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Adam Muro
FAR APART: Democrat Mike Scala (foreground) and incumbent Republican Eric Ulrich (seated at the table) before their Nov. 1 debate. The campaign has been punctuated by personal attacks.
Council Race in Queens GOP District Turns Nasty
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For the most part, today’s general election in New York City will be low key: Mayor Bill de Blasio is expected to easily waltz into his second term and the majority of City Council races, especially in Queens, are uncompetitive. Incumbent Democrats are expected to easily win reelection, and some candidates are even running unopposed, like Donovan Richards, who currently holds the District 31 seat, representing the eastern half of the Rockaways.
This is not so in District 32, which includes the western half of the peninsula as well as Ozone Park and Richmond Hill on the Queens mainland. The seat, currently occupied by Eric Ulrich, the only Queens Republican serving on the Council, is contested, and the campaign has turned vicious, featuring personal attacks from the candidates. Democratic candidate Mike Scala has accused Ulrich of flip-flopping and Ulrich has revived rap lyrics from Scala’s previous career as a hip-hop artist, claiming that they show he is a racist, a misogynist, and condones violence.
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global food security policies and their social-ecological side effects in regions prone to global change
Generally defined, Social Network Analysis (SNA) is the study of the structure of interaction as it occurs between persons and / or other social units. The goal of most SNA is to understand how these configurations of relationships relate to some phenomenon of interest, such as actor behaviours or attitudes. SNA uses mathematical tools like statistics, network theory, graph theory, or game theory.
SEEMI Project (March 2017 - February 2020)
In close synergy with POLISES, the SEEMI research project (Social-Ecological Effects of Microinsurance) has recently been granted funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG). With this project, we want to contribute to a much-needed enhanced understanding of the effects of microinsurance on social-ecological systems.
Specifically, we will address the following research questions:
Under which conditions will microinsurance crowd out informal safety nets? Could this decrease communal welfare and exacerbate social inequalities?
Under which circumstances can microinsurance act as a sensible complement to informal safety nets?
Will land users change their land use strategies given access to microinsurance? Under which conditions will this lead to a degradation of natural resources?
Can microinsurance schemes enhance land users’ resilience to shocks in the presence of global change processes such as climate change?
To address these questions, we will combine the approach of agent-based modelling with social network analysis to develop a stylized dynamic simulation model. The innovation of this approach is that it simultaneously takes into consideration feedbacks in the social-ecological system, interactions between actors, and changes in social structures. Our model-based analysis is guided by two case studies: (a) drought insurance in Kenya and Ethiopia and (b) health insurance in Cambodia. With these case studies, our analysis comprises shocks of different magnitude.
Thanks to our systematic approach of gradually increasing complexity, we expect an original contribution to knowledge on two levels. First, we offer process-based explanations of empirically observable patterns from the case studies; and second, we advance a thorough understanding of the effects of microinsurance at the systems level – particularly regarding the relevance of social-ecological feedbacks.
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The Ponderosa Stomp Mau Mau
Celebrating the Unsung Heroes of American Music
Archie Turner
As a member of the legendary Hi Rhythm Section as well as the Bo-Keys, keyboardist Archie "Hubby" Turner is no stranger to the Ponderosa Stomp, which has featured the Memphis groovemasters on several occasions. The Hi Rhythm Section (also featuring brothers "Teenie," Leroy, and Charles Hodges and drummer and Stax veteran Howard Grimes) served as the go-to backing band at Royal Recording Studio for Willie Mitchell and Hi Records. As Mitchell's stepson, Turner had the inside track in playing on countless Memphis soul productions for artists such as Ann Peebles, Otis Clay, O.V. Wright, Syl Johnson, and of course Al Green. By the time the Hi Rhythm Section had reached its mid-'70s peak, their languid, dreamy grooves became a signature that helped propel the careers of Green and others and produced nearly 20 gold and platinum albums and singles.
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The Chap
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Gustav Temple
Vic Darkwood
Men's lifestyle and humour
Quarterly (formerly bi-monthly)
thechap.co.uk
The Chap is a British humorous men's lifestyle magazine published quarterly. It was founded in 1999 by Gustav Temple and Vic Darkwood, and is still edited by Temple.
The magazine proposes that men everywhere return to a more gentlemanly way of life by rejecting modern vulgarity and careless, shabby or faddish dress sense through the restoration of the lifestyle, habits, manners and traditional fashion sense of a mid-20th century (or earlier) British chap. Thus it advises men to wear traditional British suits and other similar well-tailored clothing, especially those cut from tweed; to keep their trousers sharply pressed; to be impeccably groomed; to wear quality handmade shoes, brightly polished; and a return to the wearing of hats.
The Chap has a comic and eccentric twist on this. Tongue firmly in cheek, it espouses its own unique lifestyle philosophy called anarcho-dandyism[1] and has its own 10-point manifesto, The Chap Manifesto,[2] which mandates that a chap is to smoke a pipe, is to doff his hat when good manners require, is never to wear what it calls pantaloons de Nîmes, and to sport a moustache (never a beard), among others.
While The Chap appreciates British culture and loves tradition, it is strongly rooted in the Situationist strand of anarchism with more than the occasional nod to Dada.[3] It is also indebted to the avant-garde as well as comedy greats such as the Monty Pythons, Peter Cook, Spike Milligan and Viv Stanshall.
The idea for The Chap came out of various conversations with like-minded friends that there was no magazine aimed at gentlemen. Everything was either for vulgarians...or for the specialist hobby... So I thought, let's start a magazine that offers advice on personal grooming, elegance and modern manners which isn't beholden to advertisers and which is light-hearted yet firm in its stance against vulgarity. This was in 1999.
-- Gustav Temple, co-founder, [4]
Front cover of The Chap no. 48, the 10 year anniversary issue.
The Chap is predominantly a mixture of articles on clothing, footwear and headwear; on sport (mainly cricket and horse racing); on moustache grooming; on polite manners and traditional British etiquette; and on pipes and tobacco, all written in an anachronistic late-Victorian to mid-20th Century British style, interspersed with humorous jokes. For instance, the "Am I Chap" section sees people sending in photos of themselves dressed in vintage attire, to which the magazine's editors almost always comment on derisively in a very withering, but humorous, fashion.
The Chap is a bit like a club - there are lots of cosy in-jokes and references, though we also like to display affectionate disdain for some of the readers who send in their photos dressed as "Chaps", merely to remind everyone that we actually believe in dressing properly or not at all. I recently conducted a reader survey and one of the questions was "Should we get rid of 'Am I Chap?'" The response was unanimously against, in other words, despite the criticism, readers love that column.
-- Gustav Temple, [5]
The Chap also features articles on a diverse range of things related to Chappism, such as tales of First World War and Second World War military derring-do, stories or tips on unusual ways to travel when abroad, or the late Victorian and Edwardian martial art of Bartitsu.[6]
The magazine has often been very satirical or whimsical, with content such as a series chronicling "A Year in Catford" and "Amusing Monograph as to the Various Pleasures and Diversions Afforded by One's Valet".[7][8]
Notable contributors to The Chap include Michael "Atters" Attree who conducts interviews with those known for their gentlemanly or dandyish ways, and Miss Martindale, a prominent spokesperson of Aristasia, who from 2003 to 2005 wrote the Ladies' Column.
The magazine is printed in B5 format, and originally was published in that format as well. In May 2009, the magazine nearly closed due to financial issues arising from moving from B5 to the larger A4 format. To keep going The Chap asked its readership and subscribers to donate funds. Additionally, Viz Magazine financially supported the magazine. It returned to B5 to reduce printing costs.[9]
The Chap was published bi-monthly from 1999 to May 2017.
From issue #92 published in May 2017, the magazine has been published quarterly, has double the number of pages, and has been graphically redesigned. On this "relaunch" the editor said:
Britain's longest-running gentlemen's periodical has relaunched, with impeccable timing. The Chap has refined its image, expanded its editorial reach and broadened its horizons. When launched in 1999, its message was completely at odds with the prevailing culture of lads' mags. The world has caught up with The Chap because its platform no longer seems eccentric or quirky.
-- Gustav Temple, editor, [10]
Chap events
The Chap hosts the annual summer Chap Olympiad which is normally held in Bedford Square Gardens in London.[11]
The magazine has also conducted a number of balls called the Grand Anarcho-Dandyist Balls.[12]
Chap protests
The magazine has also organised several serious and semi-serious protests, all conducted in the unique tongue-in-cheek Chap style. These include:
in 2003, the Chap Uprising - against what they see as modern living's vulgarity in general;[7]
in 2004, the Victoria & Albert Museum Protest - a protest "against the pointless intrusion by contemporary art pieces into public areas";[13]
in 2004, Civilise the City - a walk through central London whose aim was "to draw attention to the appalling lack of gentlemanly services available on Britain's high streets";[14]
in 2006, the Tate Modern Protest - against modern art installations;[15] and
in 2012, the Siege of Savile Row - against the proposed opening of an Abercrombie and Fitch store at the centre of traditional English gentleman's tailoring, Savile Row.[16][17]
Chap publications
In addition to the magazine, a number of books have been published by The Chap over the years: these include How To Be Chap[18] and books both on cooking and drinking for "chaps".
How To Be Chap 2016 compilation 272 Gustav Temple & Gestalten
Drinking for Chaps 2015 drinks 160 Gustav Temple & Olly Smith
Cooking for Chaps 2014 recipes 224 Gustav Temple & Clare Gabbett-Mulhallen
Am I A Chap? 2011 compilation 199 Gustav Temple
The Best of The Chap 2005 compilation 192 Gustav Temple & Vic Darkwood
Around the World in Eighty Martinis: The Logbook of a Remarkable Voyage Undertaken 2003 travelogue 144 Gustav Temple & Vic Darkwood
The Chap Almanac: An Esoterick Yearbook for the Decadent Gentleman 2002 collection 144 Gustav Temple & Vic Darkwood
The Chap Manifesto: Revolutionary Etiquette For The Modern Gentleman 2001 treatise 138 Gustav Temple & Vic Darkwood
^ "Steady on, Chaps". London Particulars. 8 December 2010. Retrieved 2017.
^ https://thechap.co.uk/the-chap-manifesto/
^ Isabel Taylor (2008). "Suits You, Sir: an Interview with Gustav Temple of The Chap". Albion Magazine Online. Retrieved 2015.
^ "The Vulgarian Invasions". 3:AM Magazine. 7 October 2004. Retrieved 2017.
^ Ville Raivio (May 6, 2013). "Interview with Gustav Temple". Keikari.com. Retrieved 2017.
^ "Bartitsuka" (5 November 2008). "Bartitsu featured in "the Chap" magazine". Retrieved 2017.
^ a b "Shortcuts: Up and at 'em, Chaps!". The Guardian. 9 October 2003. Retrieved 2017.
^ "Rare Back Issues". The Chap. Retrieved 2017.
^ "The Chap Saved by its Readers". The Chap. 4 June 2009. Retrieved 2013.
^ Gustav Temple (28 May 2017). "Elegance isn't just for toffs, even if we don't all desire a waxed moustache". Daily Express. Retrieved 2017.
^ "Chap Olympiad 2013". The Guardian. 15 July 2013. Retrieved 2013.
^ "The Second Grand Anarcho-Dandyist Ball" (1 November 2010). The Chap. Retrieved 2017.
^ "The V&A Protest". The Chap. Retrieved 2017.
^ "Civilise the City". The Chap. Retrieved 2017.
^ "The Tate Protest". The Chap. Retrieved 2015.
^ "The Siege of Savile Row". The Chap. 23 April 2012. Retrieved 2017.
^ "Sorry chaps, Abercrombie & Fitch simply doesn't fit Savile Row". The Guardian. 25 April 2012. Retrieved 2017.
^ "The 5 Books and Magazines We're Reading This Weekend | Highsnobiety". Highsnobiety. 2017-10-16. Retrieved .
The Chap Olympiad official website
The 11th annual Chap Olympiad (2015) in pictures from The Daily Telegraph
BBC News coverage of the Chap Olympiad 2006
There's a good Chap from The Independent from 2003
The Vulgarian Invasions - interview with Gustav Temple from 3:AM Magazine
Well Trousered, Sir: Gustav Temple Talks All Things Chap from the Sabotage Times
Article on The Chap and steampunk from the Evening Standard at the Wayback Machine (archived 2012-10-10[Date mismatch])
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New York, NY (PRWEB) April 1, 2006
Feature Photo Service, Inc. (http://www.FeaturePhoto.com), a worldwide photo agency catering to the corporate communications and public relations industries announced the launch of their new service “FPS Portable Portraits™”. The new service will be marketed primarily to law firms in New York City (Manhattan only) with plans to expand its service to other major cities over the next several years.
FPS Portable Portraits provides law firms with a cost effective solution for their portrait and image distribution needs. Rather than taking time out of their busy schedule to travel across town to a photo studio, FPS digital portrait photographers will bring their portable portrait studio (inc. lights and backdrop) to the office, set up in a space as small as a conference room and provide professional portraits for use on the firms website and for distribution to the news media.
Feature Photo Service, Inc. offers direct photo distribution via the Associated Press (AP) and NewsCom to newspapers, magazines, trade journals and Internet sites as well as press release distribution services to the media through its subsidiary FPSnewswire. Law firms who hire FPS for portrait photography will have access to these distribution services at a discounted rate to publicize new hires, promotions, pro-bono work and news about their firm.
“FPS Portable Portraits was launched with attorney’s and their publicists busy schedules in mind. We understand that attorneys are busy and do not always have time to leave the office to have their photo taken, we will bring our portable portrait studio to their offices.” said Oren Hellner, President of Feature Photo Service. “Like any business, law firms of all sizes are concerned about their presence on the web and of how the public and the media perceive them. FPS can offer law firms a complete solution from getting the portrait taken to distributing the image and their news release to the media.”
About Feature Photo Service, Inc.
Founded in 1985 by former AP staffers, Feature Photo Service (FPS) began by mailing business-oriented photos to more than 200 newspapers. When the Associated Press (AP) approved the use of their satellite delivery service for commercial photo distribution, FPS became one of the first companies to transmit commercial photos. One thousand AP newspapers, magazines and other media in all 50 states have agreed to receive FPS photos. FPS offers worldwide photo distribution via 25 major news agencies including NewsCom, (a Tribune Media Services and Knight Ridder joint venture) and press release distribution through FPSnewswire, the company’s press release distribution division. FPS provides full photographic coverage of events, press conferences and product launches through its vast network of photographers and video professionals. By using FPS you create third party credibility coming from an established well-respected service.
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— group @ 31 December 2008
Way back at the end of 2006, we did a review of the year’s climate science discussion. It’s that time of year again and so we’ve decided to give it another go. Feel free to suggest your own categories and winners…
Most clueless US politician talking about climate change (with the exception of Senator Inhofe who’d always win):
Sarah Palin:
Well, we’re the only Arctic state, of course, Alaska. So we feel the impacts more than any other state, up there with the changes in climates. And certainly, it is apparent. We have erosion issues. And we have melting sea ice, of course. [….] You know there are – there are man’s activities that can be contributed to the issues that we’re dealing with now, these impacts. I’m not going to solely blame all of man’s activities on changes in climate.
Most puzzling finding from 2006 that has yet to be convincingly replicated:
Methane from plants
Most reckless extrapolation of short term trends:
Michael “All global warming has been erased” Asher (Daily Tech)
This year’s most (unsurprisingly) abused study:
Keenlyside et al. initialised climate forecasts (and no, they didn’t take our bet).
Climate scientist with biggest disconnect between his peer-reviewed papers and his online discussions:
Roy Spencer
Most worn out contrarian cliche:
The “Gore Effect”. This combines the irrelevant confusion of climate with weather and the slightly manic obsession with Al Gore over the actual science. Do please grow up.
Most bizarre new contrarian claim:
Global warming is caused by undersea volcanoes (and pirates!).
The S. Fred Singer award for the most dizzying turn-around of a climate pseudo-skeptic:
Dennis Avery: “Global warming is likely to continue” (2006) , to global warming is “unstoppable” (2006), to “Say Good-Bye To Global Warming And Hello To Global Cooling!” (2008).
Pottiest peer on the contrarian comedy circuit:
Least unexpected observations:
(Joint winners) 2008 near-record minima in Arctic sea ice extent, last decade of record warmth, long term increases in ocean heat content, record increases in CO2 emissions.
Most consistently wrong media outlet:
The Australian (runner-up the UK Daily Telegraph). Both comfortably beating out the perennial favorite, the Wall Street Journal – maybe things have really changed there?
Best actual good news:
The grown-ups being back in charge starting January 20 (compare with this).
Most inaccurate attempted insinuation about RealClimate:
‘The Soros-funded Realclimate.org’ Chris Horner
Most revealing insight into some US coal companies and year’s best self parody:
Frosty the Coalman (video available here)
Most disturbing trend for science journalism:
The axing of dedicated science units at CNN, the Weather Channel and elsewhere. Can Climate Central and blogging journalists take up the slack?
Happy New Year to all of our readers!
297 Responses to “2008 Year in review”
John Finn says:
Totally off topic, but here’s one for Hank
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article5489134.ece
Apparently 2 google searches produces the same CO2 as boiling a kettle.
SergeiRostov says:
How how could pirates…? Oh, I see, increased methand emissions:
When pirates fall overboard above the continental shelf, they sink to the bottom and their peglegs poke a hole in it, releasing methane cthadrates(sp?).
(Well, that, and parrot flatulence.)
SergeiRostov, Aaarrrrghhh, Matey!
Has anyone noted that Mauna Loa observations actually showed a (seasonally adjusted) downward movement at the end of 2008? After a peak in Sept/Oct, the CO2 concentration went down by 1.3 ppm to 385.0 ppm. As far as I can see that never happened before, and it reduces the 2008 increase to only 0.2 ppm.
I would expect mitigation of the rising trend by lower economic activity, but not this (although it’s a very short period). It would be an extremely desirable pause in which to take the right drastical political steps towards sustainable reduction of emissions.
FurryCatHerder says:
In re 247 —
Uh, I’m not sure where the post you respond to says anything that disagrees with the state of oil exploration and production. “Demand” can increase all it wants, but if “supply” isn’t available (which you seem to agree with — it’s hard to tell), the imbalance is going to translate into either replacement sources or a change in pricing to reduce demand.
You seem to be taking issue with my statements about biofuels production? You attacked me for knowing nothing about the oil industry (no one expects peak production greater than 85 million barrels per day (mbpd) — so I think you’re the one who knows nothing), but then went on to say something about biofuels and hydrogen not being there? Adam Smith’s invisible hand insures that neither biofuels nor hydrogen will be produced in large quantities until the demand is present as both are marginally more expensive than oil at the moment. I’m guessing that if OPEC actually sticks to the 2 mbpd reduction target that we’ll find out. I’m not waiting, I still have plans for an electric car either this year or next.
When it comes to renewables, one of the greatest problems is that the US government (and IEA by extension) doesn’t really know how much is produced. TXU Energy, who provides me with electricity, hasn’t a clue how much I make, other than having a clue that it’s “a lot” because I don’t use so much of theirs anymore. As this article shows, each prediction about installed production seems to mysterious be on the very low side of wrong. I finished producing my 3rd megawatt hour (I should update my LJ, I suppose) earlier this month and that’s not accounted for anywhere — IEA doesn’t know TXU Energy doesn’t know, no one knows except me. And that’s the rub — each time there is a flurry of renewable energy development, more and more of the energy production falls outside the domain of “what is known”, and renewable energy installations continue to rise each year.
[Response: This is completely wrong. If CO2 doesn’t change, it can’t add to a changing temperature. No cause, no effect. – gavin]
I stand corrected.
However, what components of the climate play a part in the first 800 years of warming?
*Increase in insolation
*Carbon dioxide(No?), methane
*Water vapour
Most of the warming comes from water vapour feedback, I argue that even though the carbon dioxide concentration hasn’t changed, you wouldn’t get the warming if it wasn’t there at 180 p.p.m.v
It contributes indirectly via water vapour. Take the 180 p.p.m.v away and you change the threshold. No feedback.
SR, pirates are the prophets of the One True God: FSM
as any fule kno
Mark, Ramen, Brother!
Alan Neale says:
I doubt that hydrogen and electricity based cars in relation to AGW (the time factor you see) are viable alternatives in our world of what is needed. The present recession will limit the growth of oil for economic reasons of course but recessions are limited things and it will not take long before that 2 mbps cut is gobbled back up by the growing global economy and more besides. The Oil industry have discovered 45,000 fields and the big ones are the ones that have been in use for 50 years leaving slim pickings and a lot of expense to bring the remainging 1.2 trillion barrels online, 30 years worth if it even exists!
Tar sands make up 200 billion barrels and that a joke, OPEC has being economical with their reserves due to commit to their pumping quotas and no one even knows if they are right in their alleged reserves and if they are not then its a problem.
Hydrogen was a decade away a decade ago but also, its still a decade away technologically and by the laws of physics and not by the stupid invisible hand of Adam Smith. Pump all the reaearch money you want into this technology but as natural gas and coal are used as the main ingredients at the moment to make hydrogen you can see that electrolysis and the cost of hydrogen engines is presently prohibitively expensive requiring platinum in the fuel cell which cost a lot of money and featuring a whole load of other technical obstacles not least is producing it from renewables energy alongside all of the other electricity we need to do all ther other stuff fossil fuels presently do. When the technology is cracked and if it is Adam Smith style then its time to deplay and that a 50 year cycle to. Its the same issue for electric cars. Anyone know how to make tyres without using oil either, massive hurdles born of a energy source not created by man, just found ad therein lies the difference.
if you have managed to tap a stream or some other renewable source for youself then great but it aint even in the same ball part of the needs of a nation such as the USA or China or a continent such as Europe. I am sure we can all downsize, rightsize etc on oil eventually when its price rockets post recession but the sheer scale and size of the problem is the daunting issue along with the laws of phyics at the moment.
Hope you produce 100 MW and feed a few townes, T Boone pickens is trying it and I am sure all the motor companies are too but as yet no breakthroughs, only wind and potentially solar and CSP at the present time whcih require a lot of expense and new grand plans whci at present do not exist either. Roll on Denmark later this year when the new president of the USA and the rest of the world can finally commit to comitting themselves to something big.
James Hansen reckons that it all down to eliminating coal by 2030 and maybe we can do that if we deplay turbines, CSP, other renewables and replace the existing grid with smart one. Then we crack the oil problem and need the same amount of electricity again to power our cars, hell knows about the trucks and freight as yet, not answer there and as for flying – biofuels eventually could do the job but lets not presend we do not have large looming problems and just reckond that its a peice of cake for as yet it aint is it ?
Kevin Johnstone says:
Ark. I think a simpler explanation is an error in the presentation of the data.
The graph does not have a data point for Dec and checking the data file shows a duplication of the Nov figure. I think you’ll find a new Dec figure soon. The detrended plot and the 2008 result will then look more normal.
Kevin McKinney says:
iso, you ask “what components of the climate play a part in the first 800 years of warming?”, giving several possible answers. Since I love multiple choice, I will say that the generally agreed answer appears to be A), insolation, adding that the change in insolation is attributed to periodic orbital changes (Milankovitch cycles.) I think that is an FAQ around here somewhere.
(Captcha reminds us that soon enough we will be listening to our local high school marching band practice once again: “summer sousa.”)
Anne van der Bom says:
#251, Alan Neale,
only wind and potentially solar and CSP at the present time whcih require a lot of expense and new grand plans whci at present do not exist either
Not in my opinion. When the automobile was invented, do you think they had a ‘grand plan’ ready for highways and parking garages, etc.? No, it was just a matter of getting started and then gradually expanding, adapting the infrastructure along the way.
The same is true for renewables, it is a matter of getting started and solving the problems and improving the technology along the way. Some things of course must be planned in advance, but requiring a ‘grand plan’ reminds me of the communist 5-year plans, which were usually monumental failures.
Then we crack the oil problem and need the same amount of electricity again to power our cars, hell knows about the trucks and freight as yet
How do you define ‘the same amount of electricity’? Joule for Joule? An electric car is much more efficient, achieving around 6 km/kWh, or 600 kJ/km. An average (smallish) car does 7 l/100 km, which is ~2.5 MJ/km or four times as much. By switching to electric, we can therefore slash the road transport energy consumption by 75%.
Energy consumption for freight in the UK is a third of all road transport energy use. I think it will not be much different from the rest of the world, so it’s not as big a problem as it may seem.
Re #262, Every underestimates the energy density of oil I guess. A gallon of oil is 43 KW/H of energy. Sure we can make everything lighter (what replace 850 million vehicles in the world at present, well yer) and more efficient and batteries don’t weigh anything do they or litter the planet as they are easily recyled and dealt with.
That was beauty of oi, gas and coal, there was enough of it and it was energy dense enough to allow the world to grow but when you are there its a different story as to what replaces it and allows continued economic growth for ever and ever, amen eh. There is some very good stuff out there but it aint here yet, sure efficiency gains for future buildings and transport might be able to be adjusted as you are saying but is is scientific/engineering reality or just a missions statement of someone who does not really know?
Its all in relation to AGW and probably peak oil. Our need is to replace coal and risk using up all of the oil and gas slower by making it last longer by introducing hybrid technologies to make it more efficient. If we leap that obstacle and eliminate coal usage by using large scale renewables energy projects and efficiency gains then cool. However its 2009 and as yet it seems to be non existant as oil, gas and coal usage are only presently going down a little due to the current recession and that itself is probably hurting alternatives as well from getting a foothold in the economy. When the recession recedes so the fossil fuel commitments will grow again.
Hence the need for a plan in my book. Hence hopefully Copanhagen at the end of 2009 to determine the new Kyoto and hopefully the USA taking part in full and weening them over to and off of the CO2 emitting stuff by 2050. LEts hope we have the time to do it, it seems like a close thing though.
Germany has made some good progres towards electricity from solar and wind and maybe its a good working example of what everyone can achieve, lets hope so but Germany is still planning on building new coal fired power plants without CCS as yet.
iso writes
“I argue … you wouldn’t get the warming if it wasn’t there …”
Uh, yeah, because the water would have frozen out too; you’d have a dry atmosphere, nitrogen and oxygen and argon, eh?
“Without a natural greenhouse effect, the temperature of the Earth would be about zero degrees F (-18°C) instead of its present 57°F (14°C). … http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalwarming.html
I’m not sure what you’re trying to say.
I am not underestimating the energy density of hydrocarbon fuels.
I am talking about real world data. Real electric cars. Real gas cars. It’s unavoidable math.
Besides, everybody knows that an internal combustion engine in a car is, on average, 20% efficient. Electric motors are around 80-90%.
I stick to my point: electric transport will use 1/4 of the electricity (in Joules) as we are currently using on gas (in Joules).
Re #265, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car#Present_and_future
Certainly better than ICE vehicles but there are issues with over all delivery considerations of electricity and other limitations such as the size of the vehicle. On the whole though a good thing but 24% efficiency overall is only 4% better than ICE unfortinately. Thanks for the inofrmation though. It all does sound very promising but some issues seem to be in the grid system. Roll out the renewables though and it might be a ICE replacement at some point in time.
Jim Eager says:
Ark (254), Read this disclaimer at
“The last year of data are still preliminary, pending recalibrations of reference gases and other quality control checks.”
And if you click on this link:
“globally averaged CO2 concentration at the surface.”
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/index.html#global
The Annual Mean Growth Rate shows 1.82 for 2008.
I was supposing the electricity would come from renewable sources. Only that way an electric car really makes sense.
The 20% efficiency excludes losses of refining, something that will progressively worsen with increasing use of tar sands.
Biofuels is no different. It’s more efficient to burn the biomass directly in a power plant than to refine it into something that is fit for a modern ICE.
Re #268, However the new Honda hybrid electric/petrol motor car achieves a 64 MPG is driven to the letter. Not exactly amazing for a well thought our car that is built to delievr the green agenda. European Diesels driven correctly can achieve 50 to 70 and we are talking about an Audi A3 or VW golf bluemotion. All slightly disapointing considering you went on about that 80% efficient engine relative to the 20% efficiency of the ICE :(
I still shudder at where exactly we get our replaced electricity from (coal and gas based) and then add enough to repalce oil to. It all seems slightly out of reach to me. Still I presume that the efficiency of this electric car will come from direct electric cars and not hybrid types. It all sounds like we need something in the region of 125 MPG eventually otherwise the planet will be covered in Wind Turbines, no ?
“Could each one’s effect on the temperature record be sorted out?”
Since CO2 cannot contribute to a changing temperature unless its concentration changes, I thought it maybe plausible to compare the rate of warming, before and after changes in CO2 levels, using ice core data.
There is no significant difference in the rate.
*Is it because CO2 is already contributing? (Tried that arguement).
*There is no change in rate because rate is limited by……..
*Something changes……..insolation?
*Overlapping forces (#238), or there is a delay?
*Water vapour is responsible for most of the warming?
There must be a scientific explaination. If CO2 is so critical to the temperature of earth, you’d expect an increase in the rate.
Alan @ 269:
Feel free to shudder all you want. I get a lot of my electricity from my roof. Pretty soon I’ll walk to the garage and get on my electric motorcycle that also gets a lot of its electricity from my roof.
Really. Putting your head in the sand will not keep people from shifting off of liquid fuels. It will get sand in your eyes and that’s about it.
re 270.
CO2 has already contributed to retaining warmth. Your statement is begging several others and you have worded it badly.
Water vapour has already contributed to retaining warmth and its contribution is higher than the CO2 concentrations. However, unlike CO2, we have rain, so it only stays up there if the temperature allows it. It cannot contribute to a forcing. If you pump trillions of tons of water in the air, it will rain out. If you pump trillions of tons of CO2 in the air, it doesn’t (unless you’re on Ganymede, maybe).
“If CO2 is so critical to the temperature of earth, you’d expect an increase in the rate.”
Rate of what? Why would we expect to see it bigger? Bigger than what? Why would it increase?
If I push a block of metal in a zero-friction assembly, it will speed up until I stop. It will CONTINUE speeding while I push with constant force. The rate of change doesn’t increase just because I’ve been pushing for half an hour rather than 4 minutes.
your questions go unanswered because your questions make no sense.
re 269. However, that Honda has to carry two engines and bigger batteries than the diesel.
And it isn’t an electric car. It’s a hybrid.
Apart from that, it would have answered Anne’s point…
The rate of warming.
Gavin, is it because of the clouds? The rate of warming is limited by clouds?
recaptcha agrees: remedy here
iso, read the pointers given to you above. There’s not enough precision in ice cores to see whether what you’re assuming is true. You wish there were. But you can’t ask your questions based on what you wish were true and expect answers that make sense.
Isotopious, You are looking on this as if changes are occurring one at a time. That’s not what is happening. First you have a change in insolation due to a change in Earth’s orbit. This raises the temperature to the point where you eventually get outgassing of CO2 from the oceans, permafrost, etc. However, all the while insolation is changing as well, along with albedo, etc. What CO2 does is extend and intensify the warming. No responsible climate scientist has ever said CO2 was all there was to climate–it just happens to be how we’re warming Earth at present.
Couldn’t agree more, Ray. Very complicated.
Anyway, thanks for your time.
re 274. the rate of increase in warming would be due to an increase in the level of forcing.
If CO2 output isn’t increasing then the rate of increase won’t increase (given everything else is static).
So why do you think the rate of warming should increase? The temperature is increasing but not the rate of temperature increase. At least not to an extent that can be ascertained. Just like pushing a car will make it go faster and, in zero friction, continue to do so but the *acceleration* isn’t increasing. And it never will unless you increase the force.
Re #271, thats a slightly emotive response in my book and you may live in a part of the world where solar can supply you all year round but a lot do not I am sure. I too have switched to the new light bulbs but its not made a big difference to my electricity bill as yet (if it ever will) although it may have to my consumption.
And as for electric motorcylces, dream on. In actual fact that statement says it all for the masses and just adds to the despair. Families of 5+ are not going to be using bikes to get around and hence like James Hansen says, its all of the oil and probably all of the gas we just have to tackle the coal.
I was hoping that you had some radical energy ideas and knowledge but alas, you have some individually good incentives and practice but nothing for the masses.
Many obtacles prevent energy efficiency and new technologies from taking off. Energy leaky houses that require a lot of incentives to patch up and will can potentially cause other issues. Solar thermal and solar water which for millions of homes are presently prohibitively expensive and every time fossil fuel bills rise governments do not seem to do anything constructive but talk to the fossil fuel companies rather than help pay for the alternatives. As for transport, we aint going to see A en masse movemtn of electric vehicles anytime soon but I hope you are right and the USA moves ot hybrids, 20 MPG to 60 MPG would be a very good thing, is it likely though ?
Sorry about giving you ther wrong impression but I thought it was a reality energy conversation and not a optimists charter for an individual.
Re #273, I said it was a hybrid but she sounded like it was 80% efficient over 20% and hence 4 times the MPG. Its nothing like that is it overall but we may be talking from two seperate continents where in the USA hybrids might be sounding like a machine made in heaven whereas in Europe it sounds like its a good vehicle but 60 -70 MPG already exists in diesel form.
@ 279:
I don’t have a family of 5+. I have no reason to have an electric SUV. However, if I needed an electric SUV, or a larger electric car, I know how to get one.
Re #281, cool, and powered from your solar syaten no doubt to. Phew, that AGW solved then.
Re #279, http://www.popularmechanics.com/automotive/new_cars/4251491.html
Compressed air cars too. Little engine and a lot of power from a compressed air tank from using some electricity. 1000 mile range.
in Europe it sounds like its a good vehicle but 60 -70 MPG already exists in diesel form.
Remember, diesel’s about 20% more dense than gasoline to your 60-70 MPG TDI diesel is equivalent to a gasoline car getting 48-56 MPG in terms of carbon emissions (only).
I have a great idea, let’s all fuss over little gains from individual choices in rapidly depreciated automobiles, instead of taking the big basic easy steps toward conservation. What’s that about, if not confusion, uncertainty, and delay?
Example, still in play — standard electric utility transformers, regulated by Dept. of Energy to a cheap inefficient standard:
Eight US utility companies call for tougher transformer efficiency standards 2006-11-02 08:30.
Department of Energy proposal considered too weak
… Distribution transformers in the USA currently conform to the energy efficiency standard NEMA TP-1. This is a voluntary industry standard, set by the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA).
Last August, the federal Department of Energy (DOE) released a proposal for an efficiency standard for distribution transformers that goes further than the NEMA standard. According to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, the DOE is authorized to establish energy conservation standards for various consumer products and industrial equipment.
Surprisingly enough, eight utility companies have stated that the DOE proposal does not go far enough. These companies argue that the DOE proposal does not set the minimum efficiency standard at the estimated minimum life cycle cost (which is calculated by the DOE itself). They want a tougher standard that would at least minimize the life cycle cost of the equipment.
A benefit for the whole economy
The eight utility companies side with several energy efficiency groups and consumer advocates. They argue that more efficient distribution transformers would benefit the US economy as a whole. Over a period of 28 years (the mean life expectancy of a distribution transformer), the tougher standard would save 459 billion kWh, or 50% more than the DOE proposal. That means a net savings of $11.1 billion, or $1.7 billion more than the DOE proposal…..
-end excerpt-from: http://www.leonardo-energy.org/drupal/node/1039
“… More than 40 million distribution transformers located on utility poles and cement pads across the United States serve the crucial function of reducing electricity voltage to the levels needed to power homes and businesses. In August, DOE proposed a weak standard that falls substantially short of the levels the agency’s own study shows would maximize economic savings….”
http://www.ase.org/content/news/detail/3405
“In 2007, the Attorney General also filed a petition PDF logo [PDF 7.77 mb / 61 pg] in the Ninth Circuit challenging DOE’s failure to adopt a stringent efficiency standard for electricity distribution transformers. Distribution transformers, mounted on utility poles or small concrete pads, reduce the power of electric current from the high voltages used in transmission lines to the lower voltages suitable for use by residential and commercial utility customers. More efficient distribution transformers significantly reduce the amount of electricity that is lost in the transformation process, and therefore reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with power generation. The Attorney General filed its opening brief PDF logo [PDF 2.95 mb / 82 pg] in the case on June 26, 2008.
http://www.ag.ca.gov/globalwarming/energyefficiency.php
Get this? It’s one agency. One regulation. One line of text.
Utilities and states have had to file lawsuits trying to require the best off-the-shelf efficient technology to maximize economic return on the investment — the DOE mandated cheaper, less efficient standards.
One line of text. One agency regulation. One rule — affecting more efficiency savings than all the little stuff getting so much attention. Where did you ever hear about this?
And we’re fussing about who drives what kind of stupid car?
When I switched to CFLs, my electric bill dropped 15 percent immediately. Furthermore, I now have the option of paying an additional 1-2 percent to purchase green energy through my power company. Which is being heavily promoted by the power company as well so it is not simply an “individualistic” thing.
Re #286, 284. I hope that the public understands the difference on car technologies in realtion to the climate. Diesel is a bit dirty it has to be said on its particulate emissions and the stuff on wiki about electric cars demonstarte that the future is this way or oompressed air maybe. Its good to see that the options are coming and so are the cars. Lets hope we have the clean electricity sources to power all these electric vehicles. SHould not a big issues in the USA, nor in Europe for that matter.
Fills me with a good vibe.
Yes, diesel has been quite dirty. However, in the past couple of years new diesel fuel and new diesel engines are much cleaner with regard to particulate emissions.
Alan Neale, I have seen families of 5 riding together on a single bicycle in Africa. However, perhaps the wierdest things I saw were the funerals:
1)The taxi funeral–complete with casket sticking out of the back-seat window.
2)The bicycle funeral–two guys riding in synchrony with a casket attached to the luggage racks on the back of the bikes with bungie cords!
Amazing what people will come up with when they have no limited options.
Re list in original post, ‘methane from plants’ —
“… a UK-based team now reports that under normal conditions, plants just convey methane from the soil to the air without actually producing it.
Writing in a Royal Society journal, they suggest identifying sources of methane is key for climate control. …”
Doc Sief says:
Wondering what your thoughts are on this posting:
http://errortheory.blogspot.com/2008/08/hathaway-and-ipcc-both-simply-ignore.html
“With one exception. By refusing to even consider the possibility of an extended solar lull, Hathaway himself can avoid having to address the impact that such a lull would have on global temperature. If he did address that question, he would obviously have to note that the last really long such lull seems to have caused the Little Ice Age, which would place him on the side of the “deniers” in the debate about human-caused global warming. If low solar activity caused the Little Ice Age, then the “grand maximum” levels of solar activity during the 20th century would be the cause of 20th century warming, and the hoax of human-caused warming would be exposed.
Looking at the science alone, however, Hathaway cannot be lumped with the IPCC. Most importantly, there actually is a solid body of evidence behind his predictive scheme. Past solar cycles HAVE tended to follow a particular pattern, where the shape of the up-phase predicts the shape of the down-phase.
In contrast, there is no evidence whatsoever for the theory of human-caused global warming. In theory, additional CO2 should have SOME heat trapping effect, but there is no sign of it in the geological record. What warming effect CO2 has is evidently too small to measure, and this is just what we would expect.
CO2 mostly traps the same wavelengths of infrared that the vastly more abundant water vapor, leaving very little heat trapping work for marginal increases in CO2 to perform. Thus theory itself says that the marginal effect of CO2 on temperature should be minuscule.”
[Response: Error Theory indeed. The future behaviour of the sun has nothing to do with attribution of past events and is completely orthogonal to the physics of greenhouse effects. -gavin]
spilgard says:
Re #291:
The linked blog is good for a chuckle. Scroll down beyond the “recommended” links to the usual places (WUWT, Heartland, etc.) and you’ll find a link to “the Real Frauds at RealClimate”.
The author’s bio is especially amusing. In summary: “I was gonna get a PhD in Economics but I never did, and then I was about to write a book but I didn’t, and uhh, 9/11 conspiracies, and did I mention that I used to edit a campus newspaper?”
“Doc”, what happens if you increase the density of a medium wherein a particle is moving by random collision from the centre to the edge?
It takes longer to get out.
Now, since input is in joules per SECOND, and the reradiation is in joules per SECOND, what do you think will happen when the joule takes longer to get out?
Here’s a hint: the joules per SECOND goes down.
Fred Staples says:
Perhaps the sceptical side of the argument could be permitted to nominate some candidates for the most outstanding elephant in the room, ignored in the original text.
The obvious candidates are the UAH records, with the lower troposphere decadal trend at 0.13 degrees, and the mid troposphere at 0.04 degrees C, results which are simply not compatible with the high atmosphere AGW absorption theory. However, Gavin blames corruption from the cooling trend in the stratosphere for the mid troposphere result.
The Hansen forecasts are worth nominating (diverging B line temperature forecasts and actual C line temperatures), but if you choose your start point carefully (the immediate post El-Nino point) the temperature trend is still upwards.
The bias inherent in the ground station temperature measurements reported by Anthony Watts is a very strong candidate. I particularly recommend “ How not to measure temperature, part 79, NOAA USHCN COOP weather station #298107”.
In my opinion, though, the nod has to go to the HADAT radio-sonde records from the Hadley centre, plotted with the corresponding CO2 record at “Global Warming at a Glance”. It is difficult to see any AGW effect in the plots, at all altitudes. The temperatures fall from the previous peak in the forties to the late seventies, in contrast to the rise in CO2 over the same period. There is a sharp step increase at the end of 1977, and a flat trend thereafter until the El Nino peak in 1998/99, another step from 1999 to 2001, followed by a decline back towards the seventies levels.
The individual data records for the troposhere levels are well worth looking at. They confirm that the temperature trends from 1958 to September 2008 fall with altitude across the troposphere, from 0.16 degrees per decade at the lowest level to 0.13 at the top. Importantly, the trends from 1979, lower and upper, are very close to the UAH Northern hemisphere lower and mid troposphere trends, and most of the Radio-Sonde sites are in the Northern Hemisphere.
For John Finn, who reported 11 January 2009 @ 1:22 PM:
> Apparently 2 google searches produces the same CO2 …
Nope: http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=526108
On the Fred Staples stuff, it’s the same old stuff. People get tired of helping Fred try to cite sources, because it’s never easy to come up with actual science to match what he claims, and he reposts the claims everywhere. This is how folks get the last word — by repetition without alteration despite attempts at education. I’m tired of chasing the stuff down.
Someone want to write some software to find it all and collect it in one place?
Then we could look for a pony.
So, Fred, do tell, where is that massive discrepancy:
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j237/hausfath/Picture9.png
Amazing how it goes away when you normalize everything to the same base period. Kudos to Zeke Hausfather for the plot.
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Key words: Buruli Ulcer, knowledge, practices, treatment, health practitioners, health districts
© Frankline Sanyuy Nsai et al. The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Corresponding author: Samuel Nambile Cumber, Section for Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Department of Public Health, Institute of Medicine, the Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, SE-405 Gothenburg, Sweden (samuel.cumber@gu.se)
Knowledge and practices of health practitioners on treatment of Buruli ulcer in the Mbonge, Ekondo Titi and Muyuka Health Districts, South West Region, Cameroon
Frankline Sanyuy Nsai1, Samuel Nambile Cumber2,3,&, Ngwayu Claude Nkfusai4, Vecheusi Zennobia Viyoff4, Nkemngu Blake Afutendem5, Rosaline Yumumkah Cumber6, Joyce Mahlako Tsoka-Gwegweni3,7, Jane-Francis Tata Kihla Akoachere4
1Department of Public Health and Hygiene, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon, 2Section for Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Department of Public Health, Institute of Medicine, the Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, 3Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 4Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Science, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon, 5Department of Public Health, Faculty of Science, University of Dschang, Dschang, Cameroon, 6Department of Political Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 7School of Nursing & Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal Durban, South Africa
&Corresponding author
Samuel Nambile Cumber, Section for Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Department of Public Health, Institute of Medicine, the Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, SE-405 Gothenburg, Sweden
Introduction: after tuberculosis and leprosy, Buruli ulcer (BU) is the third most common mycobacterial infection. Buruli ulcer begins as a localized skin lesion that progresses to extensive ulceration thus leading to functional disability, loss of economic productivity and social stigma. This study is aimed at assessing the knowledge and practices among health practitioners on the treatment of BU in the Mbonge, Ekondo Titi and Muyuka Health Districts of the South West Region of Cameroon.
Methods: this is a cross-sectional study that investigates participants' knowledge and practices on the treatment of BU. The study uses a qualitative method of structured questionnaires in the process of data collection.
Results: seventy percent (70%) of the participants acknowledged they encounter cases of BU in their respective Hospitals or Health centers. Among these, 48% agreed they managed BU in their facilities and up to 91.7% noted that their community members are aware that BU is managed in their facility while seventy percent of the medical practitioners indicated they cannot identify the various stages of BU. Eighty-one percent of the practitioners from Muyuka HD indicated they could not identify the various stages of BU. More than 63% of the practitioners regarded BU patients as normal people in their communities however, practitioners that practiced for less than 5 years were likely not to admit BU patients in the same room with other patients. Beliefs such as being cursed (47.06%) and being possessed (29.41%) were reported by practitioners that acknowledged the existence of traditional beliefs in the community.
Conclusion: despite the fact that a majority of the health practitioners knew what BU is, most of them demonstrated lack of knowledge on the identification of the various stages and management of the illness. Practitioners demonstrated positive attitude towards patients although they would not admit them in the same room with other patients. Considering the poor knowledge on identification and management demonstrated by most of the practitioners, management of the disease would be inadequate and may even aggravate the patient's situation. Training and onsite mentorship on screening, identification and management of BU is therefore highly recommended amongst health personnel practicing in endemic areas.
After tuberculosis and leprosy, Buruli ulcer (BU) is the third most common mycobacterial infection [1]. BU begins as a localized skin lesion that progresses to extensive ulceration, leading to functional disability, loss of economic productivity, and social stigma [2]. In Australia BU is called Brainsdale disease. Since the 1998 World Health Organization (WHO) Buruli ulcer initiative, there has been increased attention to research efforts for treatment and control of BU. Buruli ulcer, Bairnsdale ulcer and Daintree ulcer are all local names given to the same disease that is caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans. The responsible organism is an acid-fast Mycobacterium of the same genus as the tuberculosis bacilli. This environmental bacterium produces a destructive toxin and mycolactone which leads to tissue damage that inhibits the immune response [3]. M. ulcerans infects the skin and subcutaneous tissues that progresses to indolent non-ulcerated and ulcerated lesions [4]. M. ulcerans grows optimally at a temperature of 90oF (32°C) in the tropical and sub-tropical zones on earth [5]. Considering Cameroon as one of the most affected areas in Africa, there has been intense study on various aspects of this debilitating disease in the country. Prevalence studies of BU by [6] and [7] in the Nyong River basin in Akonolinga identified 436 and 125 cases of BU respectively. Also, studies by [8] show that the age adjusted cumulative incidence in elderly people is similar to that in children because of contact with the river which is a risk factor. The current Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine appears to offer some short-term protection against BU however, there is on-going research for a vaccine to treat Buruli ulcer because a safe and effective vaccine may be the most effective way to combat Buruli ulcer in the long term. Although the first report of Buruli ulcer from Africa dates back to 1897 when Sir Albert Cook described cases of chronic ulceration in Uganda, the first definitive description of Mycobacterium ulcerans was published in 1948 [4].
