.
IRON MAN 3: You’ll nevverrr seee itttt comminnggggg
June 13, 2013 June 15, 2013 D Leave a comment
The first of the summer 2013 blockbusters, Iron Man 3 gets the season off to a tremendously invigorating start. With a cracking script co-written by the creator of the highly sarcastic, superhero-deconstructing Brit TV show No Heroics, Drew Pearce, and genre king Shane Black, who also directs, this is a big, beautiful blast of pop culture awesomeness. That it just happens to handily redefine the superhero movie along the way is just an added bonus.
As many have pointed out, this looked like it was going to be something of an Iron Man Into Darkness kind of sequel, with all those previews of Tony talking about his nightmares, and getting his ass kicked. As it turns out, the movie is much more fun than those trailers would have had you believe. And the way it flips EVERYTHING on its head halfway through is fantastic, a scene of such staggering disbelief that you almost can’t take it in as you’re watching it. It’s a genius move from the writers. A twist that changes the movie, and the genre, that’s somehow also completely hilarious and brilliant. That, along with the live-wire one-liners that electrify pretty much every scene (with trademark Shane Black inclusivity, everyone from Tony to bit-part henchmen who only appear in one scene get great dialogue), make this a non-stop, old-school thrill ride.
It’s that combination of old-school banter, new-school psychological deconstruction (wait, come back!), and particularly post-postmodern meaningful twistiness and playful sincerity that formed the filmmakers’ answer to the big, giant, frankly terrifying question that loomed before them like Thanos himself: how the HELL do you follow The Avengers?
Bringing together the dry, wry British comedy stylings of Pearce with the 80s-soaked action/banter genius of Black was the beginning of the journey. They are the twin strands of Iron Man 3‘s ludicrously entertaining DNA. Its soul (we’re just going to proceed with some good old fashioned Cartesian duality here, m’kay?) is Robert Downey Jr. Because Black & Pearce can write the hell of out Tony Stark’s dialogue, but it’s Downey Jr that whips those words off the screen with the ultimate in nonchalant panache. Downey Jr IS Iron Man, to be honest. He’s the fortunate beneficiary of one of the strongest Marvel scripts yet, which gifts him with continued emotional complexity, and some stunningly inappropriate and therefore wonderful zingers.
He’s surrounded by extraordinary talent: Gandhi, Mike from Neighbors, the creator of GOOP… I mean it though: Ben Kingsley, Guy Pearce, Gwyneth Paltrow, Rebecca Hall, Don Cheadle, Jon Favreau… It’s a brilliantly deep bench of talent which, along with Black’s utter assurance as a director, keeps this movie moving, and ensures that it’s always robust.
From the big set pieces (the attack on Tony’s mansion, the climactic mega-battle), to the smallest of moments (Tony’s rapport with and utter condescension to his little sidekick; Favreau’s running Downton Abbey gag), this movie will put a big, silly grin on your face. And, if you’re especially geeky, the closing credit sequence, which is a very 80s style recap of all three movies to date, will make that grin even bigger. Such is the genius of this movie that even its post credit sequence is simultaneously a funny throwaway moment, and also the key to the entire film.
Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E., the reboot
The only downside is the somewhat under-cooked nature of the female roles: it’s particularly disappointing to see Pepper Potts reduced to a screaming, Fay Wray-style helpless woman in distress, especially since she was so sharp and impactful in Joss Whedon’s take on her. But few are as great as Whedon at gifting women with incredible roles in movies and TV. Still, a little more oomph in her character here would have gone a long way. Hall isn’t bad, but she is more of a catalyst than a protagonist. For someone of her talents, that’s a shame.
That aside, this is a brilliant movie, which is relentlessly entertaining, and a highly worthy follow-up to the most successful superhero movie of all time. It’s the only move Marvel could have made; just another indicator of how smart Marvel has been in building this cinematic universe.
4 out of 5 Iron Men Suits
We Have A Hulk: How The Avengers Took Over The World
May 29, 2012 D Leave a comment
I mean… Wow.
