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SZA Garibaldi Stage, Squamish BC, August 7
Photo: Jenn McInnis
Solana Rowe, a.k.a. SZA, appears to have come a long way since she turned in a respectable if underwhelming set at the Pitchfork Music Fest in 2014 (as you can read in Stephen Carlick's review). It could have been the mountains, but she was flying high in her set at Squamish.
There was no pre-show music playing as the Maplewood, New Jersey-based singer's band tested beats in the monitors and checked mics to a smattering of unfortunate catcalls and mild applause from the fidgety crowd. Hearing her before seeing her, Rowe walked out from the wings singing in near darkness. She hit centre stage as the lights cast their blue glow about her, revealing a legit Vancouver Grizzlies jersey under her jacket, as her stunningly soulful voice soared over the sluggish beat of "UR."
After her first song, SZA professed her desire to move to Vancouver, citing the craziest scenery, craziest air, craziest people and craziest weed. Plumes of the latter would billow throughout her set, which confirmed her notion that these were her people.
Backed up by a hell of a drummer, reigning down bass-heavy beats and two keyboardists, a girl on a Roland Juliter-80 and Nord Stage and a guy on Korg Kronos and Yamaha Motif ES7, SZA ate up the stage throughout her set. She grooved, backed up on it and told it what for, with so many ineffable inferences that all tapped into a profound connection to the music and the moment, while her vocals resonated with a distinctive richness that rendered inadequate any comparison to other neo-soul legends.
SZA, in short, has arrived.
SOUL, FUNK & WORLD
SQUAMISH VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL
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As has been noted, David Coleman Headley apparently works for the CIA. He is being kept from Indian officials and protected in FBI custody.
David Headley is a CIA asset & they have invested a lot of their precious resources in training him & therefore they are going to atrocious levels to protect him. The CIA always does. Thus under the cover of the American Judicial system, Headley will disappear into the prisons, soon acquire a new identity, new papers & documents, passports & Visas, Credit Cards & Bank Accounts . . . a new identity & will resurface, doing what he is best at, a terrorist-drug dealer-mercenary.
Undoubtedly, the CIA-FBI, which are the world’s leading mercenary agencies, whose forte is too engineer assassinations, terror & wars, has infiltrated sections of the Indian political leadership & our internal security, as it has the Pakistani ISI, Military & Political establishment.
See: Aangirfan: David Headley, Israelis and the CIA
The Countercurrents article by Feroze Mithiborwala makes two important points:
1) How much information did the CIA actually divulge to India - very very meagre it is clear.
2) More intriguingly with the Pakistani authorities & it's friends in the ISI & the Military with which the CIA has a very deep & intimate relationship, stretching over 6 decades - it supposedly shared none !!!
Any moron is full aware that a 26/11 style attack could lead to a war, in fact a nuclear war between India & Pakistan, then why did not the CIA warn it's friends on either side & thus prevent the attack ??
For the simple reason that it is in the strategic interests of the US & Israel to create a warlike situation across South Asia. The larger objective is for India to mobilise & deploy it's military into the war theatre in Afghanistan if required & later in the coming war on Iran, which is imminent. The tensions & warmongering has now fuelled an arms race & both the countries are amongst the top buyers of weapons, required to protect their half-starving masses.
We also note that Headley filmed the Bhabha atomic facility.
Headley filmed Bhabha atomic facility for ISI
NEW DELHI: David Headley videotaped the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and its large residential colony in Mumbai for the ISI. This video, Headley revealed, was not given to the Lashkar-e-Taiba.
During his interrogation by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in Chicago, Headley said, "(in March 2008) Major Iqbal (who he described as his "handler" in the ISI) asked me to explore BARC in Mumbai and specially its staff colony as a target. He gave me the mobile phone camera (and) some counterfeit money." After he returned, Headley gave the video to Iqbal but did not give it to his LeT colleague, Sajid Majid. ...The other targets that Headley videotaped were Taj Presidency, World Trade Centre, Naval air station, Siddhi Vinayak Temple, Chabad House, Maharashtra police station, state assembly, El Al and Indian Airlines offices, BSE and Radio Club and Shiv Sena Bhavan. He has also surveyed almost all the Chabad Houses in many cities.
Headley appears to have played a central role in the Mumbai attacks. But Headley remains safe in FBI custody. From there he continues to feed out information on who should be blamed for Mumbai, like this Major Iqbal for instance, who requested the video of the nuclear research facility, which Headley took. Naturally. He was just doing his job WORKING FOR THE CIA while pretending to work for ISI and LeT....?
Major Iqbal, a Pakistani officer, and four other LeT operatives have Interpol warrants out for their arrest. The information came from Headley. Headley who works for the CIA and perhaps even Mossad...? The red corner notices make it obligatory that every member country detain the wanted persons.
"Interpol's move has busted Islamabad's claim of innocence that it was rogue elements in the country which directed terror attacks against India. The arrest warrant against two serving officers exposes the Pakistan Army establishment's links with terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, which carried out the attacks. The move also coincides with Former President General Pervez Musharraf's admittance that Pakistan has trained terrorists to fight in Jammu and Kashmir."
How convenient!
Are they learning a lesson in India about trusting foreign intelligence agencies? Not a moment too soon?
Headley lesson: Agencies told to improve their intel network
Learning a lesson from the David Headley episode, and his wife’s unheeded warnings to the FBI, the UPA government has told intelligence agencies, primarily R&AW and IB, to develop a better source network of their own rather than rely on information sourced from other countries.
Though US diplomats have stated that all information gleaned from the Lashkar terrorist was shared with India, intelligence agencies after due diligence have reported back to the government that there is not a single reference to the Pakistan-born American national in the inputs shared by the US intelligence with them — till his arrest for the conspiracy to attack a Danish newspaper office, in October 2009.
While New Delhi understands that intelligence agencies normally do not share trade secrets, it is peeved that Headley was allowed by American agencies to travel to India for conducting reconnaissance on behalf of the Lashkar, and that he toured the National Defence College in Delhi, Pushkar, Pune’s Chabad house and other prime locations in the Capital in March 2009. This is despite the fact that transcripts of conversations between Headley, wife Faiza Outlaha and Tahhawwur Rana post-26/11 attacks — now shared with India — clearly indicate his deep involvement in the conspiracy....Given the fact that intelligence coordination between the two strategic partners is robust despite the Headley episode, New Delhi may not make any direct reference to this prickly issue during Obama’s forthcoming visit, except underlining the need for Washington to be more transparent on matters pertaining to terrorism against India.
The Indian agencies have also been told to reciprocate to American intelligence requirements on the same scale, and not go overboard as not everything shared by the West is worth the worry.
As regards this, government sources cite a recent terror alarm about an impending attack on Commonwealth Games on October 12 or 13 after a fax from a European intelligence agency. The US intelligence liaison could not verify the alleged threat. Subsequent investigations revealed that an Israeli private security contractor had over-heard an ISI agent in Kabul apparently talking in detail about an impending attack in India. The Israeli passed this on to an ex-CIA man currently employed in Walt Disney Security firm, New York, who in turn passed it on to a colleague in the same firm stationed in Mumbai. It was this Walt Disney employee who shared the input with other colleagues from Europe, which later became a subject matter of the fax to Indian intelligence. As a result, despite the information being from an unreliable source, New Delhi security agencies were on tenterhooks till October 13. New Delhi has now asked intelligence agencies to be more circumspect when dealing with inputs from other countries and to verify the same from their own sources.
"Given the fact that intelligence coordination
between the two strategic partners
is robust despite the Headley episode...."
Right. So OTHER THAN the four day organized terror attack that killed 173 and wounded another 300+, which Headley arranged and is blaming on some Pakistani B-team, which could have sparked a war between Pakistan and India, intelligence coordination between the two strategic partners is robust. Totally.
Totally Fucking Useless
Posted by A. Peasant at 8:26 PM
The Realist Report said...
I enjoy your blog and the information you share. Keep up the good work!
How much more obvious can these people make these false flag attacks? It's so ridiculous. The sad thing is, I tried explaining this to a friend of mine when this story first broke, when it was first reported that Headley was in FBI custody and had been an informant for the DEA, and that India would not be allowed to question him, and my friend literally dismissed everything I explained to him. Just totally ignored the evidence. It was even printed in the Chicago Tribune originally! We have a serious problem on our hands. People cannot, or will not, accept the truth, no matter how blatantly obvious it is (9/11 is the big one, in my opinion).
hi John Friend. thank you. i visited your blog the other day and am glad to see you throwing you efforts in and trying to show people what's going on. it is hard. many people have an emotional block to the truth because it will destroy everything they've ever believed, and they can't go there so they behave as you experienced. i know many people like this. don't let them get you down just keep learning and sharing.
It happened in Belgium as well.
In 1984, a squad of US Marines were parachuted into Belgium, and met by a member of the Belgian military intelligence.
They hid for a fortnight before attacking the police station of Vielsalm, killing a Belgian officer.
Initially the attack was passed off as terrorism, but was later proven to be the work of the American and Belgian military - as confirmed by the Belgian Senate investigations of 1991.
Other attacks occured, where, as was the case in Vielsalm, arms and ammunition were taken. Arms that found their way subsequently to extremist groups.
The CIA-NATO stay-behind network was reportedly involved in the so-called Brabant Massacres of the 1980s.
These were a group of attacks that occured in the area around Brussels called Brabant over a period of two years. Jewellers, restaurants, and in a number of cases supermarkets were attacked by a gang of heavily armed and ruthless men.
Don't forget to vote!
No doubt got their marching orders from the U.N. or one of their lower rung cells.
thanks Aan. it is amazing how things just disappear from memory. i was just reading this about 7/7:
http://terroronthetube.co.uk/2010/10/22/new-support-for-canary-wharf-story/
...that the people who supposedly blew up the trains (because they were still wearing their suicide bombs) were shot to death at Canary Wharf. it was reported, but then it was never spoken of, because it complicated the narrative.
ha Dubs, i am done voting until the whole thing has collapsed and been rebuilt. if i can still vote then, i'll consider it...
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Richeria grandis var. gardneriana (Baill.) Müll.Arg. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 15(2): 468 (1866).
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Supply of electrical power. Although glycolysis yield fewer ATP in comparison to oxidative Nielsen, Mechanisms of, and boundaries to, horizontal gene transfer in between bacteria, Nat. Hol. 1991, 26, fifty five?0. Foster, G.; Osterman, B.S.; Godfroid, J.; Jacques, I.; Cloeckaert McDermott, H. Medicine 2010, 8, 106-121; doi:10.3390/mdOPEN ACCESSMarine DrugsISSN 1660-3397 www.mdpi.com/journal/marinedrugs ArticleComplementary UV-Absorption of Mycosporine-like Amino Acids and Scytonemin is Liable for that UV-Insensitivity of Photosynthesis in Nostoc flagelliformeLorenzo Ferroni one, Manfred Klisch 2, Simonetta Pancaldi 1 and Donat-Peter H er 2,*Laboratory of Plant Cytophysiology, Division of Biology and Evolution, University of Ferrara, Corso Ercole I d'Este, 32, 44100 Ferrara, Italy; E-Mails: lorenzo.ferroni@unife.it (L.F.); simonetta.pancaldi@unife.it (S.P.) Department for Biology, Friedrich-Alexander College Erlangen-Nuremberg, Staudtstra 5, 91058 Erlangen, Germany; Sea lions and feral pigs within the Auckland Islands by pulsed-field E-Mail: mklisch@biologie.uni-erlangen.de (M.K.)* Writer to whom correspondence need to be dealt with; E-Mail: dphaeder@biologie.uni-erlangen.de; Tel.: +49-9131-85-28216; Fax: +49-9131-85-28215. Obtained: 4 December 2009; in revised type: 5 January 2010 / Approved: 19 January 2010 / Posted: twenty JanuaryAbstract: Mycosporine-like amino acids (MAAs) and scytonemin are UV-screening compounds that have presumably appeared early in the history of daily life and are widespread in cyanobacteria. Organic colonies with the UV-insensitive Nostoc flagelliforme were identified to be primarily wealthy in MAAs (32.one mg g DW-1), concentrated from the N the oxidative action of rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss phagocytes. Dis. glycan sheath together with scytonemin.. Acosta, J. Hernalsteens, J. Jofre, M. Muniesa, Usage of the lambda Red recombinase system to create recombinant prophages carrying antibiotic resistance genes, BMC Mol. Biol. seven (2006) 31. [49] S.K. Sharan, L.C. Thomason, S.G. Kuznetsov, D.L. Courtroom, Recombineering: a homologous recombination-based approach to genetic engineering, Nat. Protoc. 4 (2009) 206?23. [50] R. Simon, U. Priefer, A. Puhler, A broad host array mobilization system for in vivo genetic engineering: transposon mutagenesis in gram damaging germs, Nat. Biotech. 1 (1983) 784?ninety one. [51] R. Sitaraman, S.H. Leppla, Methylation-dependent DNA restriction in Bacillus anthracis, Gene 494 (2012) forty four?0. [52] E. Szewczyk, T. Nayak, C.E. Oakley, H. Edgerton, Y. Xiong, N. Taheri-Talesh, S.A. Osmani, B.R. Oakley, Fusion PCR PubMed ID:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19808328 and gene focusing on in Aspergillus nidulans, Nat. Protoc. 1 (2007) 3111?120. [53] H.C. Tekedar, G.C. Waldbieser, A. Karsi, M.R. Liles, M.J. Griffin, S. Vamenta, T. Sonstegard, M. Hossain, S.G. Schroeder, L. Khoo, M.L. Lawrence, Full genome sequence of a channel catfish epidemic isolate, aeromonas hydrophila pressure ML09-119, Genome Announc. 1 (2013) . [54] C.M. Thomas, K.M. Nielsen, Mechanisms of, and barriers to, horizontal gene transfer in between germs, Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 3 (2005) 711?21. [55] L. Thomason, D.L. Court, M. Bubunenko, N. Costantino, H. Wilson, S. Datta, A. Oppenheim, Recombineering: Genetic Engineering in Micro organism Applying Homologous Recombination. Current Protocols in Molecular Biology, John Wiley Sons, Inc, 2001. [56] USDA, (2010) Catfish 2010 portion I: reference of catfish health and fitness and output practices within the United states of america, 2009. USDA-APHIS-VS, CEAH, Ft. Collins, CO.
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Williams Family Historical Cemetery
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Life after Brexit: ‘I’m not racist but’
Posted on June 29, 2016 by Johanna
Only a few weeks ago (pre Brexit) I, like many, would have argued the UK is not racist or xenophobic. I’d have argued this with confidence. We are a welcoming multicultural society, aren’t we?! Yes, I was aware that there are pockets of society in the UK that are unhappy about immigration. But, did I think it was hate-fuelled and would result in personal attacks? No.
Of course I’ve spotted the front pages on the right-wing press and dismissed them in disgust. But dismiss them I did because I didn’t believe it was a reflection on our society. I was also naive to the damage they were doing. Not overtly racist but the premise was there, immigrants are to blame. Brexit appears to have provoked a crescendo of emotions within the UK, fuelled by the media. We’re Brits, we love to moan and we also pride ourselves on our freedom of speech. It’s great that we can voice our opinions but when does free speech become hate speech?
Image credit: Andrew @DingersClapham
I am part of the problem! I’ve been blinkered to the views of many, ignored them, disregarded them and kind of hoped once the older generation had died out, any racism and xenophobia would also disappear without a trace. The right-wing press I so carelessly disregarded, The Sun, The Daily Mail and The Daily Express, have huge readerships. I feel foolish! Of course the masses were listening – young and old. I’ve arrogantly assumed that the majority of people around me hold the same views as me, so Brexit has been a big wake-up call. I haven’t been vocal enough about my views, because I didn’t think it was necessary. Brexit, appears to have unearthed a demon, an awakening and a platform for those that hold non-Brits responsible for our country’s failings. C’mon we live(d) in an economically stable country, with very few issues!
Not everyone who voted to leave is racist.
Now, let me make this very clear, I don’t believe that everyone who voted to leave the EU did so for immigration reasons or because they are racist. Many voted because they believed an extra £350 million a week would come to the NHS, they don’t want to be governed by a body that gives us little authority, and I’m sure there are other valid reasons. But, there are also many who voted to leave because they’re worried about immigration and within that group of people reside the racist and xenophobic. Within this group there are intelligent people, but many I believe are just scared.
What has made these people so afraid?
Certain media outlets have been like dripping taps, slowly but surely filling homes, heads and hearts with fear. How many people have been heavily influenced by these headlines, despite never having experienced any negative effects of immigration?
Image credit: Simon Cullen (@Simon_Cullen)
Boston in Lincolnshire has the highest rate of immigration in the UK and has below average unemployment. It’s rate of growth has been rapid, so services are stretched but it’s booming. Instead of fighting against people who are from different countries and cultures it could be an opportunity to broaden our outlook on life, accept and learn about the world.
The people I know who voted to leave due to immigration live in the Home Counties, some in little villages and towns. Many only mix with people from other nationalities because of the restaurants they choose to eat in, or when they go to hospital and get cared for. Some have work colleagues, neighbours and friends from other countries. But this just makes their vote to leave for immigration all the more bizarre. The battle cry to ‘make Britain great again‘ has been used by many, but I’m really struggling to see what was wrong with Britain. The few niggles we had surely can’t be blamed on immigration. It seems to be more of a feeling of nostalgia that’s evoked these emotions.
How big is this issue?
I’m writing this post on the back of listening to a radio interview of a German woman, in tears after being victimised for ‘not being from here’. Dog shit thrown at her home. In her own words she lives in a British middle class society and has done so since the 1970s.
The Polish Social and Cultural Association in Hammersmith was vandalised with a racist slogan. Various reports are coming in about verbal abuse all over the country. Even The Daily Mail is reporting that there’s been a 57% increase on hate crimes post-Brexit. I’ve now listened to multiple first hand accounts of people who’ve been abused for their heritage, having never received this kind of abuse pre-Brexit.
Perhaps our lovely media are blowing this all out of proportion and we can write this off as yet another over-inflation of a disturbing issue. I hope so and when the Police stats come in we’ll know for sure (I won’t use the Daily Mail as a credible source!) but I challenge anyone to listen to the first hand accounts and not recognise this is an issue.
The right-wing media have perpetuated a fear into the nation that immigration is the problem and the racist minority have a newfound confidence to be loud and proud about their controversial views.
But the press are back-peddling fast. The blame they laid at the immigrants doors has worked, they influenced a nation.
The Sun on June 26th.
Credit Ben Stanley (@BDStanley)
When I travelled through South Africa I was shocked by how divided society still is post-apartheid. I probed and questioned everyone I could on their views and the background to their thinking. I was told by many white South Africans, that I didn’t understand as I haven’t lived through it. I have to respect that as I haven’t been directly impacted by apartheid, I haven’t lived through it.
I have however grown-up in England, I’m 34 years old and I remember this so called Utopia of 20 years ago! As far as I’m concerned we’ve only progressed as a society. 20 years ago I was aware of more racism, more mistrust. But, I truly believed we’d evolved. People recognised the benefits of having such a rich multicultural society – the friends they’d made, the food they enjoy, the diversity of culture and skills immigration brings and the huge monetary contribution to society.
I’ve been an immigrant and actively called myself one, despite our lovely flowery ‘Ex-Pat’ title we like to give ourselves when we live overseas. How would I feel if I was living overseas right now, in a peaceful, welcoming country, working hard, paying tax and rent and contributing to the system. I’d feel mortified and scared!
Not all immigration just controlled immigration
Of course, many claim they’re not against immigration they just want controlled immigration. What is that? Maybe they only want the highly skilled people to come here. Screw anyone that may want to join us for a better life but still wants to earn and contribute. So how do they feel when high skilled/high income jobs are given to foreign people? Look at yourself and your peers – do you rank each other on your value as a person by the jobs you do? You’re a bricky and your mate is a solicitor – does that mean you’re less or more of a person? No of course it doesn’t. Perhaps they only want unskilled migrants, so they can pick up the jobs that we cannot be arsed to do. But they still get accused of coming over here and taking our jobs.
(IAS Immigration Services)
Maybe you believe immigration has a huge impact on our generous benefits system.
Worried about the impact of immigration on the NHS?
‘New immigration rules that will mean lower-earning non-EU workers being deported will exacerbate the shortage of nurses in the UK and cost the NHS tens of millions in recruitment, the government has been warned by nursing leaders.’ (The Guardian)
Ask those close to you, how immigration directly impacts them? Ask yourself, how does it impact you personally? Yes there are people that live in towns and cities with a large amount of immigration, but all the anti-immigration people I know live in places that have seen little change over the years. What has caused this fear?
Those of us that think the uprising of attacks, verbal abuse, vandalism and any kind of victimisation or bullying is disgusting need to counteract this. We must go out of our way to be vocal about how anti this behaviour we are. I’m sure (I hope!) the vast majority who voted leave for immigration reasons are equally horrified by these hate crimes. If you witness any hate crime report it to the police, the transport police or the charity Stop Hate UK.
Sign this petition to vocalise your concern about the media’s negative hate-fuelled portrayal of immigrants.
There are prominent voices condemning the hate and promoting inclusivity, the London Mayor Sadiq Khan possibly the most vocal. We are starting to see random acts of kindness and support to those non-Brits who call Great Britain home. Be one of those people!
‘Found pinned to the door of the Welsh Polish Association in Llanelli, South Wales, this morning.’ (June 27, 2016)
Credit: BBC Wales
Disagree?
If you voted leave and the immigration policy was part of your reasoning please educate me! What did you want to happen? How does immigration directly impact you negatively? What does controlled immigration mean to you? How do you feel about the increased number of racist and xenophobic attacks?
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2 Comments on “Life after Brexit: ‘I’m not racist but’”
Christopher Card
“disregarded them and kind of hoped once the older generation had died out, any racism and xenophobia would also disappear without a trace.”
Speaking as one of the undead older generation, who also leans towards the right, I resent your implication that I must, by definition, be both racist and xenophobic. All societies and countries have a proportion of their population who are both of those things and to varying degrees. Just because a minority of unpleasant “activists” have seized an opportunity to make a vile noise, you cannot interpolate that into being either a national characteristic, or a characteristic of those who voted to leave the EU. The “Red Top’ press has always stirred up resentment and fear about any and all issues, including the weather, because that is what sells papers, and you can cherry pick headlines to support almost any issue that you wish to highlight.
Yes, there are people who are afraid of “mass” immigration and the effect it is having on their local services. There are immigrants who are delightful individuals, and also some that are not so nice. It is, however, the overall impact on some areas in our country that the racists and xenophobes amongst us have set out to exploit.
In the debate, a lot of noise has been generated over the issue of immigration but, there are more fundamental issues relating to Democracy and Sovereignty (which is not the same as xenophobia), that took the majority of the nation into the “Leave” camp.
Chris Card
Hi Chris, maybe I didn’t make myself clear in this post, but there is absolutely no way I believe all old people are racist and or xenophobic.It would be hell on earth if that was the case. In my personal experience, however, it has been the older generation (a minority of) that have racist views. As I’ve said in this post, since the referendum I realise this was naive. The verbal abuse has been from people of all ages and it’s disgusting. Yes the red top press comment on lots of topics, but immigration isn’t one I’ve cherry picked – it’s been a consistent drip-feeding of blame. In section two I clearly state that there are a number of reasons why people voted to leave and I feel relieved that democracy and sovereignty are key to the decision making.
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KVERT reported that ash emissions from Kizimen had been essentially continuous during 31 December-7 January, producing ash plumes mostly below altitudes of 6-8 km (20,000-26,000 ft) a.s.l. reported by pilots or observed in satellite imagery. Seismicity remained high but variable and volcanic tremor continued to be recorded. A thermal anomaly over the volcano was observed in satellite imagery. On 5 January ash plumes drifted more than 500 km ENE. Ashfall was reported on the Komandorsky Islands, 350-500 km E. The Tokyo VAAC reported that ash continued to be observed in satellite imagery on 5 Janaury. According to information from KVERT and analyses of satellite imagery, a possible eruption on 6 January produced a plume that rose to an altitude of 3.7 km (12,000 ft) a.s.l. and drifted E. Subsequent satellite images that same day showed continuing ash emissions. Ash plumes drifted NW on 9 January, and drifted NW again on 11 January, at an altitude of 2.7 km (9,000 ft) a.s.l. The Color Code remained at Red.
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School in the Forest : Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary, Kerala
By Suprabha Seshan on Feb. 28, 2014 in Environment and Ecology
The Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary is dedicated to the plants of the Western Ghats, a mountain range running down the western coastline of peninsular India.
Founded in 1981 by Wolfgang Theuerkauf, the Sanctuary is a garden of wild plant species grown at the edge of a rainforest reserve. The intention is to rehabilitate endangered species and restore habitats in a highly fragmented landscape, in which only a fraction of original forest remains and a high percentage of species are rare, vulnerable or threatened by imminent extinction.
The Sanctuary is run by a small group of resident gardeners, naturalists and educators, and supported by a wide circle of well-wishers. Together it offers an approach that is connected to the climate, land, habitats, plants, animals and people of the Western Ghats.
Every year around 2000 people walk up the three kilometres of dirt road, in rain and sun, to visit the gardens at the Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary. Around 80 per cent of these are local and regional folks—families on an outing, schools, youth groups, nature clubs, botany students, seminarians, tribes people, farmers and women’s groups. All receive a free guided tour from one of the Sanctuary staff or residents. They are taken around the main garden areas which host an attractive and comprehensive collection of native and exotic plants, arranged in taxonomic order and landscaped under the natural forest canopy. For these visitors it is an occasion to learn a little about plants, the importance of conservation and regional efforts to maintain and protect biodiversity. Most are quite surprised and delighted even—and many fall under the spell of a colourful and bounteous tropical world, full of unusual and fascinating beings. Besides these casual visitors, the Sanctuary attracts several scientists, environmentalists, educators and students throughout the year. They bring with them wisdom, knowledge, techniques and insights and their visits are a wonderful chance for us to explore issues of common concern with a very wide and informal network of individuals. And in addition, we collaborate with NGOs in the region in holding workshops for local school children—using the land, plants and animals at the Sanctuary to demonstrate and explore questions in ecology with the very young.
In this article, I would like to share some aspects of the Sanctuary’s residential programmes with regional schools, with whom we have jointly developed the whole concept of a ‘School in the Forest’. This term is in part derived from the title — Gurukula—and is very much the original inspiration under which the place was founded - as a forest retreat and a place of learning. In ancient India students went to live in the homes of their teachers which were usually in remote quiet places, perhaps in the woods. In this quiet and conducive natural setting, a variety of disciplines were explored —through the act of living and learning together. In our case, the Gurukula, or the ‘house of the teacher’ includes—the forest, the garden with its colourful assemblage of plants and animals, the river, the monsoon climate and also the community of humans in which children and adults can live, participate and share responsibilities for varying lengths of time. Thus, community life at the Sanctuary involves the daily care of other living beings and a consistent and playful enquiry about the wild natural community of which people are also a part. Children have come to the Sanctuary and made the place their home and a very critical aspect of all this is that they learn to listen and look and take great interest in the various creatures they share their daily space with.
The main intent of ‘The School in the Forest’ programmes is to provide a diverse and challenging exposure to a way of life that is intimate with nature and natural processes. The stay at the Sanctuary includes a number of different and complementary aspects. Attention is given to the quality of the whole day, from dawn to dusk, to rhythms of other living beings, to chores and jobs around the garden and kitchen, quiet study of habitats or species, health and physical activity (swimming, tree climbing, outdoor forest games), investigation and discussion. Usually children join in with little or no resistance, especially on their second or third visits, by which time they have overcome their initial inhibitions with the wild and also established a rapport with the residents and the place itself.
One reason why we have welcomed these residential programmes is that working, functioning and living in nature demand an alertness of the senses and the ability to look afresh at what is going on around one. We feel it is of critical importance for youngsters to develop a different quality of relationship with the natural world and this process requires time. Nature moves in unpredictable ways, never static, always new, revealing deeper patterns and principles. To engage fully with this involves looking and listening, an agile body and a quiet, non-judgemental and yet intensely alert mind. This takes time to develop and most children, whatever their background come upon this slowly if given some playful guidance and space. All of this is of value, wherever one is, in manual work, academic study, human relationship, travel....whatever. Our thesis is this: that the loss of such qualities is part of the severance of the connection between humanity and wild nature.
We have been wondering—is it possible to draw out young people’s inherent sensitivity and readiness to look and learn through observation of and participation in nature? Awakening the most primary mode of learning, direct experience and first hand awareness, is too often ignored in education, especially as the child grows older. Contact with the primary gets progressively shaded out as abstract learning takes over, too early in our opinion, and often with detrimental results. This may be one factor leading to disconnected, disoriented and uprooted 36 immediate environment, nor for things or people. We, thus, attempt to create a space for learning that enables the discovery of something new and original, of spontaneous perception, engagement and enquiry as can indeed happen when immersed in nature and natural processes—even for short periods of time. We don’t begin by giving them lots of knowledge and information—rather we take them out first and let perception and wonder blossom into compassion, action and applicable knowledge.
This ‘back to nature’ form of learning, has a second component that is of great relevance too. Making sense of the world around, articulating one’s observations and concerns, raising questions and communicating are all critical aspects of learning. Seeing connections and reflecting upon them, expanding the capacity of the brain by allowing its very different intelligences to flower help to generate a‘rootedness’ to the earth. There are so many fascinating dimensions to explore with the children as their own windows open— heightened awareness, body-kinesthetic abilities, interpersonal skills, linguistic and intellectual abilities, as well as aesthetic and artistic sensibilities.
If direct experience is woven together with sharing and reflecting and enquiry it to do with being very close to a subject, so close that you suspend your own judgement and watch the subject free of ideation and pre-conceived assumptions—be it the river habitat, or the bird community, or the plant—until it tells you its story. This becomes extraordinarily intimate—if given time and space—and this intimacy with creation in its vaster aspects or its more minute details has the possibility to bring about a truer and more active compassion. If you add to this the incentive that children feel as if they are active participants in research, that they are assisting and enabling the work of the Sanctuary by bringing in their observations and questions, then the zest for nature study doubles. They are not to be underestimated in their acuity of perception nor in their abilities as field investigators. If you want to undertake a study of ants or birds or whatever, just invite a whole bunch of children to help you widen and deepen the pool of knowledge of local natural history. The children become your extended eyes and ears, assistants and junior scientists in a joint exploration and discovery of the natural world.
Thus, the understanding of nature requires a direct involvement, in whatever way. This can happen in city parks, with a home garden, or trips out to the wilderness but what is essential is the building up of care, involvement, curiosity, activity, responsibility, over time, which begins with a slow tuning in to the cycles and rhythms of the natural world.
Does observation really bring about learning? People differ in their opinions about this, especially in a world that is dominated by the intellect and technology, where individuals, even in rural areas, are subject to third-hand, trickled-down bits of information, which bear no relevance to their immediate world. We believe we have not even touched upon the potential of direct observation—which we suspect is vast—especially for the very young. The trend is to fill them up with colourful books and hi-tech films on nature very quickly and the electronic, virtual or printed media become the only gateway to a world that is vital, dynamic, rich and beautiful. Rather, we wonder, can the young mind be awakened to the muse of the forest, to the incredible complexity of tropical life, to the fragility of this ancient ecosystem and to the fact that there is no separation between humans and nature? And, once initiated, can this connectedness be sustained?
By observation so far I have been including the action and involvement of all the senses—as the senses are a fundamental component of our earth-bound existence and of ourselves as physical beings. It is through the senses that we relate to the world at large. Looking, listening, touching, tasting, smelling—bringing these together through games, activities, explorations opens the doorway into a different and more integrated mode of functioning. This seems to give children a degree of selfconfidence, self-awareness and also a boost to their natural liveliness and spontaneity.
Our residential programmes grew slowly, bit by bit over time—quite organically—as our main focus has always been on the local outreach programmes. Also, we never had the idea that it could build into anything significant as most schools are ready to send their children away on trips for a few days at most.
However, one school took the initiative, because a few of the teachers were very struck by the beauty of the forest and the possibility that children could develop a more caring relationship with the environment. So they, Centre For Learning, asked if they could send about 10 students, (around 13 years of age) in 1993, for three weeks to the Sanctuary. They came along with books, teachers and homework, so that they wouldn’t miss out on their regular curriculum. We essentially provided a kind of a physical support structure, took them on walks, and organized a few activities here and there. At first there was quite a lot of reluctance and fear that we had to deal with—the leeches, the immersion in wilderness, the lack of physical conveniences (we had no electricity, television etc.) the sheer over-powering quality of the forest.
That was the first trip. It went well enough that they sent their children again, and again. Each time the programmes became more detailed and more investigative. They grew more comprehensive in the range of processes included, especially as our own skills improved. Other age groups came. And at one stage, the whole school visited the Sanctuary, in different groups, for varying periods of time, including all the teachers, the youngest 6 year olds and the seniors. Some very lovely documents came out at the end. Log books, stories, maps, caricatures, poems, tables, illustrations— very different representations of natural phenomena—but all valid and rooted in the perceived and perceptual field.
For example: a one month stay of 11 year olds involved a detailed study of the bird life of the Sanctuary. Three to four hours of bird watching everyday over a month yielded huge amounts of information on diversity, behaviour, feeding, and habitats. Another group of 15 year olds investigated ants for a fortnight. We took their work into the entomology lab of Centre for Ecological Sciences in Bangalore and were told that this was excellent science. All observations were valid and relevant and the only thing we had to ensure was that we didn’t mix up species, which is quite difficult to do with ants! This led to further projects on insects in general—the different orders, their peculiar life habits and cycles, habitats, movements and so on.
Finally the oldest students at the school were sent for a three-month immersion in simple living—they built their own thatch hut, managed and took care of a piece of land, did lots of natural history observations, some craft work (as they made their own mats and tools and ladles). Into this physical, land based, natural context were woven in daily lessons in ecology, globalization, environmental and personal health, questions about careers and sustainable livelihood, the relationship between self and society, energy issues and farming.
Lest you assume that all this is happening with only one school—I would like to add that although it took one school to develop the whole programme of nature education to such a comprehensive and sustained depth—the relevance of it has been picked up by other schools who are now ready to send their children for similar programmes. And in the last few years other schools have participated in our residential ‘School in the Forest’ programmes. This year a school for disabled children has asked to come, an NGO working with village youth, as well as arural school and a network of educators. Being small we can handle only certain numbers. Also as the programmes are so intensive they can only really happen with a maximum of 10–15 children at a time. However, it’s extremely encouraging that schools in south India are increasingly seeing the relevance of this kind of learning, particularly as they are able to use it back home in different ways, and particularly as it doesn’t in any way affect exam results! The really keen schools are the ones who are seriously concerned about the environmental crisis. They see the relevance of a learning situation where conservation is not an abstract idea, but rather a daily living reality through the care and interaction with other life forms and that this brings about a dynamic involvement with the environment..
Working with all these different individuals and groups, local, regional, young, old, on day visits or longer stays through all these years has brought about a wonderful spirit of learning and care and common ownership of the Sanctuary. Children turn up on holidays with parents and friends in tow—and introduce them to environmental issues. There is a slow but definite multiplier effect—young gardeners and budding ecologists, teachers, farmers and travellers—who not only take away with them this sense of a marvelous, beautiful and vital world needing care and responsible participation from its human members, but also bring with them a joy and enthusiasm that nourish the place itself. In a world that is otherwise dominated by the intellect and by increasingly unnatural and unsustainable pressures of living, there are few opportunities to explore a more basic and spontaneous mode of being. This, tragically and inexorably, leads to separation from other people, the environment, society and even oneself. It is this fragmentation and separation that we seek to address through the work with nature and young people at the Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary.
First Published in Journal of the Krishnamurti Schools
Under the Title School in the Forest – Educating the Young at the Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary
Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary - And the forest came back! This film by the Swedish documentary filmmaker Boris Ersson is part of a series of films he is producing about people who dedicate their lives to saving some of the finest forests on earth. The film project is called "The Forest In Our Hearts". This film won the first prize in the nature and environment category at the Nashik International Film Festival in 2015.
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"Solidarity according to women" Regained Freedom Film Festival
Balassi Institute
"Solidarity according to woman" by Piotr Śliwowski and Marta Dzido
Regained Freedom International Film Festival - A film festival that marks 30 years of freedom in Eastern Europe, the Baltics and the Balkans.
The programme proposes a deep reflection on the past: the selection focuses on the historical moment of 89, presenting the circumstances that led to, the way of life during and the events that triggered the changes from the totalitarian and communist regimes. All this from distinct perspectives, with movies from eight different countries.
"Solidarity according to women" by Piotr Śliwowski and Marta Dzido is presenting how the former regime shaped the life of the people of Poland.
About "Solidarity according to women"
This documentary is a story about the brave Polish women whose wisdom and determination helped bring about a change of the political reality in Poland. Marta Dzido, co-director, born in 1981, symbolic daughter of the Solidarity movement, makes an attempt at locating and reinstating women who were written out of recent Polish history
The screening will be followed by Q&A with prof. Ireneusz Krzemiński, Polish sociologist.
> Where? Balassi Institute - Treurenberg 10, 1000 Bruxelles - map
> When? Friday 22 November at 19:00
> Free entrance under registration here
> Language: Film: Original version (Polish) with English subtitles - Discussion: English
Thanks to the partners: Balassi Institute in Brussels and Polish Science Contact Agency (PolSCA) in Brussels.
Regained Freedom Festival: http://www.brusszel.balassiintezet.hu/en/film-fest-30/
PolSCA: http://polsca.pan.pl/en/
Balassi Institute: http://www.brusszel.balassiintezet.hu/en/
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BackYou are here: News India Police Killed Villagers, Say Gompad Witnesses
Police Killed Villagers, Say Gompad Witnesses
A charred wooden stake and three graves are all that remain of the Madavi family in this remote village in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district.
"Madavi Kanni was lying face down in front of the burnt house," said an eyewitness. "She had been slashed with a sword and shot in the chest." The bodies of her father, Madavi Bajar, her mother Madavi Subbhi and her 12-year-old sister Madavi Mutti, were found under a tree, 50 metres away.
Testimonies collected by The Hindu from Gompad allege that a composite force of Adivasi special police officers and security force regulars appeared on the outskirts of the village in the early hours of October 1, 2009. "We ran away when we saw the force," said the witness, speaking on condition of anonymity. "We found the bodies when we returned."
"The police killed my brother, Soyam Subaiah, and fatally stabbed his wife, Soyam Jogi," said Soyam Bhadra, pointing to the courtyard where the bodies were found, "They also killed Madavi Venka and burnt two houses."
The Hindu interviewed Madavi Laccha, son of Madavi Venka, in January this year. Lachcha claims he saw uniformed men shoot his father in their cowshed, as he ran into the forests.
In all, nine Adivasi villagers, including two visitors from Bandarpet, were killed at Gompad that morning. The villagers' testimonies corroborate statements filed by 12 villagers and Himanshu Kumar in a writ petition filed in the Supreme Court. The petition accuses the security forces of killing two villagers from the neighbouring villages of Velpocha and Nalkathong, along with the nine at Gompad, on October 1, 2009, and holds them responsible for the deaths of six villagers at Gachanpalli on September 17, 2009.
In an interview on February 3, Director-General of Police of Chhattisgarh Viswaranjan denied all accusations and emphasised the willingness of the Chhattisgarh police to investigate the case.
Police sources in Raipur told The Hindu that security forces had entered the forests surrounding Gompad on September 30 2009 , a day preceding the massacre. The source could not confirm when the forces returned to their barracks. The source's information is lent credence by an IANS report that quotes Dantewada SP Amresh Mishra as saying two Maoists were killed on October 1, 2009, Nalkathong, - an area not far from Gompad.
Scattered details of the Gompad massacre have circulated across the thickly forested region of the Konta block in Dantewada district. Details of the post mortem, conducted by the police on January 23, have flashed from village to village - particularly the extraction of bone samples from the corpses. "Why are the police removing the bones?" asked a villager from Maitha. The samples were extracted to establish the identities of the victims.
Adivasis from the villages of Gompad, Velpocha, Nalkathong and Maitha admit that the area is a stomping ground for naxals and the security forces alike. Unverifiable information from local journalists claims that naxals were present in the vicinity of Gompad the night before the massacre, but left before the forces arrived.
A naxal flyer signed by the South Bastar Regional Committee, picked up by this correspondent in Bijapur district in February, refers to the Gompad killings and demands that the CRPF and the Koya Commandos be brought before a people's court.
As reported in The Hindu, the police have assumed total control of the movements of at least three of the 12 petitioners of writ filed in the Supreme Court: Sodi Sambho, who was shot in the leg at Gompad, was picked up by the police on January 3 this year. The other petitioners, Soyam Dulla and Soyam Rama, were picked up from a public hearing organised by an NGO in Dantewada on January 6 and have not been seen at the village since.
Madavi Kanni's husband, Kattam Dulle, and her infant son, Kattam Suresh, were also present at the hearing, as was Sodi Sambho's husband - Sodi Bhadra. They have not returned to Gompad as of date. "My father, Soyam Dulla, is a petitioner in that case," confirmed Soyam Bhadra. "We have not seen him since he was picked up the police on January 6 in Dantewada."
On February 15, the Chhattisgarh police produced the three petitioners in court in New Delhi. Solicitor-General Gopal Subramanium de facto admitted that the petitioners had been under police control, when he stated that the petitioners faced threats as they were perceived as police informers, and the police had made efforts to protect them.
Villagers in Gompad disputed police claims that Soyam Rama, Soyam Dulla and Sodi Sambo were perceived as police informants. "No one has issued any threat," said a villager, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
Surgical glove wrappers litter the graveyard on the outskirts of Gompad, evidence of the post mortem conducted last month. Scraps of discarded clothing hang on a tree overlooking the graves of the Madavi family. "When the doctors exhumed the bodies, they removed the clothes and left them on the tree," a villager said. The clothes, which could contain evidence of bullet holes or DNA samples, have been exposed to the elements for over a month.
The Madavi family has proved inseparable even in death. Their graves lie side by side: Subbi and her husband Bajar were buried in the same grave, as were Kanni and her sister Mutti. In an adjacent grave lies Madavi Venka.
(The Hindu, 21st February)
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Tony Rickardsson
speedway_history
Tony Rickardsson Jan 23, 2009 22:09:10 GMT 1
Post by speedway_history on Jan 23, 2009 22:09:10 GMT 1
17.08.1970, Grytas, Sweden
British Clubs:
Ipswich (1991-1994, 1997, 1998)
Kings Lynn (1999)
Poole (2001-2004)
Arena Essex (2005)
Oxford (2006)
Year..Clubs..Meetings..Rides..Points..Bonus..Average..Maxima
1991..Ipswich..22..109..209..13..8.15..1F
1992..Ipswich..27..133..259..18..8.33..2F..1P
1994..Ipswich..2..10..23..2..10.00..1P
1997..Ipswich..13..67..163..6..10.09..1P
1998..Ipswich..46..255..618.5..41..10.35..3F..9P
1999..King's Lynn..34..181..416..20..9.64..4F..4P
2001..Poole..35..171..393..20..9.66..3F..3P
2002..Poole..35..186..500..6..10.88..11F..1P
2004..Poole..11..54..136..11..10.89..1F..2P
2005..Arena Essex..7..35..86..2..10.06..1P
2006..Oxford..7..34..83..0..9.76..1F
Honours:
World Under 21 Finalist (1990)
Swedish Champion (1990, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2005)
World Finalist (1991, 1992, 1993, 1994)
World Pairs Champion (1993)
World Champion (1994, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2005)
World Team Cup Champion (1994, 2000)
World Cup Winner (2003, 2004)
GP Rider (1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006)
Nordic Champion (1992)
Czech GP Champion (1998, 2005)
German GP Champion (1998)
Swedish GP Champion (1998, 2002)
Division 1 Riders Champion (1998, 2002)
British GP Champion (1999, 2001, 2005)
Danish GP Champion (1999, 2001, 2002, 2005)
Polish GP Champion (2000)
Norwegian GP Champion (2002, 2004)
European GP Champion (2003, 2005)
Slovenian GP Champion (2004, 2005)
Italian GP Champion (2005)
Czech Golden Helmet Winner (1992, 1993, 1995)
Autograph:
News References:
2003..Team news
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I just joined a gym. There’s a 24-Hour Fitness in the shopping center right across the street from our new place. It’s like a three minute walk away, so I have no excuse for not going. I plan to go at least four times a week. [determined look] We’ll see how this goes.
Our new place really isn’t big enough for working out, though; it has more square footage than our old place, but the footprint is much smaller (the whole three-story thing) so there’s not much room in any one room/area for walking around, which was most of what I was doing last year. I’m past the point where my joints seize up in the middle of walking, though; if I keep the speed down, that doesn’t happen anymore, so I’m not restricted to just walking back and forth inside like I was before last year, when I never knew when I was going to need to sit down Right Now. I’ve also progressed beyond my five-pound hand weights; they still work, in that enough reps of pretty much anything will get you aching, but it’ll be more efficient to have access to a wider variety equipment.
We signed up for three personal training sessions, where someone who knows what they’re doing will take us around and have us try various things, figure out what we should do, how many and at what weight/setting/whatever, and kind of set things up. I haven’t had a weights class in ages, and they have different equipment than my college did anyway, so that’ll be handy.
[Yes, I said “we” — Jim signed up too. I’m only committing for myself, though, and I expect I’ll go more often than he will just because I have more time. Jim can blog about it on his own if he wants. [grin]]
The 24-hour part means I can go whenever I want, which is great. I’m often at my freshest and most energetic in the middle of the night, so being able to go work out then will be good.
Anyway, I’m looking forward to this, and hopefully posting about it will keep me from slacking off, LOL!
Posted on March 14, 2010 Categories chat
I’ve been getting a lot of hits on these posts, so if you’ve just wandered in off the internet, hi and welcome. 🙂 I do these posts every month, so if this post isn’t dated in the same month you’re in, click here to make sure you’re seeing the most recent one.
Markets with specific deadlines are listed first, “Until Filled” markets are at the bottom. There are usually more details on the original site; always click through and read the full guidelines before submitting. Note that some publishers list multiple antho guildelines on one page, so after you click through you might have to scroll a bit.
Non-erotica/romance writers: check out Way of the Wizard, Triangulation, Music for Another World, and Sword and Sorceress.
31 March 2010 — The Way of the Wizard — Prime Books
(a) The story should be about a wizard, witch, sorcerer, sorceress, of some kind (basically, any sort of user of magic).
(b) The fact that the story has wizards in it should be vital to the story, i.e., magic should be an important factor in the resolution of the plot.
(c) The wizards should be literal, in that they do actual magic, not like a pinball wizard or something like that.
(d) I’m interested in all types of wizard tales, but am especially interested in seeing some stories that explore the idea of wizardry from a non-traditional viewpoint–i.e., something based on the Chilean Kalku or on the supernatural practices of other cultures.
(e) The story may be set in a secondary world, the real world, the present, or in a historical time period…let your imagination run wild.
Genres: Fantasy/Science Fiction/Horror. Obviously wizard stories tend to be fantasy, but some sort of SFnal take on the theme would be acceptable.
Payment: 5 cents per word ($250 max), plus a pro-rata share of 50% of the anthology’s earnings and 1 contributor copy.
Word limit: 5000 words. (Stories may exceed 5000 words, but $250 is the maximum payment per story, and stories 5000 words or less are strongly preferred.)
Rights: First world English rights, non-exclusive world anthology rights, and non-exclusive audio anthology rights. See my boilerplate author-anthologist contract, which spells out the rights in detail.
31 March 2010 — Ghost Stories — Drollerie Press
Who doesn’t love a good ghost? Drollerie Press is seeking short stories and poetry for an anthology of ghost stories. They may be set in any location and at any time. The stories should be between 5 and 20k in length, but longer or shorter may be considered. Poetry should not be longer than three pages, double-spaced.
Your story may contain cross-genre elements, such as romance, or science, but should definitely include strong horror elements. This is an anthology intended for an adult audience, but each work will be chosen based on its own merit and how well it will fit with the rest. In other words, avoid extremely violent and/or erotic or gentle and/or sweetly romantic tales.
Each author may submit up to 3 stories, but only one will be accepted per author. In this anthology, as in all Drollerie Press works, inclusive representation is important to us. Authors may be from, and stories may be set, anywhere in the world. Characters of any race, creed, or sexual orientation are encouraged.
Compensation is an equitable distribution of royalties based on word count. Publication will be in ebook, with trade paperback to follow if warranted by sales.
Submissions for this anthology may be sent by email to submissions @ drolleriepress.com and should contain “GHOST” in the subject line. Review and response will occur after submissions are closed.
31 March 2010 — Triangulation: End of the Rainbow — PARSEC Ink
We define “short fiction” as “up to about 5,000 words or so.” If you have an awesome story that exceeds 5K then by all means send it; but be warned that we have yet to accept anything for publication much longer than 5000 words.
We dig flash; there is no minimum word count.
We have no interest in getting more specific about the term “speculative fiction.” Science fiction, horror, fantasy, magic realism, alternate history, whatever — if there’s a speculative element vital to your story, we’ll gladly give it a read.
We love creative interpretations of our theme, “End of the Rainbow”. Don’t ask us what it means — tell us what it means with a story that convinces us you’re right.
We will run mature content if we like the story. So make sure there’s an actual story in that mature content.
We will gladly consider reprints. If the story ran someplace obscure, then it’s probably new to our readers; and if it ran someplace high-profile, it’s probably really good. Either way, we win!
Compensation: We pay two cents per word (USA funds, rounded to the nearest 100 words, US$10 minimum payment) on publication and one contributor’s copy. The anthology will be published in late July of 2010. We purchase North American Serial Rights, and Electronic Rights for the PDF downloadable version; since we’re cool with reprints, we really don’t care whether we have firsties. All subsidiary rights released upon publication. Contributors will also have the option of purchasing additional copies of the anthology at-cost, exact price TBD.
How To Submit: Electronic submissions make our lives easier. Please send your story to editor@parsecink.org. Please put your subject line in the format of “SUBMISSION: Story Title” so we can tell you apart from the spam.
We’ll consider stories ONLY in the following formats:
* .odt (OpenDocument Text — format used by the OpenOffice.org suite) — preferred format
* .rtf (Rich Text Format — generic document format that most word processors can create)
* .doc or .docx (MS Word — we’re not crazy about it, but let’s face it, it’s the one most people actually use)
[This has been ruthlessly edited for space, but there’s a lot more; definitely check their web page for more details.]
1 April 2010 — Not My First Rodeo — Torquere Press
[No link — this was announced on the Yahoo list, but isn’t posted on the web site yet.]
Two guys, one girl, and a western theme. Cowgirls, cowboys, ranches and rodeos and maybe a little history. That’s the idea behind Not My First Rodeo. We want loving relationships and happy endings, though all sensual heat levels are welcome. Preferred length is 8,000 to 12,000 words. Payment is a flat fee of $75.00 for first time print and electronic rights. Deadline for submission is April 1, 2010. Please submit the story, along with a synopsis, your contact information, and author biography to submissions@torquerepress.com with “Not My First Rodeo” in the subject line.
1 April 2010 — Cherry on Top — Torquere Press
Following up Cherry, one of our most popular anthologies, Cherry on Top is all about first times, with an extra special twist. Imagine the first time a studly top dominates someone. Or get all revved up by a first-time bottom, giving it up for someone who rocks his world. Funny or sweet, smoking hot or tender, make it all about what happens when the boys try something brand new. Stories for Cherry on Top should be sexy, romantic male/male tales, and may include light BDSM. Stories should be between 3000 and 8000 words long, and should be submitted in full with a synopsis and author biography. Send submissions to submissions@torquerepress.com with “Cherry on Top” in the subject line. Payment is a $35.00 flat fee for first time electronic rights. No reprints, please.
15 April 2010 — Cock Cage — Torquere Press
Three-story mini-anthology of short, sexy stories on the theme, 3-8K words, 35%/25% of cover price from publisher’s site/vendors, divided among the three authors.
30 April 2010 — Steampunk Romance Anthology — Samhain Press
Welcome to the world of clockwork pendants and steam locomotives, corsets and lace, dirigibles and difference engines. Yes, we’re talking about steampunk, where fantasy, history, technology and romance mix to create a glorious genre that looks at Victorian and Edwardian Era England and the American wild west through brass goggles.
I’m open to M/F, M/M, or multiples thereof, any sexual heat level, and the romance must end happily ever after or happy for now.
The novellas must range between 25,000 to 30,000 words in length, no more, no less—please note, only manuscripts that fall in this word count will be considered for this anthology—and will be released individually as ebooks in November 2010.
To submit a manuscript for consideration, please include:
The full manuscript (of 25,000 to 30,000 words) with a comprehensive 2-5 page synopsis. Please include a letter of introduction/query letter. Full manuscripts are required for this as it is a special project.
As well, when you send your manuscript, please be sure to use the naming convention Steampunk_Title_MS and Steampunk_Title_Synopsis. This will ensure that your submission doesn’t get missed in the many submissions we receive, and makes it easy for me to find in my ebook reader.
30 April 2010 — Music for Another World — Mark Harding
I’m looking for Fantasy and Science Fiction Stories. I am quite broad with definitions, but a fantasy story must have an element of fantasy, and a science fiction story must contain an element of science/technology and speculation about science. I like merged-genre stories, but be warned that I don’t want the anthology dominated by ‘slipstream’ stories.
Story length is ideally between 2000 and 6000 words. However, I will consider stories outside of this range.
The unique points:
Music must be integral to the story: for example, the story might be about music, or the life of musicians, or the effect of a musical instrument, or perhaps a piece of music — or anything else that I haven’t thought of!
This next requirement is equally important. I’m not only looking for great characters, great plot, great entertainment and great prose, but I’m also looking for stories that are intellectually exciting. This is something Science Fiction and Fantasy is best equipped to deliver, so I am going to be explicit about wanting this in the anthology.
What I’m NOT looking for:
A story where the author has changed the lead character from a schoolteacher to a musician, or where the magical object has been changed from a cursed handbag to a cursed violin. Music MUST be integral to the story. If the musical element can obviously be exchanged for something or someone else — brilliant though the story may be — it won’t fit my anthology.
I’m also NOT looking for:
Gore-fests
Mozart fighting zombies
Electronic submissions only, in RTF format. Email to mark.musicanthology’@’gmail.com
Payment: One free copy of the paperback plus £80 per author selected. Payment by Paypal only.
14 May 2010 — Sword and Sorceress 25 — Ed. Elizabeth Waters, Norilana Books
Reading period: Saturday, April 17 to Friday, May 14, 2010. Stories received before or after this period will be deleted unread.
Response time is expected to follow MZB’s traditional standards: you should hear within a week if we’re holding your story for the final line-up or rejecting it.
Deadline: May 14, 2010.
Length: up to 9,000 words, with preference given to shorter stories. The longer a story is, the better it has to be. Long stories should be submitted early in the reading period.
Formatting and Submission:
Format with one-inch margins on all four sides of page.
Please do not use a header or footer.
Your name, full mailing address, and email address must be in the upper left corner, single spaced.
Skip two lines, center the text, then put the title, with your name (or byline) on the next line. We’re not going to be as rigid as MZB was about pen names, but we expect them to be reasonable, rather than cute.
The rest of the manuscript should be single-spaced, with the first line of each paragraph indented 1/2 inch.
If you need to indicate a break, put “#” on a line by itself, centered.
Do not underline; use italics instead. Do not use bold face. We prefer Courier New font, size 12.
Word count will be determined by our word processor; that way it will be the same for everyone.
Save your document as an .rtf file (rich text format or interchange format, depending on what your computer calls it). E-mail as it as an attachment to mzbworks at yahoo dot com. The subject line should be “SS25, your last name, story title” (e.g.: SS25, Bradley, Dark Intruder) — we don’t want submissions caught in our spam filter.
Rights purchased: first rights, non-exclusive eBook rights.
Payment: 5 cents per word as an advance against a pro rata share of royalties and foreign or other sales.
15 May 2010 — Blood Play — Torquere Press
1 June 2010 — Working Stiffs — Amber Allure
Series Type: Gay (M/M) — Blue-Collar Love Affairs
Novella Length: 18,000 to 39,999 words
Heat Level: 3+ (Love scenes should be extremely explicit and contain graphic language. Stories may also contain sexual situations or storylines that push the envelope — heavy bondage, spanking, as well as menage, domination and submission, multiple sexual partners, etc.)
Specific Guidelines: Each novella for this “picture/series” should feature at least one blue-collar hero (regardless of industry), who’s a hard-working laborer considered “good with his hands” both at work and at play, and tell the tale of his love affair with a man of his own social class/standing (or maybe not�that’s entirely up to you). Although stories should have a contemporary setting only, they may also be sub-categorized as romantic comedy, suspense or thriller, action and adventure, as well as BDSM. But once again, please keep in mind that at least one of your heroes must be “blue-collar” worker, just the sort of hero depicted in the above photograph. Moreover, all stories should have a “happily ever after” ending, or at least what is considered a “happily for now” conclusion.
Email Address: After preparing your documents according to the “General Submission/Formatting Info” listed above, please submit the full manuscript, synopsis, and query letter to: submissions_workingstiffs@amberquill.com
[Heavily edited for space — definitely click through for specific guidelines, and take note of the peculiarities in manuscript formatting.]
UNTIL FILLED — MM and Menage Steampunk Antho — Phaze
Call: M/M and Menage Steampunk Anthology, Title TBA
Edited by: Leigh Ellwood
Projected release date: late 2010
Format: eBook (with possible print release)
Publisher: Phaze Books
Payment: $50 for one-time electronic and print rights, plus copies
Hey, all you steampunk enthusiasts, grab your goggles and get to writing! Phaze Books is planning an M/M (and bi-M menage) steampunk collection for eBook publication in 2010. If you have a yen for 19th century history with a touch of good humor and technological innovation (and a whole lot of manlove!), we hope you’ll send us your hottest steampunk erotic romance of 10K – 20K words. If you’re not sure about the genre, check out this Wikipedia entry for steampunk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk) to get an idea of the style of stories we’re looking for. Think H.G. Wells or Wild Wild West, then turn up the steam factor with an incredible M/M or MMF/MMM match-up!
This call is open indefinitely until the spots are filled. Contributors will offer one-time electronic and print rights to their works and receive a one-time payment of $50 and contributors copies (eBook and/or print, if the book goes to print).
To submit to this anthology, please follow the Phaze Books structural guidelines at http://www.phaze.com/submissions.html and attach your RTF submission to Leigh Ellwood, c/o Phaze Books at submissions @ phaze (dot) com. Please use STEAMPUNK ANTHOLOGY is your subject header.
UNTIL FILLED — Panverse Three — Ed. Dario Ciriello, Panverse Publishing
The anthology will be open to submissions until we have enough good stories.
Looking for pro-level novellas of between 17,500 and 40,000 words. Stories should be Science Fiction (except Military) or Fantasy (except Heroic/High/Superhero/S&S). We’ll also look at Magic Realism, Alternate History, and Slipstream (whatever that is). The story should be original and unpublished in any medium (this includes web publication).
Depth of characterization will count for a lot – however clever the idea, if we don’t care for the protagonist, we’ll bounce it. We like stories that instill wonder. Subject matter is pretty wide open. If we care, can’t put the story down, and find no big holes in the plot or worldbuilding, you’ve got a good shot.
What we don’t want:
Military SF, High Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, Horror, RPG, superhero, or shared-universe stuff, etc. Vampires and Cthulhu-mythos stories are strongly discouraged unless you’ve done something absolutely original with either theme. No gratuitous or wildly excessive sex or violence: what this means is that sex or violence which serves the plot is okay, within limits; the same goes for language. Think R-rated rather than XXX-rated.
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So the move went as well as these things do. We managed to cram four suitcases, two laptop cases, my husband’s other kit bag, the three boxes of books and stuff we’d mailed to the hotel, the five bags of stuff leftover from the kitchen (our hotel room had a kitchen, ’cause we didn’t want to have to pay for restaurant food for that many weeks), plus other miscellaneous stuff we’d accumulated in the thirty-one days we were at the Seattle Alexis, all into a town car at one time so we only had to make one trip, yay. I had a heavy box on my lap the whole way, but luckily it was only about fifteen minutes.
We got there a little after 8am, and the movers arrived at around 9:15 or so, which wasn’t bad. I spent the next five hours or so at the kitchen counter with a bunch of inventory sheets in front of me, checking off numbered items while the four movers called said numbers to me. There were 362 items in the inventory. Less six or eight voids, that’s still over 350 items. Most of them were boxes. Most of the boxes have books in them.
According to the movers, most people have like one or two boxes of books, max. I can’t imagine living like that, but there you go; I always knew we weren’t normal.
Oh, and have I mentioned the room we’re using as a library (the master bedroom, ’cause really, do you need more room for your bed or your books?) is on the third floor? The guys really earned their pay that day. 🙂 Hey, one of the models we looked at had four stories, so the guys lucked out. I was sure to tell them that. [innocent humming]
But seriously, Seattle’s a fairly old (meaning developed) city, built on extremely uneven ground. There are slopes and ravines and various other non-horizontal stretches of ground pretty much everywhere. It doesn’t look full because there’s so much land with just trees on it, but it really is, and there are houses built in places which require like fifty stair-steps just to get from the sidewalk to the front door. (The movers charge extra for this, understandably.) But what this means is that new construction tends to be on very small chunks of land spotted here and there around town, and it tends to go vertical. Every condo and townhouse we looked at was at least three stories tall. That’s just how it is up here, with builders trying to max out the number of units per plot of land; they’re minimizing the footprint of each unit, and building up. I guess that means the movers up here are used to it. I’m just glad we weren’t doing this with a rental truck and a bunch of friends. 😛
So they hauled all our stuff in, wrapped up around 2:30 or so, and took off. I hadn’t had any sleep the night before, so I crashed, and woke up about fifteen hours later. That felt really good.
That night, I’d planned to unpack the kitchen, since it’d be nice to be able to start cooking again, with my own stuff.
[Hint for folks planning hotel stays who are thinking this kitchen thing sounds cool: I’ve now stayed in kitchen-rooms at three hotels, and the tools provided universally suck. There aren’t many, and the quality of what’s there is incredibly low. The Alexis doesn’t even provide bowls (cereal? soup? what’s that?) nor plastic containers for leftovers. If you’re going to be there longish-term, bring some of your own favorites, and/or be ready to go out and buy a few things.]