Cases of human disease occur in over 30 countries worldwide. For instance, disease foci have been reported from tropical areas in Asia (Malaysia, Papua New Guinea and Sri Lanka) and Latin America (Guyana, Mexico, Peru). In addition, the largest numbers of patients with Buruli ulcer disease have been detected in sub-Saharan Africa [9]. Foci have also been identified in Australia (Queensland and the Southern Territory) [10]. The earliest reports from Africa came from the South-West of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo where the disease is prevalent [11]. Later, there were reports of hundreds of patients in Uganda, from a refugee camp in Kinyara, near the Nile river, in a county that was called Buruli, hence the name "Buruli ulcer" [12]. The last training on BU offered to health care providers in the SWR was in 2007 thus indicating that a high proportion of health care providers (medical doctors, nurses and laboratory technicians), especially those recruited after the training could have little or no knowledge on the identification and management of BU. It is therefore evident that there is need for evaluation of knowledge and practices of health care providers in the SWR of Cameroon to make recommendations on ways to facilitate disease identification and prompt treatment to minimize the physical, economic and social impacts of the disease. The major objective of this study was to assess the knowledge of medical practitioners about BU with regards to its transmission, prevention and treatment, and also to determine their behavior towards BU disease sufferers.
Study design: this was a cross sectional study that involved principally the administration of questionnaires to a cross-section of the participants (nurses, doctors and laboratory technicians) in the Mbonge, Ekondo Titi and Muyuka Health Districts (HDs) to investigate participants' knowledge and practices on the treatment of BU. Three Health Districts with high prevalence of BU were selected from 18 Health Districts in the South West Region.
Study area: the South West region is made up of 18 HDs and this study covered three HDs (Ekondo Titi, Mbonge and Muyuka) based on the prevalence of Buruli ulcer in these Health Districts.
Sample size calculation:
Where: n = Sample size required N = Number of health workers practicing in the concerned health facilities in the population: (100) P = Estimated variance in population, as a decimal: (0.5 for 50-50) A = Precision desired, expressed as a decimal: (0.05 for 5%) Z = Confidence level: 1.96 for 95% confidence R = Estimated Response rate, as a decimal: (1) Applying the formula:
n = 79.34 respondents and it was increased to 80 respondents. Twenty respondents from each health district (80 respondents divided by 4 HDs). Four health workers were to be evaluated from each health facility.
Inclusion criteria: healthcare providers' resident in the health districts who accepted to participate and gave their consent; healthcare providers involved in the Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) program; all sexes, 21yrs to 60yrs.
Exclusion criteria: health personnel not resident in the Health District; health personnel not involved in the NTDs Program; age less than 21 years.
Study population: the study population was made up of health practitioners from three Health Districts implementing the NTDs program.
Research design and data collection: this study was a cross-sectional survey, in which participants' knowledge and practice on BU was investigated. Data was obtained quantitatively through structured questionnaires.
Questionnaires: questionnaires that had initially been tested and validated were administered to medical practitioners. This questionnaire had three sections: demographics, understanding and treatment seeking behavior of the disease and finally practice on the BUD (Buruli Ulcer Disease) sufferers. These questionnaires aimed at determining what participants (nurses, doctors and laboratory technicians) know about BU with regards to its transmission, prevention and treatment. In addition, the questionnaires were aimed at establishing the behavior of the practitioners towards sufferers.
Data analysis: the statistical package EPI Info 7 was used to enter data in this study. SPSS version 20.0, statistical software was used in data cleaning, management and analysis. A descriptive analysis on the cases was done. The relationship between the study outcome (knowledge and practice of practitioners and the independent (professional qualification, location of health facility and work experience) variables was analyzed using the chi-square test.
Ethical considerations: ethical clearance for this study was obtained from the Institutional Review Board of the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Buea. Also, administrative clearance was obtained from the RDPH of the South West region. At the study sites, consent was sought from the district medical officers while study participants signed an informed consent form to willingly participate in the study.
Knowledge and practices of health practitioners on treatment of BU: seventy percent (70%) of the participants acknowledged they encounter cases of BU in their respective Hospitals/Health centers. Among these, 48% agreed they managed BU in their facilities and up to 91.7% noted that their community members are aware that BU is managed in their facility. Seventy percent of the medical practitioners indicated they cannot identify the various stages of BU (Figure 1). Stratification of the participants with respect to various Hospitals/Health Centers gave a better understanding about knowledge on treatment of BU. Muyuka District Hospital was likely to encounter BU cases in their facility and were less likely to manage BU cases. Averagely, 81.25% of the practitioners from Muyuka HD indicated they could not identify the various stages of BU. All (100%) health practitioners from District hospital Ekondo Titi, Kumbe Balue Health Center Ekondo Titi, Bokosso Health Center, District Hospital Muyuka and Calvary Hospital Muyuka admitted receiving cases of BU in their facility. Also, all practitioners in the District Hospital of Ekondo Titi and Kumbe Balue Health Center Ekondo Titi indicated that their community members are aware they managed the disease. With respect to identification of various stages of the disease, there was no facility where all practitioners could identify the stages of BU. Eighty percent (80%) of the practitioners in DH Ekondo Titi could identify the various stages of BU (Table 1). Of the practitioners that acknowledged they encounter BU cases in their respective facilities, 60% of them encountered BU often while 40% encountered it occasionally (Figure 2). Thirty-eight percent of the participants that indicated they don't manage BU cases in their health facilities referred the patients to treatment centers while 61.5% gave no advice to the patients. For participants that agreed they manage BU, 75% indicated both drug therapy and surgery as best methods for treatment while 16.7% thought that having a surgery could be the only way to treat BU (Figure 3, Figure 4).
Attitude and perception of health practitioners towards BU patients: over 63% of the practitioners regarded BU patients as normal people in their communities however, 60% percent of them will not admit BU patients in the same room with other patients. Additionally, more than 56% of the practitioners reported the existence of traditional beliefs attributed to BU in their respective communities (Figure 5). Stratification with respect to demographic factors of the practitioners revealed some aspects about attitudes and perception towards patients. For instance, health practitioners between the ages of 25 and 40 would likely not admit BU patients in the same room with other patients. At the same time, practitioners that had not practiced for more than 5years were also likely not to admit BU patients in the same room with other patients. Focusing on profession, there was no significant difference in knowledge and attitude towards patients (Table 2). The following beliefs were reported by practitioners that acknowledged the existence of traditional beliefs in the community: curse (47.06%) and being possessed (29.41%). Twenty-four percent of the practitioners thought there were other beliefs attributed to BU in their respective communities. For instance, beliefs like witchcraft and totems (snakes) were noted (Figure 6).
Among the health practitioners, out of the 70% that acknowledged they usually encounter BU cases in their health facilities, surprisingly, less than one-third of the practitioners confirmed that they could identify the various stages of BU. 60% of the practitioners also thought BU can be prevented by citing specific possible means through which the debilitating illness can be prevented. According to information obtained from community members during FGDs in a related study and in consideration of the fact that a handful of the health practitioners were unable to identify and manage BU cases in their health facilities, they were tempted to seek treatment elsewhere. They mentioned prayers (miracles) and herbalists/witchdoctors as alternative places for treatment [13]. With the last effective training on the identification and management of BU in the SWR dating back as far as 2007 [14], newly recruited practitioners or those transferred from non-endemic to endemic areas, (especially nurses) lacked knowledge on the disease hence, management errors are mentioned above since they have not had any formal training on identification and management. These are indications that there is lack of knowledge of disease management. It is worth noting that in Muyuka where no treatment center exists, 38% of practitioners reported they would refer suspected cases to treatment centers.
The SWR has only two treatment centers for BU which are based in Ekondo titi HD and Mbonge HD respectively. These centers are located far from other HDs such as the Muyuka HDs that often report more on BU cases. A study by Akoachere et al in 2016 [13] on community members revealed that; since treatment centers are relatively far from other HDs, community members preferably sought treatment elsewhere such as going to herbalists/witchdoctors. The study further indicated that apart from the distance which is a limiting factor, the poor state of roads in these areas equally prevented patients from traveling to treatment centers. Among the health practitioners, 60% of them would not admit BU patients in the same room with other patients. Also, practitioners that had been in service for less than 5 years were more likely to think that BU patients should not be admitted in the same room with other patients. This attitude additionally indicates that there are gaps in the knowledge and management of the disease by practitioners. Considering the length of time (10 years) since the last regional training on BU was carried out in the SWR, many practitioners have either joined the profession or have been transferred to this region and it is obvious from the results that hands full of them are ignorant about the disease. Medical practitioners also confirmed that there were traditional beliefs like witchcraft, being cursed and being possessed that are attributed to the disease by the community. These findings demonstrate that there is lack of information about the disease in endemic localities that generally affects management.
From the findings presented above, although participants demonstrated awareness on BUD, there is still a poor knowledge on the disease. Among those that had knowledge about the disease, majority of them knew it is due to bacterial infection. The hospital was acknowledged as the ideal place for treatment even though some of participants preferred other sources like herbalist/witchdoctors or prayers. Longevity in service further played an important role in the knowledge on BU and attitude towards patients because despite the fact that most of the health practitioners usually encounter BU cases, few of them normally referred the patients to treatment centers. Considering the poor knowledge on identification and management demonstrated by most of the practitioners, management of the disease becomes inadequate thus aggravating the patient's situation. Consequently, reinforcement of BU identification and management in the curriculum for training medical practitioners is important as this may go a long way to increase their knowledge on BU as well as help in taming their attitude and perceptions towards patients.
What is known about this topic
Knowledge by members of affected communities and attitude and practice towards patients;
Epidemiology and socio-economic effects of BU among members of affected communities.
What this study adds
Shows that health practitioners in endemic localities lack knowledge on the management of BUD, despite its endemicity;
Demonstrates a need for training of practicing professionals on BU identification and management and also the inclusion of this topic in the curriculum of health students.
The authors declare no competing interests.
Frankline Sanyuy Nsai, Samuel Nambile Cumber, Ngwayu Claude Nkfusai, Vecheusi Zennobia Viyoff, Nkemngu Blake Afutendem, Rosaline Yumumkah Cumber, Joyce Mahlako Tsoka-Gwegweni and Jane-Francis Tata Kihla Akoachere conceived and designed the study. Frankline Sanyuy Nsai implemented the study. Jane-Francis Tata Kihla Akoachere, Joyce Mahlako Tsoka-Gwegweni and Frankline Sanyuy Nsai supervised the study. Frankline Sanyuy Nsai conducted data analysis. Frankline Sanyuy Nsai, Samuel Nambile Cumber, Ngwayu Claude Nkfusai, Vecheusi Zennobia Viyoff, Nkemngu Blake Afutendem, Rosaline Yumumkah Cumber, Joyce Mahlako Tsoka-Gwegweni and Jane-Francis Tata Kihla Akoachere interpreted study results: Frankline Sanyuy Nsai and Jane-Francis Tata Kihla Akoachere wrote the first draft of the manuscript. Ngwayu Claude Nkfusai and Samuel Nambile Cumber reviewed and corrected the draft manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
We are grateful to all who participated in this research.
Table 1: knowledge on treatment of BU in various health districts
Table 2: knowledge and attitude of health practitioners towards BU patient
Figure 1: identification and management of BU by practitioners
Figure 2: frequency presentation of BU cases in health facilities
Figure 3: advice given to patients by practitioners
Figure 4: best method used to treat BU
Figure 5: attitude and perception of practitioners towards BU patients
Figure 6: practitioners opinion on beliefs attributed to BU existing in the community
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Metabolic adaptation ensures survival of colon cancer cells
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PanARMENIAN.Net - Colon cancer cells deficient in p53, one of the most important control proteins in cell growth, activate a particular metabolic pathway to adapt to the lack of oxygen and nutrients inside the tumor. Statins, which are often prescribed to lower cholesterol, block this metabolic pathway and cause the cancer cells to die, as scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have now discovered. The researchers now intend to investigate this potential treatment strategy in more detail in cancer cells and animal experiments, Science Daily reports.
Once a tumor has reached a certain size, the cancer cells face a particular challenge: Growing in a disorganized way, tumors lack blood vessels, which leads to oxygen and nutrient deficiency inside the tumor. "Cancer cells have to completely reorganize their entire metabolism to adapt to this deficiency," Almut Schulze, an expert on metabolism at DKFZ, explained.
In her current work, Schulze investigated indications that the important control protein and tumor suppressor p53 plays a crucial role in adapting to deficiencies. Schulze and her team examined p53-deficient colon cancer cells to find out how p53 actually impacts on metabolic adaptation.
In order to mimic the deficient environment inside a cancerous tumor in a Petri dish, the researchers let the cancer cells grow into small spheroids. Colon cancer cells with intact p53 adapted to the deficient environment by restricting their growth. In contrast, the p53-deficient tumor cells inside the spheroids continued to grow as before, activating a metabolic pathway known as the mevalonate pathway, which supplied the cells with cholesterol, an important cell membrane component.
The mevalonate pathway can be inhibited using statins, which are common cholesterol-lowering agents. Treatment with statins did in fact induce apoptosis in the deficient environment inside the p53-deficient microtumors. In contrast, microtumors with intact p53 did not respond to the treatment.
Schulze and her team also found another way in which p53-deficient colon cancer cells adapted to the deficiencies: The activated mevalonate pathway also promoted the synthesis of ubiquinone, an important component in electron transport in the respiratory chain. In deficient environments, cancer cells are more heavily dependent on this substance -- also called coenzyme Q10 -- to synthesize new DNA.
"Cancer cells that are deficient in p53 use the mevalonate pathway to promote cell respiration and to access key cell components, hence ensuring their survival. From an oncologist's viewpoint, it is particularly interesting that this metabolic pathway is easy to inhibit with statins, allowing us to use a common drug to induce apoptosis in the cancer cells," Almut Schulze explained. "This only applies under the particular conditions of deficiency that prevail inside a tumor, however," she added. "That means that statins should be combined with agents that promote this metabolic stress, such as drugs that inhibit the formation of new blood vessels." Schulze hopes to test this new treatment strategy on tumor cells and in animal experiments as soon as possible.
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The House in the Woods, by Emily Cleaver
artwork by Graham Dean
'What did your mum think of me?' said Dave. They skirted a puddle criss-crossed with bike tracks. Min held his arm, their coats scuffing, the smell of the waterproof fabric blocking out the smell of wet leaves. The main road rumbled in the distance.
'That bad, was it?' said Dave.
Min swallowed. 'She told me what she thought. Of course she did.'
Min had found a tea towel in the bin after her mum had left. She wondered if her mum had waited until she was out of the room before throwing it away. It had been clean enough. She imagined going into someone else's house and throwing away their tea towel while they weren't looking.
'Can I be party to this information?'
'She said you were very tall.'
After lunch, when her mum was leaving, Min had caught her sniffing the air in the hall. She'd sniffed too, not able to stop herself.
'Nice to see I made an impression with my conversation.'
Min felt along the split where her lips were chapped, pushing at it with her tongue.
'She said it was obvious you liked me.'
Dave made an unpleasant noise, like a snort. 'Did she think I wouldn't like you?'
'No.' Min wondered, though.
'Did she think I'd go out with you and not like you?'
Min sometimes thought of Dave as younger than her, even though he wasn't.
'I hate you, please go out with me.' He was using that voice. 'I want to kill you, please marry me and have my children.'
Min clenched her teeth. 'She likes you.' She rubbed her tongue over her dry lips again. 'Look,' she said, pointing ahead. 'It's my house in the woods.'
A red-brick wall was visible through the trees. Whenever she walked this way, she imagined living in the house in the woods. There were sometimes lights in the windows at dusk, sometimes a car outside, but she had never seen the inhabitants. This made it seem vacant, waiting for her.
The house had a slate roof bordered by an ornate wooden decoration. The window frames were painted yellow and the door a faded rose-pink like cake icing. It looked edible. There was a picket fence and a strip of garden. The trees pressed in on it at the back, and leaned over the track at the front.
Min always looked inside as she passed. The rooms were next to each other in a row, like the front of a doll's house. There was a sitting room with a dark red vase on the sill, leather armchairs, patterned rugs and bookshelves in a pale wood, then a dining room with a long table, and a kitchen with copper pans hung from a rack over a large gleaming oven. Min pictured sleeping in the house, the branches tapping on the windows.
'Imagine living out here,' said Min.
'You'd have to like your own company.' Dave stopped to look back.
'Not if you lived with someone,' said Min.
Dave raised his eyebrows. They were blonde, pale as his skin. 'You'd be car-dependant. Nowhere would deliver.'
'But with two people,' she said.
'Drive each other mad, stuck out here.'
Min thought of being inside the house, looking out at the dusk. How far would the light reach through the trees? If someone was looking in, would you even see them?
'Am I missing a subtext here?' said Dave.
'There's no subtext.'
'That means there is.'
She turned away and walked past him. If she agreed, he was triumphant. If she disagreed, he was triumphant anyway.
'Dropping a hint?' he called. She kept walking. 'Min? You and me in your house in the woods?' She heard him begin to walk after her.
She thought about her mother. Are you two not planning on taking the next step? She had never imagined Dave in the house in the woods. The thought of him here shocked her. She saw him walking round those clean, warm rooms with no top on, as he sometimes did, his stomach smooth, his pale chest protruding, almost feminine. She wished she could push him out of the house in her head, but he was rooted there, holding the maroon vase, turning it critically in his hands.
'What's got at you? He caught up with her.
'Don't worry about it.' She stomped on, kicking up puffs of old leaves.
They walked on in silence. The afternoon was sinking into dusk. High above the trees, the sky was still china blue, blushing orange at the edges like a painted bowl, plane trails cracking across the pale glaze. The colours were fading, and down among the trees it was dusk.
'Is this about moving in together?'
'You're such a - ' She broke off the sentence. 'It's not about anything.'
'Your mum, is that it?'
'She's nothing to do with it.'
'So there is an 'it'. Did she say we should move in together?'
She turned on him. 'Did she say that to you?'
'Why would she say it to me?'
'You two seemed to get on.'
He grinned. 'She's a nice lady.'
Min had come in with the potatoes and seen her mother's hand on Dave's knee as she leaned towards him to speak. Dave had insisted on calling her mum. Min's done a good job on the spuds, eh mum? Little glass of something for you, mum? While she was drying up her mother had said, You've got a good one there.
'She looks young for her age,' said Dave, interrupting her thoughts.
'For god's sake.' Min felt her lip split open along the dry cracks.
'Hey, hey. What did I say?' Dave stopped and turned her by her arm. Min fought the urge to blink, to stop the tears breaking loose. She stared at his hand on her coat sleeve, blonde hairs on white.
'She always does this.'
'What?'
When Min was eleven, she'd had a birthday party. All of her class were invited to the scout hall. There were sandwiches and sausage rolls. Her mother wore a fluffy pink top with a low-cut neckline, and as she served the food she leant forwards over the trestle table, her breasts hanging like pizza dough. Min had seen the boys looking, little boys with sharp faces and hard knuckles, looking, smiling at each other. And her mother smiling back.
'Shall we head back then?' Dave let go of her arm. 'Your programme's on.'
She looked down the path, where the dusk was pushing up from the ground under the lid of the sky.
'You go.' She broke away from him and cut sideways on a track though the low undergrowth.
She wondered if he would follow, but when she finally turned to look he had gone. That brought her to a stop, peering back through the trees trying to make out the blue of his coat. There was nothing, only the wind picking up slightly and moving the branches. The path ahead was much darker now. It turned in the direction of the main road, but the traffic was just a distant hum. She started off again. The path skirted trees and bushes, then broke out onto a more open piece of ground.
She thought of her mother, saw her for a moment under the trees, her pink jumper catching the last of the light. Min turned away, walking further into the gloom, finding the curving path again. She was lost now, although the wood was no more than a thin strip. She wasn't sure which way she was facing. She kept going, letting the dark swallow up her mother behind her. Something crackled in the undergrowth and Min felt panic clench her stomach. She ran.
There was a light to her right now, and she turned towards it, catching her ankles on brambles, swishing up leaves. It was the house in the woods, come upon from a strange angle. She was behind it, a side she hadn't seen before. The windows were lit, no curtains drawn. She thought that if she lived there, she would draw the curtains when it was dark. She walked towards the light, her feet on grass now. She could skirt it and be back on the main path, then soon back on the road.
There was someone in the front room of the house. She stopped just short of where the square of light from the window lay on the grass, nervous of being seen. It was a man with dark, sleek hair that curled over the collar of a red shirt. He had a wide nose, nostrils flared, and a stubbly short beard, flecked with grey. He was standing by a bookcase, an open book in one hand, a large bell-shaped glass of red wine in the other. He raised the glass to his mouth and Min could see the stain of the wine on his lips.
Then the man glanced up and looked straight at her. He was older than she'd first thought, really quite an old man, his face wrinkled and startlingly dark in colour, sunburnt. She felt fear run through her, and a tannic taste in her mouth, as if she'd sipped the wine herself. But his gaze was steady, his face blank. Her heart subsided. He couldn't see her; she was beyond where the light fell. She felt insubstantial, as if she could go right up to the window and he would still stare through her.
The man closed the book and slid it back onto the shelf, then raised the glass again and drank the wine down in one motion, his head back, the flush of his throat visible below the line of his beard. Then he stepped into the centre of the room and unbuttoned his shirt. Min was rooted to the lawn, her feet numb. He undid the last button and slipped off the shirt, dropping it on the floor. His chest was covered in a mat of black hair that ran over his shoulders and down to his stomach.
He stood for a moment, looking out at her as if they were complicit in his actions. Then he undid the belt of his trousers and let them fall to the floor. The black hair continued down his legs, which were thick and muscular at the thighs and calves. He slipped his fingers inside the waistband of his underpants and pulled them off too. The hair was chaotic at his groin, and Min saw his penis, the same ruddy colour as his face.
She felt her cheeks throb in the dark. She looked down at his feet, expecting them to be strange, hooves perhaps, not feet at all. But they were hidden by the crumpled mound of his trousers. His face was expressionless, open, like a statue.
The man turned then, a flash of paler flesh showing on his buttocks. He moved away across the room with a delicate plucking step, like a deer picking through undergrowth. He refilled his wine glass from a bottle on the table, and drank again.
Min heard the sound of someone coming towards her through the trees. She wanted to hide, to cover herself in leaves, to crouch until the danger passed. She thought of her mother, pink and white among the trunks.
She saw a gleam of blonde hair as a torch bobbed past her and she held her breath. When the light swung round again, she ran forward to the window of the house in the woods and pressed her palms to the glass, transparent, calling to be let inside.
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THE STORY OF MARGE HURLBURT AND THE WOMEN OF WASP
SPEAKING IN DEFENSE OF BIG BLACK DOGS...
THE GOLDEN YEARS OF CONCORD AIRPARK...
REMEMBERING THE DAY OF A PRESIDENT'S DEATH...
FOR VETERANS DAY: REFLECTION FROM A U.S. VETERAN.....
CAN WE TALK... OR ARE WE AFRAID TO?...
RINGING THE BELLS FOR JACK...
A LITTLE BIT OF EVERY KIND OF WEATHER...
BUCKEYES, BUCKEYES... WE ALL LOVED BUCKEYES!.....
A CENTENNIAL TRIBUTE TO OUR LAKE COUNTY COURTHOUSE...
SEPTEMBER! ROSE LOVES IT AND SHE ALWAYS WILL!
A SUNNY, MISTY MEADOW...
THE GOLDEN RAINS...
EARLY MORNING RIDES...
OH, THOSE DAYS OF CHILD'S PLAY AND BAREFOOT FREEDO...
2ND LT. JORDAN D. KINZIE....
WATCHING THE PENTHOUSE PLANTS....
AUGUST 6, 2013... IS ROSE STILL HERE?
MY DARK MOON BIRTHDAY...
MOURNING THE PLAIN DEALER AS WE'VE KNOWN IT...
FOR ROSE'S 73rd BIRTHDAY, AUGUST 2013...
MEDAL FOR MARGE FINDS HOME AT IWASM...
By Rose Moore, news columnist, blogger, IWASM life member
(Blogger's note: This week I have learned that the history of WASP will be honored in the Rose Bowl parade. Watch for the float! If you are among those who still don't know much about the WASP and their important role in World War II, the following article should be of help).
A very special gold medal arrived in February 2011 at the International Women's Air & Space Museum (IWASM) at Burke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland, and the museum treasures that acquisition. It holds great meaning for the museum and the history of women in aviation. It holds great meaning as well in our own Lake County, Ohio, paying honor as it does to the late Margaret "Marge" Hurlburt of Painesville.
"Marge's Medal" is what many of us have taken to calling that wonderfully minted piece of gold, which was donated to the museum by the Hurlburt family. When the Congressional Medal of Honor was approved by Congress in 2009, in tribute to the group of World War II women known as WASP (Women's Airforce Service Pilots), a tiny copy of the master medal was presented to each of these women who, for many years, had remained unheralded, unrecognized and unthanked.
At the time of the approval, only a few hundred of the thousand-plus WASP women were still living, and so the majority of WASP women, like Hurlburt, received the award post mortem. Many of the still-living WASP women attended the White House ceremony in March 2010 to personally receive their medals.
WASP WAS FOUNDED in the early days of World War II by famed aviatrix Jackie Cochran, working with General Hap Arnold, Chief of Army Air Forces, to fill an urgent wartime need. In fact, WASP itself was actually Cochran's own brain child, and she was successful in selling that idea to the general.
As military planes were rolling off American assembly lines in great numbers, there seemed to be no way to ferry them to military bases; most male pilots were already at war. Cochran saw the country's female pilots as the answer to the problem, and soon the women of WASP were valiantly serving our military---performing such duties as ferrying aircraft, testing airplanes, instructing male pilots and towing practice targets.
They came from all walks of life; minimum age of 18, with private pilot licenses and at least 200 hours of flying time. What they had in common was a passion for flying and a deep sense of patriotism.
They underwent a rigorous military training program; and they served their country well. They provided their own uniforms, and when at least 38 of these women were killed in the line of duty, they were buried at the expense of family and friends. There was no flag and no military ceremony to commemorate their sacrifice and service. A fellow WASP would be the only presence to accompany the casket home and deliver the news to the family, and the expense of transport would be covered by a collection taken among the WASP women themselves.
When the war was over and the women were seen as no longer needed, WASP was deactivated and their records were classified and sealed. They simply went home, at their own expense.There would be no Veterans' Benefits; no GI bill for schooling; no low-interest housing loans... History in fact would ignore them. Their flying records were as good as any male military pilot, and they racked up more than 60 million air miles ferrying bombers and fighters and other military aircraft, but they were treated as if they had never existed.
Nonetheless, any of us who had ever met or been a friend of one of these women came to realize they were proud of their service and thankful for the opportunity to serve. Not until 1977 would Congress finally declare them as veterans, and not until 1979 would official acceptance of that status come from Air Force officials.
AS FOR OUR MARGE HURLBURT herself, her roots were deep in Lake County. She was born and raised in Painesville, graduated from Harvey High School and became a teacher at the old Champion Junior High and for a time at Lake Erie College. She also had important history with Willoughby, Ohio, learning to fly and earning her private pilot license out of the old Willoughby Air Field off Euclid Avenue.
She was recruited into WASP by Jackie Cochran in 1942. After basic training, the same Jackie Cochran would personally present Hurlburt with her WASP wings, at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, TX. After a nine-week course in flying B-26s at Dodge City, KS, Hurlburt became a spokesperson for a WASP group sent to Peterson Field in Colorado, where she towed targets for B-24 gunners. Next she went to Great Bend Army Air Base in Kansas, towing targets and checking out B-17s for Navy radar training. To this point as a WASP, she had logged 300 hours.
After WASP was deactivated, she talked four of her former WASP colleagues into joining her in Ohio to obtain their flight instructor ratings. Years later, at the age of 89, the now-deceased Herb Tanner of Tanner Flying Service at Willoughby would tell me about the day Hurlburt and her friends first arrived at his airport.
"I saw a cloud of dust moving down the road, and from it emerged a convertible full of pretty young women," he recalled. "I had posted a sign for instructors, and these five women were there to apply. I jumped at the chance and hired them all... They were bright, and Marge was the brightest. She could fly anything from B-17s to the little single-seaters at our field... I signed her on to teach ground school and meteorology too!"
By 1946, Hurlburt was the only one of the women still on staff, Tanner said, noting that two male pilots (Dick Cook and Gil Cargill) had begun to teach her aerobatics in the AT-6. When she signed up to compete in the Women's Halle Trophy Race at Cleveland Air Races, Tanner paid the $75 fee; Thermatic Co. of Willoughby agreed to pay for the gas; and Cook and Cargill spent weeks waxing and polishing the AT-6, and teaching Hurlburt the fine points of pylon racing.
Their faith in her was rewarded by her victory. In a New York designer flight suit, her curly hair still tousled from the race, she accepted the trophy and $2,500 cash from Sam Halle of Halle Brothers and was grandly feted in a downtown celebration.
Later that same year she was part of a ferry flight of 100 women delivering new Piper aircraft from Lock Haven, PA, and was also named to the Board of Directors of the Professional Race Pilots Association, to represent the interests of female pilots.
In 1947, she wrested the women's flight-speed record from her friend and former boss, Jackie Cochran, who had held the 292.27 mph record since 1937. Hurlburt's friend, aviator and air racer Cook Cleland of Willoughby, provided his FG-1 Corsair for the race. Hurlburt was sponsored by Painesville businessmen Miles Whaley, Thane Durey, Bob Mallett, Ralph Miller, Don Landphair and Bill Wyman. In gratitude, the plane was painted with the name "City of Painesville" in their honor, and it was displayed in the town square.
Hurlburt's top speed of 352.194 earned her the international women's flight-speed record. The media proclaimed her as America's Queen of the Air; Jimmy Dudley dubbed her America's Fastest Woman Flyer; and Chance Voight, builder of the Corsair, declared her performance to be "slightly on the miraculous side."
HURLBURT'S BARNSTORMING career after the war was born of her desire to finance a midget-racing promotion and go for the gold at the $25,000 Goodyear Trophy Race at Cleveland. To come up with money to build the racer, she signed on with the "Flying Tigers" aerial circus.
On July 4, 1947 at Decorah, Iowa, she began her performance in a borrowed AT-6; her own had been damaged by a student pilot earlier in the week. In the middle of what appeared to be a slow roll, the plane dived and crashed, and she died instantly. Her death was listed nationwide, even among the "Milestones" in the July 14 Time Magazine.
Her funeral service was held July 7 at Spear Funeral home in Painesville, and she was buried in Section B, Row 10, Stone 8 at Painesville's historic Evergreen Cemetery.
I have visited her grave, and I have smiled to see an airplane etched onto her rose-colored tombstone. I was pleased to see that, long before public acknowledgement was ever given to the women of WASP, Marge Hurlburt's monument carried the W.A.S.P. initials, engraved in large letters.
I have also visited her artifacts, carefully preserved in the research library at IWASM. Her collection in the archives includes such things as her scrapbooks and news clippings, her Corsair model plane, leather flying helmet, log book, U.S. and international pilot licenses;... and the small childhood hand-puppet that had been her talisman on every flight, including her last.
As a writer and a woman who encountered some disapproval when I began my own flying lessons in the mid-1960s (long after Marge Hurlburt's more significant history), I was especially moved to read the articles she had written and submitted to national magazines. Her writings about the joy of flying would have been great inspiration for other young women, but they never saw the light of day.
Notations with these articles bore proof of editors' rejections from such magazines as Life and Look and Ladies Home Journal. The reasons for rejection? The editors wrote that they enjoyed the articles and recognized Hurlburt's writing skills and worthiness for publication. But they were convinced their family-style readers were "not yet ready to accept the writings of a woman pilot."
Now "Marge's Medal" lies in the International Women's Air & Space Museum, and the master-minted WASP Congressional Medal of Honor can be seen in the Smithsonian. Both provide final certification of the W.A.S.P. initials etched upon the Hurlburt monument.
It's unfortunate that Margaret Hurlburt did not receive the proper recognition in her lifetime, but her family and community took great pride in her and strongly supported her efforts. And upon her early death, they saw to it that the proper recognition was etched onto her monument.
Today a social-media posting discussed a certain "prejudice" against big black dogs, particularly when it comes to adoption of such animals.
Some time ago I discussed that issue with a volunteer at our county animal shelter. Every week she photographs a number of dogs who need homes, and these photos, along with her notes about each animal, are published in a local paper.
One week she focused exclusively on "big black dogs." Apparently those pooches have had more trouble finding homes than the other dogs. Some shelters even call it "the big black dog syndrome."
It's a fact; large breeds are not as fashionable these days. Animal officials speculate it might be partly because large dogs sometimes seem frightening to people. But even smaller dogs of chocolate or black coloration don't seem to adopt as easily.
Personally, I love big dogs, and the color doesn't really matter to me; I have owned or been a friend to many big black dogs. One I remember particularly well was an oversized labrador who happily grew up with a neighbor's family from the time the children were small. He was a gentle, ever-present playmate and guardian for those kids, and the entire family grieved when he died at 17, even though the children were grown by that time.
In my own household since the mid 1970s, we've had dobermans. All were large, and with one exception, they were black-and-tan (mostly black). They were easy to train and a great deal more polite than many a smaller dog. Jokingly, we called them "doberpersons," so attuned were they to the human beings in our household.
When one passed away, we would grieve their presence. Soon we'd adopt another, always making a point of finding one that truly needed a home. They were Baron, Lady, Mike, Jack.. and behind each name are stories and good memories. And now our latest canine companion is Mick.
People have asked, "Why such a large dog, now that you are older?" I have often answered that question with a light-hearted: "Because, if my back is bothering me, I don't have to lean over to scratch his ears or pat his back!" But these big dogs have been the finest friends you could imagine.
If you're seeking a dog, please don't give up on the big black dogs until you've brought them out of their cages, looked them over and "talked" to them a bit. At our county shelter, you can even get to know the dogs a little better by RE-visiting).
A larger dog might be just the dog for you; it might be love at first (or second) sight! Nothing against the little guys, but big dogs (even if they're black) have much to offer. Over the years, I have learned that over and over again.
I encourage you to share with me your stories of "Big Black Dogs (or big dogs or black dogs)We Have Loved," and I'll be happy to share those stories through this blog.
(Direct your comments to me at randrmoore@gmail.com).
Often when I pass the old Concord Airpark, memories roll along the runway of my mind, transporting me to what so many of us refer to as the Airpark's "golden days." I was but one of the lucky folks who "knew it when."
I learned to fly there in the 1960s, and my husband and I and our then-only-child Mark spent a lot of time there. I met Connie Luhta through that small airport, and she became one of the great friends of my lifetime.
The airfield was alive with the activity of people, planes and families. The late and great Adolph Luhta was the operator, and every year or two there was an air show there which was as much fun as any of the big professional events; maybe better!
I often ran the airport's ground-to-air radio. I was also a member and treasurer of the airpark's social club, The Skylarks, which planned the airshow, potluck socials, hangar dances and any other activity the group could think of to play host to pilots and their families.
It seems the airport had a great flock of friends among its neighbors too. Many of them, in fact would drop in to say hello and watch the planes, particularly on the summer Sundays when the two resident Stearman biplanes were engaged in "dog-fights" high up in the morning sky.
I have a special memory of a certain winter holiday dance at the Airpark. Though Adolph groused beforehand about having to clear the hangar for the occasion, we all knew that was mostly his usual "gruff bluff." On arriving at the dance, no one was really surprised to see that he had thoughtfully installed an attractive tent-like walkway from the office to the hangar, to keep us out of the cold.
The walkway and hangar were lit up like a Christmas tree, and when we walked into the dance, it was plain to us that Adolph had worked hard to make things hospitable, party-hearty and warm for his guests. He was a great host; he had even taken care to see that the big juke-box was stocked with just the right music for good dancing. And, as I recall, he also made sure he danced with every woman there! A burly man, he was nonetheless light on his feet, and an excellent dance partner.
In summer afternoons, evenings and weekends, the airpark was a magnet for all kinds of people---not just pilots and flight students and instructors, but neighbors and other visitors who drove in or walked in to sit outside on the metal glider or a fence, watching take-offs and landings and socializing with the airpark's staff and regulars.
In any season, the airpark lounge was always a place where old pilots could sit and share a bit of "hangar flying"---(the aviation world's version of "fish tales.") There was often an assortment of non-pilots too, and they were mostly there for the fun of listening to the wonderful malarkey.
For the past 20 years, I have lived down the road from the airport, and I pass it quite often. Its caretaker is my friend Connie Luhta, Adolph's widow. Though the airport is mostly quiet these days, Connie occasionally holds a picnic at the old hangar or a gathering at the old lounge (which also serves as home base for an Experimental Aviation Association chapter).
The land is still pretty, especially when draped in the colors of autumn, but the buildings---like many of us old airpark denizens---are showing the effects of the passage of time. That doesn't keep my memories from bringing back to me a vision of the airpark's golden days, and that makes me feel briefly young again.
I think that's called nostalgia.
(If any of you care to share old photos or memories of those days, I will happily receive them at randrmoore@gmail.com)
(Photo 2013 by Rose Moore--"Autumn in the Back Fields, Concord Airpark in northeast Ohio")
FROM SUSAN LUHTA PRICE OF ALABAMA: "Oddly enough I have a memory of the Airpark. Well, actually I have a memory of being high up over the Ohio landscape in a small plane owned by Harvey Luhta. My Dad, Mama, my brother and I got to take a ride while we were in Ohio for a few months when I was about 4. It is one of the few memories I have of Ohio, this one and I have a picture in my head of the yard at Harvey and Lois’ house and the entire area as far as my little eyes could see was white. I guess I have two of the best memories you can have of Ohio, the patchwork quilt I saw flying over it and the beauty of it covered in a blanket of white.
Posted by roseabouttown (Rose Moore) at 10:10 AM
(In November 2013, columnist Rose Moore's memory of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was published in Gazette Newspapers).
Something happened 50 years ago this month, and most of us who were alive at the time remember it like yesterday. We can tell you in great detail where we were; what we were doing; and what the weather was like when the disastrous news broke on Friday, Nov. 22, 1963, that President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed by a sniper as his motorcade traveled through Dealy Plaza in Dallas, Texas.
My husband Bob and I and our first-born baby son were living in New York City, where we spent several years when work in Ohio was scarce. The 1964 World's Fair at Flushing Meadows was generating plenty of work in the New York area, and my husband had joined the working New Yorkers.
We lived in a 21-step walk-up apartment on a wide, tree-lined street of private homes---ironically on Corporal Kennedy Street in Bayside, Long Island, New York in the borough of Queens. Ours was a lovely old apartment, with large rooms, high ceilings, grand woodwork, hardwood floors and generous windows. The night before the assassination, we were transforming a room across from the kitchen into a formal dining room. We installed a wall-size built-in breakfront; and we sanded and painted and wallpapered; and when we were done, clean-up work was left for the following day.
In the morning, I wrapped our sleeping son in a blanket to drive my husband to the train station, and off he went to work with a crew finishing the interior of the attractive new Maritime Union building in Manhattan. The autumn day was rising; it was unusually mild and lovely.
Back at the apartment sometime before lunch, I put our son down for a nap and began the dining-room clean-up, working as always to the beat of 60s radio rock. Sun and soft breezes poured through the windows, and I sang along with the music until the radio switched suddenly to slow, formal dirges, with no explanation and no talk or advertising. What had happened, I wondered; when had I joined a funeral procession?
Those weren't the days when news arrived in an instant, zooming all over the world. Even for news people themselves, there was a lag time, so I sat on the floor and waited. The door buzzer jolted me out of my reverie, and my downstairs neighbor hollered up to say breathlessly: "Someone has shot the President; he's dead! I'm going to my husband's office so I won't be alone."
By now I was hearing the dreadful news in the background, and it was just as blunt; I went back to the dining room, sat down on the floor, and wept. Then on strong impulse, I picked up my son from his crib and drove to the train station to wait for a husband who wouldn't t be due for at least another three hours.
I parked at the curb, just one in a long parade of housewives waiting too early for husbands. I was amazed to see the train had pulled in and the doors were opening to release a crowd of people moving like zombies. Bob was but one among the shell-shocked masses, carrying lunch pails or briefcases. Their shoulders were slumped and they looked to the ground, moving mechanically...
With a heavy sigh, Bob sat down in the car and quietly told me, "The super walked in and said, 'Boys, someone killed our President. Put down your tools; don't bother with anything; we are all going home to our families.' We didn't clean anything; didn't secure anything; we just set down our tools, and we left. The subway was quiet; the people in Grand Central Station were quiet; the people on the trains were quiet... "
From that moment we watched as this "City That Never Slept" sank into a coma of shock and mourning. In those days without Internet, cell phones or 24-7 news, Bob and I did not own a working TV; and until that day, we hadn't missed it enough to do something about it..
We had the streets of that great metropolis to ourselves for the next few days as we wandered by car, keeping up with the changing news by way of our car radio. We saw Times Square deserted and mostly darkened. We saw the Long Island Expressway, as strangely empty as the runway of a closed airport. In the breezy warmth of Indian Summer, we drove with our car windows open, in a city so quiet we could hear the dry autumn leaves rattling across big-city pavement. Where were all the people? They were inside together with family, seeking comfort.
We stopped for gas and were served by the owner himself, rather than the usual uniformed attendant. He grieved that, "I need to be here so my people can be with their families today." He refused to charge for fill-up because, he said, "It's a day to be kind to each other."
The day of the Kennedy funeral, we drove out to a small town on the Island, where we often window-shopped on Friday nights while our laundry was washing at a nearby laundromat. We had made friends with the owner of a small TV shop; he lived above his store and was always willing to talk. His shop wasn't open that day, but apparently he saw the approach of our car, and he stepped out to signal us in. He asked if we'd mind watching the funeral with him, in his showroom.
Soon came a rap on the door, and a tall, sturdy policeman officer informed us our car was illegally parked and unlocked, and we'd left our lights on. He had turned out the lights and locked up the car, and as he handed us our keys, he told us there would not be a ticket. His stated reason echoed the spirit of the words of the gas station owner who wouldn't charge us for gasoline: "We're all in need of some kindness right now," he said softly. "Now you be kind to each other."
On the day the suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was shot to death, we were in a diner out on the Island, and a man pulled off the Expressway and shouted the news. He had been virtually alone on that normally busy expressway, and he wanted to share the news with other human beings.
Surprisingly, it hit like a ton a bricks. There were no hurrahs or huzzahs; only silence and obvious pain that no one bothered to try to explain.
It was only more proof, after all, that something deep and intrinsic had changed; and our world would not be the same.
FOR VETERANS DAY: REFLECTION FROM A U.S. VETERAN...
For Veterans Day 2013 I share with you an excerpt from "Brother Ben's Tales from Nam," a personal file containing reflections written to me over the years, from my patriotic brother Ben, of whom I am justly proud:
"Why did so many of my brothers-in-arms in Vietnam suffer such mental problems and anguish, when the WWII and Korean Vets (in my view) had it so much worse? A personal epiphany I had a few years ago concerning Vietnam was this: It hit me like a brick wall when a sizable number of the "Iraq War II" men and women began coming home with the same maladies. It is a mental form of the bends!
One day you are in the land of milk and honey...hours later you are in hell on earth for a tour of duty....then suddenly you are back in the land of milk and honey, within hours.
There is no mental decompression going in or coming out. Also, coming out, most civilians certainly do not care to even be aware of what you have been through.
Worse yet for us Viet Vets was the venom and lies hurled upon us even to this day. Hollywood being among the crueliest of offenders toward us, and toward the American cause at that critical time in the Cold War.
I did not have it terribly bad compared to many. Most days presently, in my mind, my time "in country" never existed. Never was. Except when something jolts me, or when I wake up in a cold sweat and can actually smell Vietnam surrounding me.
Contrary to a fairly common belief otherwise, American honor was the rule and the policy (not the exception). Restraint and hesitation were often not repeatable demeanors. Quite a tightrope to walk.
I am so proud of the men and women presently serving our country. What on earth possesses them to so honorably volunteer to give their lives, if need be, to a country where many Americans may care more about which reality show is on TV tonight?"
Ben is my younger brother who has lived in the Pacific Northwest for many years, having mustered out there and married there and raised his family there. I SALUTE HIM AND ALL VETERANS WHO HAVE SERVED OUR COUNTRY WITH SUCH HONOR.
Political correctness can come between us...
(By Rose Moore, published in her weekly column in Gazette Newspapers Jefferson, Ohio, in March 2012)
When Robert De Niro recently joked that "America might not be ready for a white first lady," I personally did not believe he meant a bit of harm. He was joking, pure and simple. But in the process he became a member of the latest list of the Politically Incorrect.
Who isn't familiar with that term---Political Correctness---popularly referred to in modern-day shorthand as "PC?" Who among us thinks I am the only person feeling an increasing dismay at today's over-use of PC?
More and more, I hear that term come up in casual discussion among different groups in various places. Now I'm beginning to sense a growing agreement that Political Correctness really doesn't help to solve our differences. In fact, it actually divides us!
Often in PC discussions, I find myself sharing memories of a man my husband and I met almost a decade ago. His name was Guy Darden. He was an African American tailor, short in stature and long in wisdom, and he was marvelous to talk to. We had met with him originally because we had lost some weight and wanted to have our clothes re-tailored for a better fit, and a trusted friend had recommended him.
Though he was truly the gifted tailor our friend had said he was, we remember him more for the talks we enjoyed together. Words flowed easily between us from the start. Our fittings always took longer because of that; and that, I think, was largely because of Darden's own character.
We didn't have to be afraid to tackle any subject with him, including racism and misunderstandings and poor communications between people with all sorts of differences. Some of our talk together was serious; some was reflective; and some was peppered with Darden's innate good humor. He knew how to laugh and how to joke.
ONE DAY WHEN we talked of Political Correctness, he chuckled and said, "A customer once asked me what was the politically correct name for people of my race---Negro, black or African American? I laughed and told him, 'As far as I'm concerned, whatever your origin is, if you want to call me anything, you should call me Guy. Or Mr. Darden if you please.' "
Darden was a man with words worth listening to. He loved people, and he did not intend to let the modern Political Correctness fears create a barrier. He was outgoing and open and honest, and he told us he had learned a lot in life from talking to people, whatever their race, religion, political views, history, education or age.
People are always different from each other in one way or another, he said, and he intended to speak to as many people as he could before he died. He expected to learn something from all of them, and to teach them something too.
"It goes without saying," he said, "that you need to be civilized in your talk and behavior with others. But if you don't let a fear of using 'the wrong words' come between you and your conversations with anyone, you would find it amazing how the barriers can fall away. Too many people are afraid their good intentions will be misinterpreted by the time they reach the listening ears of the people they are trying to talk to. So they don't speak together at all! It's a fear that's been heavily taught to this generation; it builds up animosity where it doesn't need to be. That can be particularly true these days when people of different races come together."
IN OUR OPINION, Darden was right. Bob and I have often said we didn't know him nearly long enough; and when he died, we regretted losing out on all the future conversations we might have had. A bit of him lives on; I'm sure we're not the only people who have talked with him and shared his words with many people. We saw him as a good and happy influence on anyone who shared his time.
I remember a particular conversation with friends some time ago, in which we shared our memories of the late Mr. Darden. Bob and I were having coffee with friends, in a public area with groups of people all around us. Our conversation led to Political Correctness, then morphed into the subject of communications between the races. As we talked, I was aware that I had heard a group sit down behind us.
It seemed to Bob and me that our table mates were suddenly lowering their voices, yet our talk continued. We shared with our friends some questions with which Darden had challenged us, including: "How can we ever share a happy, animated conversation if we have to worry about every single phrase and word that passes between us?... How can people with any sort of difference really get to know each other if they have to constantly follow a pre-set, politically correct pattern?... And where, in the shadow of PC, is there room for humor, which is a universal blender?"
The truth of those words still rang in our ears as we spoke with our friends that day. The original intention of "Political correctness" may have been to help us diversify, but it truly does seem to have worked in the opposite direction. It has helped to build resentments on both sides. In listening for trouble, we have found it where it hasn't existed; we have seen bad intentions where only good intentions were meant. PC has broken down our communication with each other, rather than fostering it. It has stilted easy conversation and therefore our communications.