Whether you were a total Whedonite, or just a Buffy or Firefly fan, or someone who knew he did that vampire thing but didn’t know about the comic books or web shows, or you just weren’t a fan of Joss Whedon at all, it was impossible not to kneel before The Avengers as though it was an all-powerful demigod demanding your allegiance. In a good way.
Kneel!
What a remarkable achievement this movie was on each and every level. Never before has a franchise been born character by character before being pulled together into one massive, all-conquering whole. For that we can thank the unswerving vision of Marvel Studio’s head honcho, Kevin Feige. From 2008 through 2011, he shepherded Iron Man 1 & 2, Thor and Captain America into production, setting up the title characters, and weaving in Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, Clark Gregg as Agent Coulson, Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye, and Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow. Each movie not only set up its lead, but also evolved the Avenger Initiative backstory a little more, through one-liners, brief glimpses of the S.H.I.E.L.D. world, and crafty post-credits stingers.
With that heavy lifting taken care of, the biggest task still remained: how to take all those characters and synthesize them into one fast-moving, massive spectacle of an event movie, while retaining the humor, soul and smarts of each of the previous installments.
Which is where Joss Whedon came in.
Joss Whedon directing Mark Ruffalo
It’s no easy thing, to keep so many characters in the mix, giving each their moment(s) to shine, without losing any of them — this is especially true when the characters in question are iconic; are all (or have the potential to be) stars of their own movies & franchises. At least, it’s usually no easy thing in the movies. In TV, on the other hand, keeping multiple character arcs rolling and interweaving as you escalate stakes and understanding is simply business as usual. Todd VanDerWerff made this point in a brilliant piece for the Onion’s AV Club. He talked about how J.J. Abrams, another TV superstar-turned-movie-god, also had the same intuitive understanding as Whedon: focusing on the good guys and their interactions and emotional connections is a powerful foundation, especially in a huge movie. There are exceptions, of course, most notably Christopher Nolan’s Batman movies, which are dark and extraordinarily focused odes to isolation and loneliness (also, they’re works of utter genius). However, in the case of The Avengers, which is a high-energy, brightly-colored rock-n-roll universe, focusing on our heroes was a brilliant move on Whedon’s part.
Everyone got arcs and awesome moments (although Robert Downey Jr may have had a few more than most, knocking them all out of the park). Whedon found a way to humanize each of his heroes (most poignantly using “the cellist” and the trading cards to make us care about Agent Coulson), which drew us in all the more: such care is rarely taken in tentpole pictures, and even when care is taken, it’s rarely done with such skill and charm.
The script really is a force to be reckoned with; this is writing as superpower. It begins with a boom, then rides that momentum easily as it swoops from character to character, using one to segue to another, never losing pace as it builds up the cast; then it ratchets up the stakes, the conflict, the sheer size of everything — bringing the team together then breaking them down then finding a nuanced yet brutal emotional lever to launch the massive, rollicking final third of the movie.
This juggernaut of narrative pace is shot through with constant soul, emotion, and, most importantly of all, a relentless and brilliant sense of razor-sharp wit. This may just be the greatest comedy of the year, even as it lays an early claim to blockbuster movie of the year, and possibly even highest grossing movie ever made.
Whedon brought other great grace notes to his performance as writer & director, flourishes that made the performance even more his own: casting the iconic rebel Harry Dean Stanton as a janitor (to Hulk: “son, you have a condition”); using Lou Ferrigno as the voice of the Hulk; ending the movie with Soundgarden’s first song in fifteen years.
The Avengers in action
On so many levels, The Avengers is basically a glorious expression of everything I’ve ever loved about genre and pop culture. As a child, bringing together multiple characters was simply how I did it; that’s what toys were for. In my childhood games, it wasn’t unusual for Captain Kirk to join Spiderman, Superman and the Daleks for a face off against dinosaurs (f**k off, I’m copyrighting that, it’s mine!)… so the notion of superhero team events is basically wish-fulfillment on a massive scale: thank you, Mr. Whedon, for making this match-up so much more than the sum of its parts.
But that’s enough about Joss and the boys. Let’s talk about Scarlett.
Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow in The Avengers
As the lone female, Scarlett Johansson had her work cut out. But she had Whedon on her side, one of the great feminists of pop culture, a true believer in the awesomeness and awesome power of women. Who better to make Black Widow unique and memorable, soulful and strong, kickass and funny? But having Johansson bringing Whedon’s words to life on the big screen was a truly special thing. She brought a stormy, sensual quality to the Black Widow/Natasha Romanov, playing her with a quiet strength interlaced with a hurt soulfulness, and a sharp intelligence, hidden like a knife, wielded with deadly precision and speed.
Yes, she kicked ass with the best of them, but her shivering, shaking vulnerability after just barely avoiding being killed by Hulk is just one example of what makes Natasha Romanov so human, and is one of the reasons this movie has so much heart and soul. Johansson gave the movie its warm yet broken & tortured soul. In the process, she made an airtight case for a standalone Black Widow movie.
I could keep going, but then the run time of this review would almost match the movie.
In conclusion, The Avengers was a majestic blend of humor, soulfulness, intelligence, mad thrills, and a visceral, always-building visual crescendo.
An extraordinary pop culture rush, in other words.
Final rating: five out of five quippy one liners.
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Created by Adam Trujillo, last modified on Jul 09, 2019
You can parameterize tests (for data-driven testing) by extracting values from one test and then using them available in another test. This is accomplished with tools such as:
XML Data Bank
Header Data Bank
JSON Data Bank
Text Data Bank
Writable data sources (described in Configuring a Writable Data Source)
Object Data Bank
Browser Data Bank
For example, if you want to parameterize one of test 3’s request value with the id value from test 1’s response, you can would set that field to Parameterized....
then use the data source wizard to indicate that you want to use the value of the id element from test 1 (which will be stored in an XML data bank tool that is automatically added to the test suite).
The following section explains two different strategies for passing values from test to test. In addition to this test-to-test value passing, values can also be passed in the following ways:
Through variables: Variables can used to parameterize all or parts of text field values in tool editors. For example, a text field could reference environment variables, a data source column, a data bank column, or a variable defined for the current suite. For details, see Parameterizing Tools with Variables.
Through scripting: This is primarily used when you need to pass an object of a type other than a String. You can only access these values through scripting. This is done using com.parasoft.api.Context get(String) and put(String, Object). For details, see Extensibility and Scripting Basics.
Passing Values from One Test to Another
Parasoft SOAtest supports two primary ways to achieve test chaining, (i.e., extract values from one test to use in a subsequent test):
Using a Data Bank
Using a Data Bank with a Writable Data Source
Using a Data Bank – Capture values for single run
This approach is used in simple cases when values from a single test execution need to be captured for subsequent reuse.
For example, you can configure a test suite that tests a bank’s Web service transactions. Test 1 of that test suite can log on to the service using a User ID, then the SOAP response would return a session ID back to Test 1. Test 2 of that test suite can be configured to use the session ID from Test 1 to perform transactions. You can configure any of the tests in a test suite to use SOAP response parameters as SOAP request parameters.
A test scenario for this case might look like this:
Test 1: Log on and Retrieve ID
XML Data Bank: Extract user ID
Test 2: Use ID to invoke service 1
In this case, we are assuming that every time the test suite executes, we use a different ID throughout the scenario, but it is a single ID for each scenario run.
It is important to note that the same principle applies to all SOAtest data bank tools (XML, Browser, Header, JSON, Object, Text). You can extract a single value into any of these data bank tools, then use it in subsequent tests (as a parameterized value, as well as through scripting with com.para-soft.api.ScriptingContext.getValue(String, String). Extracted values are stored as strings.
This functionality is designed to suit a wide variety of customized needs; the example given above is just one sample application.
For a step-by-step example of how this functionality works, see Storing Results to Be Used in Subsequent Tests.