[Hint for hotel management: you have a standard inventory for your in-room kitchens, right? Post it on your web site, so guests know what to bring.]
Anyway, I started unpacking and discovered that we actually have less cupboard and drawer space than we did in Long Beach. :/ The pantry has a bit more space than our old pantry, so I can put some things which were in cupboards before into the pantry, but that’s still not enough. I’m thinking we’re going to have to get some (more) shelving units and/or one of those metal standing cupboard-things to go in the garage, for kitchen things I don’t use regularly. Right now, I’m sorting out things that can go in the garage, and figuring out where I want the things that have to live in the kitchen.
I also still need to sync my main computer (this one) with my laptop (which I was using for the last month and a half). When we arrived here from the hotel, I was carrying the laptop cases and such, so I put them in the closet in the computer room. There are some shelves in there, and I figured they’d be out of the way. Well, they were. They were also buried behind approximately three hundred pounds of boxes, which were back-filled into the closet as stuff was moved into the computer room. [headdesk] The spousal unit was nice enough to dig my laptop out for me last night, so I can transfer stuff across and start writing and cetera again, yay!
We have a new couch, and the washer and drier came, but the TV isn’t coming until Friday. It’ll be great to have it, though; Jim’s legally blind and has to be really close to see the TV. The one on order should be big enough for him to see while sitting on the couch with me, rather than sitting in a kitchen-type chair right up next to the set, which was what he was doing before. [crossed fingers]
Someone’s coming on Thursday from 3-Day Blinds [waves to neighbors] so we can get something up on the windows eventually. And we’re going to get like twenty bookcases (plus the overflow-kitchen-stuff cabinet/thingy for the garage) but haven’t actually ordered them yet.
And through it all we’ll be unpacking. I’m sure we’ll be doing that for a very long time. Heck, there are things we still had in boxes from our move to the condo, which just lived in their boxes because we never had space to unpack them and put them anywhere else. I’m sure it’ll be the same here with at least some things. When Jim retires and we move again O_O we’re going to need like 4000 square feet or something, LOL! We’re determined eventually to be able to put everything away, though, darnit!
In the eleven years we lived in the condo, I’d forgotten just how much work unpacking is. I can only do it for short periods of time before I get tired and my back starts getting really insistent about stopping and sitting for a while. I think it’s one of those things the subconscious deliberately buries, so people will be willing to move again some day. Hopefully I’ll have forgotten again by the time retirement rolls around. 🙂
Angie, heading back up to the kitchen to unpack another box
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Ulrickson's Free Throws Send Men's Basketball Past No. 21 Amherst, 72-71
Amherst (5-0) 36 35 71
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Pts: Michael Riopel - 20
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Pts: Nick Comenale - 15
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BABSON PARK, Mass.—Sophomore Shyheim Ulrickson (Topsham, Maine) knocked down three free throws with 0.5 seconds remaining to help Babson College defeat No. 21 Amherst College, 72-71, in non-conference men's basketball action on Thursday night at Staake Gymnasium.
With the win, Babson improves to 5-4 on the year, while Amherst falls to 5-1 overall.
Senior Nick Comenale (New York Mills, N.Y.) paced four players in double figures with 15 points and eight rebounds, while junior Brandon Johnson (Mount Vernon, N.Y.) finished with 14 points and seven boards. Ulrickson had 13 points to go along with career highs of eight assists and seven rebounds, and first-year Andrew Jaworski (Tolland, Conn.) chipped in with 12 points for the Beavers.
Senior Michael Riopel (Nassawadox, Va.) finished with 20 points, six rebounds and five assists to lead the Mammoths. Classmate Johnny McCarthy (Medfield, Mass.) and first-year Fru Che (Somerville, Mass.) both scored 12 points apiece in the loss.
The Green and White used a 14-2 run that included three-pointers from Ulrickson, Comenale and sophomore Frank Oftring (North Attleboro, Mass.) to build a 23-11 advantage less than 10 minutes into the contest. Amherst tied the game at 32-all thanks to a 15-5 spurt, but the Beavers outscored the Mammoths 12-4 over the final four minutes of the half to take a 44-36 lead into the locker room.
Babson's biggest margin of the second half came at 48-38 following a Johnson layup with 17:09 remaining. Riopel knocked down three-pointers on four straight possessions though, as Amherst took its first lead since early in the first half at 53-51 with 13:44 left. The momentum was short-lived as a four-point play by Jaworski and a three-point play by Oftring were part of a nine-point run that gave the Beavers a 60-53 lead with 12:10 to go.
The Mammoths used an 11-2 run to go back in front 64-62 on a bucket by Sellew at the 4:31 mark. The lead changes hands five times over the next three minutes as Johnson put the Green and White up 69-68 with 2:31 to go. Following empty trips at both ends, first-year Tim McCarthy (Medfield, Mass.) buried a deep triple from the right wing to push Amherst ahead 71-69 with 35.9 seconds left.
Ulrickson grabbed an offensive rebound of a missed shot by senior Bradley Jacks (Fort Washington, Md.) with 23 seconds to go and then chased down an errant pass before being fouled on a running three-point attempt just before time expired. He calmly stepped to the line and drilled all three shots at the charity stripe to seal the victory.
Babson returns to action on December 29 when it travels to Bates at 1 p.m., while Amherst visits Lasell on Saturday at 3 p.m.
• The Beavers are 14-24 all-time against Amherst and picked up their first home win over the Mammoths since 2010.
• Babson connected on nine of its 12 three-point field goals in the first half.
• The Green and White is 1-2 this season in games decided by five points or less this season, and 5-1 on the year when leading or tied with five minutes to go in the game.
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A folding chair and a patch of dirt is all I need to be happy. Oh, and a can of beer of course. While shiny new gastropubs and deluxe beer bars open from coast to coast, a few choice spots are celebrating a return to simpler times, when drinking needn’t be surrounded by trappings more befitting the QE2.
And so it was that I found myself sitting under a shady oak tree, in a dirt and gravel mixed yard, seeking refuge from the merciless Texas heat. Of all the great drinking moments I had in 2011, chilling at the aptly named Friendly Spot outside of downtown San Antonio was unparalleled. The open-air style bar uses a converted ice house as its core, a throwback to an earlier era when such rudimentary refrigeration operations kept beer cold for customers to take-away. Sitting in what one Beer Advocate called “a park with a bar” while enjoying a Ranger Creek Smoked Mesquite Porter is about as good as it gets. In this glorified backyard, with its laid-back, no frills charm, all of the pretense so perverting modern beer drinking falls away, revealing only the comfortable, essential core experience.
While ice house bars are a particularly Texas invention, other cities around the country have their own dialed back character. In my hometown of Chicago, neighborhood bars have long influenced the city’s unique personality. A place still replete with bars (as opposed to restaurant-pubs where food must be served), where you can stop by for a drink by yourself and not catch side-glances of disapproving judgment, is increasingly difficult to find. But even this history is now under attack, with local politicians and interloping yuppies less inclined to have a hundred-year-old public house mucking up the property values of their just built condos. The loss of the engaging spirit of the neighborhood pub will leave Chicago a new achromatic, dispirited shade of itself.
Community drinking experiences needn’t always start with long-standing, brick-and-mortar operations. As with many ideas that shift from West to East in the United States, San Francisco is engaging in a remarkably simple yet creative civic experiment to bring use to vacant spaces or lots awaiting funds or permits for further development. Considered a placeholder until the construction of a permanent structure, the city’s Proxy project allows creative grassroots entrepreneurs to create temporary and pop-up communal gathering places, ranging from coffee stands to full-scale beer gardens.
Similar in concept to the wildly popular food truck movement, these low-cost operations allow proprietors to quickly open their spots without many of the start-up hassles that plague more established outfits. The concept is brilliant for its revitalization of unused parcels, such as vacant tracts and under-used parking lots, and for its ability to build a communal vitality otherwise absent from urban voids. In a time where temporary is the new permanent, as the Atlantic recently put it, such creative bureaucratic thinking also encourages hard-working entrepreneurs to engage the public in a host of new creative ways.
Moving beyond entrenched pubs and novel new spaces, governments can help create more interesting communal spaces through a relaxation of alcohol licensing. Born of puritanical restraint following Prohibition, America’s liquor laws have long appeared peculiarly prudish to international audiences. Belying the continuing governmental hesitance to allow a relaxation of tight-fisted blue laws, some municipalities, from Asheville to Austin to Denver, have demonstrated that softening restrictions on beer and wine licenses has led to the responsible enjoyment of alcohol in respectful new spaces.
Divorced from community and public culture, drinking becomes less than it should be. When alcohol becomes socially acceptable to consume only when chaperoned by food, going out becomes a near-entirely utilitarian experience, one that is goal driven, namely to eat, drink, and then leave. There’s nothing wrong with sitting on a plastic chair in a shady yard, enjoying a beer, surrounded by other cheerful citizens.
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Australia has formally end up being the 26th nation to legalise same-sex wedding following the legislation ended up being handed down Thursday using the overwhelming backing of this Federal Parliament.
Thirteen years after changing the Marriage Act to clearly forbid same-sex unions, federal politicians voted to undo the final major little bit of discrimination against homosexual and lesbian Australians.
It accompanied final thirty days’s emphatic quality for the Australian public into the postal study to become listed on all of those other English-speaking globe by adopting wedding equality.
The vote within the House of Representatives, moments before 6pm on Thursday, arrived after the other day’s vote when you look at the Senate, meaning what the law states has passed away both homes of Parliament.
Liberal MP Warren Entsch hugs work MP Linda Burney because they celebrate the passage of the Marriage Amendment Bill within the House of Representatives. Credit: AAP
“Australia did it. Exactly just just What per day for love, for equality, for respect,” declared a jubilant Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, whom punched the atmosphere as he called it a historic time for the country.
“This belongs to all of us. This really is Australia – fair , diverse, filled and loving with respect for almost any certainly one of us. It has been outstanding, unifying day within our history.”
Later, Mr Turnbull place the momentous reform that is social exactly the same category given that 1967 referendum to count Indigenous individuals into the census, and stated he had been proud it happened under their leadership.
Fairfax Media knows a unique conference of this Executive Council happens to be needed Friday early early morning for the Governor-General to officially sign the balance into legislation.
Federal Government marriage that is gay Tim Wilson and Warren Entsch embrace as Trent Zimmerman watches on. Credit: Alex Ellinghausen
Attorney-General George Brandis suggested what the law states would formally alter on Saturday, enabling same-sex partners to lodge a Notice of Intended wedding from this week-end.
The minimal notice duration is 30 days, meaning the initial lawfully recognised same-sex wedding could simply take put on January 9.
Liberal MPs Jane Prentice, Tim Wilson and Warren Entsch endure an indicator saying “Ryan said yes”. Credit: Alex Ellinghausen
Just four MPs voted resistant to the modification, and so clear was the result that the count that is formal not necessary. A small number of MPs – including previous minister that is prime Abbott and Treasurer Scott Morrison – made a decision to abstain.
Whenever vote ended up being announced on to the floor of your home, the loaded gallery that is public into cheers and applause, while MPs crossed the chamber to embrace each other, waive rainbow flags and perhaps cry.
The general public galleries suffered applause that is rapturous a few moments and finally burst right into a rendition of i will be, you will be, Our company is Australian. Some also chanted “Warren!” referring to Liberal MP Warren Entsch, a long-time homosexual liberties advocate and ally.
Many well-known homosexual and lesbian Australians had been current to witness the moment that is historic including Olympic swimmer Ian Thorpe and actress Magda Szubanski.
” just What a moment that is extraordinary” Szubanski stated. “whenever we viewed all those people proceed to the ‘yes’ part of the home, we thought Canberra was going to tip over.”
Thorpe, whom struggled together with sex for several years and arrived on the scene publicly in 2014, stated it had been a day that is”momentous for young homosexual and lesbian individuals.
“we now have produced an Australia this is certainly more equitable, more reasonable and much more simply, which is the sort of spot that more Australians desire to see,” he stated.
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten stated he ended up being “humbled” by the momentous event and “privileged” to engage in it.
“this is simply not it is about Australians and Australia, the LGBTIQ people and their families and their partners,” he said immediately after the vote about me or the other 150 members of Parliament. find russian brides https://bestrussianbrides.org/ “we’re telling them: we love you, you are equal.”
The direct path to Thursday’s vote began two years ago when the former Abbott government announced it would settle the question of same-sex marriage by a public plebiscite while gay rights campaigners have fought for marriage equality for decades.
Mr Turnbull continued that policy, however it had been obstructed by opponents within the Senate. The us government later opted to keep a voluntary postal study asking: “Should the legislation be changed to permit same-sex partners to marry?”
Australians voted “yes” to that concern by 61.6 per cent to 38.4 %, prompting the federal government to permit a free vote in Parliament, which offered Thursday.
The four MPs to vote from the modification had been Queensland independent Bob Katter, and Coalition MPs Keith Pitt, David Littleproud and Russell Broadbent. As the votes are not formally tallied, it absolutely was clear within the chamber that near to 130 MPs voted “yes”.
It adopted an extended day’s debate over proposed amendments to Liberal senator Dean Smith’s same-sex wedding bill, a lot of them place ahead by conservative Coalition MPs opposed to change. All amendments had been comfortable beaten by work, the crossbench and several Liberals including frontbenchers Christopher Pyne and Kelly O’Dwyer.
There have been psychological scenes in Parliament home following a vote, as work senator Louise Pratt hugged her partner Bek and flagged their intention to marry. “this means the entire world to us,” she said. “we have been attempting to this day for really a, actually very long time.”
Veteran rights that are gay Rodney Croome devoted the triumph to people who had campaigned over several years, including those that had died ahead of the law ended up being changed. Their activism and lobbying had “built a hill from where our legislators could actually begin to see the truth,” he stated.
Alex Greenwich, the NSW parliamentarian whom co-chaired the Equality Campaign, said: “We arrived, we saw, and love finally conquered. Wedding equality is finally the statutory legislation of this land so we are incredibly pleased with Australia.”
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Post by Lancer » Thu May 09, 2013 8:03 pm
Hockey Widow wrote: I'm not talking about wiener fans on blogs either. Guys like Ron McLean went to great lengths to entice this sort of thing when he went on his rants against the Canucks and in particular Burrows. They have a responsibility to now step up and tell it like it is.
I really really do not understand all the Canucks hatred. Maybe my glasses are too rose coloured but every time I hear the nonsense I just shake my head. So to all you haters out there, how can any of you justify what the Shark players did with their obvious embellishment?
Yeah, with all the embellishment and diving going on and yet only Vancouver has the rep and the refs against them. Having said that, I think people are starting to cotton on to some of the other teams like Boston (that YouTube clip was priceless).
You're right, though. Until the media start embarrassing the league and its officials by calling a spade a spade when they see one, they'll get away with murder.
Love the Sport. Love the Team.
Hate the League.
Post by Doyle Hargraves » Thu May 09, 2013 9:23 pm
Hockey Widow wrote: I really really do not understand all the Canucks hatred.
That's funny because I DO understand why other teams, coaches, players, fans and media hate this team and if I didn't live in BC I would hate them myself.
As I said time for a bowel wash and to eliminate the feces.
Out : Kesler, Lappy and Burrows
Also out but not weasals : Luongo, Manny, Raymond, Pinnizotto,Barker, Alberts, Booth and Ballard. Might as well toss Sestito in there as well.
Unless they hit a home run with Edler I keep him and see what he can do under a new coach. You don't give away talent like that.
The two frenchmen and the angry Yank HAVE to go. And AV as well obviously.
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Post by wafflecombine » Tue May 14, 2013 8:30 am
donlever wrote:
wafflecombine wrote:
Lastly, there really should be some type of performance review on refs to keep them honest but also grow their skill.
Every game is reviewed by a supervisor and the film and comments are then analyzed with the refs in question.
There is apparently a performance scale and those marks result in post season games, games next season, important games worked et cetera.
Guys can find themselves out of the league if there skills are constantly charted at the bottom of the graph.
So, the problem is not the process because it is in place.
The problem is the people who are involved i.e. the power brokers of this stupid league and the arrogance of all involved.
It would be nice if the performance reviews were made public. I know its not going to happen for privacy reasons but it would be nice to see if jack-wagons like Sutherland really do get called to the matt during reviews.
Post by Topper » Tue May 14, 2013 8:45 am
No. Like judges they need performance reviews and discipline to remain confidential.
Fans will see what games and rounds of the playoffs the referee is assigned to in the future and will have an idea how the process is working.
Anything more than that only undermines the referee's position as judge/jury/executioner.
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Post by Tciso » Tue May 14, 2013 9:47 am
ODB wrote: ...but everyone knows I had AV's number two years ago. I was one of the very, very few that said he should have been fired after the run the team made to the finals in spite of him being constantly out coached.
I wanted AV fired after he was out-coached 4 years ago against Chicago 2 playoffs in a row. He had a great run to the Finals, but his weaknesses as a playoff coach were evident the 2 seasons beforehand. Great regular season coach, fwiw. Maybe a team that needs regular season success to get some fans back shwould pick him up.
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Lancer wrote: Until the media start embarrassing the league and its officials by calling a spade a spade when they see one, they'll get away with murder.
The media is full of shit too. How often is a bad penalty ever re-played during a game? almost never. It's like it didn't happen. The broadcasters cover it up. Look at effen Fraser's assessment on Sedin's penalty in OT. He says it -had- to be called, even if the ref is 150 feet away and the ref 10 feet away says nothing. The media does a crappy job of "assisting" the league in making a better product.
On really bad calls, the refs should huddle like they do in the CFL, and say "on review, there was no penalty on the play". That alone would make the calls better.
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Post by the Dogsalmon » Tue May 14, 2013 10:05 am
Tciso wrote:
i agree that the huddle might work...following that drop the puck in a neutral zone...
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Post by Jovocop » Tue May 14, 2013 10:23 am
Seriously, the media (especially TV) will never have the balls to go against the league. When it comes to contract renewal, the media will have a hard time negotiating with the league. There is no such a thing called freedom of speech. If a player, a coach, a GM, or even an owner says something bad about the league, he will be punished. Burrows broke the CODE and the Canucks will never get the BENEFIT OF DOUBT.
Post by dbr » Tue May 14, 2013 11:02 am
Tciso wrote: The media is full of shit too. How often is a bad penalty ever re-played during a game? almost never. It's like it didn't happen. The broadcasters cover it up. Look at effen Fraser's assessment on Sedin's penalty in OT. He says it -had- to be called, even if the ref is 150 feet away and the ref 10 feet away says nothing. The media does a crappy job of "assisting" the league in making a better product.
Honestly what do you expect: "Boy, that penalty call was atrocious. Just goes to show how little integrity there is left in this league, frankly it's hard to stomach- uhh, stay tuned though, especially through the commercial break.."
Post by black ace » Tue May 14, 2013 11:50 am
I thought it was awesome last night when Hughson questioned why there was no penalty on Lucic for the hit from behind but there was on Sedin. Refs call that penalty and the Bruins are done so they dont want to decide the game yet in OT......
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Post by vic » Tue May 14, 2013 3:52 pm
2010 for me, after the 2nd straight embarrassing loss to CHI.
Then again after losing to Boston (yes, even though they made it to G7 of the SCF), piss poor coaching decisions in Round 1 and games 3-7 in the Final after he lost Rome and Hamuis.
Then again after last year's loss to LA and his own admission of not being prepared to play the Kings.
Now? If AV is behind the bench next season, I won't be watching.
Post by Meds » Tue May 14, 2013 8:16 pm
Tciso wrote: On really bad calls, the refs should huddle like they do in the CFL, and say "on review, there was no penalty on the play". That alone would make the calls better.
Problem with that is that in the CFL and NFL the flag is thrown, the play continues, and if, after the officials conference, it is deemed that there is no penalty on the play, then the next play is started where the last play ended.
In hockey how does that work? One official holds up his arm indicating a delayed penalty. The goaltender goes to the bench and the extra attacker comes out. Now it's a man advantage until the soon to be penalized team touches the puck. If the attacking team scores on the play and it is ruled there should have been no penalty then what do they do? Call it back? Well how can they, the attacking team did nothing wrong, they are entitled to have 6 men on the ice, the goaltender being out for the extra attacker is a legal play at any point during the game. However, no coach, and no goaltender, are going to make that call in the middle of a game unless they know that the other team cannot score because as soon as they touch the puck the play is dead. The defending team doesn't have a leg to stand on in this case because they were defending just the same as they would have in either situation. With a pending call coming their way they may even have gotten away with being a bit more aggressive.....
So they now waive off a completely good goal because they indicated a penalty, that they were going to call back, but is now nullified by the goal anyhow?
The referee huddle/conference is a system that can't work effectively in a game that doesn't stop and go play to play like football.
That being said, I do think that one official should be able to overrule the other official with the final say going to the referee who was closest to the play and had the best view on the call. It would mean some of these NHL refs putting their egos on the shelf in favor of getting the correct call made on the ice and bettering the game.
Aaronp18
Post by Aaronp18 » Wed May 15, 2013 8:25 am
Meds wrote: That being said, I do think that one official should be able to overrule the other official with the final say going to the referee who was closest to the play and had the best view on the call. It would mean some of these NHL refs putting their egos on the shelf in favor of getting the correct call made on the ice and bettering the game.
What if they treat it like an icing.
The closer ref has the ability to "waive off" a penalty call from the other ref. Then they can consult at the first stoppage in play and decide if it actually is a penalty or not.
The whole point of the two ref system isn't to call more penalties, it's to get the calls correct!
donlever
Post by donlever » Wed May 15, 2013 8:49 am
..why are both of them watching the same fucking thing?
What's the fucking point?
A different goddamn hockey talk messageboard!
donlever wrote: ..why are both of them watching the same fucking thing?
Good point, the back ref should be watching the play away from the puck.
But we see how well that's working.
If they give the refs the ability to waive off calls it would be great, maybe we see the first ref vs. ref fisticuff!! That's entertainment.
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Religion: manifestly non-religious
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First Appearance: Action Comics (vol. 1) #442 (Dec. 1974): "The Midnight Murder Show!"
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Leaders challenge Soldiers: 'Earn your cake'
By C. Todd Lopez
WASHINGTON (June 07, 2016) -- The Army's 241st birthday is but a week away now, and Army leaders are saying of Soldiers "let them eat cake" ... but only if they're going to burn off the calories with some robust physical training.
Under Secretary of the Army Patrick J. Murphy, a Soldier for Life, and Sgt. Maj. of the Army Daniel A. Dailey will both earn their cake and eat it too. And they will both burn off those calories during Army birthday week as part of the "Earn Your Cake" campaign, which involves Soldiers recording 15-30 seconds of their own workouts -- a demonstration of how they will "earn" the cake they eat during Army birthday week -- and then sharing those videos with Army social media
During Army birthday week, senior Army leadership encourages Soldiers to share on social media the physical training activities they do to burn off the calories they'll consume from eating Army birthday cake. Soldiers can share their workout clips via social media at Twitter #EarnYourCake and #USArmy, and also on Facebook at www.facebook.com/USArmy. They can learn more about the campaign at www.army.mil/Birthday.
"Everybody loves cake," Murphy said. "But you have to get after it physically, so you aren't packing on the pounds. 'Earn Your Cake' is something we are pushing out there to make sure people know that while we are going to take time to celebrate on our Army birthday, that doesn't preclude the fact you have to earn it. You have to get after it every morning, before the sun rises, and push yourself so you are physically fit, so that you are a warrior and ready to answer the call against our enemies."
Dailey echoed Murphy's sentiment, saying "a day in the Army without PT is like a birthday without cake."
Soldiers can share their workout clips via social media at Twitter #EarnYourCake and #USArmy, and also on Facebook at www.facebook.com/USArmy. They can learn more about the campaign at www.army.mil/Birthday.
"The campaign is a great way to show Americans our commitment to being fit to fight tonight, if they need us," Dailey said.
Both Murphy and Dailey claim the upper hand when it comes to who'll do better at earning and burning the calories in the big slabs of sponge and buttercream frosting they'll consume at the multiple cake cuttings held in the D.C. area for the Army's birthday.
Already this month, the undersecretary nabbed a swipe of frosting off the sword used to cut a cake in honor of the 100th anniversary of the ROTC program. That wasn't even part of the Army birthday. Whether he later had an actual piece of that cake is unknown.
There will be an Army birthday cake on Capitol Hill, June 15, and one at the Pentagon, June 16. There will also be cake involved during Army birthday-related events in Philadelphia as well, after Murphy and the Dailey conduct a demanding PT routine alongside Soldiers of the Pennsylvania National Guard and celebrity Chef Robert Irvine the morning of the Army birthday -- June 14.
While in Philadelphia -- the birthplace of America's Army -- Murphy and the SMA will also do some rappelling down the side of a downtown building.
Videos of that can be expected to make the rounds on social media shortly afterward.
Murphy said he's got a lock on PT the SMA can't hope to touch.
"We need the SMA to still drink milk, take his vitamins, keep working hard," Murphy said of Dailey. "And then someday he might be able to be a champion like myself. But, you know, I definitely, no doubt, have bigger arms than he does. But, you know, I think he might run a little faster than me, so it's going to be a good competition going into the Army birthday."
He said he's also got the inside scoop on Dailey's plans to undercut his PT prowess with social media trash talk.
"I was in the intelligence community for a long time when I was a U.S. congressman," Murphy said. "And my intel sources are telling me the SMA is about to talk some smack on social media to me. So we will see. And we will respond in kind. But, you know, I follow the Powell Doctrine. We all have a clear mission. I use overwhelming force to accomplish that mission. And I have an exit strategy. My mission will be that, you know, let SMA know that I'm the man. And to be the man you have to beat the man -- to quote the great Ric Flair."
Dailey said of Murphy that he doesn't stand a chance of out-PTing him.
"I heard USA Murphy says he's going to use overwhelming force to beat me at PT," Dailey said. "He's going to need overwhelming force to wake up before 9 a.m. We in the Army have a saying: we do more before 9 a.m. than most people do all day. And we've been doing it for 241 years. This reminds me of my favorite quote from the late, great, Muhammad Ali: 'If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.'"
Murphy said PT, like sleep and nutrition -- all three parts of the Performance Triad -- are part of the individual readiness that ensures the Army is ready to fight the nation's wars when called upon to do so.
"We need to make sure that on an individual basis, every Soldier is ready to fight tonight," Murphy said.
Murphey said it's very important for each member of the team to make themselves as ready as possible for the next mission, but the unit and Army overall must prioritize readiness every day.
"On a unit level, also as an institution, we need to make sure we are doing what's necessary to take the fight to our enemies and to win," Murphy said
During the Army birthday week, Murphy said he hopes that Americans recognize that their Army is "America's varsity team."
"We're the ones that answer the call from the president of the United States, or a governor, to answer our national challenges," Murphy said. "These young men and women who join our ranks are the best that America has to offer."
And for Soldiers, he said, he wants them to remember just how far the Army has come in 241 years.
"This gives us a chance to reflect on our history," Murphy said. "But also, to re-dedicate ourselves to be the best professional fighting force this world has ever seen, and we owe it to the next generation to make our Army even better."
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For as long as I can remember, any time I attended a charity ride in the Kansas City area, I could count on seeing Mike Johnson. At many events, especially those sponsored by the Harley Owners Group (H.O.G.), Mike was a hard-working volunteer. I was recently saddened to learn of Mike’s passing after a long illness. Along with his family and a host of friends and fellow riders, I will miss him greatly.
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The morning of 6th November was a sad morning. When MAMI ends, it is always depressing. Everything feels dull. And the heart longs for more of that madness. This time I was sadder than ever. However, there is a reason why the festival must end. Not only there is a limit to one's mental and physical exhaustion, there is work to do. Watching all these films during this week inspires and humbles you at the same time. And it is important that you use this feeling to create something. Perhaps for the first time in all seven editions of this festival, I started work on the very first morning. A New Year has begun for me. And despite the sadness, life goes on. It must.
My first MAMI was in 2009. The seven editions of the festival have made me watch 217 movies. For the record, here is the breakup: 2009 (34), 2010 (27), 2011 (28), 2012 (31), 2013 (33), 2014 (33), and 2015 (31). An average of 31 movies per festival. That sounds reasonably good.
So as we wait for MAMI 2016, which begins on the 20th of October, here are my recommendations from this year's festival. I have divided the recommendations into four categories. Read on to know why.
Despite watching several good movies, I could not watch some which generated very strong response from the audience. So I'm recommending these films based on what I heard:
Land and Shade (2015/ Colombia) by Cesar Augusto Acevedo: Camera d'Or winner at Cannes
Room (2015/ Canada-Ireland) by Lenny Abrahamson: People's Choice Award at Toronto
Taxi (2015/ Iran) by Jafar Panahi: Golden Bear winner at Berlin
Now, let me talk about those that I did see. Following are the movies which may be difficult to watch and those not exposed to the diversity of world cinema may not be able to endure it. But these are unique and highly rewarding experiences and I must recommend them:
Aferim! (2015/ Romania) by Radu Jude: a dark comedy cum road movie with a difference
Arabian Nights: Vol. 1, 2 and 3 (2015/ Portugal) by Miguel Gomes: extremely painful to watch with its runtime of 6 hours and 20 minutes but it is unlikely you will ever see anything like this
The Assassin (2015/ Taiwan) by Hou Hsiao-Hsien: very difficult to watch but once you get what the director is trying to do, you will enjoy it
Blood of My Blood (2015/ Italy) by Marco Bellocchio: weird, to say the least, but unforgettable
The Forbidden Room (2015/ Canada) by Guy Maddin: one of the most bizarre, self-indulgant and unique films ever made and, if you can bear it, one of the most entertaining
Then there were movies fairly accessible to a film-festival audience, but perhaps not that easy-to-watch for the uninitiated. Here goes the recommendation:
The Lobster (2015/ Ireland-UK-Greece-France-Netherlands) by Yorgos Lanthimos: brilliant concept and a sharp satire
My Mother (2015/ Italy) by Nanni Moretti: effortlessly moving, this movie is an understated masterpiece
Right Now, Wrong Then (2015/ South Korea) by Hong Sangsoo: unique structure and exceptional performances
Sleeping Giant (2015/ Canada) by Andrew Cividino: superbly entertaining and heartbreaking coming-of-age movie
Victoria (2015/ Germany) by Sebastian Schipper: the latest wonder in cinema
Youth (2015/ Italy) by Paolo Sorrentino: entertaining, insightful and pleasurable at every level
And then, there were some which are definite crowd-pleasers. If you love cinema, of any kind, it is likely that you will enjoy these movies. Reacting to these with hundreds of cinephiles will remain etched in my memory forever:
45 Years (2015/ UK) by Andrew Haigh: a subdued but brilliant drama, more relatable than most movies
Anomalisa (2015/ USA) by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson: inventive and yet relatable
The Brand New Testament (2015/ Belgium) by Jaco Van Dormael: my favourite movie this year, more joyful, wonderful, beautiful, insightful and hopeful than most movies you have ever seen.
Microbe and Gasoline (2015/ France) by Michel Gondry: supremely endearing movie on teenage life and friendship
The Second Mother (2015/ Brazil) by Anna Muylaert: my second favourite movie of the festival, the balance of plot, performances, and emotions is perfect.
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The two other films you have not mentioned are: "Mina Walking", a film shot with handheld camera, mostly hidden, tells the poignant story of a young girl "Mina". The second one is "Don't Tell Me the Boy Is Mad", a French Armenian film.
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satyanshu singh November 18, 2015 at 10:14 AM
Thanks for these recommendations Amlan Sir. Will try to watch these if possible! :)
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The Handmaid's Tale S01 to 02
Game of Thrones S01 to 08 (ALL)
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel S01
The Office (US) S01
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Breaking Bad S01 to 05 (ALL)
Grey's Anatomy S01
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Mumbai, Maharastra, India
1994 : Hum Aapke Hain Koun! (Got emotional)... 1998 : Satya (Got initiated)... 2001 : Lagaan (Got addicted)... 2003 : Got admission into Armed Forces Medical College, Pune... 2006 : Discovered the real cinema (World Cinema, Golden age of Hindi Films, Greatest American Films, Indian 'Parallel' Cinema...) 2008 : Completed MBBS and decided otherwise...life begins in Mumbai... 2010: Udaan (My First Flight)... 2012: Ferrari ki Sawaari (A little fun trip to a new professional territory )... 2013: Tamaash (A 32-min Kashmiri short-film to begin career as a director) Insha Allah!
Watchlist 2020
14. Antarjali Yatra (1987)
13. Sweet Rush (2009) (Re)
A12. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)
11. 1917 (2019) (Re)
C10. Jerry Maguire (1996)
C9. Young Adult (2011)
C8. Love & Mercy (2014)
C7. While We're Young (2014)
A6. 1917 (2019)
5. Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)
A4. Bombshell (2019)
A3. Richard Jewell (2019)
2. Sati (1989)
C1. Sleepy Hollow (1999)
200. The Favourite (Re) (2018)
D199. Touchez pas au gribi aka Hands Off the Loot (1954)
C198. 8 Mile (2002)
C197. The Lion King (1994)
A196. The Report (2019)
C195. Election (1999)
D194. Fantastic Planet (1973)
D193. King of Devil's Island (2010)
C192. Mikey and Nicky (1976)
A191. The Irishman (2019)
D190. A Town Called Panic (2009)
A189. The Two Popes (2019)
D188. Demonlover (2002)
A187. Klaus (2019)
Modern Love (Season 1)
The Crown (Season 3)
B186. I Lost My Body (2019)
D185. Casque d'Or (1952)
A184. Lady Bird (2017)
183. The Making of the Mahatma (1996)
A182. Knives Out (2019)
A181. Dolemite Is My Name (2019)
A180. Marriage Story (2019)
A179. Ford V Ferrari (2019)
B178. The Prayer (2018)
A177. Frozen II (2019)
B176. Atlantics (2019)
D175. Home (2008)
D174. Under the Sand (2000)
173. 5X2 (Re) (2004)
B172. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019)
171. Kumbalangi Night (2019)
D170. Criminal Lovers (1999)
C169. The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
D168. Pixote (1981)
167. Peranbu (2018)
166. Jallikattu (2019)
A165. Zombieland: Double Tap (2019)
164. Super Deluxe (2019)
C163. Hot Fuzz (2007)
C162. Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009)
161. Amy (2015)
C160. The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
B159. Sole (2019)
B158. You Will Die At 20 (2019)
157. Midnight Traveller (2019)
156. Midnight Family (2019)
B155. Bacurau (2019)
A154. The Beach Bum (2019)
B153. It Must Be Paradise (2019)
A152. The Lighthouse (2019)
A151. The Lodge (2019)
B150. Pain and Glory (2019)
D149. The Cremator (1969)
148. Alien (Re) (1979)
147. A Dog and His Man
A146. The Dead Don't Die (2019)
B145. Land of Ashes (2019)
B144. Buoyancy (2019)
B143. Vitalina Varela (2019)
142. Bitter Chestnut (2019)
B141. The Whistlers (2019)
B140. Les Miserables (2019)
A139. Ad Astra (2019)
A138. Greener Grass (2019)
B137. The Wild Goose Lake (2019)
B136. Deerskin (2019)
B135. Honeyland (2019)
134. Varda by Agnes (2019)
D133. La bete humaine (1938)
132. Aamis (2019)
C131. The We and the I (2012)
B130. System Crasher (2019)
D129. The Seventh Continent (1989)
D128. The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)
D127. Europa Europa (1990)
126. War (2019)
A125. Joker (2019)
C124. The Bigamist (1953)
123. Sir (2018)
D122. 24 City (2008)
121. Section 375 (2019)
C120. The Breakfast Club (1985)
C119. Buried (2010)
118. Dream Girl (2019)
117. Chhichhore (2019)
C116. The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
D115. Quai des orfevres (1947)
D114. Le corbeau (1943)
A113. Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood (2019)
B112. Love and Goodbye and Hawaii (2017)
111. Iranian (2014)
B110. Son of Joseph (2016)
109. Judgmentall Hai Kya? (2019)
B108. Knife + Heart (2018)
B107. Sarah Plays A Werewolf (2017)
D106. Cabaret Balkan (1998)
D105 Philanthropy (2002)
D104. Private Fears in Public Places (2006)
B103. Indivisible (2016)
A102. Toy Story 4 (2019)
C101. The Parallax View (1974)
100. Article 15 (2019)
A99. In Praise of Nothing (2017)
C98. Toy Story 3 (2010)
96. Toy Story (Re) (1995)
B95. Capernaum (2018)
D94. Going Places (1974)
D93. The City of Lost Children (1995)
C92. Cube (1997)
D91. The Beaches of Agnes (2008)
B90. Holiday (2018)
D89. Alexandria, Again and Forever (1989)
C88. Syriana
Fleabag S02
A87. Aladdin (2019)
D86. First Name: Carmen (1983)
D85. Jacquot de Nantes (1991)
C84. Robinson Crusoe (1954)
D83. Fat Girl (2001)
C82. Away from Her (2006)
B81. Zama (2017)
B80. The Other Side of Hope (2017)
C79. Morvern Callar (2002)
A78. Sorry to Bother You (2018)
A77. Brightburn (2019)
D76. The Little Soldier (1963)
A75. Good Time (2017)
D74. The History of the Pink Trunk (2005)
D73. Lulu femme nue (2013)
The Handmaid's Tale S02
Game of Thrones S08
B72. Love Education (2017)
A71. Suspiria (2018)
D70. Made in U.S.A. (1966)
69. U-Turn (2018)
D68. The Last Metro (1980)
C67. They Live (1988)
D66. Life is a Miracle aka Hungry Heart (2004)
A65. Avengers: Endgame (2019
D64. Le bonheur (1965)
D63. Queen of Montreuil (2012)
C62. Regeneration (1915)
D61. Face to Face (1976)
60. The Tashkent Files (2019)
C59. Sun Don't Shine (2012)
D58. Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998)
A57. Us (2019)
56. Punch-Drunk Love (Re) (2002)
D55. Natural Sciences (2014)
D54. Longing for the Rain (2013)
53. Baraka (1992)
C52. Pretty Woman (1990)
House of Cards S02
51. Mard Ko Dard Nahin Hota (2019)
50. Gone Kesh (2019)
49. Lakshya (Re) (2004)
A48. American Honey (2016)
D47. A Hundred and One Nights (1995)
D46. Leon Morin, Priest (1961)
D45. Le doulos (1963)
D44. Bob le flambeur (1956)
D43. La Pointe-Courte (1955)
A42. Captain Marvel (2019)
B41. Incident Light (2015)
40. Sonchiriya (2019)
C39. A Bucket of Blood (1959)
C38. The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)
B37. Let the Girls Play (2018)
36. Uri - The Surgical Strike (2019)
B35. Black Tide (2018)
34. Free Solo (2018)
B33. Mirai (2018)
B32. Shoplifters (2018)
A31. Vice (2018)
A30. Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
29. Gully Boy (2019)
28. Nights of Cabiria (Re) (1957)
A27. If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
A26. The Favourite (2018)
25. Roma (Re) (2018)
A24. The Wife (2017)
A23. Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
D22. The White Sheik (1952)
B21. Au poste! (Keep an Eye Out) (2018)
C20. (500) Days of Summer (2009)
A19. First Reformed (2017)
D18. Mauvais sang (1986)
17. Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Lagaa (2019)
B16. Pity (2018)
B15. El Amparo (2016)
C14. Paranoid Park (2007)
C13. Mary Poppins (1964)
D12. Playtime (1967)
D11. Tom at the Farm (2013)
D10. Laurence Anyways (2012)
C9. The Driver (1978)
A8. Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
C7. A Star is Born (1937)
A6. The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
C5. All or Nothing (2002)
D4. L'animale (2018)
D3. This Time Tomorrow (2016)
I2. Ek Din Pratidin (1979)
C1. Vera Drake (2004)
266. They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
A265. The Rider
B264. The 12-Year Night
D263. Hard Labor
A262. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse
D261. La Paz
260. Shirkers
A259. Love & Friendship
D258. Rebellion
C257. The Fallen Idol
C256. Scream
D255. Mr. Hulot's Holiday
A254. The House That Jack Built
B253. The Guilty
252. Man on Wire
D251. Jour de fete
B250. Aquarius
B249. The Insult
A248. Downsizing
B247. Foxtrot
246. Chaudhvin Ka Chand
A245. Cam
B244. Those Who Are Fine
B243. Loveless
A242. Call Me By Your Name
D241. The Four Times
D240. This is Not a Film
C239. Blue Valentine
A238. The Disaster Artist
A237. Green Book
A236. The Big Sick
C235. A Field in England
D234. Kung Fu Hustle
C233. Wendy and Lucy
D232. Joint Security Area
C231. Batman Begins
C230. My Blueberry Nights
A229. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
A228. A Private War
A227. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
D226. Mouchette
C225. Billy Elliot
224. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Re)
A223. Boy Erased
D222. City of Life and Death
D221. Zoran, My Nephew the Idiot
B220. In the Fade
C219. Carnival of Souls
D218. The Piano Teacher
C217. Prince of Darkness
C216. Near Dark
B215. Revenge
A214. The Endless
A213. The Death of Stalin
A212. Leave No Trace
211. Thugs of Hindostan
D210. A Room in Town
A209. Eighth Grade
B208. What Will People Say
A207. Thunder Road
D206. Lovers of the Arctic Circle
A205. High Life
B204. Woman at War
A203. Ruben Brandt, Collector
B202. A Land Imagined
B201. Cold War
A200. Maya
B199. Mug
B198. One Cut of the Dead
A197. The Miseducation of Cameron Post
A196. BlacKkKlansman
B195. Champions
A194. Mandy
B193. Roma
B192. Burning
B191. The Wild Pear Three
A190. Colette
189. Three Identical Strangers
B188. The Heiresses
B187. Climax
B186. Diamantino
B185. Hotel by the River
A184. In Fabric
B183. Fugue
B182. Border
B181. Birds of Passage
180. Badhai Ho
179. Tumbbad
A178. First Man
D177. The Fatherless
A176. A Star is Born
C175. Out of Rosenheim (Bagdad Cafe)
D174. Lola
C173. Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers
172. Village Rockstars
A171. Venom
C170. Zombieland
169. Pataakha
A168. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
A167. To All the Boys I've Loved Before
D166. Neighboring Sounds
165. Andhadhun
C164. Watchmen
163. Sui Dhaaga
B162. Nocturama
C161. The Naked Kiss
D160. In a Year with 13 Moons
D159. Immoral Tales
D158. Diva
C157. Scarlet Street
156. Manmarziyaan
D155. The Vertical Ray of the Sun
154. Ranam
C153. Hellboy
C152. JFK
D151. Howl's Moving Castle
150. The Past (Re)
A149. Green Room
C148. Funny Girl
A147. Searching
C146. Unbreakable
D145. Syndromes and a Century
144. Secrets and Lies (Re)
C143. Stories We Tell
142. Stree
C141. Sense and Sensibility
C140. Good Night, and Good Luck
C139. Up in the Air
B138. Alpha
D137. The Crime of Father Amaro
136. Bhavesh Joshi Superhero
C135. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
134. The Lost Weekend (Re)
133. Citizen Kane (Re)
C132. Superbad
B131. Wulu
D130. Unknown Pleasures
129. 21 Grams (Re)
C128. A Star is Born
C127. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
D126. The Bench
125. Breathless (Re)
C124. Margaret
C123. The Blair Witch Project
D122. The Misfortunates
C121. Spring Breakers
C120. Written on the Wind
D119. Submarino
C118. Mean Girls
117. Cuadecuc, vampir
116. Mulk
D115. Landscape in the Mist
C114. Trees Lounge
D113. Games of Love and Chance
C112. Tender Mercies
C111. Ghostbusters
D110. The Fire Within
C109. Factotum
B108. The Giant
107. The Verdict (Re)
B106. A Fantastic Woman
C105. Leaving Las Vegas
C104. Withnail & I
C103. My Name is Joe
C102. Walk the Line
C101. Days of Wine and Roses
D100. Port of Shadows
C99. Barfly
C98. Arthur
D97. Daybreak
D96. My Only Sunshine
C95. Fruitvale Station
D94. Code Unknown
A93. Logan
A92. Sicario: Day of the Soldado
91. Anvil: The Story of Anvil
90. The Bicycle Thief (Re)
A89. X-Men: Apocalypse
B88. Thelma
A87. Isle of Dogs
A86. Last Flag Flying
A85. The Tale
A84. X-Men: Days of Future Past
A83. Ocean's Eight
C82. The Wolverine
81. Three Colors: Red (Re)
80. I Am Not Your Negro
79. Spielberg
78. Sanju
C77. X-Men: First Class
76. Three Colors: White (Re)
A75. Incredibles 2
C74. Marie Antoinette
C73. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
72. Three Colors: Blue (Re)
A71. Hereditary
C70. X-Men: The Last Stand
C69. Bubble
C68. The Incredibles
C67. X2
B66. Phoenix
65. On Body and Soul (Re)
B64. Faces Places
C63. X-Men
C62. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
C61. Munich
C60. War of the Worlds
A59. Moana
C58. Fantastic Mr. Fox
A57. Annihilation
D56. Tropical Malady
A55. You Were Never Really Here
D54. Good Bye, Dragon Inn
53. Piku (Re)
D52. Le Havre
D51. Platform (Zhantai)
A50. Deadpool 2
B49. Goodbye to Language
A48. Deadpool
A47. 20th Century Women
A46. Avengers: Infinity War
B45. Grave (Raw)
C44. Beginners
D43. 35 Shots of Rum
42. Raazi
A41. Black Panther
C40. Sleepless in Seattle
39. Kapoor and Sons (Re)
B38. On Body and Soul
A37. A Ghost Story
C36. Notting Hill
A35. Thor: Ragnarok
A34. Spider-Man: Homecoming
A33. Certain Women
A32. mother!
A31. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
A30. Captain America: Civil War
29. Nude
A28. Ant-Man
A27. Avengers: Age of Ultron
A26. Guardians of the Galaxy
A25. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
C24. Thor: The Dark World
C23. Iron Man 3
C22. The Avengers
C21. Captain America: The First Avenger
C19 Thor
C18 Iron Man 2
17. Rang De Basanti
A16. Ready Player One
C15. The Incredible Hulk
A14. A Quiet Place
C13. Iron Man
A12. The Florida Project
C11. Ocean's Eleven
A10. Mr. Roosevelt
C9. Tropic Thunder
B8. The Square
A7. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
A6. The Shape of Water
A5. Darkest Hour
A4. Phantom Thread
3. Mukkabaaz
A2. The Post
A1. Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi
A142. Blade Runner 2049 (2017/ USA) by Denis Villeneuve
141. Ajji (2017/ India) by Devashish Makhija
140 Newton (2017/ India) by Amit Masurkar
A139. It (2017/ USA) by Andy Muschietti
138. 12 Angry Men (Re) (1957/ USA) by Sidney Lumet
A137. Logan Lucky (2017/ USA) by Steven Soderbergh
A136. Nocturnal Animals (2016/ USA) by Tom Ford*
D135. Funny Games (1997/ Austria) by Michael Haneke
A134. Paterson (2016/ USA) by Jim Jarmusch
C133. eXistenZ (1999/ Canada) by David Cronenberg
C132. Wolf Creek (2005/ Australia) by Greg Mclean*
C131. Berberian Sound Studio (2012/ UK) by Peter Strickland
C130. Nine Lives (2005/ USA) by Rodrigo Garcia*
129. Lipstick Under My Burkha (2017/ India) by Alankrita Shrivastava*
D128. Lore (2012/ Australia-Germany) by Cate Shortland*
C127. Smoke (1995/ USA) by Wayne Wang and Paul Auster*
D126. Alpine Forest (1985/ Switzerland) by Fredi M. Murer*
C125. Fort Apache (1948/ USA) by John Ford
D124. Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (1989/ South Korea) by Bae Yong-kyun*
C123. Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988/ UK) by Terence Davies* 28/7
D122. Monsieur Lazhar (2011/ Canada) by Philippe Falardeau*
B121. The Tribe (Plemya) (2014/ Ukrain) by Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi*
C120. Point Blank (1967/ USA) by John Boorman
C119. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937/ USA)
C118. The Band Wagon (1953/ USA) by Vincente Minnelli
B117. Hard to Be a God (2013/ Russia) by Aleksei German* 15/5
C116. West Side Story (1961/ USA) by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins
D115. The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967/ France) by Jacques Demy
A114. Dunkirk (2017/ UK-USA) by Christopher Nolan
A113. War for the Planet of the Apes (2017/ USA) by Matt Reeves
C112. Everyone Says I Love You (1996/ USA) by Woody Allen
A111. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014/ USA) by Matt Reeves
C110. Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011/ USA) by Rupert Wyatt*
C109. Planet of the Apes (1968/ USA) by Franklin J. Schaffner
B108. The Summer of Sangaile (2015/ Lithuania) by Alante Kavaite*
B107. The Lure (2015/ Poland) by Agnieszka Smoczynska*
106. The Missing Picture (2013/ Cambodia-France) by Rithy Panh* 8/3
A105. Baby Driver (2017/ UK-USA) by Edgar Wright
B104. Taxi Tehran (2015/ Iran) by Jafar Panahi
B103. Things to Come (2016/ France) by Mia Hansen-Love* 3/3
B102. Embrace of the Serpent (2015/ Colombia) by Ciro Guerra*
B101. Rams (2015/ Iceland) by Grimur Hakonarson*
D100. Summer Hours (2008/ France) by Olivier Assayas
C99. A Scanner Darkly (2006/ USA) by Richard Linklater
A98. Okja (2017/ South Korea-USA) by Bong Joon-ho
D97. War Witch (2012/ Canada) by Kim Nguyen*
D96. The Illusionist (2010/ France-UK) by Sylvain Chomet* 12/3
C95. Erin Brockovich (2000/ USA) by Steven Soderbergh
94. Grizzly Man (2005/ USA) by Werner Herzog
D93. Lilja 4-ever (2002/ Sweden-Denmark) by Lukas Moodysson
C92. District 9 (2009/ New Zealand-USA-South Africa) by Neill Blomkamp*
91. The Gleaners & I (2000/ France) by Agnes Varda
A90. Wonder Woman (2017/ USA) by Patty Jenkins*
A89. Frozen (2013/ USA) by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee*
D88. White Material (2009/ France) by Claire Denis
C87. Gladiator (2000/ UK-USA) by Ridley Scott
A86. The Lost City of Z (2016/ USA) by James Gray
D85. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005/ Romania) by Cristi Puiu* 12/4
C84. The Sugarland Express (1974/ USA) by Steven Spielberg
D83. Post Tenebras Lux (2012/ Mexico-France) by Carlos Reygadas
C82. Two Lovers (2008/ USA) by James Gray
C81. We Own the Night (2007/ USA) by James Gray* 4/3
C80. If.... (1968/ UK) by Lindsay Anderson* 40/7
A79. Get Out (2017/ USA) by Jordan Peele*
A78. Alien: Covenant (2017/ USA) by Ridley Scott
C77. Prometheus (2012/ USA) by Ridley Scott
D76. Fitzcarraldo (1982/ West Germany) by Werner Herzog
C75. Scarecrow (1973/ USA) by Jerry Schatzberg* 4/2
D74. Gate of Hell (1953/ Japan) by Teinosuke Kinugasa* 22/4
D73. Songs from the Second Floor (2000/ Sweden) by Roy Andersson
D72. Trouble Every Day (2001/ France) by Claire Denis
D71. Crimson Gold (Iran/ 2003) by Jafar Panahi
C70. Mysterious Skin (2004/ USA-Netherlands) by Gregg Araki* 4/2
C69. Birth (2004/ USA) by Jonathan Glazer
C68. Deep End (1970/ UK-West Germany) by Jerzy Skolimowski* 24/9
C67. Stardust Memories (1980/ USA) by Woody Allen
A66. Wiener-Dog (2016/ USA) by Todd Solondz
C65. Happiness (1998/ USA) by Todd Solondz
64. Baahubali II (2017/ India) by S.S. Rajamouli
63. Baahubali I (2015/ India) by S.S. Rajamouli*
A62. The Fits (2015/ USA) by Anna Rose Holmer*
C61. Gunga Din (1939/ USA) by George Stevens* 80/12
A60. Stoker (2013/ UK-USA) by Park Chan-wook
C59. Suspiria (1977/ Italy) by Dario Argento* 29/11
C58. Old Joy (2006/ USA) by Kelly Reichardt* 7/4
57. Mukti Bhawan (2017/ India) by Shubhashish Bhutiani*
A56. The Invitation (2015/ USA) by Karyn Kusama*
55. Angamaly Diaries (2017/ India) by Lijo Jose Pellissery*
D54. Inside (2007/ France) by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo*
D53. The Host (2006/ South Korea) by Bong Joon-ho
A52. What We Do in the Shadows (2014/ New Zealand) by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi
C51. The Cabin in the Woods (2012/ USA) by Drew Goddard*
C50. Scarface (1932/ USA) by Howard Hawks
C49. Nothing Sacred (1937/ USA) by William A. Wellman
A48. Kong: Skull Island (2017/ USA) by Jordan Vogt-Roberts*
C47. Wuthering Heights (1939/ USA) William Wyler
C46. To Have and Have Not (1944/ USA) by Howard Hawks
A45. Beauty and the Beast (2017/ USA) by Bill Condon* 9/6
44. Trapped (2016/ India) by Vikramaditya Motwane
C43. Greenberg (2010/ USA) by Noah Baumbach
B42. Toni Erdmann (2016/ Germany-Austria) by Maren Ade*
C41. Lola Versus (2012/ USA) by Daryl Wein*
C40. Misery (1990/ USA) by Rob Reiner
C39. Road to Perdition (2002/ USA) by Sam Mendes
C38. The Quiet Man (1952/ USA) by John Ford
A37. Patriots Day (2016/ USA) by Peter Berg*
C36. Black Narcissus (1947/ UK) by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
A35. Fences (2016/ USA) by Denzel Washington*
34. Arrival (Re) (2016/ USA) by Denis Villeneuve
A33. Jackie (2016/ USA-Chile) by Pablo Larrain
A32. Lion (2016/ Australia-UK) by Garth Davis*
A31. Manchester by the Sea (2016/ USA) by Kenneth Lonergan
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AUDIO: EVERYTHING I SEE— JASON JAMES FT. PHOEBE RAIN & N.A PAUL
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After being off the studio for a while, Nigerian Contemporary Gospel act, Jason James makes a great come back with the release of his first single for the year, 2018. The multi-genre act titles this one "Everything I see" in which he features assist vocals from Phoebe Rain and N. A Paul. On being asked what inspired the song, here's what Jason has to say:
"The song was written to reassure myself of Christ's love for me. It shows how Jesus is able to rescue and how He comes through when we call on Him and surrender. It's also an expression of my love for Him, but I can't still match His love."
The subtle Reggae groove was produced by foremost music maker, Russell Workz and is soothing to the mind, body and soul. Do Download, Share with friends and Share your opinion in the comment box below. Enjoy!
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Developing a sound relationship between China and the European Union — with both being champions of multilateralism and free trade — not only conforms to their common interests, but will also bring more stability, certainty and positive energy to the world, President Xi Jinping said on Monday.
Xi made the remark in a phone conversation with European Council President Charles Michel — their first conversation since the latter began his mandate as third president of the EU body on Dec 1.
As China and the EU resolutely safeguard the multilateral trading system with the World Trade Organization at its core, and both maintain that countries should act in line with rules, Xi said that given the current global situation, the two sides should strengthen coordination and cooperation to ensure stable development of their comprehensive strategic partnership.
He said China considers its relations with the EU from a strategic and long-term perspective. Xi stressed that both are partners for mutually beneficial cooperation rather than competitors in a zero-sum game, and China's development means opportunities for the EU instead of challenges.
China's EU policy will remain consistent and stable, and the country will continue to support the EU playing positive and significant roles in the international arena, Xi said, adding that he trusts the newly elected EU body will adopt a consistent and forward-looking policy toward China.
China stands ready to work with the EU to ensure exchanges scheduled to take place next year between the two sides will be a success, advance the alignment of the Belt and Road Initiative with the EU's Eurasian connectivity strategy, push for finalization of the China-EU investment agreement, fully and effectively implement the Paris Agreement on climate change and promote WTO reforms, Xi said.
Michel said that the EU has common consensus with China in upholding international rules, multilateralism, world peace and stability, and strengthening their cooperation serves the interests of both sides as well as the world at large.
The EU is willing to work along with China to raise the level of economic and trade collaboration, and intensify communication and coordination on such issues as WTO reforms and climate change, he said.
Michel expressed hope that he will maintain a sound and close relationship with Xi, and said he is ready to play an active and constructive part in promoting EU-China cooperation.
In his historic visit to EU headquarters in 2014, Xi reached important consensus with EU leaders on building a China-EU partnership for peace, growth, reform and civilization, charting the course for deepening the win-win China-EU Comprehensive Strategic Partnership and setting out the overarching goals of China's policy on the EU over the long run.
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Giuliani campaigns in Newport Beach (and outlines his positions)
Daily PIlot ^ | March 24, 2007 | Amanda Pennington and Alicia Robinson
Posted on 03/25/2007 11:44:12 AM PDT by FairOpinion
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani led off with his strongest card, his terrorism-fighting credentials, before touching on healthcare, immigration and energy policy in a speech to a welcoming crowd Saturday.
"Sept. 11, 2001, taught me — and I believe it taught a lot of people, including President Bush — that we have to remain on offense," Giuliani said. "That means that we have to use our military. We can't show weakness."
Giuliani seemed to hit all the right notes Saturday, getting applause when he criticized Democrats' stance on healthcare and advocated vouchers for schools.
On immigration, he told reporters he doesn't support amnesty for illegal immigrants, but he could support a guest worker program if there were adequate border security and tamper-proof ID cards. He said that even if illegal immigrants "can demonstrate that they are lawful, that they are paying taxes [and] that they'll pay penalties," they still shouldn't be put ahead of people who go through legal channels.
"And citizenship here, if it's earned, should be premised on being able to read and write English and understand American history, so we restore assimilation to the process of immigration," he said.
"Nothing will unite the Republicans more than a candidate who can beat Hillary Clinton," Curry said.
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To: beansox
And where do you get your 4400 a day number? The most recent statistics I've seen were through 2004 on the National Right to Life Committee's website and they estimated 1.287 million for that year. This works out to 3526 per day, which I modified to "OVER 3500."
http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/facts/abortionstats.html
401 posted on 03/26/2007 12:23:37 PM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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Do not tell me that I am not committed to the cause.
Anybody who thinks abortion is equivalent to cosmetic surgery is committed to a cause, all right, but it's certainly not the cause of unborn human babies.
Here's what I don't get: Why don't you Rudybots just come right out and say, "We LOVE abortion! It's our very favorite medical procedure. And like our candidate, we demand that the government pay us to do it, over and over again, right up to the instant our babies wail at us!" That's what Rudy believes. That's what you believe. So just say it.
402 posted on 03/26/2007 12:30:26 PM PDT by madprof98 ("moritur et ridet" - salvianus)
To: Tricky j
Rudy is better than mccain!
I agree. But when you're picking from the top of a pile of manure - you're still getting just manure.
403 posted on 03/26/2007 12:31:00 PM PDT by TomServo ("Jim Henson's Flying Leatherneck Babies!")
To: wagglebee
"I do not have the opportunities to counsel women as other women would."
Well as a 33 year old woman I do. And I know what I hear. I listen to them and I take to heart what they have to say. Never in those converstation does the personal views of the POTUS come into it. It just doesnt.
These girls have been taught they have a "right" to abort their babies. I fight everyday to educate them that just because they have a "right" does not make it right.
I applaud your effort in the cause and apologize for the snarky comments I made earlier in the thread about your lack of involvement in it.
Maybe I have lost hope in our government to do the right thing. I just dont look for the law to be overturned and in light of that, I have shifted my attention to other areas of the cause that I believe will have just as an important impact. I am all for "banning" abortion. I just dont beleive it will happen.
404 posted on 03/26/2007 12:33:03 PM PDT by beansox (Burn A Battle In Our Hearts For The Battle At Hand)
To: wagglebee; Jim Robinson
FreRepublic has turned into a place I no longer recognize.
When posters lie and insult conservative values, and Moderators permit it, it's time ask the questions -
What is going on here?
And is it acceptable behavior to Jim Robinson?
405 posted on 03/26/2007 12:33:18 PM PDT by airborne (Airborne! Ranger! Combat Tested Vietnam Veteran! DUNCAN HUNTER !!)
And so do a mjaority of women, conservative woman even. Even FR conservative women.
After running a pro-life ping list on this board since 2002, I'm absolutely certain of the following:
If you could poll all the women on FR, they would overwhelmingly tell you that the time to make the choice is before you climb into bed. That's the best time for the man to make a choice, too.
Sorry, but you have no clue if you think there's any sizable pro-choice contingent at FR, even among the fairer sex.
I am telling you, if you allow a woman to run on womans issues, you will lose and you will lose big.
OK...can you provide examples of races where this happened? Where a liberal, hardcore pro-abort woman ran against a conservative, hardcore pro-life man and cleaned his clock because of this issue?
406 posted on 03/26/2007 12:34:31 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (A pacifist sees no distinction between the arsonist and the fireman--Freeper ccmay)
To: narses; All
This is the biggest flip-flop I have ever seen from any politician : )
407 posted on 03/26/2007 12:38:33 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Misery loves miserable company.......ask any liberal. Hunter in 08!)
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1.3 million ever year are surgical abortions. That number doesnt include "chemical" abortions, which pushes the number closer to 1.6 million every year.
http://all.org/article.php?id=10123
It was an estimate on my part.
To: Mr. Silverback
"Sorry, but you have no clue if you think there's any sizable pro-choice contingent at FR, even among the fairer sex."
I never said that. I said I have argued with women on this forum over the last four years that were pro-choice.
"If you could poll all the women on FR, they would overwhelmingly tell you that the time to make the choice is before you climb into bed"
Thats great! Unfortunately it will take more than the women on this forum to get the POTUS elected. Are numbers just aren't big enough.
"OK...can you provide examples of races where this happened? "
NO I cant..but I might be able to come late November 2008.
Why in the world would you think Fred thompson can't win the general? He whomped the crap out of heavily funded Dems in a battleground state two elections in a row!