Our gabfest that day ended sooner than we would have liked. Realizing suddenly that we were running late for an appointment, my husband and I rose to leave. We turned and saw the family behind us---they happened to be African American---and Bob and I felt no discomfort at their having heard our conversation.
As we smiled and nodded greetings to this group, they responded with friendly smiles and thumbs-up signals; and a lovely middle-aged woman among them spoke a soft "Amen to what you said." They had heard our words and accepted them in the spirit in which they had been spoken.
LONG-TIME READERS of this column may recall that, when Guy Darden passed away, I devoted my column space to a eulogy richly deserved by this good man who understood how much richer life could be if we could talk among ourselves as people, despite our differences... and without a "PC" pattern analyzing every word.
Years ago, when we adopted our late dog Jack, he had been taught not to bark. He had been trained as a show dog, a career move we didn't continue. Instead, we chose a brand new job description for this big loveable canine; he was to simply be our friend and companion for the rest of his life.
Until we could teach him to bark again, we temporarily solved the problem of his telling us when he needed to go outside. We put sleigh bells on the door, for him to ring with his nose, and this worked out well.
Within a few months, Jack surprised himself one day by barking; he loved the rolling-thunder sound of his own voice, and from that day forward he practiced it often. Still, he continued his ring-the-bell message when he wanted to go outside.
Jack was also our family's self-appointed greeter; he absolutely loved people, and our friends called him Super Host. When a car pulled into the driveway, he would run to the door and vigorously ring the bells with his nose to let us know we had company.
All these years later, the bells are still there, though Jack has been gone for years. The bells have been there for so long, they have worn a mark on the door; and those bells will probably be there forever.
So... when you enter our home, you will still hear the bells... a bit like the sound when your opened a door to a shop in the old-fashioned days. When you hear those bells, you'll be hearing a bit of the spirit of Jack which seems to remain in this house.
That spirit is welcome; and so are our friends... and we will also probably never remove that mark on the door.
POSTSCRIPT: We buried Jack near a big black walnut tree, near the path into the woods where he and I walked daily. We brought rocks up from the creek as a natural marker, and then we sank a shepherd's crook beside his grave, and from it we attached a large wind chime... large enough to be heard from inside the house in the coldest weather.
And on this November 1, 2013, years afterward as I walk daily with Jack's successor Mick, we still hear those musical bells. Jack's greeting!
This afternoon my walk with Mick, my big black doberman, is decorated by the sunshine lighting up the whiteness of the schooner clouds. The winds are pushing them across the great blue prairie of the sky, like covered wagons.
Then the darkness races in from nowhere, and Mick and I are shaded by dark canopies that cover all the blue and dump the rains and icy pellets hard upon us.
Mick races for the house, like the thoroughbred he is, but I walk at a slower pace, like a lady of the age I am...
I'm clad against the elements by LL Bean; and Mick, poor Mick, is not so lucky.
(Posted 10-25, 2013 by R.A.T.--Rose About Town. As always, you can register your commentary with her at randrmoore@gmail.com)
MY WORDS ON TREES, and especially the most minor mention of the buckeye tree, always seem to hit a happy note with readers of this blog. Who knew so many of you loved that tree?
Elders have recited their own childhood memories of those trees, particularly the large, shiny chestnut-brown fruit with the light circular "eye" that earned the name "buck eye" from our Native Americans, who thought it looked like the eye of a buck (male) deer.
Some of you have recalled collecting buckeyes, like the man who admitted, "It was mostly just for the sake of collecting them. I kept them in a large paper grocery bag, only to throw them awayin the next buckeye season, when I'd start collecting them all over again... Pointless? Maybe. Obviously I didn't think so at the time."
Another reader told me he would use a nail to punch a hole in the eye portion of the nut, to attach an old shoe lace so he could carry the nut in a belt loop for good luck. According to this reader, "The buckeye was supposed to be as good an amulet as the lucky rabbit-foot many people carried around as good luck charms in those days."
That seemed to dovetail with another reader's memory of his grandfather's belief that a buckeye in your pocket would assure a plentiful supply of pocket money."So I always carried one," the man declared. "And I always did have money in my pocket, though it was probably because I also always had a paper route."
Some of you mentioned the childhood "buckeye wars." That tells me you remember, as I do, that buckeyes were good fodder for sling shots, and kids then sometimes also threw buckeyes at each other from behind trees and other hiding places. One reader added that she doesn't recall anyone being injured in this way. "Still," she conjectured, "such a thing as buckeyes or sling shots or pea-shooters today would no doubt get you written up at school on a weapons charge."
Another woman said her parents and grandparents firmly believed the bitter buckeye nut could relieve arthritis, rheumatism and "lumbago," but she wasn't able to recall just how they took that "medicine." (The leaf and bark are slightly poisonous, but Native Americans did bleach and cook small amounts as food ingredients and for curative potions, and they strung buckeyes on leather string to wear around their necks as protective amulets).
OUR BUCKEYE CONVERSATIONS have made for fine nostalgia. But a city filled with large old buckeye trees is a streetscape of the past; I suppose that might be partly because the buckeye-litter in the fall made so much work for property owners. These days, if you see buckeye trees, you are probably looking at a smaller hybridized version that isn't quite so messy.
As they matured, the buckeye trees of our own childhoods were far too big for today's city yards. They could not possibly compare, for instance, to the huge old buckeye on the high property the old Wilcox mansion on the southwest corner of Liberty and High Streets in my hometown. That tree towered over that large structure (which was later demolished to accomodate a nursing facility).
Just that one big buckeye tree seemed to shade the entire large property, though its leaves let in enough sunlight that, on a breezy day, I found it magical to sit on the lawns and watch the sun-and-shadow patterns moving all around me. (I also found out the hard way that, when the tree shed its fruit, enough fell to the porches and sidewalks and steps that you had to be careful not to step on one and roll into an unexpected fall).
Amid such sentimental memory on the part of so many of us older people, several younger people said they weren't even sure what a buckeye tree was, or what it would look like if they saw one. I checked with such sources as the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and Ohio Division of Forestry, to be sure I was remembering the tree correctly.
I LEARNED the true Ohio Buckey is Aesculus glabra, the main requirement for which is fertile soil. This tree grows 30 to 50 feet tall with a two-to-two-foot-diameter trunk. Its leaves are grouped in clusters of five leaflets, four to six inches in length, attached at a common point to a long stem. Its stout branches are placed in opposite positioning, giving it a lovely, balanced, rounded shape that allows it to look good even in winter without its leaves. The trunk has an interesting, grey, scaly, plated bark. When in bloom, the branched-flowers are a showy upright cluster of pale white, tinged with greenish yellow.
This tree was known to some as "the fetid buckeye," or "stinking buckeye." (Don't you OSU fans get angry at me for repeating that; it's merely a fact. As a child, I discovered the truth of that fact when I gathered a buckeye-flower bouquet for my mom. It was glorious in its vase, but it stunk up the entire room. Mom transferred it to the porch, but we still couldn't bear to sit near it).
Then there's the Yellow Buckeye, Aesculus octandra, 60-90 feet tall with a two-to-three foot diameter trunk, also known as sweet buckeye or large buckeye. Ohio Division of Wildlife says this tree is difficult to distinguish from the Ohio Buckeye. It prefers the bottomlands along rivers and streams, and also grows in high locations.
Both trees leaf out in spring before most other trees, and its leaves drop earlier in the fall. From the autumns of my childhood, I distinctly recall the joy of getting an early start on the leaf season, stomping and jumping through great piles of crisp, fallen buckeye leaves that gleamed in such a brilliant orange-to-red that I sometimes imagined I would be able to see their color in the dark.
THE BUCKEYE HAS real history in Ohio. Our settlers found the wood to be lightweight, readily split and easily carved or whittled, and so they used it to make utensils, furniture, crates, pallets and caskets. It was also widely used for artificial legs, and thin-planed strips of buckeye wood were also woven to make hats and baskets.
Ohio became known as the Buckeye State when Gen. William H. Harrison ran for President in 1840. An opposition newspaper scoffed that Harrison was little more than an "Ohio buckeye, suited only to hard cider, log cabins and raccoon hunting," Harrison gleefully glommed onto those symbols and made them his own. His supporters carved and carried canes of buckeye wood, and Harrison's campaign logo became a log cabin decorated with raccoon skins and a string of buckeyes. From that point on, we Ohioans were "buckeyes."
In Oct. 1953, the Ohio Legislature adopted the buckeye as our state's official state tree, and when Ohio State University was looking for a logo, it originally considered the buck (male) white-tailed deer, then decided instead on the buckeye nut itself.
ANOTHER BUCKEYE MEMORY: Years ago, when visiting in the state of Washington years ago, I spotted an Ohio buckeye growing improbably in a water-side park. An elderly gentleman informed me it had been donated and planted years ago by a transplanted Ohioan. The tree made fine fodder for conversation, the northwesterner said.
"When I run into an out-of-state visitor to our lovely little park," he told me with a chuckle, "I always ask where the visitor is from. If I hear the word Ohio, I point to the tree and explain that it is a symbol of Ohio, and especially of OSU... I tell the visitor the buckeye is a nut that grows on a tree with stinky bark, stinky twigs and stinky flowers; and the buckeye nut itself is stinky and useless and as shiny as a bald Ohio head, and is poisonous and inedible except to squirrels...
"Now," he concluded genially as he peered down at me, "Where are YOU from?" When I told him, he broke quickly into laughter. "Oops, I forgot," he apologized. "I usually ask that FIRST."
That led to a hilarious conversation between us. All because of an "alien" buckeye tree that had sunk its roots into a new place and had waited all those years to greet me.
(My valley property bears a lot of trees, but as hard as I have looked, I have not yet found one buckeye. If you, too, wish to "dish" about buckeyes, direct your comments to me at randrmoore@gmail.com. I'll happily share your memories through this blog, unless you ask me not to do that).
ATTACHED PHOTO of buckeye nut, courtesy Ohio Div. of Forestry
A CENTENNIAL TRIBUTE TO OUR LAKE COUNTY COURTHOUSE
(Published in my column, June 8, 2009, Gazette Newspapers. Entered in my blog today for a friend who counts this building as part of her history too).
THE CENTENNIAL anniversary of the Lake County Courthouse is approaching. That venerable building was dedicated in the month of June 100 years ago.
The dedication ceremony was to be held inside the building, but unexpectedly large crowds and an unusually hot day caused it to be moved outside to the expansive courthouse steps, overlooking the lawns and trees of the town square.
An early architect-historian described the new building as one of "monstrous pretentiousness." He stated that he much preferred the simple elegance of the original courthouse, which became (and still is) the Painesville City Hall. But I have totally admired that "pretentious" building from the first time I became aware of it as a young school girl who passed the courthouse almost daily.
Who could not have noticed the huge Cain and Abel statues on either side of the front entry? Or the building's big front doors, looming with such firm authority, like medieval castle gates?
Walking up the steps to that entry was breath-taking for a child of my tender age. I was impressed by the very height of the building, topped on its dome by an eagle that brought the building's height to145 feet.
And who knows why, but every time I passed the courthouse, I liked to make a point of checking the time on all four sides of the big clock in the dome.
MOST OF ALL, however, I revered the Giant Lion that lived inside the courthouse lobby. When I first met the Lion, I was a short and stubby 8-year-old; so small that I was known as PeeWee in my neighborhood. To me, the Lion of the Marble Courthouse Fountain seemed so large and powerful. He soon became my favorite after-school adventure.
To test my courage (or perhaps to build my courage up), I often stood before that marble masterpiece, like David facing down Goliath. I would boldly stare up into the Lion's fearsome face, and as the Lion fixed his glowering gaze upon me, I would stand unflinching in the shadow of his foreboding presence. Somehow, every time I left his presence to begin my journey homeward, I would feel just a little taller and a little braver.
Years later, in adulthood, I began to doubt that childhood memory; I couldn't find my Lion in the courthouse; perhaps he didn't live there anymore; perhaps he never did. But then one day, while visiting within that Sanctuary of the Law, I stepped into a minor niche to let a group of people pass. Suddenly I realized... I was leaning up against the marble Lion of my childhood!
He bore the same fine visage I'd remembered, but now he seemed so very small. I was looking DOWN at him, and he was looking UP at me. From the vantage of a taller, grown-up me, the Lion was no longer oversized or fearsome. I laughed; it wasn't HE whose size had changed; it was my own.
But he, smaller than the Lion of my memory, still had value to me. Quietly I thanked him for the little bit of courage he had prompted with his presence years ago, for a little girl to grow on.
HISTORICAL NOTES:
*On the June 25 dedication day in 1909, Rev. T. F. Phillips of the Methodist Episcopal Church delivered the prayer. Prosecuting Attorney Elbert F. Blakely introduced the speaker, Congressman Paul W. Howland. Howland presented the new building to Judge Arlington G. Reynolds, who accepted it on behalf of Lake County.
*Prominent regional architect J. Milton Dyer designed the building. The cornerstone was laid in July 1907, with no fanfare and few witnesses. (The only person to speak, apparently, was the janitor, who thought a "few wise words" were called for).
*Interior detailing for the building, including walls, banisters, bas reliefs and other appointments, were crafted of fine Vermont marble. The rotunda was embellished with murals of Lake County significance, and the main corridor was distinguished by a recessed and handsomely detailed glass skylight.
*The 1,000-lb. bronze eagle atop the dome was moulded by a Perry native, Samuel West.
*The figural designs for the statues of Cain and Abel were by award-winning Danish-born American sculptor Merman Matzen. A Milanese carver, Paul Gandola, did the actual carving from Matzen's models. The Bedford limestone statues are each 9-feet high and 9 tons heavy, minus the pedestals.
*A brass elevator was installed, and when it was replaced many years later with a modern automated type, it was the last person-attended elevator to be found in the county. It was sad for some of us to see the old brass elevator and its attendant gone.
*Prosecutor Homer Harper was responsible for formulation of the inscribed stone tablets flanking the outside front entrance; like Cain and Abel, they were among the last exterior adornments to be attached.
*On dedication day, the marble lion-head fountain hadn't yet taken up residence in the building; it remained one of the last of the interior adornments. Designed and manufactured by Davis Marble Company, it was not installed until 1912.
*It was 1948, or thereabouts, when the Lion was discovered by a certain Painesville schoolgirl who still holds that lion in her heart and memory..
September is a glorious month; who could deny it? But within the past dozen years, something has changed. Google up the word "September" on your computer, and you'll no longer find the words of poets and essayists and editorial writers who have always been inspired by this month and the loveliness it bestows upon us, day and night.
Now it seems the beauties of September are hidden behind the dark veil of the memories of the catastrophic events of 9-11, 2001.
The bright September sunshine may still be present in our skies, but say the word "September," and for many people it evokes a memory of smoke-filled skies, collapsing buildings,and the stark drumbeat of death...
But for me, I still love September. I always have and always will. September sings its own strong song to me, and I refuse to let the 9-11 memories obscure it.
September is my favorite month. In fact, that's why I chose September for my wedding day, and then I had good reason to love September even more.
September is fine wine; it is the year matured. Blue and gold and green, it opens up my eyes and elevates my spirits. It contains the autumn equinox, whose changes seem to beg for my attention.
The sunrise of September mornings turns dew-clad spider webs to neon and creates a host of other-worldly morning mists and shadows.
September daytime skies are mostly brilliant, and its sunny afternoons turn fragrant with the ripening apples, wild berries, grapes and grasses. The changing angle of the sun throws golden light onto the forests and lays a mellow hand on fields and lawns and gardens.
September is a time of quickened step, big yellow buses, high-school bands and football games, and roadside stands heaped high with produce.
It's a month when birds and mammals congregate and chatter, and so do school kids. Corn stalks begin to dry and soon will rattle in the fields. Swirling breezes stir up dust-devils, and wildflowers lend nobility to dusty roadsides.
If each day in September sinks a little sooner into darkness, so be it; that's well compensated for by its sunsets, which can be spectacular.
The nights are cool and quieter and soon grow pungent with the dying vegetation. The moonlight is the most benevolent of any of the twelve moons of the year, and it seems to add an extra sheen upon the night-time trees.
And for me, a whiff of distant smoke is all it takes to conjure up my autumn nights of childhood, when the signature aroma was the smell of happy campfires and burning leaves.
If I've had complaint about September, it might have been the threat of early frosts to kill the flowers in my gardens. But even that no longer bothers me; it gives me, after all, a seasonal respite from lawn and garden work. And as the autumn of my human years advances, that respite is very much appreciated.
Now and then, on one day or another, September weather lets us down. But in the ledgers of my memory, by far, September's assets far outnumber any of its imperfections.
In my beloved northeast Ohio, I love every season of the year, for different reasons.
But if God would tell me, "Choose your favorite month and that will be your season in the after-life, above all others," I would choose September... The memories of 9-11 notwithstanding,
Early this morning, Bob's cousin Charlene and I walked together at nearby Skok Meadow, which was once the Buschmann family farm, just above my valley in Concord Township.
Sun was shining through the mist, and goldenrod filled all the open space of the former pastures.
Charlene was visiting with us from Atlanta, Georgia, where she thrives on daily walking. As a souvenir, I included her among the meadow photographs.
This was a peaceful slice of time for us. So I will share.
Bob and I will miss you when you return home, Charlene. And so will Mick, our dog, who has fallen in love with you.
My dog and I just took a walk. Amid the warm and misty wetness of the valley, the breezes stripped a lot of tear-shaped leaves from off the old elm tree, and they flowed down diagonally like golden rain. Mick lifted up his nose into the leaves; he seemed to like to see them and to feel them as they fell. Me too.
My sunrise errand drive took me to Geauga County and from there to Trumbull County this morning. The rosy color of the rising sun reflected on the tails and manes of horses in the pastures and even added pinkish color to the barns and fields. I had the highway mostly to myself, and it was a satisfying drive... even in that early hour of the morning.
It reminded me of long ago when I was young and liked to drive out to Concord Airpark early in the morning and fly a little plane into the air, alone at sunrise. Those were the days, my friends.
OH, THOSE DAYS OF CHILD'S PLAY AND BAREFOOT FREEDOMS
Every year, when the summer season is well-established, a question always nags at me: "When did children stop playing outdoors?" (I'm not referring to the organized athletics that are all-important in these modern times; I mean "just plain play!")
I am of an older generation for whom our outdoor play was a joy for all seasons. Even in the cold of winter, our parents shooed us out for the good fresh air and exercise they said was good for us. We built snowmen and snow forts, made snow angels, had snowball fights, played king-of-the-hill on mounds of snow, and sledded on the hills around our neighborhoods. With skates slung over our shoulders, we walked a mile (or more) to skate on frozen ponds
When springtime freed us from our heavy winter clothing, we shed them gratefully, feeling instantly lighter of weight, heart, step and spirit. In anticipation, we put our sleds and ice skates and other winter gear in storage and brought out our bikes, trikes, wagons, scooters, pogo sticks and yoyos. The March winds brought out our kites as well---some store-bought, some crazily homemade with newspaper comic-pages and balsa-wood frames...
We greeted April with our baseballs, bats and mitts; we couldn't wait to get the neighbor kids together on the nearest vacant lot to play, and those lots were always generously open to us. We hit the sidewalks with our wagons and clamp-on skates (with keys) and raced down the nearest hilly sidewalks on anything with wheels...
When May began to warm the ground, we gathered in small groups on porches, steps and lawns to plan the summer we knew would soon be coming, and we eagerly anticipated our summer play. We looked forward to those longer, school-free days with their extended freedoms....
BUT OH! THE SUMMERS! Those days of barefoot freedom! We stomped in summer puddles. We hiked; we swam in creeks and jumped into ponds; we staged impromptu backyard picnics; we played games with jacks and marbles. We sketched chalk-square patterns onto sidewalks to play hopscotch; we used our mother's clothes-lines for our jump-rope games; we hung on swings made from old tires hung by ropes in trees; we made tents with blankets over clothes lines or other available items...
We saved our dimes for bubble pipes and squirt guns, and mom and dad set up the nets for volleyball and badminton. We played croquet; we fished; we rode our bikes all over town and made hide-outs and playhouses out of cardboard boxes. We played war, cowboys-and-Indians, cops-and-robbers, kick-the-can, leap-frog and tag. We climbed trees, and if those trees had sturdy vines, we swung on them like our movie-idol, Tarzan. We made our own parades and marched through the neighborhoods on special summer days...
On rainy days, we produced our magic shows and puppet shows on porches or in garages or basements; admission was free, but applause was mandatory. One summer a special group of friends and I began to meet on Saturdays to write a mystery novel! (Who knows where that manuscript was hidden, to end up later in the hands of another generation?)...
We used our summer Popsicle sticks as noise-makers on the wheels of our bikes, and we saved the wrappers to send away to Popsicle Pete for prizes. On sizzling afternoons, we sipped cold drinks under trees and looked for patterns in the clouds. In the star-tossed mist of summer nights, we out-noised the cicada, played hide-and-seek and captured lightning bugs in mason jars...
By the time we were 10 or 11, we could ride the bus together to Euclid Beach and other places in and around our nearest big city, Cleveland. One of my favorite stops was the Cleveland Art Museum. As teenagers, we dressed up for that special place in which we liked to imagine we were guests at a beautiful mansion, with its outdoor reflecting pool. Upon arrival, as we prepared to tour the art displays, I usually took off my high heels and hid them so I could walk in comfort. Once I LOST those shoes, and just as I thought I would be riding the bus back home "all dressed up and barefoot," the guard smilingly produced them from behind his back and gave them back to me.
When summer blended into autumn, and the warm days still remained, the outside world was still our happy playground. We picked buckeyes to be used for hobbies and our friendly buckeye wars. We rolled and tumbled in the raked-up piles of fallen leaves and enjoyed the fine aroma when our parents set those piles ablaze. We sat under trees, the colorful leaves falling down upon us as we talked together...
OUR CHILD'S PLAY was free-form, spontaneous, unorganized, unplanned... fueled by our own imaginations. It cultivated our creativity, joy, and flexibility. It fostered many other saving graces we would need in later life. That included cooperation; we learned to understand each others' differences; our sometime-squabbles were mostly settled without grownups' interference; when there was bullying, it always seemed to be resolved...
We learned to plan and make decisions for ourselves without the set patterns produced by grownups had we, instead, been lodged in nursery school to play "by order and on schedule"...
Our "child's play" was accidental therapy that would bolster us through many seasons of our lives, endowing us with an inborn sense of laughter, fun, spontaneity and humor---a special currency for us to draw on in our later years; it would become as valuable as money tucked away for our retirement.
There were chores for us as well, required by our parents throughout the year; they were our responsibility as members of the family and community. We did house work, yard work, garden work, snow-shovelling and more. Often we did such chores for neighbors who might need a hand, and the work and play provided all the physical activities we really needed to stay fit.
SADLY NOW WE'RE seeing that the children of today are suffering stress and emotional problems at ever-younger ages. School begins almost in babyhood, beginning as child-care while parents are at work. Kindergarten is preceded by PRE-kindergarten...
By first grade, youngsters are learning to work toward and worry about the "Big T's" ---those looming all-important proficiency tests that strike real fear and seem to take a lot of the joy out of learning. Midway through grammar school, kids are pondering careers, and by middle school are beginning to worry about college.
Their recreational activities, organized and pre-planned by adults, are darkly shaded with the pressure of winning. In sports, our kids learn "sportsmanship" from adults who misbehave in the bleachers and insult other parents and even the officials.
Hours of homework every day during the school year, coupled with a year-round sedentary electronic games, have led to obesity at an early age, when children's metabolisms are usually in high gear.
I SAY THESE KIDS are missing something that can be important to their lives; as important in its way as their years in academia. And that "something" is a time for child's play; a time to just be children. A time and way to learn some basic things that can nurture human beings all through life. Even when, like me, they've reached their older years.
ATTACHED PHOTO... When my own kids and their friends in the neighborhood were growing up, sometimes child's play was as simple as gathering around the picnic table for ice cream, games or "making things."
2nd Lt. Jordan D. Kinzie, USMC Retired, age 34, of Madison, Ohio, passed away Wednesday, August 14, 2013 after a six and a half year battle with brain cancer. He was born August 14, 1979 in Ashtabula, Ohio to Jayne Niles Fannon & John Kinzie. Jordan married Tamara Moore on May 26, 2001.
Jordan proudly served in the Marine Corps for 11 years. He earned his Bachelor's Degree in History from The Ohio State University and attended Eagleville Bible Church for the last 5 years.
Jordan is survived by his wife, Tamara of Madison; daughter, Madelynne; sons, Carter and Tanner; mother, Jayne Niles Fannon; sisters, Melanie (Steve) Peck, Wendy Meikle, Jennifer (Jason) Nemeth, and Valerie (John) Martin; in-laws, Daniel and Catherine Moore; brother-in-laws, Jacob (Colleen) Moore, and Justin (Lisa) Moore and many nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his father and grandparents; B.V. Niles and Mary Kisamore Niles.
Friends will be received 2-5pm, Sunday, August 18, 2013, at The Behm Family Funeral Home, 26 River Street, Madison, Ohio. Funeral service will be held 11:00am, Monday, August 19, 2013, at the funeral home. Rev. Bill McMinn of Eagleville Bible Church will be officiating.
Contributions may be made to SPIRE Institute, 5201 SPIRE Circle, Geneva, Ohio 44041 for the "Engaging Vets Through Sports and Rec" Program.
Rest in peace, Jordan Kinzie, USMC.
You stood tall in life, and tall as you faced your illness.
Througout it all, your wife, children and family-at-large set the pattern for family love and support.
May God give comfort to you all in your sad loss.
Bob & Rose Moore of Concord Twp.
Posted by: Bob & Rose Moore - Concord Twp, OH - uncle and aunt of Tamara Aug 15, 2013
We call this our "Penthouse Garden." I planted this garden on our high deck after my husband returned home from a hospital visit.
The seeds went into the soil a bit late for the bloom period of the tall zinnias and sunflowers, so I added a few marigold plants of various types, plus red salvia and silver artemesia, to add instant color.
My husband could see his "garden" as he sat inside in his easy chair, or as he relaxed outside on the deck.
The sunflower and zinnia plants themselves grew tall, and even though the bloom has been delayed, we have learned to appreciate the tall plants for themselves--without the flowers.
We enjoy watching them dance back and forth in the breezes... or when they stand like tall soldiers, not moving.
Against the light of the sun going down at the end of the day, they take on a certain transparency, like stained glass.
Moonlight gives the plants an additional glow, like veils of green water falling over the eaves; or green waterfalls flowing upward..
Today, on Aug. 13, 2013, we see the brightness of red zinnias opening behind these "waterfalls"... We see the sunflower buds, days away from exploding into sunny yellow...
That will be beautiful too.
SOME BIRTHDAY MUSINGS...
*I was born in 1940 in a hospital that in recent years was torn down to make room for something else.
*I was baptized in a church building that had been attended by generations of my family. It was razed in the 1950s and replaced with a new one.
*I attended a Catholic grade school that is now closed for all seasons.
*I shopped in a downtown that now is mostly gone, a large part of it having been replaced by county buildings and parking lots.*
*I graduated from a classic high school building that was demolished, and a new high school was built on the other side of town.
*My graduation was held in an attractive old theater that was taken down to make way for a drug store.
*I spent many a childhood Saturday morning in a reading room of a heritage building that was our public library. It too has disappeared from the scene, in favor of a newer building...
All this makes me want to pinch myself to make sure I'M still here and haven't been replaced to make room for something newer in the world!... (YET?)
August 06, 2013 is my birthday. It's also the time of the New Moon, also known as the Dark Moon.
The moon won't be visible to my naked eye, because this is the moment when the moon reaches its MINIMUM brightness, situated between Earth and the Sun, in conjunction with the Sun as seen from Earth, with the dark (unilluminated) portion of the moon facing almost directly toward Earth.
Visible or not, I do know the moon will be there---thanks to a childhood birthday story told to me many years ago by an elderly neighbor.
She described the moon as a giant eye in the night sky, and every month it would choose one child's birthday, and it would close its eye and darken it in one long "wink," to acknowledge and honor that child's special day. On that night, she said, I was the birthday child who was chosen for that honor. And I believed her.
I later learned the astronomical explanation for the Dark Moon, but I never did let go of that old woman's magical story---fabricated just for me, the birthday girl.
All these years later, I remember this kind woman, and I still love her story. And it hasn't passed my notice that my birthday again falls on the Night of the Dark Moon.
And thank you Mr. Moon.
Years ago when I was young, an elder woman cautioned me, "Life is change. And when you find yourself harping about changes, you'll know you're old."
I recognized her wisdom and remembered it. In fact, I often quoted it.
Now, days before my 73rd birthday, today is the last day for standard delivery of the Plain Dealer newspaper I've been receiving daily for close to half a century.
I'm very sad about the change; in fact, I'm harping about it...
Uh-Oh... Am I finally old?
If so, why am I not FEELING old? Only sad.
(Photo taken by me from across the room, on this Sunday morning, Aug. 4, 2013, as my husband and I lounge with our Sunday Plain Dealer)
ROSE MOORE: TURNING PURPLE WHEN SHE'S OLD?
(Published in Gazette Newspapers, on occasion of her 73rd birthday)
GAZETTE NEWSPAPERS EDITOR'S NOTE: Our columnist Rose Moore has taken this, her 73rd birthday week, off to celebrate "stayin' alive." In place of her usual column, she allows us to run her own parody of the famous Jenny Joseph poem, "When I Am An Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple." (Our apologies to Ms. Joseph)
WHEN I AM AN OLD WOMAN, I will turn purple at my birthday party, and revive myself when people dial 9-1-1.
I'll dine on jelly beans and ginger snaps and coffee, and circulate hot rumors all around the town about myself.
I'll be haughty with the sales clerks who carry only tiny sizes, and I'll skip obituary pages in the morning paper, just in case my name is there.
For my health, I'll wear a copper bracelet and rub my skin with mink oil and start my day with fiber laced with M&Ms.
I'll paste a smile on my face for make-up; and I'll refuse to tan and soak for hours at the spa, where I might wrinkle into nothing and be mistaken for a raisin.
I'll ignore the TV ads for PolyGrip and grown-up diapers and those ugly chairs that stand you up, and I won't let Ed McMahon seduce me into pre-paid funerals, or elder magazines or cheap insurance.
I'll cultivate a mellow air of wisdom, and when the young folks seek advice, I'll tell heroic tales about the past and lie to them about the future.
I'll let my dwindling eyesight go, for that will let my mirror lie to me, and it will also help to camouflage the cobwebs, dust and dirt.
I will not dance the hokey-pokey at your wedding or spend my days at Big Lots trying to save a dime.
I won't hang out at craft fairs or in bingo halls; I will not go to quiet towns in Florida for shuffleboard and golf; and most of all I won't go into places where the young are not allowed to go.
I won't bend over in my garden in a flowered muumuu; and I won't let the Beauty Ladies tint my hair in any shade of blue or cut and kink it into scouring pad or Orphan Annie hairdo.
I'll wear strong necklaces in case I ever want to hang myself, and of course my friends and loved ones know that isn't likely.
If I'm forced to trade down to a dinky little car, I'll let the neighbor kids paint flowers on it and glue a wind-up key upon the roof, and they can ride around with me and make a lot of noise.
If you ask how old I am, I will not hear you; and I will not criticize the young except to God, who has been around awhile and sympathizes.
I may someday build a pedestal and designate myself an icon, but I will not speak of growing old until I'm well into my 90s, if I live that long...
And then I'll hold that very private conversation only with myself.
(You can email Olde Rose at randrmoore@gmail.com, because someone young has finally helped her figure out computers.)
(ATTACHED PHOTOS OF Olde Rose missing a few teeth at age 7; and old Rose now, at age 73, with a special K9 friend).
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La Corte Verde di Corso Como
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The Porta Nuova area has almost completed its urban metamorphosis in one of the most important poles of the new Milano. The new residential complex “La Corte Verde” (the Green Court) represents a small but important part of this reform; its location makes it an element of transition between the new high volumes to the North and the existing urban fabric to the South. The transversal dimension of the plot and its trapeze shape made building volumes along its perimeter difficult. We chose to place the volume on the east edge, overlooking the large green via Viganò street, while the West edge onto via Rosales is defined by a low wall which protects the garden and by a canopy that protects the vehicular access to the underground parking and their stair block. The front and back façades of the building have very different architectural features, chosen in relationship to the disposition of their interiors, their position in the city and their sun orientation. The East front on via Viganò, which hosts the bedrooms, stair blocks and bathrooms, is distinguished by a broken profile which alternates bulges in the form of “bow-windows” and high stacks of floor-to-ceiling windows; the West side, where the living areas extend in large continuous terraces, creates a long screen overlooking the garden. In the upper floors, the stepped profile creates large hanging gardens overlooked by apartments on two floors.
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The next The 1975 record!
How would you describe “Massive Attack” to someone who hasn’t heard you before?
A kick-ass mix of urban pop/trip hoppy-ness with pixie dust influences of Rihanna, Sia, Justin Timberlake, Banks, The Weeknd and also high amounts of bad-assy, sassiness that you can totally vibe out to.
What can we expect from you next?
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Panic Fest 2014: ‘Raze’ Needs More Weird, Less Action
by Trey Hock on January 31, 2014
Josh C. Waller’s film Raze is a cinematic throwback to the exploitation films of the 1960s and 70s. Unfortunately it doesn’t have the tongue in cheek humor or the thinly veiled fetishizing that made that era of film so interesting and endearing.
Raze takes place in an underground arena. Here a group of people who crave the spectacle of hand-to-hand combat, kidnap and force physically fit women to fight each other to the death. The victor will get the chance to join the clan of spectators.
Sounds like a pretty good setup for a women-who-fight film, but Raze never quite works.
First there isn’t a compelling motivation for why these women are subjected to this cruel punishment. If we were to look at another prison revenge film such as Oldboy, the entire plot of the film surrounds the mystery of why this man has been held captive for 20 years.
There also isn’t the prison film conceit – bad women being punished by even more terrible people. Films such as the Jonathan Demme’s Caged Heat make these female inmates heroes when they fight back against their captors. Raze does have the fighting back, but lacks a developed motivation for why this gladiatorial combat must take place.
Doug Jones and Sherilyn Fenn who play the rulers of this combat are shamefully underused. Both actors have incredible B-movie cred and the tendency for hyperbole and over performance that could have made Raze a lot of fun. Even another scene or two with Jones could have sold the idea that a strange and maniacal group of people lead by this loony madman just captures women for fun.
The fight sequences themselves, especially between Sabrina (Zoë Bell) and anyone else are great. Zoë Bell uses her skills as a stuntwoman to the fullest every time she’s on screen. There is even a misused title card motif that does payoff pretty well just before Sabrina’s final fight.
The most systemic problem with Raze is that it seems that Josh Waller and writer Robert Beaucage wanted to modernize a specific type of exploitation film from 40 years ago. To do this they squashed out the campiness, which is the very reason most viewers revisit those awkward and hilarious films in the first place.
The filmmakers do seem to cherish the exploitation films of decades past. Perhaps Waller just took Raze too seriously.
Raze is showing in Kansas City at the Screenland Armour at Panic Fest.
Trey Hock
In addition to contributing to Scene-Stealers, Trey makes short films and teaches at the Kansas City Art Institute. Follow him here:
Tagged as: 2014, Doug Jones, Josh C Waller, Raze, Sherilyn Fenn, Zoë Bell
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Amelia Island CVB Brings Home Awards from Conference on Tourism
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Designed to attract more visitors to Amelia Island, the AI Convention and Visitor's Bureau efforts helped drive a 15 percent increase in the number of visitors from German-speaking markets in 2015.
Amelia Island, FL – The Amelia Island Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) won four awards for outstanding tourism marketing at VISIT FLORIDA’s annual Florida Governor’s Conference on Tourism.
The CVB took top honors in the Niche Marketing and Special Event categories, accepting coveted Henry Award trophies during the conference’s opening night Flagler Awards ceremony, Wednesday night, September 7, at the Hilton Orlando.
The CVB also won a Silver Award in the Resource/Promotional Material-Trade category, and was honored with one of just three Best of Show Awards for their marketing efforts.
“We successfully contend in the world’s most competitive tourism marketplace against some of the best marketing machines in the industry,” said Gil Langley, president and CEO of the Amelia Island CVB. “I’m happy to see the Amelia Island marketing team recognized among our industry peers and partners for their ability to continually create effective strategies that connect with visitors.”
The CVB won Henry Awards for its “Amelia Island for Germany” program (Niche Marketing) and Dickens on Centre, A Southern Elegance Christmas (Special Event), and a Silver Award for its Medical Meetings Program (Resource/Promotional Material-Trade). In addition, the destination’s “Amelia Island for Germany” entry won Best of Show”. Designed to attract more visitors from this important international market, the multichannel marketing effort helped drive a 15 percent increase in the number of visitors to Amelia Island from German-speaking markets in 2015.
Past Flagler Awards won by the CVB include a Henry Award in Internet Advertising and Silver Awards in the Mobile Marketing, Websites and Resource/Promotional Material-Trade categories (2015); Best of Show Award for its Mixed Media Campaign (2014); Henry Awards in the Direct Marketing, Print Advertising, Mixed Media Campaign and Rural County Marketing categories (2013); and Best of Show for the Amelia Island Visitor’s Guide (2012).
As the state’s annual tourism marketing competition, the Flagler Awards recognize Florida’s travel businesses and organizations that demonstrate outstanding tourism marketing efforts. Each year, the Flagler Awards honor many of the countless individuals and organizations that help position Florida as a premier travel destination and pay tribute to the determined efforts of those who help ensure the continued success of the state’s most important industry.
For additional information about Amelia Island, please visit www.ameliaisland.com.
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A Dictionary Of The Sussex Dialect - online book
A Collection Of Provincialisms In Use In The County Of Sussex.
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32 A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect.
Croft, m. [Croft, Ang. Sax., a small enclosed field.] A small piece of pasture land near to a house.
Cross-ways. A place where four roads meet.
Crownation. Coronation.
" I was married the day the Crownation was, when there was a bullock roasted whole up at Furrel (Firle) Park. I ddant know as ever I eat anything so purty in all my life; but I never got no further than Furrel cross-ways all night, no more didn't a good many."
Crowsfoot. The butter-cup. Ranunculus bulbosus and allied
species. Crummy. Fat; fleshy.
" He aint near so crummy as what he was afore he went
to Lewes jail." Crutches, e. [Cruche, French, a pitcher.] Broken pieces of
crockery.
Cry, e. Several dogs of all kinds.
"I knew it was Miss Jane, by reason she'd got the cry with her."
Cuckoo's Bread and Cheese Tree, m. The whitethorn.
" When the cuckoo comes to the bare thorn, Sell your cow and buy your corn." —Old Proverb.
It is very remarkable that this name should be given to the whitethorn, as among all Aryan nations this tree is associated with the lightning, while the cuckoo is intimately connected with the lightning gods, Zeus and Thor.
Cuckoo-fair. Heathfield fair, held on April 14th. The tradition in East Sussex is that an old woman goes to Heathfield fair, and there lets the cuckoo out of a bag.
In Worcestershire the saying is that the cuckoo is never heard before Tenbury fair (April 21st), or after Pershore fair (June 26th).
With this may be compared the following German legend, given by Grimm in his "Deutsche Mythologie," p. 691:— " Our Lord was one day passing a baker's shop, when, feeling hungry, He sent in one of His disciples to ask for a loaf; the baker refused it, but his wife, who with his six daughters was standing at a little distance, gave him the loaf secretly, for which good deed they were placed in heaven as seven stars—the Pleiades; but the bakerwas changed into a cuckoo, which sings from St. Tiburtius' Day (April 14) to St. John the Baptist's Day (June 24), that is, as long as the seven stars are visible."
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U.S. Open Ratings Champions
Tue, 07/05/2011 - 14:20 — Larry Hodges
U.S. Open Ratings Champions - No Fear!
When I looked over the rating champions at the U.S. Open, what jumped out to me was that, for once, most of the champions were actually players that were seeded very high in the event. Often players like that avoid playing in such events in order to protect their ratings (sigh...), leaving the event to lower-rated "ringers." Not so much this time! Here's a rundown of these champions - congrats to all these fearless champions! (Note that in three cases, a player is actually rated over the cutoff, but that's because the ratings used for eligibility purposes is well in advance of the U.S. Open; otherwise, players wouldn't know until the last minute what events they were eligible for.)
Under 2600: Gao YanJun (2607) over Adam Hugh (2570). Over by 7 and under by 30 points.
Under 2400: Raghu Nadmichettu (2390) over Mark Croitoroo (2319). Under by 10 and 81 points.
Under 2250: Klement Yeung (2239) over James Therriault (2206). Under by 11 and 44 points.
Under 1950: Cameron Siou (1930) over Jeremy Hazin (1631). Under by 20 and (gulp) 319 points.
Under 1800: Marina Leitman (1811) over Edmundo J. Lozada Salazar (1759). Over by 11 and 41 points.
Under 1650: Natasha Carr-Harris (1535) over Alex Bu (1530). Under by 115 and 120 points.
Under 1500: Edward Guo (1328) over Rohan Mannem (1283). Under by 172 and 217 points. Mannem didn't win here, so he got his revenge in...
Under 1350: Rohan Mannem (1283) over Paul Scobey (1267). Under by 67 and 83 points.
Under 1200: David Stone (1167) over Wilson Chen (1209). Under by 33 and over by 9 points.
Under 1000: Anton Berman (641) over Michael Gustafson (798). Under by 359 and 202 points. Someone's a bit under-rated? And just for the record, the fearless Gustafson, with the 798 rating, also played Under 800 but didn't reach the final - but he did get revenge on the girl who took him out of Under 800, beating her in Under 1200.
Under 800: Anton Berman (641) over Wang Yee (756). Under by 159 and 44 points.
The Evil Fayed: Nuking U.S. Cities and Terrorizing Hardbat
Here's Abu Fayed discussing the destruction of America on "24." Here's Adoni Maropis (at the U.S. Open) terrorizing the hardbat community, where he's achieved a 2110 hardbat rating. He reached the semifinals of Over 40 Hardbat at the U.S. Open. (He made the final at the Nationals in December.) Yes, he has knee problems, and is a little soft on the backhand, but he has that look that says I will tear out your liver and feed it to your children. So try to catch him in a good mood. (Table tennis pictures are by Steve Hopkins.)
Hidden Serves - not always noticed
I wrote yesterday about some of the problems with hidden serves. One irony I didn't mention is that often a player doesn't even notice when an opponent hides his serve. Like all other shots in table tennis (at least for a well-trained player), you don't consciously react to shots. Your subconscious reflexively reacts to the various incoming spins. So when returning a serve, it's the subconscious that's actually reacting. When the serve is hidden, the subconscious doesn't see contact, and so often misreads the spin - but the conscious mind doesn't always notice since you don't normally consciously react to the contact. A well-trained player learns to blank out his conscious mind while playing, and so doesn't consciously see contact unless he makes an effort to look for it. Of course this doesn't change the fact that at the higher levels, many players hide their serve and most umpires don't call it, so for now, players will just have to learn to read hidden serves by watching the ball, as players used to do before hidden serves became illegal.
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A grammar of space
Tobias Fischer
How to listen to and learn from acoustic spaces.
The history of the Seattle Phonographers Union has long been a mystery. Which is surprising given the fact that public performances have been an integral aspect of the project. A simple reason for the relative obscurity of the formation may be that despite its prominent members, which include some of the finest sound artists and field recorders not just of the Seattle area but the entire scene, it has placed music first and egos last. The SPU's Steve Barsotti has described how the expansive, almost twenty-musician-strong line-up gradually formed in the early years of the new Millennium, when Dale Lloyd founded his And/Oar imprint and started a series of releases based on pure field recordings. The fascinating point of departure for the group was the idea of basing live improvisations on these materials, creating worlds of sound from spontaneous collective processes. Since then, the Seattle Phonographers Union have performed on numerous occasions in their hometown in constantly evolving constellations.Two of the more memorable are collected on Building 27 and WNP-5, a lavishly produced LP on the Prefecture imprint containing performances within a decommissioned aircraft hangar and an uncompleted nuclear plant cooling tower. The result is a strangely mesmerising trip, each sound a carefully placed note on a canvas of breath. Even the most attentive listener will not be able to make out the source of every single sound. But that, just as the history of the Seattle Phonographers Union, may only serve to put the emphasis more firmly on the music.
Your new LP Building 27 and WNP-5 was recorded in two unique locations. Can you tell me about these buildings and what made them interesting for the performances? What are some of the other more unusual and rewarding spaces you've performed at over the years with the SPU?
Steve Barsotti: I have always been interested in how sounds are affected by the space in which they exist. I like recording in spaces that we won’t usually find our ears such as dropping mics down sewer grates, or slipping them into tubes at construction sites. Then I take these sounds and play them back in a space and by doing that, create new spaces and contexts for those sounds to exist. The hanger and silo offered very unique, and admittedly dramatic, versions of this.
Christopher DeLaurenti: The challenge of Building 27 - a giant aircraft hangar at Sand Point - and WNP-5 - an incomplete cooling tower at a nuclear power station is to find a grammar of space with different sounds. The aim is not to re-sound recordings within a space. Anyone can do that in software. The aim, for me at least, is can I learn how to listen to my sounds and the band's sounds in a new way. Anytime I find an unusual acoustic space I ask can this space teach me something new about my sounds, sound in general, and listening?
If I understood correctly, at least some of these performances were attended by an audience. I'd be curious about how that influenced the interaction.
Steve Barsotti: Both of the sessions are first and foremost about the spaces. And by the space I of course mean the acoustic translation but also about it’s history, it’s purpose. The echos and reverberations of these spaces are the voices of the previous lives of these spaces. The album has two sides; one is an unedited excerpt from Building 27, a decommissioned aircraft hangar and the other from Satsop, the never-finished nuclear cooling silo. Building 27 had the audience while Satsop did not (or only a couple people that let us in). In B27 the audience puttering around the space became part of the show. Also, there is always a feeling of excitement when there is an audience. It made it feel like an event. In Satsop, with no audience to speak of, at least I focused on it as a recording session and was able to experiment, stop, think, try again, and then say, “Ok, let’s track it!”
Christopher DeLaurenti: In Building 27, audience footsteps and murmurs became part of the piece. And most of us at one point or another would leave the main performing area and walk around and listen for 10, 15,40 minutes or more just to hear and return to the group with fresh ears, We had a visibly small (2? 4?) audience at WNP-5, but we also had an unknown audience beyond the tower, as if we wanted to funnel our listening towards the sky.
How you see the interaction between the actual space and you as musicians? Are you rather finding that you are playing the space or is the space playing you?
Steve Barsotti: Both really. I have never been sure how you can play this kind of material into a space without taking the space into consideration both acoustically and aesthetically. In B27 I was insistent that we not have “stage monitors” or speakers set up close to us so that we could hear ourselves clearly. I made us set up our speakers on the opposite side of the room facing back towards us. This forced us to listen to how the sound is translated through the space and affected how we would perform.
Dale Lloyd: Personally speaking, if a space has particular acoustic properties, I try to use sounds that carry (or translate) well within that space.
Christopher DeLaurenti Other phonogs may disagree, but I believe we are creating a space inside a space. The audience hears the SPU, but the group does not completely envelop the space. With quieter volumes, we accompany the space. When silent, the space - and those in it - becomes the soloist.
What kind of sources were you playing on the occasion? Will there be discussions afterwards about who played what? Would you say there are sounds which are a no-go or is anything possible?
Steve Barsotti: These seem to me like three distinct questions that cover very different ideas.