Using a Data Bank with a Writable Data Source – Capture values to iterate on multiple runs
This case is useful when you need to extract a list of values of an unknown count, then have a test or test suite iterate over every single value that has been extracted. Assume the following test scenario:
Writable: Captured User IDs
Set-Up Test: Get User IDs
XML Data Bank: Extract User IDs and write them into a writable data source
Test 1: Use captured IDs to invoke service 1 (parameterized with “Captured User IDs”)
In that case, the “Get User Ids” test assumes a service that returns a list (a sequence) of User Ids, and each User ID is extracted and written to the desired writable data source column. The exact number of user IDs can be unknown or variable. After the “Get User IDs” test executes and the Writable Data Source is populated with the values, the scenario proceeds to the remainder of the test suite and the subsequent tests (Test 1 and Test 2) can be parameterized with that writable data source (e.g., by selecting the appropriate data source then parameterizing fields vs. the appropriate columns in that data source). This means that the tests can iterate over it and use up all the IDs that have been written into it by “Get User IDs”. In other words, they will execute for every ID that is retrieved.
Another case where writable data sources are useful if the test that is generating the values retrieves the values one at a time, but iterates over a data source and stores the extracted values into a Writable Data Source. In this case, a sample test scenario might be:
Table: Usernames
Set-Up Test: Get and Store User ID (parameterized with Usernames)
XML Data Bank: Extract a User ID and write it into a writable data source
In this example, the “Get and Store User ID” test step will run multiple times: once per each username provided by the “Usernames” data source. For each run, it will write a User ID to the “Captured User IDs” data source. Now that the “Captured User IDs” writable data source got populated (with user IDs), the remainder of the test suite will use these IDs to execute Test 1 and Test 2 with them.
For details on writable data sources, see Configuring a Writable Data Source.
then use the data source wizard to indicate which element’s value you want to use. Or, you could manually configure values to be stored to a data bank or writable data source, then parameterize the response vs. those saved responses.
In addition to this tool-to-tool value passing, values can also be passed in the following ways:
General Rule of Thumb
A general rule of thumb is:
To extract content from a message only once as part of a scenario, then use a Data Bank by itself.
To extract a list of values then have another test iterate over them and use them one by one, use an XML Data Bank with a writable data source.
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In a nutshell: Why eastern Jerusalem, and Judea and Samaria are Jewish
Arlene Kushner
[] The historical heritage of the Jewish people in the land lies to the east:
In eastern Jerusalem -- the City of David and the Temple Mount.
In Judea and Samaria -- in Hebron (Judaism’s second holiest city) where the ancient Machpelah, the Tomb of the Patriarchs, is situated; Shilo, where the Tabernacle rested; Beit El, where Jacob had his dream; and much more. ] Jerusalem was a Jewish city 3,000 years ago, and has never been a capital in all those years for any nation other than the Jewish nation. In fact, in the intervening time between the destruction of the Second Jewish Commonwealth and founding of modern Israel, the area called “Palestine” (so named by the Romans) was never an independent nation or separate local political autonomy — it was always an appendage to a larger area of conquest, whether by the Romans or various Muslim groups including the Ottomans, or the British. During all of those conquests, a Jewish presence remained.
[] With the Mandate for Palestine of 1922, the League of Nations conferred upon Britain responsibility of developing Palestine as a Jewish homeland: ALL of Palestine, at a minimum from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. Close settlement by Jews was to be encouraged. That Mandate has never been superseded in international law; the United Nations assumed legal responsibilities.
[] In 1947, because of Arab unrest, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution proposing that Palestine be divided into a nation for the Jews and another for the Arabs. The Jews accepted this proposal, the Arabs refused it.
This proposal was no more than that — General Assembly resolutions are not binding within international law. And so this proposal changed nothing with regard to the law. What is more, the Arabs REFUSED what had been proposed for them because they didn’t want to divide the land, they wanted all of it.
[] In April 1948, amidst declarations of the intention to destroy the brand new Jewish state, the Arab League declared war on Israel.
When the Arabs lost, in 1949, Jordan had gained control of Judea and Samaria and eastern Jerusalem; Egypt controlled Gaza. The Jews had the area roughly within what is today called the Green Line, which included western Jerusalem.
The Green Line was an ARMISTICE line, not a border. In fact, when Jordan signed the armistice treaty with Israel, it made mention specifically of the fact that this armistice line was not to prejudice future negotiations for final borders.