To: indylindy
Though I'm no Rudy fan, don't judge them by a pro-abortionist. A lot of the Rudy fans are good folks, they just don't understand how the process works, and why we've lost ground. And many of them are pro-life but claim (rightly, I believe) that even Rudy would be wonderful compared to Hillary or Obama on the pro-life issue.
Frankly, I think the Rudy/anti-Rudy rancor needs to end. Not the debate, but the name-calling. We Hunter/Tancredo/Thompson supporters need to educate and show the way. Reagan gave us the answer to this situation in 1975, and the answer is conservatism, so let's quit sniping and judging them by the worst among them, and get it done Reagan style!
Well for one, he hasnt even announced he plans to run.
Secondly, he has been MIA for the last six years while the party has taken a beating. Where has he been? The left and the MSN have waged a full court press against the party for the last six years, and I am only NOW hearing his name. I dont like that.
Third, I think America has Bush fatigue and I think he conjurs up the same image. I hate to say that, becuase I love W. It (Bush fatigue) is just what I am hearing on the street from peole who dont post on politcal forums. You know..the every day Joe!
I have no doubt FT could shore up the GOP ticket. Head and shoulders over Duncan. I just dont think he will get America excited about going to voting the booth and large turnouts usually favor the GOP.
If you look at my posts, I tried. However, you are right about that.
413 posted on 03/26/2007 12:54:47 PM PDT by dforest (Liberals love crisis, create crisis and then dwell on them.)
Then you should have written that, instead of writing something that would not have been even one word different if you had meant that the majority of female FR members are pro-abortion.
OK...let me make sure I understand you. You say...
...but you can't provide any examples of a woman running on "women's issues" against a pro-life conservative and winning.
If that's the case, could you share with me exactly what you're basing "you will lose and you will lose big" on, if you can't cite examples?
Sorry, but your Hillary prediction means bupkis if you've got nothing to back it up.
414 posted on 03/26/2007 1:01:15 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (A pacifist sees no distinction between the arsonist and the fireman--Freeper ccmay)
"If that's the case, could you share with me exactly what you're basing "you will lose and you will lose big" on, if you can't cite examples?"
I post on a lot of forums. Only this one is politcal. I talk to a lot of girls (you know.. young impressionable women who get most of their information from liberal professors and liberal news networks) and I can see the way they lean and how they think.
I believe, and I may be wrong, that if the abortion debate becomes the primary issue of the election, millions and millions of voters will go to the booth to ensure that thier right to have an abortion will stay intact.
This is a gut feeling I have from speaking to young and new voters across all walks of life. These girls have been brainwashed into believing that abortion is their liberation and needs defending. I cant stress this point enough. We can not undo that brainwashing before November 2008. If the election is centered around the issue, we will lose on it.
It is just peronsal observation from speaking candidly to girls, who have no poltical agenda, about abortion.
415 posted on 03/26/2007 1:12:38 PM PDT by beansox (Burn A Battle In Our Hearts For The Battle At Hand)
I asked why he couldn't win if he did. This is irrelevant.
Secondly, he has been MIA for the last six years while the party has taken a beating. Where has he been?
First, he's been working for a living, unlike the vast majority of his former colleagues in the Senate. Second, and more to the point, the party has been taking a beating because we have too many people like Rudy out in front and not enough people like Thompson!
It (Bush fatigue) is just what I am hearing on the street from peole who dont post on politcal forums. You know..the every day Joe!
This is the most important thing I'm going to write today, so read carefully:
I have learned one thing that is beyond doubt in the political arena: The I-can-tell-the-vote-will-go-this-way-based-on-my-personal-conversations method is about as reliable as reading chicken entrails. It is absolutely, positively worthless in every way for judging a candidate or party's chances.
It's what convinced the DUers they were about to get the White House in '04 (there were umpteen posts about how the exit polls must be right, because I talked to all these people...etc.) and convinced some Freepers that we were going to hold the Congress in '06. I could provide more examples, but you get the point.
And besides, I'm guessing you haven't been asking these people about Thompson.
I'd like to note that for the second time in the same thread, I'm saying someone can win based on their past performance, and you're saying they can't based on speculation that has nothing to do with any empirical fact. Instructive...
No I havent spoken to kids on the street about Thompson, because they have no idea who he is. I cant convince someone to vote for a guy they never heard of. Someone who isnt even on the thier radar. Can you understand that? What am I supposed to say to young people...ummmm you know that guy..he had a walk on part in Law and Order?
These kids are MTV generation voters... They prefer the far left of Obama! MTV's new politician de jour and I am supposed to come back with "the guy from Law and Order"?
Do you think this election is going to be the status quo? I do not. I think there will be a record turnout and that the these youths will have an huge impact on its outcome.
I want to win those voters to the GOP ticket. Dont you?
Young, unmarried women vote for the Dem in overwhelming numbers no matter who the GOP puts up. I'm not certain, but I wouldn't be surprised if they're now more loyal as a demographic than Blacks, given Dubya's draw of record Black support in the last two elections. (Note the appeal to empirical data...pretty cool, eh?)
1. Think about 2004 for a moment. You had an unswerving pro-lifer and un unswerving pro-abort. Guess what the primary issue in the campaign was? National security. Trust me on that; I wrote an op-ed about it based on exit polling data. The single greatest deciding factor in who people voted for that year was whether they thought we were safer now than on 9/11.
2. Given the small number of women that are both pro-abortion and hardcore conservative on other issues, there is virtually no chance that pro-abortion women will choose Rudy over a liberal, especially if a vote for that liberal is a vote for the first woman president.
3. When Rudy is asked to give examples of the kind of judges he would appoint, the names he lists are pro-life strict constructionists. If you were Hillary, you wouldn't have anything to say about that? You wouldn't say "He says he believes in the right to choose, but he'll appoint a Supreme Court that will have us in the back ally"?
I cant stress this point enough.
I guess I can't stress this point enough: The class of women you are talking about vote Dem almost unswervingly and ARE NOT AND NEVER WILL BE SWING VOTERS. They do not decide elections. Choosing a candidate based on what they say about politics is like me saying that Rudy can't win the general because all the NRA members I talk to are really concerned about gun rights.
To: Toskrin; AuntB; pissant; Kevmo; Duncan Hunter Ambassador
Did Clinton support tax cuts?
Oh, and Hunter's fine with free trade. With Austrailia, Japan, England, etc...but not with nations like China, which are building up their military with funds they cull from us (no thanks to Clinton). As for his position on NAFTA/CAFTA, well, let's direct you to the answer by Sam Hunter.
Q: We know he wants to renogotiate the China trade deal (mercifully) and he is not a fan of CAFTA. But what is his stance on unfettered trade deals with good allies such as Canada, Britain, Australia, Japan, Poland, Denmark, Italy etc. Can he assure the skeptics that he is not a strident protectionist?
Sam: Dad's position is that trade deals esentially are business deals between nations. He feels that nations can be good friends and allies and still require a level playing field with respect to trading rules. Presently all the nations you mentioned have the right to rebate all taxes to their exporters. However, under the deal we signed, America does not have the right to rebate taxes to our exporters. This amounts to an unfair advantage. My dad would require our allies to allow us the same favoarable tax treatment that they receive. This would do much to change the one-way street which produced a 804.9 billion dollar U.S. trade deficit last year. Thus, dad is for a two way street in trade, achieved by effective negotiators.
419 posted on 03/26/2007 1:37:29 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007 (Vote for Duncan Hunter in 2008. Audio, Video, and Quotes in my profile.)
To: TomServo
Don't vote than. Sit on your couch.
420 posted on 03/26/2007 1:39:05 PM PDT by Porterville (Bullies love Peace and the Peaceful fight Wars.)
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Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Sciences, Clinical Microbiology.
Lipcsey, Miklós
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgical Sciences, Hedenstierna laboratory. Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgical Sciences, Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1976-4129
2019 (English)In: Intensive Care Medicine Experimental, ISSN 2197-425X, Vol. 7, no 1, article id 52Article in journal (Refereed) Published
BACKGROUND: Bacterial translocation from the gut has been suggested to induce a systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) and organ dysfunction. The liver has a pivotal role in eliminating circulating bacteria entering from the gut. We investigated whether pre-existing inflammation affects hepatic bacterial elimination.
METHODS: Fifteen anaesthetised piglets were infused with E. coli in the portal vein for 3 h. The naive group (n = 6) received the bacterial infusion without endotoxin exposure. SIRS (SIRS group, n = 6) was induced by endotoxin infusion 24 h before the bacterial infusion. For effects of anaesthesia, controls (n = 3) received saline instead of endotoxin for 24 h. Bacterial counts and endotoxin levels in the portal and hepatic veins were analysed during bacterial infusion.
RESULTS: The bacterial killing rate was higher in the naive group compared with the SIRS group (p = 0.001). The ratio of hepatic to portal venous bacterial counts, i.e. the median bacterial influx from the splanchnic circulation, was 0.06 (IQR 0.01-0.11) in the naive group and 0.71 (0.03-1.77) in the SIRS group at 3 h, and a magnitude lower in the naive group during bacteraemia (p = 0.03). Similar results were seen for hepatic endotoxin elimination. Peak log tumour necrosis factor alpha was higher in the naive 4.84 (4.77-4.89) vs. the SIRS group 3.27 (3.26-3.32) mg/L (p < 0.001).
CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that hepatic bacterial and endotoxin elimination is impaired in pigs with pre-existing SIRS while the inflammatory response to bacterial infusion is diminished. If similar mechanisms operate in human critical illness, the hepatic elimination of bacteria from the gut could be impaired by SIRS.
2019. Vol. 7, no 1, article id 52
Animal models, Bacterial translocation, Endotoxins, Escherichia coli, Mononuclear phagocyte system, Sepsis
URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-392098DOI: 10.1186/s40635-019-0266-xISI: 000483360800001PubMedID: 31456116OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-392098DiVA, id: diva2:1346818
Swedish Society of Medicine, SLS-409831Available from: 2019-08-29 Created: 2019-08-29 Last updated: 2019-10-18Bibliographically approved
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Hanslin, KatjaSjölin, JanSkorup, PaulWilske, FridaFrithiof, RobertLarsson, AndersCastegren, MarkusTano, EvaLipcsey, Miklós
Anaesthesiology and Intensive CareInfection medicineHedenstierna laboratoryClinical ChemistryClinical Microbiology
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OCR Instantly app turns images into words
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I was browsing the books in the genealogy section of a large library a few years ago when I found a detailed history of the Civil War battles that involved one of my ancestors. My problem was how to capture that passage for my own records.
In those days, the usual solution was to make expensive and painstaking copies of every page that I wanted. Today, I could easily capture all of the text using OCR Instantly, an iOS app quickly converts images into text.
The app works like a bar code scanning app. You use the iPhone camera to capture a clean and well-lighted image of the text you want and press the OCR button. The app reads the words in the image and converts them into plain text that you can store, export or send.
The app works without an Internet connection and the digitized text can be copies to the device’s clipboard or shared directly with another app.
The app works on almost any iOS device, including iPads and the iPod Touch. It can read more than 60 languages, including Swedish, Greek, Russian and even Cherokee, though the developers warn that results may not be good for some graphic languages like Arabic or Chinese.
OCR Instantly is available in the iTunes App Store. An ad-supported version is free and you remove the ads with an in-app purchase. A version for Androids also is available in the Google Play Store.
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September 26, 2011 • Issue 11:09:02
Square: Passing fad or market changer?
By Patti Murphy
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Jack Dorsey - a serial entrepreneur who cofounded social media phenomenon Twitter Inc. and founded payment upstart Square Inc. - finally rolled out the Square mobile payment dongle in the latter part of 2010 after getting off to a rocky start. And he was promptly derided by banks and their partners.
Douglas Bergeron, Chief Executive Officer of terminal manufacturer VeriFone Inc., even took Dorsey to task publicly over alleged security lapses created by Square. (For more information, see "Square gaining momentum despite security concerns," The Green Sheet, March 28, 2011, issue 11:03:02). Square was among a group of innovators releasing promising mobile payment solutions of their own. In April 2010, Roam Data Inc. earned the Electronic Transactions Association's Technology Innovation Award for ROAMpay, a miniature card-reader, or dongle, that plugs into the headphone jack on smart phones. It resembles Square but is said to be more secure.
Not long after criticizing Square, VeriFone unveiled PAYware, a "sleeve" placed over smart phones to facilitate payments. That was followed in short order by Intuit Inc.'s GoPayment toggle and a plug-in device developed specifically for mobile sales forces by SalesVu, an Austin, Texas-based firm supported by a cloud-based network. Several others followed. Now Erply Ltd., a global software-as-a-service company with roots in Estonia, is rolling out a card swipe plug-in for Apple Inc. iPhones and iPads that integrates with a cloud-based inventory management system claimed by the company to be operating in over 20,000 retailers. Attach the Erply device to the charging port on an iPad and, with one swipe, a merchant captures encrypted payment information that initiates transaction processing and simultaneously updates inventory.
The Erply device, which sells for $50, supports near field communication (NFC) technology as well as traditional swipe authorization. NFC requires radio frequency identification (RFID) chip cards and compatible readers to support two-way communication using the existing payments infrastructure.
Mixing NFC and mag stripe functionality is a feature combination that positions the company and merchants to evolve with the market, according to Erply CEO Kris Hiiemaa. "As technology changes, we are giving consumers the ability to pay for items the way they want to," he said, adding that transaction fees using Erply represent 1.9 percent of the ticket. In comparison, Square charges 2.9 percent.
Dorsey said his motivation for creating Square was to allow the smallest merchants to accept credit and debit card payments. This summer Sitter Pals LLC, a social network connecting parents with "trusted" babysitters, launched with much fanfare a partnership with Square that provides babysitters with free application downloads and Square dongles, thus enabling babysitters to accept card payments.
"This is something that could spur us all to start up cottage businesses," said Linda Echard, President and CEO of ICBA Bancard Inc., an affiliate of the Washington, D.C.-based Independent Community Bankers Association.
Dan Kramer, Senior Vice President at electronic funds transfer network Shazam, agreed, but cautioned that Square is not a product for every customer. "Banks are going to need assurances of creditworthiness," Kramer said.
Provided that small merchants are not dealing with high-dollar tickets, "those doing one to two transactions a month, it's not a bad option," said Markiyan Malko, Product Manager at Boston-based ISO Merchant Warehouse. But she believes the Square device itself is no great shakes. "Square is essentially PayPal with a card reader," she said.
Merchant Warehouse offers two MagTek devices: iDynamo, a card reader that plugs into Apple devices, and BulleT, a Bluetooth card reader for non-Apple smart phones and tablet PCs - popular devices with the ISO's merchants, according to Malko.
The box getting bigger
Despite the competition, Square is gaining traction. Its coffers brimming with $100 million in fresh funding, the company stated in late July 2011 it was processing $6 million in card payments daily and expected to double that daily total by October.
The company claimed to have shipped more than 500,000 Square card readers in the past year, although this number cannot be independently verified. Square's plug-in devices are also available for sale through Apple Stores.
Still, Square has detractors, especially among bankers and bank consultants who view Square as another attempt on the part of nonbanks to squeeze financial institutions out of the payments value chain.
"American consumers are losing their affinity for what constitutes a bank account," said industry consultant Paul Martaus. They use PayPal, Square or Google as dispassionately as they write checks or use credit cards. "Eventually, they won't care because their decisions are just buttons on a [smart] phone." Martaus believes that eventually "an overwhelming number of mobile systems will not be bank-centric. It will be Google or Amazon or something like that."
Lee Manfred, a partner with First Annapolis Consulting Inc., isn't convinced of that, however. He noted that most person-to-person payments, absent a solution like PayPal or Square, are done with cash and checks. "Square could be very important from an acquiring perspective," he said. "It enhances the utility of a network and the [bank's] deposit relationship with its customers."
Consumers appear not to be convinced about newer payment contenders either. When advertising and public relations firm Ogilvy & Mather recently asked consumers what entity they most trusted to handle mobile payments, the traditional card brands - Visa Inc., MasterCard Worldwide and American Express Co. - got the highest ratings.
Survey respondents were also more likely to trust the United States Post Office with mobile payments (24.6 percent) than Apple (22.9 percent), Microsoft Corp. (22.3 percent) or Google (19.5 percent), the firm reported.
Regardless of which approaches win out, most experts agree mobile payments are on the cusp of something big. Yankee Group Research Inc. predicted $246 billion in mobile payments will be made worldwide this year and expected almost a quarter of that total ($59 billion) to be spent in North America.
In a report released this summer, Juniper Research Ltd. predicted nearly a three-fold increase in mobile payments by 2015, when the worldwide total is expected to reach $670 billion. IE Market Research Corp. is even more optimistic, forecasting $945 billion in mobile payments worldwide in 2015. To put this number into perspective, consider that it took more than two decades for the automated clearing house (ACH) to reach the $1 trillion a year in payments mark.
"Square is just a small part" of a much bigger trend concerning the widespread adoption of mobile payments, Martaus said; recent actions on the part of Visa add substance to this assessment. In addition to investing in Square, Visa has a relationship with ISIS, an NFC-based project spearheaded by AT&T Mobility, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile. (MasterCard, Discover Financial Services and AmEx also have agreements with ISIS.)
Visa also said it plans to launch an electronic wallet along with several large issuing banks this fall that will be built around cell phone and NFC technologies. And in August, the card giant announced a new scheme to stoke U.S. merchant adoption of Europay/MasterCard/Visa (EMV) chip technology. Merchants installing EMV-compatible terminals will get a pass on Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) compliance validation, since chip cards eliminate the possibility of merchants storing data, Visa said.
EMV has traction in Europe and is now being rolled out in Canada, but U.S. adoption lags. U.S. Bank, parent of leading acquirer Elavon Inc., recently became one of the first banks in the United States to issue EMV chip cards. Although EMV is promoted as inherently safer than mag stripe technology, that is not always the case.
"It doesn't help with CNP [card-not-present] transactions," said David Abouchar, Senior Director, Product Management, at the PCI compliance specialty firm ControlScan Inc. "To really take advantage of chip card technology, consumers would need personal swipe devices when making CNP purchases."
Security, no small consideration
Bergeron, in his open letter to Square, took issue with a "serious security flaw" in the design of the dongle that could render cardholders vulnerable to skimming - using the devices to illicitly capture cardholder information.
Square responded by agreeing to make design and technology changes. Company executives said a new reader is on the drawing board that encrypts data as it's captured from a card's magnetic stripe, but at this writing, it had not been rolled out. Square's commitment to encryption was announced the same day Visa revealed it made a financial investment in the company. JPMorgan Chase & Co. also has put money behind Square, which processes transactions through its merchant acquiring business, Chase Paymentech Solutions LLC. Despite Square's achievements, and its financial backing, concerns continue to be voiced about the viability of the device. "Spam is a big problem already," said Dee Karawadra, President and CEO of Impact PaySystem LLC, a Memphis-based ISO.
Impact PaySystem charted some early successes with Square, rebranded as iphoneswiper.com and featuring a built-in receipt printer. "We've had many ex-Square merchants come to us as they want a tangible receipt," Karawadra said. But overall demand for the product has slackened lately, he noted. That's not the case at ROAM Data, which stated in August 2011 it had become the "number one provider of secure mobile phone card readers in the world," with 300,000 of its devices distributed so far. The firm said it expects more than 1 million of its devices will be in use by the fall of 2012.
ROAM Data's ultra-secure plug-in card readers can be private-labeled and are sold through several ISOs, including Sage Payment Solutions Inc., North American Bancard, National Processing Co. and Total Merchant Services Inc. The devices are also available for sale through Intuit and Verizon Wireless outlets.
Online reviews of Square point to other shortcomings, including transaction limits, difficulties sorting through transactions that number into the dozens and costs. For example, a former Square customer who runs a beer pub, and recently switched to SalesVu, complained in an interview recorded by SalesVu that, despite Square's published fee of 2.9 percent of the transaction total, that fee jumped to 3.5 percent for transactions keyed in by hand because of mag stripe reader problems, a problem he often encountered.
ROAM Data's August announcement followed two separate demonstrations at a security confab (the Black Hat Conference) of Square's security shortcomings. One demonstrated the ease with which Square can be misused as a card-skimming device, the technology news and product review site CNET reported.
The other used a simple programming script to convert stolen card data to audio tones and fed that information to the Square application by way of the headphone jack, thereby eliminating the need for a physical card, according to CNET.
"ROAM's entire system was designed with PCI security from the start," said ROAM Data CEO Will Graylin. The Square security shortcomings demonstrated at Black Hat are not shared by ROAM "because ROAM's readers fully encrypt the track data before it reaches the phone and the data can only be decrypted by a secure payment server, never exposed on the phone," he added. "By design, neither ROAM's app nor server would recognize third-party audio signals from recorded files."
Some experts have suggested the problems with Square demonstrated at Black Hat say more about the shortcomings of mag stripe cards than of Square. Graylin doesn't agree. "The reality is that, for a variety of reasons, mag stripes in our wallets will be around for a long time to come," he said. "Therefore, those providing payment services with mag stripe have a serious responsibility to make their services as secure as they possibly can."
Patti Murphy is Senior Editor of The Green Sheet and President of ProScribes Inc. She is also the founder of InsideMicrofinance.com. Email her at patti@greensheet.com.
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Hospitals must maintain patient records and retain them for 10 years or, in the case of a minor, 1 year past the minor’s 18th birthday.
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This study analysed the epidemiological trends of dengue cases and deaths in Cebu province, Philippines, recorded at sentinel hospitals of the Department of Health, Regional and Epidemiological Surveillance Unit in Central Visayas during 1997-2008. A total of 34326 dengue cases [dengue fever (DF) and dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF)] and 831 deaths occurred in the 12-year period. The average case-fatality rate (CFR) was 2.46%; the average incidence rate of hospitalized dengue cases was 0.854/1000 population. The annual incidence rates of hospitalized DHF cases (average = 0.55 cases/1000 population; 17540 total cases) and DF cases (average = 0.323 cases/1000 population; 9977 total cases) differed (P<0.05) in 2000-2008. The incidence rates of hospitalized DHF cases were significant (P<0.05) from year-to-year in 2000-2008, whereas those of DF were mostly significant, except between 2001 and 2003 (P>0.05). Dengue cases, deaths and CFR increased annually in the rainy season. Cebu city was the highest (average = 0.356 cases/1000 population) in its yearly incidence rate of hospitalized dengue cases and differed (P<0.05) among the top 10 municipalities and cities, followed by Mandaue city (average = 0.076 cases/1000 population). Dengue cases differed (P<0.05) across age groups. One- to five-year-old (average=31.82%) and 6 to 10-year-old children (30.66%) were significantly higher compared with other age groups. Urbanization, increased population, inadequate public health infrastructure, poor solid waste management and lack of effective mosquito surveillance system were the reasons.
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The Crown Jewels of Hollywood (Part 2)
Food and travel guest blogger hkLifestyleGeek is being awesome this week as she knows that hkFashionGeek is swamped and has written a two-part post on the amazing Elizabeth Taylor collection that is on tour and scheduled to arrive in Hong Kong end of this month. Contact her at hklifestylegeek@hkfashiongeek.com
Yesterday we talked about the upcoming Christie's auction of Elizabeth Taylor's jewellery and today, we show you what to expect with these highlights.
The Elizabeth Taylor Diamond
Of all the jewels, this 33.19-carat white diamond was a constant in Taylor's life as she virtually wore it every day. It was a gift from Richard Burton on May 16, 1968. She noted: "My ring gives me the strangest feeling for beauty. With its sparks of red and white and blue and purple, and on and on, really, it sort of hums with its own beatific life."
La Peregrina -- The Legendary Pearl
Burton gave Taylor this pearl on January 23, 1969 at an auction and it has royal provenance. The pearl is 203 grains in size, equal to 55 carats and the pear-shaped pearl was part of the crown jewels of Spain. Prince Philip II of Spain gave it as a wedding gift to his wife, Mary Tudor of England, and it was later passed on to Spanish queens Margarita and Isabel who wore the pearl in portraits by Velazquez. Taylor commissioned Cartier to design a necklace to offset what she called "the most perfect pearl in the world."
The Mike Todd Diamond Tiara
In Taylor's book, My Love Affair with Jewelry, she recalls her husband at the time Mike Todd presenting her the antique diamond tiara, saying, "You are my queen." She wore it to the Academy Awards in 1957 where Todd's film, Around the World in 80 Days won for Best Picture.
The Bulgari Emerald Suite
Collected over repeated trips to the Bulgari boutique on Via Condotti in Rome, these pieces were bought by Burton during the filming of Cleopatra. Of their time together in the Italian city, Burton famously quipped, "I introduced Liz to beer, and she introduced me to Bulgari."
The Cartier Ruby Suite
Todd gave Taylor this set of Cartier necklace, earrings and bracelet in August 1957. She was swimming laps in the pool at their villa in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat when he surprised her with three red Cartier boxes. Without a mirror on hand, Taylor put on the jewellery and studied her reflection in the mirror. When she saw the jewels dazzle on her neck, ears and wrist, she recalled, "I just shrieked with joy, put my arms around Mike's neck and pulled him into the pool after me."
The Bulgari Sapphire Sautoir and Trombino Ring
In 1972 Burton gave this necklace and ring to Taylor to mark her 40th birthday in 1972. The sautoir features a 52.72-carat sugarloaf cabochon sapphire in an Art Deco style. She later added the ring to make a set.
The JAR Sapphire Ear Clips
Although Taylor is known for her affinity with Bulgari, Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels, she was also keen to learn about new designers. These sapphire ear clips were custom-designed by jewellery designer JAR (Joel Arthur Rosenthal), an American living in Paris. He incorporated varying shades of sapphires to evoke the elusive hue of her eyes. Rosenthal recalled, "She told me, 'My eyes are blue, like yours, sometimes green. It's the others who think they see violet.' So the striped balls are her vision of colour, and the world's."
The Prince of Wales Brooch
The Duke of Windsor gave his wife the former Wallis Simpson this brooch. Taylor knew the couple and admired the brooch. Years after the Duchess died and her jewellery was up for auction, Taylor outbid the others to get the brooch. She recalled later, "It's a royal piece that I save for very special occasions because it means so much to me."
The Taj Mahal Diamond
Another 40th birthday gift Burton gave to Taylor is this gold and ruby chain by Cartier. Inscribed on it is the name Nur Jahan, the wife of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahangir, and this heart-shaped diamond is believed to have been a gift from the ruler to his son who became the great emperor Shah Jahan. It's believed he gave this diamond to his most beloved wife, Mumtaz-i-Mahal. But she died four years later which was when he commissioned the Taj Mahal, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
The Night of the Iguana Brooch
Burton gave Taylor this Jean Schlumberger-designed brooch in 1964 to wear at the premiere of his film The Night of the Iguana. for her the brooch symbolised the heady early days of their marriage when they lived in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, a favourite destination.
These diamond-set wedding bands were given to Taylor by Burton on their marriages in 1964 in Montreal and in 1975 when they married again in Botswana.
The "Granny" Suite
To mark the birth of her first grandchild in 1971 at the age of 39, Burton gave Taylor this lion-themed set of Van Cleef & Arpels jewels. "My heart was clicking like a castanet when I saw this set," she wrote of the gift. "Richard loved it on me and he said, 'Wow! You are so beautiful; nobody is going to believe you're a grandmother.'"
The Cleopatra Mirror
Bulgari created this turquoise and gold mirror around the time the epic film Cleopatra starring Burton and Taylor was finishing production in Rome. She acquired this Egyptian revival motif mirror worthy of the Queen of the Nile herself.
Images: Christie's
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14. The Spy
Hopper and Will are rushed back to the lab where the former gets a thorough scrubbing while the latter is sedated and ends up suffering from some sort of selective amnesia. The lab people dismiss Will as a lost cause and suggest that they start torching the lair they just found. Will tells them that he knows a way to defeat the shadow monster, convincing Owens to send his team to a certain location in the lair that holds the answer. Dustin enlists Steve's help to get rid of his pet but they find out that it has escaped from the bunker after shedding its skin, meaning it just grew in size once again. Lucas and Maxine rendezvous with them at the old junkyard where they set up a trap. They are in for a surprise when the bait does not attract just one but rather three of the monsters they are anticipating. As they get trapped in an abandoned bus, the creatures retreat to their lair where they attack the lab team who were apparently led into a trap by the entity in possession of Will's body. Their next stop? The lab.
That's the action I am talking about. Eleven had to be absent for the entire episode, though. But it's great, we are finally moving forward. BECAUSE ITS FACE OPENED UP AND IT ATE MY CAT! Hahahaha. So everyone is a fan of Steve now? I must admit it's kind of funny seeing him bonding with Dustin, of all people. On the other hand, it seems like he is a lot better as a character when he is not with Nancy and now that he is somehow emasculated by the arrival of the new alpha male in school. Perhaps that's exactly what the character needed, to be more relatable now that he is not the caricature jock anymore. Moving on, I still don't get it. The big bad from the Upside Down in Season 1, the same one that killed Barbs, was a giant version of this monster that Eleven killed. So is this shadow monster controlling Will their boss or something? What is this entity exactly? Supernatural? Extraterrestrial? I guess not all of these would be answered this season, but at least they are expanding the story's universe further.
"Because its face opened up and it ate my cat." –Dustin
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Junior High Summer Camp Reflections
Here are the Joel's Reflections Awards for my 2008 junior summer camp experience:
Most Awkward Moment: On Monday, the first day of camp, the bus driver for our charter bus was asked to stop and change bus drivers by the bus company. Having left for camp the day before, I had no immediate control or knowledge of the situation, leaving a bus full of students parked off an exit for an hour while a new driver was called in. They switched and resumed the trip, only to have the new driver swiftly pull over to the side of the freeway shortly after leaving. The reason for the sudden stop was made clear when the driver got out of his seat and quickly made his way to the back of the bus. There is a tiny bathroom in the back of the vehicle. The driver remained in the bathroom for a few minutes, clearly having a moment. Upon exiting the bathroom, the bus was immediately filled with the sweet smell of poop. Yes, poop. I am not making this stuff up. Can't imagine what he was feeling, walking up a row of 50 junior highers who all know what you just did. Lesson learned: don't get poopy bus drivers. (The driver made up for it by playing basketball with the students at camp).
Best Recreation Team Name: Chuck Norris and the Chupacabras. Their cheer had the line, "Someone's sucking the blood out of all our cows!" Priceless. Runner-Up: The Incredible Green Eggs and Ham. Recreation games were pretty complex this year, which led to some frustration. But it was great to sit down and talk with the camp staff and work things out in a healthy manner. Rec time greatly improved over the course of the week with the increased communication between myself and the camp staff.
Most Memorable Speaking Moment: We had Greg Speck speak at our camp, and he was phenomenal. He had the students' attention the entire time with his hilarious stories and sound effects, but he also communicated God's truth in effective ways. He gave a sex talk on Wednesday morning that was one of the better Christian talks on sexuality that I've ever heard. Students not only remember the general idea of what he said, but even specific points and Scripture references.
Most Memorable Worship Moment: The worship band (Jake, Rilie, Heather, Jeremy, and Brian) were fantastic. Most junior high camp worship is filled with goofy songs featuring lots of hand-motions and very little spiritual truth. The band led worship in such a way that students were engaged, but also created an atmosphere of worship instead of just silliness. We had an extended time of worship the final night, and it was powerful to watch students pouring out their lives to God through song (and dance!).
Important Life Lesson(s) that I Learned:
Lesson #1: Ministry changes as numbers increase. When I first began in youth ministry, I was an intern at my home church in Federal Way, WA with about 20 students and 4-5 staff. This past week, I was leading a summer camp of about 250 students and 50 adult leaders (including youth pastors). When I was an intern/director in Portland, I could lead retreats and spend lots of time with individual students, participating in games and activities with them. This past week, I stayed in my own cabin with my wife. That's the first time I've ever done that, and it brought about mixed emotions. We both really wanted to be in the students' cabins, but also realized that we couldn't give the students the time and energy they deserved. The ministry had changed; it was no longer me that was ministering directly to students, it was my youth staff that had the responsibility. And they rocked. So excited about this next school year and some of the new leadership we have as a team!
Lesson #2: Strengths stem from God, not ourselves. This week I was reminded by the camp pastor, Dennis, that I was leading leaders (many of whom were twice my age and had been doing youth ministry since I was in kindergarten). I was also reminded (by myself this time) that I have never led a summer camp before. Yet despite all that, God somehow used me to connect with others and created an environment where students could encounter Jesus more fully and clearly. It didn't have to do with my experiences or having confidence in myself; it was God doing something in and through me that I could not do on my own.
I loved getting to know the other pastors and seeing their different personalities and gifts be brought to the chaos that is camp. I loved seeing students come to know Jesus (we had at least 6 students from RMCC choose to follow Jesus with their lives). After it's all over, I think I'm a firm believer in the spiritual value of camp.
Posted by Joel Mayward at 8:15 AM
Labels: Life, Red Mountain, Youth Ministry
12345 June 16, 2008 at 9:39 AM
Hey Joel,
Excellent post bro...seriously, I highly enjoyed your thoughts, stories, etc...
Our group is going to camp in July so that will be cool.
Keep doing what your doing!
Melissa Stephenson June 16, 2008 at 11:19 AM
I enjoyed reading your summary of camp - I'm so glad it was a great week. We are blessed to have you and Katie to lead our jr. high ministry!
Bling for the King June 17, 2008 at 8:54 PM
Joel & Katie,
Thanks so much for all the time you put into camp. Milan had an awesome time and he can't wait to go back. I know God used you to do His work because He is able........
Joel Mayward June 18, 2008 at 7:46 AM
Blaise, Melissa, and "Bling" - Thanks for all the encouragement!
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Dr. Abdul Rashid Chosen as 2017 IPNI Science Award Winner
December 14, 2017 – Peachtree Corners, GA, USA – The International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI) has named Dr. Abdul Rashid, Fellow & Editor-in-Chief with the Pakistan Academy of Sciences, as the recipient of the 2017 IPNI Science Award.
Dr. Rashid’s achievements are unique among soil and crop scientists. Abdul’s innovative, problem-solving approach to balanced and efficient fertilizer use in calcareous soils, focusing on micronutrients, phosphorus (P), and soil testing and plant analysis, has contributed significantly to crop and soil management and sustainable crop productivity, not only in Pakistan and Asia but also worldwide.
Dr. Rashid’s farmer-friendly fertilizer use technologies are formally recommended and widely adopted in Pakistan. These include: i) cost-effective use of boron (B) and zinc (Zn) fertilizers in 3 million (M) ha of cotton since 1998; ii) highly cost-effective use of B fertilizer in 2 M ha of rice, leading to 15-25% yield increases and cooking quality improvements, since 2004; iii) farmer-friendly, Zn-enriched rice nursery technology to control Zn deficiency; iv) 50% fertilizer-saving, phosphate banding technology for wheat on over 8 M ha.
He has publicized his research effectively, locally and globally, through journal papers, books, conferences, advisory materials, and field demonstrations—addressing researchers, educators, extension service, farmers, and policy makers. He has lectured extensively in Pakistan and around the world. His Soil Science monograph (published by Pakistan’s National Book Foundation) is a superb textbook for students and advisory staff. Most recently, in 2017, Dr. Rashid prepared a comprehensive status report titled Micronutrient Fertilizer Use in Pakistan: Historical Perspective and 4R Nutrient Stewardship revealing that potential fertilizer requirement for B and Zn are 22-times and 5-times their current use levels, respectively.
Since 2008, Dr. Rashid has addressed micronutrient malnutrition by enriching staple cereals with Zn and iodine. This multi-country research under the HarvestZinc Project has established that wheat and rice grains can be enriched by foliar feeding, that foliar Zn fertilizer can be mixed safely with pesticide spray solutions, and that high-Zn wheat grains used as seed result in denser crop stand and higher yield. He is co-author of papers on agronomic biofortification of staple cereals with Zn, and the first-ever paper reporting wheat grain enrichment with iodine by fertilization.
Dr. Rashid is an IFA Norman Borlaug Laureate, Pakistan’s Dr. Norman Borlaug Laureate, East-West Center Distinguished Alumnus, Fellow of Indian Society of Soil Science, Fellow of Soil Science Society of Pakistan, PARC Silver Jubilee Laureate, Pakistan Scientist of the Year, National Book Foundation Awardee, and J. Benton Jones Laureate.
More about Dr. Abdul Rashid
During his formative years in research (1973-79), Dr. Rashid contributed towards identification, establishment, and mechanisms of Zn deficiency in rice, wheat, and corn. In 1979, he became coordinator of Micronutrients Project in Pakistan. Then, he obtained Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii by determining crop Zn requirement in acid soils of Hawaii and calcareous soils of Colorado. Abdul returned to Pakistan in 1986 and led a well-conceived soil fertility and crop nutrition program at the National Agricultural Research Center.
Dr. Rashid’s work identified and established deficiencies of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), B, Zn, and iron (Fe) in irrigated and rain-fed cereal, legume, oilseed, fiber, and sugar crops. While most plant and soil scientists would not consider B deficiency to be of real concern in calcareous soils, Dr. Rashid identified and established B deficiency in 3 M ha irrigated cotton and 2 M ha flooded rice grown in calcareous soils of Pakistan. He delineated deficient areas of P, K, B, and Zn for irrigated cotton and sugarcane and many rain-fed crops. Also, he made substantial contributions to world literature by establishing suitability of seed B, Zn, and P composition for prognosis of their deficiencies and by developing foliar analysis diagnostic norms for B, Zn, Fe, and P in many crops. Abdul’s work underlined the critical importance of fertilization in sustaining crop production and provided a convincing argument for soil test-based balanced fertilization along with crop residue recycling, for sustaining cotton-wheat productivity.
His extensive field research demonstrated that balanced nutrient management leads to carbon sequestration. For example, he reported that semi-arid soil organic matter is enhanced by optimum P fertilization, which leads to better root proliferation and crop residue recycling. His advocacy for soil-plant analysis-based fertilizer use has helped avoid overuse of N and P in high-input cotton, potato, corn, and vegetables, has enhanced crop use efficiency of fertilizer nutrients, and has reduced the risk of nutrient losses to the environment. His Soil-Plant Advisory Service backstopped crop production as well as environmental concerns, like heavy metal contamination. Consequently, he has been an invited speaker to many environment conferences.
Dr. Rashid is affiliated with Soil Science Society of America, American Society of Agronomy, Indian Society of Soil Science, East-West Center Association, Honolulu, Hawaii, Agricultural Foundation of Pakistan, Association of Former PARC Scientists, and Soil Science Society of Pakistan, of which he is a Past-President. He has served as Director General of Pakistan’s National Agricultural Research Center and Member (Bio-Sciences) of Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission.
About the IPNI Science Award
The IPNI Science Award is intended to recognize outstanding achievements in research, extension, or education; with focus on efficient management of plant nutrients and their positive interaction in fully integrated cropping systems that enhance yield potential. Dr. Rashid receives a special plaque along with a monetary award of US$ 5,000. A committee of noted international authorities selects the recipient.
Private or public-sector agronomists, soil scientists, and crop scientists from all countries are eligible for nomination. More information about the IPNI Science Award is available at http://www.ipni.net/awards.
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IPNI Contacts: Dr. Terry Roberts, IPNI President, Ph: 770.447.0335, (info@ipni.net); Dr. Robert Mikkelsen, IPNI VP Communications, Ph: 770-825-8070, (rmikkelsen@ipni.net); Mr. Gavin Sulewski, IPNI Editor, Ph: 770.825.8080,
(gsulewski@ipni.net).
The agronomic programs of IPNI outside Canada ceased operations on April 1, 2019. This website remains online to provide a repository of past IPNI publications. Questions about past IPNI operations and projects can be forwarded to the International Fertilizer Association, The Fertilizer Institute, or Fertilizer Canada.
IPNI's Mission
The mission of IPNI is to develop and promote scientific information about the responsible management of plant nutrition for the benefit of the human family.
IPNI is a global organization with initiatives addressing the world's growing need for food, fuel, fiber and feed. There is widespread concern for issues such as climate change and relationship of crop production to the environment and ecosystems, and IPNI programs are achieving positive results. Best management practices (BMPs) for nutrient stewardship encourage the concept of applying the right product (source), at the right rate, at the right time, and in the right place.
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The Myth of Rising Wages in America
This Labor Day 2018 marks yet another year of declining living standards for American workers. If one were to believe the media and press, rising wages belie that statement. The Wall St. Journal, August 1, 2018 trumpeted ‘US Workers Get Biggest Pay Raise in Nearly Ten Years’.
But here’s why that media spin is a misrepresentation of reality.
Labor’s Falling Income Share
If wages were rising, why is it that labor’s share of total national income has continued to fall for nearly 20 years, including this past year? At about 64% of total national income in 2000, it has steadily plummeted to around 56% of today’s roughly $16 trillion national income. That decline has not just been a result of the 2008-09 great recession; half of it occurred between 2000 and 2008. So it is a long term secular trend, rooted in today’s 21st century US capitalist system and not a recent phenomenon.
A drop of 8% in income share for Labor might not seem much in simple percent terms. But 8% of $16 trillion is just short of $1.5 trillion a year. In other words, workers have come up short $1.5 trillion in 2017-18; if their share had remained at 64% they would have $1.5 trillion more in their pockets today than they actually have. That $1.5 trillion of Labor Share decline represents a loss, at minimum, of $8,000 a year or more per worker. But the $1.5 is also an underestimation.
‘Labor’s Share’ as defined by the government (Labor Dept. and Congressional Budget Office) includes the salaries of managers and senior executives, year-end bonuses of bankers, lump sum payments to executives, and other forms of non-wage income. True wages income—i.e. of non-management, non-supervisory worker—is a subset of this expanded official definition of Labor’s Share. But if executives, managers and bankers’ forms of salary and pay categories of Labor’s Share have been rising rapidly—which they have—in net terms then true wage incomes have fallen even more than the $1.5 trillion. Take out the executives’ and managers’ share of the Labor Share of national income, and the lost per year per worker likely exceeds $10,000.
But that’s not all. Even when considering true wage incomes of non-management, non-supervisory workers (about 82% of the total labor force), wage gains that have occurred have been skewed strongly to the top 10% of the remaining working class households—i.e. professionals in tech, health care and finance, those with advanced college degrees, etc. By averaging in the wage gains of the top 10% of the working class with the rest, the wage gains of the 10% offset the wage stagnation of the rest. The true negative wage stagnation and decline for the ‘bottom’ 90% wage earners is thus even greater. That’s about 133 million of the 162 million labor force. In other words, the wage incomes of the 133 million have lost even more than the $1.5 trillion of Labor’s Share decline, when excluding the net wage gains of the top 10% of the working class. That means the 133 million have lost even more than $10,000 a year per worker.
And here’s another reason why even the $1.5 trillion is an underestimation: the US National Income Accounts from which Labor v. Capital shares of total US income are calculated, overstates the ‘Wages and Compensation’ category of national income. Other major categories are corporate profits, interest, rent, and what’s called ‘business income’. Business income is really profits for non-incorporated businesses (sole proprietorships, partnerships, etc.). Business income should be included in calculations of profits but isn’t. More important, 65% of business income/profits is instead defined as ‘wage income’ in the US National Income accounts. That means, in effect, profits are defined as wages, thus over-stating wages, while under-stating profits. Both the under- and over-stating results in a lesser share of total National Income going to capital incomes and, simultaneously, a larger share registered as wages. And that means a significant greater magnitude of decline for Labor’s Share of Income than even the $1.5 trillion annual official estimate.
Weekly Earnings v. Wages
Media conflating of weekly earnings with wages is yet another way that wage gains are typically over-reported. Wages are not the same as ‘workers weekly earnings’, which the media often refers to as wages in order to overstate wage gains. Official government sources indicate weekly earnings have been rising at 2.7% annual rate. But weekly earnings are volatile and upswing widely with the business cycle, reflecting hours worked and second jobs. And business cycle upswings since 2001 have been short and shallow. Nevertheless, the press and media often, and purposely, confuse wages with weekly earnings (or with household personal income) in order to make it appear that gains for America’s working class are greater than they are in fact. US Labor Dept. data as of mid-year estimated wage gains at 2.5% over the preceding 17 months to July 2018, according to the Wall St. Journal, and therefore less than the 2.7% figure for weekly earnings.
Wages: The Real Numbers
Even when properly considering just wages for non-management and non-supervisory workers, official government stats still distort to the upside the true picture with regard wages as well. This upside overestimation is due largely to five causes:
• 1) reporting wages for full time employed workers only;
• 2) reporting nominal wages instead of real wages;
• 3) ignoring the claims on future wage payments due to rising worker household debt in the present and therefore future interest payments;
• 4) not considering the decline in ‘deferred wages’ which are represented in pension and retirement benefit payments decline;
• 5) disregarding declines in ‘social wages’ represented in falling real social security benefits payments;
1) While official government data report that wages are now rising at a 2.5% annual rate, what that stat fails to mention is that the 2.5% is for full time permanent workers only. It thus leaves out the lower, if any, wage increases for the current 40-50 million workers who are not full time and are employed in what is sometimes called ‘contingent’ or ‘precarious’ work.
Their lower wage gains would reduce the 2.5% for the total wage earning labor force to less than 2.5%. A similar adjustment should be made for the 8 million or full time workers who have become unemployed and whose “wages”, in the form of unemployment benefits and food stamps, are certainly not rising or being cut. Add the millions more of undocumented workers, and still millions more youth and others working in the ‘underground’ economy (estimated now at 12% of US GDP)—neither of whom whose wages are estimated accurately by official government wage stats—and the wage gains are still further reduced from the official 2.5%. When adjustments are made to include these latter categories of wage earners, and consider contingent workers’ wages, it is this writer’s estimate that the true net rise in nominal wages the past year is no more than 1.7% to 2.0% overall and closer to 1% for the 133 million and the ‘bottom’ 90% of the wage earning labor force.
To sum up thus far, when excluding salaries of executives and managers, exempting the top 10% of the wage earning labor force, adding in the wage-less unemployed, and correcting for undocumented and underground economy labor force—the net result for even nominal wages is far less than the official 2.5%.
Nominal wage gains for 133 million are thus no more than 1.5%; that is, or one percent less than the official 2.5%.
2) The 2.5% official wage gain stat reported by the government is what’s called the nominal wage, not the real wage. The real wage—or what workers have actually to spend—is the nominal wage adjusted for the rate of inflation. So what has been the inflation rate? And how accurate is it?
There are various price indices against which wage gains may be adjusted: the consumer price index (CPI), the personal consumption expenditures index (PCE), GDP deflator index, and others. However, most often reported by the media is the CPI. The CPI at mid-year had officially risen 2.9% over the previous year. So if one applied the CPI to the official hourly wage gain of 2.5%, it would mean that workers’ real wages declined by- 0.4% over the past year. (Or fell by -1.4% if the above adjustments to the nominal wage are considered).
But both the -0.4% and -1.4% are also underestimations. Here’s why: The CPI purposely underestimates the true rate of inflation. (And the higher the rate of inflation, the lower the real wage). First, it smooths out year to year inflation by averaging annual inflation rates by means of what is called ‘chained indexing’. Furthermore, the CPI does not look at all prices, but at a ‘basket’ of the most likely purchases of goods and services by households. It then assigns ‘weights’ to the items in this basket. For working class households, the weights should be greater for housing, healthcare, education, insurance and other basics but they’re not. The weights therefore do not reflect the true impact of inflation on reducing real wages. There’s another problem. The Labor Dept. arbitrarily assumes increases in quality of a particular good or service in the basket reduces the price for that product. The price for the product in the CPI is often far lower than what a household actually pays for it in the market place. For example, a student may pay $800 for a computer laptop for back to school use, but the Labor Dept. reports it in the CPI as only $500 since it assumes the quality of that laptop is greater than an $800 laptop three years ago. But this is a distortion of the actual price paid in the market by the working class household. Inflation is under-estimated. Another problem in the CPI is the government’s bias toward underestimating prices for online ecommerce goods purchases by households.
These arbitrary assumptions baked into the CPI serve to reduce the actual rate of CPI inflation. And if the CPI is underestimated, the real wage gain is estimated higher than it actually is. The true inflation rate is therefore undoubtedly well above the official 2.9% and real wages consequently even lower than officially reported.
While mainstream economists typically argue households don’t really know how much inflation is really rising, the truth is they know far better than the economists who rely on faulty, arbitrary government statistical estimations of consumer inflation. Ask any median working class worker if their household costs have been increasing by only 2.9% the past year—when rent costs are escalating rapidly (often at double digit rates), health insurance premiums and doctor-hospital deductible and copay costs rising 20%-50%, auto insurance, gasoline costs per gallon up sharply over the past year, education & utility and transport costs, etc. And in the last six months, prices have begun to rise even more broadly, as a large array of goods prices are being hiked by US businesses in anticipation of Trump’s tariff wars starting to bite.
With official CPI inflation at 2.9% and official nominal wages at 2.5%, the government real wage adjustment is only -0.4%. But if the real CPI were around 3.5%, and nominal wages still assumed at the official 2.5%, then the real wage gain would be only 1.5%.
But that 1.5% real wage still does not factor in the corrections to the nominal wage noted in 1) above—i.e. for excluding executive-managers’ salaries as wages, for including contingent part time and temp workers’ wages, including the lost wages of the unemployed, and correcting for the undocumented and underground economy labor force, etc. Those adjustments reduced the nominal wage from 2.5% to 1.5%.
When these downward adjustments are made to the official 2.5% nominal wage (reducing it to 1.5%), combined with an upward adjustment of the CPI inflation rate to 3.5% (from 2.9%), what results is a real wage decline of -2.0% for the 133 million wage earners in the labor force.
The media and the press consistently report that real wages have stagnated this past year. The nominal wage gains have been roughly equal to the rate of inflation. But by properly estimating nominal wages (with the adjustments) and properly estimating a somewhat higher CPI rate, real wages have not been stagnating but have continued to decline—at least for the 133 million.
But the ‘wage story’ is still not complete, even when properly defining and adjusting for nominal wages, inflation, and real wages. Neither the media or government give any consideration in their calculations of wage changes to deferred wages or social wages or to the impact of interest and debt on future wages.
3) Future Wages represent a category never considered by official government statistics. What’s ‘future wages’? They represent nominal and real wages adjusted downward to reflect the cost of credit, and thus interest payments on debt, incurred in the present but due to impact wages in the future as the interest on debt is repaid. It is no secret that US working class households are increasingly in debt since 2000, as they take on credit in order to finance household consumption as their real wages and incomes have steadily stagnated or declined. Credit, and therefore debt, has been a primary way they have tried to maintain their standard of living the past two decades. (Before that it was adding more hours of work to the family income by having spouses enter the workforce. But this leveled off by 1999). Adding second and third jobs has been another way to add wage income to the household, as wages for primary worker in the household have declined.
But interest on debt is a claim on wages to be paid in the future. It is spending future wage income in the present. And US capital is more than glad to finance household consumption by extending more and more credit and debt to households in lieu of paying more wages. Another method by which wage decline has been ‘offset’ is to provide cheap imports of basic goods like clothing, household items, even some food categories. But the cheap imports come at the cost of lost high paying manufacturing jobs. So lack of wage gains is in part offset by cheap imports and a massive increase in available credit to households. US household debt is now at historic levels, higher than in 2007. More than $13 trillion in debt, including $1.5 trillion in student debt, more than $1 trillion in credit cards, $1.2 trillion in auto debt, and the rest in mortgage debt. The average household credit card debt interest payments alone are estimated at no less than $1,300 per year. Debt costs, moreover, are rising rapidly as the US central bank continues to steadily hikes its rates.
The debt-interest to wage change relationship has become a vicious cycle, moreover. Employers give little in the way of wage hikes and households resort to more credit-debt and in turn demand less wage increases. This cycle appears in some areas to be breaking down, however, as teachers, minimum wage service workers, and others agitate for higher wages. But he overall problem will likely continue, as the vehicle for achieving wage gains in good economic times—i.e. Unions—decline further and no longer play their historic role. Knowing this, and burying households in credit card offers and other credit, businesses refuse to grant wage hikes except in isolated cases.
4) and 5): Another area that should be considered ‘wage’ but is not by government agencies reporting on wage changes is pensions and social security benefits. These too are in effect ‘wages’. Pensions are deferred wage payments. Workers forego actual wage increases in order to have employers provide contributions, in lieu of actual wages, into their pension plans. Upon retirement, they are then paid these ‘deferred wages’ from their pension plans.
But true pension plans, called defined benefit pensions, have been steadily destroyed—with the assistance of the government run by both Republican and Democrat parties—by employers since the 1980s. The destruction has accelerated since 2001 and continues in its final stages. Defined benefit pensions have been progressively replaced with privatized, ‘401k’ and ‘IRA’ plans—reducing employer costs and liabilities dramatically. 401k plan substitutes have proven a disaster and grossly insufficient for providing ‘deferred wages’ for retirees. Workers within 10 years of retirement on average have barely $50k in 401ks with which to retire on. The average 401k balance for all households is less than $18k. Not surprising, the fastest segment of US labor force growth is workers over age 67 having to re-enter the work force in order to survive. And retiree bankruptcy filing rates are at record levels and rising rapidly. Before 2000, only 2.1% of the over 65 age group filed for bankruptcy; today the rate is 12.2%, a more than fivefold increase even as their population share has risen by only 2.3%. Median household indebtedness for retirees is now $101,000.
Much of the rising debt for retirees is due to the collapse of the ‘wage’ in the form of monthly pension benefit payments, as defined benefit plans have been destroyed by employers and government in collusion and replaced by lower benefit 401k privatized pensions. Bankruptcies, rise of part time contingent work by retirees, and senior citizen poverty rate escalation have been the consequences. None of this deferred wage decline has been accounted for in the general wage statistics by US government agencies, however.
A similar retirement household wage decline is associated with monthly social security benefit payments—i.e. what might be called a ‘social wage’ similar to private pension deferred wage. It is ‘financed’ by employer (and worker) payroll tax payments into the social security trust fund from which monthly money benefits upon retirement are paid. Also deferred, like private pension benefit payments, the social wage represents employer payroll tax contributions to social security that are made in lieu of direct wages that might be paid to workers were there no payroll tax. The payroll tax represents workers’ deductions from wages they do not otherwise receive and instead have redirected to the social security trust fund. Both employer and worker wages are thus deferred and deposited to the trust fund, to be paid out in the future in wages in the form of social security benefit payments. Social security benefits are thus a form of ‘social wage’. And to the extent social security benefits are reduced, the social (deferred) wage is reduced. The wage reduction has been implemented by the government raising the retirement age to 67 at which to receive social security retirement benefits. Suspending or failing to enact cost of living adjustments to monthly payments. Cuts to SSDI benefits, i.e. social security disability insurance—all represent de facto cuts to the social wage. Rising annual deductibles and copays for Medicare are another form of social wage cut. Moreover, Trump plans to reduce Medicare in his latest budget represents yet another pending social wage cut.
Like defined benefit pension deferred wages, reductions in the social wage in the form of social security payments also represent appropriate wage categories affecting 50 million retired workers that US government agencies responsible for estimating wage changes do not include in their calculations of wage changes.
Summary Comments
Contrary to media ‘spin’, business press misrepresentations, and US government agencies’ ‘statistical legerdemain’, real wages for the vast majority of the US labor force—i.e. the 133 million— are not even close to rising in the US under Trump. Nor did they under Obama, Bush, or Clinton. Since 1980 and the advent of neoliberal capitalist restructuring of the US and global economy, a key element of neoliberal policies has been to compress wages—for all but the roughly 10% that US Capital considers essential to its further expansion and for, of course, the salaries of executives and managers. The rest of the US workforce has undergone constant wage stagnation and decline over the long term. The pace has accelerated or abated at different times, but the long term direction of decline and stagnation has not.
When wage change is not limited to considering only permanent, full time employees or averaged out, when conveniently excluded categories of workers are considered, when wages are adjusted for true inflation rates, when interest and debt effects are accounted for, and when ‘deferred’ and ‘social’ wage payments are factored into wage totals in general—it is overwhelmingly the case that US wages have been declining for some time and that decline continues in 2018 despite the media-government spin that wages are rising in America.
Dr. Rasmus is author of the most recently published book, ‘Central Bankers at the End of Their Ropes: Monetary Policy and the Coming Depression’, Clarity Press, August 2017, and the forthcoming ‘The Scourge of Neoliberalism: Economic Policy from Reagan to Trump’, Clarity Press, 2019. He blogs at jackrasmus.com and his twitter handle is @drjackrasmus.
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Lamar Advertising Company Expands Media Footprint in Cleveland
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RTA provides transportation services for approximately 200,000 commuters on a typical weekday, or about 50 million rides annually through a variety of services. RTA operates 426 buses along 1,606 miles of routes; 48 light rail cars along 37 miles of routes; 60 rapid transit cars; 80 paratransit vehicles; and 17 downtown trolleys. The RTA service area covers 457 square miles across 38 cities.
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Scorpions look to cool Volcanoes as regional 4-day cricket competition resumes
BY SANJAY MYERS
Senior staff reporter
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Heartened by their backs-to-the-wall effort to salvage a draw against Trinidad and Tobago Red Force in the first round, Jamaica Scorpions enter today's regional four-day cricket match versus Windward Islands Volcanoes optimistic of going one better.
First ball in the Round Two encounter is scheduled for 10:00 am at Sabina Park in Kingston.
Last week, the Scorpions staved off defeat in Trinidad thanks to Paul Palmer's heroic, unbeaten century which helped them to 300-8 after they were forced to follow on. Earlier in the match, they had made 278 all out in response to the Red Force's imposing first-innings total of 460-4 declared.
Last weekend's result left the Scorpions fourth in the six-team league table with 6.6 points, while second-placed Volcanoes have 16.6 points.
“It's a fresh start for us, but we would have taken a lot of confidence from the fightback in the last game against Trinidad,” Andre Coley, Scorpions head coach, told the Jamaica Observer after yesterday's training session.
Ironically, the last time Volcanoes visited Sabina Park they were victorious. And at the time Coley was their head coach, making him acutely aware of the potential within their ranks.
“I expect it to be tough one [against the Volcanoes] and our players are expecting that too. They have a good [bowling] attack, and experience in their batting with some young players coming through,” the former Jamaica wicketkeeper reasoned.
Former Jamaica fast bowler Andrew Richardson, who left the position as Scorpions assistant coach to fill the void left by Coley's switch, is proud of his players' effort after they beat Barbados Pride to begin their campaign.
“It was very good for us, and what worked well is that we executed our plans. Some of the players really came to the party — I thought it was a total team effort. The guys believed, and that's something I've been preaching to my players, as well as to break down the game into small targets session by session,” the Volcanoes head coach told the Observer.
Though the Volcanoes are brimming with confidence, Richardson stressed the need for them to avoid complacency.
“It's one game and we have nine remaining, so we have to be consistent and we have to show improvement as time goes on,” he cautioned.
On the eve of the match, the pitch at Sabina Park sported a healthy covering of live grass. In recent years, the surface at the venue has been known to offer grip for spinners and a bit of sideways movement for the seamers. Both teams possess bowlers that could exploit such conditions.
The Scorpions have made three changes to the squad that travelled to Trinidad.
Batsman Alwyn Williams and spinner Dennis Bulli are out due to injury, while all-rounder Rovman Powell was called for West Indies duty against touring Ireland.
Batsman Nkrumah Bonner was forced out of the squad for the first round at the last minute due to illness, opener Oraine Williams and off-break bowler Jamie Merchant are the replacements brought in.
For the Volcanoes, the West Indies top-order batsman Sunil Ambris, who featured in the One-Day International series against Ireland, steps in to assume the captaincy role.
In the round's other contests, fifth-placed Barbados Pride (4.2 points) welcome leaders and defending five-time champions Guyana Jaguars (21 points) to Kensington Oval, while the third-placed Red Force (9.4 points) take on cellar team Leeward Islands Hurricanes (two points) at Brian Lara Cricket Academy.
Squads: Scorpions — John Campbell (captain), Oraine Williams, Assad Fudadin, Jermaine Blackwood, Paul Palmer, Nkrumah Bonner, Aldaine Thomas, Derval Green, Jamie Merchant, Marquino Mindley, Patrick Harty, Denis Smith, Nicholson Gordon.
Volcanoes — Sunil Ambris (captain), Kavem Hodge, Devon Smith, Desron Maloney, Kirk Edwards, Alick Athanaze, Emmanuel Stewart, Keron Cottoy, Shane Shillingford, Ray Jordan, Shermon Lewis, Josh Thomas, Preston McSween.
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Japan remains one of the world’s least-reached nations. Fewer than 0.5% of Japanese are thought to be Christians. Japan Christian Link wants to help change that. Our goal is to help make a significant difference in the progress of the gospel among the Japanese people over the first half of this century. We seek to do this through educating, encouraging and equipping Christians so that, more and more, the good news of Jesus Christ will be proclaimed clearly, and disciples of Jesus Christ multiplied, among the Japanese people, for his glory (Matthew 28:19-20). Find out about our origins, our vision, who we are and what we do ..... and come and meet a few of our people. more...
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STOP PRESS: This year's Japan Weekend Conference has just concluded. Thank you to so many who booked and joined us, we really hope that you enjoyed the event. Audio files of the talks will be available shortly, please keep an eye on our conference page for these.
Following on from the Bird's eye view of the Bible resources which were prepared by Yuko Brash (see below), we are delighted to make available to everyone an additional resource in Japanese, English and bilingual formats a handbook for reading Heidi, the classic best-selling book written by Johanna Spyri in 1880. If you know of a book club or have a friend who is interested, why not download this and read through the heart-warming and instructive story of Heidi, set in the beautiful Swiss Alps. There is much to be learned about God from this lovely story.
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Japan Weekend Conference - 20th to 22nd July 2018
It was great to be able to meet up with so many friends at the Japan Weekend Conference which concluded recently. So sorry if you missed it, but please mark your diaries with the dates for next year which are 19th to 21st July 2019.
This year's main speaker was Pastor Makoto Fukuda, from Grace City Church Tokyo. In addition to leading this church, Pastor Fukuda also runs the Grace Church Planting Network, which seeks to encourage and promote new church planting in Japan's big cities. We very much enjoyed three inspiring talks from Pastor Fukuda and are planning to make available audio files so you can listen in to what he had to share with us. Please contact us or revisit this page to download these files shortly.