I do consider the space when selecting recordings to play. The hanger and the silo are both spaces that have unique and long reverbs. So whatever you play will hang in the air for a bit. I selected sounds that were either short and sharp, percussive in some manner with distinct transients, or lush longer drones from engines or motors. The percussive sounds would illicit a nice response from the space while the drones would just fill the space and envelope all within. However the trick in these spaces is to avoid creating a thick unintelligible mass of sound with no clarity or definition. What might mix together nicely in a controlled room with a clean P.A. system can very easily come across muddied and dull in a huge cavernous room. So it starts with selecting recordings that I think will be more effective in the spaces. Then it becomes about how we listen in the space and how we mix the audio with others in the space.
We don’t necessarily discuss who played what after shows although occasionally someone might have a question about a sound played. We quite often have no idea who played what. In fact, there are times when there is a sound being played that I thought was mine but was in fact being played by someone else!
The idea of “no-go” sounds kind of fit into the processing category from a previous question. I think we each have our own notion of what we would or would not play. Some members have street recordings that include playback of music over speakers, recordings of Hare Krishnas chanting, or recordings of crowds at sporting events. I list these three specifically because at some point some members of the group have expressed their distaste for these recordings and have stated that they would not play these. But that is less of a “no-go” and more of a personal aesthetic.
As pointed out by Frans de Waard in his review, vinyl may seem like an unusual choice of format, with regards to the 'sonic impurities' of the LP itself. How do these things play into your considerations?
Steve Barsotti: I liked that comment. This whole process is riddled with sonic impurities!! The LP decision was based on two factors. First, I am interested in how this material changes as it is translated by various speaker sizes, various locations, and recording mediums. We have two CDs, a cassette, have been broadcast on the radio (both broadcast and Internet) and have played live in a variety of settings. But we had not yet translated our material through vinyl. The vinyl format can be difficult for quiet experimental music in that the noise floor can interfere with the very delicate or quite material. However I feel that the selections I chose for this album could sit within that effectively.
Second, I was thinking of this project as something larger that just the audio. I wanted a format that would allow for the presentation of the photographs as well. The gatefold LP was a perfect opportunity to present these photos as well as the audio. Tif Lin’s wonderful design of these shots really does a nice job portraying the spaces.
From your performances and research, are you finding that it is the most 'exotic' noises which tend to elicit the strongest response or, conversely, the 'everyday' ones?
Dale Lloyd: Regardless of what the sounds might be, I think it's mostly a matter of timing and delivery. For example, you could play a very humorous sound, but if it's not inserted at the right moment, it might not generate any reaction.
Steve Barsotti I think those terms are subjective. As our mission states: we “uncover what is foreign in the familiar and familiar about the foreign.” When you are going about your business and have the coffee machine gurgling in the background you may be aware of it but it just exists. This is about as “everyday’ as you can get. But when you take that sound and play it loudly over a PA system (and even mixed with other sounds) it suddenly becomes exotic. Part of this is the definite size difference but it is also the concentration placed on the sound. You are listening to it versus hearing it. Now you are hearing something new that you had not heard before. That to me is where we get the most reaction. It is the surprise and joy of “That was a coffee maker???“ that is the most interesting.
The more exotic (and I will use this word as you intended) sounds that we play are so mysterious that people usually just comment on them being interesting sounds. However, it is possible to find comfort in these sounds. While you may not have ever heard their original sources, or even know what the original sources may be, you might still find something familiar about them, something that evokes a memory or is otherwise inspirational.
Seattle Phonographers Union interview by Tobias Fischer
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ACT at Lee USA Speedway Rescheduled For June 11th
Rained Out Race Will Now Be a Friday Night Show
Series PR Report
The American Canadian Tour (ACT) recently announced that the New Hampshire Governor’s Cup 150 originally scheduled for April 18 at Lee USA Speedway in Lee, NH has been rescheduled for Friday, June 11. The event was originally scheduled as the 2010 ACT season opener but was postponed due to rain. It will be the 8th ACT Late Model Tour event ever held at the 1/3-mile speedway and the 3rd event of the 2010 ACT season.
ACT teams will have a challenge in racing with the Lee regulars, who have gained experience in the longer distance ACT races over the years. The Lee contingent will be led by defending champ and current point leader Wayne Helliwell, Jr. of Dover, NH. Helliwell has already scored two wins in the first two events at Lee in 2010 and is currently leading the Ford Blue Oval Cup Challenge.
ACT favorites include past Lee winners Joey Polewarczyk, Jr., who won the 2008 NH Gov Cup, and Jean-Paul Cyr, winner of a 2005 Lee event. Defending and six-time ACT Champion Brian Hoar has never won an ACT event at Lee but has to be considered a favorite as he currently sits atop the ACT point standings. Other contenders include Scott Payea, who has two third place finishes in five career starts at Lee, Brent Dragon, John Donahue, Randy Potter, Jamie Fisher, and Glen Luce among others.
Before ACT teams can look ahead to the NH Governor’s Cup, they will have to battle in this Sunday’s (May 16) 150 lap event at Oxford Plains Speedway (OPS) in Oxford, ME. The 1/3-mile speedway has become a favorite among drivers because of its multiple grooves and three wide action. Over forty teams are expected to fight for the thirty starting spots. Over $25 grand in purse will be up for grabs along with the second invitation to the ACT Invitational at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Saturday, September 18. Post time this Sunday, May 16 at OPS is set for 2pm.
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Situated on the banks of the legendary Suwannee River, this center honors the memory of American composer Stephen Foster, who wrote "Old Folks at Home," the song that made the river famous. The museum features exhibits about Foster's most famous songs and his music can be heard emanating from the park's 97-bell carillon throughout the day. In the Craft Square, visitors can watch demonstrations of quilting, blacksmithing, stained glass making, and other crafts, or visit the gift shop. Hiking, bicycling, canoeing, and wildlife viewing are popular activities. Miles of trails wind through some of the most scenic areas of North Florida. For overnight stays, visitors can camp in the full-facility campground or stay in a cabin. Every Memorial Day weekend (last weekend in May), the park hosts the Florida Folk Festival. Other special events include concerts, weekend retreats, a regional quilt show, and an antique tractor show.
The Stephen Foster Center is located on US Hwy 41 in White Springs.
From I-75 take exit 439 onto Hwy 136 East. Go 3 miles, turn left on US 41.
Park entrance on left.
From I-10 take exit 301 onto US Hwy 41 North to White Springs. Park entrance is 9 miles on the left.
Distance & Travel Time from Major Cities:
(all estimated according to MapQuest)
Atlanta, GA: 275.71 miles, 4 hours 18 minutes
Fort Lauderdale, FL: 373.24 miles, 5 hours 36 minutes
Fort Myers, FL: 308.25 miles, 4 hours 43 minutes
Gainesville, FL: 68.67 miles, 1 hour 11 minutes
Jacksonville, FL: 74.40 miles, 1 hour 18 minutes
Lake City, FL: 15.73 miles, 0 hours 26 minutes
Miami, FL: 395.92 miles, 5 hours 58 minutes
Ocala, FL: 97.23 miles, 1 hour 34 minutes
Orlando, FL: 172.37 miles, 2 hours 39 minutes
Panama City, FL: 218.35 miles, 3 hours 28 minutes
Pensacola, FL: 293.93 miles, 4 hours 25 minutes
Savannah, GA: 210.75 miles, 3 hours 19 minutes
St. Augustine, FL: 114.20 miles, 1 hour 57 minutes
Tampa, FL: 190.25 miles, 2 hours 56 minutes
Tallahassee, FL: 100.04 miles, 1 hours 41 minutes
West Palm Beach, FL: 331.50 miles, 4 hours 59 minutes
For more information please call the Ranger Station at 386-397-4331.
For more information on this and other state parks visit the Florida State Parks website:
Entrance fee: $5.00 per vehicle up to 8 passengers
(unless specified for event)
Camping Fee: $22.00 with tax per night
Campsites should be reserved through Reserve America.
Call 1-800-326-3521 or by internet www.ReserveAmerica.com
The park is open daily from 8am-sundown
Museum, Carillon Tower,
Craft Shop & Cottages are open
January through November 10am-5pm
December 12pm-9pm
Stephen Foster Museum has antique pianos, paintings,
and dioramas representing Foster's work.
Carillon Tower: A 200 ft. bell tower which plays music 4 times a day at 10am, 12pm, 2pm and 4pm. The Stephen Foster Carillon is currently offline for major repairs.
Craft Square & Gift Shop: See artists demonstrate their crafts in studios located around the Gift Shop. The Cousin Thelma Boltin Craft & Gift Shop specializes in artwork from Florida Artists, Stephen Foster music, as well as items relating to Florida
Campground: 45 sites all with water & electric hookups, available for tents or RVs
Canoe Launch
Trails- Including the Florida Trail
by Jeff Ripple
Hiking and Bicycling: Trails are Temporarily Closed
Foster’s Hammock Loop Trail is an 8-mile single track mountain biking and hiking trial. Catfish Hole, the Suwannee River Overlook, “Beavor Crossing” and other unique areas along this scenic trail provide bikers with an exclusive adventure throughout the Upper Suwannee River Valley’s diverse topography. Bikers will traverses some of the most beautiful natural features including high river bluffs and limestone outcroppings, fun elevations throughout the floodplain swamp forest, and many other beautiful and scenic natural communities within the 800 acre park.
**Both on-road and off-road trails wind through a beautiful countryside in the Suwannee River Valley. Trails are available to meet or challenge a range of riding skills levels for the entire family. The Suwannee Bicycle Association hosts a Fat-Tire Festival in White Springs in the autumn and weekend rides throughout the year. The town of White Springs has accommodated bicyclists with marked riding lanes through town along Highway 41. A variety of trail challenges is an easy ride away at Big Shoals Public Lands where 33 miles of trails take riders through thirteen natural communities.
Picnic Pavilion
Stephen Foster’s new 10 Table Picnic Pavilion with beautiful pine ceilings. The perfect location for your family reunion, birthday party, wedding or reception, and much more! Conveniently located near the playground, craft square and gift shop, river gazebo and vacation cabins. $75.00 per day/plus tax.
**Carter Camp Trail is a multi-use trail for hiking, bicycling, and horseback riding. The four-mile trail winds through piney flatwoods and along a river flood plain hammock. Alongside the Suwannee River visitors can see limestone outcroppings and rock formations. Gopher tortoise, box turtles, alligators, white-tailed deer, wood ducks and many bird species are companions along the forested trail. A portion of the trail is designated as part of the Florida National Scenic Trail, which travels approximately 100 miles through north central Florida. Maps of trails are available in the local community. Proof of a negative Coggins test is required for horseback riding.
For more infomation on activies at
Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park
$15 for three days
$25 per week
For information contact
Gift Shop 386-397-1920
for more information contact the Gift Shop
Cabins: Vacation cabins come furnished with two bedrooms, kitchenette, living room, fireplace, and a wrap around screened porch. The cabins will comfortably sleep 6 people and cost $100 plus tax a night.
To Reserve: Call Reserve America at 1-800-326-3521 or reserve online at www.ReserveAmerica.com
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APC picks Ahmed Lawan as Senate President and George Akume as Deputy
The governing All Progressives Congress,APC, has nominated Senators Ahmed Lawan from Yobe and George Akume from Benue State to run as the party’s candidates for the office of Senate President and Deputy Senate President respectively in Tuesday’s election at the National Assembly.
In an election held at the International Conference Centre Abuja Saturday night, Mr. Lawan scored 32 votes, while Akume got 31 to emerge as Deputy Senate president.
Two votes were declared invalid.
The APC has 59 Senators in the 109- member Senate.
Announcing the result, the returning officer of the election, Mala Buni, who is the APC’s national secretary, said by the result, Messrs Lawan and Akume are now the recognised candidates of the APC for the office of Senate president and Deputy respectively.
Senators loyal to another candidate, Bukola Saraki, boycotted the election.
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10 year forecast: The Overton window
Written by Faye Navesey• 2nd December 2019• Comment
Politics today is radically different from what it was 10 years ago. Back in the 90s, ideas like Brexit or nationalisation were unthinkable, but now they’re serious policy suggestions.
The Overton window (shown here in yellow) can slide anywhere across the political spectrum
Image: Vox on Youtube
The Overton window frames all of these policies, or things that the political mainstream deem acceptable at a given time. This changes constantly (the window has shifted to become much more LGBT-friendly over the last decade, for example), and over the next ten years, it is unlikely it will shift back to the centre. Radicalism has replaced centrism as the political norm.
We have seen shifts towards radicalism both in America with candidates like Bernie Sanders, and in the UK with Jeremy Corbyn. With elections coming up in both these countries, it is difficult to see a way in which the Overton window can shift back to where it was ten years ago. This is especially true when one considers it is near impossible for centrist parties like the Liberal Democrats to form a majority government.
Politicians like Bernie Sanders have helped move the Overton window to the left
Image: Gage Skidmore on Flickr
With regards to policy, the climate crisis means that ideas that we now think of as radical, like the Green New Deal, will have to become accepted in order to deal with the existential threat of climate change. Similarly, technological advances and automation mean that ideas like universal basic income may have to be seriously considered, as work becomes less available.
The Overton window has already shifted, but it will need to shift even further to deal with the issues that the world will face in the next decade. If we want to properly deal with issues like climate change, we cannot afford for it to shift towards the centre.
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Macallan “struggling” in TR after age removal
5th September, 2011 by Alan Lodge
The decision to withdraw age statements from The Macallan whiskies in travel retail has led to a significant drop-off in sales at World of Whiskies, according to a source at the store.
The Edrington Group moved to withdraw age statements from The Macallan’s travel retail portfolio as it became apparent there was not enough stock to meet future demand, but the World of Whiskies source at the London Gatwick North Terminal store told the drinks business that consumers are now ignoring the brand in favour of those that state their age.
The Macallan launched a new “family” of single malts dedicated to the global travel retail sector in 2008.
The 1824 Collection of four expressions – Select Oak, Whisky Maker’s Edition, Estate Reserve and 1824 Limited Release – was created by John Ramsay, the now retired master whisky maker for parent company The Edrington Group, and Bob Dalgarno, The Macallan’s whisky maker.
The World of Whiskies source said: “We hardly sell any of The Macallan since they made the switch. The new range is really struggling.
“Consumers in travel retail tend to be looking for a little bit of luxury, something that they wouldn’t normally buy in their local shop.
“They tend to look for age statements above anything else as a mark of quality, and as such The Macallan is missing out massively, in my opinion.
“I can’t remember the last time we sold any. People simply ignore it. I think the company has made a mistake by removing the age statements.”
the drinks business is currently awaiting a response to the claims from The Edrington Group.
The store has also witnessed how consumers still go for age statements over vintage releases.
The source said: “Consumers still prefer and understand age over vintage.
“Whiskies such as The Glenrothes choose to release specific vintages, but we find that consumers will always go for a specific age first rather than look for a specific year.”
2 Responses to “Macallan “struggling” in TR after age removal”
Mike Dorris says:
I absolutely agree with the assessment offered by World o Whiskies source about consumers avoiding The Macallen since The Edrington Group decided to withdraw age statements from The Macallen labels. I like to know how long a whiskey has aged. Sometimes I’ll buy a ten-year-old and sometimes an 18-year-old, etc., can enjoy whichever whiskey I drink, but I do like knowing how long it is said to have aged as I conservative the flavor. The Edrington Group has made a mistake, in my view, and I hope they’ll reverse their decision.
Oops, as I consider the flavor (damn spell-checker!).
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Trumpet Journey
Learn something about the trumpet today
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My Top Ten Jazz Trumpet Players of Today
Posted on August 19, 2013 by Stanley
The inimitable Wynton Marsalis wins the “Stanley Curtis Best Jazz Trumpeter Award”–once again.
This is a list of my top-ten favorite jazz trumpet players living and playing in our time. By “jazz trumpet players,” I mean trumpeters who primarily play jazz improvisation. Although my list is a little “rearguard” rather than avant-garde, I am sure you will enjoy listening to these guys if you haven’t already. On each name, I give a hyperlink to a website that explains why this trumpeter is great. Then I also give a little taste of that player’s music with an embedded YouTube viewer. I welcome your opinions–feel free to post! Enjoy!
1. Wynton Marsalis. No one can touch him in terms of rhythmic drive, technique, awards, recognition and contributions. A straight-ahead approach with a focus on the roots of jazz. In my opinion he just gets better and better.
2. Tom Harrell. An amazing human being and jazz musician. Check out this solo (unaccompanied) on “Joy Spring” (click the word “solo”). Here’s an interesting interview/documentary produced by PBS–check out how brilliantly he speaks:
Dave Douglas and me at Blues Alley, Washington, DC (November 13, 2012)
3. Dave Douglas. Very original voice in jazz today. Great musician.
4. Ryan Kisor. Great jazz trumpeter, sideman and band leader. Here’s a video showing some awesome Woodie antique cars with Ryan’s quartet playing.
4.5. (Okay, I am going to sneak one–or more–into the top ten list) By the way, if you haven’t heard his brother, Justin, you should check him out! Listen to his group’s video of “Nica’s Dream” (around 2’20”). Justin used to be in the U.S. Navy Band Commodores.
And while I’m on THAT subject, the Commodores’ MU1s Tim Stanley and Jon Barnes are pretty awesome at improv. Just sayin’. Here’s Tim Stanley playing with the Afro Bop Alliance (listen at minute 4).
5. Jon Faddis. A traditional Dizzy disciple and, incidentally, a high-note master, a pleasure for trumpet players to listen.
6. Terence Blanchard. Master jazz trumpeter with a wide palette of jazz styles. Maybe I should have placed him higher in the list–after all he’s won 5 Grammys! He has also written a number of soundtracks.
7. Avishai Cohen. Gorgeous sound, thoughtful improvisation.
8. Claudio Roditi. The Brazilian-born, rotary-valve-playing trumpeter is a class act.
9. Dominick Farinacci. From Cleveland, this trumpeter sounds fantastic! Here’s a video of him playing Clifford’s solo on “Jordu” (while riding in an RV). Don’t worry, you’ll find a lot of other stuff that is actually Dominick’s.
10. Arturo Sandoval. Okay, I’m sorry for putting Arturo in tenth place–behind some punk from Cleveland. But maybe I saved one of the best for last! Here’s a fairly recent video.
Tags: Dave Douglas, Jazz Trumpet Players, Wynton Marsalis
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77 thoughts on “My Top Ten Jazz Trumpet Players of Today”
Kristen on December 13, 2013 at 9:08 am said:
I was wondering if you could tell me who is playing the trumpet at the opening of this Miley Cyrus song, and if you can identify the player, do you know what album it is from. I used to hear the album all the time when I was living in Eastern Europe, and I miss the music terribly!
Thank you so much for any help you can provide!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szImtyOklcM
MAURICIO BADILLO on November 6, 2017 at 3:46 pm said:
I STILL LIKE CRISS BOTTI I THINKS IS PRETTY GOOD. AND OF COURSE MILES FOREVER AND EVER
Wayne on January 15, 2014 at 8:46 am said:
Not sure what it is you do but knowing jazz trumpeters is not it.
Stanley on January 15, 2014 at 9:42 am said:
Thanks for your comment, Wayne. Actually, I’d love to know some of YOUR favorite jazz trumpeters. I view my post not as a final word, but as a starting point. How about a little help?
Kennedy_Sabin on September 16, 2014 at 9:39 pm said:
Wayne Bergeron, but i would say he at his best in a big band setting.
Stanley on September 16, 2014 at 10:33 pm said:
Agreed–one of our greatest trumpeters at this time!
Rich Pulin on October 17, 2014 at 12:02 pm said:
How about Carl Saunders for openers!
Tom Harrell!!!
Bobby Shew!!!!
RU Kidding?
Miles!
Clark Terry!
Dizzy!
Nicholas Payton
Thad Jones
Woody Shaw
Booker Little
Lee Morgan
What about the guy that started it all?????
LOUIS ARMSTRONG!!!
Clifford & Fats
Chuck Findley???
I mean the list is virtually endless…
The guys that you mention may be good,
but how in your right mind ould you forget these legends?????
Stanley on October 17, 2014 at 7:49 pm said:
Thanks for this nice list of all-time greats, Rich. Of course I intended only to list my favorite jazz improvisors who are living and playing NOW. Tom Harrell IS number 2 on my list above. I absolutely LOVE his playing! I may have overlooked or purposefully avoided the few other living/playing trumpeters on your list, but, for the most part, the trumpeters on your list will have to wait until a later blog list for the ALL TIME GREATEST JAZZ TRUMPETERS.
Thanks again, though!
WILLIAM GAMAGE on November 2, 2017 at 5:58 pm said:
Miles Davis is not listed. You have got to be kidding.
Stanley on November 2, 2017 at 9:26 pm said:
William, remember that this post was about trumpeters of today. I didn’t discuss dead jazz trumpeters.
of course the Mozart from the 20th Century the very best MILES DAVIS
Guy on July 29, 2016 at 12:52 am said:
Perhaps you would love to enlighten us on what your idea of great jazz trumpeters are
Mike on May 14, 2014 at 3:08 pm said:
By jazz trumpeters you must mean boring. In your top 5 only Wynton and Faddis are truly great. Arturo of course and Blanchard are great. The only one i know on your list who can do it all is Arturo, like Maynard of course. I have heard Avishai, not too impressive especially when he is playing with someone like Dave Stahl, truly one of the greatest just not many know of him. Stahl like Maynard and Arturo can play anything, and anything well. Upper registers with bravado and clarity, and play in more normal ranges melodic and beautifully like Harry James or Rafael Mendez.
O man you are speaking of screamers not jazz trumpet players. And if you think Avishai is impressive it’s sad . The heading says ‘my top 10 JAZZ trumpeters TODAY’ Why aren’t y’all getting that?
Guy on July 29, 2016 at 1:09 am said:
Yours is a great list Stan.
Roy Hargrove
Ryan Kisor
Marcus Printup
Thomas Fryland ( Norwegian)
Claudio Roditti
Nicholas Payton ( his earlier albums)
Ingrid Jensen
Hikari Ichihara ( female, Japan )
Drat! most of my real favorites are dead
Darren Lloyd on June 10, 2014 at 2:24 am said:
Louis Armstrong. Freddie Hubbard. Lee Morgan. Fats Navarro. Derek Watkins. Chuck Findley. Bobby Shew. James Morrison. Dizzy Gillespie.
Stanley on June 10, 2014 at 6:16 am said:
Great list, Darren. Of course, my original list was supposed to include only living, playing trumpeters of today. Need a new post about the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time.
Cynmarie on June 24, 2014 at 3:31 pm said:
What about Roy Hargrove? Better than most on your list.
Stanley on June 25, 2014 at 9:11 pm said:
Cynmarie, thanks for your comment. I am kind of in agreement with you–and kind of not. In the mid-90s until his second Grammy in 2002, he was very inspiring. I just heard him a few months ago at Blues Alley in Washington, DC, and I have to admit that he was not up to this standard. He acted very erratic and did not play much. The playing he did was pretty weak. Sad.
Erik on March 17, 2015 at 7:40 pm said:
I love Roy Hargrove’s playing on recordings, but when I saw him live recently he was stoned out of his mind and was extremely unimpressive. It was very disappointing. I like your list. What about Brian Lynch? He’s incredible.
Peter van Blanken on August 17, 2014 at 9:47 am said:
What to think about Paolo Fresu. Check his cd Mare Nostrum
Stanley on August 20, 2014 at 7:03 am said:
Peter, thanks for mentioning Paolo. I had never heard him before. Just listening this morning and enjoying. He seems to excel at slow tempos. Here is a nice video put out by NPR with pianist Omar Sosa and Paolo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJMQkye_YTw
Robert CROSS on September 16, 2018 at 4:12 am said:
I liked him alongside Richard Galliano and see that he plays Flugelhorn.
Dan on August 21, 2014 at 8:16 am said:
Bobby Shew is still around … and the previous comment about Roy Hargrove is valid.
Oh … Wayne Bergeron is pretty good too 🙂
Yes, Wayne can play jazz, sure, but he’s a lot better known for upper register lead and scream work!
Ahhhhhh!
Thanks for this list. It introduced me to some new, solid players.
Thanks for the comments, Dan. Yes Shew is amazing. “Top Ten Lists” have all sorts of problems (like not including some really deserving people). But I am really glad you enjoyed checking out some players you didn’t know about before. There are also Jon Faddis, Ambrose Akinmusire, Trombone Shorty, Christian aTunde Adjuah, and many others that didn’t make it on the list. With this list, however, I was trying to separate out the lead players from the straight ahead jazz players. But, of course, many lead players play great jazz. So, there were difficult decisions!
Jean McKay on September 2, 2014 at 7:44 pm said:
Great Site! I adore Chris Boti and Rick Braun!!
Yes they are good trumpet players, but don’t compare with my list posted!
Phil from Alaska on November 8, 2014 at 3:37 am said:
I also adore Chris Botti and Rick Braun and have been playing along with their cds, but I’m looking for others who play the same “contemporary-smooth-jazz” style so I can learn material. Do you have any suggestions?
E Ody on December 17, 2015 at 7:32 pm said:
Try Till Brönner. Some of his stuff is quite smooth and he’s also an incredible improviser.
Curtis on November 12, 2018 at 12:53 pm said:
Lin Rountree is pretty good too. Chris Botti and Rick Braun are favorites of mine as is the seemingly ageless Herb Alpert.
Charles Thompson on September 2, 2014 at 11:40 pm said:
Any top ten list, of living trumpeters without Wallace Roney isn’t valid in my book. I think Randy Brecker and Nicolas Payton would easily be on my list too. I love Pharez Whitted who I think is underrated.
Malachi Walker on September 10, 2014 at 1:08 pm said:
Very nice start to a fund thread here! I can personally listen to Irvin Mayfield play Mo’ Betta Blues and sip on something for hours on end!
I got a soft spot for New Orleans own Kermit Ruffin’s as well! My ear palate enjoys many of the past greats. I think you are aiming for a contemporary list of trumpeters, but that is hard to do because like so many great musicians their musical presence and prominence spans decades!!!
@ Stanley,
I just saw a Trombone Shorty concert here in San Diego a few weeks ago, and it was fantastic! He is a young talent on the rise with the sky as his limit! If you’ve never seen circular breathing done in person a Shorty show is a must!
Ask me ANYTHING about jazz!
One that note (B#, C?)I’d like to slip a plug in for my new Jazz Radio Program commencing on Saturday October 25th, at 12 noon Pacific USA time live from Las Vegas (BABY!) on the http://www.jazzjuiceradio.net network!
Week 2 or 3 guest will be the sensational trumpeter, and best friend, Gary Grant!
Every Saturday at 12 noon Pacific USA, http://www.jazzjuiceradio.net
CU THERE!
Thanks again, Rich!
Ayad on February 12, 2015 at 6:36 am said:
Rick Braun is the best trumpet player in the history of jazz. If you don’t believe it, just listen to his piece ” missing in Venice “. Absolutely breathtaking !
Geez, people. Stop criticizing. If you disagree with the original list, get your own! I like the list, but mine would have Brian Lynch, Alex Sipiagin, Jeremy Pelt, Ambrose Akinmusire…
Stanley on March 17, 2015 at 9:55 pm said:
Thanks for the comment, Erik. The best thing about posting a list like this top ten in living jazz trumpeters, is that I get fabulous recommendations from people like you. I just listened (for the first time–I’m ashamed to say!) Brian Lynch, Alex Sipiagin, and Jeremy Pelt. They all sound fantastic.
I have already heard a number of things from Ambrose Akinmusire, for whom I still have a great liking. He seems to embrace great tone, originality, tunefulness, and the feeling that he’s really playing what he HEARS in his mind.
Paulina on March 19, 2015 at 8:58 am said:
I’d add Mr. Tomasz Stańko to this list. Less known i US but a first class start in Europe:
http://culture.pl/en/article/sharp-sounds-and-dirty-quotes-from-tomasz-stanko
Tom Brown on April 13, 2015 at 2:10 pm said:
I really enjoyed your list. I have been seriously getting into jazz over the last year. My collection so far is primarily the old-time greats, such as Freddie Hubbard, Miles Davis, Coltrane, Cannonball, Wayne Shorter, Lee Morgan, etc.
Your list gave me some ideas about new trumpeters to listen to. A recent musician I have been very impressed with is Christian Scott. I have enjoyed Rewind That, Christian Atunde Adjuah, and his 90 Miles contributions.
Stanley on April 14, 2015 at 11:21 pm said:
Thanks, Tom. I really, really like Christian, too. One thing that strikes me about him is his originality. I always get the feeling that he is not just re-hashing a worn-out model, but is trying to do something unique.
ari on April 14, 2015 at 9:23 pm said:
Great list! What about Ambrose Akiminisure though?
ari, I LOVE Ambrose! As a small example, I love his “Stablemates” on his “Prelude” album. He and the pianist, Aaron Parks have such a good conversation on this track.
Ben on May 12, 2015 at 7:25 am said:
What about James Morrison?
Gary Hooper on April 5, 2017 at 4:11 am said:
I have listened to many of the trumpeters listed above throughout my Iong life however, I also believe that JAMES MORRISON is by far the best jazz trumpeter the world has ever had the privilege to listen to.
He is the master in my mind.
CLAUDIO GNOCCHI on May 5, 2018 at 9:37 am said:
Kenny on May 20, 2015 at 11:02 am said:
Take a listen to Brian Lynch. He is a remarkable bopper. I compare him a lot to Marsalis’s style. Nice clear tone and he can play some awesome riffs.
Player in Austin on June 8, 2015 at 10:46 am said:
There is a very nice sounding player here in Austin that I think more people should hear. May not yet be well enough known to compete for the ‘Top Ten’ list … Yet 🙂
But he’s a wonderful sound to listen to !!
Keith Fiala
Some links …
http://www.keithfiala.com/
https://www.facebook.com/keith.fiala
http://www.amazon.com/Keith-Fiala/e/B00J7LFY7C
https://www.gigmasters.com/jazzband/keithfiala
Karol on June 18, 2015 at 7:08 am said:
I didn’t read every comment, but I think Chris Botti should definitely be in the top 10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSbchmyXFT4
Brian Graber on January 12, 2016 at 2:28 pm said:
Check out Bill Mobley. I would put him above some on your list. Also Mason the Brothers.
mason brothers, my bad.
Jon Robinson on April 24, 2016 at 6:10 pm said:
Stanley ~ Pharez Whitted?
Stanley on April 24, 2016 at 9:39 pm said:
John Fisch on August 10, 2016 at 8:22 pm said:
Notable omissions
Jeremy Pelt
Dan on September 21, 2016 at 4:31 pm said:
Here’s a few more to consider;
Byron Stripling
Doc Severinsen
Scott Wendholt
Terrell Stafford
Jack Sheldon
Greg Gisbert
Ira Sullivan
It really boils down to personal preference. All of the players that have been mentioned have their own unique & individual voice.
Stanley on September 23, 2016 at 9:42 am said:
Thanks so much, Dan! Great list.
Michael Goode on November 23, 2016 at 6:51 pm said:
I have a 1941 Martin Committee Handcraft trumpet for sale. 24K gold plated in perfect shape. Just like what Miles Davis played. Fantastic jazz horn. If interested contact me through http://www.trumpetworkspress.com
Stanley, thanks for this list and the orchestral list. Lots of good information about the trumpet on your site!
Milt Farrow on March 17, 2017 at 8:21 am said:
James Morrison, one of the lesser known, but an actual phenom in sound, power, jazz articulation as well as lead – as well plays all of the instruments including piano–Belongs in the “real artists grouping ” of Faddis, Sandoval and Bergeron Marsalis is very good, leaning more to N.O. Jazz . ( where he cut his teeth)
Jonathan Dane on April 17, 2017 at 4:28 pm said:
From those already mentioned, my fav’s are Ambrose, Sipiagin, Bill Mobley.
Some other cats whom are worthy of checking out are:
Billy Buss (young T. Monk Inst. guy)
Jay Thomas (been floating under the radar far a while)
Arve Henriksen (one of the better of those doing the spacey, etherial stuff)
Peter Evans (this guy is not human, pretty sure he’s an Area 51 experiment)
and for my latest discovery!!!
Steve Fishwick (GB cat. For straight on bebop, he plays circles around the rest. Sounds like what Booker Little might have become if he had lived longer.)
Forgot one. Michael Rodriguez
If any of you have doubts about what I said regarding Steve Fishwick, taste and see:
https://youtu.be/HkydnC08CN0
Great Seattle player: Thomas Marriot
Another great young player to watch: Tony Glausi
Stan on April 17, 2017 at 8:35 pm said:
Jonathan–thanks so very much for your comments. Great players deserving of attention!!!!!
In my opinion Jon Fadis is torture to listen to…horrible high-note player….
John Provenzano on August 3, 2018 at 2:21 pm said:
NO WAY you could have left Roy Hargrove and Nicholas Payton off your list. NO WAY!
Laura E Cooley on September 1, 2018 at 9:46 am said:
John, Did you have a father that played trupmpet? My father Harry Cooley had an army band friend, Nelson Provensano, that he said when they were released from the army, they took the train together up north and split in chicago, my father to go home to PA, and Nelson to go to CA to play with Woody Herman….. Occasionally, being a music lover, I look for him….
Shawn Ranjit on November 9, 2018 at 2:23 pm said:
How is Peter Evans not on this list?
He is insane!
Brian Fisher on March 18, 2019 at 11:18 am said:
In considering the best jazz trumpeters of today, you might like to see the performance of Band Corporal Mark Upton (Her Majesty’s Royal Marines Band Service) in March 2019 at the Mountbatten Festival of Music at the Royal Albert Hall, London – AWESOME!! But, after all, he is my nephew!
Mike Simon on August 9, 2019 at 8:06 pm said:
Brian: Loved your post & plug for your nephew! My dad (Cyril Simon) was a pro musician & avid jazz player on the London scene who began his career with the Royal Marine Band in the 1945-7 period. Great training ground!
david on October 27, 2019 at 3:24 am said:
Amazing trumpet player Jerry Hey. Well know in Hollywood studios. Small group… Seawind. Also a Good friend of Gary Grant. Jerry pays it all and is a clinician on technique.
Dave Nelson on December 23, 2019 at 8:17 pm said:
I’d like to see a list of undiscovered trumpet players. We might get a surprise!
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VNS- Born in 1921 in the central province of Quang Tri's Trieu Phong District, Le Ba Dang enrolled at an art school in Toulouse, France, at the age of 19.
Since 1966, his name has been familiar to art connoisseurs in Europe and Viet Nam, and he has won prestigious international art competitions.
Dang's paintings have been hung in galleries in the US, France, Germany, Japan and Viet Nam.
Although he is a long-term resident of France, exhibitions have brought Dang back to Viet Nam every year since 1976.
The European art world has long experienced the fine art of Viet Nam through Le Ba Dang's work.
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I am always haunted by new ideas for art, to stop myself repeating my work over and over again.
The Le Ba Dang Space was conceived in a heart-wrenching situation when our only child passed away due to illness in 1980.
As a way of expressing my love for him and easing my pain, I made the "space" to describe his short presence in the world.
I made him a tin tomb that shines like a mirror. It reflects everything above it, even passing planes.
Dozens of artworks' were placed around the mirror grave, particularly a flute which resounds beautifully whenever a wind blows.
The work is a really lively space but it is also something abstract, and it ignited within me a brand new style.
I started looking for new materials that were neither paint nor plaster, to create something that was neither a painting nor a sculpture.
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My work illustrates my feelings for my motherland. War Aftermath, for instance, represents the 24 levels of sadness suffered by 24 Vietnamese victims of the war.
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KU men’s basketball notebook
By Gary Bedore
Transfer Jeff Withey looks on from the bench during the second half of the Jayhawks’ Jan. 13 game at Allen Fieldhouse.
Kansas University freshman center Jeff Withey will miss four to six weeks of practice after suffering a stress fracture in his right knee earlier this week in practice.
“He slightly fractured it two days ago,” KU coach Bill Self said, noting Withey would not need surgery. “It’s not a major injury, but it’s one that’s nagging. He’ll be back in a little bit, by Dec. 1 is what they tell me.”
Withey, a 7-foot transfer from Arizona, will not be eligible to play in games until the conclusion of first semester in mid-December.
Senior Cole Aldrich said Withey was hurt chasing a loose ball.
“He’s not going to be missing any games that he would have if he didn’t red-shirt,” Aldrich said. “He’s just trying to get healthy. You get nicked here and there. It’s sports. You get injured once in a while. He has a great attitude.”
Aldrich said Withey had been playing well.
“He gave me that length and athleticism. It’s much tougher to score over him,” Aldrich said. “He is a great shot-blocker. Every once in a while he gets me thinking, and it affects my shot.”
Self said freshman guard C.J. Henry has been slowed by various aches.
“He’s nicked up, whether it be a knee, ankle, hyperextended elbow. He’s been practicing a majority of the time, not full time yet. It’s nothing serious, just nicked up stuff,” Self said.
Two versus UT unlikely: Texas coach Rick Barnes says he’d love to play KU twice a season: once in conference play and again in a game added to the slate.
“It’d be playing the one conference game in Lawrence or Austin and the other in Kansas City or Dallas,” Self said.
Self said he did not believe KU ever would schedule two games versus the Longhorns. The two teams could always meet in the Big 12 tournament.
“If we are going to play somebody else, another great name — say a Villanova — could we get as much out of playing Texas again than Villanova? Nobody in our league has done it thus far. I don’t know if it’s something that will happen. It’s on the board.”
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Texas A&M; coach Mark Turgeon did not attend Media Day. He remained in College Station because he was ill.
Just like Wilt: Self said Aldrich could be KU’s best true big man since Wilt Chamberlain.
“It’s a huge honor,” Aldrich said. “You look through the fieldhouse and see Wilt all over the place. Just being in the same sentence with Wilt is huge.”
X’s future
It has been said Xavier Henry is a one-and-done player.
“I’ve got 15 guys right now leaving after this year if they had it their way,” Self cracked. “Every coach does. He hasn’t once said he’s positively leaving. That’s the talk if he performs at a high level. If he puts himself in position to make that decision, I’m all for him doing it. I didn’t bring him here saying he’s going to be here two, three years. I brought him here believing when the time is right, you go. If it’s after one, it’s one. If it’s after two, it’s two. Xavier would tell you the same thing.”
No summer school
Self admitted some Jayhawks wondered why Xavier and C.J. Henry worked out in Oklahoma City all summer rather than attending KU summer school.
“No doubt they said that: ‘Why isn’t X here? Why isn’t C.J. here?’” Self said. “I explained the reasons they weren’t. They didn’t hold it against them. They were all looking forward to them getting here. I told Xavier and C.J., ‘Just so you know, there are going to be some guys lined up to guard you when you get here.’ Our guys bought into them the first day they walked on campus. They are really good kids. They’ve done a good job fitting in.”
Self today begins his two-day coaches clinic. Guest speakers will include former Kentucky and Texas A&M; coach Billy Gillispie and former NBA coach Del Harris.
KU coach Self thrilled with landing Henry
Gary Bedore's KU Basketball Notebook
Jayhawks working on free throws
KEITHMILES05 10 years, 3 months ago
Billy G will be speaking? How awful. Come on HCBS leave the poor dude out of KU athletics.
suttonku 10 years, 3 months ago
Billy G and Self are very close friends and that is why he is speaking. I respect Billy G and I would accept him with open arms if he came to work under Self again. Barry Hinson did and he was terrible and Missouri State.
Dee Shaw 10 years, 3 months ago
Give the guy a break. Have we all made mistakes in our past. I certainly have. Lets hope and pray that Billy is getting things under control. Who knows maybe he can use his past to help people today learn from his mistakes. Maybe he will talk about coaching and substance abuse. Plus we do have a justice system in this country. Billy as long as I know has not been charged with a crime. I know he is waiting trial on a suspicion of a DUI but not charged. Innocent until proven guilty. Let the process go through the system before we cast judgement. This shows me that Coach Self is a true friend. Billy right now needs help and support. A true friend will be there to help and guide his friend. You don't agree with decisions made in the past but friendship should be unconditional.
yates33333 10 years, 3 months ago
Considering Billy G's settlement with Kentucky you'd think he'd be on the beach or golf course somewhere. I wish KU could get him as a bench consultant. He is a great coach and was a super assistant for Self.
KUFan90 10 years, 3 months ago
“He’s not going to be missing any games that he would have if he didn’t red-shirt,” Aldrich said.
I assume Cole mis spoke and this should say "if he didn't transfer", correct? Withee has never red-shirted.
Eliott Reeder 10 years, 3 months ago
A transfer requires a redshirt I believe.
Jory Collins 10 years, 3 months ago
A transfer requires a year of residency at the school you transfer too before you can play. That's what Cole is referring to.
David Leathers 10 years, 3 months ago
When Cole scores 100 in a NBA game, then and only then, shall we put him in the same sentence as Wilt Chamberlin.
JUST KIDDING, please don't blast me for this one, it's only a joke, I love our Jayhawks always and this year is going to be special. I just cant wait!
(It would be lovely to see the team drop 100 on KSUcks or Mizzery.) or both
apeoples410 10 years, 3 months ago
Any updates on recruit feedback after Late Night? I've seen some info on Shiver and Rivals about Selby, Lamb, Woolridge, and Turner, but nothing on Barnes.
Chris Nieto 10 years, 3 months ago
http://www.highschoolhoop.com/high-school-stories/2009/10/the-harrison-barnes-diary-official-visit-to-kansas/
Harrison Barnes' thoughts on Late Night
Scott Smetana 10 years, 3 months ago
Great post Jhawkster, loved the link. Sounds like Bill has quiet a castle.... good for him.
okjhok 10 years, 3 months ago
Awesome writeup by Barnes
kvskubball 10 years, 3 months ago
I'd like to see KU-UT play twice a year, but I'd like it to be because the Big 12 changes it's schedule. I mean Duke and UNC aren't going to go play in Charlotte, in the regular season, are they? KU-UT deserves a home and away played every year - on the school campuses!
It wouldn't be that difficult for the Big 12 to change the schedule. Andy Katz of ESPN stated that the KU-UT rivalry is the "NEXT" big rivalry and that it is approaching the DUKE-UNC rivalry for importance in college basketball, and thus deserves two games each year. I agree!
I also believe that KU-OU deserves two games a season. This rivalry really got ripped when the Big 8 and 4 SWC teams joined together to form the Big 12.
I put together a schedule that would make it possible. It would give the Big 12 more 'big' games between the top teams and create more home and aways series, so that we can better market the Big 12. Also, more games against top teams is better preparation for the NCAA tourney, IMO.
Let's talk it up.
KU playing only one game against Texas & OU each year isn't in the Big 12's best interests! What do you think?
Ryan Mullen 10 years, 3 months ago
After reading Harrison's account at KU http://www.highschoolhoop.com/high-school-stories/2009/10/the-harrison-barnes-diary-official-visit-to-kansas/ and his visit it sounds like he will be attending Duke. I will hate to see him not come to Kansas but wish him luck.
mullen,
I thought the same thing after reading Barnes' account! - Looks to be a Duke lean...
KU's advantage is 'closest to home, big-time school' but after reading the article, I came away thinking that isn't enough. Hope I'm wrong, because he'd be a great JayHawk!
Harrison, we'd love to have you wear our Blue!
Rock Chalk!
Paul Brozik 10 years, 3 months ago
Payne down to four schools. Can't blame him for not having KU. KU is loaded at that position.
KUbsee69 10 years, 3 months ago
Interesting comments in Harrison Barnes' entry on his visit to HCBS's home. I know Self moved a few months ago. A friend of mine's son was one of the movers. Without revealing his actual address, does anyone know if he's still in the same neighborhood? I know where his former house was and it's a nice area.
Incidentally, I agree, it's 40-0 because the two exibition games do not count towards the record.
Joel Hood 10 years, 3 months ago
KUbsee69 - Self didn't move too far away from his prior house. The new digs are located within the Doug Compton "South Fork" estate - just east of Free State HS.
kerbyd 10 years, 3 months ago
Hopefully, Billy G's contribution will be similar to what the former coach of Baylor has been up to lately. (Sorry can't think of his name, been a long day.) Apparently, the coach has been pretty open about all the problems he caused and taken responsiblity for it.
jayhawkintexas 10 years, 3 months ago
kvskubball-The 4 Texas schools joined the Big * and they changed the name. I know people here in Texas say that the Big 12 was "formed" out of the Big 8 and the SWC but that's not what happened.
That should be Big 8 instead of Big *--sorry
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OCAD University
Emma Westecott publishes book chapter addressing Gender in Games
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Thursday, September 15, 2016 - 4:00am
Faculty Member Emma Westecott has published a chapter entitled "Playing with Gender: Promoting Representational Diversity with Dress-Up, Cross-Dressing and Drag in Games" in Etc Press's book "Diversifying Barbie and Mortal Kombat: Intersectional Perspectives and Inclusive Designs in Gaming", edited by Yasmin B. Kafai, Gabriela T. Richard, Brendesha M. Tynes.
You can find more information about the book, including an option for a free digital download in the link below.
http://press.etc.cmu.edu/content/diversifying-barbie-and-mortal-kombat
OCAD University mourns victims of plane crash in Iran
The OCAD University community is deeply saddened by the news of the Ukraine International Airlines plane crash that claimed the lives of 176 people near Tehran yesterday.
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OCAD Design Students Collaborate on DesignTO's 10 Year Anniversary Look
This year, DesignTO partnered with OCAD University’s Design4 program to create look and feel of the festival’s 10th Anniversary.
OCAD University mourns death of Jeremy Vincent Urbina, student in the Faculty of Art
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Congratulations to OCAD U alum named to Forbes Top 30 under 30
OCAD U alumni, Alwar Pillai and Abid Virani, co-founders of Fable Tech Labs, were named in Forbes Magazine’s latest Top 30 under 30 list.
Dallas Fellini Announced as Inaugural Roselie Sharp Pavilion Career Launcher Recipient
The Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers is excited to announce Dallas Fellini as the recipient of the inaugural Rosalie Sharp Pavilion Career Launcher.
Conference Report: EKSIG 2019
EKSIG 2019 was the international conference of the DRS Special Interest Group on Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG). The event took place 23–24 September 2019 at the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia. With the theme ‘knowing together – experiential knowledge and collaboration,’ the conference explored collaborative knowledge generation by professionals and academic researchers in the creative disciplines and beyond.
OCAD U mourns the loss of John Vivash
The OCAD University community is deeply saddened by the passing of John Vivash, former Chair of the OCAD U Foundation (2008 to 2015). John passed away on August 5, 2019.
Illustration Grad Jinke Wang unveils Food Themed Mural at New Liberty Village Longo’s
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MY INUIT FRIENDS
“That is an impressive list of instructions, boss, but there is a problem - I cannot read.”
My cherished Inuk friend, Ed Ruben, had just been presented with a long list of typed duties, mainly janitorial, at Cape Parry, one of the 8 main stations of the Distant Early Warning Line (Dewline) along the Arctic Ocean coast where, for 13 months 1962-63, I happened to be the military commander. The code name for this 500-mile long (750 km) sector was PIN, so I was known as Pinhead which suited my situation. I did feel like our Queen. She was head of state but it was parliament who ran the show. Likewise, I had the authority, but it was Federal Electric Corporation of Paramus, New Jersey, a unit of the ITT electronic warfare giant that did the hiring, firing, and maintenance of the main station and its 4 satellites, two east and two west of Cape Parry. Our resupply consisted of a weekly lone Douglas Dakota (C-47) aircraft whose stewardesses would claim that, for every mile they flew north of Winnipeg, the more attractive they became. We also had summer resupply by barge down the Mackenzie River and east along the Arctic coast to our sandy beach at the tip of the peninsula.
FEC would hire men on 18-month contracts for 54-hour-weekly shifts. Salaries were good and the food, served 5 times per day, was varied and excellent. My military staff was 4 RCAF and 2 USAF officers.