This fact alone puts the lie to the notion, so commonly touted today, that Israel’s “proper border” is the Green Line and that everything beyond is Arab.
What is more, the armistice treaty was signed with Jordan, not with some entity called the Palestinian people. The understanding was that Jordan would be on the other side of wherever that eastern border of Israel was finally drawn.
IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND: Jordan rendered eastern Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria Judenrein during its 19 year occupation of these areas. This, and this alone, is why these places are referred to as “Arab.” This happened only by default because no Jews were permitted to live there. In eastern Jerusalem, Jordan destroyed synagogues and violated Jewish cemeteries.
All promises made by Jordan to respect Jewish religious rights were ignored and Jews could not visit the Kotel from 1949 to 1967.
It was only during this period, in all of Jerusalem’s 3,000 year history, that the city was divided.
[] In 1967, Israel fought a DEFENSIVE war (the Six Day War) when the Arab states again attempted to destroy her. At the end of this war, Israel was in control of all of Jerusalem, as well as Judea and Samaria, and Gaza (and the Golan). Eastern Jerusalem was subsequently united with the rest of the city under full Israeli jurisdiction and civil law; the right of all religions to their holy places has been honored since. The Golan was incorporated into the civil administration of Israel as well.
In Gaza, and Judea and Samaria, what Israel did was to assume control of what was legally still unclaimed Mandate land. (We have since withdrawn from Gaza, which is now in the hands of the terrorists Hamas.)
Note: The term” occupation” is applied to Israel’s administration of these areas, but the term is being used erroneously: Occupation occurs when the forces of one nation enter the territory of another. This is not the case here as Judea and Samaria were not part of any country. This is still unclaimed Mandate land to which Israel has a very strong claim.
[] At the end of the war, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 242, which called for pullback by Israel from some but not all of the land that she had taken.
The resolution acknowledged that the pre-’67 lines would not be secure borders.
This again puts the lie to any idea that Israel belongs only behind the Green Line.
IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND: According to Resolution 242, Israel did not have to withdraw from any land until there were negotiations completed on this issue that assured the territorial integrity, sovereignty and security of all nations – which includes Israel. This has never happened.
Also this: Resolution 242 does not even mention a Palestinian State or a Palestinian people. The understanding remained that negotiations would be with Jordan.
[] The Oslo Accords of 1993 did NOT promise the Palestinian Arabs a state. That term, "Palestinian State" is not mentioned. The final result, after a transitional period of five years, was to be a “Permanent Status, which was widely considered to be an Autonomy.
Claims by Palestinian Arabs that we took “their” land is erroneous. It was never theirs.
Claims by Palestinian Arabs that they were an indigenous people, on the land for many generations, is also a misrepresentation. There is solid documentation for the fact that a substantial part of this group, identified only as part of the Arab nation, migrated into Palestine in the years shortly before the founding of Israel.
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Brexit to affect Vietnam’s wood exports to UK: experts
By Toan Dao  July 15, 2016 | 11:01 am GMT+7
In a wood processing factory. Photo by Vietnam News Agency
Timber and wood product export prices could slide 5 to 7 percent.
Vietnam’s exports of timber and wood products to the United Kingdom will be affected after the latter leaves the European Union in around two years following the recent Brexit vote, Vietnamplus reported on Thursday, citing industry experts.
The expected falling demand for housing construction in the U.K. will have a direct effect on Vietnam’s timber and wood product industry.
“Demand for imported wood products, including those from Vietnam, will surely decline in the future,” said To Xuan Phuc, an expert from the Washington-based non-profit organization Forest Trends, at a seminar in Hanoi.
Phuc, however, said Vietnamese exports will not be hurt in the next two years while the U.K. completes procedures to leave the E.U.
Tran Le Huy, general secretary of a wood association in Vietnam’s central province of Binh Dinh, agreed demand for imported timber and wooden products in the U.K. is likely to go down after the country leaves the E.U. He said wood processing companies in the province are worrying about that scenario.
Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia are the top three exporters of timber and wood products to the U.K. Vietnam’s timber and wood product exports to the U.K. rose to nearly $270 million in 2015, from around $181 million in 2012, according to a Vietnamese government statement on Thursday.