Next year's conference will also take place at All Nations Christian College, near St. Margaret's in Hertfordshire. Once again it will be possible to join us for the whole weekend or just for the day on Saturday. Please contact us if you have any questions and/or would like to learn more.
Review of Past Events
Japan Weekend Conference - 21st to 23rd July 2017
Last year's Japan Weekend Conference took place between Friday 21st July and Sunday 23rd July 2017 at All Nations Christian College near St. Margaret's in Hertfordshire, UK. Unfortunately Rev. Akira Sato, pastor of Fukushima First Bible Baptist Church, formerly 3 miles from the now notorious nuclear power plant, who was due to be our speaker, was not able to join us following an accident. Our amended programme allowed us many opportunities to hear about other work among Japanese people in various different locations.
Returnees' Retreat - Shiga, Japan - 18th to 20th March 2017
A meeting of returnees took place from Saturday 18th March until Monday 20th March 2017 at Shigaraki Christ Church, Koka, near Kyoto. It was a great time of mutual encouragement, inspiring talks, relaxation and worship. Over 60 individuals joined local churches for a number of events and a good time was enjoyed by all who came, by all accounts.
Thanks to all those in Shigaraki who welcomed guests and were involved in organising the events.
Meeting with the Samurai in London - Autumn 2016
A number of us had the opportunity to meet three of the current members of the Samurai Project in Tokyo, who spoke in both English and Japanese at a meeting of the VIP Club in London in the evening of Wednesday, 26th October. It was great to hear their enthusiasm for the training which they are currently undertaking and to catch some of their vision for how the Lord will use them in speaking for him in Tokyo through church planting, in business and beyond. We are sorry if you missed this meeting, contact us to hear more about it and/or to subscribe to our periodic Japan News magazine, which will contain an article about this visit in a forthcoming edition.
Japan Meeting in London, Summer 2016
A rare opportunity to meet Thierry Richards, one of JCL's Mission Partners, during a visit to London took place on Wednesday, 10th August. Thierry shared a presentation on his ministry at Grace City Church, Tokyo and also provided an update on the Samurai Project, which is a ministry training initiative taking place in Tokyo.
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Prayer sheet - We produce periodic Japan Praise & Prayer sheets. Let us know if you would like a copy of our last one.
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Laser Time – Guide to the Star Wars Expanded Universe
December 7, 2015 C.Ant
Special guest Kat Bailey walks us through the defunct worlds, stories, games and characters from the now dead Star Wars Expanded Universe…
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29 thoughts on “Laser Time – Guide to the Star Wars Expanded Universe”
The Artist Formely Known as KeeperXIII says:
Holy shit! Kat Bailey is here!
Also, Han’s face is kinda melting in that picture up there. I think the emperor is distorting his face with the force.
smisk42 says:
Holy shit am I excited for this! I was super into the EU during middle/high school so it’ll be super cool to hear you guys talk about it!
this a really good companion episode to the first LaserTime episode. My EX stepdad was the only person I knew who read (and listened to innaudiobook form) any of the expanded universe books. II found a copy of Splinter in the minds eye when I was really young and bought it cheap. Henry talked about the sexual tension in that bookbut, holy crap, they freaking MAKE OUT in that book hardcore! I’m with Kat,I’m not invested in the lord of SW anymore I’m just going in to watch a sci Fi movie with good old fashioned practical effects. that’s part of what sold me on the JJ Abrams Star Wars.
blackpariah says:
Haven’t listened to this yet but I can only hope you talk about Dawn of the Jedi and the Legacy series. Dawn was a comic series about the founding of the proto-Jedi( called Je’daii) and the first emergence of dark side users ten thousand years before A New Hope. The three Legacy comics were about the New Republic Order timeframe 135 years after ROTJ, following Cade Skywalker (Legacy and Legacy: War) and then later in Legacy II, Ania Solo. Dark Horse losing the license meant that Dawn and Legacy II were canceled before they could even really get started. Oddly enough, I never got into the prose books because the first ones I picked up were the “Dark Nest” trilogy, widely considered to be just plain weird.
Obi-Gyn-Kenobi says:
Like most things, the EU is full of hits and misses. I still remember how excited I was for the Thrawn Trilogy since it felt like the first new Star Wars in ages long after the Marvel Comics run was over and the toys were long gone.
Most of the stuff from James Luceno is good fan service and this Revenge of the Sith lead in novel was good.
They did a great job of aligning the books and comics during the Clone Wars period between ATOC and ROTS. There are some solid war stories in there.
Brendalf says:
LIGHT-SABERS CAN’T MELT STEAL BEEMS!!!
Itchy Sunburn says:
The EU is awesome which from what I’ve listened to isn’t mentioned too much in this episode. It has its shit sure and the tropes but that doesnt mean it can’t be a great star wars experience. Reading nearly all of the post-Return EU books has really juiced up my Star Wars fandom and helped me get as into the series as I have. The Unifying Force in particular was a great book with tons of cool moments and Jacen’s story in his penultimate series was intriguing even if it was done before.
RacoonHail says:
I have read probably each of the expanded universe books a half a dozen times. I think I will enjoy this greatly. I will have to come back to this after I listen.
batmanboy11 says:
I miss some aspects of the Expanded Universe – namely Luke restarting the Jedi order and Mara Jade Skywalker in general. It’s sort of a bummer to see that Luke hasn’t done much in the way of the Jedi in the films, except potentially having an apprentice or two (unless it remains to be seen).
Skipper Dan says:
This episode reminded me of the Star Wars convention I attended a few years ago. It was one of the largest free conventions in the US and was big enough to have several of the lesser known actors in attendance. Among the notables were the body of Darth Vader and the voice of General Grievous. On the absolute outskirts of the Star Wars actors universe was the woman who “played” Mara Jade on some of the book covers. She could not be further removed from the saga, but you could pay for an autograph.
Hjels says:
Wow, what a great episode. I was literally mouthing ‘Exar Kun’, when you said it.
And then I remembered Ulic Qel-Droma and Nomi Sunrider, who was totally my favorite, she had that hair-thing, and then…
Great episode, guys.
ClusterShart says:
Just wanted to say that I enjoyed the episode, well, what I was able to listen to between Siri telling me to make a million U-turns.
Also, when it comes to the new canon, I think we’re quite lucky that it has been mostly good so far. I’ve personally enjoyed the few books, and the majority of the comics that have come out. Rebels is also slowly becoming fantastic, and while Battlefront has legitimate issues with the amount of content it has, it’s still fun. The only thing I haven’t enjoyed would actually be the book, “Star Wars: Aftermath”. While it was nice to have a gay character in the series, the book just felt poorly and hastily written, and just didn’t feel like it was worth the time that was spent reading it. Hopefully it will be the outlier, instead of the new norm.
Check out the book Battlefront: Twilight Company, it just came out along with the game and is great!
JJBSterling says:
This episode perfectly encapsulated why I never cared about any Star Wars product beyond the core movies.
bakaisdumb1 says:
So first a funny story, then a Gundam rant. When I was at my community college, we had a guest speaker who was Earnest Cline, author of Ready Player One. Its a pretty good book! When it came time for the questions part, I asked him how he felt about the expanded Star Wars universe being declared non canon, because he had talked about how he started writing with Star Wars fan fic. I am proud to say it was the nerdiest question asked at this speech.
So Gundam. Beam Sabers ARE better than Light sabers because they are used by Giant Robots. The names are a league of bad that the made up sounds for Star Wars names don’t even approach. Jim Ghingnham is not a distant relative of Jake Gyllenhall. And despite the fact that this is a major character in the series, DO NOT Google Full Frontal Gundam without doubling checking safe search. On a serious note (?) the main dude behind Gundam, Yoshiyuki Tomino really is like the George Lucas of anime. He has good ideas, but his own internal logic and vision are completely incomprehensible to the average non Yoshiyuki Tomino. It might take a little while to wrap your head around how exactly how the whole Gundam thing works, knowing your Universal Century from your spin offs (example: Gundam Unicron is UC, Mobile Fighter G Gundam is its own timeline), but it is incredibly satisfying once you actually get why Gundam is fantastic.
Phil the guy says:
Fantastic episode! Kat did not disappoint in talking about Kyle Katarn, the EU character I spent the most time with. This is one of my top 5 Laser Time Episodes of all time.
Great Episode, while I am totally ok with and understand why Disney has wiped all this out of canon, the one thing I am bummed about is how much headspace all the knowledge of this universe takes up in my head. When Disney announced that it was no longer canon, I set out to replace it with some other universe’s (perhaps useless) knowledge. I picked Warhammer 40k. Did it work? No, now my head has both. Weeeeeee!
But about the Expanded Universe, I cannnot recommend more the X-Wing books by Michael Stackpole, which are far better then they spoke in the episode. After you finish with that, the single best Star Wars book I can recommend that is not the Thrawn series is “I,Jedi”. Also by Stackpole.
Nemoperson says:
Glad to hear Kat make her LT debut. Hope she can come back for more episodes. Maybe she and Bett can start a TNG companion series ala Talkin’ Simpsons 🙂
If you dont like the idea of Chewbacca dying, you may not like Episode VII.
Sinosaur says:
As a huge Star Wars nerd, I was massively into the EU as a kid/teenager. I had all of the Essential Guide books (official wikis before wikis) and a ton of the books. While there is tons of stupid parts of it, when the EU being non-canon was announced, I immediately went to how disappointed I was that the X-Wing series would no longer be official. I’ve since reached a point where this decision has helped free me from the past and the future: I can just have my own personal canon of things I care about and throw aside the rest, which has put me in a place where even if I’m not in love with what comes next, I can be content.
Now, for one of my personal favorite stupid characters from the Star Wars EU: Feltipern Trevagg. He’s the beared, horned guy in the Cantina who is nuzzling up with some other weird alien. In the EU, he’s a tax collector in Mos Eisley who is sort of psychic (due to the horns) and recognizes that Obi-Wan Kenobi is a Jedi, and plans to turn him in for the reward. In the Cantina scene, he’s attempting to seduce a naive young alien named M’iiyoom Onith, and the later go back to a dirty motel room for sex. After they do the deed, she eats him (as is part of her species mating ritual).
What has made this stupid character story stick with me for so long is that I first heard it when I borrowed Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina as a book on tape from my local library, so I got to hear this character getting killed after boning.
My second favorite stupid Star Wars EU fact: IG-88 is actually four assassin droids that work together (pretending to be the same guy, although they have cloned programming so they sort of are). In IG-88’s short story from Tales of the Bounty Hunters, Boba Fett kills three of the IG-88s while the original uploads his programming to the control computer in the Second Death Star moments before it’s destroyed by the Rebels.
TrentEaston says:
Both the TIE/D Defender and the Dark Troopers are canon once again because they’re both in some Disney published Star Wars mobile game again.
Also the pretty good Star Wars RTS “Empire At War” and it’s expansion pack definitely had a lot of cameos of various EU characters whom you either fight or Ally with including Dash Rendar, Thrawn, Prince Xizor among others with fully voiced characters.
Jonwahizzle says:
Man….this episode reminded me of why I only read the Thrawn Trilogy, Shadows of the Empire, and Force Unleashed, with a smattering of other Star Wars stuff here and there. The fact that a majority of the stories made minor characters in the saga into unsung heroes is what started to turn me off to the books, and the fact that books that took place before the original trilogy (like many of the young adult ones I read as a kid) had NO STAKES because there’s no way Han, Luke, or Leia would die.
But I’ll admit to being fond of the Star Wars Goosebumps rip off “Galaxy of Fear” as a kid….
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GeorgeTaylorG says:
This episode was great. I was completely fascinated by all this EU stuff. Such a great universe with so many odd decisions. Kat killed it too.
Probably the most wrapt I’ve ever been with an episode of LT.
soupbones says:
Best episode yet. I read all that EU crap (and sad to say, loved most of it at the time). Would love to here another couple of hours – Kat was amazing!
Celebrating Dirt says:
Great episode you guy! I’m an avid Star Wars fan but I was never into the EU stuff, with the exception of a series of books you didn’t mention. The 3 part “Bounty Hunter” wars series was amazing. It was a pretty grounded story that inter-cut what happens to Boba Fett after the sarlacc with his dismantling of the bounty hunters guild. I really related to what Chris said about growing up in the brief window after the late 80s hiatus and before the prequel/re-release madness. It made discovering the films kinda magical in a way… like forgotten legends. Is anyone gone to have that again? We seem to be doomed to have ALL STAR WARS ALL THE TIME FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES.
justwannapost says:
In general I’ve noticed Chris never got super deep into any typical nerdy subjects growing up, I wonder what was the nerdiest thing he got the deepest into growing up
justadude says:
This episode was amazing and in perfect time for The Force Awakens! I considered myself somewhat knowledgeable about the EU and this episode showed me how wrong I was. I can’t wait to dig more into even though Disney says it isn’t cannon but who cares?
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Sources report that anti-Libyan National Army (LNA) Misratan powerbrokers have effectively taken over the Government of National Accord (GNA) and have reportedly received one billion Libya dinars of funds, more than half of the emergency funds Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj made available to the war effort, in exchange for their political and military support. The conflict has already drawn in large forces from Misrata, including under GNA’s Central Region Military Command headed by Lieutenant General Mohammed al-Haddad. Sources report that as much as 20 per cent of the available Misratan militias (Misrata has over 200 militias with some 18,000 men at their disposal) have deployed to support anti-Haftar forces in Tripoli including Misrata’s Joint Security Operations Room’s “Special Task Force,” the Halbous Brigade, the Marsa Brigade, the 166th Brigade, and the 301st Battalion.
However, divisions have started to emerge within the anti-LNA coalition with reports suggesting the Misrata Joint Security Force withdrew its troops from Tripoli following a breakdown in relations with Tajoura’s 33 Infantry Brigade led by Bashir Khalfalla (aka al-Bograh). The point of contention was the alleged presence of Benghazi and Derna Shura Council members within their forces
For the majority of GNA-aligned militias, it is not loyalty to the GNA that constitutes a group’s primary allegiance, but rather their fierce opposition to Haftar and the LNA and defence of their territory. This opposition has seen the formation of a loose “anti-LNA coalition.” Within a few days of the assault, the GNA attempted to co-opt this coalition, started referring to this group as “their” forces, dubbed it “al-Jaysh al-Libi” (the Libyan Army) and appointed a spokesperson for it. Nevertheless, these groups have often not worked together before and have had little time to facilitate coordination amongst themselves. As for efforts to coordinate military actions, the defence of Tripoli is likely being coordinated among leaders in the TPF, Zintani commander of the GNA Western Region Usama al-Juwaili, GNA Central Region commander Mohamed al-Haddad, and Minister of Interior and Defence Fathi Bashagha via informal commander-level discussions.
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Matt Shakman's twisty small-town crime thriller Cut Bank stars Liam Hemsworth as Dwayne, a young man who has developed an elaborate plan to score a $100,000 reward for helping catch the murderer of crusty mailman Georgie Wits (Bruce Dern). The catch is that there hasn't been a murder in the first place, and the entire scam starts to unravel as Dwayne's strict boss (Billy Bob Thornton), who is also the father of Dwayne's girlfriend, looks into the matter. Also closing in is the good-hearted local Sheriff...more
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Mike Klein (David Duchovny) is a terminally naive TV writer on the verge of seeing his pilot on the air. You can tell Mike feels good about his show, and The TV Set works hard, via omission and a counterpoint of bad plot ideas, to let you know that it offers a sincerely artistic musing on life. The few cut scenes and Mike's disclosure that the story is semi-autobiographical make the story arc of a man who abandons his life to return to his family and home town in the wake of his brother's suicide seem vulnerable and insightful.
Of course, it never gets made. Untold horrors await Mike and stand in his way. Among them:
• Lenny (Sigourney Weaver), a TV executive who wants to axe "the suicide thing" because "it's depressing" and whose near-death experience bestows on her the revelation that life is short and "we can win Thursday night!"
• Zach Harper (Fran Kranz), a totally empty vessel of a male lead whose acting ranges from 1990s sitcom-snark MU-UH-UH-UGGING to bizarrely accented homicidal stage whispers à la Travis Bickle.
• A director, Brian (Willie Garson), so bent on mining each establishing shot for its avant garde potential that characters don't even appear on screen and dialogue loops over tracking shots of, like, trash, man—an old dude pushing around his trash!
• Alice (Judy Greer), Mike's mostly unsympathetic agent whose advice on almost any issue of creative control is to accede to the studio's suggestions.
• Focus groups.
By the end of the movie, everything touching about Mike's pilot has been cannibalized and replaced by exactly the insipid production choices you'd expect.
Which is the problem with The TV Set. While supposedly writer/director Jake Kasdan based it on actual crimes committed against the six pilots he tried to produce for television, that authenticity doesn't overcome the predictability. Almost all of us already know that Hollywood is a gutless, soulless schlock-factory that routinely obliterates the creative and quirky in favor of appealing to the lowest-common denominator, and those of us who do not are the lowest common denominator.
The trouble with a satire as bleak as this film's is that it needs to be revelatory to get the audience past how depressing it is, or it needs to be really funny to help us down the bitter pill. As it is, when the thoughtful Jewish stage actor gets passed over for Zach's blonde and one-dimensional mugging, when the suicide gets scrapped, when the sweetly shy attraction between the male and female leads gets replaced with an OMG LOOK AT DAT ASS—SHE'S SMOKIN' sexual pitch, it's all so familiar. The reaction isn't, "Oh, good Lord. Is this how it really works?" Instead it's, "Yeah, that'll happen."
Other, minor problems attend the overall non-revelatory tone.
Mike's agent, Alice, comes off as an uneducated Philistine for most of the film and doesn't stick up for him at all, leaving you wondering why on earth he'd choose her to represent him. Her spineless agreement to studio demands becomes an unrealistic straw man performance that ignores any logical explanation for Mike's putting up with her. Only perhaps 25 minutes from the end does she seem to have any affection or concern for him, helping him strategize how to sabotage the network's plans.
Ioan Gruffudd co-stars as Richard McCallister, an English wunderkind snatched away from British TV to import new ideas and a little class and sophistication to American programming. As you'd expect, executives ignore his suggestions and do everything possible to avoid sophistication. Instead of exploring how others stymie his ambitions, giving us another glimpse into the dynamics of network ignorance, the plot settles for the obvious while also lingering aimlessly in scenes about his fragmenting marriage.
Finally, and most unfortunately, Mike doesn't get a single win. He's met by disappointment in every way, and it's impossible to figure out why he'd even do this. Kasdan serves up a baby on the way as motivation, but it seems an unsatisfying explanation for why he'd be a total doormat. For a writer, he doesn't even get in a verbal zinger. Lenny and other execs keep telling him, "We love the show!" before suggesting more changes. Not once does it occur to him to say, "Well, if you love it, it must be fine. You loving it tells me: we've made the right decisions, and we should go forward with it as-is!"
But he doesn't, because a small victory would derail the ruthlessly bleak vision of the satire. Perhaps a need for vengeance or a kind of unburdening of his enormous (and doubtless justified) frustrations explains Kasdan's single-mindedness of purpose. Unfortunately, in adhering to strongly to the message, he forgets to make it fun. Their are some laughs, of course: almost any scene with Weaver's Lenny crackles with the banality of evil — or, more aptly in her case, the evil of banality. But as the film goes on, they get thinner on the ground.
It wouldn't be so noticeable if Kasdan were pulling back the curtain on an ugly reality no one knew, but anyone who's watched any TV satire in the last twenty years has seen someone else hit these points better, briefer and funnier. The Simpsons covered all this ground on The Itchy, Scratchy and Poochie Show in 22 minutes. For the most part, they do so in this clip alone (which is tremendously funny and also points up how The TV Set missed a huge opportunity to satirize the idiocy of focus groups and their reliance on confirmation bias to produce results their directors want to induce):
The problem isn't that Kasdan's message isn't right, welcome and deserving of more attention. It's that he forgot to make it fun. Those of us who agree with him don't need to be taken along for the ride: we're there already, which unfortunately leaves us with the time to nitpick his approach. Everyone else needs an inducement to get in the car and see what passes by along the way. For those people, The TV Set doesn't given them enough fun things to look at.
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The mission of the New Economy Coalition (NEC) is to convene and support all those who might contribute to an economy that is restorative to people, place, and planet, and that operates according to principles of democracy, justice and appropriate scale. Faced with interconnected ecological and economic crises, we believe that shared prosperity, sustainability and an equitable society require deep, systemic changes to both our economy and our politics. We support a just transition to a new economy that enables both thriving communities and ecological health.
Today, the majority of people are deprived of a voice in political and economic life. Fundamental flaws in the political economic system permit the concentration of resources and power, exacerbating inequality and destroying ecosystems. The beneficiaries of this system obstruct efforts to restore communities and livelihoods. These crises are poisoning our water, air, and land; creating climate chaos; and driving millions into disease and poverty.
The old models have not delivered. Something new is required.
Many people are currently working on components of a new economy, but too often their efforts remain fragmented and outside the mainstream of public discourse. Out of these hundreds of efforts a movement is emerging, but we must pull together to build the power necessary to take on the existing system and usher in an alternative. NEC’s objectives are to spread a new story about whom the economy serves, to facilitate the development of economic alternatives, and to engage coalition members in creating the conditions for transformational change. We offer one another the opportunity to engage with diverse constituencies, amplify our stories, and mobilize support for existing work and new collaborations.
We believe it is possible to bring about a new economy. Many strategies are already available, and more are emerging every day. But policy and models are meaningless without the will and capacity to implement them. It is possible to realize a new paradigm of equity and ecological health through a movement supported by a broad base of people committed to transformative change.
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Nigerians To Pay Extra Charges For Bank Deposits/Withdrawals
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Nigerians operating bank accounts will begin to pay charges for deposits and withdrawals.
Making the announcement on Tuesday, the Central Bank of Nigeria said that the nationwide implementation of the cashless policy will begin by March 2020.
The apex bank said that implementation of the policy would signal the imposition of charges on deposits in addition to already existing charges on withdrawals.
According to the circular, the charges will attract three per cent processing fees for withdrawals and two per cent processing fees for lodgments of amounts above N500,000 for individual accounts.
For corporate accounts, the apex bank in the circular said that DMBs would charge five per cent processing fee for withdrawals and three per cent for lodgments of amounts above N3m.
The statement, however, disclosed that the charge on deposits would apply in Lagos, Ogun, Kano, Abia, Anambra, and Rivers states as well as the Federal Capital Territory.
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Olé! Sales Of Nintendo Switch In Spain Have Now Surpassed Xbox One
Microsoft's Spanish siesta
by Dom Reseigh-Lincoln Fri 26th Jan 2018
Nintendo Switch has racked up another sales milestone. Following on from amazing performances in Japan and a huge new record in the US, Nintendo Switch is now taking Europe by storm. It wasn't long ago that it hit record sales in France and Italy, and now its taking over in Spain, finally exceeding sales of Microsoft's Xbox One console.
According to the Spanish wing of Gamereactor, the hybrid console has now surpassed the 300K of sales Microsoft's console - which launched on 22 November 2013 - with Switch said to have sold 300K+ in just 10 months. No word on official figures yet, but it's certainly another promising potential milestone. We should point out that Spain has never been a strong territory for Xbox in general, but it's a milestone nonetheless.
What do you guys make of the news? Another country and another success story for Nintendo Switch. Roll on the rest of 2018...
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SLIGEACH_EIRE
The article also mentioned that PS4 sales have surpassed the 3DS.
KayFiOS
No Viva Piñata jokes?
Anti-Matter
Ole !
Viva Nintendo Switch !
ieatdragonz
Europe is honestly the battleground Nintendo would need for large sales. Japan is a guarantee for handheld, and we already know how good it's selling in North America. So it's great to hear the news about France Italy and Spain!
Now if only the UK can join in on the fun
@SLIGEACH_EIRE I'd be more impressed if the Vita outsold the 3DS, since they're both handhelds. I doubt that's gonna happen anytime soon, though.
NaviAndMii
Xbox? Never heard of it...
Linnybhoy
@ieatdragonz Will definitely have sold a lot in Britain there’s a fair buzz around the Switch, at least in the circles I move in 😬
@KayFiOS Well you can argue that the Switch is a handheld too. Just so people know, in Spain, expanding on my earlier point, both PS4 and 3DS have sold 2+ million with the former widening the gap all the time. The article mentions that it's now turned its attention to catching the PS3 lifetime sales, 3+ million. Back to Nintendo, it's 300,000 Switch's versus 2+ million 3DS. Switch has a long way to go to surpass the 3DS.
Hotfusion
Spain is PLayStation country, like most of Europe. To outsell the Xbox One in less than a year shows what the Spanish think of Xbox, and how the Switch appeals to many.
Grauz
Spain has always been Playstation first, Xbox second, Nintendo last... specially if we are talking about home consoles, not handhelds. So this is really a huge step forward for nintendo
Brutchie-bear
Siesta got me haha
@Grauz That's not true. While Spain like Playstation, they also like Nintendo. Microsoft struggles in countries like Spain, France and Italy but does well elsewhere in Europe like the UK.
BenAV
I can't blame them for not being big on the Xbox One. I always struggle to see what it has going for it as a platform.
Hard to understand making a statement of success by comparing yourself to something that failed.
Even the VITA outsold the Xbox One in Spain.
Kalmaro
@SLIGEACH_EIRE Of course they have a long way to go to beat the 3ds,it hasn't even been a year yet.
@Kalmaro No, what I mean is if you extrapolate the figures, Switch has to maintain its current sales rate for the next 5 years to catch the 3DS. The 3DS is 7 years old, I'm not sure the Switch will be around that long.
JaxonH
Xbox really only has North America nowadays, and even then it's a pretty even split with Sony.
I do hope Xbox makes a return next generation. Mattrick really screwed them.
MarcelRguez
@KayFiOS That's Mexico
@Brutchie-bear This is how you do it
@SLIGEACH_EIRE Ah, fair enough.
Oscarzxn
@Grauz That's debatable, I'm pretty sure the Wii outsold the 360 there and I'm not sure if the original Xbox outsold the Gamecube there.
@Agramonte I'm not sure about that, but still, the Vita had almost 2 years of advantage , and the Switch did it in ten months.
Español amor Nintendo Switch.
FragRed
@JaxonH Microsoft certainly needs a good solid reason for why people need to buy an Xbox next generation, or just hope Sony pulls another PS3, because they don't have the USP Nintendo can pull off with their systems to make them easily stand out.
As for the Switch outselling Xbox One in Spain, I guess that is great news. Europe is a PlayStation region so I am not too sure how well Microsoft normally does in these parts.
@FragRed
Truth is, when any of these companies have their backs against the wall they seem to improve drastically. I love the progress Xbox made in the last few years- fixed up the user interface and added backwards compatibility, and made a really solid console with X1X.
They're just missing exclusives. And that's not something you can fix overnight. They really need to start strategically adding studios and exclusives. I hate to say it, but they never should have released Minecraft on other systems. That game would've sold hella consoles. They also have Ori now, and are making a sequel which is fantastic because that's one of the best Metroidvania games I've played in my entire life. Gears, Halo, Forza... and that's pretty much it. At least for established top tier franchises.
electrolite77
@Agramonte
Nintendo didn't compare themselves to Microsoft's sales. It's a story on a website.
HauntedNostril
@JaxonH
They get lazy and dependent on die-hard fans who will pay anything for a never-ending stream of mediocre guff. I'm glad Nintendo got a kick in the kecks because they were slipping, they got told, and now they're conquering again. Terrific stuff.
It's pretty amazing how badly MS have messed up this generation. Given how much work they've had to do just to stay in the race their decision to almost give up on exclusives is baffling.
They're in a sticky spot and Nintendo making a resurgence is bad news for them, they're getting squeezed. The X is lovely but nobody would buy the OG XB1 for multiplats as it has the worst version of the tethered systems 95% of the time, and their exclusives lineup is the weakest of the 3 platform holders. Interesting to see where they go from here, hopefully they've got something special up their sleeves.
@electrolite77 I didn't say it came from Nintendo anywhere on my post.
@JaxonH I do agree, it was that situation that helped make the 360 so successful out the gate. But as you pointed out, Microsoft's problem is that they rely too heavily on too few franchises. In fact, for all the crap Nintendo gets for "rehashing Mario and Zelda", Microsoft is a far worse offender.
If you ever see that IGN Unfiltered episode with the original boss of Xbox, name slips my mind, it shows how corporate Microsoft runs things, as in they have a committee whom decides on everything that happens. In fact it got so bad that it's the reason he left. And that still seems to be the way things are run.
@Oscarzxn @SLIGEACH_EIRE in spain the only good reasons that would save you from jokes and puns if you were planning on buying a wii , were that you were aged 10 or less, or that you were buying it for a child haha what i mean is that "true"gamers were supposed to own a PlayStation.
I get that you guys are talking about sales and numbers (yeah, the article is about sales i know haha), but that does not change the feelings that are attached to each company. Spain is Sony (in home consoles), maybe the times are changing and shifting towards a nintendo bright future, and im glad for that, but that does not change the past (or the recent present).
Anyway sorry for my english, i'm struggling quite a bit writing this :_) and im not really sure if I explained my point well..
kobashi100
MS has always been pretty weak in Western Europe. The 360 was not huge seller. MS really do need to improve in that territory going forward.
roboshort
@SLIGEACH_EIRE I understand your point but I think people get a little too obsessed with the raw sales data. Nintendo lost a ton of money for the first couple years on the 3ds. At the end of the day, it’s about how much money the machine makes not how many units it sells.
@JaxonH Minecraft was already on other systems before Microsoft bought it, you're right that they struggle with many meaningful exclusives. They have a few that they lean on far too heavily but look to be bringing back Perfect Dark and Killer Instinct looks great but compared to PS4 it is severely lacking and offers little reason to buy ahead of that, which is a shame as the X looks like an incredible console, one which i'm tempted to pick up if only to play older games in 4K and a decent framerate and I suspect Red Dead Redemption 2 will be the game to make me jump on board.
Long term I suspect they'll move to a full service model and step out of the console business altogether
@roboshort
But the more consoles you sell the more money you are likely to make. It’s not rocket science.
It is a numbers game and it all adds up no matter how much you spin it.
Dizzy_Boy
Soon everybody will be saying that Microsoft are doomed and should become a third party developer. 8)
@Dizzy_Boy
Miscroft ?
PlywoodStick
For those who can't read Spanish:
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gamereactor.es%2Farticulos%2F468583%2FSorpasso%2Ben%2BEspana%2Bya%2Bhay%2Bmas%2BNintendo%2BSwitch%2Bque%2BXbox%2BOne%2F
@Oscarzxn SONY stop counting VITA sales at 600K in Spain back in 2015. So it is not that it surpassed it - it is that the Xbox one never caught up to it.
Yes. "Nintendo sells 300K in 10 months in Spain" is a better headline. No idea why "let's beat on a dead horse" part is there for. 😆
Further down the same article it goes on to say that the PS4 has now outsold the 3DS family in Spain. When the Switch does that (no reason why it would not) that will be news.
Well it's not that surprising. For quite a long time, the Wii U had also sold more units than the XB1 in France and Germany.
The XB is just not that strong outside of the US.
@SLIGEACH_EIRE Yeah, funny how the source article was spun by Dom as a pro-Nintendo article, when it could just as easily be spun as a pro-Sony article... It would be better to point out everything accurately. "In Spain, NS is quickly outpacing XB1, and PS4 is finally ousting 3DS." It's not difficult, but for some reason that wasn't done here...
1UP_MARIO
@PlywoodStick thanks
Cosats
@SLIGEACH_EIRE Irrelevant comment with irrelevant comparisons.
@Anti-Matter, fixed.
@carlos82
I own the Xbox One X. I can confirm it's an incredible console. But here's the thing- and I say this as someone who has no stock in the race- just a multiconsole gamer that owns and plays everything- I would still not recommend X1X over PS4 Pro, not unless someone doesn't particularly enjoy PS exclusives.
There are just too many exclusives on PS4. But, with that said, if you already own a PS4, and have the money, X1X is a sweet, sweet luxury. Most games (not all, but most) run far better on X1X. Wolfenstein 2 is only 1440p on the Pro, yet runs full native 2160p 4K on X1X, and without dropping a single frame. Now, I myself am not a graphics whore or a frame rate nut- I played DOOM on Switch, despite complaints of both, for example. But it's still a nice thing to have- it's still appreciated. And if you have a 4K TV, it's nice playing games in 4K. Plus, when you set to 1080p 60fps you get perfect performance and the resolution looks almost as good anyways, especially if your TV is already upscaling.
Plus there's backwards compatibility, and let me tell you, there are a ton of great games in the BC list. Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon from Sakaguchi (creator of Final Fantasy and Last Story on Wii, and the only JRPG dev I see as equal to Xenoblade Chronicles' Takahashi) are absolute gems. Just having those two games from 360, and Star Wars- Knights of the Old Republic from Xbox... it makes it all worthwhile in my opinion.
The best thing I like about the system is how small it is and how the big power brick is built right into the system, unlike the OG Xbox One. It's even smaller than a PS4.
@Equinox Seeing as how Microsoft is steadily but surely shifting the Xbox brand and programs towards PC, the XB1X may be the last dedicated Xbox console. The PC gaming market is experiencing growth, and Microsoft definitely isn't allowing DirectX to go anywhere. Microsoft changed their Windows strategy from offering the OS as a product into treating the OS as a service. With all of the foibles that come with such a change, I suspect the same will apply to the future of Xbox.
Put two and two together... Yeah, the "neXtBox" is probably just going to be an Xbox Live software service for use on PC. If there will even be a separate console, then it might be a modified PC like it's predecessors, but closer to a "Windows console" in practice. Kind of like a Steambox, except Microsoft branded and modified.
Maxz
Meanwhile, sales of my used socks have outsold the Xbox One in Japan. Sold a pair of them once, which I'm pretty sure is double Microsoft's market share.
Jajeongeo
@KayFiOS That would be better for Mexico's Switch surpass
@Equinox hell no!
The Xbox one X is an incredible console.. no way I want to see MS leave the console the business.
Glad to see back home is selling well... Now I need more friends with the Switch in the UK! Or maybe just new friends... will have to think of that one too haha.
@Maxz You have to factor in that sales of your used socks is a very niche market. Japan specifically has need of used socks for KURAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZY game shows, dominatrix foot stomping kinks, and used socks vending machines. Nowhere else in the world can offer that kind of second hand value. And yet, someday your used socks are going to be thrown in the closet to collect dust and stank alongside the Xbonx.
westman98
Best selling games of 2017:
01 PS4 FIFA 18 - 650,000
02 PS4 Call of Duty: WWII - 430,000
03 NSW Super Mario Odyssey - 204,000
04 3DS Pokemon Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon - 195,000
05 PS4 Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy - 187,000
06 NSW Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - 176,000
07 NSW The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - 176,000
08 PS4 Gran Turismo Sports - 160,000
09 PS4 Uncharted Lost Legacy - 154,000
10 PS4 Assassin's Creed Origins - 153,000
Obviously, Spain loves FIFA and COD, but Nintendo's titles are no slouches.
@Cosats actually he is right. Use google translate and read the Spanish article nintendo life is sourcing. It literally what the origin article is about.
@faint Look at his comments. He spends much of his time trolling me. I just ignore him. There's no need to use Google Translate, GameReactor EU have it in English.
https://www.gamereactor.eu/news/629173/Sales+Nintendo+Switch+surpasses+Xbox+One+in+Spain/
@PlywoodStick On the contrary, my used socks have already had separate shrines constructed in their honour: one on the northernmost tip of Hokkaidō, and the other at the southernmost tip of Kyūshū.
They are preserved under layers of fine silk and are thought to bring harmony to the surrounding wildlife as well as quell any geological disturbances in the neighbouring plate boundaries.
They were quite a pair, those socks.
DigiAd
I'm surprised some people think this would be the last Xbox console. They're not going anywhere anytime soon.
I think if you'd wish for them to disappear it wouldn't benefit anyone either.
It's become clear that the switch isn't in direct competition with either console. People are willing to have the switch on top of either the PS4 or X1 in most cases. They offer something different.
Usually a lack of competition leads to grave mistakes and complacency. So I think Sony would go down hill without someone like MS about and vice versa. They've rarely put a foot wrong in recent years, where as Sony seem to have had a few hiccups (sales still strong though). They had a poor start and exclusives haven't been solid enough.
Games like Sunset Overdrive have been fantastic though and Sea of Thieves has had great feedback so far. There's signs they're starting to get things right with exclusives. Phil Spencer has been a breath of fresh air imo. Not sure how anyone could call him a typical corporate exec.
Long live Ninty, MS and Sony. Together the industry is stronger.
@Maxz Think you could conjure up another pair for the easternmost tip of Honshū? That's where they need your used socks' patented smell barrier the most!
Nintendo Switch hardware sales in Spain in its first 10 months are virtually identical to Nintendo 3DS hardware sales in Spain in its first 10 months.
However, Nintendo Switch software sales are notably ahead of Nintendo 3DS first year software sales. In other words, the Switch is selling like a handheld, but has a home console software attach ratio, which is exactly what Nintendo needs.
@DigiAd the same people who want MS to quit the console business get annoyed when people were calling for Nintendo to quit after the Wii U debacle.
WiltonRoots
@Maxz I sold an MC303 sequencer and a Pioneer CDJ on ebay. I have also done better than the Xbox in Japan.
@JaxonH I already have the Pro but I need a 4K blu ray player so initially I thought the S but I've since been drawn to the X.
I'll use it mainly for multiplatform stuff but also its great backwards compatibilty as it seems to use its power even for those games, so it'll be nice to replay the likes of New Vegas but with a nice framerate. Many of the games you've mentioned I have never played as I never had a 360 beyond its first year or so, so there is a whole library for me to explore, I'm also hoping for some future Vive or Rift support too.
Sony could definitely learn from them as far as bc is concerned and the lack of a 4K blu ray player in the Pro was a bit of an oversight
YeshaYahu5417
What do we make of the news? Clearly Japan is not the only territory that likes handhelds, for certain. Great news for a cool device!
@DigiAd One of the big reasons why many people think of Phil Spencer as a typical, sleazy corporate executive was due to his comments @ E3 2017 when interviewed by GameCentral:
GC: What also frustrates me is that the only number I care about is the only one that you and Sony don’t obsess over. Which is 60fps, which I understand is easier to do on the Xbox One X than any other console.
PS: That’s correct. But… [laughs] Why do you care about 60fps?
GC: It’s the only number that [significantly] affects gameplay and yet it’s the only one you two never go on about! No-one can tell the difference between 4K and 1080p and all that nonsense…
PS: You just broke your whole argument now!
GC: How?
PS: You just said these games could run on a Commodore 64, they would not run at 60 frames per second on a Commodore 64.
GC: Uridium did.
PS: [laughs] I’m not disagreeing with you. But it’s a subjective opinion that that’s the only one that matters.
Phil Spencer condescendingly tried to steer the conversation in a certain way, and revealed their motive when GC countered that Uridium on the C64 achieved 60 FPS all the way back in 1986. (So therefore, asking the question why 60 FPS isn't standardized by now on PS4Pro/XB1X over 30 years later, since frame rate has indeed always been a primary metric affecting gameplay, whereas resolution is secondary.) Phil essentially referred to both frame rate's and resolution's importance as subjective, when in fact, the importance of frame rate is objective and of resolution is subjective. So he believes that he can decide what's best for Xbox customers for them, altering the narrative to fit Microsoft's marketing line. Regardless of where one's personal preferences lie, that sort of behavior should give anyone pause when considering support for someone.
Azooooz
In other words, water is wet...moving on.
"Hard to understand making a statement of success by comparing yourself to something that failed."
Just in the way it's worded chief, maybe I misinterpreted.
chucknorris078
I love my Switch but if it continues to push out re-releases from the WiiU and not new IPs... I don't see this trend continuing. Exclusives sell consoles not rehashes from last generation. This years list of games aren't that impressive... maybe last year was too good?
@Equinox
(Plays Forza Horizon 3)
Wheeee! Sorry, what were you saying?
datamonkey
yeah but you just wait until Xbone has teh power of the cloud!
@PlywoodStick I have to admit, I've never heard of GameCentral but it seems you're referring to the gaming secton of the Metro? I don't imagine that would influence many people, doesn't show much on search results at all and is a relatively small media outlet. The interview seems very much 6 of one, half a dozen of the other. They were disappointed that they didn't announce games that would be coming out in 2 to 3 years time, something that many people have bemoaned at such events before. Announcing a game so long in advance without gameplay and then going radio silent. That's sheer hype.
I also don't believe he'd be far wrong in the view that the majority don't care about 60fps. I'd prefer it and I think it will be requested more by the general consumer in the future but it certainly isn't at the forefront of the general consumers mind at this time. I'd say the majority wouldn't even be aware of it or it's benefits. I'm not talking about the likes of us who comment on gaming sites, we're not that demographic.
Anyway, that's going off on a tangent. I generally hear good things about Phil Spencer, I'm sure he's said some stupid stuff, like any of the top dogs at Sony, Nintendo or Microsoft have done countless times over countless years. Bound to happen when you're constantly under the microscope and ultimately at the hands of the company too.
Compared to Don, the difference is night and day.
gatorboi352
@BenAV pretty much everything that PS4 has going for it. It's just that MS made the mistake of initially bundling in the Kinect and asking $100 more.
EVIL-C
No whining from me; I bought the Halo/Gears Xbone S bundle for Christmas at a large discount, and I've been enjoying it. I'm also happy to see switch doing well in Spain, even if it's a small market. Fun times for all.
Kochambra
@Grauz "in spain the only good reasons that would save you from jokes and puns if you were planning on buying a wii , were that you were aged 10 or less, or that you were buying it for a child haha what i mean is that "true"gamers were supposed to own a PlayStation"
If you're talking about MALE gamers between ages 10 and maybe 30, there could be some truth to what you're saying, but most of the older gamers that I know couldn't care less about that "true gamer" nonsense. And from my experience, most female gamers would rather play "casual" Wii games instead of the games that self proclaimed "hardcore gamers" tend to favor.
0muros
@NaviAndMii 😂
NinNin
@Agramonte The point is that the Switch was released in 2017, and the Xbox One was released in 2013.
"Plus there's backwards compatibility, and let me tell you, there are a ton of great games in the BC list."
But, i can't play DDR Ultramix 1 - 4 from old xbox , DDR Universe 1 - 3 from Xbox 360, The Sims 3 Pets from Xbox 360, Dance Evolution (with Kinect) from Xbox 360, Little League series 2010 from Xbox 360 on Xbox One X.
Those titles are NOT listed on Backward Compatibility for Xbox One X.
Dang it !
@KayFiOS
Yeah, or tacos or sombrero's either - weird. 🤔
@Hotfusion Not having lots of users is definitely not good, but it is definitely not as simple as just having lots of users.
I think the Switch will well-outsell the 3ds in Spain in the long run, though.
ekwcll
@agramonte, I wonder if you are a Nintendo fan because you always seem to bash Nintendo.
@DigiAd True, it's difficult to be worse than Don "Don't like how the Xbox One works? Get a 360" Mattrick.
That particular short interview was on the heels of the announcement of certain titles, such as Destiny 2, being locked @ 30 FPS on the XB1X, despite it's additional processing power over other consoles:
https://csgmagazine.com/2017/06/15/destiny-2-locked-at-30-fps-on-xbox-one-x/
http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/06/14/e3-2017-bungie-confirms-destiny-2-is-30-fps-on-xbox-one-x
If the most powerful (and expensive) console available wouldn't even run certain new games above 30 FPS, just because of the Xbox strategy being to race towards higher resolutions, why bother getting it over something else if your top concern is smooth gameplay? In that case, there's no significant reason to go for XB1X over a cheaper PS4/Pro or an XB1 S model to still have 30 FPS, or go for a PC instead for 60+ FPS.
It's true that many people are willing to accept 30 FPS (even when it's detrimental), but it's disingenuous for Spencer to suggest that the majority of people don't care about it, or think that an objectively important factor of gameplay is only subjectively important. Those are just statements made to support the Xbox marketing line. With the growth of PC gaming, and increasingly greater awareness of how specs affects gaming, more and more people prefer to have 60+ FPS instead of higher resolutions when possible, once they have educated themselves and know the difference it makes.
Places like NL are sort of odd bastions where several people here aren't too concerned with having 60+ FPS, which makes it seem normal if you read comments here. In general, though, recognition of the 60 FPS standard is rapidly spreading. Some believe that it's a relatively new argument plaguing perceptions of what is acceptable, but in truth, the 60 FPS standard is nothing new. As noted in the interview, the nearly 31 year old Uridium achieved 60 FPS, and arcade titles in the 90's frequently achieved 60 FPS as well. Yet here we are today, and it's still not standardized on consoles- not even the most powerful one on the market.
Not even that impressive really. The Xbone has become pretty irrelevant. I know plenty of people who have PS4's, Switch's or both, but not one who has an Xbone. I'm surprised so many 3rd parties still support it.
CuriousUserX90
Sooner they announce the Next Official Mario Kart game for the Switch with 16 NEW Nitro and Retro Tracks sooner I'll have a Switch myself, Realmente me alegraría el día once what we see on each and every Nintendo System is announced with hopefully a good roster of Familiar Mario Characters.
@SLIGEACH_EIRE The U.K. is the only country in Europe where the Xbox One does well in
Cronopi
@Equinox MS pressence in consoles market affected PC gaming very bad from the very first beggining.
I wish the Switch outsold PS sales as it represents the handheld and home consoles markets combined on one product.
Phle
Promising for Nintendo. But the XBox One isn’t really that popular anywhere, is it? People usually get a PS4 instead and then just combine it with a gaming PC. At least that have been my impression. I must admit that I have almost no knowledge about the Xbox, as I don’t know anyone who owns one and I never wanted one myself (I have a hate relationship with Microsoft).
@SLIGEACH_EIRE I think the Switch will surpass those 3DS figures. Games like Metroid 4, Pokemon Switch, Animal Crossing Switch and Smash DX are still to come. Plus the next Zelda and the next Mario Odyssey.
You extrapolate sales but you don't take into consideration the insane library differences when it comes to games. I'm pretty sure 3DS sales weren't steady all the time, they must have spikes when key games were release. The same will hold true for the Switch.
Kirgo
The Xbox One isn't actually successful in europe, not as bad as japan, but still just on Wii U levels.
The UK is pretty much the exception here.
Europe is Playstation territory and, if we go away from just consoles, pc seems to be very strong as well (although I can't say for sure if thats true for all countries.)
Alucard83
It's a good thing. I loved xbox 360, but Xbox One doesn't have anything special. It's just same stuff on it. So glad for Nintendo
I expect the Switch to outsell the Xbox One in almost all European countries outside of the UK by the mid-2019. It may happen sooner than that if Nintendo actually projects and meets their 20 million units Switch shipment forecast (I'd assume at least 25% of that 20 million - i.e. 5 million - would be shipped and sold to Europe).
@ekwcll Well, I do not just buy Nintendo consoles or own any Nintendo branded clothes - I'm not that type of "fan". I'm also not bashing Nintendo by pointing out how something was written in an article.
@Grawlog
If you don't care about visual fidelity that's fine, it certainly isn't the be all and end all for me. I opted for Doom on XB1 rather than PS4 because I preferred the controller and was willing to accept the inferior graphics. I then played it for longer on the Switch as the hybrid format is working really well for me at the minute.
I'm speaking in general terms though. Whatever reason somebody would have for opting for an OG XB1 over a PS4 (and personally I think the BC is excellent for example) they're accepting they will get the weakest version of almost all multiplats on any tethered system (anybody interested in portability can make a good case for the XB1 version being inferior to a Switch version). The range of exclusives is also fairly small unless you're a huge fan of Gears/Halo/Forza. That's what I mean when I say they're sandwiched uncomfortably between two systems.
I've heard very good things about the XB1X though, which I'm aiming to procure tomorrow....
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Gothenburg City Airport (ESGP), Sweden
Kim Friberg (contact)
Leaving Gothenburg after a few years on the ground, headed for a flight technical school in Ronneby, Sweden.
Direct link: http://www.nordicrotors.com/SE-JUS/7190
Norrlandsflyg Ambulans AB
Stockholm Arlanda Airport (ESSA)
Wictor Pantzar (contact)
Gothenburg's backup EMS helicopter, operated by Norrlandsflyg Ambulans.
Dingle, Munkedal
Niclas Börjeson (contact)
"Lifeguard" just landed in a parking lot outside Dingle in order to reload a patient from the ordinary ambulance.
SE-JUS (Lifeguard 998)
Adolfström, Norrbotten County
Johan Wernvik (contact)
A dog is inspecting the helicopter that has come to help his master who had an accident.
Norrlandsflyg AB
Pajala, northern Sweden
Sven Abrahamsson (contact)
Touching down for an inter-hospital transport from the nursing centre in Pajala and the hospital in Gällivare.
Riksgränsen Ski Resort
Standing at the Skiresort in Riksgränsen waiting for the medical crew to return with the patient. Pilots Calle Mayer and Niclas Gasslander is waiting by the helicopter.
Vassara Heliport (ESEG), Gällivare
Christoffer Stenvall (contact)
Lifeguard 998 awaiting it's next emergency call.
Direct link: http://www.nordicrotors.com/SE-JUS/162
Photo taken after midnight outside with the cockpit and it's systems lightened up.
Christoffer Stenvall
In alert as EMS helicopter 'Lifeguard 998' at Norrlandsflyg's base in Gällivare.
Sunderbyn Hospital (ESES), Luleå
Rickard Sundkvist
Northern Sweden’s primary EMS helicopter, Lifeguard 998, was captured by Mr Rickard Sundkvist as it was leaving a patient at the Sunderbyn Hospital that is situated between Luleå and Boden.
Vassijaure, east of Riksgränsen
Morgan Isaksen
This image was shot during an EMS mission at Vassijaure in the most northern parts of Sweden. The aircraft operates in these kids of magnificent sceneries all days long. It’s based in Gällivare and replies to both PRIO 1 emergency calls and sophisticated inter-hospital transports throughout large parts of northern Sweden. The helicopter, known as Lifeguard 998, carries a crew of four; two pilots, one anaesthetic doctor and one anaesthetic nurse.
Parked outside the hangar on this sunny day.
The cockpit of SE-JUS, standing outside the hangar on call.
UNN Hospital, Tromsø, Norway
Dag Hugstmyr (contact)
There was a tragic event at the Riksgränsen Ski Resort in Sweden that led up to the dispatch of Lifeguard 998 and the doctor’s choice to go to the UNN Hospital in Tromsø, Norway. The Hurtigruten vessel MS Nordlys is visible in the background.
Alesjaure, Kebnekaise
Niclas Gasslander
Captain Patrik Johnsson is shutting down the helicopter during an ambulance mission at the Alesjaure cabins, between Kebnekaise and Abisko, approx 80 km north-west of Kiruna. Alesjaure sits along the 440 km long and well-known Kungsleden trail which extends from Abisko in north to Hemavan in south.
Lifeguard making an rolling take-off this hot summer day, enroute to Gällivare hospital to pick up medical staff for an Prio 1 trauma somewhere in the county.
Kårsavagge, northern Sweden
via Norrlandsflyg's archive
Sweden’s most northern based EMS helicopter awaits a patient next to the Kårsavagge Cabin, west of Abisko, a couple of metric miles east of the Norwegian border. The helicopter is based in Gällivare and replies to both PRIO 1 emergency calls and sophisticated inter-hospital transports throughout large parts of northern Sweden. The helicopter, known as Lifeguard 998, carries a crew of four; two pilots, one anaesthetic doctor and one anaesthetic nurse.
Kitteldalen, Kebnekaise
Martin Rask
This image was shot during a mountain rescue operation at Kebnekaise, the highest mountain in Sweden (approx 2 100 meters MSL). Two 18 years old teenagers from Stockholm had been injured when falling in a slope on the southern part of the mountain. Kallax Flyg's Ecureuil (SE-HMM) was called in to bring the mountain rescue team from Kiruna and to get the girls down from the mountain. After a swift repositioning onto the EMS helicopter Lifeguard 998 (operated by Norrlandsflyg) the girls were flown to the hospital in Gällivare.
The crew of Lifeguard 998 is preparing for departure after an emergency call.
Rickard Gillberg (contact)
The pilots in Lifeguard 998, seen on a local flight in Gällivare.
Peltsa, northern Sweden
Seen during an EMS mission at Peltsa in the uppermost northern parts of Sweden.
Luleå-Kallax Airport (ESPA)
The delivery of Norrlandsflyg's new EMS helicopter at Kallax Airport in Luleå. The president of Norrlandsflyg, Monica Hedström, is seen tohether with her husband and the founder of Norrlandsflyg, Knut 'Knutte' Hedström.
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Reg: SE-JUS
S/N: 760172
Last known operator:
N80DT, VH-CPQ
Fate:
This helicopter was constructed in 1983. It arrived in Sweden in November 1999 and came to serve as a primary EMS helicopter in Gällivare and was later employed as a backup EMS helicopter in Gothenburg.
Norrlandsflyg was operating the emergency medical helicopter in Gällivare, and it had been utilizing the Sikorsky S-76 model since 1993. On 3 April 1999 the regional helicopter, SE-JES, was badly damaged in a non-fatal accident during an EMS mission northeast of Torneträsk. The company's backup helicopter, SE-JEZ, had to cover for the lost helicopter, but a new S-76 had to be purchase to replace SE-JES.
Norrlandsflyg purchased a 16 year old Australian S-76A. The helicopter was modified for EMS operations at Keystone Helicopter Corporation in the US, and it was given a blue paint scheme similar to that of SE-JES.
Arriving in Sweden
Moments prior to 16:00 on 16 November 1999 a Boeing 747 cargo airplane landed at Kallax Airport in Luleå, loaded with Norrlandsflygs new Sikorsky S-76A. The helicopter was put in service as "Lifeguard 998" in Gällivare in early 2000.
With a crew of four the helicopter responded to approx 400-500 emergency calls each year, all over northern Sweden. It operated in an environment where long distances, cold temperatures and isolated areas are common.
The EMS contract in Norrbotten was lost favor for Scandinavian MediCopter in 2010. The new operator started its activities with a Eurocopter Dauphin (LN-OLE, later SE-JIA) on 1 December the same year. SE-JUS was transferred to Norrlandsflyg's new main base in Gothenburg.
On 1 November 2011 a new company called Norrlandsflyg Ambulans acquired Norrlandsflyg's EMS operation in Gothenburg. Norrlandsflyg was being acquired by the Swedish Maritime Administration, but the EMS segment was not included in the deal. The new company inherited the primary EMS helicopter in Gothenburg (SE-JUX) and this aircraft, SE-JUS. JUS took the role as a local backup helicopter for JUX, thereby replacing the previous backup helicopter SE-JUC.
The helicopter's airworthiness expired in November 2014.
On 1 July 2015 Svensk Luftambulans took over the operations of the emergency medical helicopter in Gothenburg from Norrlandsflyg Ambulans AB. The full staff and the existing Sikorsky S-76C+ (SE-JUX) were transferred to Svensk Luftambulans. The backup S-76 (SE-JUS) remained with Norrlandsflyg Ambulans.
SE-JUS was sold to a flight technical school in Ronneby, Sweden, in March 2017. The helicopter will be used as a technical trainer, much like its sister ships SE-JUC and SE-JEZ in Luleå.
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Recent reads in brief
I seem to have been reading so quickly for a few weeks there that I am way behind on reviews again, so here are a few quickies.
by Charlotte Rogan
This is the story of Grace, survivor of a 1914 ocean liner disaster. We learn at the start that she survived for three weeks in a lifeboat and is now facing trial for her life. She narrates the story of the shipwreck and Lifeboat 14, gradually revealing the crime she now stands accused of.
Most of the boat’s occupants are upper class women, and as such practical matters quickly fall to a small number of characters. Grace is young, recently married to a rich man, but her background is murky, as are her actions. Throughout a fairly suspenseful, exciting story she muses on matters of guilt and innocence, on character traits and social status. She watches alliances being formed, gossip spreading, moments of human strength and weakness. But ultimately Grace is a frustrating narrator. She rarely places herself in the story, and when she does her position is often unclear. Is she as weak and on the fence as she seems or is it an act? The whole narrative is being written as a piece of evidence for her lawyers, so she has a clear motive to paint her actions whiter than they perhaps were. I like ambiguity and unreliable narrators, but I found the hints at Grace’s unreliability were a little too hidden. And for a lot of the start of the novel I found the uselessness of the majority of the women incredibly annoying.
“The present seemed fixed and immovable, the past compressed and distant, as subject to interpretation as a passage of dense theological text. It seemed just as likely that we had been born in the boat as that we all had histories and ancestors and a blood connection to the past. As for the future, it was impenetrable, even to thought. Where was the proof that it even existed?”
Published 2012 by Virago Press.
Source: I bought this secondhand in 2013, I don’t remember where from.
Signs Preceding the End of the World
by Yuri Herrera
translated from Spanish by Lisa Dillman
For a more positive review, though certainly not a more positive story, I finally picked up the first Yuri Herrera novel published by And Other Stories. Makina leaves behind her happy, comfortable life in Mexico to search for her brother across the border in the USA. Neither country is named outright, and neither is the fact that she is planning to cross the border illegally, as her brother did before her; these facts are alluded to, gradually becoming clearer. On her journey, Makina makes deals with various frightening men, heads of criminal operations, but to begin with she seems in control. As she travels further, and sees more evidence of the fates of illegal migrant workers, she starts to unravel.
I really enjoyed this novel, if I did find it rather depressing. The language is exquisite. A translator’s note at the end explains some unusual word choices, showing how thoroughly considered such decisions are. I look forward to reading the second Yuri Herrera book on my shelves from And Other Stories.
“I’m dead, Makina said to herself, and hardly had she said it than her whole body began to contest that verdict and she flailed her feet frantically backward, each step mere inches from the sinkhole, until the precipice settled into a perfect circle and Makina was saved. Slippery bitch of a city, she said to herself. Always about to sink back into the cellar.”
Señales que precederán al fin del mundo published 2009 by Editorial Periférica.
This translation published 2015 by And Other Stories.
Source: I subscribe to the publisher.
Giant Days, Vol. 1
by John Allison (writer) and Lissa Treiman (illustrator)
This British indie comic is the story of three young women thrown together by the randomness of student housing in their first year at university, and their growing friendship. Daisy, Esther and Susan appear at first to be familiar stereotypes – mainly because they are introduced as such. Daisy is “home schooled and naive…50% hair and 100% not ready for this mean old world”. Esther is “pale and interesting…maybe too interesting”. Susan, our narrator, is “a human common sense silo”. All three are actually complex, loveably imperfect people and they enjoy the occasional silly escapade, in-between the everyday matters of adjusting to uni life, testing the boundaries of their new-found friendship and learning about their newly adult selves. It’s a lot of fun, with profound thoughts on life and friendship sneakily squeezed in there. I like it a lot and highly recommend if you’re looking for a new comic series.
Published 2015 by Boom! Box.
Source: Borrowed from Tim, who I think bought this at Gosh! Comics in London.
by John Allison (writer), Lissa Treiman and Max Sarin (illustrators)
The friendship and adventures of Daisy, Esther and Susan continue. The room-mates attend their first university ball, and then one of them doesn’t come back from the Christmas holidays and a search party is the order of the day. Love and lust rear their heads, as does the pesky business of studying for exams. The humour is slightly on the silly side, but packed with so much heart that I can’t help but love every page.
I fully intend to keep reading these published volumes, but to keep me going while I wait for volume 3 (due out in October), I will be delving into the extensive web archives of Allison’s other (loosely linked) comics: Bobbins, Scary Go Round and Bad Machinery.
Source: Borrowed from Tim, who I think bought this at Forbidden Planet in Bristol.
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Top 5 Nature Based Tourism Attractions in Uganda
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Known as “The Pearl of Africa”, Uganda is a place to find all kinds of wonderful attractions in the world. The mountain gorillas are one of the most popular tourist attractions of the country along with chimpanzees, wildlife, lakes, mountains, Birds, Rivers and the warm friendly people. However some of Uganda’s best secrets are in natural conserved locations regardless of the many attractions in the country.
Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary
The most famous chimpanzee viewing and feeding spots on Lake Victoria islands. Ngamba Island Sanctuary is home to orphanage chimpanzees and is a charming location for primate lovers especially those who want to view chimpanzees as well as participate in process chimpanzee monitoring and feeding. The island can be accessed by boat that sets off every day from Entebbe in the morning and return back to the very point in evening to drop off day visitors.
Source of the Nile
Find this natural unique attraction in Jinja a famous adventure capital of Uganda and a home to not only the longest river in the world but also various waterfalls –Itanda falls, Kalagala falls, Kyabirwa falls and Bujagali falls. Given the wide range of lakes and rivers it’s very difficult to leave Jinja without enjoying the great water spots –white water rafting, boat cruise, bungee jumping, kayaking. The length of the Nile and the rare water nature at its source is something that amazes every traveler to Uganda.
Stunning Murchison Falls
The top ranked mighty fall of the Nile that produce a relaxing roaring sound all day, fighting waters and the most scenic amazing views of the Nile and its amazing habitants. Murchison falls consist variety of wildlife, birds, primates and it’s one of the great wildlife safari parks in Africa. Other attractions of the park include the Ziwa Rhino sanctuary, top of the falls, chimpanzees, nature walks and the well-built safari lodges that cater for all budgets.
Untamed Bwindi Forest
Located in south western Uganda, Bwindi Forest National Park a known gorilla safari park due to its wonderful gorilla trekking experience. The Park is most famous for its highest number of mountain gorillas. Once a major hunting ground for the forest peoples also known as the Batwa, it is now a well conserved home for the endangered species. There is a lot to do enjoy in Bwindi forest including gorilla trekking, bird watching, nature walks, cycling, riding a bicycle for women, hiking, waterfall walks, community excursions, forest trail walks among others. However, if your interest is to track mountain gorillas and golden monkeys or hike volcanoes, Mghainga National Park is another gorilla trekking park in Uganda.
Kidepo Valley National Park was chosen one of the top wildlife game reserves in Africa. It’s also known as Uganda’s most loved wildlife safari attraction and the land where ancient traditions still reign. The Big five, other wildlife plus the Karamojong culture is something that visitors enjoy in this park. Every morning visitors keep themselves busy viewing early risers and game viewing is the main tourist activity in the park.