This boondoggle of short-lived radar lines, demanding amazing and expensive efforts in hostile environments were all due to imagined, but well publicized, threats from the Soviets, those people whose enormous sacrifices were a major factor in winning WWII for us. We were told that Soviet bombers, might sneak over the North Pole with nuclear bombs to devastate the USA whose congress in 1947 voted $161 million to build the Pinetree Line of radar-detection sites across the northern USA and persuading Canada to join in with southern Canada sites. I was to serve briefly at the Bird, Manitoba, site that became operational in Apr 1957. Then came The Mid-Canada Line, known as the McGill (University) Fence of 8 manned and 90 unmanned stations along the 55th parallel, operational in January 1958. That cost $225 million. In 1954 the USAF contracted with Western Electric to build, in a mere 3 years, 63 radar stations along 10,000 km of Arctic Ocean coasts from Alaska to Greenland. Western Electric did it with 3 months to spare. Their reward was watching ITT get future contracts.
Ed was one of six Inuit, whom we called Eskimos back then, hired for our main station. Nearby housing was built for their families who, in spite of overcrowding, kept them neat and tidy. They had trekked north from the Inuit hamlet of Paulatuk, 95 km (59 miles) south. They were followed by a score of relatives who built 10 shacks in what we called the “The village” 2 miles south of PIN Main. The only true building there was Jim Stephen’s Hudson Bay Store where furs could be exchanged for food, clothing, and utensils. Father Leon DeHurtevant had also moved his church there, but it now was a small building. To say mass he would fold up his bed and move in benches that were stacked outside in the snow. He was allowed home to his native France for a month every 5 years. He did miss the trees and greenery so, when a generous Winnipeg donor flew us in a score of Christmas trees that fire regulations prevented me from allowing into our modules, Bill Cann, one of my RCAF officers, and I loaded them into our truck when we knew “Papa Leon” was sleeping and planted them in the snowdrifts around his home. The dogs who watched us had never seen a tree, but knew what trees were for, so were quick to use them. When he awoke, Father Leon was amazed and delighted with his miraculous forest but gradually surrendered all but two to villagers to use as firewood for which I scolded him for being too generous for his own good.
The name “Eskimo”, meaning “Eaters of raw flesh”, is not considered polite by the Inuit who have been in the North American Arctic since at least 1000 AD. It took us southerners until the 1980s to realize our ignorance. While meaning well we did make numerous mistakes as we used “our” north for short-lived mining and military operations, leaving quite a mess behind. I had first encountered the Inuit in 1946-49 when I flew three B-29s, one C-54, and one C-47 out of Edmonton and Fairbanks to test fly over vast distances up to the Pole and down to Bermuda, plus many days of ground monitoring at isolated airstrips, the chain of Low Frequency Loran stations installed along the Arctic coast. I learned to criticize the Canadian policy of collecting children from remote locations and flying them to residential parochial schools for an Alberta-style curriculum, then on graduation dumping them back home, fit for neither culture as there was no southern-type employment. During the summer, school-free, months I enjoyed the company of many of these teenagers.
Jessie Green was an 83-year-old Inuk who told me, after I got to know her well, that she was adopting me and would be my mother while I was in her country. I was fortunate in being able to host frequent tours of scientists, politicians, and the like, from the deep south. I introduced many to Jessie. One of them, noticing that Jessie spoke only Eskimo (now Inuktitut) to her Inuit associates, asked her why she did not speak English.
I was proud of Jessie when she retorted in perfect English, “If I were an English woman I would speak English. I am an Eskimo woman!” Jessie loved corncob pipes, Hers was old and blackened when I met her, so I had my wife, Joan, mail me a packet of six new ones much to Jessie’s delight. Jessie was sharp and took a keen interest in politics. When a sealed voting box for the federal election arrived, Jessie was too sick to allow me to fetch her to vote, so I took it in my truck and got most of the way before stopped by several huge snowdrifts, forcing me to lug the box over them to allow Jessie to deposit her vote.
With the connivance of Doc Roche whom we shared with the Cambridge Bay sites, a remedy was found for Jessie’s age-related ills. To avoid disastrous fires, alcohol was restricted to 6 cans of beer per person per week. The doctor and I smuggled in a bottle or rye whiskey from which we filled smaller bottles labelled as “Medicine” for Jessie. This actually helped her considerably and she thanked us frequently but she was sharp enough to know what we had done, so kept our secret that she was the only one at Cape Parry allowed liquor.
Returning to Ed Ruben who never complained: In his tiny duplex that he shared with the Kuptana family, 13 people were dependent on him His first wife died giving birth to their 5th child, the eldest of which was unmarried but had 3 children. His second daughter, Sarah, at age 15, gave birth to twins while I was there. Both soon died in spite of Doc Roche and my help. Ed’s eldest son was working for FEC at a distant site. Ed had remarried. Pretty, and likeable, Mable had a child when Ed married her and she had 3 more by Ed. I got to babysit them to permit Ed and Mabel to attend movies and bingo games on the base. Ed and Mable also took responsibility for 3 people living in a shack in the village: Mary the dwarf and her two normal children.
Ed would take his annual leave to bundle Mabel and some children up on his dog sled to hunt caribou south of Paulatuk, cover the carcasses with rocks, then return at intervals throughout the winter to fetch still-fresh meat from his Arctic refrigerators. Ed also tried to teach me how to build an igloo. I was not a very adept pupil. Inuit have some 50 words for snow of different consistencies and Ed would take me hunting for the right one for igloos. With sure strokes from his snow knife he could cut slanted snow blocks and erect a crack-free igloo in two hours while alongside I would struggle to build a smaller one with numerous cracks requiring me to stuff them with snow. For 3 weeks, using seal-oil lamps, temperatures inside igloos were quite warm until the snow became cold ice and a new home had to be built, but the material was just outside and free.
Villagers, in their shacks made from surplus lumber discarded by FEC, had oil heat. They used empty FEC oil drums that were everywhere and always containing a residue of oil that failed to get pumped out. Draining the oil from many drums into one to set aside, they would make smaller stoves from retained drums for heat and cooking.
There were 4 dog teams tethered side by side in an area of the village. To me they always seemed hungry, being fed by seal meat. Each day I drove to the village I would first stop at our kitchen to collect the many scraps of meat and bones. When I got within a mile of the village the dogs would set up a chorus of howls to greet me. They then sat patiently as I passed down each row with a tasty gift for each dog. The Inuit tolerated me doing this, but I was to learn that the starved Inuit dogs lived longer than the well-fed and pampered RCMP dogs. Nevertheless I continued the habit as I did bask in the love shown by the dogs.
Relations between the military and FEC were excellent but I did have to submerge my anger one day when several dogs got loose and trotted up to our station to wander about our buildings. The FEC manager shot 4 of them. For several weeks thereafter I ate my meals at the table reserved for the Inuit rather than with him, but I did avoid verbal rebuke. The Arctic was no place for anger.
The Inuit were typically a reserved lot - very respectful but remote - a behaviour that changed dramatically with time. A good example was 5-year-old Renee Ruben. When I would arrive she would run up to me with “Squadron Leader George!’ She knew that I carried oranges in my parka pockets and would reach in to extract one. Yet she remained silent as we strolled across the tundra, eating oranges. One day we passed an outboard motor left in the snow for the winter. When I called it an outboard motor, she corrected me with: “That’s a kicker!” What an immediate change! When she discovered there was something she could teach me she became quite verbose and our subsequent walks became full of enjoyable conversations.
Later I was to walk back to the kicker with 16-year-old Adam Ruben. I warned him he would never get that neglected kicker to work again. And it did not. Unperturbed, Adam took the engine apart with bits and pieces strewn over the hard tundra. I said, “Adam, if you ever get that mess to work again I will pay you $10.” For an hour I watched in amazement as Adam cleaned and re-oiled every small bit and then reassembled it all. It worked! He was happy with my $10 and bought cigars from the HBC to advertise his affluence. He then put the kicker onto his sled to take to the Listers, another Inuit family who had a small boat they were getting ready to take them on a visit to Paulatuk.
On another occasion our dentist was making his annual visit to us. An Inuit with a severe toothache ache came in for a drilling and filling. Two Inuit friends accompanied the patient. While drilling away the dentist was call away, returning in 20 minutes to discover one of the Inuit using his equipment to continue the drilling. After the dentist finished the job, he got quite the ribbing from us, telling him he did not need all that expensive training to be a dentist as just being an Inuit would suffice.
One summer day a Norwegian-Canadian FEC employee and an Inuk rushed in to report a sub surfaced in Franklin Bay off our western shore. I sped to our airstrip to scramble my entire air force - one Dehavalland Beaver - but the sub had submerged and fled before I could see it. I could not resist matching famous terse war communiques with “Sub sighted, Beaver Scrambled. Sub Fled”. Yes, I followed it up with a detailed report but I never got a word back from either HQ: ADC in St Hubert, Quebec, or Norad in Colorado Springs. Who knows, or cared, whether it was one of ours or one of theirs?
A lone Inuit family drifted into the village to build their own shack. The husband was caught stealing from other families so we called in an RCMP corporal to arrest him. Waiting for return airlift the corporal took his prisoner to a movie on base. Mounting the steps the Inuk turned and disabled the corporal by kicking him where it hurts the most. The lightly-clothed Inuk then took off into the bitterly-cold night. Justice was now my responsibility. I called Bob Hornal, a fellow RCAF officer, and we raced in our lone truck to the village, believing the escapee would head there. We alerted the villagers then borrowed two shotguns from the HBC store and spread out to begin a foot search of the intervening tundra. Eight hours later I stumbled across a bleeding, sobbing, shivering, and totally-exhausted Inuk. I called to Bob and both of us carried him back to the HBC store where we stripped and washed him to dress him in warm clothing, taken from the HBC shelves. By this time the corporal had recovered and handcuffed his prisoner for the first time. Two days later he was flown to Inuvik to a warm jail with good food for the winter while the government footed the bill to feed his family. He was released in the spring on the promise to never steal again. He did become a worthy resident of the village.
This, and the submarine incident, emphasized the fact that we Dewline military had zero defences, so I sent a request to headquarters for some token weapons. A year after I left the Dewline, a few WWII Lee Enfield rifles arrived. If all militaries were so armed there would be no wars!
When missiles replaced bombers as threats, the US in 1958 invested $28 billion in BMEWS (Ballistic Missile Early Warning Sites) and most Dewline sites were abandoned, leaving messes to be cleaned up, complicated by global warming and melting tundra. The original target date of 2011 has been extended to 2018. Cape Parry Inuit returned to Paulatuk where, among the 300 residents, Rubens and Kuptanas remain among the executives.
The future of the Inuit as an equal participating partner in Canada shows great promise, yet many problems persist. There are 700 Inuit owned and operated businesses including airlines such as Air Inuit that has a fleet of 26 aircraft of 5 different types. On 01 April 1999. Canada carved Nunavut out of its Northwest Territories. Cape Parry and Paulatuk remain in the NWT. Nunavut in Inuktitut means “Our Land”. It is a huge area. With 1,750,000 sq km it is the size of Western Europe, but it has a population of only 36,000, 85% of it Inuit. It has 3 official languages: Inuktitut, English, and French. Its capital is Iqaluit (formerly Frobisher Bay) with a population of 7,740. Prince Charles had visited Iqaluit in 1970. His second was with Camilla 29 June 2017.
I knew of no suicides while at Cape Parry but the current Inuit rate has leaped to 11 times the Canadian average, especially among young women. Vast cultural changes, the dramatic warming, increased traffic in the Northwest passage, lack of sufficient infrastructure and unemployment all contribute. For a nation of 36 million, huddled in the south, the north is a very expensive burden, but one that must be enthusiastically embraced.
The $188 million Canadian High Arctic Research Station at Cambridge Bay to be operational in 2018 is encouraging - and look at all that geology to study such as 4.5 billion year old (bya) lava when we thought our crust did not form until 4.3 bya. The North has much to teach us.
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NORAD's 60th Birthday
I worried that I was a bothersome nuisance in a wheel chair, propelled by Major Leslie Wenzel and retired Darrell Levitt, yet I was thoroughly spoiled here in Colorado Springs during the Friday-Saturday, 11-12 May, celebrations eulogizing the uniqueness, importance, and accomplishments of NORAD. All this was due to my daughter, Barbara, and I being invited as Guests of Honour.
Embellished with positive greetings from the US president and Canadian prime minister and with numerous speeches by top Canadian and American political and military leaders, the celebrations started off Friday with a dinner and ball of some 600 attendees at the Broadmoor Hotel and ending Saturday at Peterson Air Force Base with a cake-cutting event and several flypasts by the 9-plane Canadian Snowbirds aerobatic team.
It took 3 of us to handle the sword that cut the cake: Our popular NORAD commander, General Lori Johnson, was joined by the youngest current member and by me as the oldest NORAD survivor.
The Joint Canadian-U.S. Military Group recommended the formation of NORAD in late 1956. It was approved in Feb 1957 with HQ at Ent Air Force Base, in downtown Colorado Springs. The annual cost of $5.5 billion included the Nike-Zeus program and 3 Ballistic Missile Early Warning sites (BMEWS).
Canada and the United States signed the North American Air Defence Command 12 May 1958 thus placing the security of their people into each others’ care.
Since then there have been 24 US commanders and 24 Canadian deputy commanders of the US and Canadian personnel intermingled at the many NORAD establishments in North America.
In 1963 I was among the group that moved NORAD HQ to the Cheyenne Mountain underground site and began operations there. Canada’s underground bunker, built 1959-63, is in North Bay, Ontario.
I was to take geology courses from the professor who had recommended the location to NORAD. As he was just a professor, NORAD chose to employ expensive advisors who later came up with the same answer.
My first NORAD connection came in 1958 when I was transferred to Air Defence Command in St. Hubert, Quebec, and in 1959 when I relieved the CO at the Mid-Canada Line site of Bird, Manitoba. This was followed by 13 months as military commander of the 500-mile-long DEW-Line (Distant Early Warning) sector with its main site in Cape Parry, NWT and four satellite sites, two either side. Here I made many friends among the Inuit, the subject of a different blog. From the DEW line I was transferred in 1963 to NORAD HQ in Colorado Springs.
So, what is my assessment of NORAD?
It is a fine organization that, for the sake of human survival, needs to be a leader among the millions of concerned activists and scores of institutions that are striving for a safer world with greatly-reduced armaments.
In my memory, at the working level, US-Canadian integration was great and many friends were made. There also were many marriages. USAF personnel were superb at ignoring the inferiority complex we got when they had vast sums of money to spend, or squander, on projects we could only dream of. Matching population differences, our share of the cost is 10%. Being much smaller the RCAF often got things done faster and I was to be part of this. The USAF, nervous about its secrets, often used a NOFORN (No Foreign Eyes) stamp to deny us access to such documents. Nevertheless, I got to write or revise several Noforn documents. Our USAF friends would stamp the Playboy Magazines “Noforn” to emphasize their attitudes to Noforn.
One night when, as a major, I was the duty controller under a USAF colonel, some Soviet activity was reported by the USN. I was summoned to the guarded intelligence room for a briefing, then ordered not to inform my USAF boss because I had a higher security clearance than he did. Fortunately, the Soviet activity proved innocuous. But, it was an awkward night as my boss was curious as to why I had been summoned.
One day, when I was on the Dew Line, a submarine surfaced briefly off our western shore. I scrambled my entire air force which consisted of one Beaver. We flew for an hour but found no trace of the sub, so I sent a brief message to St. Hubert and Colorado Springs: “Sub surfaced. Beaver scrambled. Sub fled.” Of course I followed it with a detailed report but I never got a reply telling me whether it was one of ours or one of theirs.
On the DEW Line we were totally unarmed so a small landing party from a sub could easily destroy us. In my report I requested a few of those surplus WWII rifles. A year after I left the DEW Line they arrived.
We did get the feeling that the Soviet threat was overblown to justify our huge expenditures on defence. We would get scripts written in Colorado Springs for exercises which contained errors that lessened the time that threats could be reported and analysed. My attempts to insert corrections were ignored as the script ran its course. I did manage to correct this when I was moved to NORAD HQ and put in charge of writing exercises.
Our human world is playing a dangerous game. Embracing nuclear weapons gave us the MAD era - mutual assured destruction. Threats, real or inferred, make us nervous and prone to miscalculations.
Close calls have been frightening, but we know only about those that have been declassified.
On 05 October 1960, the BMEWS site in Thule, Greenland, advised NORAD they had detected a massive Soviet launch, accuracy 99.9%. This would allow us 10 minutes to decide on a retaliatory launch. The NORAD commander was off flying and could not be reached, leaving Air Marshall Roy Slemon, RCAF, in charge. He quickly determined the locations of USSR leadership that implied a launch was most unlikely, so he called off the alert. Later it was determined that Thule, the rising moon, and a Soviet launch site were aligned and that the BMEWS pulses were bouncing off the moon. Thule crews did not realize that their radar pulses could reach as far as the moon although the Australians had accomplished this feat earlier.
On 27 October 1962 USN ships harassed Soviet naval ships off Cuba. One of these, sub B-59, dove to escape and remained submerged for several days, unable to communicate. To force it up the USS Beale dropped dummy depth charges. Believing them real, the sub commander, along with his political adviser, ordered a nuclear torpedo launch. Fortunately the sub-flotilla commander, Vasili Arkhipov, persuaded B-59 to surface and await orders. The same day Captain Maltsby’s U-2 got lost and strayed 480 km over Chukotka peninsula and were met by Soviet nuclear-armed MiG interceptors. US F-102As were then scrambled to escort Maltsby out. On 01 May 1962 Gary Power’s U-2 was shot down deep over the USSR. He survived as a prized prisoner.
In 1983 Lieutenant Stanisav Petrov, on duty in Moscow, got a warning that US missiles were headed their way. He decided against a counter strike due to a gut feeling it could not be true.
Soviet restraint saved us then. How serious were flaws at NORAD?
At 0300, 09 Nov 1979, Zbigniew Brzezinski, security advisor to President Carter, was awakened by a NORAD phone call that the USSR had just launched 250 missiles towards the USA. A second call warned it was now 2,200. Knowing that everyone he loved would soon be dead, Brezezinski concentrated on ordering a counter strike to ensure Russia would suffer the same fate. Ten US and Canadian jets were scrambled and “Looking Glass”, the SAC command post, was airborne without Carter who had not been informed.
A third phone call advised that no other detection system had seen a launch so things were put on hold. It was discovered that a computer glitch had fed a training exercise into the live stream. NORAD then spent $16 million to prevent such errors.
Eric Schlosser’s 2013, 656-page, book, “Command and Control”, gives us a terrifying look at nuclear weapons, delivery systems, problems of ageing, human and computer failures. He tells of the Pentagon admitting 32 close calls but claims he uncovered over a thousand mishaps, many serious.
The Domesday Clock of the Atomic Scientists is now set at 2 minutes to midnight. Blame is put on a number of factors including: climate change, cyber warfare threats, misinformation, and nuclear-armed world leaders.
Sadly, the US spends more on the military than China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, India, France, the UK, and Japan combined. Yet the current administration has boosted it even more (now $610 billion). What a dangerous waste of funds that could do so much good elsewhere. And, oh yes, do not overlook the immense funds earmarked for nuclear updates. Our expenditures force those who mistrust us into boosting their militaries. Yes, we have many groups with different ambitions, but slow diplomacy is much safer, cheaper, and less destructive. The Military is built to be the servant of a country’s leaders, but the military does the fighting, the suffering, and the dying, so deserves a strong voice. History gives us many examples of armies revolting against leaders in favour of the masses but this violence too often led to further upheavals. Violence begets violence.
Today, how can the US military, in good conscience, support leaders who aid war criminals like the Israelis in their slaughter of the oppressed Palestinians, the Saudi Arabian crimes in Yemen, dictators in Indonesia, Latin America, the Philippines, and misguided wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria? And, withdrawing from the beneficial Paris Environmental Agreement and the Iran Nuclear Deal warns the world not to trust the world’s greatest military power. This demands change.
NORAD, you have the people, the brains, and the structure to work towards remedying all this.
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Dravidian history no one talks about …
Posted in Current Affairs, European History, History, India, language, Media, politics by Anuraag Sanghi on April 6, 2009
Massive invasions and migrations even today, are fraught with risk. Why would people do that 5,000-10,000 years ago.
he Aryan Invasion Theory now has no legs to stand on. Bowing before the inevitable, Western historians, posing as ‘friends’ of India, have sneaked in something equally obnoxious.
Indian history as a negotiation
It is “The Dravidian Invasion Theory.” We have a new situation now. The ‘deal’ seems to be – “We will agree to Aryan as Indians – but you have to agree that the Dravidians were the ‘actual’ invaders.” It was an alert 2ndlook reader who pointed my nose to the Wikipedia entry under the heading of Out of India Theory.
If Dravidian migrated from Africa to India through the Middle East, it could have left traces in Egypt and countries under Egyptian influence as well, explaining the data which led earlier researchers to the thesis of a Dravidian ‘Indo-Mediterranean’ culture. (105) Sergent links Indian forms of phallus worship with Sahel-African, Ethiopian, Egyptian and Mediterranean varieties of the same. The Egyptian uraeus (‘cobra’), the snake symbol on the pharaonic regalia, has been linked in detail with Dravidian forms of snake worship, including a priest’s possession by the snake’s spirit. Dravidian cremation rituals for dead snakes recall the ceremonial burial of snakes in parts of Africa. (106) Others have added the similarity between the Dravidian naga-kal (Tamil: ‘snake-stone’, a rectangular stone featuring two snakes facing one another, their bodies intertwined) and the intertwined snakes in the caduceus, the Greek symbol of science and medicine. It has consequently been suggested that some Dravidian words may also have penetrated into the European languages. Thus, Dravidian kal, ‘stone’, resembles Latin calculus, ‘pebble’, and Dravidian malai, ‘mountain’, resembles an Albanian and Rumanian word mal, ‘rock, rocky riverside’. (107) But this hypothesis is a long shot and we need not pursue it here. Far more substantial is the Dravidian impact on another language family far removed from the recent Dravidian speech area, viz. Uralic. The influence pertains to a very sizable vocabulary, including core terms for hand, fire, house (Finnish kota, Tamil kudi), talk, cold, bathe, die, water, pure, see, knock, be mistaken, exit, fear, bright, behind, turn, sick, dirty, ant, strong, little, seed, cut, wait, tongue, laugh, moist, break, chest, tree; some pronouns, several numerals and dozens of terms for body parts. (108) But it goes deeper than that. Thus, both language families exclude voiced and aspirated consonants and all consonant clusters at the beginning of words. They have in common several suffixes, expressions and the phonological principle of vocalic harmony. As the Dravidian influence, like that of IE, is more pronounced in the Finno-Ugric than in the Samoyedic branch, we may surmise that the contact took place after the separation of the Samoyedic branch. But the main question here is how Dravidian could have influenced Uralic given their actual distance. (via Update on the Aryan Invasion Debate by Koenraad Elst).
Complicated Simplicity
Why can’t Western historians get a simple idea in their head?
Aryans are from the land of Bharata-ah. Aryan culture is based on values – and not race and language. The single biggest differentiators, between Aryans and other cultures, is slavery. Under Aryadhwaja (the Aryan flag), rulers were expected (as spelt out in Arthashastra) to follow Aryan norms and practices – specially with regard to slavery. And there is no mention of an Aryan race or Aryan language! The Aryan Race is a piece of Western fiction – called history. There were and are, only Aryan values.
History would be a lot simpler – if simplicity is allowed to prevail. Massive invasions and migrations even today, are fraught with risk. Why would people do that 5,000-10,000 years ago. Dravidians are equally and fully Aryan, Mr.Elst. These games of Aryan /Dravidian are neither honest nor entertaining.
What is your motivation, Elst-bhai?
Hittite Kings – with Tamil names
Or is it that you can’t see beyond your nose, Mr.Elst?
Look at the interesting case of the (at least) three Hittite kings whose name is Mursili. Mursili I (~1620-~1590; also spelled Mursilis). There is no Sanskritic meaning of this name – and most Hittite kings had Sanskritic names.
Based on presumptive vowels, the correct name would be Murasoli, which in modern Tamil means “giver of right and moral advice.” Murai means ‘approved code of conduct’ and soli is to ‘peel’; in Marathi ‘solna’ is peeling onions. An extant Tamil magazine calls itself, मुरासोली Murasoli – as also a politician who is known as Murasoli Maran. Mursili-I, (wife’s name Kali), the grandson and successor of the Hittite founder king Hattusili-I, also seemed to be the conscience keeper of the kingdom. Murslili I warned his administrators,
“‘You are about to go to the land, and the blood of the poor man you are not seeking!’
“His porters you do not question. You perform (the wish) of the rich man. You go to his house – you eat, you drink, and he rewards it to you. You take the poor man’s šiēt, (but) you do not investigate his case! Is it thusly that you hold the command of my father?” (KBo 22.1 rev. 34′-31′)
Hippodamia wears a ‘pallu’
Similarly, the names of some other Hittite kings, like Hantilli and Muwatalli, have not been deciphered till now. These name-meanings will get cleared, if the Tamil meaning of thalli /talli as ‘mother-goddess’ is used. Muwatalli was possibly named after the patron goddess of horse breeding (in Telugu, mawu /mavu means horse and talli is mother-goddess).
Hantilli is possibly named after the Goddess Annapoorna. han = अन्न anna = grain and talli is mother. The word अन्न anna is common across many Indian languages. In Telugu अन्न is అన్నము meaning food or grain; in Tamil it is அன்னம். Remember that vowels in Akkadian, Sumerian, Babylonian languages are presumptive; both अ a and अः ah are vowels in most Indian languages, unlike most non-Indian languages.
But much before Hittites, is another interesting piece of history!
Clay tablets talk of how Sargon captured Khishibrasini, King of Elam” and his son Lukh’ish’an. (Shibirasini /Shivarasini and Lakshman?). Elam was a Dravidian culture and King Shibi is among the legendary kings in the lineage claimed by Chola kings, (Suryavanshi clan), and the Tamil name for Shibi Chakravarthi is Sembiyan and the Chola kings took this as one of their titles. Between 2000 BC to 1000 BC, about three kings were known as Ebarat (Bharat?). And before that, regents were known as Sukalmah (Sukarma?).
Wars and wagers
Which brings another interesting aspect of chariots in Greece.
The chariot was brought to Greece by Pelops (Pallava?) from Anatolia. Pelops had come from Paphlagonia – Pallava + gonia (gonia as a derivative of गृह्या, or gaanv, in modern Hindi).
He established himself – without a war, with a wager. He agreed to race against the ruler of Elis, Oenamaus, – who fancied his chances in a chariot. The reason for his confidence – a Hittite charioteer, Myrtilus (derived from Hittite name of Mursilis).
Hippodamia – Pelops wife seems to be wearing a sari (Image courtesy – http://www.pompeiiinpictures.eu). Click for a larger image.
Olympics Games & Pallavas?
Pelops won the chariot race – and Hippodamia, the king’s daughter.
A painting of Hippodamia, excavated in Pompei seems to showing her wearing a saree – and another line drawing seems to be showing her using a ‘pallu’ – use of the saree as a head-dress. It is after Pelops that the Pelopinissean plains are named.
Pelops went on to institute the first Olympic games!
This was a famous city from which ancient Egypt, Babylon, Sumeria and other Middle East countries imported gold, sandalwood, ivory, gems, (wild animals and birds – peacocks, monkeys). This now seems to be a corruption of the Tamil kingdom of Oviyar.
Oviyar were one of the ruling tribes of South India and Sri Lanka. Ophir (as the Greeks called it and the West knows it) was a kingdom in South India and Lanka – a legend in its own time. Ships sailed from Sopara (modern Nallasoppara) and Lothal.
Elam – and world history
The people of Elam (yes in Tamil, Eelam means homeland), were the first to civilise the Iranian Peninsula in the 2700 BC period. They were contemporaries of the Egyptians, the Mittanis and the Hittites. The Elamites were a significant people till the 800 BC in Persia (modern day Iran). The Elam deity, Inshishunak, probably related to Sheshnag, is shown seated on a throne made up of coiled serpent. And if that was not enough, there are at least four kings named Shuqamuna – the last being King Shuqamuna in 986 BC. Accounting for presumptive vowels, spell it as Shaqamuni – or the more familiar name of Gautama Buddha, Shakyamuni. The Kassites also worshipped Shakyamuni.
Compared to the retributive and vengeful Hammurabi’s code, the Indic rulers of Middle East (the Hittites, Mittanis and Elamites) already had a more liberal and humane legal system. The Elamites were a significant people till the 800BC in Persia (modern day Iran). The Achaemenid Dynasty succeeded the Elamites (Dravidian Indians) in Iran – and the took over the Assyrian Empire. With the change in regime, came a change in the linguistic policy. Elamite-Dravidian language was replaced by Sanskritic-Old Persian.
Kannagi and Kovalan
The Persian linguistic makeover from the Dravidian-Elamite language to Sanskritic-Old Persian however did not change everything. The Elamite element in Zoroastrian revolt against the daiwas (devas), continues today in Elamite-Dravidian-Tamil Nadu, where asura kings like Ravana and Neduncheziyan are respected.
Silappadhikaaram – Nebuchadnezzar and justice
One of the most prominent rulers of Babylon was Nebuchadnezzar (as spelt in English). Replace ‘b’ with ‘d’ and you are very close the Tamil name of Neduncheziyan (Nedunchedianuru) – a current and modern Tamil name.
Interestingly, Neduncheziyan is more famous as the fabled erring Pandyan King in the Tamil classic – Silappadhikaaram. The earliest legend on justice in India is Silappathikaram (Tamil: சிலப்பதிகாரம்). Written by Ilango Adigal /Elangovadigal, supposed brother of Cheran Senguttavan. In the famous play, Silappadhikaaram, (also Silappatikaram) was about miscarriage of justice. The protagonist in the play is King Neduncheziyan.
Neduncheziyan’s mistaken justice, brings him grief and finally death. Neduncheziyan is overshadowed by the other King – Cheran Senguttuvan. It is believed this Tamil classic, written by Jain Saint, Ilangovadigal /Elangovadigal, was Cheran Senguttavan’s brother.
Kannagi – A Japanese anime character.
And Kannagi, the heroine of Silappadhikaaram, is a popular Japanese anime character – along with Muthu.
Nebuchadnezzar and Dravidians
There are at least four Nebuchadnezzars – but we are interested in two of them. The first was Nebuchadnezzar I (ca1126-ca1105) who invaded Elam (the Dravidian rulers of modern Iran). But it was Nebuchadnezzar II, who commissioned one of the wonders of the ancient world – The Hanging Gardens of Babylon – for Amytis, his homesick Elamite princess. Amytis, the daughter of the Median King, (a neo Elamite King), longed for the greenery of her homeland. A prominent ruler of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar-II, 605-562 BC, (as spelt in English) not only married an Elamite princess, but also took on an Elamite name (related to the Dravidian languages). Nebuchadnezzar III (Niditu-bel), who rebelled against Darius I of Persia in 522 BC and Nebuchadnezzar IV (Arakha), who rebelled against Darius I of Persia in 521 BC are the other two.
From India To Babylon and Russia
Post colonial historical revision is proposing new theories. New archaeological evidence supports history that shows Aryans moved from India to the Anatolian plains and established the Sumerian, Mesopotamian, Babylonian cultures of Elam, Mitannites, Kassites along modern Syria to Turkey. The Elamites, Mittanis, Hittites competed and traded with the Egyptians.
Usually, we look for Indian history in India. But there is an Indian history outside India, which show India as completely different that what we have always thought it to be – especially Dravidian history.
Colonial historians first split Indian history into Aryan and Dravidian history. Then dismissed Dravidian history as subordinate and lesser than Aryan on the basis of the Aryan Invasion Theory. Now that the Aryan Invasion /Migration Theory does not have a leg to stand on, the contribution by the Dravidians along the दक्षिणपथ dakshinapatha becomes more important to the West.
And it is this part of Indian (Dravidian) history, which the West is trying to usurp – having been forced to give up the Aryan Invasion /Migration Theory.
Along the Dakshinapatha दक्षिणपथ
The other part to Indian history – which today influences and touches half the world. This history is full of wealth, military successes and a spread which taken India deeper than any other civilisation in the world. While the previous history was along the उत्तरपथ uttarapath, this story lies along the दक्षिणपथ dakshinapatha.
Its starts at Kerala, a highway across Nagpur, Jhansi, Gwalior, Delhi, Kashmir and ends in modern Iran. This history and geography is loosely dominated by the Dravidian segment of India.
There is (at least) 3000 year old history that Tamil language has, which makes it one the oldest, living language. Of course, the division between Aryan and Dravidian history is a Western creation. Arya was never around race, religion or language. It was about values. Noble values.
Languages related to Tamil and Dravidian linguistics are in use even today in Pakistan, where the Brahui tribe speaks a related version of the Tamil language. The Brahuis have marriage preferences which are similar to South Indians (cousins preferred in marriage) – rather than North Indians.
The Dating Imbroglio
Historical dating till the 1960’s was based on a matrix of archaeology, books, records, events, cross-indexing, astronomy. In most cases, all these factors were NOT present, resulting in a significant element of guess – work – and a major element of vested interests.
The two point agenda was the maintenance of the Greek Miracle – motivated by desire to use history as a colonial and exploitative tool. And the other item on the agenda was the proving of the ‘correctness’ of Biblical events – which was motivated by a racial agenda to prove Western racial superiority.
Modern history, is now caught between the Greek Miracle History School, which has stuck to the Sumer->Turkey->Egypt->Greece->Rome->Europe–>West-Is-The-Greatest Axis and the Velikovsky School which is stuck to proving that the Bible is indeed the Last & Only Word.
In 1960s, came new tools to assist archaeological dating system – the the Carbon-14 and the Bristlecone Pine tree-ring system – as well as others. Even this has been been distorted by calibrations, aberrant data and acceptable readings – all the time maintaining a veneer of secular and objective history. Traditional Western historians from both the schools dont want to change – as whole libraries of history based on theories of Western superiority will become redundant.
We cannot have that, can we?
Rajiv Malhotra: European Misappropriation of Sanskrit led to the Aryan Race Theory (huffingtonpost.com)
The Saga of the Aryan Race (zoroastrians.net)
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Raman said, on April 7, 2009 at 6:01 am
Interesting as usual. but that particular link u gave — regarding the tamil origins of ophir — was to put it mildly terrible and detracts from the scholarly nature of ur article. Since the time this aryan / dravidian conflict theory came about (which has no basis either in sanskrit literature or, interestingly, in tamil literature) a whole generation of pseudo-historians have sprung up in Tamil Nadu (supported by the dravidian political parties) whose favorite pastime is dreaming up more and more glorified, fantasy accounts of tamil history. this particular person, whose link u have put, appears to be one of these.
husayn said, on December 16, 2010 at 10:40 am
what this man says is true
elamites were not a aryan race! not at all what ever is said about the dravidians being from elamites is100% the people who say this is right only thing is it is very hard for some people to imagine a dark people can be from shem! the elamites were dark skinned and not a white race neither semitic read what i have dreamed about it matches much of what they say about the dravidians being from elamites their travel pattern to get to india was south iran this is where the elamites lived not sumerians the elamites were a significant people just as the dravidian race they mixed with the faris people during that time and kassites before and thousands of yrs later the brahui dravidians are doing same !
husayn said, on March 19, 2014 at 6:19 pm
Actually it has been a while but now I see the dravidians are the sumerians and the other branch of them are the phoenicians . I will post more on this therr sre 3 nimrods one of them was nimrod bin cush bin canaan bin ham yes the dravidians ,the oyher two are nimtod bin arfakhshaad and thr 3rd is nimrod bin cush bin ham .indeed thr dumeruans anf dravidians are canaanites and most likely mixed with the elamites
Jawahar Hussain said, on February 23, 2015 at 6:44 pm
I have got much interest in understanding human genealogy in recent time especially Dravidian because I see them as the most original oldest species that still exists. I am very much convinced about the point that they are Elamite. However, scientific proofs also suggest that they are Cushite because of their genetical similarities with Africans. Can you give me some reference to this?
Rasheed Husayn said, on July 10, 2015 at 7:58 am
after some time I have seen they are Canaanites they are not from Cush bin Ham there are three nimrods 1 is Nimrod bin arfakhshaad 2 nimrod bin cush bin canaan bin ham 3 and nimrod bin cush bin ham people have gotten the dravidians mixed up as being from cush bin ham
Nimrudh (Nimrod) was the son of Kush (Cush) Ibn Kan’an Ibn Ham lbn Nuh. The same who ruled Babil in the days of lbràhim, the friend of the Compassionate.
http://www.soebratie.nl/religie/hadith/IbnSad.html
http://media.torontolife.com/dynimages/features/tamil_vimalachandran.jpg dravidian
http://www.socotraislandadventure.com/images/DSC_1336.jpg arab of Yemen
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/6194/maharamankw4.jpg arab of Yemen
http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/u/TvyamNb-BivtNwcoxtkc5xGBuGkIMh_nj4UJHQKuorwczHc6oFz-1UB-XLTsCaMo5h_Asv1iJHQsWQ/ http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/traveler-magazine/photo-contest/2012/entries/131423/view/
http://www.asianews.it/files/img/bedouin.jpg from Jordan as well
https://jerryandgod.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/666-a.gif akkadians mixed with Sumerians who are Dravidians and they mixed with that other canaanite people like first nations people of north america
the Amorites mixed with same
http://www.jesuswalk.com/joshua/images/amorite-map.gif Amorites( Imliq) went into North Africa
the original Phoenicians and Sumerians are the Dravidians
The Mediterranean Peoples (Dravidians)
(Extracts from ‘The Original Indians — An Enquiry’ by Dr. A. Desai)
How the Mediterranean people came to be called Dravidians makes interesting story. The Pre-Hellenistic Lycians of Asi Minor, who where probably the Mediterranean stock called themselves Trimmili. Another tribe of this branch in the island of Crete was known by the name Dr(a)mil or Dr(a)miz. In ancient Sanskrit writings we find the terms Dramili and Dravidi, and then Dravida which referred to the southern portion of India.
South India was known to the ancient Greek and Roman geographers as Damirica or Limurike. Periplus Maris Erithroei (Periplus of the Eritrean Sea) in the second or third century AD described the maritime route followed by Greek ships sailing to the South Indian ports: “Then follow Naoura and Tundis, the first marts of Limurike and after these Mouziris and Nelkunda, the seats of government.â€
Dramila, Dravida and Damirica indicated the territory. Then it was applied to the people living in the territory and the language they spoke, in the local parlance Tamil and Tamil Nadu or Tamilakam.
The Mediterraneans or Dravidians were associated with the ancient Sumerian civilizations of Mesopotamia and of Elam (southern Iran). Authors have pointed out ethnic, linguistic and cultural affinities between the Sumerians (Mesopotamians) and the Dravidians of South India, and concluded that both probably belonged to the same ethnic stock.
On a spiritual side, I have seen Prophet Muhammad PBH 15times, and I say it with no boasting. I dreamed of the Prophet PBH and I am standing besides him, and I was told I am not a sayyid.
I ask the Prophet PBH about the Indian people, he PBH had a big smile on his face and this is why I started to find out about the Indian people, particularly the dark ones.
Twice I dreamed the Dravidians are the Sumerians; and they are from Canaan, and the Blacks and Ethiopians are from Cush, ibn Ham.
After a yr I came across something in Prophets and Patriarchs which said Nimrod was a disbeliever and son of Cush, son of Canaan, son of Ham. There are two Cush’s and people have gotten them mixed up.
I dreamed an explanation of the Dravidians. I was told in the dream of what it is to be Hamitic in type; with straight hair and they were also Egyptians. Then after some time I dreamed the Dravidians came from the fertile crescent in Syria, close to the sea.
After this I dreamed they came from Egypt, close to the sea, and I see arrows showing their travel. One arrow goes up into the fertile crescent in Syria, and the other goes east through south Iraq and southern Iran until the arrow reached northwest India!
Also I dreamed of a migration in the shape of a U on the river Nile, though nowhere did I see anything to do with the horn of africa. And that the migration (((((came from East.))))
On 13/11/11 I dreamed the Dravidians are Phoenicians. A branch of Dravidians did settle in the fertile crescent in Syria, close to the sea.
(((((((On april 17th 2014)))))) I dreamt the elamites are a mix of dravidian,native canaanites and a type that looks like some ethiopians that are dark but have more of a indian feature with light curly to wavy hair not an afro texture. Also long time back I dreamt the Elamites are Eb3(E1b1b)
, E1b1b is found at high frequencies in Morocco (over 80%), Also 14/08/14 I dreamt the Elamites came from North Africa
On Thursday April 17th 2014 , I dreamt the Sabaeans are the Dravidians (with a question mark at end ?)
husayn said, on December 27, 2016 at 5:27 am
the Elamites are a mix between Phut , Canaanite Dravidians and a people same as pure Native Americans (same culture) also September 10th 2016 it is people of Phut who had a blessing they mixed with the Canaanites ,Dravidians and a people same as pure native Americans
Rasil said, on March 14, 2015 at 8:41 pm
Thanks for informing these people who have and maintain a low level of information..
Anuraag Sanghi said, on April 7, 2009 at 11:29 am
Raman – Thanks for your comments, compliments and the participation.
pseudo-historians have sprung up in Tamil Nadu (supported by the dravidian political parties)
Modern History, a Western invention, as we know it today, is State supported. Western historians gloss over the State support. Hegel was the father of modern Western history and Max Muller, one of his many illegitimate ‘ideological’ children.
Max Muller was a paid by the English East India Company (EEIC). The EEIC had clear agenda of Christian proselytization, Dominance of Western Race and of course, economic exploitation. Western history, that we talk about, is finally the outcome of this agenda. Similarly, I have experienced in the erstwhile State of Hyderabad, another version of history, which too was State supported.
To allege State Support only against ‘pseudo-historians’ of Tamil Nadu is unfair. There is a vast and rich Indian narrative of achievements, in which Dravidians have contributed significantly. The Aryan North versus the Dravidian South is a modern, sterile and artificial creation, which blinds us.
favorite pastime is dreaming up more and more glorified, fantasy accounts of tamil history
One has only to travel to parts of South East Asia to see the reality of this ‘glorified, fantasy accounts of tamil history’. If we are not too careful, we may find out that the West will again usurp our Dravidian past – like they have, our Aryan past for the last 200 years.
Eric Doodah said, on April 9, 2009 at 9:39 pm
Velikovsky did not try to prove that the bible was true, and rejected fundamentalism. He did use the Bible, and other historical sources, as evidence of ancient catastrophes, which is not the same thing. See “Fundamentalism” at the Velikovsky Encyclopedia
Anuraag Sanghi said, on April 10, 2009 at 7:37 am
I didn’t see Velikovsky use Persian texts, Koran, Chinese sources, Buddhist scriptures, Zend Avestha or the largest body of ancient writing in the world, which is the Indic books.
Apart from stray references, that is.
A clear, narrow focus of authenticating the Bible as historical source is a credible academic exercize – and is OK in my view.
However, if the Velikovsky School had /has global pretensions, they should shed those – pronto.
E Gibbon said, on April 22, 2009 at 10:24 am
A SUN WORSHIPPING PHOENICIAN PRIEST FROM SYRIA WITH CHARIOT, DANCING WITH DRUMS, AND A NAGA-KAL BECOMES EMPEROR IN ROME
Elagabalus (c. 203 – March 11, 222), also known as Heliogabalus or Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, was a Roman Emperor of the Severan dynasty who reigned from 218 to 222. Born Varius Avitus Bassianus, he was a Phoenician by birth, the son of Julia Soaemias and Sextus Varius Marcellus, and in his early youth he served as a priest of the god El-Gabal at his hometown, Emesa.
In 217, the emperor Caracalla was murdered and replaced by his Praetorian prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus. Caracalla’s maternal aunt, Julia Maesa, successfully instigated a revolt among the Third Legion to have her eldest grandson, Elagabalus, declared as emperor in his place. Macrinus was defeated on June 8, 218, at the Battle of Antioch, upon which Elagabalus, barely fourteen years old, ascended to the imperial power and began a reign that was marred by controversies.
During his rule, Elagabalus showed a disregard for Roman religious traditions and sexual taboos. He was married as many as five times and is reported to have prostituted himself in the imperial palace. Elagabalus replaced Jupiter, head of the Roman pantheon, with a new god, Deus Sol Invictus, and forced leading members of Rome’s government to participate in religious rites celebrating this deity, which he personally led.
Elagabalus developed a reputation among his contemporaries for eccentricity, decadence, and zealotry which was likely exaggerated by his successors and political rivals. This propaganda was passed on and, as a result, he was one of the most reviled Roman emperors to early historians. For example, Edward Gibbon wrote that Elagabalus “abandoned himself to the grossest pleasures and ungoverned fury.”[2] “The name Elagabalus is branded in history above all others” because of his “unspeakably disgusting life,” wrote B.G. Niebuhr.[3]
The relationships between Julia Maesa, Julia Soaemias, and Elagabalus were strong, at first. His mother and grandmother became the first women to be allowed into the Senate,[28] and both received Senatorial titles: Soaemias the established title of Clarissima and Maesa the more unorthodox Mater Castrorum et Senatus.[18] While Julia Maesa tried to position herself as the power behind the throne and subsequently the most powerful woman in the world, Elagabalus would prove to be highly independent, set in his ways, and impossible to control.
The Roses of Heliogabalus, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1888
A propaganda campaign against Elagabalus, traditionally attributed to Julia Avitus Mamaea, was instituted after his death.[44] Many denigrating and false stories were circulated about him, and his eccentricities may have been exaggerated.[44] The most famous among these, immortalized in the 19th-century painting The Roses of Heliogabalus, is that he smothered guests at a dinner to death with a mass of “violets and other flowers” dropped from above.[45]
Augustan History
The source of many of these stories of Elagabalus’s debauchery is the Augustan History (Historia Augusta), which scholarly consensus now feels to be unreliable in its details.[46] The Historia Augusta was most likely written near the end of the 4th century during the reign of emperor Theodosius I,[47] drawing as much upon the invention of its author as actual historical sources. The life of Elagabalus as described in the Augustan History is believed to be largely a work of historical fiction.[48] Only the sections 13 to 17, relating to the fall of Elagabalus, are considered to hold any historical value.[49]
Cassius Dio
Sources more credible than the Augustan History include the contemporary historians Cassius Dio and Herodian. Cassius Dio lived from the second half of the 2nd century until sometime after 229. Born into a patrician family, he spent the greater part of his life in public service. He was a senator under emperor Commodus and governor of Smyrna after the death of Septimius Severus. Afterwards he served as suffect consul around 205, and as proconsul in Africa and Pannonia. Alexander Severus held him in the highest esteem and made him his consul again. His Roman History spans nearly a millennium, from the arrival of Aeneas in Italy until the year 229. As a contemporary of Elagabalus, Cassius Dio’s account of his reign is generally considered more reliable than the Augustan History, although it should be noted that Dio spent the larger part of this period outside of Rome and had to rely on second-hand accounts when composing his Roman History. Furthermore, the political climate in the aftermath of Elagabalus’ reign, as well as his own position within the government of Alexander likely imposed restrictions on the extent to which his writing on this period is truthful.[50]
Herodian
Medal of Elagabalus, Louvre Museum.