In the long run, Vietnam’s export value of timber and wood products to the U.K. is expected to fall by about $50 million a year.
“Brexit is forecast to make the export price of [Vietnamese] timber and wood products slide 5-7 percent compared to the current rate. This is a rather big drop that will cause considerable damage to companies,” Nguyen Ton Quyen, general secretary of the Vietnam Timber and Forest Products Association, said at the seminar. He said the current export price of timber and wood produts to the E.U. is between $1,200-$1,800 per container.
Experts also urged Vietnamese exporters to prepare for any future changes in tax, exchange rate, customs procedures or standards in the U.K.
Vietnam’s central government has asked three relevant ministries to evaluate the economic impacts of the U.K. leaving the E.U.
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Vietnam records highest rise in obesity in Southeast Asia
By Sen  July 22, 2019 | 11:12 am GMT+7
A girl has breakfast on her father's motorbike on the way to school in Ho Chi Minh City. Photo by VnExpress/Quynh Tran.
Vietnam recorded the highest growth in obesity in Southeast Asia in 2010-14, but it had the lowest rate of obese people, Fitch says.
The country's 38 percent increase in the five-year period was followed by Indonesia with 33 percent and Malaysia with 27 percent, the Fitch Solutions Macro Research said in its newly-released report on rising obesity levels and its effect on healthcare systems in the Asia Pacific.
All six Southeast Asian countries - Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia, which are the focus of the report, saw a rise in the number of obese adults.
Elsewhere in Asia, South Korea matched Vietnam’s increase of 38 percent while for Japan it was 14 percent.
The increase of overweight and obesity was lower in developed countries like the U.K. (10 percent) and the U.S. (8 percent).
But Vietnam had the lowest rate of obese people in 2014 - 3.6 percent - compared to 5.7 percent in Indonesia and 13.3 percent in Malaysia.
The obesity surge in many countries through 2014 was not an isolated growth – it continued the long-term upward trend in Asia Pacific from 1990 where 34.6 percent of adults were obese, the data shows. By 2013, the number grew to 40.9 percent.
Children in Asia Pacific were getting fatter too, with a rise of 38 percent in obese children between 2000 and 2016.
Fitch’s findings in Asian children aspect dovetailed with the most recent study about Vietnamese children published by Vietnam’s National Institute of Nutrition earlier this month.
The study discovered 42 percent of children in Vietnam’s urban areas are overweight and/or obese, compared to 35 percent in rural areas out of 5,028 students.
Mortality rates increase with increasing degrees of overweight based on BMI, according to WHO. It said obesity also jacks up the risk of cancer of the breast, colon, prostate, endometrium, kidney and gall bladder.
Consequentially, the rise of overweight people come with a cost. The Fitch analysts estimated that Vietnam might have to pay around 2.5 percent of the overall healthcare spending, including medication and hospitalization costs, due to high obesity levels.
The global research firm enlisted "shitfting lifestyle" as the reason that gave rise to the growing obesity levels in the region, both in children and adults. This was brough about by "improving economic standards" which led to lifestyle changes and essentially more unhealthy diets.
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Proforestation: Addressing the Pressing Need to Conserve Mature, Mixed Forests
byAndrew Burger
We need to plant trees, we need aforestation, but these methods take time to effectively sequester carbon. Proforestation conserves mature, mixed forests. It's the most effective way to naturally sequester carbon as quickly as possible.
A leading chemist and natural scientist is advocating what he calls "proforestation" as a means of capping greenhouse gas emissions and the rise in global mean temperature under the 1.5 degrees C set out in the Paris Climate Agreement.
William Moomaw helped found Tufts University Fletcher School's Center for International Environment and Resource Policy. He's served as the lead author for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (UNFCCC) five reports. Essentially, Moomaw's "proforestation" boils down to leaving older and middle aged forests intact due to their ability to store atmospheric carbon at high rates, he explains in an interview with Yale Environment 360.