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Raptor Announces Clinical Results With RP103 in Huntington’s Disease Phase 2/3 Trial
In Press Release by Cameron February 24, 2014
Raptor Pharmaceutical Corp. today announced top line results from a planned 18 month analysis of an ongoing 3 year Phase 2/3 clinical trial of RP103 (delayed-release cysteamine) for the potential treatment of Huntington’s disease (HD) in collaboration with the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d’Angers (CHU d’Angers). A total of 96 patients with HD were randomized to treatment with RP103 or placebo. Eighty nine patients completed the initial 18 month phase. Analysis of all 96 patients enrolled in the trial showed a positive trend towards slower progression of Total Motor Score (TMS) in patients treated with RP103 vs. those patients on placebo, the primary endpoint of the study. TMS progression was 32% slower in patients treated with RP103 vs. those treated with placebo after 18 months treatment (4.51 vs. 6.68 respectively, p=0.19). In 66 patients not taking concurrent tetrabenazine, RP103 treatment resulted in a statistically significant slower progression in TMS vs. the placebo group (2.84 points vs. 6.78 respectively, p=0.03).
Due to the 36 month duration of the study, patients were allowed to continue their baseline medication regime, including antidepressants and tetrabenazine, the latter being an approved medication to treat chorea associated with HD. Patients were not randomized in the study based on concomitant medications. To confirm that the TMS results were not influenced by a potential treatment effect of tetrabenazine on chorea (a sub-score of TMS) the subset of patients not receiving tetrabenazine were analyzed for TMS. In these 66 patients (32 under placebo and 34 under RP103), RP103 treatment caused a statistically significant 58% slower progression in TMS of 2.84 points compared to 6.78 points for placebo (p=0.03) at 18 months. Slower progression was seen across all TMS sub-score measurements including eye and hand movements, balance and gait, as well as maximal dystonia and maximal chorea. Adverse events were similar in the two groups and were comparable to what has been observed in other studies in this patient population.
“We are very encouraged by these trial results and we believe that the significant slowdown of loss of muscle control in these early stage patients indicates that RP103 is potentially effective at slowing the progression of Huntington’s disease,” said Dr. Christophe Verny, Lead Investigator for the Phase 2/3 clinical trial and Chief of Neurology Department at CHU d’Angers. “We look forward to working with Raptor to develop and implement a continuing access program so that we can continue to provide RP103 to the patients who participated in the study initiated by CHU d’Angers, and avoid any treatment interruption after they finish the study.”
“We are very grateful to the patients who participated in the study and the French clinical network of physicians, led by Drs. Christophe Verny and Dominique Bonneau in Angers,” said Patrice Rioux, M.D., Ph.D., Chief Medical Officer at Raptor. “We are thrilled to build on these results and will engage regulatory agencies to discuss the most efficient means to advance this program to potential approval. These results not only support the safety and efficacy of Raptor’s RP103 in Huntington’s disease, but also the rationale for testing the use of RP103 in other indications such as NAFLD, Leigh Syndrome and mitochondrial diseases.”
RP103 was well tolerated with 48/52 patients experiencing at least one adverse event (AE) during the 18 month study vs. 38/44 under placebo. There were slightly more patients under RP103 than under placebo reporting at least one gastrointestinal AE (61.5% RP103 vs. 45.5% placebo), mostly nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, constipation and breath odor. There were also slightly more headache AEs on RP103 than on placebo. There were 5 patients treated with RP103 who experienced serious adverse events (SAEs) compared with 4 patients treated with placebo.
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Terence Blanchard, Live (Blue Note)
April 23, 2018 by: Geraldine Wyckoff Leave a comment
Trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard continues the conversation on violence between law enforcement and African American citizens that he addressed musically and philosophically on his 2015 Grammy-nominated album Breathless. This time out, Blanchard, along with his E-Collective, which includes returning members pianist and synthesizer musician Fabian Almazan, guitarist Charles Altura, drummer Oscar Seaton and newcomer bassist David “DJ” Ginyard, made his point by performing live at three locations—in Minnesota, Cleveland and Dallas—where engagements between police and the citizenry led to the death of unarmed innocents. While Blanchard has said he had no intention of making the E-Collective a protest band, he wasn’t able to ignore that mindsets have changed little since Eric Garner uttered his last words, “I can’t breathe” to a New York City police officer, which inspired Breathless.
While one might presume that the mood of the music might convey anger, Blanchard’s horn, which is frequently synthesized, often pleads rather than shouts. As is heard on the disc’s first cut, “Hannibal,” the piano’s delicacy also lends itself to a theme of hope and reconciliation.
The lovely, simple yet moving single notes of the guitar and Blanchard’s lyrical blowing on “Unchanged” seem to communicate a feeling of lament and ask the question, “Why?”
Following much applause from an obviously attentive and appreciative audience, Blanchard and the E-Collective close with “Choices,” which expresses the option of serenity over rage in curing the seemingly incurable hatred and distrust that now prevails in the nation and the world. As delivered by this hugely talented group of musicians both individually and collectively, serene does not translate into a lack of powerful emotions in their playing. An undercurrent of frustration prevails here and throughout the album.
Having such a vital theme and being performed in concert settings, Live shares a strong resemblance to a suite of music, as did Breathless. They stand together in purpose and passion.
—Geraldine Wyckoff
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Submitted by: Brett Gallman Date : 2013-10-04 22:15
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Written by: Clements Ripley (story), Wells Root (screenplay)
Directed by: Roy William Neill
Starring: Jack Holt, Fay Wray, and Dorothy Burgess
Reviewed by: Brett Gallman
Love battling against the sorcery of the jungle!
If art acts as a cultural mirror, then horror especially acts as a demented funhouse that refracts and reflects contemporary societal fears. When held up to the era that spawned horror cinema, the camera captured a recurring Western unease towards the exotic. The world was a much bigger, more unknown commodity as recently as 80 years ago, so it stands to reason that audiences frequently recoiled at the thought of the horrific nooks and crannies buried away from civilization. Of course, it unwittingly reveals a staggering ignorance now, especially since the exotic is almost always conflated with an unseemly, xenophobic take on Otherness—in many cases, it would be disingenuous to even call this subtext. Hell, it’s right there in the title for Black Moon, another film that especially reveals the hysteria surrounding voodoo, particularly its insidious ability to corrupt lily whiteness.
The lily here is Juanita (Dorothy Burgess), a housewife with a bizarre history. As a child, she once resided on a tropical island before she was “rescued” and brought into high society. Despite a happy marriage to Stephen Lane (Jack Holt) that's produced a healthy child, she can’t resist the urge to return home. Between her intense longing and her sudden penchant for tribal bongo music, it’s almost as if he’s being compelled there by some force. Against the wishes of her husband, Juanita returns to her native land, where the locals still engage in mysticism and rituals, much to the dismay of travelling secretary Gail (Fay Wray), who winds up contacting lane in a last ditch effort to save everyone’s lives—and perhaps their souls.
Obviously, there’s no getting around the elephant in the room –this is early Hollywood, so you’ve got to treat Black Moon like that ignorant, elderly relative that was raised during a different age and doesn’t know any better. Even though you accept it, you still squirm on the couch whenever it opens its mouth. The film can’t even be considered casually racist, what with its aggressive depiction of natives as godless, murderous savages. It doesn’t even wait for the main characters to reach Saint Christopher to do so, as one of them shows up to assassinate an emissary (carrying a warning for Juanita) with a blow dart. The lone black character who isn’t a savage is a boat pilot (Clarence Muse) who is one step removed from a cartoon, of course. It’s uncomfortable, but it’s also not all that uncommon for this era either, as Black Moon is a stopgap between White Zombie and I Walked With a Zombie, though it may be the most brazen of the three in its insistence that nothing could be more horrifying than seeing a white woman fall prey to black culture, here written off as an anonymous, sinister tribe who wrongfully rise up against white oppressors, who are well within their rights to quell the rebellion with force. One scene finds one white guy fawning over the hidden, well-stocked armory that can serve as a last resort if they ever need ot mow down the locals (did I also mention the film opens with a prominent NRA ad?).
While it purports at being a mystery, Black Moon is hardly coy, as Juanita has obviously been implanted with some sort of voodoo curse that has unwittingly turned her into a sleeper agent for the natives. Essentially, the horror here involves watching a guy lose his wife to a whole bunch of black guys, just in case you were wondering how subtle the film is. And the wild part is that it actually happens despite his and Juanita’s uncle’s (Arnold Korff) best efforts to save her. Perhaps not so shockingly (this one may have arrived just on the outskirts of the Hayes Code’s full adoption), she becomes a voodoo queen, and the film only becomes weirder and bleaker from that point. Priests engage in ritual sacrifice, children are abducted, and Lane is forced into a precarious position at the film’s outrageous climax, which only follows the Hollywood template insomuch as it features man, woman, and child drifting off towards the sunset, the black moon having settled only after unexpected bloodshed.
For all its troubling racial implications, Black Moon is undeniably fascinating and serves as mildly effective horror film to boot. The obviously low budget results in a claustrophobic soundstage island jungle that’s perpetually haunted by tribal drumbeats. It’s Island of Lost Souls lite in its smothering, airless atmosphere that encloses and enfolds the main characters. Like the best films of this age, its exotic setting takes on something of a menacing presence that reinforces the heebie-jeebies contemporary audiences must have felt about these dark corners of the globe. The ominous vibe compensates for its clunky flaws, particularly the oddly structured and mostly unspoken love triangle that results in Wray mostly acting as a third wheel and a means by which to reestablish the status quo by the end of the film (while such a turn would seemingly be scandalous for the time, they probably had a provisions that allowed for breaking up marriages in the event of a possessed spouse).
It’s arguable that Black Moon has just as many issues with women as it does with people of color since it’s largely framed as Lane’s struggle to reclaim the idyllic wife that he’s lost to jungle fever. Here’s a movie that features a woman victimized by a childhood curse, yet she’s brushed over and essentially turned into the villain of the piece; meanwhile, her husband gets a new girl and presumably lives happily ever after. Had Black Moon actually bothered to key in on the heartbreaking drama of a woman losing her soul to dark forces, it might have been more memorable than the admittedly bizarre (and ballsy) schlock-fest into which it degenerates. Its ending is haunting but could have been even more so if Juanita was more than just an object of the male gaze that becomes twisted and distorted by the Other.
Still, I must admit to finding this sort of stuff compelling and curious, if only because it is so brazen. Black Moon might not be as artful as other films in this particular movement, but it’s a fine reflection of early tribal/third world horror. Decades later, it would develop into the cannibal subgenre, where Westerners were literally devoured and dismembered, but we couldn’t have arrived at that point without an earlier battle between voodoo, mind, and soul. As is often the case with films resting in the shadows of more championed giants, Black Moon is a bit obscure and only reached DVD a couple of years ago thanks to the Sony Pictures Choice Collection, the studio’s on-demand line that brings nigh-forgotten titles to DVD-R. As is typically the case, the disc is bare bones (there’s not even a menu), but the presentation is quite remarkable and preferable to whatever treatment the film would have likely received if it were dumped on public domain collections. Black Moon is perhaps troubling in all the wrong ways for modern audiences, but it’s also a fascinating time capsule and a strong entry in the voodoo cult canon. Buy it!
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Kline: No Debates - They Are Not Proper Channels
Category: John Kline
"It's not my responsibility to help Ms. Madore in her campaign efforts,'' (John Kline) said. "My constituents, the voters, have had plenty of opportunity to hear from me and know where I stand on the issues.'' --Pioneer Press quoting Cong. John Kline
I have lived in the 2nd District for the entire tenure of Congressman John Kline and it always astonishes me in regards to the utter contempt that Kline has for constituents that do not support him lock, stock and barrel.
I am trying to figure out how I, as a constituent, can really get to know him. He uses automated telephone town meetings that are carefully screened. The number of open to the public town meetings for his entire career can be counted on one hand. He never talks about his own personal ideas....only recites talking points. And he avoids, like the plague, any one on one conversations unless it is with people he trusts.
When a number of us tried to get a personal meeting with Kline over the Iraq War, we were given all the different excuses. And the one meeting that I know got scheduled was held by a staffer.
Kline looks stiff when doing the few city parades he gets to. And when confronted by someone who disagrees with him, the visible anger on his face is palpable.
Kline treats political campaigns like his career in the military. You choose the battle zone. Democrats are treated like the enemy. They are treated with contempt and to be shown no quarter. Kline only comes out of his bunker when he needes to attack. Constituents are looked upon as potential collateral damage.
His Democratic challenger is Shelley Madore and her frustration level with Kline's tactics are growing. She has given and made every opportunity for Kline to speak and discuss his plans to solve the problems of the 2nd District.....but to no avail.
Kline likes to brag about the potential takeover of the House by the Republicans and his potential chairmanship of a powerful committee. Yet, he does not feel the need to talk to ALL of his constituents about it. He only deals with his supporters... the ones who will benefit from Kline's newfound influence.
Shelley Madore would like Kline to discuss all of that with her in a public forum. To talk to all of us, not just the ones of his choosing.
But then Kline doesn't consider people like me worthy of his attention. I, and those like me, have to understand that to talk to the Colonel, we have to go through "proper channels".
And debates are just not proper channels.
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Where is John Kline ?
After campaigning for Randy Demmer in southern Minnesota last week, this week he was on the road. On Wednesday, to Wisconsin to campaign for Dan Kapanke; then to St. Charles Illinois on the 14th campaigning for Randy Hultgen to represent the Fourteenth District and on Friday in Urbandale Iowa to campaign for Brad Zaun to represents the Third District and also on the same day in Waterloo campaigning for his former staffer Ben Lange for Iowa's First District.
While some voters may be asking "Where's John Kline ?" ... isn't the better question, "Why does John Kline ignore Minnesota's Second District ?"
It's not a question of that Mr. Kline does not want "to help Ms. Madore in her campaign efforts,'' ... it should be to engage in DEMOCRACY.
Mr. Kline has already violated his PLEDGE to reduce spending when he voted to increase NASA funding for three years ($19.0 billion in FY 2011 to $19.96 billion in FY 2013) when the PLEDGE said they would reduce spending to FY 2008 levels which was at $17.6. Mr. Kline is a Big Spender of OUR MONEY for Big Business interests. Mr. Kline likes to promote wasteful spending as illuminated by the Citizens Against Government Waste, yet funding for NASA and the Joint Strike Force alternate engine are two thier targets, yet Mr. Kline supports these programs.
It's not that he is ducking Ms. Madore, he's ducking Minnesotans. It's shameful ... and if Ryan is correct that Madore won't win, then go ahead and vote for Madore as a protest vote.
"Kline debated his last 3 opponents multiple times ..."
Yeah, "right."
In 2006, Kline got the PiPress endorsement, and promptly blew off the last three debates, including the Goodhue County Veterans Forum at the Zumbrota VFW.
Watch Kline's designated liar, Mike Osskopp, lie about Kline's ZERO ratings from the Disabled American Veterans (DAV):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmrjyTnXbJw
While I have nothing but respect for LTC Kline's service while he wore the uniform, I have nothing but contempt for Congressman Kline's "service" (to the GOP) in Congress.
As a member of the VFW and DAV, I can tell you it is a fact that Kline's designated liar, Mike Osskopp, lied about the DAV in the YouTube, above.
I get that your a Democrat and that you don't like Kline but I can't believe you're on this bandwagon. You know better than anyone that Madore isn't a credible candidate.
If you followed Kline's website, you would know that Kline did 26 parades. Madore did none...zero.
If you drove around, you'd see that he has a couple of hundred signs up. I've seen one Madore sign....in her front yard.
Kline has raised over a million dollars, Madore hasn't raised enough to run for city council.
Kline has won re-election 3 times with ever increasing margins. Madore was fired by the voters after 1 term.
Kline had a honorable military career. Madore was just fired by her last private sector employer.
Kline debated his last 3 opponents multiple times but now Madore suddenly wants attention after doing nothing since the primary.
You were right months ago when you said she had no business running in the primary. Her 15 minutes of fame are over in 19 days.
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Camping Around Zion National Park
Zion Park has three campsites. South and Watchman Campsites have been in Zion Canyon. The Lava Point Campground is all about single-hour drive from Zion Canyon around the Kolob Terrace Road. You will find no campsites in Kolob Canyons. Camping is allowed in designated camping locations, although not in pullouts or parking lots. Camping is popular all campsites are frequently full by noon on mondays to fridays and each morning on weekends. From mid-March through November the campsites are full nearly every evening. Bookings at Watchman Campground (see below) are suggested if you'd like to ensure an outdoor camping place. If you're not able to create a reservation, the sooner within the day you arrive, the greater the time of having a campground.
Zion Canyon Campsites
South Campground and Watchman Campground are close to the south entrance at Springdale. This area of the park is desert. You will find couple of trees to supply respite from the warmth. Some camping locations get shade for area of the day, however, many get no shade whatsoever. Summer time temps exceed 95°F (35°C) and lows rarely dip below 65°F (18°C) remaining awesome is really a challenge. Remember these temps and the potential of a sunny campground when planning. The Virgin River runs across the fringe of each campground you will find a couple of riverside camping locations.
Park Weather Information
All camping locations are drive-up and permit no more than two automobiles. Just one RV or trailer is permitted. Any RV including motorhomes, cabover campers and camper vans, or any trailer including fifth wheels, pop-up campers, and cargo or boat trailers are automobiles and count toward the limit. Each campground has overflow parking for excess automobiles. Each campground enables a more six people and 2 large tents or three small tents (1-3 persons) plan accordingly. Take a look at time is 11:00 a.m.
Comfort stations provide flush toilets, cold running drinkable water, and trash containers, but no showers or electrical shops. Each campground includes a have a picnic table and fire bowl with attached grill. Quiet hrs are 10:00 p.m. to eight:00 a.m. Pets are permitted on the leash no more than six ft. Hiking around the block with pets is permitted only around the streets and Pa'rus Trail.
Springdale is next to Zion Canyon pay showers, a little market, fire wood, laundromats, a restricted medical clinic, and restaurants can be found. Springdale could be arrived at in the campsites by vehicle, feet, bicycle, reely shuttle (April through October).
Source: www.nps.gov
Watchman Campground, Zion National Park
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The Newark Pilots (26-20) pulled off a late inning rally to walk off in the ninth inning to win 7-6 against the Elmira Pioneers (17-29) Wednesday night at Colburn Park.
The Pilots clawed their way back in the bottom of the ninth to score three runs to give them their first lead of the game and the walk-off. With a man on second base, Austin Logan (UC Davis) singled through the right side to score Ben Bostick (St. John Fisher College). With two outs in the inning and the bases loaded, Joe Landi (Univ. of Rhode Island) singled up the middle to score Logan and Brent Langston (Delta State).
In the top of the of second inning, Elmira jumped out in front by scoring two runs to take the early lead on Newark. With men in scoring position, Steven Clout (New Haven) singled up the middle driving in Ty Yesensky (Old Dominion) for the RBI. With the next batter up, Aaron Nardone (Delaware State) scored on a wild pitch.
In the top of the fourth, Elmira added to their lead over Newark to give them a 4-0 lead. With a hit-and-run situation, Corey Hamula (Sullivan County CC) was able to drive a double into right-center allowing Landon Prentiss (Virginia Commonworth) to score. While standing on third, Hamula scored after the shortstop threw inaccurate pass to the first baseman resulting in an error.
Newark added a pair of runs in the bottom of the sixth, as Josh Perez (Mississippi College) scored on a RBI groundout out by Tyler McDonald (Millersville Univ.). Standing on third, Landi was able to score on a wild pitch, to make the score 5-4 Elmira.
Elmira added a run in the top of the seventh inning. Prentiss was able to provide the team with a RBI single, scoring Nardone for the 6-4 lead.
Kieran Murphy (St. John Fisher College) earned his first win as he pitched in his first appearance of the season. The righty worked one hitless inning of relief while striking out two. James Yacabonis (St. Joseph’s PA) blew the save and earned the loss for Elmira. The reliever gave up three runs, one earned, on four hits. He struck out two.
With a Glens Falls victory, the Pilots would secure the number three seed. Newark will travel to Glens Falls and take on the Golden Eagles at East Field Stadium on Friday. Game two will be at Colburn Park, with a Game three back at Glens Falls if necessary.
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Almost 12m people should be on statins under current NICE guidelines
Almost 12m people in England would be on statins if GPs followed current NICE guidelines in full, a study has revealed.
The study, published in the British Journal of General Practice, found that under the 2014 guidelines - which lowered the QRISK2 risk threshold for statin treatment from 20% to 10% - 11.8m adults are eligible.
Using data from the Health Survey for England 2011, Harvard University researchers found that under the current criteria patients eligible for statin treatment includes:
37% of all adults aged 30-84;
Almost a third of males, and 10% of females, aged 45-59;
95% of males and 66% of females, without cardiovascular disease, aged 60-74; and
Everyone above the age of 75.
The study, funded by Swedish Society of Medicine, found that each GP would need to provide statin therapy to almost 200 currently untreated patients, who are eligible for treatment under the existing guidelines.
These recommend GPs start patients on statin treatment if they have a 10% or more risk of CVD in the next 10 years, rather than the previous target of 20%.
According to the researchers, implementing this guidance in full would see GPs severely stretched.
Harvard University researcher Dr Peter Ueda, who led the study, said: 'Providing statin therapy to a large proportion of the population will substantially increase GP workload and implementation of the NICE guidelines should consider costs for primary care given the high and increasing pressure on GPs.'
Previous studies have reported limited evidence on the effects of statins on older people.
Researchers recommended, in line with NICE guidelines, that a ‘patient-physician discussion should precede statin therapy, especially where age is the only risk factor'.
They also stressed the importance of providing younger patients with a long term CVD risk assessment if they have high levels of many risk factors but still fall below the risk threshold.
Andrew Green, clinical and prescribing policy lead at the GPC, said: 'When the guidelines were first introduced much of the concern arose from a belief that the risk levels were set so low that, in effect, NICE was recommending blanket pharmacological intervention for a large section of the population, and furthermore the section of the population most likely to suffer problems of polypharmacy and adverse events.
'This paper confirms the epidemiology underlying that concern.
'Since then, I think there has been a shift in attitudes with more of an emphasis on individual patient choice and an awareness of the importance of considering frailty and multi-morbidity, which probably explains why the long-term take-up of statins in the 10-20% risk band has remained relatively low, especially among more elderly patients.'
RCGP chair Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard said: 'We need to get the risk scores right. If we find that all men over 60 and all women over 75 are going to be eligible for statins with new risk scoring, regardless of any other risk factor, then it should ring alarm bells – because it is not clear that every 60 year old man or 75 year old woman is going to benefit from statin therapy.'
She added: 'It’s important that as new evidence becomes available, it is taken on board as guidelines for healthcare professionals are updated – but NHS resources and workforce must also be a factor.
'We agree with researchers that the workload implications for GPs and our teams with so many people being potentially eligible for statin therapy is enormous, so this must be matched with appropriate resources.'
A study carried out by GPs in 2015 found that only a tenth of patients with a 10-20% predicted risk of cardiovascular disease chose to take a statin when given the opportunity.
Experts have urged GPs to challenge NICE prescribing guidance and leave the choice to their patients and NICE was forced to withdraw its suggestion to add a QOF incentive at this threshold following heavy critique from GP leaders in 2015.
Note: This story was amended at 09:45 on 3 August to reflect that 12m is the total number of people who would be on statins.
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Sensible Doc | GP Partner/Principal01 Aug 2017 8:54am
Has anyone looked at simply scrapping NICE? Around 20y ago there was a move towards better evidenced medicine as we entered the internet age. There was also an urgent need to ration some investigations and treatments as technology was advancing so fast. Many of the big questions have now been answered which has left NICE with too much time on it's hands to prescribe a certain sort of defensive medicine with all the legal risks that entails for us. A lot of what it publishes is now far too complex to apply in real world consultation rooms. Is it time for a rethink?
Dylan | Salaried GP01 Aug 2017 10:59am
I don't think it's "defensive medicine", more "epidemiological medicine" where we are asked to intervene on a large population scale for benefits which are statistically unlikely any individual patient.
The ethical and human implications of this new "epidemiological medicine" have not - I think - been adequately thought through.
Vinci Ho | GP Partner/Principal01 Aug 2017 1:46pm
This is a new culture we are talking about here:
Every single man over 65 years old and every single woman over 75 years old will be on at least one medication called statin.
Reflection | GP Partner/Principal01 Aug 2017 4:11pm
Equally worrying is that when this guidance is publicised, we hear just about statins, not the other risk factors. This gives the message to patients not to worry about lifestyle or the social determinants of health, because we have a pill to solve the problem. We need comparative data published at the same time as NICE guidance, that compares the benefit of activity, stopping smoking etc with going on statins for life. There is very good evidence that keeping active can give you potentially ten years more life.
Name and address supplied | Salaried GP01 Aug 2017 4:49pm
Good luck trying to persuade them. I'll pencil them in at 8pm when I've finish my day job.
Mark Howson | GP Partner/Principal01 Aug 2017 7:57pm
I am on a statin... means I don't have to go to the Gym any more and I can eat fish and chips every day and have cake for pudding.. and I will live to over a hundred...xxx
Rogue1 | GP Partner/Principal02 Aug 2017 2:50pm
Yes Mark 7;57, I know a Cardiologist with exactly the same approach!
Healthy Cynic | GP Partner/Principal03 Aug 2017 9:20am
Thank you NICE, but I am still able to think for myself, evaluate evidence and experience, and to give a balanced clinical opinion.
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Q&A On TokenSpace: A New Conceptual Classification Framework For Cryptoassets
In search of fresh perspectives on the characteristics of cryptographic assets. This Q&A with Matt ฿ originally appeared in 21cryptos.com in December 2018. A comprehensive manuscript describing TokenSpace will be released soon, in the meantime more TokenSpace information over at pllel.com and on Twitter.
Q: Can you give a bit of background on yourself? What got you interested in cryptocurrency?
Sure, it’s been a winding road though so let’s not get too lost in details! I grew up in various towns and cities in the UK mostly reading maths and sci-fi books, stargazing, misusing home chemistry crystal growing kits, making music and playing way too many computer games. Spent a decade at universities studying, researching and managing scientific research in chemistry, physics and astronomy where I really got exposed to the idea of organising knowledge to further our understanding. My chemistry mentor (now YouTube-famous) Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff is very likely the world’s leading connoisseur of the periodic table of the elements so I’ve had classification systems such as taxonomies on the brain for a while now.
Micro-taxonomy! Periodic table of the elements recorded on a strand of a certain professor's distinctive hair.
Such a pleasure to see a former mentor & talk taxonomies. Humble & charming as ever, had a hand in this also:https://t.co/7sZsdL9ZOL@NottsChemistry@periodicvideos pic.twitter.com/0vZNX485JV
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After that I spent several years working with experimental music and arts, running a record label, organising educational activities, managing interesting projects and curating a festival. Whilst on a music tour around the US West Coast in 2012 we went to a friend-of-a-friend’s place in Silicon Valley, he opened his closet and said “check this out, I’m doing this thing called mining Bitcoin”. It took a while to be convinced, the idea sounded great but everything I could find online looked quite sketchy — Mt. Gox, Bitcoinica, BitInstant and all that — and it wasn’t until 2014/5 during what may have been Bitcoin’s darkest days that I started to get really interested. The idea of natively digital money that isn’t controlled by anyone has obvious appeal, but surviving the Gox incident showed me that the technology had some serious resilience and could be a long-lived proposition. Since then it’s gradually taken over my life as I’ve worked my way through various activities as a hobbyist — watching the markets, running nodes and following on-chain activity, messing around with coloured coins and smart contracts, mining and now research of various flavours through an independent research organisation Parallel Industries.
My Bitcoin sunrise, after playing a gig in Stanislaus National Forest in Summer 2012
Q: ELI5 TokenSpace.
TokenSpace is an attempt to make a relatively simple and easy to use comparison system out of the sprawling and confusing mess of cryptocurrencies, tokens and suchlike that we find ourselves with today. Think of it as a 3D “space” to place different assets inside, with each of the axes representing a characteristic that we can use to visually compare and contrast different assets. The position of an asset along each axis is determined by a scoring system between 0 and 1 for that characteristic, so that a score of zero means the asset doesn’t have those properties at all, and a score of one means it’s a textbook case. Where the score comes from is up to the user, it can be from an intuitive ‘gut feel’ perspective, a weighted taxonomy of different properties, a consensus view from a panel of advisors and so on. It all depends on the intended application.
TokenSpace visual impression
The primary application so far has been to look at the ongoing uncertainty as to the legal and regulatory status of cryptoassets and how similar or different they are to traditional asset types such as monies, securities or commodities. Obviously there is a lot of variation from asset to asset and it is becoming increasingly clear that government bodies are looking at these things closely.
It’s important to understand that the difference between concepts like TokenSpace and the periodic table of chemical elements is that we are still very much in a subjective realm with cryptoassets, and therefore any particular score should be taken with a pinch of salt. People are not going to have the same opinions on a lot of these things — if you follow the cryptocurrency and blockchain space then you will know that humans are VERY biased creatures! A future avenue for this work is to explore different perspectives to see where they come together and where they do not. You could say we are still in the occultist and alchemical phase of cryptocurrency…
Q: Tell us about the metrics you’re using to place the assets in this 3D space.
The axes I’ve chosen are for the properties Securityness, Moneyness and Commodityness — in other words how much a coin or token embodies or exhibits the characteristics of a securitised asset, a money or a commodity. Having encountered the fruitless debate of “I think token X is a security but you think it is not” innumerable times, and given the fact that these tokens and networks are hybrids of payment mechanisms, rights to on-chain property or “cashflows” like masternodes, value stores and consumable resources it seems reasonable to engender a greater ability to differentiate between more subtle differences in these assets.
One thing that’s nice about working with a conceptual framework like this is that it could easily be adapted for another purpose — for example Parallel Industries has begun a collaboration with DAO specialists who want to apply a similar approach to characterising the organisational structures that exist around decentralised networks and providing the right dimensions are found, there’s no reason why you can’t also build a set of taxonomies or scoring systems for that purpose. It does require careful thought and design choices to ensure you end up with a useful tool that can be meaningfully used.
Q: How would you distinguish between, for instance, Bitcoin, Litecoin, Tether and Polymath with this framework?
Good question. I think it’s reasonable to say that as assets, bitcoin and litecoin are often thought of as having “commodity-like” characteristics. People often refer to the digital gold and silver memes so they would place reasonably well on that, though bitcoin has much more liquidity and market depth so it would be easy to make a case for it being the premier digital commodity. Neither have much in common with securities though you could make a case that Litecoin’s founder and Foundation are somewhat relied upon for expectation of profit. As much as it’d be nice to say otherwise, bitcoin and litecoin still aren’t great as monies compared to fiat currency so they do still have some ground to cover there.
Tether functions primarily as a monetary substitute although it’s hard to be confident about it’s supply or ability to store value in the long term, though by virtue of its stability against fiat currency relative to traditional cryptocurrencies it does fulfil that purpose reasonably well in today’s high friction on and off ramps with exchanges for example. It doesn’t look much like a commodity or a security to me.
Polymath is not one I’m very familiar with, being a security token platform they are at least being upfront with that. As an ERC20 token on Ethereum with a central administrative team it does seem to have a lot of the hallmarks of a security and though there does appear to be some “utility” being used to issue securities tokens on their platform it could be argued that it has more commodityness than the typical Ethereum ICO vintage of 2017 or something quite useless such as XRP but nowhere near as much as bitcoin or litecoin.
Placing selected assets in TokenSpace. Scores are assigned by author.
Q: You’ve taken on the seemingly insurmountable task of attempting to classify cryptoassets. What are regulators doing wrong? What sort of organisations would benefit from this?
It’s a tall order indeed, and perhaps not surprising that it’s taken a while to get to this stage. The hope is that tools like TokenSpace can help coin and token issuers, lawyers, regulators and exchange operators get a better grip on the characteristics of different assets and avoid making misinformed decisions such as blanket bans, listing or adopting assets which might cause them compliance headaches or issuing poorly designed tokens which might land them in hot water later.
I’ve met a few regulators, token issuers and exchange compliance officers and it seems that a lot of the pitfalls seen so far (and many more to come) are from a lack of understanding of how these assets and the underlying networks function and evolve over time. It’s virtually impossible to have a complete grasp on these things — even Satoshi didn’t have every angle covered! The biggest mistake I’ve seen being made so far by officials is the rush to make sweeping pronouncements without being able to back them up with justifications that make the situation even less clear.
One example are comments made by US Securities and Exchange Commission officials that the ETH crowdsale was a securities offering but the Ethereum network has since become “sufficiently decentralised” and therefore is no longer a security. Taking that at face value, it suggests that at one point, ETH has passed through a “legal / not legal” boundary, but where and how? What made the difference and how was that decision arrived at? Node distribution? Concentration of tokens amongst insiders? Decentralisation of leadership? It’s not easy to resolve that with existing securities laws guidelines like the Howey test. What about network forks and issues such as The DAO exploit? These sorts of things are going to keep happening.
Example of an Arbitrary Regulatory Boundary Function
Q: What could regulators be doing better?
Make clearer statements, do your homework to understand the technology at play and be more upfront about decision-making processes! What are the metrics that regulators deem important? Why? Don’t build rigid legal frameworks that can’t cope with the breakneck pace of cryptocurrency developments. There will always be regulatory arbitrage with borderless technologies, just look at Malta and Puerto Rico. Which small nation will be next to reposition itself to attract jurisdiction-hoppers like Binance?
There is also the perennial issue of legions of “Blockchain Experts” who usually land influential advisory roles but seem to know very little about the ins and outs of applied cryptographic networks and assets associated with them. Having spent a very frustrating year in a business school environment having to deal with fakers and imbeciles claiming said proficiencies recently, I can confirm that this is a very real problem.
Q: What else is Parallel Industries working on? What are your future plans?
Currently Parallel Industries is very much in the bootstrap phase, limping along with very little income (thanks bear market) so it’s a major priority to bring in resources through sponsorship, consulting and contract research to operate sustainably so that we can expand our research activities and yours truly isn’t spread quite so thinly! The TokenSpace paper is finally approaching readiness and our Forkonomy project undertaking comparative analysis of network forks (such as BTC/BCH, ETC/ETH, BTCP/ZCL) has already had a number of outputs including a talk at the recent ETC Summit in Korea and a well-received paper. There’s also a project in progress named DAOs and Don’ts looking at power imbalances in cryptocurrency networks which has been on the sidelines a little too long. Keep an eye out for an article series on political and humanitarian hacks and use cases for cryptocurrencies in In The Mesh magazine under the title Reaching Everyone.
If any of that arouses curiosity do a look at our website www.pllel.com or find us on Twitter @parallelind. If you’re a crypto-millionaire looking for a way to lighten your bags and fund some research in the process, we can help with that too!
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Information about the service conditions under RTI
The appellant sought information with regard to SSE (Electrical) of the Rail Coach Factory such as whether the Steno to Deputy CME (I & L) was competent to issue orders on behalf of the Deputy CME; whether the SSE (Elec.) was empowered to reject the C L application to the staff working under him when the same lies to the credit of the subordinate staff and whether he can deduct his salary for those days at his will; which authority permitted for the creation of SSE/Coordination post under the control of Dy. CME(I&L)/TKJ and whether this post exists under the Railway Board’s order, along with the copy of the relevant order and why the department has deputed two supervisors for supervising merely four telephone operators. The Public Information Officer (PIO) submitted that the steno to the Deputy CME had signed the order in after receiving the approval to do so from the Deputy CME; the SSE (Elec.) was empowered to reject the Casual leave application; no approval by the Railway Board was given for the creation of SSE/Coordination post; the PIO provided justifications for last three years with regard to deputation of two telephone supervisors.
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The Central Information Commission (CIC) directed the PIO to provide the appellant all the information as per submissions made before the CIC and also give the justifications for the previous years as available in the records and if not available, the appellant should be informed formally in writing about the non- availability of the information.
Citation: Mr. Arul Kumar v. Rail Coach Factory in File No. CIC/AD/A/2012/000686
RTI Citation : RTIFI/2012/CIC/280
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The controversial and defunct studio that has weighed on the City of Allen Park for years has a new owner. The city sold the 104-acre Southfield Lease Properties to Time Equities, the city’s emergency manager Joyce Parker announced.
The property, adjacent to City Hall and formerly known as Unity Studios, was sold for $12 million, she said Tuesday.Parker framed the deal as the latest step toward restoring Allen Park’s fiscal stability. The property, which was formally put up for sale in October 2012, has been a financial drain on the city and helped push the city into receivership.
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The Domestic Violence Parallel Track
Part of Real World Divorce: web edition | Kindle edition
"Your typical divorce plaintiff wants four things: (1) the house, (2) the kids, (3) the husband's paycheck, and (4) freedom to spend time in the house with her boyfriend," said one attorney. "It might take her two years to get to that point in the family court with accompanying legal fees. She can get there in a day through the domestic abuse system, probably without spending a dime. All that she needs to learn is to say 'I'm afraid of him.' She gets a house, the kids, and money every month without ever having to give evidence, be cross-examined, or bring any additional witnesses to corroborate."
Jeannie Suk, a Harvard Law School professor, is quoted in Alec Baldwin's A Promise to Ourselves (2008):
"The domestic violence protection orders I mentioned can be obtained without a criminal charge ever being filed. A woman can ask a court to issue an order excluding her husband from the home based on her claim that he has harmed or threatened her, often without the husband having the opportunity to present his side. Of course, in principle, this process could be a good thing if the woman is in danger. But inevitably, some divorce lawyers advise women clients to apply for domestic violence protection orders because it can be used as a powerful tool in the divorce proceeding . Given the expansion of the definition of violence that I mentioned, it really doesn’t take that much to show that a threat of violence exists and that a woman needs a protection order. It is not uncommon for domestic violence issues to come into a divorce case in this way. … As I mentioned it can be advantageous for the mother to allege conduct that suggests that the father seeking custody might be abusive. In the last fifteen years our courts have come to see domestic violence as a crucial issue in child custody decisions. Many states rightly have a presumption against awarding custody to parents who have engaged in domestic violence. The problem is the relative ease with which legal actors today seem able to view husbands as violent or potentially violent, since the definition of violence has expanded so much. Given that ease , it would be quite surprising if child custody disputes didn’t often involve some allegation of violence."
In virtually every state that we studied, litigators told us about benefits offered by legislators to people who can testify credibly that the person they are seeking to divorce is abusing them or abusing their joint children. At the same time, litigators told us that the costs of making a false accusation, even when a family court judge believes that it was false, are non-existent or minimal. According to our interviewees, repeated false allegations can be harmful when seeking sole custody of a child, but a rational custody-seeking parent would generally make at least one abuse allegation.
As you read this chapter, please keep in mind that we're not experts on domestic violence per se and that this is not a chapter on domestic violence per se. Our hypothetical scenarios do not include actual physical abuse and the attorneys that we interviewed told us anecdotes mostly about alleging abuse as part of a quest for child support cash, not stories about actual physical abuse. To some extent this may be because we interviewed litigators who work on cases in which at least one party has enough money to pay their fees. Thus this chapter is about the use of domestic violence allegations in divorce, custody, and child support litigation where the primary goals of the lawsuit are financial.
[We don't mean to minimize the prevalence of domestic violence in American society. However, it seems to be concentrated in households where there isn't enough money to hire a $400/hour attorney. "When Violence Hits Home: How Economics and Neighborhood Play a Role" (U.S. Department of Justice, 2004) says that "Women who live in economically disadvantaged communities and are struggling with money in their own relationships suffer the greatest risk of intimate violence. … Women living in households with high incomes experienced less violence at the hands of their intimate partners … As the ratio of household income to needs goes up, the likelihood of violence goes down." A Troubled Marriage: Domestic Violence and the Legal System (Goodmark 2011, NYU Press) states that "A recent study of [domestic violence criminal] court-involved men in Albuquerque, New Mexico, found that more than half of the men lacked high school diplomas, 36 percent were unemployed at the time they came into contact with the court, 61 percent made less than $20,000 per year, and 88 percent earned less than $30,000 per year."]
Can Americans be trusted?
What happens when you set up a system in which Americans can get cash by doing something less than honest? From "The Voyeur's Motel" (New Yorker, April 11, 2016):
These experiences prodded Foos [a motel manager] to concoct an “honesty test.” He would leave a suitcase, secured with a cheap padlock, in the closet of a motel room. When a guest checked in, he would say to Donna, in the guest’s hearing, that someone had just called to report leaving behind a suitcase with a thousand dollars inside. Foos then watched from the attic as the new guest found the suitcase and deliberated over whether to break the lock and look inside or return the suitcase to the motel office.
Out of fifteen guests who were subjected to the honesty test, including a minister, a lawyer, and an Army lieutenant colonel, only two returned the suitcase to the office with the padlock intact. The others all opened the suitcase and then tried to dispose of it in different ways. The minister pushed the suitcase out the bathroom window into the bushes.
Real-world Restraining Order Strategy and Tactics
The nitty-gritty of a divorce lawsuit that starts with a restraining order is explained in
"The New Star Chamber: The New Jersey Family Court and the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act" (Rutgers Law Review 57:3):
A wife willing to commit perjury can spend months or even years with her lawyer planning to file a domestic violence complaint at an opportune moment in order to gain the upper hand in a divorce proceeding and preparing the presentation of her case, while an accused husband is given ten days or less to prepare a defense. Ten days is not nearly enough time to prepare for a FRO hearing. It is not even enough time for most defendants to fully understand the gravity of the situation they're in. The lack of time is compounded by the stress, alarm, and confusion caused by suddenly and without warning being thrown out of the marital home by armed police officers. … He is allowed to take his wallet with him but is prohibited from taking his checkbook because the police officers fear that he might maliciously exhaust the marital assets … He has not been advised he has the right to have an attorney represent him, and doesn't realize he needs one. He couldn't afford one if he did, but he has no right, unlike a criminal defendant, to be provided with free counsel.
This summary was consistent with what we heard from practicing litigators and also from consumers. Either because the plaintiff has already retained a divorce litigator or has obtained assistance from a taxpayer-funded domestic violence organization, the first two hearings are generally plaintiff+attorney on one side of the judge and either nobody ("ex parte") or just the defendant on the other side. Maryland legislator Jill Carter explained this: "There is an organization called the House of Ruth. They represent the woman for free and get her an automatic ex parte order barring the man from the house, the kids, and her place of work. He can come back five days later to challenge the order." Then the House of Ruth lawyer and his lawyer argue about whether it was a legitimate order to have granted? "No," says Carter. "A lot of my constituents can't afford lawyers and this is a civil proceeding, not a criminal one. So he is not entitled to a public defender. So she is represented by an attorney and he is not."
The plaintiff is able to bring better evidence to these hearings because the plaintiff is the only one who knows that the proceeding is coming and therefore has had time to prepare. "I had one where the wife slapped herself in the face right before the police showed up," said an Arkansas litigator. "The police took my guy to jail after seeing the mark on her face. We learned the truth because the parties reconciled and she said 'I knew that I could get you out of the house and I was mad because you were having an affair with the nurse.'" Interviewees report that future plaintiffs are counseled to push and shove the future defendants around in the house in hopes that the men will rise to the bait and throw an actual punch. In "one-party recording" states, future plaintiffs are encouraged to start arguments and then activate a smartphone audio recording app when the future defendant begins to yell back. A bruised face or a threatening-sounding recording means a slam-dunk victory.
Violence Against Women Act of 1994
The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA) made it easier to prosecute domestic violence, partly by eliminating traditional protections afforded citizens accused of crimes and partly by providing about $1.6 billion per year in funding to states and non-profit organizations to assist them in prosecuting alleged abusers. Grants are administered by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Violence Against Women. The bill was reauthorized in 2013. Attorneys reported that alleging criminal domestic violence could be a useful tactic for a plaintiff seeking a larger child support order via negotiation. How does it work? We interviewed a soft-spoken father on an 11-month-old boy going through hearings as a criminal defendant: "The prosecutors around Worcester [Massachusetts] got a grant from the federal government to prosecute violence against women," he noted, “which means that they now go after every man who is accused because they get paid for it. So now all of the child support plaintiffs in Worcester are going to the police saying that they have been beaten up.” His plaintiff alleged that he had grabbed her wrist. “She has no evidence other than her own statement. She doesn’t have any witness to say that I ever yelled at her, threatened her, or touched her. She has no marks on her skin. But anyway my lawyers say that I will still have to go through at least four court appearances as an accused criminal. She offered to drop the charges if I would pay what she is demanding, but it works out to more than 100 percent of my after-tax income." [We followed up a few months later. The father had agreed to pay more than he had been previously ordered to. The mother, whose income was about the same as his, had dropped her abuse allegations and agreed to let their child have a roughly 50/50 schedule.]
"Federal Law and Domestic Violence: The Legacy of the Violence Against Women Act," a 1999 article from the Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, gives an overview of the federal law from the perspective of divorce litigators. The Tucson-based authors, Karp and Belleau, characterize themselves as "representing high net-worth individuals involved in complex marriage dissolution actions." They explain that the VAWA as enacted by Congress gave a wife the ability to launch, along with her divorce lawsuit, a simultaneous federal court lawsuit alleging that her civil rights had been violated:
"Almost every divorce case carries with it some form of domestic tort, and thus, the filing of such a claim must be considered in all divorce cases. … the threat of a domestic tort … can be a bargaining chip for a larger share of the marital estate, or higher spousal maintenance payments at the negotiation table. … In drafting the cause of action, a practitioner is limited only by his or her imagination. … If the defendant has 'deep pockets', litigation can be practical, often resulting in large verdicts."
On federal court versus state court: "One advantage of the VAWA was a plaintiff’s ability to file in federal court, which has rules of evidence preferable to a plaintiff’s case." The authors cite an advantage that "evidence of a plaintiff's sexual disposition or history is generally not admissible … [but] a [plaintiff] may introduce evidence of the defendant's prior bad acts." Another cited advantage is that plaintiffs can win attorneys' fees and urge that "states should provide for the recovery of attorneys fees when a plaintiff sues under the legislation."
Why doesn't every divorce lawsuit spawn a parallel federal court lawsuit under the Violence Against Women Act? The article explains that the U.S. Supreme Court struck out the "civil remedy" provision of the law. The authors close with "Attorneys who handle family law … must be aware of the benefits of filing claims or including counts under the VAWA despite its being found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, as many states may enact similar legislation with similar provisions." What was the constitutional issue with the VAWA? The case was United States v. Morrison and it hinged on (1) whether the Interstate Commerce clause of the Constitution was broad enough to support the use of federal courts, and (2) whether state justice systems were discriminating against women making domestic violence claims on the basis of their gender, which would be a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection. The Supreme Court was willing to assume that men who were violent toward women were "motivated by gender" but then noted that "gender-motivated crimes of violence are not … economic activity."
A 2014 paper, "Same-Sex Domestic Violence: Prevalence, Unique Aspects, and Clinical Implications" (Shields and Carroll; Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy) suggests that the Supreme Court was wrong about the motivation for domestic violence. The authors, after reviewing dozens of academic studies, conclude that "Current prevalence rates of SSDV [same-sex domestic violence] are considered similar to slightly higher than OSDV [other-sex DV] rates, with the exception of a secondary data analysis indicating SSDV rates as double that of OSDV (Messinger, 2011)." In other words, it is possible that people who share an apartment or house sometimes get on each others' nerves enough that punches are thrown, regardless of any gender issues:
Survival in space is a challenging endeavor. As the history of modern warfare suggests, people have generally proven themselves unable to live and work together peacefully over long periods of time. Especially in isolated or stressful situations, those living in close quarters often erupt into hostility.
-- Dept. of Speculation, a novel by Jenny Offill (2014)
What not to try
One tactic that can backfire is the use of child pornography. According to the Indiana (PA) Gazette, "Woman guilty of downloading child porn," August 20, 2014, Meri Jane Woods of Clymer, Pennsylvania was successful in obtaining a Protection from Abuse order that ended her husband's access to the family home. To cement her victory she placed child pornography onto a personal computer and, without bothering to update the timestamps on the files, turned it over to the state police, alleging that her husband had performed the illegal downloads. In investigating the crime, however, the police "almost immediately ruled out Matthew Woods’ involvement by finding the images date-stamped between Aug. 11 and 14, 2013. Matthew Woods had been forced from the home before that time by a protection-from-abuse order, prosecutors told the jury." As downloading child pornography for any reason is illegal, Ms. Woods was convicted of a felony that carried a possible sentence of seven years in prison (she was apparently not charged with the federal offense of receiving child pornography, which carries a mandatory minimum sentence of five years). What finally happened? A December 16, 2014 Associated Press article, "Wife who used child porn to frame husband gets jail time," notes that she "must spend six months to two years in county jail" and that "Woods continues to deny wrongdoing saying, 'I only wanted to protect my children.'"
Statistical Prevalence of Domestic Violence and Child Abuse
Depending on the state, attorneys told us that 25-100 percent of divorce cases that they handle involve an allegation that one partner was somehow abusing the other and/or the children. How common is domestic violence when measured by those without a financial incentive? Father-Daughter Relationships: Contemporary Research and Issues (Nielsen 2012): "no study to date using a representative sample and measuring severe violence has found more than two million women a year being abused, which is 1.5% of the female population over the age of 18 (Gelles, 2007). … 158 million of the 162 million females over the age of 12 are never—and never will be—physically abused by a man they are dating, living with, or married to. Put differently, for those women who are married, 1% were reported as victims of domestic violence according to the U.S. Justice Department’s crime statistics."
The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics reported that "Between 1993 and 2002 the rate of family violence declined [from 5.4 per 1000 persons aged 12 or older to 2.1 per 1000]. … The downward trend in the rate of family violence mirrored the overall downward trend of all violent crime during the same period." (Family Violence Statistics, June 2005 (most recent available), NCJ 207846). As of 2008, Americans actually charged in criminal courts with domestic violence were more likely to be prosecuted, convicted, and incarcerated than other kinds of felony defendants (BJS press release).
Accepting the broad definition of "abuse" that is used by family courts, are men more likely to abuse women or vice versa? Researchers at the University of Cumbria, led by Elizabeth Bates, reported in "Testing predictions from the male control theory of men's partner violence" (Aggressive Behavior, 40(1), January 2014) that "women were found to be more physically aggressive to their partners than men were." Father-Daughter Relationships: Contemporary Research and Issues (Nielsen 2012): "females generally engage in more relational aggression than males (Baumeister, 2010; Chesler, 2001; Eliot, 2009). Relational aggression includes social ostracism, vicious gossip, verbal harassment, passive aggressive manipulation, and verbal bullying—the same kind of behavior that gatekeeping mothers often use to limit the father’s relationship with their daughter. The victims of this relational aggression often become extremely anxious, depressed, insecure, withdrawn, and timid—again, the very behaviors we often find in fathers who want to be more involved with their daughters, but are being shut out by the mother’s gatekeeping. Relational aggression includes the kinds of tactics that many gatekeeping mothers use to demoralize and marginalize fathers."
How about abuse of children? The Child Welfare League of America's statistical summary, "The Nation’s Children 2010" indicates that approximately one percent of America's children are abused or neglected in some way. Of this 1 percent sample, most were simply neglected, e.g., left unattended in a house or car. 10.8 percent of the 1 percent sample were physically abused and 7.6 percent were sexually abused. In other words, the prevalence of physical and sexual abuse is about 0.18 percent.
Which parent perpetrates this abuse of 18 out of every 1000 American children? "Mothers are almost twice as likely to be directly involved in child maltreatment as fathers," according to "The Importance of Fathers in the Healthy Development of Children" published in 2006 by Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, U.S. Children's Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. How about in divorce court? "If I represent the mother in a custody action I try to insinuate in every hearing that the father is doing something abusive or sexual with the children," said one litigator. Do judges believe these insinuations? "A lie repeated becomes the truth," was the answer.
Note that these official government statistics are disputed by people who work in the domestic violence industry. A Troubled Marriage:
As psychologist Lenore Walker wrote in The Battered Woman, “Battered women are found in all age groups, races, ethnic and religious groups, educational levels, and socioeconomic groups. Who are the battered women? If you are a woman, there is a 50 percent chance it could be you!”
The author, Professor Goodmark, former Co-Director of the Center on Applied Feminism at the University of Baltimore School of Law, explains that a substantial number of women are reluctant to invoke the domestic violence legal apparatus due to fears of losing some of the benefits that their abuser brings, e.g., household income and/or shouldering parenting responsibilities.
As far as data showing that women can be at least as violent toward men as vice versa, Goodmark states in A Troubled Marriage that men and women are hitting each other for different reasons:
"Situational couple violence [where women have been as likely to hit men] might be used to get someone’s attention, to express anger or frustration, or to obtain physical domination in the moment, but it does not involve the generalized control over all facets of a partner’s life that characterizes intimate terrorism. Violent resistance is Johnson’s term for women who fight back against their abusive partners; this, too, is violence without a control motive, violence used to defend against or delay an attack, to send a message about the woman’s displeasure at being physically abused, to retaliate for past abuse, or to escape from a violent relationship. … [academic family violence scholars'] claims that women were as violent as men came from studies that equated a push, shove, or slap with more severe violence, like choking or punching, and did not measure other control tactics at all. Feminist researchers, by contrast, surveying shelters, hospitals, police, and courts, were more likely to find intimate terrorism’s typical pattern of coercive control. … Women engage in resistive/reactive violence to escape or stop abuse that they are experiencing or to establish some parity within the relationship that will enable them to protect themselves and/or their children from abuse. … The vast majority of women who use violence do so to defend themselves or their children or to prevent an impending attack. But women cite other reasons as well: to stand up for themselves in an attempt to salvage their self-worth, get their partners’ attention, earn their partners’ respect, and retaliate for threats against their families or their partners’ abusive behavior. … Sociologist Evan Stark argues that women use violence in order to express their identities as beings independent of their controlling partners."
A Troubled Marriage inadvertently calls into question the idea that domestic violence is ubiquitous in the U.S. Professor Goodmark cites disturbing examples of couples in which the man was abusing the woman. However, to populate the pages of her book she was forced to draw from 30 years of cases. If domestic violence affects 50 percent of households, why would an author need to look at more than a one-month period?
Professor Callie Marie Rennison, a criminology expert at the University of Colorado Denver, explained to us that crime of all kinds, including sexual violence and domestic violence, disproportionately affect lower income Americans and may be underreported: "I've done a 180 on this during my career," she said. "Now I think 'Why would anyone want to report a crime? What would they gain?'" Even if not seeking custody and child support, wouldn't a restraining order be something for a domestic violence victim to gain? "Restraining orders don't tend to make people safer," Rennison responded. "It is more of a paper trail." What could we as a society do to reduce domestic violence then? "We would need to start with children and get them to understand that you don't put your hands on other people in a violent way," said said. "Also train young people that the first time someone hits them they need to leave."
The Standards Applied
The standard for obtaining a restraining order, which will result in exclusive use of a house, exclusive access to children, and a stream of child support cash, is lower than the "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard of a criminal prosecution. A judge is supposed to grant a restraining order based on the "preponderance of evidence" (51 percent likely or "more likely than not"). As noted above, the defendant in a restraining order action is unlikely to have an attorney. The lower standard of proof and the lack of an attorney for the defendant makes it much easier for a party seeking a restraining order to prevail than it would be for the government to convict the defendant of a crime.
This perspective is consistent with "Criminal Law Comes Home" by Jeannie Suk, now a Harvard Law School professor, from the Yale Law Journal in 2006:
The civil protection order, the “grandmother of domestic violence law,” has constituted a crucial step in the criminalization of DV.
The vision for this remedy grew out of the definition of battering within the larger framework of a feminist critique of marriage, wherein DV [domestic violence] was a form of control and domination of wives. A symbol of the material and psychological difficulties of leaving abusive marriages, the marital home represented the physical locus of the gendered power inequality that was expressed in violence. Because, historically, the home had been the domain of husbands’ control, giving women the legal means to take control over the home by excluding husbands carried significance beyond the practical aspects of remedying an abusive situation. The protection order was to be a legal tool that would transform the home from a wife’s prison into her fortress. It would ban the husband from the space in which his power over her found expression.
The protection order enables a particular mode of criminalization that is an important component of the criminalization of DV. It criminalizes conduct that is not generally criminal—namely presence at home—in order to punish or prevent the target criminal conduct.
In a section titled "De Facto Divorce", Suk goes on to describe how a person can obtain an instant de facto divorce without alleging any physical violence or injury:
In this jurisdiction [New York County, which includes Manhattan], a routine practice in the prosecution of misdemeanor DV exemplifies the expanding criminal law control of the home: the prosecutorial use of criminal court protection orders to seek to end intimate relationships. Prosecutors’ deployment of protection orders in the normal course of misdemeanor DV prosecution amounts in practice to state-imposed de facto divorce.
By definition, misdemeanors do not involve serious physical injury. Many DV misdemeanor cases charged in criminal court do not allege physical harm. The harm alleged may instead be psychological, financial, or to property. Common charges in cases in which no physical violence is alleged include criminal mischief (damaging property), larceny, criminal contempt (violation of a protection order), and harassment (a violation, not a crime). Because most DV cases are misdemeanors, my discussion here primarily concerns the enforcement of misdemeanor DV, for which serious physical injury is not at issue.
DV orders are generally requested and issued as a matter of course. When the protection order goes into effect, the defendant cannot go home or have any contact with the victim (usually his wife) and his children. If the defendant does go home or contact the protected parties, he could be arrested, prosecuted, and punished for a fresh crime. This is so even if the victim initiates contact or invites the defendant to come home.
Court-ordered separation becomes a goal of prosecutors in bringing criminal charges—a substitute for, rather than a means of, increasing the likelihood of imprisonment. Punishment as a goal can be put on the backburner because separation is a more direct and achievable way to stop or prevent violence.
… de facto divorce does entail de facto arrangements regarding custody, visitation, and support—that is, no custody, no visitation, and no support.
Incentives for Judges to Grant Orders
The attorneys that we interviewed reported that judges grant restraining orders, depriving a defendant of the use of a house and access to children, even when the 51-percent standard wasn't met. They estimated that the standard for obtaining a restraining order was closer to a 5-percent risk of domestic violence.
"Erring on the Side of Hidden Harm: The Granting of Domestic Violence Restraining Orders" (Heleniak, Partner Abuse 1:2, 2010) explains the phenomenon. The journal article notes that new judges are urged by trainers to be "cautious" where cautious means to grant orders: "It’ll be the one time that you don’t grant the restraining order that you’ll be tomorrow’s headlines." A judge is quoted telling a defendant "If I have to make a mistake I have to make a mistake in favor of safety … and if I make a mistake that’s going to hurt somebody, I’ll never forgive myself." The head of the Massachusetts Bar Association was quoted in 1993 saying that restraining orders are granted to "virtually all who apply, lest anyone be blamed for an unfortunate result." What's the "hidden harm" of the title that judges don't worry about? That is the suffering of a child who is separated from a defendant parent for months or years, depending on how slowly a state's courts work, based on a false allegation. Attorneys interviewed confirmed the paper's perspective on the insignificance of the hidden harm: "Nobody in the system cares if a child doesn't see her father for a couple of years," was a typical summary.
David Heleniak, an attorney in New Jersey, closes the article by suggesting that requests for restraining orders be heard by juries: "Facts should be determined by several fresh, open minds, not one with a career on the line. Jurors, relatively anonymous one-time actors in the judicial system, are far less concerned with extraneous matters than are judges."
We interviewed Heleniak in October 2014 and asked him why judges would care about negative publicity. Aren't they appointed for life? "You're thinking of federal court," responded Heleniak, "State judges are typically elected or must be reappointed periodically. In New Jersey, a judge must be reappointed after seven years and then sits until age 70. Also remember that judges want to climb the bureaucratic ladder. Certainly they don't want to be sent to landlord/tenant court."
Heleniak's journal article was consistent with what we were told by our interviewees. "Why is it so easy to win a divorce-by-restraining-order?" asked one attorney, rhetorically. "Put yourself in the position of the judge. Does he want his name in the newspaper because he denied an order and then the husband went back home and shot the wife who sued him? It looks a lot better for the judge if the order was issued and the guy shot the plaintiff despite the order. By contrast, no reporter is going to cover a case where a guy loses the house and the kids because of an order that wasn't backed up by any evidence. That's dog-bites-man, not man-bites-dog."
Why Judging Domestic Violence Allegations is Tough
Is it all the judges' fault? Attorneys that we've interviewed suggest that it might not be, especially now that the definition of "abuse" has been broadened to include emotional and verbal abuse. A person testifying about his or her experience of emotional or verbal abuse tends to be credible because no other witness could be an authority on how an event might have felt. "To some people," said a Pennsylvania litigator, "an argument is abuse."
A classic paper on this subject is "Factitious Sexual Harassment" (Feldman-Schorrig 1996; Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 34:3). Factitious? According to the Cleveland Clinic (web site, 2014), "Factitious Disorder is a mental disorder in which a person acts as if he or she has a physical or mental illness when, in fact, he or she has consciously created their symptoms. … Those with Factitious Disorders have an inner need to be seen as ill or injured, but not to achieve a concrete benefit, such as a financial gain. Individuals with Factitious Disorder are even willing to undergo painful or risky tests and operations in order to obtain the sympathy and special attention given to people who are truly ill. … Many people with Factitious Disorder may also suffer from other mental disorders, particularly personality disorders. People with personality disorders have long-standing patterns of thinking and acting that differ from what society considers usual or normal. People with personality disorders generally also have poor coping skills and problems forming healthy relationships."
Dr. Feldman-Schorrig looked at the intersection between factitious disorders and sexual harassment or abuse claims. Here are some excerpts from her paper:
some women who file claims are motivated by the need to portray themselves as victims
adult women who have experienced childhood sexual abuse … retain a sense of victimhood [and may] be motivated to file fictitious sexual harassment claims by a need for external validation of their inner experiences.
obtaining sympathy probably constitutes one of the intrapsychic motives that drives some women to complain of sexual harassment.
Some women characterologically harbor a great deal of anger and are constantly looking for opportunities to release it. … Projection of diffuse anger onto specific male targets, who are then viewed as abusive, represents one of the factors that has been postulated to account for factitious rape. … it is far easier to deceive oneself into the belief that one is being harassed than raped.
a woman with a history of childhood sexual abuse may be motivated by repetition compulsion to reenact the victim role in her relationships with men;
In other words, some people are motivated to portray themselves as victims, even when the cash rewards for being a victim are small. Because they come to believe in their status as victims, their testimony sounds truthful and it is actually truthful from the victim's perspective. "People with borderline personality disorders love to come into court and talk about how they are being abused," said one attorney, "and then the Legislature encourages them by telling judges to give credible-sounding abuse victims sole custody and up to millions of dollars in child support cash."