Another contemporary of Elagabalus was Herodian, who was a minor Roman civil servant who lived from c. 170 until 240. His work, History of the Roman Empire since Marcus Aurelius, commonly abbreviated as Roman History, is an eye-witness account of the reign of Commodus until the beginning of the reign of Gordian III. His work largely overlaps with Dio’s own Roman History, but both texts seem to be independently consistent with each other.[51] Although Herodian is not deemed as reliable as Cassius Dio, his lack of literary and scholarly pretensions make him less biased than senatorial historians. Herodian is considered the most important source on the religious reforms which took place during the reign of Elagabalus, which have been confirmed by modern numismatical[52][53] and archaeological evidence.[54]
Anuraag Sanghi said, on April 27, 2009 at 6:54 pm
What Gibbon did not add are the following: –
1. Elagabalus /Heliogabalus – possibly is derived from Tamil – Alaga is beautiful and balu is boy. So, how did Elagabalus, a Phoenician use a Tamil name and ruled over the Roman Empire?
2. Phoenicians were known in antiquity as Cananites – and Phoenicians was name given to the Cannanites by the Greeks. The Hebrew word kena’ani (‘Canaanite’) came to have the secondary meaning of “merchant”.
3. Where in the world would you find Canaan – possibly in Tamil Nadu, where Kannan deva is worshipped!
4. Who was the most famous Phoenician chronicler – Sanchoniathon! And where in the world would you find a name like Sanchinath!
5. Cadmus (a Phoenician) is credited with having introduced writing to the Greeks. And what was used by Cadmus – palm leaves. The only people and place where palm leaves were used extensively for writing was India – specifically, more popular in South India.
6. Buddhist Scholars have long argued that Cadmus-> Cadmo-> Gothama is the etymology of Cadmus – and Cadmus was a Buddhist teacher in Greece.
7. A Phoenician Queen committed sati – burnt herself at the funeral pyre. It was Indian women who would committ Sati – instead of becoming slaves. The colonial representation of Sati were false propaganda – which forgot that Indians were the largest numbers of slaves who were captured and sent to Central Asia in Medieval Times by Islamic raiders. Central Asians raiders came to India – to loot gold – and Indians slaves.
8. Hannibal was a Phoenician from Carthage (which was Phoenician city). Was Hannibal supplied elephants by Indic kings to take on the most significant ‘asura-slave’ society of that time. Similar to the Indic support to Persians?
9.The Land of Ophir, mentioned in the Bible was proably Oviyarnadu – which is the modern SE Coast of India (Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Srilanka).
10. Indians were the first to use vowels – and till the Phoenicians introduced vowels to many languages in the world, languages like Akkadian, Sumerian, Babylonian, Egyptian used only consonants. So, many modern languages owe a debt to the Phoenicians.
11. The SE Coast of India was also a major ship building centre till the early 19th century. So, Phoenicians ships may have well used Indian Teak, which was considered the best for ships, till the use of iron started for ship building.
12. The well known deites of the Cannanites /Phoenicians were Molokh and Baal – which seem to be interestingly similar to Bala-Muruga, a favorite god by the Tamilians – 4000 years later also.
13. I reproduce below from a website dedicated to Phoenician study: –
(Start of extract)
There is a controversial study by Rajeswar Gupta is published in full as originally translated from Bengali in 1902. It is based on the ancient Rig Veda and puts forth the following suggestions regarding the origin of the Phoenicians:
A great war broke out in the remote old days (maybe 10,000 B.C.) between the Indian Aryans and the Phoenicians in which the latter were defeated and compelled to leave wholly or partially the land of the Aryans.
The Phoenicians were the first of the civilized nations of the world. The civilization of Assyria, Babylonia, Egypt, Greece and other ancient countries owed its origin to the union of the civilization of the Aryans with that of the Phoenicians.
The Phoenicians originally lived in some part of India, whence driven out they migrated gradually westwards. While still residing in the neighborhood of India they colonized and traded with Arabia and the countries bordering on the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.
The Phoenicians had colonies in many countries from each of which they were driven away by the natives after severe struggles. In this way they were expelled from India, Egypt, Greece, and Rome, or they mixed with the natives when they lost their supremacy in those countries.
In ancient time the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea were connected together by a strait through which the Phoenician and Aryan trading ships entered the Mediterranean Sea and Indian goods were taken to Europe. As that passage gradually silted up the connection between India and Europe broke off.
It must be noted that historians and archaeologist do theorize about supposed various origins of the Phoenicians with little hard evidence and one is left with nothing more than mere hypotheses
(End of extract).
The Phoenicians traded with south india this known
dgf said, on January 19, 2011 at 1:01 am
It’s time to put down the hashish pipe and rejoin reality my friend. Indian traders were well-known in the Middle East and Iran. See the Mitanni.
Chandra Ravikumar said, on August 4, 2016 at 7:06 am
The Phoenicians are the Paani of the Puraanas? Paani also means Trade.
The Parmacharyal of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam has said that Iran is derived from Aryan. Also Zend Avestha Is derived from Skandha.
levuka said, on June 28, 2009 at 9:36 am
The test of these interesting ideas may come with gene maps of India. See http://www.dnatribes.com which (based on a a limited sample gives per cent of genes for various parts of India as a percentage mix of Southern African, West African, East African, North India, South India, Eastern India, Altaian (continental Asia-Russia), Arabian, Mestizo, Mesopotamian, Tibetan and Other.)
Such gene maps have solved Pacific arguments – for example – early gene maps now show a 3500 year-old path from south China, with an admixture of Melenesian, on the way to the central Pacific islands. In the metal-free and protein-short islands, a pattern of cannibalism evolved, and Polynesians peoples evolved (in isolation) into large, strong, aggressive, analytical peoples with an indo-pacific language, linked to Malay and Indonesian languages. The arrival of hordes of Europeans with metal and guns – and the opening of the Suez canal – combined with new diseases – took about 200 years to decimate Pacific cultures.
In Samoa, for example – people look a bit Tibetan. It’s because the underlying gene set has ‘Chinese’ genes in it. But to aid your case for Indian supremacy as a core culture – the name of the Sun “Ra” in New Zealand – a country invaded by the cannibals of the Pacific – is the same as the Egyptian “Ra”. And (!) In Sanskrit RA is the acoustic root of fire. RA also connotes with light.
Anuraag Sanghi said, on July 4, 2009 at 9:10 am
The test of these interesting ideas may come with gene maps of India. See http://www.dnatribes.com which (based on a a limited sample gives per cent of genes for various parts of India as a percentage mix of Southern African, West African, East African, North India, South India, Eastern India, Altaian (continental Asia-Russia), Arabian, Mestizo, Mesopotamian, Tibetan and Other).
Levuka – The DNA as a ethnic marker needs a lot more study – with a lot less agenda and politics, to become reliable.
You are aware of the Bamshad et al study on the Indian genetic make up, that set out to prove that the Aryan Invasion Theory was true. The Bamshad study was significantly disputed by other studies by Sanghamitra Sahoo et al and Analabha Basu et al.
I would also urge you to consider how Western historians have resisting revised dating of the Egyptian – based on radio carbon dating.
Anyway to get some sense of reality, we would need inputs from multiple sources to construct a ‘realistic’ model.
You have just proved my above point.
This business that Native Tribes in Pacific islands, North America, Australia were wiped out to a convenient raft of diseases is very pithy – and weak. Human beings do develop resistance and immunity to diseases.
It just begs one question.
Just how come, this decimation happened only in the Anglo Saxon colonies? How come no other ethnic group in the world became extinct in this manner and scale?
No Siree. This decimation had nothing to do with DNA, genetic make up, diet, environment. It was cold, calculated and systematic annihilation – which Hitler tried to do in a few short years, unsuccessfully.
But to aid your case for Indian supremacy as a core culture
My case for ‘Indian supremacy’!!
It has a very delicious sense of imputation. I have not implied any such ‘superiority’.
What I am doing is pointing out are some deliberate attempts – aided by probably some level of ignorance, within the media and academia, about Indian contributions in the history of various nations.
David said, on September 24, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Nebuchadnezzar II and all the other Babylonian kings were from the Chaldean dynasty .it is known that Chaldeans spoke a version of the Aramic language.
Aramic has been the language of administration of empires and the language of divine worship. It was the day-to-day language of Israel in the Second Temple period (539 BCE – 70 CE), the original language of large sections of the biblical books of Daniel and Ezra, likely to have been the mother tongue of Jesus of Nazareth and is the main language of the Talmud .
Obviously the names must be Chaldean (Chaldean Aramic) .
Phoenician sarcophagus were excavated , a testimonial to the fact that Phoenicians buried their dead in stone coffins.
Anuraag Sanghi said, on September 25, 2009 at 8:31 am
Well! David –
Much like modern India, the West Asian region till the advent of the Desert Bloc supremacy, was a linguistic melting pot. There are hundreds of King names which can be derived from Indic languages. By some clever colonial dating tricks (which are being unravelled now), the evolution of West Asian languages has been distorted.
Your logic is a non-sequitur. Your own name is evidence of the logic. While you say you are an Indian Christian, your name cannot be attributed to any Indian language or dialect (by current linguistic research at least). Does the fact that your name is not Indian makes you any less Indian? Or vice versa!
You can look at: –
1. The suppression of the Pistis Sophia or the heresies of Origen et al to see how the Church has distorted the actual evolution of Christianity.
2. Similarly the persecution of Mani’s followers will give you some ideas.
3. Or the post-Hussite persecution of the Roma Gypsies.
Needless to say all these topics are well covered in various other posts – with exhaustive links which support, dispute or add to my post.
Somsuj said, on December 6, 2009 at 9:07 pm
Very well written hotchpotch – even worse are the responses.
You say :
So, in the first sentence, the name ‘possibly’ is derived from Tamil – and in the second sentence, no doubt remains and you ask how a Phoenician uses a Tamil name ?
What kind of logic is this ?
I am sorry – I cannot find any logic behind your ideas
samadhyayi said, on April 15, 2011 at 5:18 pm
that ‘indian tamil’ guy’s comment seems to have the answer . phoenicians being related to tamils. you know i have seen that movie australia. that aboriginee grandfather . u would think he is tamilian . arent the aboriginees supposed to be phoenicians . any way read below comment.
aravind kumar said, on April 6, 2010 at 6:42 am
i would like to the commonness in Dravidian culture among the major language groups.
aravind kumar
dravidian University
kuppam-517425
first off on a spiritual side i have dreamt of Prophet Muhammad more than 8times the last time was in the dream i am being told i am not from the family of the Prophet PBH and he is standing on the left of me and i ask him what about the indian people he just had a big smile on his face this is what made made interested in our background!i will jump to some of my most recent dreams the first one i had was i dreamt of a explanation of the dravidians in dream it said hamitic in type with straight hair and were also from egypt after this dream i dreamt of the fertlile crescent in syria and it is showing the dravidians came from the fertile crescent in syria close to the sea and weird thing i read a article on the brahui dravidians they claim they are from aleppo i looked this up and indeed aleppo is by the sea and in syria 1 or 2 days after this i dreamt of the dravidians coming out of upper egypt not ethiopia i sea map it was not the eastern coast but upper egypt i see a arrow showing the direction of travel into syria and i see arrows going east through the middle east through south iran into northwest india and indeed the elamites were all in southern iran not the sumerians and this is the direction of travel of the dravidians . long time before this i dreamt dark people entering india through northwest then also settling in bangladesh and then tamil nadu, also i have dreamt of different hamitic races and ones with straight hair looking like arabs and brown indians with straight hair very different then the other negroid types of africa also i dreamt of some ethiopians and somalians like us same fine features straight hair looking like brown indians. also i dreamt of egypt i see egypt in the dream and i am being told our family is from afro arabian people!weird and the elamites were a middle eastern hamitic race and they are also are from shem through his son elam hence the name elamite arabian is meaning from shem but elamites did not have a semitic culture or language also i dreamt of myself in iraq i see all of iraq and iran and in dream it is saying the faris races of iraq and iran are same as people of the gulf well i came across something after i dreamt this our sunni imam says on a tradition that lud son of shem married shakbah daughter of japheth and the faris race comes from them lud was also the fore father of the amalikites the canaanites the people of oman the gulf egypt hijaz this is in wikipedia! and before this i dreamt of lud and his wife and i in dream it is saying we are not semitic and then i am holding lud in my arms like a baby and what imam tabari said is true because the faris is not semitic and also come from him also i dreamt of a fair lady and in dream it is saying the people of gulf and iran are from her and also saying the indians are from the middle east but from someone else an in fact they are from the scythians who are from magog son of japheth. our feature are found in yemen and arabia also i dreamt of a man wearing a turban clean shaved and telling me we are from yemen also our type of prople are found there in egypt and in yemen the majority of our race came out from egypt with a smaller amount remaing in egypt from there they migrated to ethiopia and somalia out feature are not found in south africa. it is egypt we came from! also our features are very different than the aborigines of australia the nose is different dravidians have finer features they are a unique hamitic race and also come from shem
husayn said, on February 26, 2018 at 5:28 am
There are some corrections I need to make the Elamites were a mix of the Dravidians and people same as pure native Americans(same type of culture and people of Phut .This mix is from North Africa . The Dravidians are the original Mediterranean and Sumerian people .One branch settled in Mediterranean,the other branch going East (Sumerians) then to India via Southern Iran then there was trade connecting them again,for Southern India had strong trade ties with Yemen,Oman,Nabateans ,Rome and Greece. The Dravidians were in the Mediterranean before the E3b mix which is Dravidian,a people same as pure native Americans and people of Phut. and I have dreamt of the features of people of Phut and I saw these features > https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/An_Afar_nomad.jpg
The Dravidians were in Mediterranean with the Minoans and Etruscans who are branches of the Indo-Aryan Lydians (Neo-hittites ),the Bull culture is from Dravidians and the Etruscan language is derived from them
updated >On a spiritual side, I have seen Prophet Muhammad PBH 17 times now), and I say it with no boasting. I dreamt of the Prophet PBH and I am standing besides him, and I was told I am not a sayyid.
Twice I dreamt the Dravidians are the Sumerians, and they are from Canaan, and the Blacks and Ethiopians((*the word I saw was Abyssinians)) are from Cush, ibn Ham.
After a yr I came across something in Prophets and Patriarchs which said Nimrod was son of Cush, son of Canaan, son of Ham. There are two Cush’s and people have gotten them mixed up.
I dreamt an explanation of the Dravidians. I was told in the dream that they are Hamitic in type; with straight hair and they were also Egyptians. Then after some time I dreamt the Dravidians came from the fertile crescent in Syria, close to the sea.
After this I dreamt they came from Egypt, close to the sea, and I see arrows showing their travel. One arrow goes up into the fertile crescent in Syria, and the other goes east through south Iraq and southern Iran until the arrow reached northwest India!
Also I dreamt of a migration in the shape of a U on the river Nile, though nowhere did I see anything to do with the horn of africa. And that the migration came from East.
On 13/11/11 I dreamt the Dravidians are Phoenicians. A branch of Dravidians did settle in the fertile crescent in Syria, close to the sea. (*Dravidians were mixed with the Akkadians and Amorites(Imliq), the Indo-Aryan Lydians, and the Elamites . The Dravidians and pure Native Americans are known as the Asiatics(Canaanites) who mixed with the Hyksos who are the Imliq/Amalekites/Amorites , the Akkadians were also mixed with the Dravidians. The Imliq are the original Hebrews who are from Prophet Saleh PBH and the Akkadians are from Prophet Hud PBH ,
husayn said, on March 2, 2011 at 10:23 am
sumerians were not indo aryan
Indian tamil said, on April 1, 2011 at 1:51 pm
First “murasoli” in tamil means sound emanating from drum. “murasu” means drum and “oli” means sound
tamil is one of the oldest continuing languages has protected many features of harappans whom were the cousins of sumerians
also one sections of tamils were prominent sea traders, Phoenicians would have related to the tamils in far ancient times, and their descedants of present generations just forgot that.
phoenician words such as am(water) , bet(house –>tamil, vetu) related to tamil words
Indian Tamil –
I have given dictionary links for the derivation
of Murasoli. Your suggestion indicates that Murasoli has more than one meaning.
Of the two meanings, as per you, which is more relevant in a king-name?
KUMAR IYER said, on August 8, 2012 at 5:55 am
I tend to agree with Indian Tamil on the definition of Murasoli+ sound of drumbeat
samadhyayi said, on April 21, 2011 at 5:55 am
have u guys seen that movie ‘dashavataram’. that initial episode of shaivites vs vaishnavites was a total unnecessity for the plot of the movie but it was put in the movie with considerable amount of money. WHY?
this is nothing but kamal hasan currying karuna nidhi’s favor by fuelling more propoganda of the aryan dravidan conflict and hinduism. this movie i have read is the highest grossing movie in indian movie history. the damage has been done. now no matter how strong the evidence is . the people are thinking that shaivites and vaishnavites fought bloodily and that hinduism is like other religions. no matter how hard we try to explain the impression caused by the visuals of that movie seem to take the upper hand. what will the casual listener care about our reference to vishnasya hrudyam shiva. shivasya hrudyam vishnu . etc etc. if i see Kamal Hasan in person sometime i will give him a piece of my mind. (what could i possibly do? what would u do?). now the pakistanis, indian muslims, christians everybody seem to be drawing their conclusions about hinduism from that movie.
will somebody tell me in one word.
are there really two groups known as aryans and dravidians. are tamilians dravidians and the rest of us aryans. even Jaggi Vasudev Ji seems to think that there are aryans and dravidians and that dravidians were shaivites and aryans were something else. Vivekananda also said something about vanaras being original inhabitants of india. so what to make of all of this.
What, as per you is the more relevant meaning in a king-name?
Internet_Hindus said, on April 21, 2011 at 9:02 pm
Great job Anurag. First of all let me declare that I am an Out of India believer and have always done so unknowingly even when my class teachers taught me about some nomadic tribe coming from europe and writing Vedas.
Now, for the sake of discussion and correctness of the above cited hypothesis I need to ask one query. Would it not be possible that the Greek, Sumerian, Egyptian kingdoms and their kings that you mention might have been just inspired by Indian greatness and its composition and proponents of Dharma?. In the same scenario the world would have looked up to this country and would have imitated some names in their languages. As an example in modern times, I have noticed the inclusion of Alexander in Chanakya as “Alakshendra” in hindi. So cant people then have just borrowed names like that due to traders and knowledge transfers across kingdoms.
I have always felt that Linguistics and Linguists are the biggest culprits in modelling Indian history. By the way my personal discussions with Koenraad Elst also points truth in the observation that Anurag has made. However, he is an honest man who has great pride for this country. No motives behind those theories for sure.
Now, for the sake of discussion and correctness of the above cited hypothesis I need to ask one query. Would it not be possible that the Greek, Sumerian, Egyptian kingdoms and their kings that you mention might have been just inspired by Indian greatness and its composition and proponents of Dharma?
Completely true – not just possible or probable. You can read more at
1. 3 That Changed History – The Amarna Letters http://goo.gl/2CBi3
2.3 That Changed The World – Boghazkoi Clay Tablets http://goo.gl/pi3em
3. 3 Battles That Changed World History – And India http://goo.gl/wk2qd
the inclusion of Alexander in Chanakya as “Alakshendra” in hindi. So cant people then have just borrowed names like that due to traders and knowledge transfers across kingdoms.
The Aliksundar references I have seen are basically Indian attempts to present a vernacular version of Western historical narrative. On Alexander’s ‘conquest’, you read more at
http://goo.gl/I1zqH
levuka said, on April 21, 2011 at 11:47 pm
Here’s a little factoid to add to the mill:
Kathryn SIM, Desert Traveler, the Life of Jean Louis Burckhardt, Gollanz, 1969 P. 107
..”500 elephants were sent to Selacus Nicator on the the ceding of the Macedonian-held territory in Afghanistan, by King Chandragupta in 302 BC…”. These came “through the passes of Baluchistan, across Persia and Mesopotamia”, to the valley which housed the Seleucid city of Apamea.
This transaction of 500-elephants-for-territory is very interesting for more than one reason – which I had linked in some of my posts.
1. These 500 elephants were the decisive factor in the Daidochi Wars after Alexander’s death. Especially at the Battle of Ipsus.
2.Pyrrhus and Hannibal used the experience at Ipsus against Rome.
3. Now if Roman armies could be frightened by 20 elephants of Pyrrhus, or Hannibal’s 37, what happened to Alexander’s troops, when faced with 100s, if not 1000s of elephants, which were common in Indian armies.
4. To put that in perspective, Chandragupta Maurya had thousands of war elephants. Figures range between 5,000 to 9,000. And how many elephants did Porus’ army have? 200 elephants is the estimate, by Greek hagiographers.
5. Seleucos’ elephants corps were headquartered at Apamea – a city named after Seleucos’ Bactrian wife Apama; daughter of Spitamenes.
6. Seleucos’ elephants corps were handled by Indian mahavats. Romans mounted a secret offensive mission. Romans, in 163 BC. A Roman contingent went into Laodicea, Syria, to neutralize this elephant unit.
7. War elephants were an Indian monopoly for most of history.
8. The Greek story about Alexander’s soldiers neutralizing Porus’ war elephants corps was created possibly to impress Alexander’s Levantine satraps – evidenced by the Alexander’s /Ptolemy’s elephant-coins – mostly discovered in the Mesopotamia region.
9. The bigger questions relate to chronology in Indian history. The Sandrocottus in Greek accounts has been taken to mean Chandragupta.
10. There are many Chandraguptas in Indian history. Western historians decided that Chandragupta Maurya would fit the bill best – for Western historical agenda.
11. To my mind, this wrongly compresses 800 years of Indian history into a ‘convenient’ chronology.
12. This 500 elephants transaction is one such event – which raises some very interesting questions.
senthil said, on May 22, 2011 at 5:32 pm
Anurag,
Are you saying, that elam people from present srilanka, migrated to Iran and created a civilization? Or is it vice versa?
In any case, the first question i face is that where is the excavations in elam? So as for the Horse, which people ask, there is no horse fossil in india with date older than the fossil at central asia..
How do we respond to such questions..
For eg, in case of greek civilization, the temples and pyramids are dated as 3000 BC, for which people say there was no corresponding remains in india with such older dates.. so they say, the greeks were advanced and we got their temple architecture later..
Is there any answer to such questions? I hope, i have conveyed my point..
Hitesh Kumar said, on August 5, 2012 at 8:11 pm
He expressed his views strongly for reform in Hinduism in order to superimpose view Christianity on former. He supported Brahmo Samaj movement. He believes that Brahmo Samja will engender an Indian form ‘Christianity’ and Indian were practice Christianity without being Roman Catholic , Anglicans or Lutherans.”In the Lutheran tradition, he hoped that the superstition and “idolatry” which he considered to be characteristic of modern popular Hinduism would disappear.
Anuraag Sanghi said, on August 8, 2012 at 9:56 am
@StPTBarnum Murasoli indeed means "sound of drum beat" #tamil
— KUMAR IYER (@eskoomar) August 8, 2012
Hittite Kings 4000 yr ago with Tamil names? http://t.co/zQaMjgij @eskoomar Dictionary links given. Maybe there are 2 meanings in 4000 yr
— St. PT Barnum (@StPTBarnum) August 8, 2012
@StPTBarnum Murasu = Drum, Oli + sound. Murasu+Oli = Murasoli = sound emanating from a drum
Dictionary is giving the meaning @eskoomar To get a better fix on this, see the script of Georgia /Georgian language
Anuraag Sanghi said, on August 8, 2012 at 10:13 am
@StPTBarnum A brilliant post with nice links A long read. Sad some people @ranga can't read between the lines of KE
Gulamemustafa Shaikh said, on September 15, 2012 at 12:19 am
I always thought what you have written here. I felt that an Aryan invasion was not possible because north west India was always populated by warrior tribes of Rajputs and others. Even Alexander could not cross over into India then how could the sage minded Aryans do that. There were two great events which sent out large masses out of India; One was the drying of the Saraswati River and second was the Mahabharata war. I am very much sure for myself that those who proceeded westwards are the Mittanies, the Babylonians, the Elamites of Iran and the Sabeans and Nabataeans mentioned in history.
The Mittanies might have partly dissolved into the local population and partly come back to India via the Arabian sea. Same with the others. We have ample archaeological proof for all this. However in the Middle East mainly in Saudi Arabia and certain other countries it is the practice of governments to destroy historical finds by pulverizing them in machines at these cultures are against idol worship and do not want to own up any connections to Indic origins.
A very well researched and written article this. I wonder why the historians of India do not write some books on this for our school students who are not aware of these things.
Mulik said, on December 11, 2012 at 10:35 am
Nice study,,,,, what is your name?
Suren said, on March 27, 2013 at 6:20 pm
Elam means homeland? LOL. Another fake theory.
To begin with the Elamo-Dravidian theory has been rejected by most scholars.
As for Elam meaning homeland, is pure nonsense and a typical example of pseudo scholars making directly false and erronous theories.
The Tamil word Eelam, is a completely different word than Elam.
1. The ‘E’ in Elam is pronounced as the E in Egg while the ‘E’ in the Tamil word Eelam/Ilam is pronounced as in eel.
2. The ‘L’ in Elam is the normal L, while the ‘L’ in the Tamil word Eelam is a retroflex. It is more of an R than an L, and many linguists call it an R and write it as r with 2 dots under, or r inverted. Also writen as ‘zh’ (Eezham). It sounds like a combination of R and Z.
Eelam/Ilam (இலம்) does not mean homeland in Tamil, but poverty.
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.1:1:1272.tamillex
And Eelam/Ilam (ஈழம்) means Sinhala (country), gold or toddy and not homeland.
Anuraag Sanghi said, on March 27, 2013 at 11:32 pm
A big difference between scholar and blogger. Any scholarly allusions are yours – not mine.
Tamil history and language are both complex subjects. Hence, etymology of any word will need deep, intimate study – which I do not claim or have.
Coming to Eelam –
1. The meaning of the word eelam as country, nation, region can be gauged by one the links provided by you.
Lanka was an early pioneer in asuric statecraft – which probably travelled from Lanka to the Assyrian regions. Therefore, for these people to also call their new land as Eelam would not surprise me.
If you investigate closely, in the same dictionary, it appears that some toddy tappers from Lanka (Eelam) emigrated to Tamil Nadu – and the country name (Eelam), tribal name (Eelam) and their output, toddy also became Eelam.
2. Three other related words may again further bolster my interpretation.
One is எல்லை ellai – meaning Limit, border, boundary, extent, Place, spot, locality
Next is எல்லேமும் ellēm-um – meaning ‘We all’.
Third is the Telugu word – illu, meaning house, home.
3. For pre-Buddha India, modern history has little to offer. So, we may need to fall back on classical Indian historiography – which operates by different rules and standards.
Lastly two other points need to be marshaled here.
One – Elamite languages used only consonants – and therefore all vowels are modern assumptions. So, your attempts to relate modern Tamil vowels to ancient Elamite words is without merit or context.
Two – Few of the Elamite kings called themselves as Bharat (modern history calls them Ebarat, Barat, etc). In case you don’t know the relevance of this ‘coincidence’, I will leave you to do some Google-work on that.
I must also add that in Vedic /Pauranik geography, Ila region was called Ilavarta. This region presumably covered West Asia and parts of Central Asia. In Latin, the Arabian region was known as illam.
Some translation of the world Ila conclude that the Ila is also used as synonym for homeland. Take this shloka for instance, from the Rigveda.
१३१.इळा सरस्वती मही तिस्रो देवीर्मयोभुवः । बर्हिः सीदन्त्वस्रिधः॥९॥
मातृभूमि, मातृसंस्कृति और मातृभाषा—ये तीनों सुखद होती हैं। (from Wikipedia).
Alt translation:
इळा सरस्वती और मही ये तीनो देवियाँ सुखकारी और क्षयरहित है! ये तीनो बिछे हुए दीप्तिमान कुश के आसनो पर विराजमान् हों॥९॥ (from here).
Suren said, on March 29, 2013 at 2:06 am
Hi Anuraag, 🙂
Thanks for your quick reply. But u didn’t get the point and your whole theory is flawed and full of contradictions, in addition you are moving people across continents and millenia like pieces in a chess board, which obviously clashes with chronology.
Anyway, the point is that these two words i.e Elam and Eezham are two completely different words. When written using the English alphabet they look alike, but they are pronounced completely different, and it is you who is trying to relate these two words and not me. The Tamils claim that the word Eezham/Eelam ஈழம் is very ancient and the L in it, is a peculiar Dravidian sound, and is claimed to be retained only in Tamil and Malayalam. So there’s nothing modern about it. Moreover It is you yourself who say that the Elamites called their country Elam, which you also claim means homeland, and trying to relate it to Eezham, which u then say is modern 🙂 You also claim that the Elamites didn’t use vowels!!! FYI there are 2 vowels in Elam. 🙂
The migration of toddy tappers from Sri Lanka, u mention happened around 1-2 C.E and they claim descent from the Sinhalese people.
Before you point fingers at scholars like Koenraad Elst, don’t u think that u should get a hold of what u r saying? I have read this article of yours a bit more closely now, and it is a jumble of direct falsehoods and I don’t think anything would surprise you, who obviously lives in a world constructed of fallacies as everything is possible in a world where one first makes a conclusion, which is often false, and try to alter the evidence to reach that conclusion, rather than coming to a conclusion, based on the evidence or test a hypothesis based on valid arguments deduced from the evidence.
As far as Eezham (Eelam/Sinhala/Ceylon) is concerned the ancient Tamils called it so, meaning the country of the Sinhalese. Ancient Tamil lexicons and Tamil literature right upto the 20th century attest to this. Until the late 19th century/begining of the 20th century, the Tamils in Sri Lanka said they came from the opposite coast and settled in Sri Lanka. It was later, due to political reasons that some of them have rejected their origins and started to claim that they are the original inhabitants of Sri Lanka, of which no convincing proof is given, but a huge amount of fake theories have been made, like the one you have come with in regards to migration FROM Sri Lanka to Elam and the theory you present about Ophir and Oviyars. Do you have any scholarly references to your claim that Elamites migrated FROM Sri Lanka?
I do agree with you on one point, namely that the so called Aryan Invasion didn’t happen, and that the Eurocentric version of history, where promoting western superiority was the priority rather than the evidence and truth, must be laid dead. But attempts like yours to promote Tamil/Dravidian superiority, where u try to claim so much of the world history to be Dravidian and particularly Tamil, as if other people did not exist, should also not happen. At any cost, the Tamils in Sri Lanka are a diaspora of Tamilakam/Tamilnadu, as pr available evidence and references you yourself have given, and the geographical meaning of the word Eelam in Tamil is, Sinhala (Ceylon/Lanka).
Anuraag Sanghi said, on March 29, 2013 at 8:38 am
OK … I get your rather simple point.
I should not trash Koenraad Elst’s trojan trash.
Why use so many words and confusions to declare to make this simple point?
L Radhakrishna Rao said, on February 26, 2017 at 10:09 am
Those tamil who settled here are pacific islanders.
I don’t understand what you are saying in your point 3, where u say “For pre-Buddha India, modern history has little to offer”.
Just to get a perspective of what your idea about events given in Indian literature is, could you say, when u think the Mahabharata war happened and when was Silappatikaram written?
I would also like to point out that your claim that there is no mention of an Aryan language is wrong, because in Tamil literature, Sanskrit is refered to as Arya, but ofcourse, there’s no mention of a race called Arya, because that as you say is a western contruction. Funny how they defined that race, using the Indian word Arya, but ended up calling themselves the Aryan race. Much like the Eelam scenario, where the ancient Tamils called the Sinhalese country as Eelam, but Tamils who migrated to the Sinhalese country have recently claimed almost half of it, and have named this would be country Tamil Eelam !!
hari said, on August 5, 2013 at 7:13 pm
@Suren
if u dnt know history just keep quiet stop trolling here ,it was sinhalese who migrated to srilanka ,b4 it was full of tamilians mostly dravidans ,ceylon consisted of various tribes dominant was the nagas, thn pandiyans kings
my family lineage was from ceylon ,my caste is illuvar that means illathu pillai or eelathu pillai and eelam means homeland , dont u know the meaning of home in the is vedu also in sanga tamil as illam (ellam).dont u know that thousands of people shed blood to stop deprival of their homeland by the sinhalas
Sharmalondon said, on August 5, 2013 at 7:17 pm
You are aware that GENETICS 100% refutes any South Indian migration to west asia or central asia.
BUT, genetics 100% proves migration from North India into west asia and central asia.
So in fact the genetics states that NORTH INDIANS who spoke a tamil dialect moved into west asia and middle east, therefore its not a south Indian connection but a north Indian connection, which comes from south India.
If you look at a map of India, the only place to migrate into west asia is from north west india. So if you take genetics into account, then the tamil connection to elam.west asia.egypt etc, is DIRECTLY FROM A NORTH INDIAN perspective, before the onset of sanskrit development. Also the missionary version that Indus was created by south Indian tamils is also wrong, it was likely created by north indians who spoke a tamil dialect, who then migrated into west asia and central asia, forming the link that South Indian christian try to do today.
Metspalu, Gyaneshwer Chaubey et al, American Journal of Human Genetics, Dec. 2011)
Genetic study finds no evidence for Aryan Migration Theory–On the contrary, South Indians migrated to north and South Asians migrated into Eurasia. The study is comprehensive, unlike previous studies of human genome and is unique, because it focuses on large number of populations in South Asia, and India.Haplotype diversity associated with dark green ancestry is greatest in the south of the Indian subcontinent, indicating that the alleles underlying it most likely arose there and spread northwards.
One of many studies that confirm the same conclusion, that any connection to from Tamil to Elam in west asia is from a NORTH INDIAN not a SOUTH INDIAN connection.
GulliverFredrich said, on February 13, 2017 at 5:06 pm
Genetics does not disprove that at all, the present day populations of the Middle East is not the same as the Ancient populations which is obviously common sense. Much of the modern day Middle East was taken over by Turks and Turkic groups and later White Eurasian and European invaders; this drastically changed the entire genetic makeup and population demographics of the region to that of today, and thus cannot be a reflection of past genes. However they found that the skeletons and genes of the Ancient Sumerians and Harrapans were identical to that of modern day South Indians and South-West Indians, so there is a basis to these ideas…..
there are two branches of the Dravidians ,one settled in the Mediterranean the other branch went East (Sumerians) then to India via Southern Iran until they reached Northwest from the Northwest they migrated down. Tell me when did migration from North India into west asia and central asia happen , I think what you are saying is very incorrect ,1 ) Scythians did not originate in India ,they came from the Steppes/Central Asia area and it is said the R dna comes from the P haloptype https://goo.gl/images/N2EMsQ map from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_F-M89
This is a fabrication because that is the movements of the yuezhi (Kushans) https://goo.gl/images/eVH1Fr
Kushans came after the Hittites,Mitanni,Medes,Lydians who were not Saka(Scythians) ,tell me when did the Kushans conquer Iran and Anatolia ?
Dravidians are the original Mediterranean and Sumerian people who are Canaanites ,they did not originate in Africa and Africans are not the original Mediterranean and Sumerian people
info below is from wikipedia!
L was found in( 51% of Syrians from Al-Raqqah), a northern Syrian city in which its previous inhabitants have been wiped out by the Mongols by and repopulated in recent times by localBedouin populations and Chechen war refugees.[4] In a small sample of Israeli Druze haplogroup L was found in 7 out of 20 (35%). However, studies done on bigger samples showed that L-M20 averages 5% in Israeli Druze,[5] 8% in Lebanese Druze,[6] and it was not found in a sample of 59Syrian Druze. Haplogroup L has been found in 2.0% (1/50)[7] to 5.25% (48/914)[8] of Lebanese. wikipedia
L y dna
Syria 51.0% (33/65) of Syrians in Al-Raqqah,( 31.0% of Eastern Syrians) Mirvat El-Sibai et al. 2009[4] Iran 3.4% L1-M76 (4/117) and 2.6% L2-M317 (3/117)
for a total of 6.0% (7/117) haplogroup L in southern Iran
3.0% (1/33) L3-M357 in northern Iran Regueiro et al. 2006(( Turkey 57% in Afshar village,)) 12% (10/83) in Black Sea Region, 4.2% (1/523 L-M349 and 21/523 L-M11(xM27, M349)) Cinnioğlu et al. 2004, Gokcumen (2008)
The subclades of Haplogroup L with their defining mutation(s), according to the 2011 ISOGG tree:
L (M11, M20, M22, M61/Page43, M185)
L* Found only in Europe from Ireland to Eastern Europe[26]
L1 (M295) Found from Western Europe to South Asia [27]
L1*
L1a (M27, M76, P329) Found frequently in Indians, Sri Lankans, andBalochs, with a moderate distribution in other populations of Pakistan, southern Iran, and Arabia but also in European populations
L1b (M317) Found at low frequency in Central Asia, Southwest Asia, and Central Europe
L1b*
L1b1 (M349) Principally found in Europe
L1b2 (M274)
L1c (M357) Found frequently among Burushos, Kalashas, Chechensand Pashtuns, with a moderate distribution among other populations inPakistan, Georgia, northern Iran, India, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia
L1c*
L1c1 (PK3) Found frequently among Kalash
Mari (modern Tell Hariri, Syria) was an ancient( Sumerian and Amorite city), located 11 kilometers north-west of the modern town of Abu Kamal on the western bank of Euphrates river, some 120 km southeast of Deir ez-Zor, Syria. It is thought to have been inhabited since the 5th millennium BC, although it flourished with series of superimposed palaces that spans a thousand years, from 2900 BC until 1759 BC, when it was sacked by Hammurabi.[1]
Abu Kamal (Arabic: أبو كمال, Turkish: Ebu Kemal or Kışla) is a city in eastern Syria on theEuphrates River near the border with Iraq. The Euphrates divides Abu Kamal into two areas: Shamiyya (belonging to the Levant) and Jazira (belonging to Mesopotamia) Al-Jazira, a plains region consisting of northeastern Syria and northwestern Iraq, quite distinct from the Syrian Desertand lower-lying central Mesopotamia. Abu Kamal is an economically prosperous farming region with cattle-breeding, cereals, and cotton crops. It is also home to the historical site Dura-Europos and the ancient kingdom of Mari.
Above is not African
Western Europe >http://mapofeurope.com/map-of-western-europe/
Etruscan language is derived from Dravidian and this is before trade with Rome and Greece (Etruscans and Minoans are branches of the Indo-Aryan Lydians(Neo-Hittites)
https://archive.org/details/LycianLydianAndOtherAncientLanguages
https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/europe/tu-history-lydia.htm
https://www.harappa.com/content/indus-and-dravidian-cultural-relationship
http://indianexpress.com/article/research/no-bull-this-could-be-why-tamil-nadu-is-obsessed-with-jallikattu-4482132/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/pandian-dynasty-roman-greek-connections-pmp-pmi-acp-itilv3
https://www.revolvy.com/topic/Roman%20trade%20with%20India&item_type=topic
https://goo.gl/images/FCKAyo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_H_(Y-DNA)
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masculineffort said, on July 21, 2013 at 4:38 pm
Anurag, I like your writing and your passion. That being said, You take yourself and your views way to seriously. Chill out, man! So sensitive to criticism you are. Much like all those Yummrikans you seem to be obsessed with.
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masculineffort said, on February 24, 2014 at 4:41 pm
In the Pali Canon, the word Ariya refers to the noble ones who have attained at least the first stream of liberation. To the Blessed one, there were only two castes, Ariyo and Anariyo. This is the context in which the word Ariya (sanskrit: Arya) was used those days. To refer to the Ariyans as a race is like referring to the equator pole as a country. Why is it so difficult to make a simple point these days?
Husayn said, on April 12, 2014 at 9:27 pm
On a spiritual side I have seen Prophet Muhammad PBH 10times and I say it with no boasting I dreamt of the Prophet PBH and I am standing besides him and I was told I am not a sayyid and I ask the Prophet PBH about the Indian people, he PBH had a big smile on his face this is why I started to find out about the Indian people particularly the dark ones2times I dreamt the dravidians are the sumerians and 1time they are from Canaan and that the blacks and ethiopians(afro asiatic note they are different) are from cush ibn ham different races originate from Cush son of Ham is what I mean )
and after a yr I came across something in Prophets and Patriarchs which it said 2times Nimrod(disbeliever was son of cush son of canaan son of ham There is two cush’s and people have gotten them mixed up the sumerians migrated to india but also they went into southern arabia thats how a group of them made it to the horn of africa and the dark afro asiatic elamites are from Phut ibn Ham yes the cushites from cush ibn ham are indeed blessed as well
i dreamt a explanation of the dravidians i was told in the dream (hamitic) in type with straight hair and were also egyptians then after some time i dreamt the dravidians came from the fertile crescent in syria close to the sea and after this i dreamt they came from egypt close to the sea and i see arrows showing their travel one arrow goes up into the fertile crescent in syria and the other goes east through south iraq and southern iran until the arrow reached northwest india! also i dreamt of a migration in the shape of a U on the river nile nowhere did i see anything to do with the horn of africa I believe this is also 2011 which i saw this i dont remember a date
. On 13/11/11 I dreamt the dravidians are Phoenicians( A branch of Dravidians ) on the 28/12/11 i dreamt the phoenecians in north africa and i saw italy and there is interaction between them both
and i found this article on the dravidians below
The Mediterraneans or Dravidians were associated with the ancient Sumerian civilizations of Mesopotamia and of Elam (southern Iran). Authors have pointed out ethnic, linguistic and cultural affinities between the Sumerians (Mesopotamians) and the Dravidians of South India, and concluded that both probably belonged to the same ethnic stock. HR Hall writes: “The ethnic type of the Sumerians, so strongly marked in their statues and relofs was as different from those of the races which surrounded them as was their language from those of the Semites, Aryans and others; they were decidedly Indian in type. The face-type of the average Indian today is no doubt much the same as that of the Dravidian race ancestors thousands of years ago…And it is to this Dravidian ethnic type of India that the ancient Sumerian bears most resemblance, so far as we can judge from his monuments. He was very like a Southern Hindu of the Deccan (who still speaks Dravidian languages). And it is by no means improbable that the Sumerians were an Indian tribe which passed, certainly by land, perhaps also by sea, through Persia to the valley of the Two Rivers.â€
Hall is of the opinion that Dravidian people must have migrated to Mesopotamia from India, whereas others think Dravidians came from Mediterranean regions, which was their earlier home. KP Padmanabha Menon writes about their close relationship: “Orientalists, many of them, are prepared to concede that the Sumerians, the Mediterranean race, are branches of the early Dravidians.â€
http://www.soebratie.nl/religie/hadith/IbnSad.html this info i got 2013 because when I enter it into my notes on facebook it shows the date)))
Also I should make mention there are 3 Nimrods one is Nimrod son of Arfakhshaad(Arphaxad) son of Shem his dwelling place was Al Hijr(North Arabia) the 2 nd Nimrod is Nimrod son of Cush son of Canaan son of Ham and the 3rd is Nimrod son of Cush son of Ham
On the Elamites
By:Ardy
Date: 8/14/2002, 9:59 pm
Until relatively recently, many scholars including the world renown late Roman Girshman thought of the Elamites as an essentially Asianic Mediterranean race of people speaking, like the majority of the people on the Iranian Pleateau prior to the Aryan invasions (circa 4000 years ago)a Caucasic tongue related to the languages of Georgia and much of the Caucasus (Abkhaz, Mingrellian, Daghestani etc…)
Of particular interest to me is the nature of the depictions ofo Elamite as well as Mede and Persian soldiers on the walls of the palace of Shush now mostly at the Louvre Museum in Paris.
The elite Immortal division of the Persian army during Achamenid times was composed of Persians, Medes and Elamites (and perhaps at times Scythians). I have several original pictures of these walls and these show guardsmen of different ethnic origin parading with their respective regimental colors.
To my surprise, 2 out of 3 of these guardsmen were depicted as blond with green or blue eyes. These represented the Persian and Mede nobility unmixed with the aboriginal population. Then, there were Elamite warriors whose skin was, for all purpose, black. Most had straight or wavy hair but a few seem to have had more curly hair (this may have been due to the then common practice ofcurling hair according to Assyrian practice and thus reflected a fashion trend rather than an ethnic trait).
The Elamites were black skinned, as well the people of eastern Iran whom Herodotus refered to as “Asiatic Ethiopians”. Over the years, more in depth studies has revealed that the language of teh Elamites was in fact an archair form of Dravidian. The red ware style of of Elamite pottery was also similar to that found in northern INdia during the Mohenjo-Daro and Harrapa civilization. Today, there remains very little doubt taht these people were in fact Dravidian.
What is a Dravidian? Dravidians may be a very ancient mixture of local Mediterranean physical types commonly found (to this day, probably the majority element among Iranians) on the Iranian Plateau with Australoid people of the Veddoind type. THe result was the features common to teh Elamites including short stature, longish face, straight hair and blackish skin.
Although the ethnic character of Iran has been redrawn and modified many times over the millenia, you can still travel to places such as Kerman in the south east as well as Zanjan and the pronvince of Balutchestan (home of Herodotus’ Asiatic Ethiopians) and see these racial affinities among the locals who still live mostly on fishing, just as they had for thousands of years. and also this month of april 2014 i cannot find the date but i dreamt the elamites were a mix between three dravidian canaanite, canaanite type same as pure aboriginals of north america and a hamitic type that is like some ethiopians with light curly hair to wavy not an afro texture and features are similar to dark indian these three mixes you will not get an african looking person dark skin yes
Sorry there was no “nobility” with blonde hair and blue/green eyes, that’s just idiotic bullshit that Whites are trying to inject in order to make a fake history for themselves. However it was known that the Sumerians and Babylonians had white vassal subjects, and used the Gutians, a supposed White Indo-European people, as slaves and whom they saw a barbarian peoples much like the the later Romans with the Germanics. There is no real “australoid” race either and genetic and medical evidence overrides pseudo-skull morhology and appearance categorization of people into racial categories. You need to stop with this idiotic garbage bullshit that you have been indoctrinated with…..
reply to my comment , the Dravidians are not Asiatic Ethiopians ,there are two Cushs not one
jamalovic said, on August 30, 2014 at 11:36 pm
i am sorry…but its just… bla bla…
anyone can say anything.
for ex someones wrote-
1/ Indians were the first to use vowels – and till the Phoenicians introduced vowels to many languages in the world.
2/ Post colonial historical revision is proposing new theories. New archaeological evidence supports history that shows Aryans moved from India to the Anatolian plains and established the Sumerian, Mesopotamian, Babylonian cultures of Elam, Mitannites, Kassites along modern Syria to Turkey. The Elamites, Mittanis, Hittites competed and traded with the Egyptians. (funny)
3/ military successes and a spread which taken India deeper than any other civilisation in the world (really)
shocking and so funny but far away from reality like bollywood’s movies.
THEN i have to say to all those people who present themselves as they were from the beginning of history .(not all people are fools or stupids).
AS CONCLUSION
GAVE YOUR PROOFS.
saranga said, on October 19, 2014 at 7:21 pm
Dravidians are getting suppressed fro two directions.From north – north indian aryans and from south – Sinhalese (Ariyasinhala) race, both culturally and by politically.So Intellectuals in Dravid society seek their origins and roots to verify where they really belongs and to fight back to defend the dravidian ppl and culture. But at last it seems that they have to turn to the modern poorer africa as their rooting land and to finally go there n rest in peace leaving india and lanka. I’m a Srilankan. And an Aryan.
விஷ்ணு கார்த்திக் said, on January 25, 2015 at 2:44 pm
Stop this nonsense… you only mean to say TAMILIANS.. because Mallus,Kannda&Teluguites don’t give 2 craps about Tamils or its phony Dravidian parties.
“I’m a Srilankan. And an Aryan”
LOL NO you’re a sinhalese darker than most Tamilians.. and you have more in common with Bengalis than Aryans.