Moomaw says he's all for planting young trees, but mature forests sequester much more atmospheric carbon. That's why he's advocating for proforestation policies and actions. His efforts take on more significance given various governments and private-sector organizations' policies and investments in converting cut or downed timber to produce biofuels and heat energy.
A growing need to preserve mature forests and wetlands, and enhance carbon sequestration of farmlands and grasslands
Moomaw is critical of efforts in the Southeastern U.S., where forest canopy loss is greater than anywhere else in the world, that convert forests into wood pellets that are then sold in Europe and elsewhere to produce electricity, for instance, Yale Environment 360 highlights.
Proforestation differs from afforestation, which entails planting new trees. Analyzing research data, Moomaw concluded that we could sequester twice as much carbon from the atmosphere if we managed our forests and grasslands differently. Half the carbon stored in multi-aged forests worldwide is contained in the largest one percent diameter trees, according to one research paper, he pointed out.
"It’s not that we shouldn’t do afforestation [planting new trees] and we shouldn’t do reforestation. We should. But recognize that their contribution will be farther in the future, which is important. But in order to meet our climate goals, we have to have greater sequestration by natural systems now. So that entails protecting the carbon stocks that we already have in forests, or at least a large enough fraction of them that they matter," Moomaw was quoted.
“The most effective thing that we can do is to allow trees that are already planted, that are already growing, to continue growing to reach their full ecological potential, to store carbon, and develop a forest that has its full complement of environmental services. Cutting trees to burn them is not a way to get there.”
Moomaw also emphasized the need to conserve our wetlands, which capture and store the equivalent amount of carbon as do our standing forests, as well as protect and improve the carbon sequestered in agricultural soils and grazing lands. "It’s taken a very long time for people to focus on something besides reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. And to recognize that even though we’re putting almost 11 billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere every year, the increase is only 4.7 billion tons.
"So where is the rest going? It’s going into plants on land and plants in the ocean. And the largest single place that’s removing carbon dioxide [from the atmosphere] on an annual basis is forests," Moomaw said.
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Uighur Muslims Around the World Protest China’s Aggressive Security Crackdown
By GERRY SHIH / AP
(BEIJING) — Members of the Uighur Muslim ethnic group held demonstrations in cities around the world to protest a sweeping Chinese surveillance and security campaign that has sent thousands of their people into detention and political indoctrination centers.
Overseas Uighur activists said they planned demonstrations Thursday in 14 countries in total, including the U.S., Australia and Turkey.
More than a hundred Uighur protesters gathered at a plaza near the United Nations in New York to call on the body to protect their culture against Chinese government efforts to assimilate the Turkic-speaking people. Elsewhere, hundreds of Uighur women on Istanbul’s Istiklal Street and in front of Sydney Town Hall chanted and waved blue flags, the separatist symbol for a proposed independent state called East Turkistan.
China has rolled out one of the world’s most aggressive policing programs in the Uighurs’ homeland of Xinjiang, a vast region in the country’s northwest. Chinese officials say the crackdown is necessary to stamp out a decades-long separatist movement and, more recently, Islamic extremism seeping into the region. Hundreds have died in violent clashes in recent years that the government blames on separatist militants.
Growing resentment against authorities in China, and the call of Islamist Uighur militant groups, has also attracted thousands of Uighurs to travel to Syria in recent years. But Uighur activists and international rights groups say the far-reaching security campaign, which has accelerated markedly since 2016, exacerbates tensions and unfairly targets the entire Uighur population of more than 10 million.
“The Chinese government is using the war against terrorism very effectively, using that to portray the Uighur as a terrorist,” said Rushan Abbas, the organizer of the New York protest who showed up with her children. “In actuality, the Chinese government is the one who’s acting the terrorist against the Uighur.”
Many overseas Uighurs say that their relatives in China have been sent to an extrajudicial network of political indoctrination centers for months at a time without formal charges or for reasons unrelated to separatist activity — such as communicating with relatives abroad.
“Can you imagine a place where millions are taken into camps without the involvement of courts?” said Seyit Tumturk, who helped organize the Istanbul rally.
Read more: Xinjiang: Images of Uighur Life in Kashgar
http://time.com/5202681/uighur-protest-china-security-crackdown/
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