The large emotional and cash rewards that state legislatures offer to people who say that they've been victims of abuse might not create problematic incentives as long as judges are good at their jobs, i.e., hearing evidence and figuring out who is telling the truth. If we have faith in our judges, therefore, why should we worry that we are rewarding liars with children and cash? "People who are crazy and sociopathic are great witnesses," said one attorney with more than 20 years of experience in the courtroom. "They can lie without batting an eye and sound completely credible. That's why con artists thrive. If we were good at assessing credibility none of us would ever get ripped off."
Lawyers assessing credibility
"I was a feminist in college and got into this to help women and children escape domestic violence," one lawyer told us. "But after a few years I learned that women who are actually being abused don't hire lawyers. They just pack up the kids and run away to a relative's house in another state. … The only women who hire me are ones who want money."
"All of my 'abused clients' are lying," said another lawyer. "They've been told by their friends or other attorneys that I'm not supposed to lie in court. They're supposed to lie to me and then I'm supposed to find what they say credible and repeat it to the judge. Sometimes just for fun when a new plaintiff client tells me that she is afraid of the high-income middle-aged white guy that she lives with and wants me to help her cash out I say 'Remember that alimony and child support terminate on death. Do you really want to put this scary violent person in a situation where if you die he saves a couple of million dollars? Where if your joint child dies he will also be a million dollars ahead?'"
The above perspective is not universal within the industry. "Divorce lawyers have an incentive to find their clients' domestic violence allegations credible," noted a commercial litigator, "because that way they get to characterize what they're doing as a noble effort to fight domestic abuse. Otherwise they'd have to introduce themselves by saying 'I help people get millions of dollars without working.'" James McLaren, the President of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, confirmed this point of view with his April 14, 2015 Huffington Post article "When Divorce and Domestic Violence Collide":
… 32 percent of the [senior divorce litigators] responding [to a survey] have noticed an increase in domestic violence issues throughout the past five years … 36 percent have noted a rise in divorce cases involving restraining orders,
One of the first steps begins with listening closely to people going through divorce who may be experiencing domestic violence. Domestic violence does not always mean physical violence. … Family law attorneys can help by offering the kinds of support, resources and advice that can really make a difference. … Once the attorney begins to thoughtfully ask questions along the lines of … Do you always feel safe at home? … Do you have access to spending money? … you and your attorney will have a much clearer picture of the kind of home environment you have been living through and the best ways to move the divorce forward for you and your children.
From there, a nonjudgmental assessment can be put together with tactful conclusions, such as, "What you are describing to me sounds like it could be abusive behavior." This can also involve explaining to the person what abuse is and how it doesn't always involve suffering physical marks and injuries.
Abuse Allegations at the Divorce Trial
The most dramatic use of the domestic violence apparatus occurs when a party is obtaining an instant de facto divorce, as described above. However, even in situations where a case proceeds at a stately pace through the divorce system to trial, our interviewees told us that abuse allegations can be valuable.
An important "slow" use of abuse allegations is in obtaining a favorable, and profitable, custody award. This becomes particularly important in the handful of jurisdictions that have 50/50 custody presumptions because domestic violence is a standard escape clause. From our Alaska chapter:
[About 7 years ago] a well-meaning legislator added a statutory exception [to the 50/50 custody presumption]. If a litigant can establish that she has been physically abused or the children have been sexually abused then she can obtain sole custody." Why does [Pam] Sullivan say "she"? "I have never seen a man try this." How about women? "Either there has been an epidemic of abuse in Alaska since this statute was amended or a lot of women are lying. In about 25 percent of the cases now the man is alleged to be a physical or sexual abuser." What kind of evidence does a woman need to prove that she or her children were abused? "Nothing beyond her word. The judge is able to find that her own testimony is credible. However, there is a trend toward skepticism. Judges can't help but notice the increase in allegations of physical and sexual abuse."
Also, in both fault and no-fault states, allegations that a plaintiff has suffered some sort of harm at the hands of the defendant are often used to justify demands for more alimony, larger child support payments, or a favorable division of property. Thus, according to the attorneys that we interviewed, the divorce courts in most states also function as tort venues with much lower standards of evidence. "If a woman is raped, she can go to the police and they will investigate and maybe the man will be convicted beyond a reasonable doubt after a jury trial where sworn witnesses give testimony and are cross-examined," one lawyer said, "or she could sue in a civil court for battery [a tort] and get money after a jury trial with witnesses testifying. These can be tough hurdles to clear. But in family court if she tells a convincing story, or if her lawyer darkly hints at some sort of story, she gets paid for her suffering."
"Essentially U.S. states are operating a tort compensation system in which there are no witnesses, no cross-examinations, no jury, and no right of appeal," noted one lawyer. "And the winner gets the children."
Indirect Abuse Allegations
A plaintiff trying to get millions of dollars is not necessarily the most credible witness. Are there other ways for attorneys to bring abuse allegations into the courtroom? A Minnesota attorney explained one common tactic: "She can go to a therapist and tell a story there that will enable the therapist to then come in and testify that the mother is an abused woman [based purely on what the therapist has heard in her office and without the therapist ever meeting the father]."
"A standard tactic is getting the defendant investigated as a child molester by DCF [Department of Children and Families]," noted a Massachusetts attorney. "In case the social workers don't play along, though, the plaintiff will want to be able to deny that she initiated the process. Attorneys therefore will let their clients know that physicians and psychologists are 'mandatory reporters' to DCF. So the mother lets an apparently sincere-sounding concern slip to the pediatrician. 'Little Amy acts funny after she comes back from weekends with Daddy and is always touching herself.' The pediatrician's report kicks off the DCF investigation. The divorce lawsuit defendant now finds that he is the target of a potential criminal sexual abuse investigation."
What good is that if the state agency can't confirm the allegations? "Just putting the guy through an investigation is good leverage in persuading him to settle the case in favor of the mother," responded the attorney. "If the case goes to trial, the plaintiff will disavow the DCF report and play innocent by saying that it was the pediatrician who made it, not her." Won't she have to admit on the witness stand that she did this to get a strategic advantage in her divorce lawsuit? "The father's lawyer can't ask her if she learned about using DCF as a litigation tactic from her attorney because that violates attorney-client privilege." We asked a DCF social worker to share her experience regarding whether women in multi-million dollar divorce lawsuits were prone to reporting the father for sexual abuse of the children. "They all do that," was her response. "We don't typically take the time to investigate once we learn that the person reporting the abuse has a large financial stake in the outcome."
"There is not much that a custody lawsuit defendant can do about reports to CPS (Child Protective Services) other than endure it," said a West Virginia litigator. "The process is anonymous and CPS is required to investigate every one. After 10 or 13 allegations the investigators are just going through the motions." What kinds of reports are typical? "People often report neglect, e.g., 'dirty house, dirty kids'."
One consequence of making reports to state agencies is that some of a plaintiff's litigation costs are shifted onto taxpayers who fund the salaries of social workers to investigate these claims. We couldn't find an authoritative source for the percentage of U.S. investigations of child abuse that are initiated by family court litigants. However, a Canadian Parliamentary "Report of the Special Joint Committee on Child Custody and Access" (December 1998) cites estimates ranging from 25-60 percent of the abuse investigation caseload for Canadian government agencies relates to divorce and custody litigation. How much of this time and effort was spent investigating actual abuse? "In June of 1996, executive at Winnipeg CFS [Child and Family Services] also admitted that only 15% of allegations made in divorce cases were likely true."
The Canadian child support formula make obtaining custody of a single properly planned child more lucrative than going to college and working. A false abuse allegation can be an important step to securing the cash. University of Ottawa professor Janice Fiamengo points out in our Rationale chapter that "even pretty decent people would be tempted by the rewards handed out." Recognizing that false allegations are costly to investigate, the report says "Members of this Committee hope that reducing conflict in divorce will reduce the incidence of intentional false allegations." Thus the committee proposed leaving in place the multi-million dollar cash rewards for "intentional false allegations," but hoped to reduce such allegations via a one-evening class.
Domestic Violence and Social Acceptance
A psychologist told us that "around the time of a divorce, women in bedroom suburbs where most houses are occupied by married couples will spread the word that they are being abused." What's the legal significance of neighborhood gossip? "She expects to get the house and stay in that community with the kids. It keeps the neighbors from asking whether she's having an affair or if she married for the money. Instead of being a gold digger or adulteress who broke up the children's home, she's a victim entitled to sympathy from neighbors."
Interaction with Immigration Law
“One of our au pairs wanted to get a green card and stay in the U.S., but her boyfriend was also a foreigner so it wouldn’t have worked to marry him,” said a friend in Massachusetts, the father of twins. "She convinced a young guy that she was in love with him and got him to marry her. Then she had the boyfriend punch her in the face. She showed the black eye to the police, got a restraining order against her husband, and had him kicked out of their house." How did he know? "I am the administrator of the shared family Windows machine so I was able to look at all of her email." How did that help her get a green card? "Her email included months of correspondence with divorce and immigration lawyers regarding the Violence Against Women Act. She’d researched a fast-track green card policy for abused women." (see http://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/battered-spouse-children-parents) Did it work? "She got the green card." (She later got a lucrative financial settlement from the husband after suing him for divorce.)
Legislative Tweaks
Not all legislative change has been in the direction of making it easier to prove domestic violence or getting more benefits from domestic violence allegations. California, for example, passed a law encouraging, but not requiring, judges to punish parents who make abuse allegations that the judge believes to be false. In theory, a false allegation could lead to reduced parenting time and therefore reduced child support payments. However, the attorneys that we interviewed said that these penalties were not, in fact, applied by judges.
A Troubled Marriage points to where advocates for domestic violence victims would like to take the system.
The book notes that changes have been driven by the changing beliefs and in-court testimony of psychologists regarding the question of "Why do women stay with abusive men?" In the 1960s and 70s the answer was "some women are masochists." In the 1980s and 90s the idea of "learned helplessness" took over, leading to an emphasis on legal remedies that would separate the man and woman, thus giving the woman the opportunity to build a new life without the abuser. When women falsified this theory by getting back together with the men they'd accused of abuse, a new theory was developed by "governance feminists" (as opposed to "equality" or "dominance" feminists) that women should have the ability to choose to stay with abusive men but get help from the legal system so as to discourage these men from continuing to abuse.
It is not only men who are unhappy with the current assembly-line domestic violence system in which judges try to figure out "who hit whom?" in 10-minute hearings. Goodmark:
Advocates for women subjected to abuse began to focus on control as the motivation behind men’s abuse early in the battered women’s movement. In the early 1980s, social work professor Susan Schechter coined the term “coercive control” to describe the constellation of behaviors used to restrain women’s liberty and monitor their behavior. Throughout the 1990s, sociologist Evan Stark refined the theory of coercive control, reconceptualizing the intention of abusive behavior and the role of abuse in control.
Economic control includes tactics like preventing women from working, taking and withholding women’s resources from them, dictating how money is spent, and requiring strict accountability when money is spent. … Men control their partners by interfering with, even terminating, their pregnancies. … Creating an unwanted pregnancy is another means of control. … Impairing a woman’s spiritual life, self, or well-being can be a form of abuse as well.
Based on the work of Stark and others, law professors Deborah Tuerkheimer and Alafair Burke have each proposed a new crime of domestic violence based on the concept of coercive control. Tuerkheimer’s crime of battering would require a finding that a perpetrator had intentionally engaged in a course of conduct that he knew or reasonably should have known would result in establishing substantial power and control over another. The course of conduct must involve two acts that are illegal under the criminal code. Tuerkheimer argues that defining the crime of battering in this way would enable judges and juries to consider the context in which the instant offense has occurred, allowing prosecutors to offer evidence of other kinds of abuse—emotional/psychological, economic, reproductive, spiritual—that are not criminal in order to establish the existence of coercive control within the relationship.
In a woman-centered system, abuse would be defined by the woman’s subjective experience of her partner’s behavior. In both the civil and criminal systems, the law would provide redress for women who experienced a loss of autonomy, liberty, or self-direction as a result of the actions of a partner, regardless of that partner’s intent and without requiring physical harm or the threat of physical harm as a predicate. In that framework, spiritual abuse or reproductive abuse would carry the same weight that physical abuse currently does, so long as a woman experiences a restraint on her liberty as a result of that abuse. Such a framework acknowledges both the complexity of women’s experiences of abuse and the importance of context in determining what constitutes abuse. Defining domestic violence around the woman’s experience would allow the legal system to move away from narrowly drawn categories of abuse toward a richer understanding of how myriad actions and omissions can constitute abuse. A woman-centered system, moreover, creates space for judges to explore how women’s intersecting identities affect their experiences of abuse.
Note that judges who identify as feminists may already be hearing cases informed by the above standards. At motion hearings attorneys can set the stage for trial by asserting that the man attempted to control the woman during the marriage and was continuing to attempt to control her during the litigation. At a trial, witnesses can testify regarding years-old recollections of behaviors, feelings, and motives, none of which involved physical violence but which a judge could use as the basis of a finding that a woman has been a victim of domestic violence and was therefore entitled to sole custody of children, for example.
If abuse allegations are the key to a successful divorce lawsuit, can we protect actual victims?
Attorneys whom we interviewed reported that the domestic violence prevention system often works wonderfully for divorce litigants making false claims. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for actual victims of domestic violence, whose complaints tend to be drowned out. A Troubled Marriage:
Judges question the ulterior motives of women bringing domestic violence cases—"they are often considered manipulators and liars intent on using the court to achieve some wrongful purpose, such as revenge or advantage in a divorce case." Judge Susan Scott of the Superior Court of New Jersey was uncommonly candid in discussing this problem. She admitted that it was difficult to discern which claims of domestic violence were true because the "word around the underground" was that domestic violence claims were fabricated to evict men from their homes using protective order statutes.
Liz Mandarano, a divorce lawyer with a self-described "feminist camp allegiance", wrote an April 13, 2011 Huffington Post article "The Worst Thing A Woman Can Do In Divorce Proceedings - The Abuse Of Orders of Protection":
it is also an unfortunate truth that because they are incredibly easy to obtain, orders of protection are misused, often against men. And this false practice clogs the system unnecessarily, preventing true victims from having their cases thoroughly examined and depleting victim-assistance resources.
There are between 2 and 3 million temporary restraining orders issued in the United States annually. Despite their huge impact on a person's emotional and financial well-being, in order to receive a temporary "stay away" order of protection, one needs only to allege that he or she "feels" threatened by their partner. There does not need to be any history of domestic violence whatsoever. There does not have to be an actual verbal threat of domestic violence either. Likewise, there does not need to be evidence of a major overt act, such as stalking or purchasing a weapon.
These orders are granted with barely any accountability as to the facts alleged, although they often include a "stay away" provision from minor children. When a false or exaggerated allegation results in a stay away order, many innocent men are suddenly tossed from their homes without any notice. Additionally, they face a sudden and profound financial stress-- they must quickly set up another residence to provide for their needs as well as to prove to a court that they have adequate provisions for future child visitations. Many rapidly find themselves having to pay for two households to avoid being accused of shirking their responsibilities. Furthermore, these men often have lost access to necessary legal and personal papers necessary to function or defend themselves. It is a well-known fact within the matrimonial legal community that many lawyers and their clients use these orders of protection to gain a strategic advantage over their spouse from which it is difficult to recover. And since no judge wants to be the one who "gets it wrong" leading to a tragic result, these orders are easily obtained.
It sets a precedent for custody. Joint custody is presumed. However, if a permanent order of protection is issued containing a finding of domestic abuse, that finding cannot later be disputed. As a result, in many jurisdictions, there is suddenly a rebuttable presumption that the victim should have legal custody. Also, the longer a parent's access to a child is limited, the less likely that person will be deemed the primary caregiver.
It creates a windfall for the attorneys. Once a stay away order is issued, the parties cannot communicate with each other. All communications must therefore be carried out via the parties' lawyers. As a result, there is a strong incentive for the less ethically minded lawyer to protract a legal battle by encouraging this tactic.
Attorney Mandarano makes a variety of practical suggestions for making the domestic violence system less tempting to false claimants. These include the following:
Because no judge likes to overrule herself, assign different judges to hear a temporary and permanent order of protection.
Concerned men who anticipate that their partner or spouse plans to misuse the system should tape record conversations.
Award attorneys' fees for motion practice to recoup personal property that is not timely released.
Require corroborating evidence for permanent stay away orders where there is no prior history of domestic violence and there is no allegation of actual physical harm.
Give the tort of "abuse of process" some teeth. This tort, rarely used or recognized, basically allows one party to sue another party who has abused a civil or criminal process, such as requesting an unfounded order of protection.
Note that some of Mandarano's proposed remedies amount to "patch a problem with litigation with more litigation." But advocates for domestic violence victims say that litigation itself further victimizes abused women. Men and their attorneys file motions that require the abused woman to keep coming back to court either during the divorce lawsuit or following it: "One of the ways men perpetrate domestic violence is stalking through family court," said Joy Silberg, a Baltimore-based Ph.D. clinical psychologist who specializes in treating abused children. "It is very difficult to prove to a judge that this use of family court is a coercive strategy." How do litigators see it? "A typical divorce lawsuit involves claims that most parents would want to defend against," one said. "The plaintiff is asking the judge to take away children, a house, money, and 30-70 percent of the defendant's income going forward. Most plaintiffs end up feeling abused by the system because the defendant doesn't simply hand over the children and write a check." Certainly our interviewees described divorces that stretched out for years and involved a dozen or more motion hearings even when the only issues were financial. It would seem that moving divorce out of the court system and into an administrative process, as has been done in some Scandinavian countries and as has been suggested by some of the litigators we interviewed, would reduce opportunities for abusive men to continue their abuse, because administrative processes tend to be much quicker and cheaper than litigated processes.
See the "Guide for Citizens and Legislators" chapter for a different attorney's idea of how to provide immediate separation and protection for domestic violence victims while also cutting the ties between the domestic violence process and the divorce, custody, and child support process. Her proposal is a no-fault system that would separate parents at either one's request and without a stated reason, but not give anyone a leg up in terms of possession of the house or custody of the children.
From a variety of attorneys in different jurisdictions we heard variations of the same statement: "The most effective way for a female plaintiff to kick off a divorce, custody, or child support lawsuit is to say 'After I told him that I wanted to leave, he threatened me and now I am afraid of him.'"
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Musical Guide to Islands by King Crimson £14.99
title: "Musical Guide to Islands by King Crimson"
author: Andrew Keeling
editor: Mark Graham
publisher: Spaceward
softcover 5x8 inches (13x20 centimeters), 228 pages
6 photographs, 150 musical examples and a score of Song of the Gulls
See sample here.
An informative, insightful guide to the secret mechanics that power the mysterious music of King Crimson. It is generously illustrated with photographs and musical notation diagrams. This is a scholastic yet accessible work. Andrew Keeling's credentials as composer and academic are impeccable. He holds a PhD from the University of Manchester and has works published by Faber in the UK and PRB in the USA. His musical compositions have been performed, recorded and broadcast throughout the world.
This guide takes you through all the complexities of the music, stripping away layer after layer to reveal the inner workings of the exquisite machinery of harmony, counterpoint and rhythm that, seemingly so effortlessly, come together to make Islands.
Islands was the outworking of interregnum-period King Crimson (1970), marking a return to 'live' work after a period of eighteen months following the breakup of the first band. The Islands band showcased material from 1970's In the Wake of Poseidon and Lizard, the music, as yet, unheard in a 'live' context. Also developed was new music - The Sailor's Tale, Ladies of the Road, Formentera Lady, The Letters and Islands - which became core repertoire. Islands proved to be another milestone for King Crimson and, at the same time, signified the end of the Robert Fripp/Peter Sinfield writing team.
"Dr. Keeling continues to inform my understanding of what these young men were doing." Robert Fripp.
This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 23 April, 2019.
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Why bet these MLB favorites when you can make money on these live underdogs?
Colts the NFL oddsmakers’ pick to win a compelling and competitive AFC South
College football bettors can benefit from these close conference championship races
Published by Ed Welch at August 6, 2019
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The MLB schedule is past the All-Star break and the trade deadline, with the World Series online odds calculator undergoing a bit of a shake up heading into August.
If you’re trying to get ahead of the markets and find some hidden value in the MLB futures, here are some favorites as well as some alternative bets that may hold better return at the end of the baseball season.
Odds to win American League East
Favorite: New York Yankees -10,000
The Yankees hold a tight grip on the AL East lead, bringing 73 wins into Tuesday’s action on the diamond. New York leads the majors in scoring with almost six runs per game, which has taken some of the pressure of a so-so pitching staff – besides a steady bullpen with the fifth-lowest ERA in the bigs. The Bronx Bombers are fantastic at home, with only 18 losses inside Yankee Stadium but play only 20 of their final 50 games in the Big Apple.
Alternative: Tampa Bay Rays +5,000
The Rays are nine games back of the Yankees in the division standings but there is still more than two months of baseball remaining before the playoffs. Tampa Bay has a much strong pitching staff, ranked second in collective ERA in the major leagues, and the offense has been hot since the All-Star break with an average of 5.3 runs per game. The Rays have an extremely easy schedule, currently on a run of 21 straight games versus clubs with records under .500. The staff will also have plenty of arms coming back from injury for a stretch run, including Cy Young winner Blake Snell.
Odds to win the American League Central
Favorite: Minnesota Twins -800
The Twins have a four-game cushion in the American League Central, which doesn’t seem like much considering the odds to win the division price them out so high. Minnesota is one of the best two-way teams in the majors, sitting second in scoring and sixth in pitching. Minnesota has 25 home games remaining but does run into the Cleveland Indians three more times before the end of the schedule, for a total of 10 games. The Twins are 5-4 versus their division rivals this season and those matchups will likely decide the AL Central.
Alternative: Cleveland Indians +500
The Indians have the pitching edge over the Twins, with a strong starting staff – ranked fourth in the majors – and the best bullpen in baseball, which touts a 3.24 ERA on the year. Cleveland has been even sharper since the All-Star break, with a collective 2.90 ERA – best in the bigs – heading into Tuesday. The Tribe needed some pop in the lineup and added sluggers Yasiel Puig from the Reds and Franmil Reyes from the Padres during the trade deadline. Those bats should have AL Central pitchers sweating on the mound in the final two months of the season.
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Blood and Roses: A Beauty and the Beast Fan-Fiction story. Epilogue.
By Avellina Balestri
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Epilogue: Show of Petals
The candles flickered in the silence of the halls, yet their swirling smoke whispered to each other that death had fallen on this place, that it lay moldering on the edges of fallen rose petals, that it sank deeper, deeper, with every hour that passed. And the ghosts of wolves howled at the mother moon, pregnant with potential.
They had come to gawk, those who had found them so entangled, the maid of the city and lord of the castle. They had marveled at them, gasped at his disfigurement, lamented her untimely undoing, and cursed the one who had sent a bullet through her, the jealous lover who hurtled himself beyond his own crushing guilt.
For mobs are cunning creatures, so very quick to project their own proclivity onto another, and thus free themselves of that which they should be facing. And now they wished to have blood for blood, to make up for the blood they would have shed, a monster’s blood they now saw belonged to a man, and yet one for whom they saw little cause to grieve.
What a hideous spectacle, this! What a waste of a young blossom’s devotion! But the dear always held strange notions in her pretty little head. She always dreamed of journeying far beyond where good little girls would ever dare to tread. But surely they are able to find sympathy to extend to their limp, embracing forms, and wrapped up as in a novel’s fantasy, the onlookers wish to transform their meaner thoughts through public offerings of mourning.
Yes, they will have a funeral, a fine funeral, with priest and all, after they are laid out in state for the night, the long night, and the wait for the dawn. They would gather and gossip, and shed tears over their casket. For they are dead now, and somehow it is easier to have empathy for the dead than the living. They are seemingly defanged and declawed. Their oddities and ugliness are alike laid to rest and silenced with their cold hearts. There is a certain sense of safety and superiority in weeping over the coffins of the dead, if the tears are all-too-easily dried.
But the rose waited in the shadows after their departure, and her petals waited through the night. For though the villagers had gone to wreak their wrath upon the killer, her spirit was a patient one, listening to the ticking clock that mourns, and the candle holder than trembles, and the dovelike feather duster that lay down her wings to die. She waited; though this night felt like a hundred years, she waited. She waited…for the groan of the great doors…
For the only one who could truly hold vigil had come. There was a scratching of cane against floor, of legs being dragged limply, of body supported by another. He should not have come, the other says, should not have come. He has been injured beyond repair, he should not have come…
But Gaston was there nevertheless, leaning on the faithful LeFou for support. The villagers would never have expected him to venture out to this place, and even they were too exhausted by the events of the past two days to continue their howling outside his house. And so they had slipped out. LeFou had tried to persuade him against it, tried to warn him it was too much of a strain on him, that the doctors had warned him against stretching that thin thread of life already so taut.
And yet the crippled hunter would have none of it. No, no, now that he was here, he intended to remain. With every effort at being dragged forward, he was more set upon his course, the only way it could be. Soon he was in front of the corpses, down on his shattered knees, forcing his injured spine to hold him up before the casket. He clutched it hard with both hands, feeling the smooth wood along the border, and the smooth material lining it. He reached farther, deeper, and felt the cold smoothness of her hand with his own. It chilled him, chilled him down to the broken place of his bones, the empty, split, surrender of it all…
And he fell down, his hands braced against the floor.
“Je suis profundement desole…” he whispered into the dark. “And I did not even say goodbye…”
He turned and saw beside the coffin a small glass orb, and within was a shriveled stem and drying rose petals scattered beneath it. He knew in that moment he had to have them.
Slowly, he started to force himself up. LeFou started forward to him, but Gaston waved him back. “I must…do this…I must face this…alone…”
Up, up he rose, on his elbows, on his knees, with burning pain running like fire up a bent spine, up and down his twisted back. And out he reached…he reached to the farthest extent of himself, a place which he had never before visited. Perhaps, for all his courage on the field, he had always feared it most. But now he braved it, and felt himself melting away in the white-hot extremity of it. He had been driven to the edge, to the brink, like a rushing rapids pouring over the falls.
He touched the glass, and edged it upwards, inch by inch, until it finally tipped and rolled over onto its side. Then it tumbled, and fell, and shattered on the floor. And yet the rose petals were his now, all his…to let go…
He scooped up the petals in his hands, once stained red, and felt their remaining softness against his fingers, akin to the softness of her death-chilled skin. The dead edges crumbled away, and only purest of velvet remained. He would give them to her now, his final gift…
And so Gaston scattered them openly, and the pain shot through his arm as he released them over the dead, and he fell, face flat to the floor. And in that moment, that last melting moment in time, he knew he himself had shattered. And he knew intuitively they were no ordinary petals. There was a shimmering dance as the petals came to life and his own soul took flight from him.
He was not there to see the first stirrings of the dawn piercing through the room’s stained-glass window, nor the chiming of the clock in the vacuum of time starting again, nor the breathing, at first imperceptible, within two breasts, and the wounds that healed, and the eyes that opened.
But LeFou saw, and was awed, and was grieved, and held the fallen soldier in his arms.
“Adieu, au revoir, mon ami…”
Time rolled on and away. Many changes came and went with the rustling of the wind, yet some things remained steadily the same.
Each week, two roses placed on the grave of Gaston in the old churchyard. One was blood red, brought by the lady of the high castle, now married to her Marquis. She also brought life and learning back to the lonely halls and even into the backward village. The castle doors were opened, and the people given use of the precious treasures contained within the humungous, long-hoarded library.
Parties once more took place within the castle walls, and where people might once have remarked upon the Marquis’ selfishness, they now commented on his unbounded hospitality. The scar on his face seemed to recede from people’s minds the more they saw him smile. They said he made an admirably loving husband to his wife, and father to his growing brood of children.
Yet for all the fresh excitement in her life, Belle never forgot to attend the grave of the hunter from the village who had once desired her more than life.
The second rose placed there each week was from a prominent tailor in the village. It was white, like snow clouds blooming in winter-blue sky, and grew fresh beneath the shop which had brought so many customers into town in recent years. He made fine gowns for ladies and fine frocks for the gentlemen, and many, many fine parasols to accompany the outfits. With the patronage of the Marquis, the people began to respect him and his talent more than they ever had, and the prosperity he brought did nothing to hurt that, either.
Yet he never did forget his Gaston. He could never forget him, try as he might sometimes, try as he meant to move on and away. He knew the devotion in his heart would remain there through the years. It was knit into him as deep as the flow of his blood, and as deep as the roots of roses.
Avellina Balestri (aka Rosaria Marie) is one of the founding members and the Editor-in-Chief of The Fellowship of the King, a literary magazine with a strong Tolkienite influence (which, by the way, is open to submissions). She reads and writes extensively, and eagerly seeks out the deeper spiritual significance of popular fandoms such as The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, Star Trek, Star Wars, and The Hunger Games. And yes, she does have a soft spot in her heart for classic Disney movies, The Princess Bride, and Merlin 😉 She is also a recording artist, singing traditional folk songs and her own compositions as well as playing the penny whistle and bodhran drum. She draws her inspiration from the Ultimate Love and Source of Creativity, and hopes to share that love and creativity with others.
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Anderson Lake State Park is a remote marine day-use park of cedar, fir and alder forest mixed with freshwater marshes. Surrounded by 410 wooded and wetland acres, the park slopes down to the 70-acre Anderson Lake and abounds with birds and wildlife. This remote, forested day-use park is surrounded by 410 wooded and wetland acres. Set on a lake, the park is abundant with fish, birds and wildlife.
The park combines freshwater marshes with cedar, fir and alder forests.
Prior to becoming a state park, Anderson Lake was owned by William F. Anderson, who used the land around it to graze his cattle. Curiously, the lake was not named for him or anyone in his family. William Anderson purchased the property in 1947 from Amanda Anderson, who, though not a relative, shared his last name. Anderson Lake was named for one of her ancestors.
Watercraft launch site reopens the last Saturday in April.
There is one boat ramp (for boats with electric motors only). Be advised lake water is 25 feet at its deepest spot.
A daily permit is available for watercraft launching at the park.
The park is open seasonally for lowland fishing of trout (last Saturday in April to August 31). Catch and release only is permitted September through October.
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The park has several picnic tables along the lake shore. No public water is available. Two vault toilets and equestrian trailer parking with hitching posts are avaliable within the park.
The park is open seasonally for lowland fishing of trout last Saturday in April to August 31. Catch and release only is permitted September through October.
March 25 Water quality?? by Matu421
What is up with this lake? I have been a resident of Jefferson county for over 30 years and it has been the since the state took over that the water quality has taken a nose dive!! Why is no one doing anything about it? I know that there are natural ways to deal with the issues in that lake, not to mention the aerator! Here is a natural way to deal with the milfoil in the lake; http://enviroscienceinc.com/the-milfoil-weevil/ . May be the state should turn it back over to a private owner who will do what needs to be done there! Then maybe I would be willing to spend money to fish there, I miss this lake, but will not take my family there until something gets done!
September 14 nice place for a short day ride/hike
The trails are nice, parking is nice,good place for a beginner horse rider as the trails are easy to navigate and the scenery was nice.
November 2 algae bloom
Wondering if the lake will open next April. Has been closed for a long time. Thank you. Anderson Lake in Jefferson County
Located on the Olympic Peninsula, eight miles south of Port Townsend, Wash. in Jefferson County.
From Port Townsend:Take SR 20 south for 6.7 miles, then turn east on Anderson Lake Rd. Proceed 1.1 miles to park entrance.
From Hwy. 101 heading north:At Discovery Bay, turn right onto Hwy. 20. Go 3.7 miles to Anderson Lake Rd., and turn right. Follow this road for 1.1 miles, and turn left into park entrance.
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Punjab government approves Ludhiana metro project
June 22nd, 2011 - 9:28 pm ICT by IANS Tweet
Chandigarh, June 22 (IANS) The Punjab cabinet Wednesday approved the detailed project report (DPR) for the proposed Ludhiana Metro Rail project, a state government spokesman said here Wednesday.
The cabinet also gave its nod for the execution of the metro project in the Public- Private Partnership (PPP) or Build Operate Transfer (BOT) model.
The DPR, prepared by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), was placed before the cabinet at its meeting held here. Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal chaired the meeting.
The Punjab government had signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the DMRC for the Ludhiana Metro project in October 2007.
The state government had, at that time, claimed that the DPR would be prepared and submitted by DMRC within six months. The project’s first phase, proposed to be 25 km long, was estimated to cost Rs 3,000 crore at that time.
DMRC Managing Director E. Sreedharan had then said that the Ludhiana metro would have a capacity of carrying 4.8 lakh people daily.
However, the DPR has been submitted and approved only at the fag end of the present tenure of the Badal-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government.
Punjab goes for assembly elections in February-March next year.
Ludhiana, the biggest industrial and commercial city of Punjab, faces numerous problems due to traffic congestion and pollution. With vehicle density being one of the highest in the country, roads in the city remain clogged most of the time.
The city, located 110 km from here, is referred to as the ‘Manchester of Asia’ and has a population of over 3.5 million.
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Facebook’s New Headquarters To Use Solar Power
by Mandy Adwell on 11/11/2011
in Business, Technology
Facebook has been under a heap of scrutiny for using mainly coal-fired power for its data centers. Now the world’s largest social networking site has announced a plan to utilize more renewable energy to partly power its corporate headquarters.
The company has also informed the public that power for the newest data center will come from several sources, including renewables, and will be one of the most energy efficient centers in the world.
Facebook’s headquarters will utilize solar power for hot water generation and electricity, created by a 24-module system built by Cogenra Solar. It will sit on the roof of Faceboook’s 10,000 square foot fitness center. It will provide hot water for showers and power exercise machines.
According to SF Gate, this is how the operation will work:
“Cogenra’s technology is designed to use energy that other solar set-ups waste. Photovoltaic panels absorb a small fraction of the energy the sun throws at them, typically 15 to 20 percent. The rest is wasted as heat. Cogenra arrays, however, run fluid-filled tubes behind the solar cells, with the fluid absorbing some of the heat cast off by the cells. The fluid – a chemical compound kept in a sealed loop – then transfers the heat to water. Curved troughs of mirrors concentrate sunlight on the cells, while motors keep the troughs pointed at the sun as it arcs across the sky.“
The system will only generate about 10 kilowatts of electricity and 50 kilwatts of thermal energy, a small number compared to the large scale of Facebook’s overall operations. However, John Tenanes, Facebook director of global facilities, says the company will likely expand the system over time, using the hot water system in the headquarters’ cafes and other establishments.
This sounds like the beginning of a larger investment in renewable energy on Facebook’s part. Since the company is now large, here’s to hoping that is going to be the case.
Via Gigoam
Image: Cogenra Solar
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by Adela Suliman | @adela_suliman
Friday, 10 August 2018 17:12 BST
SoftBank's human-like robot named "Pepper" performs to welcome as a concierge at an entrance of Mizuho Financial Group's Mizuho bank branch in Tokyo, Japan, July 17, 2015. REUTERS/Yuya Shino
Tokyo leapfrogged London and New York after embracing robotics and 3D manufacturing
By Adela Suliman
LONDON - Tokyo topped a list of the world's most innovative cities on Friday, leapfrogging London and New York after embracing the "globe-shaking trends of robotics and 3D manufacturing".
The Japanese capital has risen rapidly since entering the top 10 of the Innovation Cities Index three years ago behind Paris, and was one of three Asian cities to feature this year.
"What really surprised us this year was the resurgence of Tokyo, moving up to eclipse rival cities like Boston," said Christopher Hire, director of commercial data provider 2thinknow, which publishes the annual ranking.
"They showed clear direction by embracing smart technology change to lead innovation and leadership in what we have identified as the twin long-term globe-shaking trends of robotics and 3D manufacturing."
Singapore, Sydney and Seoul also ranked highly in the index, which judges cities on 162 indicators including web censorship, wealth distribution and the potential for green businesses.
San Francisco and New York both made the top five, while smaller U.S. cities such as San Diego, Portland and Oakland featured highly, demonstrating their attractiveness to tech companies priced out of the San Francisco Bay Area.
"We found on a population-adjusted basis many small cities are punching above their weight. It's the year of big cities with physical networks and small cities with digital networks," said Hire in a statement.
London ranked second after losing the top spot to Tokyo as Europe lost ground, scoring fewer cities in the top 100 than in previous years.
Japan has built a reputation as an early adopter of new technologies.
It recently launched facial recognition technology ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and has invested in artificial intelligence for vehicles, hospitals and financial services.
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What I Learned from a Social Media Detox
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I went on a social media detox. Initially my detox was intended for 30 days. But when I dropped my phone (again), this time I really damaged it and needed a new one. When the data transferred over, my social media apps didn’t. 3 weeks went to 4. 5 weeks went to 6, then 7, then 8. This is what I learned in the 60 days.
Weeks 1 & 2:
The beginning was bizarre. I found myself picking up my phone for no apparent reason. Initially I felt like I was punishing myself. I wondered what my friends were doing and what my colleagues were posting. I experienced guilt that I was not commenting or sharing posts from people in my circle. From a business perspective, I felt irresponsible that I was not responding to comments on my posts that were prescheduled with a social media management tool. My posts were still going up on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn, and my anxiety increased that the algorithms were being affected by inactivity. I admit that I found myself taking a quick sneak peak at my notifications and scrolling through pictures, but I quickly closed the window when I felt like I was somehow cheating.
My morning ritual used to be that I would scroll through feeds and click on notifications. Once I went through the initial stage of withdrawl, I found myself using that time to meditate and visualize what I wanted my day to look like. When the kids woke up, I was in a better mental state, ready to tackle my day. My absence from social media became easier. This is when I dropped my phone and didn’t bother putting the apps back on. I admit that there were times where I enjoyed social times with friends, but taking our pictures and posting them was no longer a priority. I valued the time with them and didn’t need to post about it.
Week 5 & 6:
People reached out saying, “Gaby, why have you been so quiet?” I had many reasons, too many to list. Ultimately, I needed to focus on my family, my health and unfinished projects. I felt that social media was taking away precious time that I needed to complete my objectives. I made the decision to take the hiatus for my well being and I was finally gaining momentum in my life. I was starting to make progress and my attention span was increasing. Living with a disability can be very challenging at times, but I finally felt like I could focus.
By now, I was able to regain my positive mental state. I completed projects that were lingering and planned for new ones. I was able to keep a clear head and operate at full capacity for my children. I didn’t miss the spammers, complainers or inappropriate posts. I did however miss the community and connection. Being part of a social connection can lower anxiety and help us regulate our emotions and improve psychological well-being.
I apologize to my friends and network for being absent in your exciting posts. I have recalibrated and am slowly making time to be online again. I admit that I couldn’t help to enjoy how much more productive I was.
There was a time where I went through an overwhelming feeling of needing to post pictures within a day of the event and causing myself to be stressed. I ask myself now, but why? I can still post the pictures, but on my schedule. So, if you see images from an event you joined me in several months ago, you will be reminded of how much fun we had. (and thank you for understanding on the late post!)
I no longer feel the urge to be constantly tapped in. I have turned off my notifications and ensure that I hop on social media when time permits, and my daily objectives have been achieved. If you decide to take your own social media detox, I am optimistic that you will experience a greater outlook on how you will manage your time and declutter your mind. I feel grateful that I was able to take this break as it gave me extreme clarity and the ability to manage my time better.
What made me return to social media? I actually think that social media is a good thing. In my case, in moderation. I want to log on when I want to, on my own time, on my own schedule. Control your social media efforts, not the other way around.
Blog submitted by: Gaby Mammone
Gaby is an award-winning business executive recognized as an advocacy leader in the charitable and not-for-profit sectors. She writes blogs and hosts workshops in the topics of inclusion, acceptance and communication. Gaby is the Past President at City Centre Toastmasters, Club 6288.
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Letting Your Voice Be Heard by Bob Turel, DTM
I am in a situation that allows me to be a different kind of Toastmaster. One that participates silently through serving other TMs remotely, which is necessitated by my medical condition. I was diagnosed with ALS, which has curtailed my ability to speak. However, it has not hampered my competency to see, hear, feel, and type. These capabilities allow me to participate as a Toastmaster in a different manner. Specifically, it enables me to view videoed speeches with the intent to provide supplemental feedback to the presenter. Essentially, I'm advocating the importance of seeing what one's feedback is referring to so adjustments can be meaningful. I am asking Toastmasters to consider videoing speeches, for remote evaluations offered by a slightly hobbled Toastmaster who can still deliver constructive feedback.
For as long as I am physically able, I would love to participate in my fellow Toastmasters' growth & development as communicators and leaders. Videoing speeches can be a brave new world for many, but, as we know from being Toastmasters, trying something new, that makes sense, can only offer enhanced learning and progress. If you are interested in how the process works, please send an email to bob.turel@gmail.com.
Bob Turel, DTM - District 48
Members Making a Difference and Distinguished Toastmasters
On November 23 2019, District 86 honoured all it’s Of The Year Award winners. We had an amazing night of celebration recognizing the successes of our leaders and members from the 2018-2019 Toastmaster year. In addition to the Of The Year Awrds we also recognized Members Making A Difference, Distinguished Toastmasters and Directors who's areas and Divisions received Distinguished status.
Members Making a Difference Awards
Starting from the left: Ken KlunderACG, ALB | Dennis Bartel, DTM | Gaby Mammone ACB, CL, PM4 | Louisa Steele, DTM | Tuula Redditt, DTM
High fives went around the room with so many Distinguished Toastmasters being recognized, Congratulations!
Check all these Distinguished Directors representing Distinguished Areas and Divisions for 2018-2019
Congratulations to all these inspiring members!
Of The Year Awards 2018-2019
On November 23 2019, District 86 honoured all it’s Of The Year Award winners. We had an amazing night of celebration recognizing the successes of our leaders and members from the 2018-2019 Toastmaster year.
This year we had many nominees, I would like to identify each nominee before naming the winners of each category:
Alvin Abawan | Aurie Contosta | Brian Patton | Cal Lockhart | Candu Toastmasters | Cindy Tate | Confidentially Speaking TM | Deridor Collier | Felicia Ketcheson | Firdaus Walele | Grant Bouchard | Halton Hills TM | Leslie Benfield | Margaret Waechter | Matthew Ogbulafor | Nancy Movrin | Peter Day | Ram Lakhanpal | Shamela Shah | Tim Douglin | Tuula Redditt | Vasu Desikachary
District Publicist of the Year – Matthew Ogbulafor
Our District Publicist of the Year award celebrates the individual who made the biggest impact in helping promote Toastmasters in the community. Public Relations is challenging for some people and this year we were blessed with a wide range of novel ideas. We had clubs reaching out to their local media, we had several cities recognize Toastmasters Month and so much more. Matthew Ogbulafor has helped the District is a wide array of formats. Heplayed an integral part in Emailing all District members, was responsible for the distribution of the Newsletter, was a key coordinator in arranging the interview and subsequent promotion of the video of our International 1st Vice President Richard Peck DTM, managed some of our social media content on Facebook, and created 8 Press Releases and distributed them to the media.
Club Coach of the Year – Ram Lakhanpal
Our Club Coach of the Year submissions this year were amazing. I was amazed at how many awesome people were submitted. It makes me feel all warm inside knowing we have so many great coaches supporting our clubs. This year, club coaches were asked to submit a club recovery plan so that the Club Growth Director knew the coach and club were a good match and had a plan to achieve success. Ram Lakhanpal identified that new members needed a 10-step plan to their success in Toastmasters provided to them on the first day of membership, that additional Pathways support was needed, there were several opportunities to promote the club in the community using posters, Facebook, Meetup, as well as identifying many different little ways the club could take things they were doing to the next level. Evidently, they succeeded. Seven different club members with many of them being new achieved multiple educational awards, the club added 12 new members, the club achieved President’s Distinguished status, its club officers were trained in both rounds of training, hosted workshops on Pathways, Evaluations, Member Engagement, Motivating People, Meeting Roles, and Beginning Meetings with a Bang. Wow it made me out of breath just saying all this when I presented the award.
Club President of the Year – Leslie Benfield
Leslie Benfield left me breathless with everything he has achieved. He has helped take their club to new heights. This club has 80% of its members enrolled in Pathways now, grew its membership by 18%, and has been promoted in many unique ways to promote its presence and establish relationships with clubs in many different locations in order to learn and adopt as many best practices as possible. Leslie earned seven educational awards on his own, coached a club to success, travelled all over to promote his club including Kitchener, Sudbury, Ottawa, Miami, Chicago, Dominican Republic, Georgetown in Guyana, was on television, attended multiple marketing expos, multiple contests, District 86 conference, the International Convention in Chicago, created a Gavel Club, the list could go on. Most importantly, Leslie led his club to President’s Distinguished status for the first time in the Chez Nous Toastmasters club history.
Area Director of the Year – Aurie Contosta (Area 44)
Aurie Contosta can be summarized in many different ways-a ray of sunshine, the Energizer Bunny, and someone who is always on the go. She has taken the role of supporting her clubs and Division to a whole extra level. The Area grew its membership by 3%, has 67% of its officers enrolled in Pathways, found a corporate sponsor for their Division’s Marketing Expo, provided an extra level of support to their fellow Area Directors, and supported their clubs so well that for the first time their area had two President’s Distinguished Clubs and one Distinguished Club. Additionally, she demonstrated the value of Toastmasters by earning 5 different educational awards, being a member of 3 different clubs-one of which is a French club, serving as a club officer in two of her clubs, , serving as a club coach, and more. Aurie enjoyed her Area Director role so much, she’s stepped up and is now serving as a Division Director.
Division Director of the Year – Cindy Tate (Division B)
Cindy Tate can be described as always willing to help and go the extra 100 miles to support her team. She had substantial Pathways support amongst her Division Leadership with 55 % of the club officers and members enrolled, earned two levels in two different paths herself, had several Area Directors earn levels in Pathways, had substantial Area Director Representation at all District Executive Council meetings and Division Council meetings, led 5 of 7 Area Directors to achieve Distinguished or better status, hosted the most successful Marketing Expo in District 86 as Division B’s was the only one to have many guests, served as a successful club coach, supported the oh-so-close creation of a club that added 21 new members to other clubs, created a second corporate club at their company that charted a few weeks late due to a few key individuals being on vacation, served as Assistant Area Director to one of their Area Directors going thru some very serious medical treatments, mentored members across 4 different clubs, is a member of 3 different clubs, had 21 clubs achieve Distinguished Status or better, and did all this while also serving as the District Alignment Chair where she also contributed well over 100 hours of service in addition to being the Division Director.
Toastmaster of the Year – Tuula Redditt
Tuula Redditt is always seen with a smile on her face and extending a helping hand. Tuula has shown dedication and leadership in regards to membership, education, and leadership. She has developed membership by providing workshops for their club Speak to Inspire, conducting membership building campaigns, sponsoring 3 new members, and supporting the marketing expo initiative throughout the District. In terms of education she has helped develop it throughout the District by providing club officer training, coordinating three different Speechcraft Programs, a Youth Leadership Program, volunteering at club, area and Division contests, She earned 3 different levels in the Pathway program, and facilitating communication of all District education communication on the website. Tuula has served as a strong leader throughout the District by serving as a vital part of the District PR team last year as an assistant to the Public Relations Manager, serving on the Conference Committee, serving as a mentor and coach to multiple Area Directors in her Division, serving as a club officer, and mentoring 5 different members. In terms of public relations, she is immensely valuable. Tuula served as the Blog & Newsletter editor for her club and the District, served as the graphics coordinator for all District created materials for contests, business cards, the Go for Bold program, website banners and modules, and more. In addition she helped promote the District through her local Rotary club, her local Senior’s Center, and her local YMCA. Over and above all this, she went far beyond her own boundaries and learned how to help manage the District website so she could make updates to various forms, the District calendar, banners, modules, events, and more. When I presented the award, I was out of breath just thinking, never mind saying how Tuula Redditt has influenced people throughout our District.
Club of the Year Awards
For Club of the Year for District 86, this award is split into three categories – Membership Leadership, Education Leadership, and Overall Club of the Year. This award is based solely on the total number of points and we had fantastic candidates this year.
Membership Leadership Award – Halton Hills Toastmasters Club
Our Membership Leadership Award recognizes overall membership growth and retention, District Support, Membership Years of Service, Community Programs, and Club Officer Training. Halton Hills has 11 members with 3 or more years of membership, 21 new members, two members served on the District Executive and on District Committees, one member served as a Club Coach and had all its club officers trained in both Phase 1 and Phase 2.
Education Leadership Award – Candu Toastmasters Club
Our Education Leadership Award recognizes overall Education Achievement in terms of the number of awards by combining the total number of awards in the Legacy and the Pathways programs. Candu had 26 awards last year between the Legacy and the Pathways programs with 21 of them coming from Pathways. They are a true leader in the adoption of the new Toastmasters Education program.
Club of the Year – Confidentially Speaking Toastmasters Club
Our Overall Club of the Year recognizes achievement in both the Membership and Education categories. This is the third time that Confidentially Speaking has earned this award and this year they earned 40 awards between the Legacy and the Pathways programs and they are a club that believes in maintaining its members with 18 having three or more years of membership and they also had 40 new members. They also had all seven club officers trained in both Phase 1 and Phase 2.
How To Become A Conference Sponsor
An excellent way to gain exposure for your organization and support Toastmasters
Would you like a chance to get your direct message to a group of influential Business, Financial and Education leaders?
Toastmasters International is a world leader in communication and leadership development. Our membership is 358,000 strong with members attending 16,800 clubs in 143 countries. Globally, Toastmasters network in clubs located in Business, Financial, and Educational organizations and in communities. It’s no wonder so many Fortune 500 companies have Toastmasters clubs!
Toastmasters has been active in Ontario for over 60 years. In particular, District 86 works with like-minded organizations to help build vibrant communities through better leadership. We hold one conference a year that highlights our Communication and Leadership Program. Consider sponsoring our conference events and help us empower individuals to become more effective Communicators and Leaders.
The Toastmasters Brand attracts talent. Members are above average income earners (27% make $100,000 or more) with above average education (78% have a Bachelor degree, 39% have a Masters degree). Our members serve their communities and workplaces by providing training, workshops, and keynotes. Countless business leaders have benefitted from the Toastmasters program since its inception in 1924.
There are many levels of sponsorship from Corporate sponsorship of members to attend the conference to Business sponsorships to boost your business and network. More information is available on the below downloadable links:
Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner Sponsorship >>
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Program Ad specifications >>
For more information on how to become a sponsor contact Carl J Naus, D86 Spring Conference Sponsorship Chair
The Conference Experience by Carl J Naus
Are you getting the most from Toastmasters?
You can get added value by attending the District’s Conference where we come together to compete, learn, network and socialize. You will see inspiring keynote speakers, learn through educational workshops and experience fantastic speech contests. (The speech contest may inspire you to step out of your comfort zone and compete yourself). You will learn from each other's best practices and how to enhance your club experience (practical ideas that you can take back to your club). Corporations can sponsor their members who will be invigorated by the great speakers they will see. Personally, I have attended over 10 Conferences and have always enjoyed myself. I have gained so much from the workshops and have been inspired to become a better speaker.
The Conference is at the Hilton Meadowvale April 24-April 26, 2020 and is valued at $299.00 until Dec 31 when prices will rise!
Register NOW! >>>
Find out more about becoming a sponsor HERE>>>
Carl J Naus
District 86 Spring Conference Sponsorship Chair
D86 Douglas Barclay Award 2019-2020
The Douglas Barclay Award is given annually to a Past District Officer who continues to exemplify Toastmasters values of integrity, respect, service & excellence and for their contributions and continued service as well as promotion of Toastmasters to the outside community.
The Douglas Barclay Award committee is made up of past recipients. The award began in 2009 after the split of District 60. Past recipients are:
2019 Tony Bratschitsch, DTM PDG
2018 Carol Dowell, DTM PDG
2017 Karim Premji, DTM
2016 Avis Brodie, DTM PDG
2015 John MacDonald, DTM PDG
2014 Eric Solowka, DTM
2013 Doreen Hillier, DTM PDG
2012 Eva Britton, DTM
2011 Joan Binetti, DTM PDG
2010 Isabel Hershaw, DTM
2009 Jean McAllister, DTM PDG
Each Club in good standing is entitled to nominate one member in good standing that continues to demonstrate our Toastmasters values and who meets most of the criteria. The nominee must agree to attend the Spring Conference (Full or Option 2), and the recipient must be present to receive the award.
Download the following application for more detailed information
D86 Douglas Barclay Award Recipient 2018-2019
Tony Bratschitsch, DTM is the most recent recipient of the Douglas Barclay Award. He is a Past District Governor (2013-2014) in which District 86 achieved Distinguished District status. As well, for over ten years, Tony has been very active in the community as a volunteer. Some of his experiences are:
The Royal Canadian Legion was created by an Act of Parliament two years after the founding of Toastmasters. The Legion has official responsibilities for supporting veterans and their families and in honouring Remembrance of the men and women who served, suffered and died doing their duty to our country.
Tony Bratschitsch has been a member of the Legion for twelve years and he has been the Dundas Branch's Chair of the Youth Education program for six years. Tony has been a member of the Branch's executive for five years. He is also a member of the Colour Party which is always front and centre of any Remembrance or other Legion public activity. His participation in the Legion is related to that of Toastmasters because the two organizations in the Town of Dundas have supported each other in many ways.
Tony was asked to be the Chair of the Youth Education program because he was a Toastmaster. During his duration as Chair, Tony has promoted the venerable Annual Poster & Literary Contest to the students and schools in the Dundas, Ancaster and West Hamilton area. This was something that he experimented with by trying different techniques in getting the Grade 1 - 12 students involved and excited about participating in the contests with their poems, essays and posters.
The way it's turned out, unknown to Tony at the beginning, is that he got involved, because he was a Toastmaster, the following has developed:
more students, teachers and their families got involved
many more students blossomed with recognition for their submissions
He had to make different types of presentations to the students
sometimes as many as eight in one day in individual classes
sometimes if front of large assemblies of approximately 650 people
uniquely, at one exceptional family's home (home-taught students) for five straight years. Their mother recently told Tony that her kids no longer consider him as "the Legion guy" but as "their friend" - a very high compliment presentations made at Legion award ceremonies
Tony came home one day and found himself on the front cover of the Dundas Star. This is just one of many media news releases that the local newspapers have provided. Three years before, the Ancaster News posted another separate picture of Tony with students on its front page.
Of the seven Legion Branches in our Zone (Hamilton, Burlington, Dundas, Stoney Creek), Tony's Branch students win 70% of the awards, consistently.
Mohawk College
Eleven years ago, Tony was contacted by a professor at Mohawk College to provide a 45-minute presentation on public speaking. Since then, members of his club, Valley Town Toastmasters, have made such presentations every year - except for the year of the provincial strike - in which they also heavily promoted the Toastmaster program. One year, Tony and his club members made nine separate presentations at Mohawk. This past February, Tony and two more members presented to a packed-room audience of 73 students. Over the years, Tony had personally received plenty of "thank you notes" from students. One of his newer neighbors was a student in one of the presentations five years ago and she clearly remembered Tony and Toastmasters.
Air Cadets
Ten years ago, Tony was referred to the Southern Ontario Air Cadet organization because he was a Toastmaster. Since then, every year near the end of April, local Toastmasters have been judging their annual debates at Mohawk College. Last April, Tony was recognized by the Chief Judge in front of 30 other judges for his contributions. There is a photo of Toastmasters posing with Air Cadets attached to this email.
Cactus Festival Parades
In 2008, Tony initiated his club's participation in the annual Cactus Festival Parade during August in Dundas. Other local clubs have supported this initiative as well. This has brought great awareness of the Toastmaster program in the area and members have learned over the years that some people joined various clubs because they saw Toastmasters in the parade. There is a photo from the most recent parade attached.
Arthritis Society of Canada
Eleven years ago, a coordinator from the Arthritis Society of Canada sent emails to local Toastmaster clubs looking for volunteer presenters. Since then, Tony has done approximately 30 two-hour presentations on managing chronic pain. In 2015, he received the Ontario Provincial award for excellence (see the photo of him with the bouquet and trophy with the young lady). A few years ago, the Society's HQ asked for Tony, the "Toastmaster", to be the MC at a local fundraising walkathon.
Hamilton SMOG Hockey Team
This may appear to be unrelated, however, it was significant for older hockey players. As captain of the Hamilton SMOG, Tony facilitated co-ed (male and female) participation in a men's league. One year, his team won a tournament in Newmarket with a good mix. See the two photos. Activities like this are important to "social" improvement.
Young Taiwanese Merchants Association
This is one of Tony's favourite stories. At the last minute, he was "promoted" to be the primary keynote speaker at a conference for the Young Taiwanese Merchants Association of Toronto. Instead of presenting to a smaller group in a classroom, Tony made a longer presentation on "Overcoming the barriers to multi-cultural communication" in a large ballroom in front of 160 attendees, television, radio and newspaper crews. There is a photo of a newspaper article in a Chinese newspaper attached. Tony was also personally interviewed on the radio.
Over the years, Tony has also made presentations to the City of Hamilton Health Unit (6), Free Masons of Hamilton and the Women's Institute of Canada. He has also been called upon to provide advice on many speech contests and debating activities by volunteer organizations.
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HASCON 2017 to host debut of new Stretch Armstrong and Littlest Pet Shop shows
Are you going to be in the Providence, Rhode Island area over the weekend of September 8-10th? If so, it might be worth your while to visit HASCON, Hasbro’s first convention. The company is promising loads of neat events, including panel discussions with toys designers, show runners and comic creators, Magic: The Gathering tournaments, performances from musical acts like Flo Rida, meet and greets with voice actors, and a whole lot more. One of the cooler things to go do is visit the panels where you’ll see some of Hasbro Studios’ future animated series. HASCON will host the first public debut of two re-imagined classics.
On Saturday at 11AM in the FANmily Stage Room, attendees will get a glimpse at the all-new Littlest Pet Shop animated series:
Totally paw-some! Come get a sneak peek of Paw-Tucket, the brand NEW world of Littlest Pet Shop! Be the first group of fans to see a full episode of the new series launching in 2018, Littlest Pet Shop, and stay for a chance to have your questions answered. Ever wondered who comes up with all the pet names? Just exactly what inspires the minds behind those who designs the pets? How do the stories come to life? It’s bound to be a purrfectly pet-lovin’ good time.
On Sunday, Hasbro will debut their new Netflix series Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters:
In 2017, the iconic Hasbro toy brand Stretch Armstrong will stretch onto television screens for the first time with an all-new look in an animated series from Hasbro Studios. The animated action/comedy series explores the life of an over scheduled teenager named Jake Armstrong and his two best friends. The trio is accidentally exposed to an experimental chemical, leading them to become Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters — a team of stretchable superheroes. Join the cast of Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters for a behind the scenes look at the upcoming 26-episode series, Hasbro Studios’ first original programming for Netflix. See the upcoming animated series come to life and hear from voice talent for the show.
The panel will happen at 4PM in the FANmily Stage Room. An autograph session will occur at the same place an hour later.
HASCON will also host a sneak peek at season 8 of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, season 2 and the theatrical short for Hanazuki, and Transformers: Titans Return. For a full list of festivities, check out the convention’s schedule.
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Yesterday GoPro launched their long awaited GoPro quadcopter drone, called the Karma.
In the UK, Karma is launched on the 23rd October with a retail price for the drone alone of £719.99, with a Hero 5 Black included it will be £999.99, this price is relatively competitive especially considering GoPro include a hand held stabiliser attachment and a back pack. With DJI due to release their DJI Mavic on the 27th September it’s possible DJI will try to undercut the Karma’s price. It’s unclear if the both drones are really comparable as Karma is more like a smaller 3DR Solo than a racing drone.
The Karma borrows a lot from 3DR’s Solo, this is probably no surprise as Pablo Lema the Senior Director of Aerial Products at GoPro was previously employed by 3DR, GoPro also aquired Jason Short as a Design Architect from 3DR, Jason was heavily involved in 3DR’s Solo and even responsible for some of the coding of its smart shots.
GoPro have clearly learned a few lessons from 3DR’s Solo launch, the first being waiting until the complete product including the gimbal was ready for market before having their PR push.
The simple controller design, the simple flight concept of auto take off and land and the smart shots are all similar to the Solo. However, the first release of Karma’s software is clearly simpler and less flexible than Solo or some other drones, even lacking the narcissist’s favourite shot which is follow me. Whilst the Karma lacks sense and avoid, this needn’t necessarily prevent follow me being added.
The Karma’s controller has a GPS and it has been stated that the Karma can return to the controller, with this in mind follow me would be an easy update to add at a later date, you would imagine Karma will also get multipoint cable cam in time, the videos at launch suggest for now it has only point A to point B.
The software at launch has one limitation that has a lot of users concerned to the point they’re not willing to consider buying the Karma and that is the fact is has No Fly Zones (NFZs) and they cannot be overriden, at least not yet. This means false positives will keep people grounded in many locations and it also means professional pilots with a permission to fly in locations such as near airports will be unable to fly. Few manufacturers have a good approach to dealing with NFZs with only 3DR having them as information only.
From a build quality viewpoint it remains to be seen if the folding arms will weaken over time.
The Karma’s specifications can be read here, albeit there’s still a lot of technical information missing such as the GPS module used.
The Karma is backwards compatible with the Hero 4 which will help with sales as existing GoPro owners can purchase the Karma without having to upgrade to the Hero 5, however, the fact the Hero 5 has digital image stabilisation will be reason enough for some people to consider an upgrade of their Hero camera too. The Karma can take off from an uneven surface so it can take off from and land on a boat but don’t get it wet, although the Hero 5 cameras are waterproof it’s worth noting that the Karma drone itself is not, this shouldn’t really be a surprise as waterproofing a drone is no easy task.
GoPro has a good reputation for customer support but it’ll be interesting to see if it can maintain that reputation with the Karma, whilst there is an extended warranty called GoPro Care and GoPro are stocking Karma parts, the question that really needs answering is will GoPro replace Karmas for free that are crashed due to software bugs? A question posted on the Karma’s support pages suggests GoPro will replace Karmas that are crashed due to bugs which bodes well for GoPro’s approach to customer service.