If the time comes… Tamil Nadu will “Leave India” But Tamil Nadu will ALWAYS be there! but i can’t say the same for your puny Island… it may get nuked by TN army.
anymo said, on February 24, 2018 at 9:46 am
No Sinhalese are fairer than Tamils and most south Indians.Because they close to Bengalis than Tamils. Even aboriginal vedda group of sri lanka used to be lighter skinned than Tamils. And no TN army will come to sri lanka. NO we are not afraid of you. We could hire fire power from china and NUKE tamilnadu.
Its kinda of obvious that Dravidians also came from outside India but drawing such absurd co-relations is just absurd.. we know so little about Indus valley itself let alone the tribe which inhabited it.
Both ANI&ASI come from Central ASIA.
Vijay Kumar Mishra said, on March 27, 2015 at 9:40 am
No what are you saying Dravida is word for referring area…
Where as Arya means Noble.
Please brother don’t give any importance to this….
Kindly search On Google Proto Indo European People…..
N see genetic similarities on wiki….
We all are same people even I am dark in my skin colour…
It doesn’t mean anything
விஷ்ணு கார்த்திக் said, on January 20, 2016 at 1:23 am
Both “Dravidian” and “Aryan” are placeholder names, no one knows what these 2 ancient tribes actually called themselves… you can call them Dragons&Dinosaurs for all i care the point is that they were 2 different groups of people with their own language&genetics merged.
Complete Bull shit…..
Anna is even refer for food even in North India….
I think you really need medical check up….
First understand the word Dravida means what…..
The word Arya comes in South India by Aiyaa….
So Don’t say anything…..
Secondly what you want to prove….
I don’t care about it….
Secondly we are refer as Panch Gauda Brahmins and South Indian Brahmins refer as Panch Dravida Brahmins which includes Not only South but Also Maharashtra and Gujrati…
For your Kind Information you might don’t know why Brahmins has divided this in to two groups…..
One group follow Shaivism and the other one FOLLOW Vaishnavism….
Now Dravida Means….
DRAV means Water
Ida means ilaaka
So the Dravidian means people who reside on a land near Water till Gujrati.
Don’t believe on me then see the Pic of Lord Vishnu,
U will always find him in Sea….
Simple thing the way you find Lord shiva in Himalaya.
Don’t put any Non sense
Both “Dravidian” and “Aryan” are placeholder names.
Deepak said, on November 25, 2015 at 3:34 am
Uchchaisravas the white horse that emerged from the samudra manthan sounds very similar to Buchchephalus Alexander’s horse.
Benzeiten the Japanese God is their form of Saraswathi.
Benten is their Brahma.
Muthu said, on January 26, 2016 at 9:05 pm
Guys who migrated into today’s India via kush mountains called the native aboriginals based on the language spoken, Aboriginals native language is Thamizh (தமிழ்), they could not pronounce the word correctly because they are not used to the special Thamizh character ழ் and start calling them as Thiramila…then…Thiramida…Thiravida…and end up with Dravida, is the name given by foreign migrants to the native Tamizh. at that time there is no Telugu, kannda, Marathi, Thulu, konkan …etc… only Thamizh language was spoken east of Sindhu river…they had land up to submerged …Duvarai…(Dhwaraga), Poompuhar…it is not a correct name to the native Thamizh people.
Vijay said, on February 5, 2016 at 10:31 am
That was so good, i have been reading these type of articles and do agree. there are some people say that…. tamil people are becoming overdosed knowing their history. Infact their history has been completely erased, what i believe are for two facts… at one point of time these chola kings where so powerful that they were challenging other countries and winning it, as u can see these temples everywhere. Once people their history they go deeper to know who they where. (E.g) a son of a soldier will mostly like to become a soldier, similar way. and the second is they where highly knowledged, there were a lot of palm script missing and some have been burnt of which had some medicinal informations. Please correct if there is any mistake..
FREE HUMAN said, on July 9, 2016 at 12:28 am
Whole world came from tamils. African speaks tamil. Australian aborigin speak tamil. Almost all english words have tamil root. Tamil DNA is everywhere in every language. korean have atleast 1000 words. The problem here is that we are trying to find physical artifact linking everything to orginal. I do not think you will find. Even tamils settle in irang , arabia , africa will have their own language and culture because of surroundings. Culture change if there is a pressure from surroundings. You keep culture somewhat like koreans and tamils because they can’t go any further. Tamil and korean connection shows world is off tamil origin not african origin. Tamil words in aramaic as well. Its in every language. Its tamil migration not dravidian or any new name WEST cooks up. Sanskrit is created from Tamil literature and copied everything into sanskrit. There is no written script of sanskrit before 150AD. Vedic sanskrit do not exists. Until someone find real artifact like tamil script 500BC then we can rethink age of sanskrit.
World need to fund tamil orgin theory because that is only thing that holds everything. Mother of all theories.
Kathir said, on October 17, 2016 at 6:35 pm
Agree with Free Human
murasu+oli…sound from drum…oli-sound, murasu-a drum made of leather; also used in many poetry..for example… maththalam mElam murasolikka; varisangam …by Andaal..celebrating marriage with drums
nobody expects the said, on April 13, 2017 at 8:51 pm
Complete nonsense! Aryans are nothing but just a bunch of glorified goat herders from Iran!! That’s a FACT WHITE PPL AND NORTH INDIANS CAN’T DIGEST! Sanskrit is far from being the oldest european language so its LOGICALLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR THEM TO BE INDIAN NATIVE!
And yes its true that Dravidians indeed invaded the lands of tribal native indians like munda&Onge there’s no denying that either BUT THE FACT IS THAT 99% OF INDIAN CIVILISATION,GENETICS AND HINDUISM IS DRAVIDIAN with 1% contribution from goat herders ALSO KNOW AS TEH ARIANS!
Btw husain(if thatisurname) ravan is a brahmin and since Hinduism is dravidian they are obviously well respected(at least in the ancient times anyway).
Srilankan Sinhalese are Aryans even genetic studies have shown they are lighter skinned than Tamils other south Indians while Tamils have close genetic affinity with Australian aboriginals. and r1a1 Aryan allele is 23% on Sinhalese compared to Tamils. Our language is closer to Aryan languages like Sanskrit than Dravidian languages.
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Posted 6:39 pm, January 6, 2020, by Bobby Swofford, Updated at 11:02PM, January 6, 2020
While some outlets and media sites might put out a list of players from just one classification or even lump players from divisions, we at 5NEWS wanted to put together a list that picked the best of the best from the Football Friday Night viewing area.
With nearly 60 football playing schools in our market, narrowing down the list certainly wasn't easy and a lot of good players have been left off but here are the student-athletes we thought stood out the most during the 2019 high school football season.
Quarterback - Eli Reece, Shiloh Christian
Reece led the Saints to the 4A state championship game, 14 wins and threw from more than 4,000 yards and more than 40 touchdowns. With many games put out of reach, the majority of Reece's stats came in the first half as Shiloh accounted for 760 points this season.
Running Backs - Preston Crawford, Bentonville & Jay Burns, Har-Ber
The 7A-West is never hurting for talent in the backfield and this year it was headlined by Crawford and Burns. For Bentonville, Crawford was the work horse and eclipsed the 1,000 yard mark and did a majority of his damage came before halftime as the Tigers outscored opponents by nearly 300 points in 2019. Burns was the big play weapon for the Wildcats as he ran for nearly 1,300 yards with 17 touchdowns and added four more scores in the passing game.
Receivers - Connor Flannigan, Fayetteville; Hunter Wood, Har-Ber; Truitt Tollett, Shiloh Christian
The trio of receivers certainly made life much easier for their quarterbacks. Flannigan posted rare back-to-back 1,000 yard receiving seasons and went for 66 catches and 15 touchdowns for the Purple Dogs this season. Wood hauled in 15 touchdowns along with 68 catches for 1,103 yards for the Wildcats. Tollett had one of the best years ever when it comes to Arkansas high school football as he made more than 130 catches for 2,000 yards and 30 touchdowns, which ties the all-time state record for scoring catches in a season.
Tight End - Bryant Burns, Ozark
The position is becoming ever more rare in high school football but the Hillbillies had one of the best in the state. In addition to being a game changer on the defensive side of the ball, Burns hauled in four touchdown catches and is signed to play at Army next season.
Jadon Muskrat, Bentonville West
RJ Long, Rogers
Slade Skeets, Charleston
Ethan Pirraglia, Booneville
Lawsyn Jackson, Ozark
All Purpose: Jaiden Henry, Van Buren
Henry did a little bit of everything during his first season with the Pointers. Whether it was returning a kickoff for a touchdowns in the season opener against Siloam Springs, his big plays at receiving or game clinching interceptions as a defensive back, Henry was a big reason the Pointers were back in the playoffs.
Defensive Line: Melvin Kumwenda, Fayetteville; Jordan Hanna, Greenwood; Vaka Tuifua, Poteau; Michael Powell, Clarksville
Stats for the big guys up front don't always reflect how dominant they are on Friday nights. Kumwenda was an anchor for the Purple Dgs and finished with 36 tackles, four sacks and seven quarterback hurries. Greenwood's Hanna led the way with nine sacks and 16 tackles for a loss while adding 20 more quarterback pressures. Tuifua anchored the line of the Oklahoma 4A state champion while making 54 tackles, 25 of which were behind the line of scrimmage and added 10 sacks for the Pirates. Powell was the ultimate run stuffer as he had 32 tackles, three for a loss, three sacks and added five QB hurries while recovering three fumbles.
Linebackers: Jonas Higson, Bentonville West; Quade Mosier, Fayetteville; Cole Joyce, Bentonville; Gabe Jensen, Alma
Higson was second on the Wolverines with both 59 tackles and nine stops for a loss while also adding another weapon to the West offense. Mosier was an anchor for the Purple Dogs with 71 tackles, three sacks and added seven quarterback hurries. Joyce was one of the tops players in the state with 104 tackles, three sacks and a pair of forced fumbles. Jensen led the way for the Airedales with 88 stops, 59 of which were solo.
Defensive Backs: Logan Workman, Greenwood; Jajuan Boyd, Har-Ber; Tyler Holmes, Mansfield; Montay Parks, Northside
Workman was all over the field for the Bulldogs as he had 70 tackles from the secondary to go along with an interception and three pass breakups. Boyd made 46 stops and picked off four passes for the Wildcats defense and found the end zone three times. Holmes was a nightmare for opposing offenses as he picked off eight passes, make 76 tackles and forced three fumbles for the Tigers. Teams might have tried to pick on Parks in the Northside secondary to avoid the other half of the defense but it didn't work out as he had 57 tackles and seven interceptions.
Kicker: Jackson Stewart, Greenwood
Kickers are people too and Stewart was close to automatic for the Bulldogs. He booted 62 extra points, six field goals with a long of 41, pinned five punts inside the 20 and accounted for 15 touchbacks on the kickoff squad.
Coach: Jeremie Burns, Ozark
Burns led the Hillbillies to the 4A semifinals for the first time since 2012, won the 4A-4 title with a perfect league record and posted 12 wins.
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Gasol scores 19 as Grizzlies beat 76ers 104-90
A small lineup has helped the Memphis Grizzlies come up big on defense.
Marc Gasol scored 19 points, Mike Conley had 18 points and six assists, and the Grizzlies held another opponent under 100 points, beating the Philadelphia 76ers 104-90 on Tuesday night.
The Grizzlies had five players score in double figures. Courtney Lee had 15 points, reserve Zach Randolph added 14 points and eight rebounds, and Matt Barnes finished with 12 points and 10 boards.
Memphis forced 28 Philadelphia turnovers, scoring 36 points off the miscues. The Grizzlies, who switched to a small lineup six games ago, have held five straight opponents under 100 points after accomplishing it just 11 times in the previous 25 games.
"I thought the level of defensive pressure that we had, our activity was phenomenal, on the ball, weak side," Conley said. "Guys were communicating, trusting each other."
Jahlil Okafor scored 18 points and Hollis Thompson contributed 16 for Philadelphia, which dropped to 1-29 while losing its 11th straight game. Now the 76ers head out for a six-game trip, and they have lost 22 in a row on the road.
There wasn't much booing among the home crowd, which is resigned to Philadelphia's losing ways these days, but one fan seated behind the Grizzlies bench wore a paper bag over his head with a sad face.
The 76ers harped on their offensive miscues in a somber locker room.
"It's hard to win when you turn the ball over that much," Okafor said.
Philadelphia didn't help itself by shooting 65.6 percent (21 for 32) from the free-throw line.
Memphis blew the game open by scoring eight straight points to begin the fourth quarter. Vince Carter drained a pair of 3-pointers and Randolph had a follow layup to put the Grizzlies in front 85-66 with 10:54 left.
The Grizzlies' advantage grew to as many as 20 points, and Philadelphia never got closer than 12 the rest of the way.
"I thought when we didn't settle, we were effective," Memphis coach David Joerger said. "When we didn't turn it over, we were effective."
Philadelphia trailed 53-47 at the break. But Memphis slowly increased its lead to double digits, eventually taking its largest advantage to that point on Barnes' layup that made it 71-56 with 5:16 left in the third quarter.
It was plenty cushion for Memphis' defense.
"Defensively we've been obviously more confident and we have more trust," Gasol said. "I thought everybody had pressure (on) their man, and when they were driving we were helping. The weak side was in, and once we got the ball swung, everybody closed out and trusted the guy behind you."
Philadelphia coach Brett Brown said there wasn't much else to say about the game, other than his team's turnovers.
"We can write 28 turnovers for 36 points - it can be a headline (or) it can be a single sentence - and we can all go and finish our Christmas shopping," he said.
BIG PLAY
Okafor's driving, spinning layup with 2:42 left in the third cut the Grizzlies' lead to 73-64. But Memphis ended the quarter up 77-66 when Conley stripped T.J. McConnell and passed ahead to Lee for an uncontested layup just before the buzzer.
"It's huge because little plays like that are what can make or break a game, can change the momentum of games, can give guys confidence," Conley said. "It was a big moment for us because Philly doesn't quit."
Grizzlies: Tony Allen returned after sitting out the previous five games due to a knee injury. Allen had one point in 16 minutes. ... Memphis has won six straight in Philadelphia dating to Feb. 11, 2009.
76ers: Kendall Marshall (knee) didn't dress but is expected to play Wednesday at the Bucks with a restriction of 25 minutes. ... Joel Embiid, Philadelphia's 2014 first-round pick who is recovering from his second foot surgery over the summer, worked on shooting before the game.
Grizzlies: At Washington on Wednesday night.
76ers: At Milwaukee on Wednesday night.
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Welcome to Benin
The Republic of Benin is an amazing country to visit on an itinerary of West African countries.
Benin consists of narrow wedge settings extending northward for about 420 miles from the Gulf of Guinea, where it records a 75-mile coast of the Atlantic Ocean to the River Niger, which forms its northern border with Niger. Agriculture, cotton production and regional trade are the mainstay of Benin’s economy, while the GDP totalled $18 billion with Per Capita of $1,791 in 2013.
Benin is endowed with fantastic natural environment. As a tropical region, the land is blessed with wildlife and rainforests, alongside with national reserves like Parc de la Pandjeri and Parc W. Its long coastline already attracts tourists, and various ongoing projects have been designed to draw more tourists in.
Traveling to Benin can be interesting for visitors. Apart from its bouquets of minimal beaches and lagoons, it boasts of waterfalls, hills and lush grassland spread across. You will also get to explore the Ouidah Slave Route, Royal Palaces of Abomey and its rich history, as you come across large palatial ruins and temples of Dahomey.
The southern part of Benin experiences two seasons of rain in the year, starting from April to middle of July, and from mid-September to October ending. November to February is the best time to visit this amazing country, when temperature is moderate and the weather becomes dry with minimal humidity.
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Visit Benin, the birthplace of vodun (or “voodoo”) religion and home to the former Dahomey Kingdom from circa 1600–1900. In Abomey, Dahomey's former capital, the Historical Museum occupies two royal palaces with bas-reliefs recounting the kingdom’s past and a throne mounted on human skulls. To the north, Pendjari National Park offers safaris with elephants, hippos and lions. Ouidah, known for its role in the 17th- to 19th-century Atlantic slave trade and also the famous temple of pythons. Ganvie the largest lake village in Africa.
Weekend in Cotonou, Benin Republic 3 Days/ 2 Nights
Welcome to an unforgettable Weekend Experience in the beautiful, adventurous city called Cotonou. Day 1 • Our team welcomes you aboard at Seme border and transfer you in an Air-Conditioned bus • Depart for Benin Royal Hotel and enjoy our Welcome Cocktail • Get some rest and experience Dinner with some traditional dance performance Day 2 • After breakfast, we depart for the famous Ganvie to explore the much talked about village on water • Lunch and departure for Ouidah • Drive through the Slave route, stop by at the Python Temple, then continue to the Gate of no Return • Depart for Paradise island by boat • Come back to Cotonou and Spa • Enjoy a dancing party over dinner Day 3 • Breakfast and departure to Dantokpa market • Lunch and departure at the Seme border at 2pm P.S.: The rate above N196,000 is for an individual WHILE the rate for a couple is N378,000 NOTE: Rates, and Itineraries are subject to change due to availability and without notice. Amount stated is per person for a double occupancy (2 persons in a room) Cancellation and Refund Policy:
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Experience the Best of Lagos in 5 Nights / 6 Days
‘LasGidi’ or ‘Eko’, as it is fondly called, is one of Africa's fastest growing cities. Famous for its beautiful beach resorts, boutique and nightlife, Lagos is home to all Nigerian tribes, ethnic and foreign nationalities. Little wonder everyone wants to come to experience the mega city and what it has to offer them. Whether you are here for a short visit or planning to spend a day playing around, here are exciting places you will be exploring during your stay. Day 1: Upon your arrival at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, our representative will pick you up and transfer you to your hotel. Day 2: Explore Nike Art Gallery and Lekki Arts Market: The Nike Art Gallery is owned by Nike Davies-Okundaye and it is arguably the largest of its kind in West Africa. Housed in a five-storey tall building, it boasts of more than 8,000 diverse artworks from various artists. Then continue for some sight-seeing and shopping at the Lekki Art and Craft Market. Also known as Oba Elegushi International Market or Jakande Art Market, this is a mindblowing destination that does a good job of showcasing the artistic and creative beauty of Nigeria. Prepare for some historical, cultural and artistic experience as you meander and manoeuvre your way through this unique place. End the day by exploring and climbing the Longest Canopy Walk in Africa at Lekki Conservation Centre, one of the best and most visited nature reserves in Nigeria. The conservation and relaxation centre is a scenic area that offers a tranquil escape from everyday life in the buzzing city of Lagos. There are a lot of fun activities not to miss and the fearless canopy walk is the peak of them all. Day 3: Island Getaway and Sunset Boat Cruise: Lagos is a well-known coastal city with lots of beaches nestled in various parts of the city. Take an amazing boat adventure with us to an exotic private beach island and experience nature in its purest form. Day 4: Historic city of Badagry: Badagry (traditionally Gbagle) is a coastal town in situated between the city of Lagos and the border with Benin Republic at Seme. It was a major slave outpost and market during the centuries of slave trade and also houses the first storey building in Nigeria. Day 5: Visit the Iconic Fela Shrine & Museum: We start off with an unforgettable adventure to the home of the late Afrobeat King, Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Now referred to as the Kalakuta Museum, Fela's home is to an amazing collection of objects and illustrations which unfolds the legendary story of Fela Anikulapo Kuti. From there, we proceed to the New Afrika Shrine which was visited in June 2018 by the French President, Emmanuel Macron. This eccentric entertainment centre is where late Fela and now Femi Kuti now perform periodically. It is an iconic destination for the celebration of freedom of speech, as well as justice for the people and also a memorial for the founder of the Afrobeat genre of music. Round up the day with a visit to one of the city's top Nightlife Hotspot (Cocoon Club / Gbogobiri in Ikoyi). Lagos is a perfect hub to unwind at nights and best for nightlife lovers. With a large number of pubs, bars, nightclubs, parties, live music, concerts, shows, and restaurants, we will also show you some special spots in the city that fabulously meet the needs of night crawlers on the island. Day 6: Departure. Transfer to Murtala Muhammed International Airport for your flight P.S.: This is a Double Occupancy Package, i.e. Per Person Sharing Rates and room availability are subject to change without notice Cancellation and Refund Policy: 1 month before travel date, there will be a full payment refund minus bank charges. 2 weeks before travel date, 50% charges will be made. Less than 2 weeks to travel date, 100% charges will be made. Terms and Conditions apply!
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Alan Thomas case NZACC 332 (19 December 2014) 118 Appeals dismissed & *unless orders*
#61 greg
Alan Thomas, on 22 January 2015 - 05:59 PM, said:
The situation is extraordinarily simple.
The ACC have accepted coverfor numerous accident events resulting in injury while I was an earner.
The only issue is whether or not the medical profession sloppily diagnosed the degree of incapacity For the purposes of determining the degree in an incapacity to return to the preinjury occupation and the numerous entitlements.
In other words the bottomline is in my injured or not.
There appears to be an extraordinary high level of effort by both the ACC and the judiciary to avoid coming into contact with any medical evidence. This is involved all manner of different legal backward somersaults whereby the substantive issues (medical reports) are simply not heard.
ACC for example transferred my claims file from case management to fraud investigation and the fraud investigation acknowledging court they had no interest whatsoever in anything medical and made a decision to cancel the claim is based entirely upon the assumptions made by members of the public. When examining those members of the public in court they confirmed that the information ACC presented to the court was in fact not true. For example the ACC forensic accountant was relied upon by the ACC to the extent that the ACC claimed income of $1.3 million but when the frantic accountant was examined he said bollocks or words to that effect. It was discovered that ACC obtained a search warrant to find the information and then not only did not provided information to the frenzied accountant but went to great lengths to hide that information from the court and refused to return the information to me so I could present it. The ACC claim that I was the manager of the company I owned based on their primary witness claiming this to be the case yet when their primary witness was examined under oath and asked to show the exhibits to the court it was confirmed that not only was I not his employer but that my former partner employed and when she left the actually did become the manager and promoted himself as the manager and even went on to set up an opposition company to my company which he was managing a further confessed to the court that he embezzled money clients, intellectual property and even transferred the staff and is managing my company into his own yet bizarrely Barber J found him to be a credible witness despite committing massive levels of crime involving all manner of things including perjury, embezzlement and suchlike. What I have noticed is the high incidence of the ACC fraud investigation unit encouraging the managers of companies who are managing behalf of ACC claimants to take over the company owned by injured claimants and lie about them court. Undoubtedly this dishonest behaviour comes about because people think the ACC will provide them ultimate protection when in fact the ACC is just using them as a firewall or buffer zone from prosecution themselves whereby the ACC ensure that other people lie instead of themselves.
In the ACC bundle large numbers of cases together, rely upon the defamation of character that brings the claimant into disrepute to the extent that the massive volume of allegations being brought against the ACC claimant appears to be overwhelming the claimants case whereby the court simply disregards the fundamentals such as whether or not the claimant is actually injured.
I'm very surprised that so many people are so gullible so much of the time.
But then we must remember the purpose of this Internet site whereby we examine actual fact rather than the ACC propaganda in attempts of social engineering. Sad to say that many members of the site have fallen into a negative category.
Find a judge to believe you.?
#62 tommy
whoms protecting whom . greg whether its judicial . personal or whatever if mr thomas like any one ese has an input . should it be disregarded or i am off topic
tenacity can prevail if
tommy, on 22 January 2015 - 06:25 PM, said:
If a judge in NZ believed any of his claims were real , then the case should be reopened ?.
#65 Alan Thomas
greg, on 22 January 2015 - 06:05 PM, said:
The problem is not only a judge to believe me but rather a judge to hear me.
The persistent problem I have had is that the ACC have always managed to be one step ahead of the judicial procedure and prevent the judge from ever seeing any form of exhibits such as medical reports.
The Court of Appeal expressed concern that it would be a pity for the junior courts to be continuing to Be making decisions based on jurisdictional issues and failing to hit the substantive issues. Obviously we are rapidly heading back in the direction whereby insurance companies would manipulate judicial procedures to prevent hearing of the substantive matters which caused the ACC to come into existence in the first place. However now we are worse off because we have one insurance company that is a monopoly.
You are not off topic because this topic is about the ACC arranging the court to hear 118 jurisdictional issues resulting in the court not hearing my Appeal. Naturally I feel justice has been defeated with the use of a technicality that could have been so easily overcome by the judge using discretion to ensure that substantive matters are heard, seem to be heard and I most certainly the primary reason for the courts existence rather than becoming preoccupied with administrative matters.
Absolutely correct.
The problem is ACC are doing all they can to prevent anybody looking at the actual facts of the matter.
In essence whole matter gets back to whether or not I can return to my preinjury occupation with an artificial wrist joint or at the time of the ACCs decision to cancel my claim when I did not have an artificial wrist joint. The wrist joint increases by incapacity from zero up to 4 KG. My preinjury occupation requires more than four KG therefore itsince then injured have I ever had a capacity to return to my preinjury occupation and as it happens never will have which explains why the ACC are so desperate to get me off the box because there is no opportunity for someone who is permanently incapacitated under the 1982 legislation to ever be removed from the ACC liability.
Greg the reason why there is a large number of appeals is that the ACC keep on ignoring the doctors requests for medical intervention funding and suchlike. Senior ACC staff have acknowledged liability to carry out various procedures, issue decisions for this to happen but it never happens creating a delay of process of which under the current legislation can go to review hearing. Put simply the ACC are desperate not to hear any information that challenges the assumptions of their informants. The ACC are additionally desperate to keep intact the illegal practice of relying upon unqualified assumptions from members of public as an alternative to the medical profession. It involves not just millions of dollars but billions of dollars
Who cares Find a Judge...
The future of many unknown ACC Claimants will depend on what Mr Thomas does next in the Courts system.
Can ACCForum.org future Claimants rely on Mr Thomas to do the right thing for These claimants?
So do you want to help the future claimants?
With postings that contain this type of material as follows it is absolutely clear that your postings are complete windup and that you have absolutely no intention of being responsible member of the site addressing ACC issues with any form of integrity. You madam are the scum of the earth.
ATM I am not sure which claim you have linked to eg
Why a toothbrush for an alleged covered PTSD claim? or
Why a toothbrush for an alleged covered chemical injury? or
Why a toothbrush for an alleged covered brain injury?
I also have no idea how your friendly doctor would properly evidence a specific causal link to these alleged injuries either ..........
You are completely aware that I have an accepted claim for a elbows wrist and hand injury with the most serious part being that my hand was nearly separated from my arm and there has been very little structure left by which I have any form of stability. If I have no work capacity to command a keyboard or mouse in a reasonable fashion how on earth can I safely shave myself or brush my teeth without hope myself in the eye. Even the ACCs own home help assessor made recommendations to the ACC to follow the medical professionals guidance to the ACC to assist me with an electric shaver and toothbrush. At the same time the ACC did accept another suggestion which was to provide me with an electric can opener and jar opener, which by the way they never paid for.
Why then would you refer to other accepted claims in reference to toothbrush and shaver Unless of course you are making a direct attempt to manipulate the reader of your postings into believing that the ACC had some form of basis for denying the necessities of life with every single element of the claim including the payment for the maximum dose of opiate type medication?
anonymousey, on 23 January 2015 - 12:02 PM, said:
FYI Alan Understanding some simple different processes in law and discussion relating to Burden of Proof issues
http://en.wikipedia....entation_theory
##For the one carrying the "burden of proof", the advocate, to marshal evidence for his/her position in order to convince or force the opponent's acceptance. The method by which this is accomplished is producing valid, sound, and cogent arguments, devoid of weaknesses, and not easily attacked.
##In a debate, fulfillment of the burden of proof creates a burden of rejoinder. One must try to identify faulty reasoning in the opponent's argument, to attack the reasons/premises of the argument, to provide counterexamples if possible, to identify any fallacies, and to show why a valid conclusion cannot be derived from the reasons provided for his/her argument.
Please stop blagging your same old same old noisy nonsensical static Alan. Please describe evidence or valid sound cogent arguments to support your statements and opinions concerning this Decision from Judge Powell- and facts for your claims and blah blah ...........
With regards to your extensive interests in my case which is clearly involved vast research on your behalf have you found how the ACC burden of proof has been expressed by the ACC when challenging the 1992 review hearing decision, that remains binding until they do, and what evidence they used to cancel my claim in 1997 and what evidence they used to secure a criminal conviction and what evidence they used to report their decision during the of appeal to the district court?
Are you aware that there have been over six review hearing decisions in my favour concerning this claim with the most recent three wins requiring ACC to carry out medical reassessment to determine the degree of disability as they have never done that. In fact for the last three or four years each time the reviewer has given ACC 20 days to start the assessment process.
Are you in agreement that the legislation only requires me to provide a medical report in the form of the ACC 45 and ACC 18 forms and once accepted the ACC are required to fund any subsequent medical assessment if they disagree with the information contained within those two forms. In other words legislation states that my burden of proof is to simply provide the ACC 45 form and ACC 18 forms.
anonymousey
If you are claiming to have a good memory you would remember that the 1992 review hearing decision remains binding until the present. The ACC have reconfirmed this many times including agreeing to pay for the surgery, pain medication, home help and suchlike. As for the decision itself ACC certainly has not tampered with the 1992 reviewers decision at all but made a completely different decision. In other words they cancelled the claim on the basis that they possessed information I was working and certainly not anything to do with the 1992 review hearing decision concerning my continuing to be incapacitated until the ACC funded reconstructive surgery.
Although the wording of the 1997 decision letter claimed to totally declining the claim repeatedly the ACC have stated to the appeal Court that they have not. The ACC have been asked to rescind their 1997 decision and issue a new decision but they have left the situation with the original decision still remaining standing while re-explaining the decision to the effect that they did not rely upon s78 to cancel the claim but rather relied upon s37A to assert that I was no longer incapacitated even though they had not carried out any s37A assessment procedure. Confused? Of course you are and so I but that is what is on the documents up until the present, no clear decision yet the status quo remains.
The reason ACC have not clarified the decision is that they do not want any specifics laid down that would be exposed to challenge.
You have replied with the answer yes to clarification about what evidence you have perceived without you actually showing in the evidence.
You seem to be extremely prejudice to the extent that you have given yourself permission to completely ignore the evidence. If you do not know the evidence to both sides and how the judiciary interpreted that evidence you have no ability whatsoever to make any rational comment. Your imagination is of no value whatsoever.
Perhaps you shouldvery carefully read Barber J decision to see if he actually looked at a single shred of evidence I submitted to the court. You won't find anything let alone any submission that I put before him. All you will see is ACCs interpretation given to the judge in their submissions being referred to.
When we come to Powell J you will of course recognise that as no hearing exactly taken place regarding the substantive matters noted that the matters were ever before the judge for him to make any comment. Speculations as to what I might present is of no value.
Once the ACC have accepted the claim for cover under ACC 45 in the ACC continue to accept ACC 18 medical certificates are you able to point to any legislation that describes any additional information the appellant is required provide the ACC their own cost. Of course I'm not referring to a claimant making themselves available to ACC and their assessors for examination as that involves the ACC burden of proof, not the claimant.
Another question for you. If the only medical information on the file has originated from the claimant and the ACC have not obtained any contrary medical evidence is there any basis of law by which the ACC can cancel or suspend entitlements? This will clarify your thinking. Please refer to legislation in relation to the statements you have made concerning the claimants foundation information in ACC 45 and ACC 18 forms signed off by medical professionals.
I tried to encourage you to go back to see what the legislation stays and then work from there in order that you avoid making assumptions based on speculations and in seeking fragments to support your irrationality. You have failed to hit my counsel and so therefore there is nothing more I can do to help you comprehend the nature of what has been happening.
When you get down to the very basics of the biokinetics involving my injury when the surgeon says no capacity prior to the surgery and then raises the capacity to 4 KG we see here very firm scientific basis for the fact that I am unable to perform the tasks of my preinjury occupation as a capacity requires more than 4 KG. The ACC have now received this information and I have requested that they remake their disentitled decision based on that proof beyond reasonable doubt information. Am still waiting for ACCs answer which legislation requires them to make. There is no possibility that the ACC can have any legal basis or factual argument to the scientifically argued objective fact. I tried to get you to look at the various elements of this case but you wiggled and squiggled to support your wibbly wobbly rationale for no other reason to attack me and support the ACC. Only a person with an evil mind behaves that way.
Are you saying that I should agree with ACC and the judges
Are you saying that I should disagree with the whole medical profesion?
Are you saying that I should not be correcting the ACC and judges?
Why don't you acknowledge that as I have had an artificial wrist joint that only gives me four KG and that my pre-work activities which required more than four KG at no stage was ever possible that my injuries could have resolved which can only result in the confirmation of the ACC liability which means that the ACC have been producing false documents and committing perjury to mislead the judges While at the same time seriously defaming my name in socially and hearing the likes of yourself to believe that all of these court cases have been a serious breach of human rights being is not just to my own in an extraordinary large number of fellow claimants? Please give reasons for your answer supported by legislation. When you go through this process you are going to realise the impossibility of both Barber J and Powell J decisions which by all accounts are completely and utterly abusive in as much as the way they had gone about business fragmented disabled people entirely unable to gain access to the judicial system by what can only be described as witch dunking as the mechanism they have followed to get where they have got.
#77 RedFox
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Redfox you failed to address the question.
Arguing results from false information doesn't in itself establish anything.
In order to address the merits of any given dispute on is to examine the legislated criteria against proven fact.
That has not been done in fact perjury has been established by the individuals involved own statements under oath.
Can anyone identify who on earth Alan seems to think has lied under oath in the Powell Judgement?
The only witness who committed perjury under Oath was Mr Davey a witness appearing for Alan Thomas
[303] Under cross-examination, Mr Davey could not recall many (if not most) of the conversations and events that were described in his affidavit. Following Mr Davey's above concession on 2 December 2008, many paragraphs were deleted from the affidavit as Ms. Davey accepted he could not have had any knowledge of the these matters (they were described as having occurred at a time when Mr Davey had no contact with the appellant) — including paragraphs 22, 24-31 of the affidavit.
[304] Mr Davey had signed an affidavit attesting to events and circumstances that he had no personal knowledge of. If Mr Davey had properly read his affidavit, before signing the same, he should not have signed the document. Mr Tui submitted that the entire document ought to be disregarded and that Mr Davey's execution of a document that he clearly had little knowledge of reflects on the appellant's conduct as well. It is clear that the appellant was involved in the preparation of the affidavit (both Mr Davey and the appellant acknowledged the same). The appellant would have been aware that Mr Davey was attesting to the matters not within Mr Davey's personal knowledge.
In order for a witness to come forward the court first considers an affidavit which will be discussed with the witness who will be examined. Mr Davey Was fully involved with the preparation of his affidavit and signed it. The ACC barrister successfully bamboozled and confused Mr Davey, as they do, who could not remember why not to comparatively insignificant points on the affidavit such as the number of rounds which I had in my private accommodation. This type of information has absolutely no relevance to whether or not ACC still have a liability and does not contribute very much towards identifying witnesses credibility yet we do see this type of bias throughout the judgement issued to the extent that ACC witnesses who had never seen what I was doing with my time before I was injured claimed that I could carry out my work with one hand tied behind my back in his affidavit and also could not even describe the type of equipment that was being built which of course is exactly on point yet his evidence was accepted that the man who could not remember the number of charts is in my accommodation 10 years later evidence was not accepted. Go figure.
The connection between judge Barbers judgement and the prehearing decision of Judge Powell is that Judge Powell has relied upon judge Barber's judgement when speculating what my submissions may or may not be about in order to justify not using his discretion. At the moment that judgement is awaiting leave to appeal to the High Court.
The answer to those two questions were to set the stage for the following questions which you have not yet answered. Failing to answer them cripples your integrity as a person being prepared to address issues in a meaningful way.
#80 MINI
RedFox, on 22 January 2015 - 05:28 PM, said:
For your edification Greg.
Thomas v Accident Compensation Corporation [2003] NZACC 75 (30 April 2003)- leave to appeal to the High Court refused.
Thomas v Accident Compensation Corporation [2004] NZACC 330 (19 October 2004) - dismissed
Thomas v Accident Compensation Corporation [2005] NZACC 283 (27 September 2005) - declined
Thomas v Accident Compensation Corporation [2007] NZACC 215 (10 September 2007) - dismissed
Thomas v Accident Compensation Corporation [2010] NZACC 91 (30 June 2010) - dismissed
Thomas v Accident Compensation Corporation [2011] NZACC 111 (11 April 2011) - Leave to appeal is refused
Thomas v Accident Compensation Corporation [2011] NZACC 123 (21 April 2011) - declined
Thomas v Accident Compensation Corporation [2014] NZACC 36 (20 February 2014) - dismissed two cases
ACR 41/13
Thomas v Accident Compensation Corporation [2014] NZACC 35 (20 February 2014) - dismissed
Thomas v Accident Compensation Corporation [2014] NZACC 332 (19 December 2014) - dismissed
Thomas v Accident Compensation Corporation [2013] NZHC 2739 (21 October 2013) - an order directing Mr Thomas to pay the Corporation’s costs in accordance with the memorandum filed on its behalf dated 11 September 2013.
Thomas v Accident Compensation Corporation [2014] NZCA 89 (24 March 2014) - dismissed
Thomas v Accident Compensation Corporation [2014] NZCA 186 (16 May 2014) - dismissed
Doesn't anyone of you wonder why the first case of Thomas is in 2003 but he was taken off ACC for fraud in 1998. For five year all that happen was the civil case. No one challenaged ACC for anything at all. Totally unbelievable. Wag the tongue, whinge and moan, but never ask them through the law why sec 71, 73a and 73b were never carried out. Never ask for a capacity test through the ACC courts. This would have solved the problem instantly if Alan Thomas was correct that he could not work.
Never even think of asking for a occupational test from a well respected specialist, using his own money. (which he had, remember the $10,000 difference in the bank accounts.)
Also remember that this claimant had been many years on ACC w/c and knew the ropes so well that he had a grant from them for education in business. So he was not a newbie who knew nothing of ACC act and what was allowed and what was not. This is but a small bit of what the judge took into consideration.
Why did he have no Lawyer who was actually dedicated to the ACC law, and no occupational specialist report to use as defence?
The questions are endless and pointless to go over again on here for the umpteenth time.
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The association of test diameter and gonad weight with some toxic trace metals level in black sea urchin (Stomopneustes variolaris)
H. K. S. De Zoysa ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-6425-73561,2,
B. K. K. K. Jinadasa3,
E. M. R. K. B. Edirisinghe2 &
G. D. T. M. Jayasinghe3
Quantification of toxic trace metals in biota is very important to monitor both ecosystem health and public health. Stomopneustes variolaris is a widespread species of sea urchin in the world that have edible gonads that are in high demand. This study attempted to examine the levels of accumulated toxic trace metals and their relationship between the test diameter and the gonad weight of the black sea urchin (S. variolaris) in Sri Lanka.
As S. variolaris is highly abundant in southwest coast of Sri Lanka, three sampling sites were selected in this region (Mount-Lavinia, Beruwala and Tangalle). The concentration of toxic trace metals (Hg, Cd, Pb and As) in the gonads of S. variolaris was determined in randomly selected subset from the above samples. The levels of above metals in gonads did not exceed the permitted standard levels of the EU and Sri Lanka. The mean size and weight of S. variolaris collected from Mount-Lavinia was 5.55 ± 1.04 cm and 101.40 ± 57.76 g, respectively; for Beruwala it was 6.54 ± 0.86 cm and 147.90 ± 50.40 g, respectively, and for Tangalle it was 6.41 ± 1.05 cm and 150.50 ± 59.45 g respectively. There was a significant relationship between all the analysed trace metals and the test diameter and gonad weight of S. variolaris in Sri Lanka.
This study revealed that the trace metal levels in gonads of S. variolaris did not exceed the harmful level for human consumption.
Heavy metals that are less soluble in water tend to accumulate in marine ecosystems as they do not degrade [1]. Therefore, these toxic trace metals will accumulate along the trophic levels which will affect the entire marine community. The levels of trace metal accumulation in marine organisms depend on their detoxification mechanism in metabolism. The harmfulness of these toxic trace metals is due to their role in biochemical and metabolic processes. Excessive consumption of sea food with high levels of accumulated toxic trace metals can lead to metabolic dysfunctions. Therefore, quantification of toxic trace metals in the all biota is very important to monitor both ecosystem health and public health. Currently, sea urchin gonads are a delicacy in many countries, and thus, there is a very high demand. However, nothing is known about the levels of accumulated toxic trace metals in sea urchins [1, 2].
The black sea urchin, Stomopneustes variolaris, is one of the edible species of sea urchin in the world. In Sri Lanka, S. variolaris is restricted to the western and southern coastal areas than other coastal areas [3, 4]. The black sea urchin (S. variolaris) is one of the warm water sea urchin species that belongs to the family Stomopneustidae. They bore into the rock, reefs and other substrates in littoral regions up to a depth of 18 m, and they prefer to live in the shady areas. S. variolaris is an omnivore species, and also they are known to mainly feed on algae and seaweeds [5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13]. S. variolaris species has a widespread distribution [12, 14, 15], in tropical and subtropical regions of the Indo-Pacific from the east African coast and Madagascar to New Caledonia and Samoa to the Bonin Islands to the north [12]. It is an abundant edible species in the Indian Ocean, in the geographical regions such as Lakshadweep Islands, Andaman Islands, India and Sri Lanka [16]. The growth rate of sea urchins and natural mortality mainly depend on temperature and food availability [6]. The sea urchins accumulate nutrients in the gonad, which is a highly sought-after delicacy in the world [17,18,19].
The trace metals are accumulated in most body parts of echinoderms including coelomic fluid, spines, gut, gonads and Aristotle’s lantern. Hence, levels of trace metals in sea urchins could be used as a bio-indicator to determine the level of environmental pollution [20]. Currently, nothing is known about the levels of trace metals in the gonads of sea urchins in Sri Lanka, which has high demand in the marine fisheries export industry [18, 19]. Therefore, this study was conducted to get an idea on the levels of toxic trace metals in S. variolaris in Sri Lanka.
A total of 197 individuals of S. variolaris were collected from three selected sites in the western and southern coasts of Sri Lanka, namely Mount-Lavinia (n = 43), Beruwala (n = 99) and Tangalle (n = 55) reefs (Fig. 1) from May to November in 2014. All collected individuals were transported immediately with seawater to analytical chemistry laboratory at the Institute of Post-Harvest Technology (IPHT), National Aquatic Research Agency (NARA) within 24 h. After that, total body weight to nearest 0.01 g and the horizontal test diameter was measured to the nearest 0.02 mm using a vernier caliper. Horizontal test diameter was measured twice perpendicularly to the first measurement and the averages of the two measurements were taken. Finally, gonads were removed from each individuals and weighed after removing excess water using blotting papers.
Sampling sites of S. variolaris
To determine the toxic trace metal levels in gonads of S. variolaris, individuals with test/shell diameter between 3 and 9 cm were selected and 6, 13 and 11 individuals were selected from Mount-Lavinia, Beruwala and Tangalle, respectively [21]. The levels of toxic trace metals, Hg (mercury), Pb (lead), Cd (cadmium) and As (arsenic) were assayed in the atomic absorption spectrophotometer (AAS) (Varian 240 FS, Springvale, Australia). The standard solutions of Hg, Pb, Cd and As at 1000 mg/L (ppm) were obtained from Sigma-Aldrich (Dorset, United Kingdom) which were used to calibrate. All standards and reagents were prepared using ultra-pure water. One gram of homogenized sea urchin gonad samples were taken into a Teflon microwave digestion tube and all the samples were performed in duplicates. Acid digestions of gonad samples were performed by using the 10 mL of HNO3 (65% nitric acid, AR) allowed to 10–15 min and capped the microwave digestion tubes. The sea urchin gonad samples were digested using the CEM/MARS XP-1500 + microwave oven (CEM, Matthews, USA). Microwave accelerated system and allowed to cool room temperature and pressure was released carefully by opening the valve. Then the digested gonad samples were transferred into 50 mL of volumetric flasks and volumed up using the de-ionized water was used to determine the Hg, Pb, Cd and As of digested sea urchins’ gonads samples. A graphite tube atomizer (Varian GTA-120) was used to determine the Pb and Cd, for the determinations of As palladium nitrate (Pd(NO3)2) was used as a modifier. The Hg concentration of sea urchins’ gonads were determined by using the cold vapour techniques (Varian VGA 77) using the SnCl2 as a reduction [3, 4, 22].
The Pearson’s correlation coefficient (r) and significant correlation tests were conducted to assess the relationship between gonadal trace metals levels and test diameter and gonad weight of S. variolaris. Data were analysed using the Minitab 16.0 version and Microsoft Excel 2010 version at the level of significance at α = 0.05 (5%).
Toxic trace metals levels in gonads
Levels of toxic trace metals in gonads of S. variolaris were determined separately from selected sites and the average values of accumulated concentration (ppm and ppb) and the total amount of trace metals with their average test diameter and gonad weight in selected individuals’ are determined.
The average concentration (ppb) of Hg in selected individuals from Mount-Lavinia reef (n = 11) ranged from (minimum to maximum) 0.00 (± 0.00) to 14.40 (± 5.33) μg/kg and total concentration in gonads varied from 0.00 to 0.27 μg (Table 1). The trace metal Cd ranged from 47.81 (± 19.58) to 336.10 (± 21.46) μg/kg and total concentration in gonads varied from 0.08 to 6.28 μg. Pb was not detected in the selected individuals from Mount-Lavinia. However, concentration of As ranged from 0.00 (± 0.00) to 1805.87 (± 104.54) μg/kg, and total accumulation by gonads varied from 0.00 to 33.75 μg.
Table 1 Toxic trace metals (Hg, Cd, Pb and As) concentration and total amount of particular trace metals present in S. variolaris at Mount-lavinia reef (n = 6) with standard deviation (± SD)
For the Beruwala reef population, accumulated toxic trace metals (n = 13) are shown in Table 2. The average concentration of Hg in the Beruwala reef population ranged from 34.40 (± 1.62) to 104.39 (± 2.18) μg/kg, and the total level in the gonads varied from 0.07 to 0.44 μg. Cd levels ranged from 150.72 (± 1.81) to 1149.55 (± 90.07) μg/kg and total levels in gonads varied from 0.17 to 9.86 μg. Pb ranged from 0.00 (± 0.00) to 206.27 (± 90.07) μg/kg and total level in gonads varied from 0.00 to 0.36 μg. Also As content in the selected individuals ranged from 1142.52 (± 83.51) to 4635.66 (± 90.07) μg/kg and total accumulation by gonads varied from 2.99 to 22.23 μg.
Table 2 Toxic trace metals (Hg, Cd, Pb and As) concentration and total amount of particular trace metals present in S. variolaris at Beruwala reef (n = 13) with ± SD
Hg levels in S. variolaris individuals from Tangalle reef (n = 11) ranged from 0.00 (± 0.00) to 188.12 (± 24.29) μg/kg and total level in gonads varied from 0.00 to 0.70 μg. Cd levels ranged from 83.60 (± 1.61) to 4590.83 (± 155.96) μg/kg and total level in gonads varied from 0.06 to 16.07 μg. Pb ranged from 0.00 (± 0.00) to 772.27 (± 211.65) μg/kg and total levels in gonads varied from 0.00 to 1.27 μg. In addition, As in selected individuals ranged from 0.00 (± 0.00) to 4563.32 (± 175.59) μg/kg and total levels in gonads varied from 0.00 to 48.92 μg (Table 3).