Competition in the market place is good, so we’re hopeful that the Karma delivers, that the software evolves and that GoPro can become a viable competitor to DJI.
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The Antibody Response to Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in Hashimotos Thyroiditis
Chronic thyroiditis is the most common cause of hypothyroidism (1). It is characterized by diffuse lymphocytic infiltration of the thyroid gland, follicular cell destruction, and eventually hypothyroidism (2). The triggers of autoimmune destruction in Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT) are completely unknown. Thyroid cell destruction is gradual, and cell death takes years. The apoptotic process in this disorder has been identified since 1995 (3,4). The main aim of apoptosis is the maintenance of stability among the cell population. In the normal thyroid gland, apoptosis is at very low levels, enough to control the cell cycle and cell destruction (3).
Various physiological and pathological conditions, such as hypoglycemia, pathogenic infection, chemical injury, genetic mutation, increased protein synthesis, and secretion and the flow of calcium into the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), trigger ER stress (5). If stress is prolonged, the injury becomes very severe, and the apoptotic pathway is activated through stimulation of the caspase chain in the ER (6). Binding immunoglobulin protein (BIP), a “heat shock protein 70 class”, is one of the molecular chaperones of the ER. Under conditions that increase ER stress, BIP directly and indirectly participates in apoptosis processes and can play a role as an apoptosis regulator by controlling the cellular response to ER stress-induced cell death (7). BIP protects the cell from apoptosis by blocking caspase activation.
In addition to chaperone activities, BIP also has immunological functions, such as in cytotoxic T cell responses and in non-classical antigen presentation. With excessive BIP expression, BIP becomes partially expressed on the cell surface. It is targeted by specific regulator T cells and establishes the stimulation of suppressor T cells. This immune response permits the suppression of immune hyper-reactivity and response (8).
In thyroid cells, thyrotropin (TSH) stimulation increases the ER chaperone BIP by enhancing thyroglobulin (Tg) synthesis. Under physiological conditions, BIP plays an important role in the early period of Tg polypeptide folding. By binding to Tg aggregates and unfolded Tg monomers, it makes Tg ready to form the three-dimensional protein needed for transport from the ER (9).
Anti-BIP antibodies reduce BIP levels and in turn BIP’s protective effects against inflammatory events and the blocking of effects against apoptosis (10). Antibodies to BIP, with its immune modulator and anti-apoptotic properties, may contribute to the progression of apoptotic mechanisms in HT. The aim of our study was to investigate the presence of anti-BIP antibodies in the serum of HT patients. The presence of these antibodies may shed light on the apoptosis mechanisms in HT and the development of new treatments associated with the apoptotic pathway in the disease.
Ninety-nine patients were enrolled in the study. These were selected from among patients attending the endocrinology outpatient clinic at Başkent University Hospital, Turkey, between 2006 and 2007. A control group (Group 1) of 37 healthy volunteers was established. The patient group consisted of 62 patients with autoimmune thyroiditis, 20 with euthyroid autoimmune thyroiditis (Group 2), 27 with subclinical hypothyroidism (Group 3) and 15 with overt hypothyroidism HT (Group 4). The study was conducted in accordance with the Ethical Guidelines of the Baskent University Faculty of Medicine and was approved by the Institutional Review Board.
Diagnosis of HT patients was made on the basis of serum levels of anti-thyroid peroxidase (anti-TPO), anti-thyroglobulin (anti-Tg), TSH, free-T4 (FT4), free-T3 (FT3), thyroid ultrasound, and clinical findings. No infectious or autoimmune disease was present in any patient. None of the patients enrolled had any history of any drug use. Among patients with hypothyroidism, TSH was high, FT4 was low and FT3 was low or within normal limits. In the subclinical hypothyroid patients, TSH was high and FT4-FT3 levels were normal. In the euthyroid patients, TSH, FT4 and FT3 were all within normal levels. One or both of anti-TPO and anti-Tg were high in all three groups. Thyroid ultrasound exhibited a hypoechoic pattern in 75% of patients with autoimmune thyroiditis.
None of the subjects in the control group had any history of infectious or autoimmune disease or drug use. TSH, FT3, FT4, anti-TPO and anti-Tg levels and ultrasound images were all normal in all participants.
Blood samples were taken after 12-h fasting. After coagulation, the specimens were centrifuged at 3000 rpm for 15 min. Sera were separated and hormone levels and anti-Tg were investigated at once, while sera were stored for anti-TPO and anti-BIP at –70 oC for mass assay. For evaluating thyroid function, FT4, TSH and anti-Tg were measured using immunochemiluminescent assays on an automated analyzer (BioDPC, USA). For TSH assay, a third generation kit was used, analytic sensitivity being regarded as 0.004 µIU/ml and reference interval as 0.4-4 µIU/ml. (intra-assay CV: 3.8%, interassay CV: 4.6%). For FT4, the reference intervals are 0.8-1.9 ng/dl. The reference interval for anti-Tg is 0-40 IU/ml. Anti-TPO was investigated using the indirect immunofluorescence method (Euroimmun, Germany). Analysis was performed with 1/100, 1/320 and 1/1000 titrations. Titrations below 1/100 were regarded as negative and values above that as positive.
Anti-BIP Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
Each well in the enzyme-linked immuno-sorbent assay plate was covered with a buffer so as to contain pH 8.2 10 ug/ ml BIP; 10% goat serum was added to block unwanted nonspecific bindings. The plate was covered and kept at room temperature for 24 h, and 1/100 diluted patient sera were added and kept overnight at +4o C. To each well was added 1% bovine serum and 0.05% Tween-20, and conjugate was diluted in 1/20.000 phosphate buffered saline buffer. In the final stage, color formation was observed with the addition of 3.3’,5.5’ tetramethyl benzidine. The plaque was read at 450 nm and patient and control specimen absorbances were recorded.
SPSS 20.0 was used for statistical analysis. Analysis of variance was used to test the differences between groups for normally distributed data. The Tukey test was used post hoc to test was performed to determine for which two groups statistical significance exists. The Kruskal-Wallis test was used to test non-normally distributed data between the groups. Paired group comparisons were analyzed using the Mann-Whitney U test.
The control group consisted of 37 healthy volunteers. Sixty-two HT patients, 20 with euthyroid autoimmune thyroiditis, 27 with subclinical hypothyroidism and 15 with overt hypothyroidism constituted the patient groups. There was no difference between the four groups in terms of age and sex. Patient characteristics are given in Table 1.
No difference was determined between groups 2,3 and 4 or compared with Group 1 in terms of anti-BIP levels (p=0.889). A comparison of the groups’ anti-BIP levels is given in Table 1 and Figure 1.
Anti-BIP was not found to correlate with anti-TPO, anti-Tg, TSH, and FT4 (p>0.05).
Hashimoto’s thyroiditis is characterized by a lymphocyte infiltrate, the presence of thyroid auto-antibodies, and destruction of the thyroid gland. The reasons for the initiation of the destruction of the thyroid gland are completely unexplained. In recent years, the relationship between apoptotic processes and the pathogenesis of HT have attracted attention (3,4). Physiological stress conditions do not lead to apoptosis. However, when stress is prolonged, and homeostasis cannot be established, mutant proteins in the ER accumulate and the apoptotic pathway containing the caspase cascade in the ER is activated, leading to cell death (6). Under stress conditions, BIP expression prevents the aggregation of unfolded proteins by binding to them and promoting folding (11).
Our theory was that anti-BIP antibodies may play a role in apoptotic events in the autoimmune process in HT. However, we found no difference in terms of anti-BIP antibody levels between controls and those involving euthyroid, subclinical and overt hypothyroid phases. This shows that anti-BIP antibodies are unrelated to apoptosis-related events in HT, at least at the serum level. In vitro studies of thyroid tissue suggest that ER stress increases in the autoimmune process (12). One reason for a lack of these antibodies in the serum may be that an increase in anti-BIP antibodies at the tissue level was not sufficient to be measured in the serum and may depend on a local activation process.
The reason why we divided HT patients into euthyroid, subclinical and overt hypothyroidism subgroups was to analyze the different phases related to disease activity. However, we found no difference either among the subgroups or compared with the control group. Furthermore, we did not find a correlation between anti-BIP and levels of thyroid auto-antibodies.
Thyroglobulin synthesis is known to increase with the stimulation of TSH in thyroid cells. Under physiological conditions, BIP plays an important role in the early period of Tg polypeptide folding (9). In our study, although TSH was high in our overt hypothyroid and subclinical hypothyroid patients, the anti-BIP antibody level was not different from that of the control group.
BIP enables the stimulation of suppressor T cells. This immune response permits the suppression of immune hyperreactivity and response (8). In CTLA-4-related mutations in HT, the suppressor T cell response is impaired. The fact that we were unable to show anti-BIP antibodies in our study suggests that suppressor T cell dysfunction in HT is unrelated to anti-BIP antibodies.
We hypothesized that antibodies might develop to BIP, shown to be expressed in thyroid tissue, in the same way that antibodies develop to Tg, thyroid peroxidase, Na/I transporter and TSH receptor in HT. However, we were unable to show a difference in anti-BIP in our HT patient sera compared to those of the control group.
BIP possesses cellular protection properties with suppressive characteristics in cytotoxicity-mediated cell destruction and in ER stress-related apoptotic pathways. Our hypothesis was that antibodies developing against BIP could eliminate this protective effect in HT. Although BIP activation has been shown in thyroid cells, no difference was found in our study in anti-BIP levels between our HT subgroups and the control group. This suggests that antibodies developing against BIP are not related to apoptosis and/or T cell response in HT, or that they are at levels in serum that cannot be determined.
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Review: The House Without a Christmas Tree | Houston Grand Opera | George R. Brown Convention Center
Tree Tops
The Houston Grand Opera debuts Ricky Ian Gordon's The House Without a Christmas Tree at the Resilience Theater at the Brown Convention Center.
by Gregory Sullivan Isaacs
published Thursday, December 7, 2017
Photo: Lynn Lane
The House Without a Christmas Tree at Houston Grand Opera
Houston — The Houston Grand Opera’s The House Without a Christmas Tree, by composer Ricky Ian Gordon and librettist Royce Vavrek, opened at the makeshift and aptly named Resilience Theater in the George R. Brown Convention Center on Nov. 30. It is Hallmark Christmas card of an opera, as wholesome and wry as a Norman Rockwell painting and as heartwarming as a living crèche school pageant (which actually occurs near the end of the short 80-minute one-act opera.)
The Houston Grand Opera is in the midst of a multiyear project to produce a Christmas-oriented opera to match ballet’s perennial The Nutcracker and theater’s A Christmas Carol. Of course, there is always Gian Carlo Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors, which was considered too sugary during the 12-tone modernist era of the supremacy of the Tower of Babbitt.
Thankfully, we have returned to our tonal sense in all three entries. The first was Iain Bell and Simon Callow’s opera of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, which premiered in 2014. In 2015, HGO revived Rachel Portman and Nicholas Wright's The Little Prince and last year Jake Heggie/Gene Scheer delivered a superb operatic rendition of Frank Capra’s film, It’s a Wonderful Life (reviewed here.)
THWCT (The House without a Christmas Tree) is based on Gail Rock's TV movie (1972) and subsequent book, whose origin, according to the program notes, was due to a mouse. Apparently, Rock and a friend rented a vacation house that had a mouse in it and they fled to the city. While at a friend’s house, she related this story about her youth when her recalcitrant father refused to have a Christmas tree because it reminded him of his death of her mother. One of their hosts wrote for television, loved the story, and the rest is history. (There is a certain irony in this considering that mice have a role in The Nutcracker.)
The story revolves around teenaged Addie, marvelously portrayed by soprano Lauren Snouffer with just the right combination of girl and woman. She lives with her widowed father, played with unrelenting gruffness (until the very end) by baritone Daniel Belcher. They live in his mother’s house, played by soprano Patricia Schuman with lots of love and maybe too much patience for her emotionally crippled son.
The opera opens with the adult Addie, who now goes by Adelaide, walking down the wintry street in New York City. She sees a store window with a snowy, small-town scene and it sends her down memory lane to her small-town roots and us into the opera.
The conflict is between Addie, who decides that this is the year to demand a Christmas tree (teenager, you know). Dad, once again, refuses. It turns out that his wife died at Christmas shortly after Addie’s birth and his last happy memory is decorating the tree. The pain of this memory ended the tradition for him—and everyone else in the household for that matter.
When Addie wins a tree at school and drags it home, it ruptures his relationship with both his daughter and mother in the process. When Addie sneaks out of the house and takes the tree to the house of Gloria, a destitute friend, Dad sees the error of his ways and brings a forest-sized evergreen into the living room. And they all lived happily decorated ever after, we suppose.
There is a secondary plot of a budding romance at school with Billy, sung with an appropriate chip on his shoulder by the youngster Maximillian Macias. Of course, there is a best friend, sung with charm by Megan Mikailovna Samarin.
Heidi Stober, who was excellent as Cleopatra in HGO’s recent Julius Caesar, plays three roles. First, she is the adult Addie, next she is the schoolteacher and lastly she is a ghostly appearance of the departed wife ex machina. If you didn’t notice her triple casting in the program, you would never of noticed because her three characterizations were so distinctly portrayed.
Vavrek’s libretto hits just the right tone, combining small-town life and the 1950’s milieu. Each of the characters are keenly drawn, although there is much left unsaid, such as why Addie is just finding out why Dad doesn't want a tree now. Surely this has been discussed much earlier in their lives.
It is very difficult to describe Gordon’s musical voice. Gordon is a classically trained composer who was raised in the theater. His mother, Eve Gordon, was a singer and comic on the Borscht Belt circuit in the Catskills. This influence on his musical voice is unmistakable, yet not dominant. His style is like a perfectly blended sauce that he pours over words. The ingredients are present but impossible to differentiate. He is not a composer of soaring melodies. Although this opera invents a jaunty new Christmas carol and a lovely waltz, he doesn’t produce an earworm. Yet the music is melodic in a useful way. Addie’s part is unusually high, which she easily negotiates, but will not be as effective with a more mature operatic style voice in the role.
Gordon’s songs, as well as his operas, all ride over a complex and cleverly composed accompaniment, as does this opera. It could exist as a separate Christmas Symphony, telling the story as affectedly as on stage. What this means is Gordon’s conundrum. Each of the characters lacks a signature or distinctive melodic style, but their music perfectly fits what they are saying at any particular time. When the stage and the small chamber-sized orchestra, ably conducted by Bradley Moore, are combined, THWCT becomes a unified whole. Gordon tells the story without a hint of maudlin sentimentality or overburdening the opera with religiosity.
Director James Robinson delivers a natural feel to the stage action. Set designer works a set-change miracle with his revolving house and costume designer James Schuette captures the dress of the era. Sound designer’s microphones are a requirement of the poor acoustics of the temporary theater, stuck in the back of a convention center. Christopher Akerlind’s lighting makes the most of the make-shift set-up. Karen Reeves’ juvenile chorus is terrific.
THWCT should have holiday legs. Opera houses will love its accessibility and brevity. Its hybrid musical language should also make it attractive to theater companies and even for exceptional high school programs. It is also universally attractive because of its variety of roles for both adults and juveniles as well as the small orchestral forces required. And, knowing Gordon’s style, it would probably work well with only piano accompaniment.
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Feds Investigating Nissan Versas, Dodge Rams
by Michael Strong | Jun 30, 2014
Federal safety regulators continue to pressure automakers as they announced two separate investigations involving more than 600,000 Nissan Versas and Dodge Rams. In the case of the Versa, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is reviewing...
Six New Recalls at GM – All-Time Record for US Industry
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jun 30, 2014
Hours after the details of a new victims’ compensation program was announced for those killed or injured as a result of an ignition switch defect, General Motors has revealed it will stage another six separate recalls covering 7.6 million vehicles sold in the U.S....
U.S. Automakers Obliterate One-Year Recall Record… In Six Months
Most of the time breaking a record is followed by celebration and jubilation; however, with the recall of 7.65 million vehicles today — nearly 8.5 million worldwide — General Motors helped U.S. automakers secure a record none of them want to be part of:...
Op-Ed: Assessing Detroit’s Brand Addiction
by Anthony Johndrow | Jun 30, 2014
Does the game of good cop/bad cop still work in Detroit? What happens when the bad cop (General Motors) keeps making bad decisions, and the good cop (Chevrolet) has no authority and no voice of its own? In mid-March, the bad cop tried to dig out of its hole as new GM...
No Cap to GM Victims’ Compensation Fund – Anyone Injured, Killed Eligible
There will be no limit to the amount of money available for a new victims’ compensation program set up to cover those injured or killed due to crashes caused by the faulty ignition switches in General Motors vehicles, announced Kenneth Feinberg, the new program’s...
Kia, Audi, Jaguar Lead Annual Total Quality Index
With news of a record-setting number of recalls filling the eyes and ears of car and truck owners, finding out what brands produced the highest quality vehicles this year likely tops list of information wanted new vehicle buyers. Strategic Vision released its 19th...
100s, Perhaps 1,000s, Likely Eligible for GM Victims’ Compensation Plan
When General Motors formally unveils the victims’ compensation fund later today, it’s expected to give a free hand to the administrator who will have to decide on how to pay out to those involved in crashes linked to the maker’s faulty ignition switches. According to...
Hyundai Counts on Alabama Plant
by Joseph Szczesny | Jun 30, 2014
Hyundai has begun delivering the new 2015 Hyundai Sonata to dealers across America from its bustling assembly plant in Montgomery, Alabama, a factory stretched well beyond its rated capacity as the Korean carmaker struggles to keep up with consumer demand. The...
Ford Let’s World Focus on New ST Pocket Rocket in UK
Ford introduced the 2015 iteration of its Focus ST pocket rocket at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in the United Kingdom. The Festival of Speed, or FoS as it’s known in England, is an annual hill climb featuring historic motor racing vehicles that is held in the...
Nissan, Daimler Reveal Plans for Joint Mexican Luxury Car Plant
Announcing the biggest project in their four-year-old alliance, Daimler AG and Nissan Motor Co. have confirmed they will jointly set up and operate a new luxury car plant in central Mexico. At a cost of 1 billion Euros, or close to $1.4 billion, it will begin...
June Car Sales Looking Robust – But GM Could Take Hit
Neither the threat of rising gasoline prices nor the distraction created by the World Cup tournament has short-circuited the U.S. new vehicle market this month, according to industry analysts and executives – though the recent, torrid pace has slowed a bit....
Google Unveils Android Auto Infotainment System
The battle between Apple and Google has moved to a new arena: the car. Google introduced Android Auto yesterday with features aimed at bringing the functionality of an Android-based phone to 25 automakers by the end of the year. “We looked at what people do with their...
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Forbes 30 under 30, African American listed throughout
Every year Forbes magazine releases their '30 under 30' list. The list recognizes those individuals who are up and coming in their filed, or have gained respect by being relentless and raising the bar. This year's list is quite impressive, especially due to the fact that several African-Americans have been listed. Being named is definitely something to grin about. See anyone you know?
Micheal B. Jordan, 26
The 'Fruitvale Station" star and 2pac hopeful landed on the list. With his superior acting skills, fashion sense and stellar smile--are you surprised?
Ryan Coogler, 27
The Director-Writer newcomer won top prizes at the Sundance Film Festival this past year. Coogler wrote "Fruitvale Station" and is in the process of producing more award wining work.
Todrick Hall, 27
Although he was booted off of American Idol back in 2010, Mr. Hall did not let that halt his ambition for greatness. Todrick took to youtube making short musical numbers.
Issa Rae, 28
Most know for her web series "The Mis-Adventures of an Awkward Black Girl" has some work this hit writer Shonda Rhimes, HBO and a book on the way.
Quvenzhané Wallis, 10
The youngest "30 under 30" belongs to this "Beast of the Southern Wild" child star. Jay-Z and Will Smith are remaking "Annie" for Broadway and have reportedly chosen this cutie for the starring role.
Thank you Forbes magazine for recognizing these hardworking individuals. The full list can be seen at http://www.forbes.com/special-report/2014/30-under-30/hollywood-and-entertainment.html.
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Podcasts Within the Trenches
Within the Trenches Ep 160
By Ricardo — 2 years ago
This episode is sponsored by Dispatch In Depth. A new podcast by the IAED. You can catch new episodes on iTunes, Stitcher Radio and Soundcloud. Ep 160 of Within the Trenches features Becky, ACS, or acting communications supervisor, and Mark a telecommunicator with Southeast Emergency Communications in IL. In this episode both Becky and Mark share their 9-1-1 story, how they got started, calls that have stuck with them and how they can make one question the decisions they make in a moments notice. It’s a must listen!
As always, if you have any comments, questions or you would like to be a guest on the show send an email to wttpodcast@gmail.com.
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The Calm Within The Storm Of 9-1-1 Calls
By Ricardo — 8 years ago
Tammy Gane - Allegan Co. 9-1-1 Operator
Within Allegan County Central Dispatch sits one of several seasoned 9-1-1 operators. Her 20 years of experience have contributed to the safety of the public as well as her co-workers in public safety. During down time, she jokes with her co-workers in the room. Having a contagious laugh, the others can’t help but join in. The phones rings, the room goes silent.
“9-1-1 where’s your emergency?”
This is how Tammy Gane answers a 9-1-1 call. She’s calm and professional with a helping of patience. She questions the caller asking for an address, name, phone number, and the situation. The call involves a car that was broken into over night. Something easy when it comes to taking a 9-1-1 call but it’s not always this easy. Tammy has dealt with far worse during the course of her career.
Gane, the oldest of three, grew up in western Michigan. The daughter of a homemaker and father, who was a truck driver, was taught a strong work ethic. This quality would follow her throughout her life and carry on in the lives of her two daughters. She began her career through friends and a chance meeting at an FOP (Fraternal Order of Police) corn roast. This meeting led to a night where she caught the public safety bug.
“I had a lot of friends that were in law enforcement and I played softball. Some of my girlfriends on the team were also married to state troopers so that’s how I got into the circle. One year I was at the corn roast with one of my girlfriends and I met Rachel’s dad there.” Rachel, being her eldest daughter, “we ended up going to a bar and his buddies left him. He wanted me to give him a ride home but I didn’t really know him so I made him stay at a hotel.”
She smiles and laughs as she reflects on this memory. “The next day he asked for a ride again and I didn’t even know him so I bought him a bus ticket and put him on the bus.” Laughter ensues as she continues her story. “We started dating and when we decided to get married I moved to Kalamazoo.” Gane explains that around the summer of ’85 her husband at that time had asked her if she wanted to ride with him during his night shift. It was the night before Thanksgiving. Gane had decided to accompany her husband that night. She started out the shift in dispatch where she describes the scene as “just crazy busy.” She later rode with her husband and witnessed a fight with a disorderly subject and radio traffic that left her pumped.
That night in dispatch was only the beginning. She would later land a job with Kalamazoo’s Juvenile Court. She dealt with child abuse neglect cases, delinquent adoption cases, and worked the switchboard. Gane also worked for a local attorney but moved to St. Joseph some time later. Around this time, she gave birth to her daughter Rachel and had gone from having a clerk’s job in the jail of Berrien County to working in dispatch. Her training back then in dispatch was that of pure observation and common sense. Her very first 9-1-1 call was someone who wanted to commit suicide.
“One night it got really busy and the 9-1-1 line was ringing and no one was available and the supervisor says, ‘answer it’.” Gane sits up as she gets into her story. “It was a guy saying, ‘I’m going to kill myself’ and I was thinking to transfer him to the suicide hotline.” The call was transferred while the caller continued to sob. When the suicide hotline picked up it was only an automated system. She disconnected from the hotline and continued to speak to the caller.
“I start talking to him and his wife had left him. Every Thursday night, I’ll never forget this…He goes and gets groceries and when he came home there was a note from his wife that she was leaving him and she left him a tape, a cassette tape, like a letter on a tape. He put the tape in, heard part of it and the machine ate it.” She continued to speak to him but the caller kept putting the phone down. “I kept thinking I was going to hear a gun shot,” Gane explains. Luckily she did not hear a gun shot. Instead she was able to keep her cool and keep the caller talking long enough for the officers to get there.
She tells the story of her first 9-1-1 call as if it were yesterday. She’s spoken to many suicidal callers since then but recently she answered a call that made national news. On the morning of Feb. 28th 2012, Gane took a call from a suicidal subject who led police on a high-speed car chase. She could hear a man screaming hysterically with police sirens in the background. Gane used her experience, calm demeanor, and patience to persuade the caller to not only slow down but also pull over. “First I asked, how fast are you going? And then lets take it down to 50 and let me know when you get to 30 and he just started listening,” Gane explains. The call can be heard in its entirety here but if you do a simple Google search you can find reports from all over on how well Gane did during this call.
Gane continues to set the bar high for 9-1-1 dispatchers. She describes her job as one where, “nothing is easy, it’s constant problem solving.” There is no real break within the walls of dispatch and Gane attributes stress relief by having good co-workers. They, and her two daughters admire her. “My mom is the most hard working woman I know. She has taught me the work ethic that I have today, and I truly thank her for that.” In the end, Gane looks back at her career and how to stay ahead of the rest.
“You have to be able to put up with everything. Deal with the bad and the good and hopefully the good outweighs the bad.”
(Audio Source: 911dispatch.com)
Jabber Log Within the Trenches
Episode 158 features Kim Turner, Communications Manager for San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department in California. She’s also the President of Kim Turner LLC. In this episode Kim tells her 9-1-1 story from dispatch to a police officer and back to run a dispatch center. She shares her experience with a car accident that caused a traumatic brain injury and how dispatch saved her life. She also shares stories from two major incidents in and around her county.
This is a must listen! As always if you have any comments, questions or you want to be a guest on the show, send an email to wttpodcast@gmail.com.
Guest –
Kim Turner, LLC – Facebook | Twitter | Web
San Bernardino County Terrorist Attack –
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/02/us/san-bernardino-shooting/index.html
Kim’s 9-1-1 story
How 9-1-1 dispatch saved her life
The Christopher Dorner incident
San Bernardino County Terrorist Attack
Welcome to another episode of Within the Trenches, true stories from the 9-1-1 dispatchers who live them.
Recap of NENA 9-1-1 Goes to Washington
Celebrating 50 years of 9-1-1
Kari’s Law – Official signing
NG9-1-1 Institute Awards Reception
FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel’s speech
As always if you have any comments, questions, topic suggestions or you would like to be a guest, send an email to wttpodcast@gmail.com
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Lt.-Gen. Hon. Richard Monck1
M, #38821, b. 23 October 1829, d. 7 October 1904
Lt.-Gen. Hon. Richard Monck was born on 23 October 1829.1 He was the son of Charles Joseph Kelly Monck, 3rd Viscount Monck of Ballytrammon and Bridget Willington.2,1 He married Frances Elizabeth Owen Cole, daughter of Owen Blayney Cole and Lady Frances Isabella Monck, on 13 August 1861.1 He died on 7 October 1904 at age 74.1
He gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Coldstream Guards.1
Children of Lt.-Gen. Hon. Richard Monck and Frances Elizabeth Owen Cole
unknown Monck1
unknown daughter Monck1
Brig.-Gen. Cecil Stanley Owen Monck1 b. 24 Jul 1863, d. 4 Dec 1940
Frances Elizabeth Owen Cole1
F, #38822, d. 31 July 1919
Frances Elizabeth Owen Cole was the daughter of Owen Blayney Cole and Lady Frances Isabella Monck.1 She married Lt.-Gen. Hon. Richard Monck, son of Charles Joseph Kelly Monck, 3rd Viscount Monck of Ballytrammon and Bridget Willington, on 13 August 1861.1 She died on 31 July 1919.1
Her married name became Monck.
Children of Frances Elizabeth Owen Cole and Lt.-Gen. Hon. Richard Monck
Lady Emily Monck1
F, #38823, d. 22 November 1837
Lady Emily Monck was the daughter of Henry Stanley Monck, 1st Earl of Rathdowne and Lady Frances Mary Trench.1 She married William Barlow Smythe on 7 February 1837.1 She died on 22 November 1837.1
Her married name became Smythe.
Brig.-Gen. Cecil Stanley Owen Monck1
M, #38824, b. 24 July 1863, d. 4 December 1940
Brig.-Gen. Cecil Stanley Owen Monck was born on 24 July 1863.1 He was the son of Lt.-Gen. Hon. Richard Monck and Frances Elizabeth Owen Cole.1 He married Violet Ley, daughter of J. H. Ley, on 15 August 1914.1 He died on 4 December 1940 at age 77, 2without issue.1
He fought in the Boer War between 1899 and 1900.1 He gained the rank of Colonel in the Coldstream Guards.1
Violet Ley1
F, #38825, b. circa 1873, d. 12 May 1969
Violet Ley was born circa 1873.1 She was the daughter of J. H. Ley.1 She married, firstly, Henry Dawson-Greene before 1914.1 She married, secondly, Brig.-Gen. Cecil Stanley Owen Monck, son of Lt.-Gen. Hon. Richard Monck and Frances Elizabeth Owen Cole, on 15 August 1914.1 She died on 12 May 1969.1
Clare Cecily Howard1
F, #38826, b. 26 December 1892, d. December 1989
Clare Cecily Howard was born on 26 December 1892 at Orpington, Kent, EnglandG.2 She was the daughter of Henry Blunt Howard and Ellen Southey.1,2 She married Charles Reginald Chenevix Trench, son of Reverend Herbert Francis Chenevix Trench and Isabella Catherine Trench, on 28 January 1915 at Bromley, Kent, EnglandG.1,2 She died in December 1989 at Oxford, Oxfordshire, EnglandG.2
From 28 January 1915, her married name became Chenevix Trench.1
Child of Clare Cecily Howard and Charles Reginald Chenevix Trench
Isabel Clare Chenevix Trench+1 b. 4 Nov 1915
Hon. Anne Monck1
F, #38827, d. 23 September 1853
Hon. Anne Monck was the daughter of Charles Joseph Kelly Monck, 3rd Viscount Monck of Ballytrammon and Bridget Willington.2,1 She married James Napier Webb, son of Daniel James Webb and Hon. Anne Wilhelmina Monck, in May 1841.1 She died on 23 September 1853.1
Her married name became Webb.
James Napier Webb1
James Napier Webb is the son of Daniel James Webb and Hon. Anne Wilhelmina Monck.1 He married Hon. Anne Monck, daughter of Charles Joseph Kelly Monck, 3rd Viscount Monck of Ballytrammon and Bridget Willington, in May 1841.1
Hon. Henrietta Monck1
F, #38829, d. 6 May 1911
Hon. Henrietta Monck was the daughter of Charles Joseph Kelly Monck, 3rd Viscount Monck of Ballytrammon and Bridget Willington.1,2 She married Francis Richard Brooke, son of George Frederick Brooke and Jane Grace, on 18 November 1848.1 She died on 6 May 1911.1
Her married name became Brooke.
Children of Hon. Henrietta Monck and Francis Richard Brooke
Louisa Caroline Elizabeth Brooke+1 d. 4 Jan 1922
Eva Henrietta Brooke+1 d. 8 Nov 1940
Grace Agnew Brooke2 d. 12 Jan 1937
Sir George Frederick Brooke, 1st Bt.+2 b. 13 Aug 1849, d. 21 Aug 1926
Gerald Richard Brooke1 b. 29 Apr 1852, d. 26 Apr 1891
John Monck Brooke+1 b. 23 Aug 1853, d. 14 Aug 1887
Francis Richard Brooke1
M, #38830, b. 24 August 1817, d. 2 March 1867
Francis Richard Brooke was born on 24 August 1817.1 He was the son of George Frederick Brooke and Jane Grace.1 He married Hon. Henrietta Monck, daughter of Charles Joseph Kelly Monck, 3rd Viscount Monck of Ballytrammon and Bridget Willington, on 18 November 1848.2 He died on 2 March 1867 at age 49.1
He held the office of High Sheriff of County Dublin in 1860.2 He lived at Coolgreany, County Wexford, IrelandG.2 He lived at Summerton, County Dublin, IrelandG.2
Children of Francis Richard Brooke and Hon. Henrietta Monck
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Home GUYANA Separate Charges For Two Accused in Rape, Murder of Berbice Boy
Separate Charges For Two Accused in Rape, Murder of Berbice Boy
Victim: Leonard Archibald
GEORGETOWN, GUYANA — The two men who were arrested in connection with the killing of a 13-year-old East Bank Berbice boy, were charged separately on Wednesday for the murder when they appeared at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court, the Stabroek News has reported.
Hilary Edwards, 29, of Sisters Village, East Bank Berbice, and Obedeih Christopher, also known as “Nicholas”, 19, of Skeldon, Corentyne and Sisters Village, East Bank Berbice appeared before Magistrate Alex Moore on Wednesday.
Magistrate Moore read the charge to Christopher which stated that it is alleged that between Sunday 17, September and Saturday 23, September, he murdered Leonard Archibald.
Christopher is being represented by Attorney-at-Law Mursaline Bacchus. However, on Wednesday Attorney-at-Law Arun Gossai stood in, on Bacchus’ behalf.
The magistrate then read the charge to an unrepresented Edwards, which also stated that between Sunday 17, September and Saturday 23, September, he murdered Leonard Archibald.
The men were not required to plead to the indictable charge and were remanded to prison until their next court date, 8th December.
Christopher during the court proceedings kept wiping his eyes, while Edwards stood in the dock with a blank look on his face, the Stabroek News reported.
When the men were being escorted out of court, Christopher began shouting that he was innocent, and accused the police and Edwards of “setting [him] up.”
The father of the murdered teen, Walter Archibald who was also present in court, stood at a distance and looked on during Christopher’s screams. When Stabroek News spoke with the grieving father, he said that his heart is somewhat relieved to see the men who allegedly murdered his young son, placed before the courts and charged.
While Christopher screamed his innocence in the background, Archibald was reported by the Stabroek News as saying, “He [Christopher] would have said some things that he heard screams, why didn’t he do anything? Both have to answer for this. I’m not leaving it like this. Me procedure is he said he heard things, he supposed to notify early.”
According to Archibald, he believes that Christopher could have saved his son had he spoken out earlier.
While no relatives showed up for Edwards, Christopher’s parents were present at court, arguing with persons present about their son’s innocence.
On September 17, Leonard Archibald of Lot 11 Brothers Village, East Bank Berbice disappeared after he left home to pick up two of his sisters from a birthday party in a nearby village. He was last seen riding a bicycle on the Sisters Village Public Road. After a police report was filed, investigators placed two men from Sisters Village in custody — the prime suspect, Edwards and his friend, Christopher, at whose house Edwards would usually hang out. The house is located located a stone’s throw away from the Sisters Police Station.
According to the Stabroek News report, on Friday last during a search, the missing teen’s bicycle was discovered in the Berbice River behind Christopher’s house. It was later on Friday afternoon that investigators allegedly elicited a confession from one of the accused. Police were told that Edwards allegedly kidnapped the teen and raped him, after which he dumped his unconscious body behind Christopher’s house, into the Berbice River. After the alleged confession became public knowledge, relatives of the boy and residents of the East Bank Berbice area were determined to recover the child’s body.
It was during the last search on Saturday afternoon that Archibald’s decomposed body was found on a mudflat located at the back of Kortberaad Village, on the Berbice River, some three miles from Brothers Village, East Bank Berbice, where the teen lived, the Stabroek News reported.
Courtesy: stabroeknews.com
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David J Good Memorial Run
20th Annual David J Good Memorial Run
The 20th Annual David J. Good Memorial Run honoring Lionville Firefighters killed in the line of duty will be held on Saturday, July 7, 2018.
Registration opens at 8:00am at Lionville Fire Company on South Village Avenue. The 5K run/walk starts at 9:00am followed by the start on a 1 mile run/walk at 9:05am.
The 5K course runs through the Marchwood development: South Village Ave; right on Andover Dr; right on Concord Ave; left on Colonial Dr; right on Devon Dr; right on Concord Ave; left on Morris Rd; right on Glendale Rd; left on South Village Ave
Cash awards to the top 3 male and female runners; medals to 1st, 2nd and 3rd place male and female runners by age group.
For more information, contact Sue Bernhard @ 610-363-9450 or sbernhard@uwchlan.com
Download the brochure/regisration form below.
David J Good Memorial Run Brochure
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Register online at
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David J. Good...On March 9, 1998 emergency workers from Lionville Fire Company and Uwchlan Ambulance Corps were responding to an accident just west of the Downingtown exit of the PA Turnpike. Dave Good was killed and 10 others were injured when a tractor trailer lost control and crashed into the rescue scene. David J. Good made the ultimate sacrifice as a volunteer and for that reason, this race is dedicated in his name. An employee of Uwchlan Township for eight years, he was a volunteer in the Lionville Fire Company for five years when he was killed in the line of duty. David was survived by his wife, Mary Ann and two sons, Jonathan and Jason.
Charles H. Martin Jr... In 1965, while attempting to extinguish a burning tree limb, Charlie came in contact with a fallen power line and was electrocuted. A well-known Chester County farmer, Charlie was survived by his wife, Nancy, and three childred, Nancy, Charles and Dennis.
Jonathan S. Windle Jr... In 1966, while helping with the construction of the company's new fire house, Jonathan fell from a ladder and suffered a fatal skull fracture. A planning engineer for Boeing Vertol Co., Jonathan was survived by his wife, Verda, and two childred, Russell and Darlene.
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Vegas Watch
This blog contains many errors, some of them fundamental to the analysis.
#MATH THO
I received an email this afternoon from a hero who would prefer to remain anonymous, alerting me to this gem. It's Insider (which is hilariously absurd, as you'll see), but the premise is going through each team in the playoff picture, and assessing their likelihood of making the playoffs, as well as which seed they should be expected to receive.
The article is written by Danny Tuccitto of Football Outsiders. He begins with the Broncos:
On the heels of a massive upset loss -- they were an 86 percent favorite -- Denver's probability of earning the No. 1 seed dropped from 76 percent to 63 percent. [...] But don't fret, Broncos fans. With remaining games coming against two of the worst three teams in the NFL (Oakland and Houston, according to weighted DVOA), our projection model says there's only a 15 percent chance Denver loses either game.
Well, this is worrisome. At 11-3, the Broncos are tied for the best record in the conference with the Chiefs. Denver owns the tiebreaker over Kansas City, having beaten them twice. So, stands to reason that if DEN wins out, they'll be the top seed.
With that in mind, let's revisit two things:
Denver's probability of earning the No. 1 seed dropped from 76 percent to 63 percent.
[O]ur projection model says there's only a 15 percent chance Denver loses either game.
Yeah, that's not gonna work. Even before considering the possibility that other teams may lose (more on that in a minute), Denver is 85% to get the one seed according to their W16 and W17 win probabilities. That same 63% number is here; maybe they're just splitting ties in half rather than, you know, considering that one team wins the tiebreaker 100% of the time?
To boot, the Patriots have a 74 percent chance of sweeping their last two games, which is only slightly lower than the Bengals' 81 percent.
New England is currently a two-point underdog in Baltimore on Sunday afternoon, so it seems like 74% to win out may be a bit high? FO's numbers famously don't "adjust for the future impact of recent injuries" so it seems possible that could be playing a role here? Not that there's any mention of that in the article, or that you could ever get to 74% by doing anything reasonable anyway.
According to our projection model, Indianapolis is a 19-to-1 underdog at Kansas City this weekend, while Cincinnati is a 19-to-1 favorite at home against Minnesota. Put those two odds together, and there's a 90 percent likelihood that the Colts will have nothing to play for in Week 17.
The best part of this is how casual he is about these insane numbers. The Colts are 6.5-point underdogs in Kansas City, and +233 at Pinnacle. But yeah, 19-1! Moving right along!
There is no point in any type of "analysis" like this if you're going to use 95% for the Chiefs' win % this week. If you actually think that, just bet as much as possible on Kansas City, and get very rich, very, very quickly.
According to our model, the Ravens are underdogs in both of their remaining matchups, with this week's game against New England presenting slightly less of a threat (42 percent win probability) than their Week 17 game at Cincinnati (31 percent).
The Ravens are 42% to win this week? Against the Patriots, who are 74% to win out? What? Where am I?
After Week 13, the Chiefs' likelihood of earning home-field advantage throughout the playoffs was a mere 2 percent; it's now 24 percent. Although that means Kansas City's still a 3-to-1 underdog, it nevertheless makes them Denver's No. 1 contender and twice as likely as New England to overtake the Broncos for the top spot. Both Kansas City and Denver are better than 90 percent favorites this weekend, so the battle for home field will likely come down to a pair of West Coast games in Week 17. The Chiefs will need to win as a slight favorite in San Diego (53 percent) and hope the Broncos lose as a huge favorite in Oakland (93 percent).
So, the Chiefs' HFA shot likely comes down to W17, where they need to win (53%) and have DEN lose (7%). Seems rather unlikely? Nope! There's a 24% chance that Kansas City gets the top seed.
I'm not even going to bother with the NFC. It's absolutely remarkable that the writer didn't pick up on any of this while writing and/or proofreading, and the fact that this then passed through an editor (assumption?) and was published on ESPN Insider (just $8.95 per month!) is mind blowing.
Keep building that brand though, guys. Build the shit out of it.
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VFV's Adventures in Predicting NFL Line Movement With Darts (Week 15)
Thankfully for everyone involved, this did not become a weekly thing. But now seems like as good a time as any to remind everybody how absurd this exercise really is.
Using lines from Bodog and LVH this time because #whocares.
Chargers at Broncos minus-10.5 (Thursday): The line was re-opened Sunday afternoon at the LVH and the CRIS offshore book at 10.5. Both books were bet down to 10, which was where the Wynn opened it, though they were bet up to 10.5. So, it looks like this line will settle at 10 early in the week, but it wouldn't be surprising to see the public push it back higher toward game day.
Closed at 10 at LVH, was 10.5 at Bodog all week. Good start!
Redskins at Falcons minus-4.5: By the close of betting Sunday night, this had steamed to 5.5 at just about every book that posts early lines, as no one is looking to bet the Redskins. Betting hasn't slowed yet, but I'm guessing it won't get to 7 (or at least not without some heavy juice).
Closed at -5.5/6, but Washington was +7 -110 at LVH for most of Wednesday afternoon, and Bodog had that same price for almost 48 hours during the week.
49ers minus-5.5 at Buccaneers: This was at minus-6 last week and even though the 49ers gutted out a win over the Seahawks (though they didn't cover the 2.5-point spread), this line was re-opened at minus-5.5. Part of that is due to the Buccaneers covering four of their last five and being more competitive. Still, the 49ers are more of a public team, so this will probably go back to 6.
You know, if you could predict line movement just based on which team is "more of a public team," it'd probably be a lot easier. This never got to 6 at LVH, although Bodog did have that price for most of the week.
Cardinals minus-3 at Titans: This opened Cardinals minus-1.5 but was reposted at 3 after Arizona's rout of the Rams while the Titans were blown out by the Broncos. It was bet down to 2.5 at the LVH, so I expect this to waver between 2.5 and 3 most of the week.
This is exactly what happened.
Seahawks minus-7 at Giants: The Wynn went with minus-7 (even money) -- and that's where the LVH moved the line after early bettering -- while William Hill went with 6.5. This will probably hover between 6.5 and 7.
This is...not. See, this is the problem. These posts consistently underestimate how much these lines can move between Monday and Sunday. If you say a line will probably "hover between 6.5 and 7" and it closes at 9 (at both LVH and Bodog)...what's the point?
Texans at Colts minus-6: Earlier in the year, I would have predicted that the public would push this line to 7, but now it looks like we'll see it settle at 6 or 6.5.
Settled at about 6.5. So, correct on this one. However, it seems concerning that the only time these line "predictions" are right is when the line is stagnant throughout the week.
Bills minus-1.5 at Jaguars: This was Bills minus-2.5 last week but the Jags beat the Texans and the Bills were blown out by the Buccaneers, so it was reopened at 1.5 though other books opted for 2. The initial move at the LVH was up to 2, though I wouldn't be surprised if it got bet back toward pick 'em.
Would you be surprised if it closed at Bills -4? Because that is what happened.
Patriots minus-2.5 at Dolphins: This was Patriots minus-4 but they struggled to beat the Browns and lost Gronkowski, plus the Dolphins kept their playoff hoped alive, so this dropped to 2.5. I can't see how this doesn't get bet back to the key number of 3.
Miami ended up being the favorite here, by 2.5 at the LVH and slightly less at Bodog. So I guess it didn't quite get back to the key number of 3?
Eagles minus-4 at Vikings: This has jumped from Eagles minus-3 last week to reopening minus-4 at the LVH. It was then bet up to 4.5 before snapping back to 4, so that looks like the right number at least for now.
No mention of AP injury because #whocares, line closed at PHI -6.5/7.
Chiefs minus-3.5 at Raiders: This looks like the most solid line of the week at minus-3.5. Some books have heavier juice on those taking the Raiders plus-3.5, but they'll probably be reluctant to move to 3, and if they do it won't last long.
The "most solid line of the week" ended up moving from -3.5 to -6.5. We're really struggling to the finish line now.
Bengals minus-3 (even money) at Steelers: This was only Bengals minus-1 last week, but it reopened at 3 (with added juice on the Steelers plus-3) after Cincinnati's convincing win over the Colts and the Steelers' loss to the Dolphins. Some offshores went with 2.5, so it should hover between 2.5 and 3 until the market picks a side.
Closed at -2 at LVH and -3 EV at Bodog.
Ravens at Lions minus-6 (Monday): The advance line was Lions minus-4 but went up Sunday afternoon at Lions minus-6. CRIS went with 5.5 and got bet up to 6, so it's looking like a pretty solid number.
Closed at -5 at LVH and -6 EV at Bodog, so cool I guess.
The line moves portion of Tuley's column is described as:
Here are the openers from the LVH. We'll look at how we got to those numbers, including where the offshore openers might have differed, how they moved in early betting Sunday afternoon and night [...]
This seems accurate enough.
[...]and how they might move during the week. While the biggest part of winning at football is picking winners, it's just as important to be able to read the market and know when to place your wagers to get the best number.
I realize this is the goal, but seriously, come on. I think at this point we have sufficient evidence that Dave Tuley has absolutely no clue how NFL lines are going to move during the week. Not that we really needed much in the first place, considering he's a rec gambler who happens to live in Vegas and have an ESPN column. Even if you did know that the Bills would move from -1.5 to -4, why in the world would you ever publish it on the internet?
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The Problem with R.J.
Yes, this article about the LVH's "massive liability" on Auburn futures has "a much more TMZ feel than actual news". Sure, it's absolutely hilarious that R.J. ends up tweeting stuff like this in response.
But the real issue here, as pointed out by @jbxx, goes back a bit further. Let's look at R.J.'s post from (and the date is important here) July 26:
Who are the Wiseguys betting? Thirty-five-year bookmaker Jay Vaccaro is one of many pointing to Mississippi (from 500/1 to 100/1). LVH also reports significantly sharp action on Auburn (1,000/1 to 300/1) and Florida State (40/1 to 18/1).
Getting past how the phrase "significantly sharp action" is either a typo or makes no sense, this in itself is fine. At 1000-1, a wager wouldn't even have to be that large ($100? $500?) to be considered "sharp" and give the LVH a bit of risk.
Always annoying, though, when somebody comes through with those pesky "facts". Here's generally respected, non-tout Vegas reporter David Purdum on December 10:
The LVH Superbook took 14 ham-sandwich bets on Auburn to win the national championship at 1,000-to-1. All the bets were for $5 and $10 and placed between January and June. The bet the Superbook took in August was much larger.
As we head into bowl season, a $100,000 futures ticket is in play on the last BCS National Championship Game.
In August, a bettor placed $500 on three SEC longshots to win the national title. He took Tennessee at 500/1, Ole Miss at 100/1 and …. Auburn at 200/1.
Uh oh. Let's take a look at the timeline of events here:
January through June: Fourteen "ham-sandwich bets" (between $5 and $10) placed on Auburn at 1000-1.
July 26: R.J. reports that there has been "significantly sharp action on Auburn" at the LVH; odds have moved from 1000-1 to 300-1.
Sometime in August: Someone bets $500 on Auburn at 200-1.
December 7: Auburn 59, Mizzou 42. Massive liability, etc.
There's really only one way to interpret this, right? That the LVH got more random tourists than they expected betting $5 or $10 on their Auburn price, and in response moved the Tigers from 1000-1 to 300-1, because why wouldn't you?
And then somehow -- either because noted #makingshitup enthusiast Jay Kornegay misrepresented the facts, or because R.J. has no clue how line movement and #SHRAP action and risk work, or maybe some other reason -- these tiny bets were reported as "significantly sharp action". Which, really, is not acceptable.
Obviously, R.J. the Analyst is pretty much a joke. And anyway, if you think you're going to make money on widely available NFL lines by listening to anybody on the internet, well, probably not.
However, simply reporting facts just shouldn't be that hard. If you were making a legitimate effort, that is. But R.J. is such a fraud that he can't even reach that relatively low bar. When you're so eager to please and so obsessed with people retweeting you (as often as possible), when you have no clue how these markets actually work, and then on top of that you're so loose with the facts themselves...even if you WERE reporting something which was pertinent and interesting, why would anyone believe you?
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Book review: Reinventing the Wheel: Milk, Microbes and the Fight for Real Cheese
Reviewed by Elin McCoy
Here are three surprising facts I learned from Bronwen and Francis Percival’s fascinating new book, Reinventing the Wheel: First, there is such a thing as dead milk. (Hint: It’s pasteurized.) Second, my ideas about bacteria and sanitation are pretty much wrong when it comes to cheese.
Third, real Camembert, my favorite “wheel,” may be an endangered species. different sort of book, much more ambitious and inspiring. A passionate plea for the artisanal rather than fromage industrielle, it digs deep into rural and culinary history, the contrast between traditional and factory dairy farming, breeds of cows, the nature of milk, the latest microbial science, food politics, and how we look at and interact with the natural world.
It’s what the Percivals call an ecological approach to cheese. “What makes cheese unique,” they write, “is its capacity to link the biodiversity of three different worlds: flora, fauna, and microbiota […]. In the rounded depth of flavor of the cheese, we as consumers can experience the totality of [a] farming system.” It includes dairy animals, the pastures where they graze, the microbiology of their raw milk, and “the poetic ideal of artisanship and mastery” of the cheesemaker. It sounds very much like the notion of terroir that we use when talking about wine.
In the past century, cheese has morphed dramatically from farm craft to industrial marvel of consistency, with all that that entails. Take cows. Holsteins, today’s dominant breed, were developed for mass milk production, which doesn’t make very interesting cheese. French Montbeliarde cows, on the other hand, produce milk with a fat ratio of one to one, ideal for bespoke cheese-making. Their milk is behind Comté, Reblochon, Cantal, and many others.
You might think a book that spends many pages on the intricacies of indigenous microbial communities and their importance in cheese-making would be a boring slog through scientific jargon. This is not the case (though I admit to skimming the most technical parts about gram-positive bacteria). What drew me in and kept me reading were the engaging stories of the farmers, scientists, and rural places the Percivals visited, all woven together into a scholarly cow-to-field-to-plate narrative. Chapters cover topics such as breeds, feed, and risk, with cleverly titled subsections like “Addressing the Udder” and “Disciplining Milk.”
The tales start in the prologue, in a “lost world” in France’s Auvergne, where Guy Chambon makes authentic Salers Tradition cheese. The method of making it survived the Roman conquest, the Black Plague, and World War II, until, just over a decade ago, it was almost done in by politics. The latest microbial research by a French scientist saved it. Dr Marie-Christine Montel, the cheese-makers’ heroine, showed that the interaction between raw milk and the traditional, unwashed wooden buckets they used fostered microbes that actively resisted bad bacteria—and upended some mainstream notions of effective sanitation.
I was struck by the many parallels between “real” cheese and “real” wine, even though one product is solid and the other liquid. They, too, are products of their terroir, and the Percivals judge cheese just as we do wine (they know a lot about it, too), hunting for flavor complexity and uniqueness.
So, why are these cheeses in such danger? One reason is misguided overregulation (though the Percivals don’t shy away from a scrupulous examination of potential health risks and safety). But perhaps the main reason for the decline of farmstead cheese has been the flood of industrial products available at much cheaper prices—and consumers who simply don’t know why the former are worth more. With this book, the Percivals aim to change that. Overall, they come across as optimistic that a new generation of small-scale cheese-makers exploring the techniques of their great-grandparents can be a model for sustainable food production of the future and that new research can help that. I do have a couple of small quibbles. The main one: Where are the photos? The handful of poorly lit black-and-white photos of the cheese-making process look like something out of a 1950s agricultural school textbook and seem like a missed opportunity. It would have been nice to see some of the people, places, and cheeses that are discussed so eloquently in the text.
And I hankered for more detailed information on buying than the threepage appendix. Surprisingly, there is less in the book than you might expect about individual cheeses. Only a handful— Salers, Reblochon, Camembert, Cheddar, Lancashire—make significant appearances. I would have liked more.
Though they live in London, the Percivals have ideal credentials to write this book. Not only is Bronwen the cheese buyer for London’s Neal’s Yard Dairy and co-founder of microbialfoods. org, she also has a family history in the dairy business in California. Francis is a food writer who has worked as a fishmonger and chef. They met at the Oxford Symposium of Food & Cookery, which tells you that they are brainy, as well as obsessed. We’re the lucky recipients of their collaboration.
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Comparison of the diagnostic performance of ultrasonography with fine-needle aspiration cytology in thyroid nodules
Grace Oluyemisi Bayewu1, Ayotunde O Ogunseyinde1, Omolola Mojisola Atalabi1, Gabriel Olabiyi Ogun2, Adesoji Ebenezer Adetona2
1 Department of Radiology, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria
2 Department of Pathology, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria
Date of Web Publication 18-Jul-2019
Dr. Grace Oluyemisi Bayewu
Department of Radiology, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Oyo State
DOI: 10.4103/wajr.wajr_30_18
Objective: The aim of the study was to correlate the sonographic (ultrasound [US]) and color flow Doppler findings with the results of US-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy.
Materials and Methods: This is a cross-sectional study conducted in the ultrasound suite of our hospital, South Western, Nigeria. It is a cross-sectional study on 110 adult patients with clinically palpable thyroid nodule(s) in our hospital. Sonographic scans of 110 thyroid nodules in 110 patients were performed, and characteristics of thyroid nodules that were studied included microcalcifications, an irregular or microlobulated margins, marked hypoechogenicity/hypoechogenicity, a shape that was taller than it was wide, and color flow pattern in Color Doppler ultrasound. The presence and absence of characteristics of nodules were classified as having positive or negative findings, respectively.
Results: Among 110 solid thyroid nodules, 23 lesions were classified as positive considering the sonographic characteristics and 9 of them were proved to be malignant on histopathology. Of 87 lesions which were classified as negative, none was proved to be malignant. The sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), and negative predictive value based on our sonographic classification method were 100%, 86%, 36%, and 100%, respectively.
Conclusion: This study showed that ultrasound can be sensitive and specific for thyroid nodules but the PPV is low.
Keywords: Diagnostic performance, fine-needle aspiration cytology, thyroid nodules, ultrasonography
Bayewu GO, Ogunseyinde AO, Atalabi OM, Ogun GO, Adetona AE. Comparison of the diagnostic performance of ultrasonography with fine-needle aspiration cytology in thyroid nodules. West Afr J Radiol 2019;26:110-6
Bayewu GO, Ogunseyinde AO, Atalabi OM, Ogun GO, Adetona AE. Comparison of the diagnostic performance of ultrasonography with fine-needle aspiration cytology in thyroid nodules. West Afr J Radiol [serial online] 2019 [cited 2020 Jan 21];26:110-6. Available from: http://www.wajradiology.org/text.asp?2019/26/2/110/262934
Thyroid nodules occur with relatively high frequency in the general population with prevalence of 4%–7% by palpation alone and 13%–67% by sonographic evaluation.[1],[2] However, <7% of thyroid nodules are malignant.[3],[4] Imaging modality of choice for the investigation of thyroid nodules is high resolution ultrasound. Ultrasonography is the modality of choice for initial characterization of a thyroid nodule.[5] Ultrasound is helpful in distinguishing malignant from benign thyroid nodules. Although thyroid nodules may be detected at computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging, these modalities are not useful for characterization of a nodule.[6] Positron emission tomography may occasionally help identify thyroid nodules, but it is considered by some authors to have limited utility in differentiating benign from malignant lesions.[1],[7],[8]
Fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) is considered to be the most effective and reliable procedure for the diagnosis of malignant thyroid nodules.[9]
As thyroid nodules are shown by US to be present in 30%–50% of the population and fewer than 5.0%–6.5% of these are malignant,[10] US-guided fine-needle aspiration (FNA) has become increasingly popular.[11]
Sonographic features of potentially malignant thyroid nodules include microcalcifications, marked hypoechogenecity, irregular or microlobulated margins, taller than wide shape, and intranodular central vascularity.[1] Although the individual ultrasonic features may be of limited value, when multiple features appear in combination, it is possible to make an accurate prediction and such nodules should be further assessed with FNA.[1],[12],[13]
Color Doppler ultrasound has become an established imaging technique for assessing thyroid nodules, and many international authors have shown its ability to identify lesions with more probability of malignancy with good sensitivity and specificity.[14],[15]
This study aimed at evaluating the various ultrasound criteria in thyroid nodules and comparing to FNA cytology (FNAC) diagnosis.
This is a cross-sectional study that was approved by the Institutional Review Board on 110 consenting adults presenting with thyroid nodules.
Previously diagnosed malignant nodules and normal thyroids were excluded.
Clinical assessment of all patients in this study was carried out including history taking and local examination.
All studied participants had ultrasound examination using a high-resolution, 7.5–12 MHz, linear array transducer of Ultrasonix Sonix TOUCH ultrasound machine made in 2010 by Ultrasonic medical corporation in Canada for B-mode and color Doppler characteristics as well as FNAC.
For patients with multiple thyroid nodules, the nodule with the most suspicious sonographic features was evaluated and aspirated for cytology.
A careful evaluation of the following parameters was carried out on all lesions: echogenicity (Hyperechoic, isoechoic, hypoechoic or anechoic), echo structure (solid, spongiform, or cystic), margins (well defined or poorly defined) and presence or absence of hyperechoic spots (macrocalcifications or microcalcifications), shape (taller than wide or wider than tall), presence or absence of halo (thin or thick incomplete), and color flow pattern (peripheral, intranodal, and avascular).
Sonographic characteristics suggesting malignancy were defined as microcalcifications, an irregular or microlobulated margins, marked hypoechogenecity, a shape that was taller than it was wide, and intranodular vascularity in color Doppler study.
Nodules were prospectively classified as positive or negative based on previous studies.[16] If one or more features suggestive of malignancy were present, the nodule was classified as positive. If a nodule had no suspicious features, it was classified as negative (benign).
After US examination, an US-guided fine-needle aspiration was performed for all evaluated 110 nodules.
Ultrasound-guided FNAB was performed by the pathologist using a 23-gauge needle with a free hand technique. For a partially cystic nodule, the biopsy sampling was directed to the solid portion of the nodule. In patients with more than one nodule, FNA of the suspicious nodule was retained.
Aspirate was smeared on slides and stained by May–Grunwald–Giemsa stain. The cytological analysis was performed by a single pathologist. Cytological material was defined as adequate when six or more thyroid cell clusters were obtained. Adequate cytological material was classified as benign, malignant, or suspicious.
Based on previous study, cytologic results were classified as benign, suspicious, or malignant.[9]
Patients with a benign cytodiagnosis had no features suggestive of or diagnostic for malignancy. Patients with a suspicious cytodiagnosis had specimens showing hypercellularity and a pattern suggestive of follicular neoplasms or atypical features suggestive of, but not diagnostic for, malignancy. Patients with a malignant cytodiagnosis had cytologic findings that indicated the presence of malignant cells consistent with thyroid carcinoma.
Cytological variables consisted of malignant, benign, and suspicious cases.
Fisher's exact test was used to determine the association between categorical variables of interest and the dependent variable. Specificity, sensitivity, negative predictive value, and positive predictive value (PPV) of the ultrasound features were also determined. Level of statistical significance was set at <0.05.
The study population of 110 cases obtained comprised 103 females and 7 males with a female to male ratio of 14.7:1. The ages ranged from 22 to 71 years with a mean of 44.05 ± 11.79 years [Table 1]. The majority of the patients 79 (71.8%) had tertiary education. Only 4 (3.6%) had no formal education.
Table 1: Sociodemographic characteristics of participants studied
The sonographic findings in malignant and benign nodules are summarized in [Table 2].
Table 2: Ultrasound features of thyroid nodules of participants
Most of the nodules 103 (93.6%) were wider than tall, isoechoic 59 (53.6%), mostly spongiform [Figure 1] 83 (75.5%), mostly well-defined 101 (91.8%) with thin surrounding halo 93 (92.1%). Calcification was present in 18 (16.4%) patients, of which 5 (27.8%) were macrocalcifications while 13 (72.2%) were microcalcifications [Figure 2]. Color flow was present in 84 (76.4%) nodules, of which 76 (69.1%) were peripheral while intranodal [Figure 3] were 8 (7.3%).
Figure 1: Transverse USS of the thyroid gland showing a huge fairly oval-shaped isoechoic nodule with mixed solid and cystic components (spongiform) which was confirmed to be benign with fine-needle aspiration cytology
Figure 2: Transverse USS of the thyroid gland showing a huge isoechoic nodule with both microcalcifications and macrocalcification which was confirmed to be malignant with fine-needle aspiration cytology
Figure 3: Transverse USS of the thyroid gland with color Doppler interrogation showing a lobulated, poorly defined, isoechoic nodule with intranodal flow and incomplete thick halo which was confirmed to be malignant with fine-needle aspiration cytology
Among 110 thyroid nodules, 23 nodules were classified as positive considering the sonographic characteristics while 87 nodules were classified as negative as shown in [Table 3].
Table 3: Categories of the thyroid nodules studied
At cytological evaluation, 101 lesions were benign (91.8%) and 9 were malignant (8.2%) as shown in [Table 4].
Table 4: Cytological findings in the thyroid samples studied
The correlation of ultrasound categories with cytologic findings and the correlation of sonographic features with cytologic findings are shown in [Table 5] and [Table 6], respectively.
Table 5: Ultrasound categories and the cytological findings
Table 6: Correlation of the cytology findings with ultrasound features
Among 110 thyroid nodules, 23 lesions were classified as positive considering the sonographic characteristics and 9 of them were proved to be malignant on FNAC. Of 87 lesions which were classified as negative, none was malignant after FNAC.
Of the 9 confirmed by FNAC to be malignant, 6 had nodal involvement on ultrasound.
In these 110 nodules, our sonographic classification method resulted in a sensitivity of 100% (9/9), specificity of 86% (87/101), PPV of 39% (9/23), and negative predictive value of 100% (87/87). The sensitivity of each sign was ranging from 62% to 86%, but the specificity was from 97% to 100%. These are illustrated in [Table 7].
Table 7: Sensitivity and specificity of ultrasound features
There are many USS criteria for differentiating benign from malignant thyroid nodules. Such differentiation is important for selecting patients for further FNAC in cases in which malignancy is suspected and to avoid unnecessary biopsy for those with benign criteria. It has been found in literature that no single criteria can predict malignancy, and combination of the known criteria of malignancy gives higher sensitivity and specificity than depending on single ultrasound feature.[8]
The female to male ratio of 14.7:1 in this study concurs with 10:1, 11.1, and 14.1 recorded for Port-Harcourt, Kano, and Enugu from Southern, North East, and South Eastern parts of Nigeria, respectively.[17],[18],[19] It however differs slightly with the reports from Lagos and Ife, both from Western Nigeria, which recorded ratio of 7:1 and 6:1, respectively,[20],[21] as well as reports from the United States of America, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan, which recorded female to male ratios of 7:1, 6.2:1, and 4.5:1, respectively.[22],[23],[24]
Ijomone et al.[17] gave reasons that the difference was probably due to geographical and socioeconomic variation in these areas; however, this reason is not in agreement with this work as this index study is also from Western part of Nigeria where it was claimed to have a relatively low female to male ratio.
The mean age of patients in this study was 44 years with a range of 22–71 years. The age group 36–45 had the highest prevalence of thyroid nodules 36 (32.7%). This is similar to the findings in other studies from Southern Nigeria where the majority of cases were found in the age group 30–39 from Lagos and 31–40 from Port-Harcourt.[20],[25] Tsegaye and Ergete [26] found out that 85% of thyroid diseases were found in the age group 20–59. This shows that thyroid diseases are not common in extremes of age.
The incidence of malignant nodules was 8.2% in this study which is significantly lower than benign nodules; this is in agreement with findings by Abdulkareem et al.[20] and Anidi et al.[18] who got an incidence of 7% and 8.3%, respectively, although findings by Papini et al.,[27] Hegedüs et al.,[28] and Kunreuther et al.[29] however showed higher percentage of malignancy (9.2%–13.0%) which is slightly higher than the findings in this index study.
Calcifications occurring in thyroid nodules include microcalcifications, coarse calcifications, and peripheral calcifications. Thyroid microcalcifications are psammoma bodies which in ultrasound appear as punctuate hyperechoic foci; usually without acoustic shadowing.[1] The presence of microcalcification is one of the most specific features of thyroid malignancy.[30] In this study, its specificity is 100%, which is in agreement with other studies where it is stated as 85.8%–95%[8],[31] and its PPV is 100% which is also in agreement with other studies where it has been 4.8%–94.2%.[13] The presence of poorly defined margin was considered a feature for a malignant nodule. In our study, it was about 78% sensitive and 98% specific. The reported sensitivity of poorly defined margins ranges widely (53%–89%).[31] Results of current study were similar with the one reported by Papini et al.[27] The difference in the range may be due to their larger patient sample size.
Since poorly defined margins may also be demonstrated in 15%–59% of benign nodules,[8],[32] Hoang et al.[1] state that unless frank invasion beyond capsule is demonstrated, the ultrasound appearance of margins of thyroid nodule alone is an unreliable basis for determining malignancy or benignity.
Hypoechogenicity in solid thyroid nodules was considered a finding suggestive of malignancies such as carcinomas and lymphomas. However, 55% of benign nodules are also solid and hypoechoic.[1],[27] In this study, no attempt was made to differentiate markedly hypoechoic lesions from other hypoechoic lesions, and both were considered a finding indicative of malignancy. The specificity for detection of a malignancy in hypoechoic solid nodule is 87%, but sensitivity is 67% and is described in other studies as well.[1],[8],[27]
A nodule shape taller than wide is regarded as a potentially useful ultrasound feature suggestive of malignancy [1] signifying that the lesion is aggressive and is growing against the soft tissue planes. This feature has been described by Kim et al.[3] and has high specificity for malignancy (93%), which is in agreement with this study (97%) which also has high sensitivity value (86%). Color Doppler US has become an established imaging technique for assessing thyroid nodules, and many authors have shown its ability to identify lesions with more probability of malignancy with good sensitivity and specificity and have been proven to be statistically significant criteria when deciding for FNA.[14],[15] In this study, predominantly central color flow pattern in solid nodules is predictive of malignancy with 67% sensitivity and 98% specificity with 75% PPV and 97% negative predictive value. De Nicola et al.[14] and Cerbone et al.[33] state that most thyroid carcinomas have exuberant central vascularization which is described as having chaotic and irregular pattern.
In this study, of the 101 nodules that showed halo sign, 93 had thin halo while 8 showed thick incomplete halo. Ninety-six percentage of the nodules with thin halo were proven to be benign while 75% (60) of nodules with thick incomplete halo were malignant. This was in agreement in previous studies of Papini et al.[27] in Italy, Kim et al.[3] in Korea, and Frates et al.[34] in USA where thin halo sign was found to be highly predictive of benignity. Papini et al.[27] found no benign nodule with thick incomplete halo.
This study confirms that gray scale ultrasound features are helpful in differentiating the malignant from benign lesions, but we found that there is no single gray scale ultrasound criterion that could distinguish benign from malignant thyroid nodules with 100% reliability. However, the presence of microcalcifications within a nodule is associated with thyroid cancer among the rest of the ultrasonic features which buttress the point of view of Cappelli et al.[35] and Lyshchik et al.[36] that intrinsic microcalcification is the strongest criterion predicting malignancy.
USS is highly sensitive than specific for diagnosis of thyroid masses in this study. However, its PPV is very low.
Hoang JK, Lee WK, Lee M, Johnson D, Farrell S. US features of thyroid malignancy: Pearls and pitfalls. Radiographics 2007;27:847-60.
Bertagna F, Treglia G, Piccardo A, Giubbini R. Diagnostic and clinical significance of F-18-FDG-PET/CT thyroid incidentalomas. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2012;97:3866-75.
Kim JM, Ryu JS, Kim TY, Kim WB, Kwon GY, Gong G, et al. 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography does not predict malignancy in thyroid nodules cytologically diagnosed as follicular neoplasm. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2007;92:1630-4.
Chen YK, Ding HJ, Chen KT, Chen YL, Liao AC, Shen YY, et al. Prevalence and risk of cancer of focal thyroid incidentaloma identified by 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography for cancer screening in healthy subjects. Anticancer Res 2005;25:1421-6.
Tan GH, Gharib H. Thyroid incidentalomas: Management approaches to nonpalpable nodules discovered incidentally on thyroid imaging. Ann Intern Med 1997;126:226-31.
Ishigaki S, Shimamoto K, Satake H, Sawaki A, Itoh S, Ikeda M, et al. Multi-slice CT of thyroid nodules: Comparison with ultrasonography. Radiat Med 2004;22:346-53.
Brander AE, Viikinkoski VP, Nickels JI, Kivisaari LM. Importance of thyroid abnormalities detected at US screening: A 5-year follow-up. Radiology 2000;215:801-6.
Frates MC, Benson CB, Charboneau JW, Cibas ES, Clark OH, Coleman BG, et al. Management of thyroid nodules detected at US: Society of radiologists in ultrasound consensus conference statement. Radiology 2005;237:794-800.
Gharib H, Goellner JR. Fine-needle aspiration biopsy of the thyroid: An appraisal. Ann Intern Med 1993;118:282-9.
Ross DS. Nonpalpable thyroid nodules – Managing an epidemic. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2002;87:1938-40.
Harnsberger H. Diagnostic Imaging: Head and Neck. Salt Lake City, UT: Amirsys; 2004. p. 24-40.
Hamming JF, Goslings BM, van Steenis GJ, van Ravenswaay Claasen H, Hermans J, van de Velde CJ, et al. The value of fine-needle aspiration biopsy in patients with nodular thyroid disease divided into groups of suspicion of malignant neoplasms on clinical grounds. Arch Intern Med 1990;150:113-6.
Amal AS, Khaled A, Faten W. Fine needle aspiration of thyroid nodules has high sensitivity and specificity. Rawal Med J 2008;33:221-4.
De Nicola H, Szejnfeld J, Logullo AF, Wolosker AM, Souza LR, Chiferi V Jr., et al. Flow pattern and vascular resistive index as predictors of malignancy risk in thyroid follicular neoplasms. J Ultrasound Med 2005;24:897-904.
Choi YJ, Yun JS, Kim DH. Clinical and ultrasound features of cytology diagnosed follicular neoplasm. Endocr J 2009;56:383-9.
Yunus M, Ahmed Z. Significance of ultrasound features in predicting malignant solid thyroid nodules: Need for fine-needle aspiration. J Pak Med Assoc 2010;60:848-53.
Ijomone EA, Duduyemi BM, Udoye E, Nwosu SO. Histopathological review of thyroid diseases in Southern Nigeria-A ten year retrospective study. J Med Med Sci 2014;5:127-32.
Anidi AI, Ejeckam GC, Ojukwu J, Ezekwesili RA. Histological pattern of thyroid diseases in Enugu, Nigeria. East Afr Med J 1983;60:546-50.
Edino ST, Mohammed AZ, Ochicha O, Malami SA, Yakubu AA. Thyroid cancers in nodular goiters in Kano, Nigeria. Niger J Clin Pract 2010;13:298-300.
Abdulkareem FB, Banjo AA, Elesha SO. Histological review of thyroid lesions: A 13-year retrospective study (1989-2001). Niger Postgrad Med J 2005;12:210-4.
Nggada HA, Ojo OS, Adelusola KO. A histopathological analysis of thyroid diseases in ile-ife, Nigeria. A review of 274 cases. Niger Postgrad Med J 2008;15:47-51.
Chung EB, Rogers N, White JE. Thyroid diseases in black patients. J Natl Med Assoc 1977;69:573-7.
Abu-Eshy SA, Al-Shehri MY, Khan AR, Khan GM, Al-Humaidi MA, Malatani TS. Causes of goiter in the Asir region: A histopathological analysis of 361 cases. Ann Saudi Med 1995;15:74-6.
Hussain N, Anwar M, Nadia N, Ali Z. Pattern of surgically treated thyroid diseases in Karachi. Biomedica 2005;21:18-20.
Seleye-Fubara D, Numbere N, Etebu EN. Pathology of common diseases of the thyroid gland in Port-Harcourt. Port Harcourt Med J 2009;3:312-7.
Tsegaye B, Ergete W. Histopathologic pattern of thyroid disease. East Afr Med J 2003;80:525-8.
Papini E, Guglielmi R, Bianchini A, Crescenzi A, Taccogna S, Nardi F, et al. Risk of malignancy in nonpalpable thyroid nodules: Predictive value of ultrasound and color-Doppler features. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2002;87:1941-6.
Hegedüs L, Bonnema SJ, Bennedbaek FN. Management of simple nodular goiter: Current status and future perspectives. Endocr Rev 2003;24:102-32.
Kunreuther E, Orcutt J, Benson CB, Doubilet PM, Cibas ES, Moore FD, et al. Prevalence and distribution of carcinoma in the uninodular and multinodular goiter. Presented at the 76th Annual Meeting of the American Thyroid Association. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; 29 September, 3 October, 2004.
Solbiati L, Arsizio B, Ballarati E, Cioffi V, Poerio N, Croce F, et al. Micro-calcifications: A clue in the diagnosis of thyroid malignancies. Radiology 1990;117:140.
Koike E, Noguchi S, Yamashita H, Murakami T, Ohshima A, Kawamoto H, et al. Ultrasonic characteristics of thyroid nodules: Prediction of malignancy. Arch Surg 2001;136:334-7.
Wienke JR, Chong WK, Fielding JR, Zou KH, Mittelstaedt CA. Sonographic features of benign thyroid nodules: Interobserver reliability and overlap with malignancy. J Ultrasound Med 2003;22:1027-31.
Cerbone G, Spiezia S, Colao A, Di Sarno A, Assanti AP, Lucci R, et al. Power Doppler improves the diagnostic accuracy of color Doppler ultrasonography in cold thyroid nodules: Follow-up results. Horm Res 1999;52:19-24.
Frates MC, Benson CB, Doubilet PM, Cibas ES, Marqusee E. Can color Doppler sonography aid in the prediction of malignancy of thyroid nodules? J Ultrasound Med 2003;22:127-31.
Cappelli C, Castellano M, Pirola I, Cumetti D, Agosti B, Gandossi E, et al. The predictive value of ultrasound findings in the management of thyroid nodules. QJM 2007;100:29-35.
Lyshchik A, Higashi T, Asato R, Tanaka S, Ito J, Mai JJ, et al. Thyroid gland tumor diagnosis at US elastography. Radiology 2005;237:202-11.
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It was dreadfully late in coming, and everybody in the media is pretending nothing happened, but the war of the rest of the world against the Jews started this past week.
Rowan Berkeley said...
somebody should tell the good folks at CounterPunch, who are still pumping out bilge like this, from Ishmael Reed, no less:
My mother, now 91, said that a few years ago the deceased who had been visiting her since childhood had stopped coming. They'd been replaced by spirits bringing prophecies. She said that one of the spirts said cryptically that Israel is going to be okay.
^Forgot to add that passage from Ishmael Reed yesterday. Still, I can't figure out what he means.
Xymp, are you referring to the Pope's decision to rehabilitate Bishop Williamson?
Richard Williamson's latest blog entry:
http://dinoscopus.blogspot.com/2009/02/heroic-harmonies.html
This could be turn into a nice song:
http://tinyurl.com/cl5a5v
(Sully and Suleyman)
From http://freedomrider.blogspot.com/
For those who can read German:
Sauerland-Zelle: Mutmaßlicher CIA-Mann war "der Chef"
http://www.stern.de/panorama/:Sauerland-Zelle-Mutma%DFlicher-CIA-Mann-der-Chef/653678.html
Xymph,
What event exactly marks this tuning point last week?
About Al-CIAda synthetic terror in North-Rhine Westphalen, here is a commentary with links to videos in German.
Also a video on the recent botched false-flag attack by the BND in Kosovo:
http://politikprofiler.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-02-07T23%3A03%3A00%2B01%3A00&max-results=1
Well Xenophile, it is nice to see not all Germans are Obamanias.
It just struck me that a major failure of imagination common to all the habitues if Mondoweiss is that not one of them can see through the biggest fiction of all: namely, the fiction that the people looting the US Treasury are distinct from 'the zionists'.
I was thinking about this last night, and it struck me that we have all been far too ready to internalise the fictional detail, which is the famous 'anti-zionism' of 'georg soros'. It might be better to regard him simply as yet another Rothschild proxy, who does what he is told and serves as a faithful cut-out for whichever Rothschild is running things at the time, i.e., he never breathes a word of any close relationship between them. After all, that is precisely the kind of proxy you would want, if you were a Rothschild, isn't it?
That's a Chris Bollyn sort of approach, isn't it? Look for Madoff's "zionist connections".
I never thought Soros was an anti-zionist. He's just part of the Jewish shadow play. His role was/is to be the embodiment of the Jewish liberal conscience. Mahathir had him pegged in 2003, it's just to bad that by 2006 Mahat was step'n and fetch'n with the rest of them. The tribe must have gotten some pictures on the old guy.
Some Sunday humor via the Onion...
Thank God for U.S. Baby Boomers Jews, U.S. retried Jews and their twenty-something millennial off-spring. Yes, Israel will be OK, God willing.
Evie, you are doubtless right never to have been impressed by the zionist alarums about Soros and his 'anti-zionism'. However, this is also interesting in another way: those complaints from the zionist Right about Soros always coupled his supposed 'anti-zionism' with a whole slew of 'Left' qualities - if you remember Barry Chamish used to take this sort of thing to extremes, accusing the Rothschilds themselves of being crypto-communists.
All this happens just because the people targeted are insufficiently right-wing for their critics. I used to read the JPost, etc., and think, well, if the Israeli Left is such a menace to the Right, there must be hope that things will change. But no, it was just their usual exaggeration and vituperation against anyone insufficiently extreme-right for them. The ultra-Right spend a lot of time doing this - painting people only slightly less to the Right than themselves as raving Lefties.
Nanette Asimov said: Israel will be OK, God willing.
The only way 'Israel will be OK' is by imposing an explicitly Jewish dictatorship upon the entire planet, Nanette. Do you really think that they are likely to succeed? We don't.
I'm not sure what this fuss is about, since Soros never billed himself as anti-Zionist, which at least would have involved taking some kind of position resembling Tony Judt's.
Dear Mr. Xymphora
Excuse me but I could not follow what turning-point event you are refering to that supposed to have initiated the war against the Jews
Man From Atlan said...
I think Xymphora is referring to the pope's reinstatement of SPPX bishop Williamson, who doubts the existence of 'gas chambers'
HuffPo printed this defense of him I wrote:
"This is sad, the way everyone piled on the Bishop and the Church for politically incorrect views, while denying certain facts and missing the broader picture:
He has the right to his views.
The Pope has the right to guide his flock, and reinstate anyone he pleases.
The Bigger Picture: Israeli actions in Gaza, and Jewish sympathisers continually bringing up the holocaust, only adds to anti-semitism, not diminish it. Even friends might say, dumb move.
The Facts: Those who say Germans kept meticulous records, have been unable to produce blueprints of the alleged gas chambers, or copies of the death registers, or any forensic evidence whatsoever (6 million corpses leave a lot of evidence, as any cop can tell you)
Emotive recollections by alleged survivors are traditionally disregarded by fairly constituted courts.
The Nuremberg confessions of Auschwitz camp commandant Rudolph Hoess were obtained under extreme torture, the alleged gas chambers were post war Stalinist reconstructions, and those who tried to say otherwise were imprisoned.
This is my honestly held view, which I'd be happy to debate with anyone"
I think even ant-semitism is becoming fashionable, don't you?
Man From Atlanta
Thank you for the explaination and the insights. I do not know if the reinstatement of bishop Willimson would have such a devistating out-come on the world jews or the zionest state of Israel.
But whai I am very sure of is that the masacares and war crimes and crimes against huminity committed by Israelis against the improisned people of Gaza will hunt them for long times to come.
What War Against the Jews?
Did I miss something?
They've burrowed their way into Bama's administration, so no war there.
They've got quislings installed in Paris, Bonn and #10 Downing, so no war there.
One of their most obedient lad dogs, the boot licker Blair, looks to be the next president of Europe, so no battles there.
So where is this War Against the Jews?
Except in the delusional minds of the likes of Abe Fartman and Norman Podhoretz and the legions that follow.
Oops, looks like that attack against that Venezuelan synagogue was an inside job.
Shit, I'm flabbergasted. Who'd ever thunk that?
Venezuela arrests police, guard in synagogue attack
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N08458628.htm
Huff PO, a most liberal blog, just published this too:
"Commenters here have felt free to use the most emotive and prejudicial arguments concerning the church or questioners of the Holocaust mythos, then demanded objective links and books from those who disagreed with them.
History isn't the search for a consensus, or agreed upon statement of facts, but the truth.
Zionists can admiringly quote the thoroughly discredited Joan Richards 'From Time Imemorial' to 'prove' the non-existence of a Palestinian people, and many faked Holocaust memoirs, but quibble about the provenance of every IHR.org or Harry Barnes book so I'm not going to play that game.
As a student of history I'll tell you I've read hundreds of books, so i'm not going to list any one, sorry.
But my opinion, which some may seem allergic to debate, is:
After WWI a group of International Bankers of a certain religious persuasion forced the most ruinous terms upon the German people at the Treaty of Versailles. This caused Germany, which had been the most liberal European country in relations with the Jewish people, become more anti Jewish.
When Hitler was elected in 1933 a Jewish led boycott of Germany gave Hitler the opportunity to move against Jewish control of academia, business and culture and promote the discriminatory Nuremberg Laws. His economic reforms led to a German resurgence.
WWII was an unnecessary war, but Churchill and FDR wanted and got a war anyway. Hitler, to promote the war effort, established slave labour camps which he filled with communists, Jews, Gypsies, and homosexuals.
He offered Allies the chance to repatriate the Jews to Madagscar and then Palestine. They refused.
Conditions in the slave camps deteriorated after years of allied bombing on Germany to the point where hundreds of thousands of inmates died of typhus.
There were no homicidal gas chambers, just rooms where clothes were defumigated with Zyklon B, an insecticide to kill the typhus bearing lice. Inmates heads were shaved also as a preventative measure.
The Red Cross visited the camps during the war. No mention made of gas chambers. Germans kept meticulous death records plus cause of death. At best, 300,000 people died of starvation and typhus.
If it were German policy to kill useless mouths and children, Anne Frank would have been gassed. Instead, she died of typhus.
There is no Hitler order concerning the killing of Jews, and Himmler's 'Final Solution' concerned their eventual deportation. Many communist partisans, including Jews, were also shot during the invasion of Russia. But six million corpses, whether buried, cremated, or boiled into soap, would leave mountains of forensic evidence. The execution of ONE prisoner with poison gas is a huge undertaking, and six million, monumentally more so. So far, the only evidence provided is memoirs of exagerrated provenance, and Hollywood movies, however fantastic.
According to Norman Finkelstein, the Holocaust Industry serves only to further the aims of Global Zionism.
I agree"
I've worked extra hard to get to where I am - this station in life - I only use cruelty free hair care products and I have my own cable channel with an 800 number scratchily at the bottom. I don't gossip in public spaces in my hometown in south Florida because there are nine there left. Hitler was perhaps one - quarter to half Jewish. Was he a Zionist agent who in the same way Bush ushered in the era of Judeo-Negro officialdom?
Then again, Huff PO just had a change of heart, deleted all my above comments after posting them.
I'm not really that surprised, I guess.
Hopefully Xymphora will fix the comments page soon, so people can come back.
the BEST way to end this Jewish crime and terrorist network is to send in fully armed vigilante men (preferably with machine guns) into various Jew controlled media and TV stations throughout the Western world and play movies like "911 missing links" www.911missinglinks.com or "7-7 Ripple Effect" -http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8756795263359807776&hl=en
IF and WHEN the American Patriots do that, the JEWISH CRIME AND TERRORIST NETWORK WILL FALL, AND JEWISH TERRORISTS WILL BE EXECUTED PUBLICLY AND ALL STOLEN WEALTH WILL BE RECONFISCATED. JEWISH TERRORISM MUST COME TO AN END AND JEWISH MASS MURDERERS MUST BE MASS MURDERED!!!
Hitler was perhaps one - quarter to half Jewish. Was he a Zionist agent who in the same way Bush ushered in the era of Judeo-Negro officialdom?
Untrue and unimportant. Racial Jewishness is not inherently bad (kei is racially jewy), but it is sometimes useful when you have a guy with a screamingly Jewish name and phenotype and mom, and he's out there schilling for Israel and turns around and insists that heisn't Jewish. The Jews also needlessly make race important by fetishizing it themselves -- if you go to Israel with the right Blutsanteil you get free freshly stolen Arab land. But by itself it's meaningless and Hitler's debunked Jewishness is totally a red herring.
Anything any Bush ever did to help any Blacks must not have been intentional.
@Anonymous - calm down mate. This is false anti-semitism you spout. Enough with the ugly words.
As Dr Robert Bowman, Lt-Col USAF, Aeronautical and Nuclear Engineer has said:
"The official explanation [for 911] in the NIST reports violates the laws of physics. It is physically impossible for a building (or anything else) to fall at near free-fall speed and do work (smashing steel and concrete) on the way down...The symmetrical collapse of building 7 due to highly asymmetrical damage is also unbelieveable. We have not yet been told the truth."
But no-one has said anything about the ethnicity of any possible perpetrators.
No false anti-semitism!
"But no-one has said anything about the ethnicity of any possible perpetrators."
Then let me say that 9/11 was a Jew job.
It was a false flag operation to kick start the Jew war on the Arabs.
"Then again, Huff PO just had a change of heart"
No surprise. Huff PO is run by Jews,... just like every other website where you get to comment.
As much or little I've read, Mfa, these are objective points of view, supported by Benjamin Freedman as an original witness of time from WW1 on and others. Otherwise it doesn't make sense why today investigators are prevented from collecting evidence against or for the alleged case of planned and done mass-murder, and like Germar Rudolf put in imprisonment.
a bit of logic I've kept until today, Fritz
the circumstantial evidence regarding the WTC points unambiguously enough at silverstein and lowy, it always has done.
The ultra-Right spend a lot of time doing this - painting people only slightly less to the Right than themselves as raving Lefties.
Actually, all Jews do that, and all the time, creating straw kikes to demonstrate diversity of positions and opinions but look more carefully and you will see that the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them.
And those who fail to grasp this underlying reality get clusterfucked.
Sea bathing, soonish
No waltzing
A psychosexual history of the Wars For The Jews
Why is CanWest over?
Technophobia II
Getting the story straight
Assassination news
Parts of the propaganda war
bibi4ever
"International law progresses through violations"
The blood pours from their fangs
JIZ logic
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"‘Son of a Whore’: Video Shows Israeli Troops Cheering After Shooting Unarmed Palestinian". "Israeli sniper films shooting of unarmed Palestinian through rifle scope– and celebrates" (Ofir/Weiss). "Why Israel Feels Threatened by Popular Resistance in Palestine" (Baroud). It's the problem of a unified group of human beings getting between a Khazar and something the Khazar wants to steal. I'm sure many think I am terribly unfair when I refer to the (((media))), but the facts are actually much, much, much worse than I can possibly convey - e.g., Canadian 'journalists': "Canadian journalists hold emergency meeting over statement condemning Gaza violence" (note the specific reference to fear of a particular kind of criticism, essentially you can't state an obvious truth because of the career-ending problem in the (((media))) of being labeled a 'truth-teller' on one particular issue):
"Jonathan Kay, the Canadian Editor at Quillette Magazine, called the statement “one-sided,” adding that it was an “unusual time” to put out such a statement.
“The narrative wasn’t that different,” Kay said. “It wasn’t one of these incidents … where one side was saying there had been a massacre of hundreds of Palestinians and the Israelis were saying no,” he said.
Jesse Brown, host and publisher of Canadaland, said the statement condemned Israeli policy in a way that would put journalists covering the conflict in a compromised position.
The Israel-Palestine conflict is “probably the issue under which journalists are most scrutinized by all sides,” Brown said.
“Any evidence or perceived evidence of bias is seized upon to prove that, either the journalist is in the pocket of the Israel lobby or that they’re just crusading for the Palestinian cause,” Brown said. “People who cover this have to be incredibly mindful. "
It is simply not possible to convey how deeply evil, and committed as an utterly unified group to violent racist supremacism, these Khazars are. The only way to defeat this pure distillation of Evil is to make it clear that everybody knows, and hates them for it. 2% of the population simply can't scheme against the committed and woke opposition of the 98% no matter how much blackmail and bribery and control of the (((media))) they are able to muster. These dark days of Wars For The Jews should wake everybody up to the real problem the 98% faces, which is now coming closer to actual nuclear annihilation all because truth-tellers are afraid of being called names.
"Trump Tweets Deranged Threat Against Russia, Says Ready to Bomb Syria [UPDATE: Weird Followup Tweet]" (Anglin):
"Trump just announced he’s planning to bomb Syria.
This is, effectively, the end of his presidency.
I genuinely believed he had stalled this long and was going to be able to avoid this.
But I guess Trump doesn’t give a fuck about the people, and is willing to just be bullied by Jews."
The irony is that Trump is taking steps that will guarantee he loses his Presidency, and he probably will end up in jail, assuming there is a functioning post-nuke US government to jail him. Did you notice we're about to enter WWIII and there is almost no coverage of it in the (((media))). (((They))) are trying to sneak it by!
"Nonsense about Syria gas attacks reveals US ideology of tyranny" (Gowans). Linked to solely as an excellent example of the 'dialectic'. Noam could have written it (and no doubt will). No mention of the actual (((problem))), but lots of talk about the Empire. The use of 'nonsense' in the title must be ironic, or perhaps a signal to the cognoscenti.
"Britain and its Deadly Chemical Games" (Berger). Reminder of Britain's sordid history of using chemical weapons, and then the kicker:
"But, in addition to the documented use of chemical weapons, Britain is well known for its false-flag provocations in this field. Among them is the so-called White Helmets organization in Syria. When Britain needs to blame Russia, Iran or the Syrian armed forces for the ongoing bombing of allegedly peaceful international radical terrorists, it orders them to destroy hospitals and schools, while using alleged chemical weapons in the process before carrying out “rescue operations” under direct supervision of British special services. Injured children are always on hand as props, with professional cameramen capturing the staged events. It is noteworthy that the founder of this group was James Le Mesurier, a British military intelligence officer with an impressive track record. He’s a graduate of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, who saw deployment in some well-known military operations, including in Bosnia and Kosovo, as well as in Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine. In general, he’s been everywhere the West needed to stage a humanitarian catastrophe, with a subsequent “humanitarian intervention” leading to long sought after Western geopolitical objectives. He is still in the service of Her Majesty, to be more specific – British military intelligence."
Isn't it interesting how everything is coming together conceptually, as if it were an IQ test for those with an IQ over, say, 75, impossible for any honest person to miss:
Trump's public statements of wanting to get out of Syria;
immediately followed by the latest achingly obvious Syrian gas false-flag (an attack predicted by the Russians for some time);
the recent turkey-shoot Israeli massacres of Gazans, coupled with a slight problem in controlling the narrative outside, of course, the (((media)));
the 'moral' Israeli 'retaliation' for the gas attack, coincidentally at an Iranian drone base;
added, and important: the parity of populations between Arabs and Jews (actually, a fair count, which nobody seems to want to make, would show more Arabs), together with the stalling and reversal of the Yinon program, demonstrating the hopelessness of the Khazar land thieving project, requiring a Hail Mary ruination of the world to save it;
Skripal, and the false-flag and subsequent political lying spree falling apart so embarrassingly;
the 'anti-Semite' attacks on Corbyn;
Trump's Stormy-Cohen problems;
Sheldon buying Bolton - who shows up, remarkably, at just the right time - by having his shekel-schlepper Schlomo schlep a big bag of shiny shekels to Trump, telling him not to be a schmuck and refuse the schlepped shiny shekels because if you don't we'll use Stormy-Cohen to embarrass and replace you at which point the next President will take the schlepped shiny shekels and give us the WWIII we demand;
the (((media))) conveying every single fucking obvious lie as if it was uncontested truth; and
the preparation for WWIII by the US and various lackeys.
It's a test, goy, are you smart enough to pass it? Will you join the woke to fight Pure Evil? WWIII is evidence of Khazar panic.
"The Russians Are Flabbergasted" (Shamir) (fitting these pieces together is so obvious everybody immediately sees it - but how to stop it?):
"President Trump is so pissed off by the Stormy affair that he is likely to prefer a good old war to another humiliation. This suits his enemies and friends (though not his voters) to a tee. He has a choice of doing a difficult manly act that needs all his courage, but which one? Should he put the well-being of his country at stake and brave Russian missiles, or risk the displeasure of the elites and sack Mueller? He is tempted to do the easy thing. Thus he has been maneuvered into deep waters by a powerful coalition of Brits and Jews, the same people who delivered you the last two world wars.
His attempt to make sense and drop the Syrian hot potato (“I strongly wish for the withdrawal of our forces from Syria”, he tweeted) has been rebuffed by the indomitable Mr Netanyahu. Don’t even think of doing it, the big man from Tel Aviv said to Donny in the tense telephone conversation. Don’t leave Syria, you still have to fight the Iranians and Russians. And don’t forget the Syrian kiddies, added the man still covered with the gore of 2,500 Palestinians shot on his orders last week. The Pentagon and US intelligence agencies take their orders directly from Tel Aviv, or via AIPAC; they are already preparing for an extended stay in Syria, despite Donny’s declarations.
The Jews went ballistic when they heard of Trump’s intention to leave Syria. The scribes of WaPo and NY Times condemned the step as playing into Russian hands. “Washington Post columnist and CNN commentator Catherine Rampell said that “Putin must be ecstatic” with Trump’s instructions to begin planning for withdrawal from the region. Forget the fact that it’d be odd for a president to base all of his foreign policy decisions on what would bother Russia — why isn’t Rampell focusing on how delightful it must be for American soldiers to finally reunite with their families, or how the resources this country has spent overseas can now be used domestically?”, – noted a media reporter. This was the cue for Mueller’s raid of Cohen’s office. The old fool has to be pushed, if he does not want to go by his own will, they decided.
America with its Puritan background is the only country where sexual mores are so strict that they lead to war. Clinton went to war in Yugoslavia because of a blow job, while Trump will possibly destroy the world because of a one-night stand."
Note Shamir's reference to the 2013 missile attack by Israel, an earlier similar effort to jump-start WWIII. Always the same (((assholes))), never punished for it.
"Syria - A U.S. Attack Would Be Futile - But Serve A Purpose" (Bhadrakumar):
". . . Trump has been on record that he wants the American military presence in Syria to end. That stance and the present threat to launch an attack on Syria are contradictory. Because, a US attack on Syria will have serious repercussions, including possibly a showdown with Russia, which would mean a US drawdown in Syria may not be possible in a conceivable future.
Perhaps, Trump is indulging in doublespeak and the backdrop could be the criticality that has arisen over Robert Mueller’s investigation into his collusion with Russia, which has now dramatically expanded in scope. The FBI raid on the office of Trump’s attorney in the White House is a very serious development. Trump is just inches away from being implicated in the charges against him leveled by porn star Stormy Daniels. The CNN says, “There could be dark and unprecedented times ahead.” A US attack on Syria can distract attention from the stormy controversy that may arise if at this point Trump axes Mueller and derails the investigation against him. There are precedents when beleaguered American presidents resorted to diversionary tactic. Bill Clinton fired cruise missiles at Kandahar when the scandal over Monica Lewinsky peaked and he was facing the prospect of impeachment.
A US That brings us back to the alleged chemical attack in Douma last weekend. Who would have staged a false flag operation? The finger of suspicion points toward Israel’s role. Israel is desperately keen that the US should have a permanent military presence in Syria. To that end, Israel is fueling tensions that will take matters to a point that a US withdrawal from Syria somehow gets stalled. This is also the impression conveyed by DebkaFile, the Israeli website with links to the intelligence, which specializes in disinformation tactic.
The coincidental Israeli attack on a Syrian air base on Sunday had all the hallmarks of a deliberate act of provocation. Four Iranian military advisors were killed in the Israeli raid. Israel must be hoping against hope that the Iranians will retaliate, leading to a flare-up where the US would get pitted against Iran at some point. Such subterfuges are typical of Israel’s strategy. The point is, Israelis lacks the capacity on its own to tackle the challenge of the expanding Iranian influence in next-door Syria."
Yikes!: "Who the hell is the prince of this world?" (Guyénot). The religious basis for our sorrow. I add a reminder that the Khazars have all the enthusiasm of recent converts.
"Western-Eurasian standoff coming to a head in the Syrian theatre" (Kadi). How does Putin avoid looking like a pussy while avoiding WWIII? There is literally no hope from the losers and moral cretins and beshekeled crooks running the West (btw, since WWIII will start by turning all of Europe into a hell worse than Chernobyl, where are the Euro-trash politicians in the discussion? oh, yeah, they are getting ready to start the attack!), but Putin's - actually, probably Lavrov's - demonstrated cleverness may offer a sliver of hope in saving the world from Evil.
"Hopefully the US military, the last and constantly besieged source of honor in the US, understands this and would not comply with a suicidal order from an insane war cabinet."
Pro tip - read what the (((media))) tells you carefully, then believe the exact opposite. I'm not kidding, it never fails (as an example, actual Syrian government care over civilians in the suburbs of Damascus bears no relationship whatsoever to reports from the (((media))), and (((they))) keep telling us the same lies, over and over, as if (((they))) think we really are morons!). "Taking the World to the Brink" (Sterling):
"The manipulation of western opinion about the Syrian conflict using fake events is not theory; it has been proven. A good example is the fake kidnapping of NBC reporter Richard Engel in December 2012. Engel and his media team were reportedly kidnapped and threatened with death by “shabiha” supporters of the Syrian president. After days in captivity the American team was supposedly rescued by Free Syrian Army “rebels” after a shootout. In 2015 it was confirmed this was a hoax perpetrated by the FSA and their American supporters. The entire charade was carried out by the “rebels”. The goal was to demonize the Assad government and its supporters, and to romanticize and increase support for the armed opposition. Neither Engel nor NBC confessed to the reality until it was about to be exposed years later, pointing to duplicity and collusion in the deception.
Four and half years ago, on August 21, 2013, the most famous chemical weapons incident occurred. The Syrian government was immediately accused of launching a sarin attack which killed hundreds of children and civilians. Over the next six months investigations were carried out. The conclusions of Seymour Hersh, Parry and the research site whoghouta.com concluded that the attack was almost certainly not from the government but actually from one of the ‘rebel’ factions with support from Turkish intelligence services. Two Turkish parliamentary deputies held a press conference and publicly revealed some of the evidence. The intent then, as now, was to provide justification and provocation for the US and NATO to bomb Syrian government installations."
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Westies fall to Mercy
WH loses 15-7 in regular season finale
By MIKE MADERA
Westie Blue
(May 20, 2013) – The West Haven girls' lacrosse team traveled to Middletown Monday afternoon and fell to the Tigers, 15-7, in the regular season finale.
Looking to snap a 6-game winless skid in which the team went 0-5-1, West Haven could not match the powerful Tigers.
Mercy's Kaitlyn Dempsey had the big day with 4 goals and 3 assists, while Danielle Richardson added 3 goals and 2 assists. Emma Bonassar and Casey Nelson eacxh scored twice in the win for Mercy.
Alyssa Maddern. Photo courtesy of Todd Dandelske.
Carly Brereton led West Haven with 4 assists, while Candice Kross scored twice. Sam Young, Julia Consorte, Melanie Reiss, Allyson Hemstock and Ava Gambardella each had one goal in the loss for the Westies.
Josy Militrano made 20 saves for West Haven.
West Haven goalkeeper Sam Palmieri returns from a knee injury to play on Senior Night, May 18, 2013. Photo courtesy of Todd Dandelske.
Westies fall on Senior Night
Gambardella scores 6 goals in 13-11 loss
(May 18, 2013) – The West Haven girls' lacrosse team was looking to close out the home portion of its schedule in style. While the Westies scored 11 goals, they fell to Amity 13-11 on Senior Night at Ken Strong Stadium.
The Spartans took a 7-3 lead at the half, but West Haven (4-9-2) battled throughout, scoring 8 goals in the second half. In the end, West Haven came up just short in the loss.
Ava Gambardella led the offense with 6 goals, while Danielle Bertolini, Allyson Hemstock, Candice Kross, Sam Young and Briana Algazali each scored once. Carly Brereton and Hemstock each had an assist in the loss.
Julia Consorte against Amity, May 18, 2013. Photo courtesy of Todd Dandelske.
Senior Sam Palmieri, who has missed the season with a knee injury, played in her last varsity game at home, making 3 saves. Josy Militrano made 10 saves for the Westies.
Sam Palmieri against Amity, May 18, 2013. Photo courtesy of Todd Dandelske.
Sarah Turner led Amity as she scored 9 goals and added an assist.
Westies tie Hamden
WH gets team effort in deadlock
(May 16, 2013) – The West Haven girls' lacrosse team put up one of its best efforts Thursday evening in a 13-13 tie at Hamden. The Westies received contributions from everyone on the field as 8 different players scored.
"It was a great game," West Haven coach Chrystal Fanelli said. "It was tough to leave without the win.The girls worked really hard and gave it their all.
"Every starting attack and midfielder had a goal or an assist. Defensively, we played a good game. Jordan Brereton, Alyssa Maddern, Amber Nadeau and Jill Moran did great on staying stick to stick with players. Offense was very patient and did a great job at moving the ball around."
West Haven led 7-5 at halftime before Hamden held a 6-4 advantage in the second half to tie the game at 11.
The Green Dragons scored first in overtime before Julia Consorte evened the game at 12. Hamden followed with another goal but Ava Gambardella set up Candice Kross to even the game at 13.
"The girls have worked really hard to correct some of the repeated mistakes they made in the past few games," Fanelli said. "This season, we've had so many close games. Our record doesn't really reflect how much we have grown as a team and how much talent this team has."
Kross, Consorte and Carly Brereton each finished with 2 goals and an assist, while Sam Young and Leah Morrissey each scored twice.
Sam Young ties the game at 4 against Shelton, May 14, 2013.
Westies fall to Shelton
Gaels rally in second half to defeat WH, 11-10
(May 14, 2013) – The West Haven girls' lacrosse team fell to 4-8-1 with a gut-wrenching 11-10 loss to Shelton Tuesday evening at Ken Strong Stadium. Unable to hold the lead in the first half, West Haven watched as Shelton held a 4-2 advantage in the second half to post the victory.
The Westies opened the scoring in the game when Candice Kross scored from in front just 1 minute, 39 seconds into the game. After Shelton evened the game a short time later, Melanie Reiss came down the right side and scored for a 2-1 lead with 3:01 gone by in the contest.
Shelton again evened the game at 2, but Ava Gambardella had an answer. Scoring the first of her 4 goals on the night, Gambardella put West Haven ahead 3-2 with 14:54 left in the first half.
The Gaels scored the next 2 goals for a 4-3 lead, but West Haven answered with 2 goals in 15 seconds for a 5-4 advantage. Sam Young came from behind the net to even the game with 10:36 left in the half and Gambardella scored off the wing 15 seconds later for a 5-4 lead.
Kross and Young finished with 2 goals apiece, while Julia Consorte also scored and Allyson Hemstock picked up an assist. Josy Militrano made 12 saves in the loss for West Haven.
Ally Ferrante led Shelton with 4 goals.
Tigers too much for Westies
WH falls to Mercy, 11-6
(May 10, 2013) – The West Haven girls' lacrosse team knew it was in for a challenge Friday evening when it played host to Mercy. When all was said and done at Ken Strong Stadium, the Tigers were too much as West Haven fell, 11-6.
With the loss, West Haven dropped to 4-7-1.
Mercy took control of the game in the first half, scoring 6 times and taking a 6-3 lead. It was more of the same in the second half as the Tigers used a 5-3 advantage to pull out the victory.
Julia Consorte led the West Haven offense for the second staright game as she scored a pair of goals. Melanie Reiss, Candice Kross, Ava Gambardella and Carly Brereton each scored once, while Allyson Hemstock and Leah Morrissey each had 1 assist.
Josy Militrano made 6 saves in the loss for West Haven as Mercy held a 17-16 shot advantage.
Hannah Sullivan led Mercy with 3 goals.
Pacers do it Again
Westies fall to SHA for second time in 3 days
WEST HAVEN (May 9, 2013) – For the second time in three days, the West Haven girls' lacrosse team was looking to pick up a victory against Sacred Heart Academy.
For the second straight time, the Westies fell short. Outscoring West Haven 6-2 in the second half, Sacred Heart defeated West Haven 13-7 at Ken Strong Stadium Wednesday evening.
With the loss, West Haven fell to 4-6-1.
The Westies, including Ava Gambardella (34), Candice Kross (24) and Mia Herrera (20), celebrate in an earlier season contest, but fell to Sacred Heart Academy, 13-7, May 8, 2013. Photo courtesy of Todd Dandelske.
The first half was an entertaining scoring affair as the Pacers rode the play of Michelle Merwin, Catherine Hagget, Lindsey Cafano and Rachel Cassassanta to a 7-5 lead.
The Pacers then put the game away in the second half. While Sacred Heart Academy scored 6 times, the Pacers did well to hold the high-scoring Westies to just 2 goals in the second half.
Julia Consorte led the West Haven offense with 2 goals. Candice Kross added 1 goal and 1 assist, while Melanie Reiss, Sam Young, Allyson Hemstock and Sydney Mursko each scored once.
Merwin led the Pacers with 4 goals, while Hagget, Cafano and Cassassanta each scored twice.
Sacred Heart held a 33-21 shot advantage with West Haven's Josy Militrano making 14 saves. Meg Castellano made 13 saves in the win for the Pacers.
Westies fall to SHA, 11-10
(May 6, 2013) – Despite 3 goals from Sam Young and 2 more from Candice Kross, the West Haven girls' lacrosse team fell to Sacred Heart Academy, 11-10, Monday afternoon in Hamden.
Despite 2 goals and an assist from Candice Kross, West Haven fell to Sacred Heart Academy, Monday, May 6, 2013.
The loss dropped West Haven to one game under .500 at 4-5-1.
The game was a high-scoring affair in the first half, but quickly sttled down in the second half. The Westies led 8-7 after 25 minutes of play but could not hold on as Sacred Heart held a 4-2 advantage in goals in the second half.
Leah Morrissey, Danielle Bertolini, Ava Gambardella, Allyson Hemstock and Melanie Reiss each added one goal apiece for the Westies. Kross and Alyssa Maddern each had an assist, while Reiss had 2 assists in the loss.
Josy Militrano made 10 saves in the loss for West Haven.
Gambardella, Brereton lead Westies over Hamden
(May 4, 2013) – Through nine games this season, one constant for the West Haven girls’ lacrosse team has been its offense. Saturday night was no different.
Jumping out to a 6-2 lead in the first half, West Haven needed to rally in the second half to hold off the Green Dragons in an 11-9 victory at Ken Strong Stadium. With the victory, West Haven improved to 4-4-1.
After Hamden cut the West Haven lead to 6-5 in the second half, Ava Gambardella and Allyson Hemstock answered for the Westies for an 8-6 lead.
Ava Gambardella (34), seen here against North Haven with Sam Young (16), scored 3 times against Hamden in an 11-9 victory, May 4, 2013. Photo courtesy of Todd Dandelske.
Gambardella was big once again on offense for the Westies as she scored 3 times. Carly Brereton also added 3 goals, while Candice Kross and Hemstock each scored twice. Sam Young and Julia Consorte rounded out the scoring for the Westies.
Kross also added 2 assists and Hemstock and Gambardella had one helper each. Josy Militrano made 10 saves in the win for West Haven.
Julia Consorte (14), Allyson Hemstock (6) and Carly Brereton (17) celebrate a West Haven goal in West Haven's 11-4 win over North Haven, May 2, 2013. Photo courtesy of Todd Dandelske.
Westies pound Indians
Young, Gambardella, Kross lead 11-4 win
Senior Matt Olenick contributed to this article
(May 2, 2013) – After losing three games in a row, the West Haven girls' lacrosse team needed a win in the worst way. Behind the play of Sam Young, Ava Gambardella and Candice Kross, the Westies defeated North Haven 11-4 Thursday evening at Ken Strong Stadium.
Young scored 4 times, including 3 goals in the second half, Gambardella scored 3 goals in the first half and Kross scored twice in the second half as West Haven improved to 3-4-1.
The Westies jumped out of the gates quickly as Julia Consorte fed Allyson Hemstock 1 minute, 22 seconds into the game for a 1-0 lead.
West Haven, which scored the first 4 goals of the game, increased the lead to 2-0 when Gambardella scored from in front with 13:40 left in the half. Young got into the scoring column 32 seconds later for a 3-0 lead and Gambardella bounced a shot into the goal for a 4-0 lead with 11:46 remaining in the opening half.
Sam Young scored 4 goals in West Haven's 11-4 win over North Haven, May 2, 2013. Photo courtesy of Todd Dandelske.
After Molly Benson got the Indians on the board, Gambardella answered 37 seconds later with 9:24 to go in the half for a 5-1 lead.
Young took over the start of the second half as she scored twice in 52 seconds for a 7-1 lead. Hemstock set up Young's first tally with 1:08 gone by and Young scored into the corner from 5 yards out less than a minute later for a 7-1 lead.
Shayla Kelly cut the deficit to 7-2 with 21:30 left, before Carly Brereton scored off an assist from Hemstock 1:18 later for an 8-2 lead.
Leading 8-3, Kross scored twice in 4 minutes, the first on a wrap around and the second from 5 yards out, to give the Westies a 10-3 lead. Young capped West Haven's scoring with a wrap around goal with 5:33 left.
Josy Militrano made 9 saves in the win for West Haven as the Westies held a 27-19 shot advantage.
GIRLS LACROSSE 2013
Westies lose pair
WH drops to 2-4-1 with losses
(April 24 and May 1, 2013) – The West Haven girls' lacrosse team lost a pair of games this week and fell to 2-4-1 in the process.
The Westies dropped to 2-3-1 with a 14-3 loss to Stamford last Wednesday in Stamford. With 6 starters away on a school trip, the Westies were no match for Stamford on the road.
Ava Gambardella scored twice for the Westies and Candice Kross scored once in the loss.
After a week off, the Westies returned to action Wednesday evening at Shelton and lost a high-scoring contest, 13-11.
Sam Young, Kross and Danielle Bertolini led the way for West Haven as each scored twice. Gambardella, Carly Brereton, Leah Morrissey, Julia Consorte and Melanie Reiss each scored once in the loss.
Lauralton sweeps Westies
WH drops 16-12 decision to Crusaders
(April 22, 2013) – Heading into Monday afternoon's contest with Lauralton Hall, scoring was not a problem for the West Haven girls' lacrosse team. Through 4 games, the Westies had averaged close to 15 goals per game.
The Westies again were on the offensive in Milford, but could not hold off the Crusaders as Lauralton defeated the Westies for the second time this season by a score of 16-12.
Candice Kross scores one of her 3 goals against Lauralton Hall, April 22, 2013. Photo courtesy of Todd Dandelske.
The difference in the game was the first half as Lauralton outscored West Haven 8-4. The 4 goals would prove to be the margin of defeat for the Westies (2-2-1) as each team scored 8 times in the second half.
Sam Young continued her torrid scoring with 4 goals, while Candice Kross added 3 and Allyson Hemstock scored twice in the loss. The scoring by Young gave her 14 goals and 1 assist in her last 3 games.
Sam Young scores one of her four goals against Lauralton Hall as Carly Brereton (r.) looks on. Photo courtesy of Todd Dandelske.
Ava Gambardella, Julia Consorte and Briana Algazali each scored once, with Consorte also picking up an assist.
"Sam has had a great week," West Haven coach Chrystal Fanelli said of Young. "Julia Consorte had a great game. She has really stepped up this season and has become a big play maker for us. She has assisted on goals in every game so far.
"Allyson Hemstock also had a really good game. She did a great job at getting the ball in the midfield for us and transitioning to offense."
Lauralton's Amanda Carey was the story of the game as she scored 7 goals. Carey was helped by Caitlin Nevins, Aubrey Lowe and Alice Horne as each scored twice.
Josy Militrano made 10 saves in the loss for West Haven, while Lauralton's Caitlin Bennett finished with 13 saves.
Alyssa Maddern (26) defends against Lauralton Hall, April 22, 2013. Photo courtesy of Todd Dandelske.
Fit to be Tied
Late goal forces West Haven to 14-14 tie withBerlin
(April 20, 2013) – After not playing for a better part of the schedule, the West Havengirls’ lacrosse team finished its two games in three days in relatively fine fashion. After thoroughly defeating North Haven on Thursday morning, the Westries came back Saturday evening knowing they would need their offense to step up against a tough Berlin team.
Having already seen Berlin and the high power of its offense earlier in the season, West Haven jumped out to a quick 6-2 lead before the game ended in a 14-14 overtime tie. Berlin took advantage of a yellow card by West Haven, scoring 4 times to tie the game, including a 10-6 run in the second half.
Ava Gambardella (34), Candice Kross (24) and Mia Herrera (20) celebrate against North Haven and did more of the same against Berlin, April 20, 2013. Photo courtesy of Todd Dandelske.
“We were up for most of the game until the second half,” West Haven coach Chrystal Fanelli said. “They scored four goals while we were down a player because of a yellow card. We quickly came back, but from there on, it was back and forth. We would score then they would score.”
The contest then saw the lead change several times before Berlin took a 12-11 lead with 59 seconds remaining. Candice Kross, who scored 3 times in the game, evened the contest with 31 seconds remaining in regulation to force overtime.
An extra session could not bring a winner as each team scored twice.
Sam Young led the Westies with 4 goals, Ava Gambardella and Carly Brereton each scored twice and Briana Algazali, Julia Consorte and Allyson Hemstock each scored once. Kross and Gambardella also had 2 assists apiece, while Consorte had one assist.
Ava Gambardella, seen here against North Haven, scored twice against Berlin, April 20, 2013. Photo courtesy of Todd Dandelske.
Josy Militrano made 15 saves in the tie.
“Josy Militrano had a great game with 15 saves,” Fanelli said. “She has really stepped up and has been doing better and better every game.”
Scoring Barrage
Westies put on offensive display in 23-13 win
(April 18, 2013) – With only two games officially in the books in the season’s first two weeks, the West Haven girls’ lacrosse team had to be eager to get back on the field. Judging by the results, the Westies were ready to go.
Scoring in almost every way possible, the Westies defeated North Haven 23-13 Thursday morning in North Haven.
Allyson Hemstock scores one of her 4 goals against North Haven, April 18, 2013. Photo courtesy of Todd Dandelske.
“The girls did a great job winning the draws,” West Haven coach Chrystal Fanelli said. “Josy Militrano had a great game in goal.”
Sam Young led the way with 6 goals and one assist, Ava Gambardella scored 5 goals and had 3 assists and Allyson Hemstock had 4 goals. Candice Kross and Carly Brereton each added 3 goals and Danielle Bertolini scored twice. Julia Consorte also played well with 4 assists.
Sam Young scored 6 goals against North Haven, April 18, 2013. Photo courtesy of Todd Dandelske.
Josy Militrano made 13 saves in the win for West Haven.
In the Win Column
Westies defeat Berlin for first win of year
(April 5, 2013) - The West Haven girls’ lacrosse team picked up its first win of the year Friday evening when the team traveled and beat Berlin 12-10. In an action-packed contest, the Westies held on for the two-goal victory.
Candice Kross led the Westies on the offensive side with 3 goals and 2 assists. Ava Gambardella had 3 goals, Allyson Hemstock had 2 goals and an assist and Carly Brereton added a pair of goals.
Julia Consorte was also involved in the offense with an assist.
Lauralton rallies past Westies
WH falls 12-10 in season opener
West Haven senior Matt Olenick contributed to this article
(April 3, 2013) - The West Haven girls' lacrosse team was minutes away from opening the season with a comeback victory. Unfortunately for the Westies, the clock did not tick away fast enough.
Scoring 3 goals in the final 4 minutes of the game, Lauralton rallied to defeat the Westies 12-10 in the season opener for both teams Wednesday evening at Ken Strong Stadium.
"This was a really tough loss for us," West Haven coach Chrystal Fanelli said. "We didn't start the game on the right foot. The first three minutes were shaky, but after that, we got it together and played really well for the remainder of the game. We came back from a three-goal deficit and were neck and neck for almost the entire game."
The Crusaders jumped out to an early 3-0 lead as Allison Casey scored twice in the first 1 minute, 52 seconds of the game. Lauralton led 3-0 just 2:31 into the game.
"I think the girls were a little nervous to start the season off without Sam Palmieri," Fanelli said of the team's injured goalie. "Sam is out for the season with an ACL injury. She's been such a huge part of our team the last three ytears.
"Josy Militrano joined the team this year to replace Sam in goal. Once she made her first couple of saves, she gained some confidence and made some really big saves for us in the second half."
The Westies then settled down, tightened up on defense, and scored the next four goals to take a 4-3 lead.
Ava Gambardella, who shot wide minutes earlier from 10 yards out, finally got West Haven on the scoreboard when she scored from 7 yards out off an assist from Melanie Reiss 6:54 into the game.
After Josy Militrano denied Alice Horne twice in 20 seconds, West Haven cut the deficit to 3-2 when Carly Brereton set up Sam Young from in close 14:28 into the game. Just 2:58 later, the game was tied when Candice Kross made a nice move in front and scored.
"The girls played well as a team and we had some nicely assisted goals," Fanelli said. "Melanie Reiss had a great game. She stepped in to take the draw for Ava, won it, and came down and scored a goal which really started things off. Carly Brereton had some great interceptions. Alyssa Maddern, Amber Nadeau and Jordan Brereton all had good games on defense."
Kross was at it again 2:40 later. Her shot from 15 yards out got by Lauralton goalie Helene Sorenson for a 4-3 West Haven lead. Carey tied the game 1:04 later for the Crusaders, starting a string of three straight goals by Lauralton, with the final two coming from Horne.
Trailing 6-4, Young scored on a wrap-around 34 seconds later, but Lauralton took a 7-5 lead to the half.
The Westies came out with some pressure to start the second half as Gambardella was stopped by Sorenson 1:30 in from in front and 30 seconds later from 15 yards out. Trailing 8-5, Reiss started the West Haven comeback when she scored from in front just 5:06 into the second half.
After Carly Brereton missed in front 6:30 in, Kross' third goal of the game brought the Westies within 8-7 just 7:15 in. The Crusaders got that goal back 5:18 later, but West Haven scored the next three goals for a 10-9 lead.
Leah Morrissey set up Julia Consorte from 8 yards out 20 seconds later and Consorte set up Carly Brereton from 10 yards out to even the game at nine 14:25 into the second half.
Kross missed on an attempt for her fourth goal of the game 15 seconds later, but Carly Brereton scored on a penalty shot with 4:30 left to give West Haven a 10-9 lead.
Brereton's goal would be West Haven's last of the game as Horne evened the contest 30 seconds later, Carey gave Lauralton an 11-10 lead with 1:52 left and iced the contest 51 seconds later from in front.
"Overall, I am hapy with the way the girls played," Fanelli said. "They had a lot of intensity. Tonight just reinforced the importance of coming out strong off the bat."
Militrano made 9 saves in the loss for West Haven. Kross led the Westies with 3 goals. Sorenson made 21 saves in the win for the Crusaders.
Filling the Gap
Westies look for balanced scoring in 2013
As the 2013 spring season begins, one thing is certain for the West Haven girls’ lacrosse team. If the Westies are going to improve or equal their 8 wins from last season, they will have to replace the scoring of the graduated McKenzie Farquharson.
Farquharson had a season to remember in 2012, finishing with 61 goals and 18 assists. Those 79 points helped the Westies to the first round of the state tournament, where they eventually fell to Staples.
This season, the scoring will fall on the shoulders of seniors Sam Young (attack), Julia Consorte (attack wing), Carly Brereton (midfield) and Candice Kross (attack) and juniors Ava Gambardella (center) and Allyson Hemstock (attack wing).
Senior captain Carly Brereton will play more of an offensive role in 2013 for the Westies. Photo courtesy of Todd Dandelske.
“Carly (Brereton) has been one of our strongest players for the last three seasons,”West Haven coach Chrystal Fanelli said. “She has great speed and good defensive positioning. Carly does a great job intercepting passes and getting ground balls. She’s looking to score more goals this year.
“Sam (Young) has been one of our top attack since freshman year. She consistently scores goals for us. We’ll be relying on her a lot on offense this year. Sam is looking to play in college next year.”
Led by senior captains Carly Brereton and Jordan Brereton (defense) and supported by senior captain Samantha Palmieri, the Westies are looking for a berth in the postseason.
Senior captain Jordan Brereton will lead the West Haven defense in 2013. Photo courtesy of Todd Dandelske.
“Jordan has been one of our key defenders since her freshman year,” Fanelli said. “She is a natural athlete and has great defensive positioning and overall, a great sense of the game. She is probably one of the toughest girls we have on the field and always plays smart and aggressively.
“Sam (Palmieri) has been our varsity goalie since her freshman year. Unfortunately, Sam sustained an ACL injury during preseason training and will be out for the season. Sam and her teammates are heart broken that she will not be able to play this year, but we are grateful for the years of hard work and dedication that she has given the team.”
Gambardella returns with the most points from last season as she scored 29 goals and added 9 assists. Young was another sniper on the team as she scored 33 times last season and finished with 35 points, while Hemstock had 20 goals and 23 points,
Candice Kross played a key role on offense in 2012 and will be expected to do so again in 2013. Photo courtesy of Todd Dandelske.
“Ava (Gambardella) was one of our top scorers last year and we’ll be looking for her for some big goals this year,” Fanelli said. “Allyson (Hemstock) is a strong player and scored a lot for us last year. We’ll be looking to her as one of our lead scorers this year.”
Kross returns from a season where she scored 18 goals, while Consorte and Carly Brereton will be relied on more on offense. Carly Brereton finished 2012 with 13 goals and 3 assists and Consorte had 12 goals and 6 assists.
“Candice (Kross) has been on varsity since her sophomore year,” Fanelli said. “She has improved every year and is looking to play in college next year. Julia (Consorte) has been looking great so far in our scrimmages. She has a great sense of the field and has come through with some big goals and assists for us.”
The Westies, who according to Fanelli need to improve on transitioning from offense to defense and clears, will also need to play defense. Leading the defensive charges will be senior Alyssa Maddern.
“Alyssa has been one of our strongest defenders for the past three years,” Fanelli said. “She is an aggressive player and does a great job getting the ball away from the other team and out of our defensive zone.”
Others who will be counted on more in 2013 will be Melanie Reiss (attack) and Amber Nadaue (defense).
“Melanie will see a lot more playing time on varsity this year,” Fanelli said. “She has tremendous speed and a good shot. Amber will also see a lot more playing time this year. We’ll be relying on her on defense.”
The Westies will also need to fill a void in goal. Palmieri played all of last season in goal, making 173 saves, but she suffered a knee injury in the offseason and will be forced to miss the year.
“The girls know they have to play as a team and keep up communication,” Fanelli said. “We’re really focusing on coming out strong off the draw, defending in our offensive zone and being aggressive when it comes to going after ground balls.
“So far, the girls have come out strong on the draws. They know they need to keep that up to be successful. We’ve also been successfully doubling much more than we have in the past.”
West Haven opens the season Wednesday, April 3 against Lauralton Hall at Ken Strong Stadium at 7 p.m.
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