Table 3 Toxic trace metals (Hg, Cd, Pb and As) concentration and total amount of particular trace metals present in S. variolaris at Tangalle reef (n = 11) with ± SD
Relationships with test diameter and gonad weight for trace metal accumulation
The results revealed that there is a positive correlation with between gonadal Hg levels and the test diameter (r = 0.826, df = 4, p = 0.043) and also a between gonad weight (r = 0.856, df = 4, p = 0.030) (Fig. 2a, b) for S. variolaris population in Mount-Lavinia. Gonadal Cd levels also had a significant relationship with test diameter (r = 0.928, df = 4, p = 0.008), but strong positive r and have significant relationship with gonad weight (r = 0.966, df = 4, p = 0.002) (Fig. 2c, d). Total Pb levels showed no correlation with the test diameter and gonad weight (Fig. 2e, f). Arsenic levels showed a significant positive relationship with test diameter (r = 0.820, df = 4, p = 0.046) and also with the gonad weight (r = 0.880, df = 4, p = 0.021) (Fig. 2g, h).
Relationships of toxic heavy metal concentration in S. variolaris at Mount-Lavinia reef. a Hg versus test diameter, b Hg versus total gonad weight, c Cd versus test diameter, d Cd versus total gonad weight, e Pb versus test diameter, f Pb versus total gonad weight, g As versus test diameter, h As versus total gonad weight
Hg levels of the Beruwala population showed a significant positive relationship with test diameter (r = 0.839, df = 11, p < 0.001) and gonad weight (r = 0.718, df = 11, p = 0.006) (Fig. 3a, b). Similarly, Cd levels also showed a significant positive relationship with test diameter (r = 0.567, df = 11, p = 0.043) and gonad weight (r = 0.709, df = 11, p = 0.007) (Fig. 3c, d). Pb has a small positive r value and has no significant relationship with test diameter (r = 0.267, df = 11, p = 0.378) and gonad weight (r = 0.291, df = 11, p = 0.334) (Fig. 3e, f). Levels of the trace metal As also had a significant positive relationship with test the diameter (r = 0.686, df = 11, p = 0.010) and as well as with the gonad weight (r = 0.658, df = 11, p = 0.015) (Fig. 3g, h).
Relationships of toxic heavy metal concentration in S. variolaris at Beruwala reef. a Hg versus test diameter, b Hg versus total gonad weight, c Cd versus test diameter, d Cd versus total gonad weight, e Pb versus test diameter, f Pb versus total gonad weight, g As versus test diameter, h As versus total gonad weight
The analysis of the Tangalle population revealed that there is a significant positive relationship between Hg levels and the test diameter (r = 0.542, df = 9, p = 0.085) and with gonad weight (r = 0.414, df = 9, p = 0.205) (Fig. 4a, b). Similarly, cadmium levels showed a strong significant positive relationship with the test diameter (r = 0.764, df = 9, p = 0.006) as well as with the gonad weight (r = 0.509, df = 9, p = 0.110) (Fig. 4c, d). Levels of As also had a significant positive relationship with test diameter (r = 0.779, df = 9, p = 0.005) and gonad weight (r = 0.825, df = 9, p = 0.002) (Fig. 4e, f). Similarly, Pb levels also did not show a significant relationship with test diameter (r = 0.151, df = 9, p = 0.657) and gonad weight (r = 0.048, df = 9, p = 0.888) (Fig. 4g, h).
Relationships of toxic heavy metal concentration in S. variolaris at Tangalle reef. a Hg versus test diameter, b Hg versus total gonad weight, c Cd versus test diameter, d Cd versus total gonad weight, e Pb versus test diameter, f Pb versus total gonad weight, g As versus test diameter, h As versus total gonad weight
There were low levels of trace metals in the gonads of S. variolaris in all the studied locations. The significant finding was that there were undetectable levels of Pb in S. variolaris gonads collected from the Mount-Lavinia reef. Further, at this location S variolaris population had accumulated As (0.00 ppm–1.81 mg/kg) at a high level (Table 4) compared to other studied metals (Hg and Cd) though this did not exceeded the European Union (EU) (Table 4) and Sri Lanka permitted level. S. variolaris populations in the Beruwala reef was not highly contaminated by Hg (0.03–0.10 mg/kg) and Pb (0.00–0.21 mg/kg), but highly contaminated by As (1.14–4.64 mg/kg) and Cd (0.15–1.15 mg/kg), which exceeds the permitted level of the 1.00–2.00 mg/kg (Table 4). According to the EU, there were very low levels of Hg (0.00–0.12 mg/kg) in the S. variolaris population of Tangalle reef. However, there were higher levels of Cd (0.08–4.60 mg/kg) and As (0.00–4.563 mg/kg) in this population though they were below the permitted levels. Accumulated Pb levels in S. variolaris (0.00–0.77 mg/kg) varied between permitted level (0.30–1.50 mg/kg) (Table 4). The low levels of toxic trace metals could be seen in the Mount-Lavinia population when compared to the other populations. The levels of accumulated trace metals in sea urchin gonads represent the environmental condition and thus can be used as bio-indicator to determine the trace metal pollution of that particular coast. As a consequence, most sea urchin species are used as bio-indicators in the world (Paracentrotus lividus) [20, 23]. However, there is currently no literature available for trace metal contamination in sea urchins, specifically for Sri Lanka,.
Table 4 Maximum level of toxic trace metals contaminants of selected seafoods species according to EU and Sri Lanka regulations [22,23,24]
The average levels of accumulated toxic trace metals in sea urchins were in the order from As > Cd > Pb > Hg in Beruwala population, Cd > As > Pb > Hg in Tanagalle population and As > Cd > Hg > Pb in Mount-lavinia population. According to the above order, both Beruwala and Tangalle reefs had the lowest Hg contamination than the Mount-Lavinia sample.
The accumulated levels of all of the tested toxic trace metals (Hg, Cd and As) significantly correlated with the test diameter of S. variolaris population in the Beruwala reef. This indicates that the accumulation of Hg, Cd and As increases with a size of the test. Nevertheless, accumulated Pb levels did not significantly correlate with average test diameter and total gonad weight. Therefore, it seems that the accumulation of Pb does not depend on the total gonad weight or the average test diameter. In the Tangalle sample, Cd and As metals showed a significant relationship between these toxic trace metal accumulations with test diameter while Hg and Pb metals did not significantly correlate with test diameter. However, total gonad weight of S. variolaris showed that accumulation of As significantly correlated though Hg, Cd and Pb did not. The Mount-Lavinia samples showed that there was a significant relationship between toxic trace metals accumulation with average test diameter with Hg, Cd and As metals and Pb has not significantly correlated with average test diameter. Similarly, the total gonad weight of S. variolaris revealed a significant relationship with Hg, Cd and As metals and Pb did not because Pb accumulation was not at detectable level. Therefore, it could not be seen any relationship between average test diameter and total gonad weight of Pb accumulation. Finally, As was the only metal which showed a clear significant relationship between both average test diameter and total gonad weight in all the selected sites.
These relationships of S. variolaris revealed that toxic trace metals accumulation increase with their age. This would be due to long time accumulation as a result of exposure to the polluted environment in the lifetime. In addition, accumulation of excess trace metals in gonads of sea urchins showed a relationship with their age and a similar result was also reported by Mostafa and Collins [20], because the maximum value of trace metal concentration resulted in the high average test diameter recorded individuals than the low average test diameter recorded individuals. The study conducted by Mostafa and Collins [20] revealed that accumulation of Cd and Pb showed the negative linear relationship between their wet weight and accumulated concentration in the species P. lividus.
The frequency distribution of shell diameter and weight of S. variolaris range from a minimum of 3.30 to a maximum of 8.90 cm and weight from a minimum of 30.15 g to a maximum of 346.56 g for all the population selected from Sri Lanka. But Smith and Kroh [7] recorded S. variolaris having maximum shell diameter of 11 cm from the Visakhapatnam Coast (India). However, 8.90 cm is the highest value recorded for the Sri Lankan S. variolaris.
The findings from this study will be helpful to the get an idea about the trace metal accumulation S. variolaris. Most importantly, it also indicates that the accumulated levels of trace metals did not exceed the harmful level for human consumption. Hence, due to safe levels of trace metals in S. variolaris gonads, there is possibility to export the gonads and gonad products from Sri Lanka, which will be a highly profitable industry in the future.
IPHT:
Institute of Post-Harvest Technology
NARA:
National Aquatic Resources Research and Development Agency
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parts per billion
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De Zoysa HKS, Jinadasa BKKK, Edirisinghe EMRKB. Black sea urchin (Stomopneustes variolaris): nutritional composition and trace metals accumulation of edible sea urchin of Sri Lanka. In: Baker R, editor. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing; 2016.
Jinadasa BKKK, De Zoysa HKS, Jayasinghe GDTM, Edirisinghe EMRKB. Determination of the biometrical parameters, biochemical composition and essential trace metals of edible sea urchin (Stomopneustes variolaris) in Sri Lanka. Cogent Food Agric. 2016;2(1):1–12.
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Jinadasa BKKK, Jörundsdóttir HÓ, Gunnlaugsdóttir H. Preparation of a standard operation procedure for validation of laboratory methods for trace metal analysis in seafood for national aquatic resources research and development agency (NARA), Sri Lanka. 2010.
All authors contributed to the manuscript improvement. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
The authors are grateful to the National Aquatic Resources Research and Development Agency (NARA). Also, we thank to K. Ukuwela for his invaluable comments on manuscript.
The data sets generated and analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
This study was supported in part by a grant from the National Aquatic Resources Research and Development Agency (NARA), Crow Island, Colombo 15, Sri Lanka.
Department of Bioprocess Technology, Faculty of Technology, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Mihintale, Sri Lanka
H. K. S. De Zoysa
Department of Physical Sciences, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Mihintale, Sri Lanka
& E. M. R. K. B. Edirisinghe
Institute of Post-Harvest Technology (IPHT), National Aquatic Resources Research and Development Agency (NARA), Colombo, Sri Lanka
B. K. K. K. Jinadasa
& G. D. T. M. Jayasinghe
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De Zoysa, H.K.S., Jinadasa, B.K.K.K., Edirisinghe, E.M.R.K.B. et al. The association of test diameter and gonad weight with some toxic trace metals level in black sea urchin (Stomopneustes variolaris). Agric & Food Secur 7, 58 (2018) doi:10.1186/s40066-018-0211-3
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Abu Ahmad Barbershop
A free signage and directional graffiti for a barbershop in an authentic area in the city of Amman. The project was completed in collaboration with the traditional sign painter Abed Jokhi.
The new custom lettering design.
The fourth project of Wajha initiative that provided FREE design services to create signage and directional graffiti for a barbershop in an authentic area in the city of Amman. The project was completed in collaboration with the traditional sign painter Abed Jokhi.
The loose old sign of the barbershop.
Abu Ahmad, the owner, happy with his new redesign.
The second sign at the entrance of the stairs.
An outdoor poster which was inspired from the uncle Sam poster "I want you". It translates to: "I want you to shave".
The graffiti version of the outdoor poster.
The Sign Painter Abed Jokhi
Abed Jokhi at his workshop.
Directional Graffiti
Some of the multilingual Way-finding graffiti stencils that were sprayed in downtown, Alkalha stairs, and Alweibdeh, which lead to Abu Ahmad Barbershop.
THe mighty stencil.
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Arm Sanctuary, Inc
In 2015, the Animal Recovery Mission expanded its investigative division and created its own Sanctuary, to provide the critical lifelong aftercare of the animals in which it rescues, following the organizations undercover investigations. This evolution was ignited when ARM came to the realization that there was a dwindling and limited resource of qualified sanctuaries in Florida, specifically those who provided lifelong homes to farm animals. Being that all of ARMs raids and animal rescues have been executed in this state, the lack of homes for abused, sick and homeless animals was posing a serious concern for ARM. As ARMs success grew, it was also becoming a major issue towards the rescue phase of ARMs future operations.
Therefore, ARM made the bold move to provide a service to this immediate need.
Since the inception of the Sanctuary, ARMs rescues have led way to a much effective procedure and a smoother transition for the animals. On the day of the raids, every animal is now safely loaded onto ARMs own transport units and transported to the private location where they are calmly assessed and treated by ARMs veterinarians.
Sprawling over almost 100 acres, ARMs Sanctuary currently provides personalized care to almost 200 animals ranging from horses to turtles. Initially when the property was obtained, it was composed of basic structures and setups. After several grueling months of renovations and construction, ARM is gradually creating an idyllic living space for all of the animals. The residents of the Sanctuary were once shackled and confined to the most unimaginable and diseased conditions. Today, they roam freely and happily over green pastures, swim in the many fresh water lakes over the property and every day receive the loving, personalized care of the animal care professionals which ARM have on staff.
On a monthly basis, the animals also receive routine medical check ups which are recorded on individualized health charts so that their progress can be monitored. Animals who are in rehabilitation are monitored around the clock.
ARM has grander visions and plans and is currently building out a capital campaign which will feature a fully equipped 20 stall barn with a medical treatment room, wash bays, feed room and office. ARM is also making plans for a state of the art quarantined building which will also have its own hygienic barn to treat and bring back to life the many animals that ARM brings onto the property from its operations. Eventually these same animals, once deemed healthy by ARMs medical staff, will be immersed into the free roaming lifestyle with the other healthy residents.
ARMs future plans also include raising the capital to purchase connecting land surrounding the current sanctuary.
With a focus upon spreading the message of living a more humane lifestyle, ARM hopes to also be executing several educational campaigns as well as implementing programs which will be released to its members and students of veterinary and animal law students.
It is ARMs aspiration to create the Sanctuary to become a model operation of animal rescue.
There are many ways to aide ARM in attaining this goal which you can learn more about by clicking here on ARMs Wish List.
There are also many other ways to play a major role in making a forever bond with this movement including Sponsoring an animal, leaving a legacy and naming rights (coming available soon) of buildings upon the sanctuary. You can also show your support by becoming a member or purchasing your very own ARM Sanctuary apparel.
Read more here or contact Taylor at taylor@arminvestigations.org to learn more about our interactive programs.
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Death Valley Route, Las Vegas-Tonopah-Reno Stage Line Pamphlet
Identifier: 2007-12
The collection includes one pamphlet for the Las Vegas-Tonopah-Reno State Line Death Valley Route. The pamphlet contains descriptions and photographs of the route, the locations visited, and amenities provided.
Las Vegas-Tonopah-Reno State Line (Creator, Organization)
1 Leaves (1 item)
The Las Vegas-Tonopah-Reno Stage Line operated buses from Las Vegas to Reno, Nevada during the early- to mid-1900s. Collection includes one pamphlet for the Las Vegas-Tonopah-Reno State Line Death Valley Route.
The Las Vegas-Tonopah-Reno Stage Line operated buses from Las Vegas to Reno, Nevada during the early- to mid-1900s. The Death Valley Route diverted from the regular route in order to visit the national monument. Service was available from both Reno and Las Vegas.
Arranged as a singe item collectin without hierarchy.
Purchased from Jordan Antiquarian Books in 2007.
Bus lines -- Nevada
Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)
Las Vegas-Tonopah-Reno State Line
Guide to the Death Valley Route, Las Vegas-Tonopah-Reno Stage Line Pamphlet
Jessica Maddox
Death Valley Route, Las Vegas-Tonopah-Reno Stage Line Pamphlet, 2007-12. Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Reno. https://archive.library.unr.edu/public/repositories/2/resources/3658 Accessed January 21, 2020.
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Regulatory effect of calcineurin inhibitor, tacrolimus, on IL-6/sIL-6R-mediated RANKL expression through JAK2-STAT3-SOCS3 signaling pathway in fibroblast-like synoviocytes
Jung-Yoon Choe1,2,
Ki-Yeun Park2,
Sung-Hoon Park1,2,
Sang-Il Lee3 &
Seong-Kyu Kim1,2
This study investigated whether the calcineurin inhibitor, tacrolimus, suppresses receptor activator of NF-κB ligand (RANKL) expression in fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS) through regulation of IL-6/Janus activated kinase (JAK2)/signal transducer and activator of transcription-3 (STAT3) and suppressor of cytokine signaling (SOCS3) signaling.
The expression of RANKL, JAK2, STAT3, and SOCS3 proteins was assessed by western blot analysis, real-time PCR and ELISA in IL-6 combined with soluble IL-6 receptor (sIL-6R)-stimulated rheumatoid arthritis (RA)-FLS with or without tacrolimus treatment. The effects of tacrolimus on synovial inflammation and bone erosion were assessed using mice with arthritis induced by K/BxN serum. Immunofluorescent staining was performed to identify the effect of tacrolimus on RANKL and SOCS3. The tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase staining assay was performed to assess the effect of tacrolimus on osteoclast differentiation.
We found that RANKL expression in RA FLS is regulated by the IL-6/sIL-6R/JAK2/STAT3/SOCS3 pathway. Inhibitory effects of tacrolimus on RANKL expression in a serum-induced arthritis mice model were identified. Tacrolimus inhibits RANKL expression in IL-6/sIL-6R-stimulated FLS by suppressing STAT3. Among negative regulators of the JAK/STAT pathway, such as CIS1, SOCS1, and SOCS3, only SOCS3 is significantly induced by tacrolimus. As compared to dexamethasone and methotrexate, tacrolimus more potently suppresses RANKL expression in FLS. By up-regulating SOCS3, tacrolimus down-regulates activation of the JAK-STAT pathway by IL-6/sIL-6R trans-signaling, thus decreasing RANKL expression in FLS.
These data suggest that tacrolimus might affect the RANKL expression in IL-6 stimulated FLS through STAT3 suppression, together with up-regulation of SOCS3.
Receptor activator of NF-κB ligand (RANKL) is a transmembrane protein of the TNF superfamily, which is an important molecule in bone metabolism [1]. RANKL, together with macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF), is an essential molecule in osteoclast formation through its role in the differentiation of osteoclast precursor cells into multinuclear osteoclast-like cells with bone resorbing activity. RANKL produced by infiltrating active T cells and macrophages was highly detectable in the synovial tissues of subjects with active rheumatoid arthritis (RA) [2, 3]. Fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS), which are stimulated by IL-6, TNF-α and IL-17, are crucial cells that produce RANKL in the inflammatory joints of patients with RA [3–5]. These findings suggest that RANKL has an important role in bone resorption and loss, with FLS acting as a major producer of RANKL in RA.
The IL-6 and IL-6R complex leads to homodimerization of the cell surface molecule, gp130, which subsequently transduces a signal that activates intracytoplasmic Janus activated kinase (JAK) tyrosine kinase. JAK tyrosine kinase preferentially induces tyrosine phosphorylation of signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) [6]. In addition to roles of STAT3 in cell survival, growth, and differentiation [7], STAT3 is closely related to osteoclastogenesis [8]. RANKL, induced by the IL-6/sIL-6R complex, requires activation of STAT3 [8, 9]. Although the roles of suppressor of cytokine signaling/cytokine-inducible SH2 (SOCS/CIS) have been retained, both SOCS1 and SOCS3 negatively regulate JAK tyrosine kinase as feedback inhibitors [6]. Shouda et al. demonstrated that inflammatory changes in joints and bone erosion were significantly suppressed in a collagen-induced arthritis animal model treated with SOCS-3 [10]. Therefore, regulation of STAT3 and SOCS3 in the FLS of patients with RA through the IL-6/gp130/STAT3 signaling pathway might be a potent therapeutic strategy in the treatment of RA.
Tacrolimus (FK506) is a macrolide immunosuppressant that primarily interferes with T cell activation and proliferation through inhibition of calcineurin, a calcium-dependent phosphatase that activates the nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFAT) transcription factor [11]. In addition to the anti-arthritic effects of tacrolimus through regulation of inflammatory cytokine production in RA [12, 13], there is some evidence that tacrolimus may have a role in the regulation of bone metabolism. Tacrolimus prevents differentiation of these cells into mature osteoclasts through the calcineurin-NFAT pathway [14, 15]. Tacrolimus was shown to have a protective effect on bone resorption in rats [16].
The blockade of RANKL expression in FLS may be important in the regulation of osteoclast differentiation for bone erosion in RA, because FLS is a potent source of RANKL production in patients with RA. In the current study, we investigated the potential roles of a calcineurin inhibitor, tacrolimus, in the regulation of RANKL expression through the IL-6-induced JAK-STAT signaling pathway in RA FLS.
Synoviocytes were isolated from the synovial tissues of four patients with RA (three women and one man) during total knee replacement surgery. Patients with RA met the American College of Rheumatology 1987 revised classification criteria for RA diagnosis [17]. Synovial tissues were harvested and incubated with collagenase type I (1 mg/ml) and hyaluronidase type I (2 mg/ml) for 2 hours at 37°C. After removing the large tissue, floating cells and synovial fibroblasts were isolated from adherent cells. Synovial fibroblasts were maintained in (D)MEM (Gibco, BRL, Grand Island, NY, USA) supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (Hyclone, Logan, UT, USA), 100 U/ml penicillin, and 100 μg/ml streptomycin. Subcultures were performed when cells reached 80% to 90% confluence. For the experiments, cells from passages three to eight were used. The protocol of this study was approved by the Institutional Review Board/Ethics Committee at the Catholic University of Daegu. Informed consent was obtained from the patients at the time of study enrollment.
Viability assay
Cell viability was measured by the 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetra zolium bromide (MTT) assay (Sigma, St. Louis, MO, USA). Cells (2 × 104 cells/ml) were seeded in 96-well plates and incubated for 24 hours. Media were removed and cells were treated with different doses of drugs and incubated for 24 hours. An MTT (0.5 mg/ml) solution of 50 µl was added to each well. After incubation at 37°C for 4 hours, the MTT solution was removed and 100 µl of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) was added. Cells were incubated at room temperature for an additional 10 minutes after which absorbance was measured at 540 nm with a plate reader (BMG Lab Technologies, Offenburg, Germany).
Preparation of arthritis models and treatment
C57BL/6 mice (SLC Inc., Shizuoka, Japan) weighing 20 to 25 g at the beginning of the experiment were allocated to each study group, such as control mice (n = 6), mice treated with tacrolimus (n = 6), and mice not treated with tacrolimus (n = 6). K/BxN serum was provided by SI Lee (Gyeongsang National University School of Medicine, Jinju, Gyeongnam, Republic of Korea). We also appreciate the great contribution to this experiment of KRN TCR transgenic mice provided by D. Mathis and C. Benoist (Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA) for the preparation of the K/BxN serum-induced arthritis. All experimental animals used in this study were maintained under the protocol approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of the Gyeongsang National University (GLA-101116-M0112). Tacrolimus (1 mg/kg) was intraperitoneally injected into the mice four times a week. In the control group, normal saline was injected at the same frequency. C57BL/6 mice treated with/without tacrolimus subsequently received intraperitoneal injections of 150 μl of K/BxN serum. Following treatment, the mice were monitored daily for signs of arthritis. Ankle thickness was evaluated with a steel vernier caliper.
Histopathological scoring was performed on the knee joints of mice in each experimental group as previously described [18]. Six H & E-stained sections per each experimental animal were scored by two independent observers (K-Y Park and S-K Kim) at both low and high power fields. Scores ranged from 0 (normal) to a maximum of 5 (severe infiltration of inflammatory cells for inflammation, full thickness defect in the cortical bone, and marked trabecular bone loss for bone erosion).
Quantitative real time-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR)
Cells were plated at a density of 2 × 106 cells per 100 mm on culture dishes and pretreated with 100 ng/ml IL-6/sIL-6R for 24 hours at 37°C. Various concentrations of tacrolimus (10, 100 and 1,000 nM) were then added to the culture for 24 hours at 37°C. Total RNA was extracted from the cells and the wrists sampled from sacrificed experimental mice using Trizol reagent (Gibco BRL, Grand Island, NY, USA). RNA was reverse transcribed to complementary DNA using the Improm-II Reverse Transcription System (Promega, Madison, WI, USA). A total of 1 μg RNA was mixed with Oligo(dT)15 primer (0.5 μg/μL; Promega) and heated to 70°C for 5 minutes and 4°C for 5 minutes. Reverse transcription was added to the 100U reaction buffer along with 0.5 mM deoxynucleoside triphosphate (dNTP), 4 mM MgCl2, 1 mM DTT, 5U Improm II reverse transcriptase, and 20 U recombinant ribonuclease inhibitor (RNasin). Nuclease free water was added in a final volume of 20 µL, and the reaction was annealed at 25°C for 5 minutes followed by extension at 42°C for 1 hour.
RT-PCR was performed using the Mini Option TM RT-PCR system (Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA, USA) with the DyNAmo SYBR Green qPCR kit (FINNZYMES, Espoo, Finland) according to the manufacturers' instructions. The reaction was performed in a total volume of 20 µL containing 10 µL of master mix, 10 pmol/L of each primer, 1 µL of cDNA, and 7 µL of distilled water. The following PCR protocols were used: 95°C for 3 minutes; 40 cycles (15 seconds, 95°C/1 minute, 60°C); and 72°C/45 seconds; and 60°C to 95°C per cycle for melting curve analysis.
RANKL primer sequences were forward 5′-GCT TGA AGC TCA GCC TTT TG-3′ and reverse 5′-CGA AAG CAA ATG TTG GCA TA-3′. Osteoprotegerin (OPG) primer sequences were forward 5′-GAA CCC CAG AGC GAA ATA CA-3′ and reverse 5′-TAT TCG CCA ACT GAG CA-3′. The β-actin primer sequences were forward 5′-CTG GAA CGG TGA AGG TGA CA-3′ and reverse 5′-AAG GGA CTT CCT GTA ACA CA-3′. Primers were synthesized by Bionics (Seoul, Korea). Data were analyzed with the delta delta Ct method.
Western blot analyses
Cells were treated with 0, 30, 50, and 100 ng/ml IL-6/sIL-6R for 30 minutes. For another experiment, cells were treated with 100 ng/ml IL-6/sIL-6R for 30 minutes before the addition of one of two different concentrations of tacrolimus (0.5 or 1 µM). After incubation for 24 hours, cell (4 × 106) pellets were lysed in a lysis buffer composed of 1 M Tris-HCl pH 8.0, 5 M NaCl, 10% Nonidet P40, and one tablet of protease inhibitor cocktail (Roche, Indianapolis, IN, USA). Cells were then incubated on ice for 10 minutes and centrifuged at 12,000 rpm for 10 minutes at 4°C. The pellet was discarded and the total protein concentration in the supernatant was determined using the Bio-Rad protein assay kit (Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA, USA). Proteins (30 to 60 μg) were separated by 10% SDS-PAGE gel electrophoresis, transferred to nitrocellulose membranes (Bio-Rad), and probed with appropriate antibodies. Antibodies to p-STAT3 (Y705), STAT3, and RANKL were obtained from Santa Cruz Biotechnology (Santa Cruz, CA, USA). Antibodies to p-JAK2 (Tyr1007/1008), JAK2, nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB), p-NF-κB, and NFAT were obtained from Cell Signaling Technology (Beverly, MA, USA). Antibodies to OPG and SOCS3 were purchased from Abcam (Cambridge, UK). Primary antibodies were incubated overnight at 4°C and horseradish peroxidase-conjugated secondary antibodies were incubated for 1 hour at room temperature. Proteins were detected with the SuperSignal® West Pico chemiluminescent kit (Thermo Scientific, Rockford, IL, USA). Densitometry values were analyzed and quantified with Quantity One software (Bio-Rad).
Transfection of siRNA
Cells were plated at approximately 80% confluence and transfected with siRNA via the lipofectamine® RNAiMAX reagent (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA). The siRNA for human SOCS3 and the Stealth™RNAi negative control were purchased from Invitrogen. SiRNA (50 nM) and lipofectamine® RNAiMAX reagent in Opti-MEM (Invitrogen) were mixed and incubated at room temperature for 20 minutes. The mixtures were then added to each dish containing cells and incubated at 37°C for 72 hours. The transfected cells were treated with IL-6/sIL-6R at 100 ng/ml for 30 minutes.
Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)
A total of 2 × 104 cells were plated in 96-well culture plates. Cells were stimulated by IL-6/sIL-6R at 100 ng/ml for 24 hours followed by treatment with tacrolimus (0.01, 0.1 and 1 µM), methotrexate (MTX) (1 µg), and dexamethasone (1µg) for 24 hours at 37°C. RANKL and OPG were measured using ELISA Kits (Uscn Life Science Inc., Wuhan, China for RANKL and R&D Systems, Minneapolis, MN, USA for OPG) according to the manufacturers' instructions. ELISA plates with 96 wells (Nunc, Rochester, NY, USA) were coated with 2 µg/ml mouse monoclonal antihuman OPG and incubated overnight at room temperature. After washing the plates, recombinant human OPG standards and cell culture supernatants were added. The detection antibody, biotinylated polyclonal goat anti-human OPG at 200 ng/ml and streptavidin-HRP conjugate were added. The plates were washed again and hydrogen peroxide/tetramethylbenzidine substrate was added. The reaction was stopped and measured at 450 nm. Cell culture supernatants and human RANKL standards were added to pre-coated 96-well ELISA plates for 2 hours at 37°C. Detection color reagents A (H2O2) and B (TMB) were added for 1 hour, washed, and then reacted with substrate solution for 20 minutes. Stop solution was added to stop the reaction and absorbance was determined using a microplate reader at 450 nm.
Immunofluorescence staining
Cells were seeded at a density of 5 × 104 cells on four-well glass slides (Nunc). The cells were fixed with 3.7% paraformaldehyde for 10 minutes at room temperature. Afterwards, the slides were washed twice with PBS and then blocked with 1% BSA in PBS for 30 minutes. Slides were incubated with primary antibody diluted in PBS for 1 hour. After washing with 0.1% Tween 20 in PBS, the slides were incubated with donkey anti-goat IgG-FITC or goat anti-rabbit IgG-FITC (Santa Cruz Biotechnology) for 40 minutes at room temperature in the dark. Cover slips were mounted onto the slide and slides were visualized by fluorescence microscopy (TE2000-U, Nikon Instruments Inc., NY, USA).
Tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase (TRAP) staining
Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) were isolated from human blood obtained from three female RA patients by centrifugation using Histopaque®-1038 (Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, MO, USA) at 1800 rpm for 20 minutes at 4°C. Collected PBMCs (5 × 104 cells/well) were incubated in 96 well plates containing 60 ng/ml of RANKL and 50 ng/ml of M-CSF (Peprotech, East Brunswick, NJ, USA) in the presence or absence of tacrolimus. After 15 days, cells were fixed for 30 seconds and stained with TRAP staining kit (Sigma-Aldrich). Then, cells were incubated in a light protected incubator for 1hour at 37°C. Counterstain to Gill's hematoxylin solution was used for 2 minutes. TRAP-positive multinuclear cells were observed under a light microscope.
Data are expressed as the mean ± standard deviation of three independent experiments. Statistical results were analyzed using the Mann-Whitney test. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 13.0 for Windows (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). P-values less than 0.05 were considered statistically significant.
Expression of IL-6/sIL-6R-induced RANKL and OPG in RA synoviocytes
RANKL and OPG are essential components in the regulation of osteoclastogenesis. OPG is known to be a soluble decoy receptor for RANKL, which functions to inhibit RANKL-RANK interaction as well as osteoclast maturation and activation. We found that IL-6/sIL-6R increased RANKL expression in a dose-dependent manner, whereas OPG expression after IL-6/sIL-6R treatment was decreased compared to untreated cells (Figure 1A).
The effect of the IL-6/sIL-6R complex on RANKL, JAK2, STAT3 in fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS). (A) Stimulation of FLS with IL-6 and sIL-6R at several different concentrations (0, 30, 50, 100 ng of both) for 30 minutes induced RANKL protein expression in a dose-dependent manner. In contrast, expression of OPG protein was gradually inhibited under the same conditions. (B) Treatment with IL-6/sIL-6R (100 ng of both) for 30 minutes in control synoviocytes increased the expression of SOCS3, p-JAK2, p-STAT3, and RANKL proteins. In SOCS3-siRNA transfected FLS, expression of p-JAK2, p-STAT3, and RANKL under IL-6/sIL-6R stimulation (100 ng/ml each) for 30 minutes was significantly increased compared to control synoviocytes. Data are determined in three independent experiments. IL-6, interleukin-6; JAK2, Janus activated kinase; OPG, osteoprotegerin; RANKL, receptor activator of NF-κB ligand; sIL-6R, soluble interleukin-6 receptor; SOCS3, suppressor of cytokine signaling 3; STAT3, signal transducer and activator of transcription-3.
As illustrated in Figure 1B, treatment of each 100 ng of IL-6/sIL-6R led to a prominent induction of p-JAK2 and p-STAT3. In addition, enhanced expression of SOCS3 and RANKL might be induced by activation of the JAK-STAT signaling pathway, which is stimulated by IL-6/sIL-6R. Stronger expression of p-JAK2, p-STAT3, and RANKL was detected in SOCS3 knockdown FLS using SOCS3 siRNA following IL-6/sIL-6R stimulation (Figure 1B).
Inhibitory effects of tacrolimus on RANKL expression in a serum-induced arthritis model
Arthritis was successfully induced after injection of K/BxN serum into C57B/L6 mice. Histological evaluations demonstrated that joint destruction was significantly attenuated in mice treated with tacrolimus compared to those not treated, as evidenced by enhanced inflammatory cell infiltration, cartilage abrasion, and bony erosion (Figure 2A). Compared to mice not treated with tacrolimus, mice treated with tacrolimus had significantly thinner ankles, a marker of joint inflammation, on day 8 and day 10 after primary immunization (P <0.05 on day 8 and P <0.05 on day 10) (Figure 2B). Semi-quantitative pathological analysis was performed on knee joints and showed that synovial inflammation and bony erosion were significantly reduced in tacrolimus-treated arthritic mice compared to mice not treated with tacrolimus (P <0.05 and P <0.05, respectively) (Figure 2C).
The therapeutic effect of tacrolimus on inflammation and bone erosion in a serum-induced arthritis mouse model. (A) Before immunization of C57BL/6 mice with K/BxN serum, tacrolimus (1 mg/kg) was intraperitoneally introduced four times for a week. At day 10, the experimental mice were sacrificed. Serum-induced arthritic mice pretreated with tacrolimus showed less paw swelling compared to those not treated with tacrolimus. Histological findings demonstrated protection against joint damage in the cartilage, bone, and synovium of tacrolimus-treated mouse joints. (B) Ankle thickness in the tacrolimus-treated mice was significantly less than that of non-treated serum-induced arthritis mice on days 8 and 10 (*P <0.05). (C) Semi-quantitative analysis for inflammation and bone erosion indicated fewer inflammatory changes and less bone destruction in tacrolimus-treated mice compared to untreated mice (*P <0.05). (D) Tacrolimus treatment significantly reduced RANKL mRNA expression in the affected joints of mice with serum-induced arthritis (*P <0.05). In contrast, the reduction in OPG mRNA expression in serum-induced arthritis was reversed with treatment by tacrolimus (*P <0.05). SOCS3 mRNA expression also was increased in arthritic joints treated with tacrolimus (*P <0.05 versus serum-induced arthritis not treated with tacrolimus). OPG, osteoprotegerin; RANKL, receptor activator of NF-κB ligand; SIA, serum-induced arthritis; SOCS3, suppressor of cytokine signaling 3; Tac, tacrolimus.
RANKL gene expression in affected wrist joints is prominently induced in serum-induced arthritis (Figure 2D). However, tacrolimus was found to decrease RANKL expression in the arthritis model compared to mice not treated with tacrolimus (P <0.05). In contrast, OPG gene expression in arthritic mice was more induced in tacrolimus-treated arthritis (P <0.05). These results indicate that tacrolimus is involved in osteoclastogenesis in inflammatory arthritis. In addition, tacrolimus significantly induced SOCS3 mRNA expression in affected joints of the arthritis model compared to the non-treated arthritic animals (P <0.05).
Regulation of RANKL and OPG expression in the IL-6/sIL-6R-stimulated FLS by tacrolimus
Tacrolimus markedly suppressed RANKL mRNA expression in IL-6/sIL-6R-induced FLS (Figure 3A). In contrast, OPG expression in IL-6/sIL-6R-induced FLS was consistently increased at dosages of 100 and 1,000 nM of tacrolimus (P <0.001 for both). Treatment with tacrolimus reduced RANKL production in the supernatants of cells cultured under the same experimental conditions, whereas OPG concentrations were increased with tacrolimus treatment (Figure 3A).
Regulatory effect of tacrolimus on RANKL and OPG expression in FLS under IL-6/sIL-6R stimulation. (A) After pretreatment of cultured FLS with IL-6/sIL-6R (100 ng of both), incubation with tacrolimus at several concentrations led to a consistently marked reduction of RANKL at the mRNA (*P <0.001 at 10, 100, 1,000 nM of tacrolimus) and protein levels (‡P <0.05 at 100 nM and †P <0.01 1,000 nM of tacrolimus). In contrast, tacrolimus at dosages of 100 and 1,000 nM significantly increased levels of OPG mRNA (*P <0.001 for each dosage). Expression of OPG protein was consistently observed (†P <0.01 of 100 and 1,000 nM). (B) In western blot analysis for RANKL expression after tacrolimus treatment, tacrolimus was found to inhibit RANKL expression in FLS stimulated by IL-6/sIL-6R (100 ng of both). In contrast, OPG expression was increased following tacrolimus treatment. (C) Tacrolimus was shown to inhibit the expression of RANKL in FLS after stimulation with IL-6/sIL-6R in the immunofluorescence assay. (D) The inhibitory effect of tacrolimus (1 µM) on RANKL expression was more prominent than that of other anti-inflammatory drugs such as methotrexate (1 µg) and dexamethasone (1 µg). OPG mRNA expression was increased by tacrolimus and methotrexate but not by dexamethasone. (*P <0.001, †P <0.01, ‡P <0.05 versus IL-6/sIL-6R-treated FLS). Data are determined in three independent experiments. FLS, fibroblast-like synociocytes; IL-6, interleukin-6; OPG, osteoprotegerin; RANKL, receptor activator of NF-κB ligand; sIL-6R, soluble interleukin-6 receptor.
Tacrolimus inhibited RANKL protein synthesis, whereas it enhanced the expression of OPG protein (Figure 3B). The presence of RANKL staining cells among cultured FLS was minimal in the immunofluorescence assay (Figure 3C). Treatment with tacrolimus significantly reduced the number of RANKL staining cells compared to FLS stimulated with IL-6/sIL-6R alone.
In addition, we compared the efficacy of tacrolimus in regulating RANKL and OPG expression to that of other drugs including MTX and dexamethasone (Figure 3D). All three experimental drugs showed inhibitory effects on RANKL protein production (P <0.001 for tacrolimus, P <0.05 for MTX, and P <0.05 for dexamethasone). Regarding effects on OPG expression, tacrolimus and MTX significantly enhanced OPG expression (P <0.001 for tacrolimus and P <0.01 for MTX), but dexamethasone did not (P >0.05).
The effects of tacrolimus on the JAK-STAT-SOCS3 signaling pathway
Phosphorylation of JAK2 and STAT3 in IL-6/sIL-6R-stimulated FLS was significantly decreased by the addition of tacrolimus at doses of 0.5 and 1.0 µM (Figure 4A). Co-stimulation with IL-6/sIL-6R consistently reduced SOCS1, SOCS3 and CIS1 mRNA expression at the transcriptional level; however, IL-6 mRNA expression was increased (Figure 4B). Treatment with tacrolimus at both 100 and 1,000 nM dosages markedly enhanced SOCS3 mRNA expression (P <0.05 of both). However, both SOCS1 and CIS1 were not affected by tacrolimus treatment.
The effect of tacrolimus on JAK2, STAT3, and SOCS3 in IL-6/sIL-6R-stimulated FLS. (A) Stimulation with IL-6/sIL-6R (100 ng of both) induced phosphorylation of JAK2 and STAT3. However, tacrolimus reversed these changes, thereby significantly reducing the expression of p-JAK2 and p-STAT3. (B) Tacrolimus treatment of IL-6/sIL-6R-stimulated FLS potently suppressed IL-6 expression. Among negative regulators of the JAK-STAT signaling pathway, prominent induction of SOCS3 mRNA expression was induced by tacrolimus (†P <0.05 at 100 and 1,000 nM) in comparison to IL-6/sIL-6R-stimulated FLS. Expression of SOCS1 and CIS1 mRNA was not similarly induced. (C) Tacrolimus enhanced the level of SOCS3 protein in IL-6/sIL-6R-treated FLS in a dose-dependent manner. (D) In SOCS3 knockdown FLS, IL-6/sIL-6R induced overexpression of RANKL, p-NF-κB and NFATc1. In contrast, addition of tacrolimus induced SOCS3 expression and attenuated RANKL expression. The protein levels of p-NF-κB and NFATc1 were significantly reduced, in comparison to those in SOCS3 knockdown FLS without tacrolimus. (E) The immunofluorescence assay indicated the presence of an increased number of SOCS3-positive cells after treatment with tacrolimus compared to controls. Data are determined in three independent experiments. CIS1, cytokine-inducible SH2; IL-6, interleukin-6; JAK2, Janus activated kinase; RANKL, receptor activator of NF-κB ligand; sIL-6R, soluble interleukin-6 receptor; SOCS1, suppressor of cytokine signaling 1; SOCS3, suppressor of cytokine signaling 3; STAT3, signal transducer and activator of transcription 3.
In the assessment of the effects of tacrolimus on the expression of RANKL and SOCS3, tacrolimus markedly increased the expression of the SOCS3 protein in a dose-dependent manner, as evidenced by western blot analysis (Figure 4C). Tacrolimus treatment (1 µM) in IL-6/sIL-6R-induced FLS enhanced SOCS protein expression, but significantly reduced expressions of RANKL and two transcription factors, the activated form of NF-κB and NFATc1 (Figure 4D). In SOCS3 knockdown FLS, overexpression of RANKL, p-NF-κB, and NFATc1 was seen under stimulation of IL-6/sIL-6R. In contrast, addition of tacrolimus in SOCS3-knockdown FLS significantly attenuated overexpressions of these molecules. This could suggest that enhanced SOCS3 expression by addition of tacrolimus contributed to the down-regulation of NF-κB and NFATc1 transcription factors in SOCS3 knockdown cells. Immunofluorescence studies also consistently demonstrated that tacrolimus increased the expression of SOCS3 in IL-6/sIL-6R-stimulated FLS (Figure 4E).
The TRAP staining assay for osteoclasts using PBMC obtained from RA patients was performed to confirm the inhibitory effect of tacrolimus on osteoclast differentiation. Tacrolimus suppressed osteoclast differentiation in a dose-dependent manner, as illustrated in Figure 5A. The number of TRAP positive cells was significantly reduced after addition of 0.5 or 10 µM of tacrolimus (P <0.05 and P <0.01, respectively) (Figure 5B).
The effect of tacrolimus on the formation of TRAP(+) multinucleated cells. (A) TRAP staining assay showed that 60 ng/ml of RANKL and 50 ng/ml of M-CSF induced differentiation of PBMCs into TRAP (+) multinucleated cells, implicating osteoclasts (a). However, addition of tacrolimus gradually decreased the number of TRAP (+) multinucleated osteoclasts in a tacrolimus dose-dependent manner (b to d) (magnitude × 200). (B) Tacrolimus significantly suppressed number of TRAP(+) cells at 0.5 Mm and 1.0 Mm doses (*P <0.05 and †P <0.01). M-CSF, macrophage colony-stimulating factor; RANKL, receptor activator of NF-κB ligand; TRAP, tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase.
There is some evidence indicating that RANKL plays an important role as a regulator of osteoclastogenesis in the pathogenesis of RA [4]. It is well known that RANKL arises from osteoblast/stromal cells and activated T lymphocytes [1, 19]. Pro-inflammatory cytokines including TNF-α, IL-17, and IL-1 are involved in the regulation of RANKL mRNA levels and proteins produced by FLS in mice and humans with RA [3–5]. Two previous studies reported the induction of RANKL by TNF-α, IL-17, and IL-1β in RA FLS [3, 5]. Hashizume et al. demonstrated that both TNF-α and IL-17 increased RANKL expression only in association with sIL-6R [4]. Furthermore, they showed that IL-6 also stimulated RANKL expression in FLS in the presence of sIL-6R. In this study, co-treatment of FLS with IL-6 and sIL-6R significantly increased the protein and mRNA levels of RANKL. This suggests that activation of the IL-6 trans-signaling pathway might trigger osteoclastogenesis through enhanced RANKL expression in FLS of subjects with RA.
IL-6 binding to sIL-6R activates JAK tyrosine kinase and STAT transcriptional factor. Because its tyrosine phosphorylation was detected exclusively in synovial tissues of RA but not those of osteoarthritis, STAT3 is considered a crucial molecule in the pathogenesis of RA [10]. The IL-6/sIL-6R-treated stromal/osteoblastic cell line (UAMS-32) with dominant negative-STAT3 protein was blocked to induce RANKL expression [9]. These findings suggest that the regulation of STAT3 is critical for the control of osteoclastogenesis by activation of gp-130-mediated cytokines. Treatment of IL-6/sIL-6R-stimulated FLS with parthenolide, a STAT inhibitor, reduced the expression of RANKL mRNA [4]. Therefore, STAT3 activation is essential for transcription in osteoclastogenesis through regulation of RANKL expression in the IL-6/sIL-6R-activated signaling pathway. SOCS molecules, a family of eight different intracellular proteins, were first identified as negative feedback factors for cytokine-related responses [20]. Now, SOCS proteins are considered important players in the regulation of the cytokine-JAK-STAT signaling pathway. Both SOCS1 and SOCS3 have been identified as potential inhibitors of JAK tyrosine kinase activity [6]. There is some evidence that SOCS3 is a crucial negative regulator of IL-6 signaling. Prolonged phosphorylation in SOCS3 gene-deficient mouse macrophages due to stimulation with IL-6 suggests that SOCS3 plays an important role in controlling the responses to IL-6 [21]. In the present study, we found that the IL-6/sIL-6R complex in cultured RA synoviocytes led to phosphorylation of JAK2 and STAT3 molecules. In addition, the expression of the SOCS3 protein was markedly increased after stimulation with IL-6/sIL-6R. Furthermore, the IL-6/sIL-6R complex resulted in increased phosphorylation of both JAK2 and STAT3, as well as increased RANKL protein expression in SOCS3 siRNA-transfected RA FLS compared to control FLS. Our data suggest that RANKL expression in FLS treated with IL-6/sIL-6R might be primarily dependent on the JAK2-STAT3-SOCS3 signaling pathway.
Tacrolimus is a potent immunosuppressive drug. It primarily plays a role in the inhibition of T cell activation by targeting a calcium-dependent calcineurin phosphatase of the NFAT transcription factor [11]. Tacrolimus reduced the number of TRAP-positive human mononuclear cells (MNCs) expressing RANKL and M-CSF as well as the formation of lacunar resorption pits in a previous study [15]. Tacrolimus has a potent inhibitory effect on osteoclast differentiation. Inspection of rat upper maxilla treated with tacrolimus (1 mg/kg/day) for 60 days demonstrated an increase in alveolar bone volume secondary to a decrease in osteoclast number compared to rats treated with a drug vehicle [22]. Another study suggested that the anti-osteoclastic effect of tacrolimus might be explained by its induction of apoptosis in osteoclasts [23].
However, data about the effect of tacrolimus on RANKL expression in RA synoviocytes has not been identified. Our study showed that tacrolimus inhibits bone erosion in a serum-induced arthritis mouse model, compared to serum-induced arthritis mice not treated with tacrolimus. The effect on bone erosion was seen in addition to the anti-inflammatory effect of tacrolimus on synovial inflammation in arthritis. The mRNA levels of RANKL measured in the ankles of serum-induced arthritis models treated with tacrolimus were significantly lower than those not treated with tacrolimus. This result was confirmed by an in vitro experiment using RA FLS treated with IL-6/sIL-6R. These findings suggest that the protective role of tacrolimus against bone erosion is related to the reduction of RANKL production in tacrolimus-treated mice.
Inhibition of either STAT or JAK is considered an important therapeutic target to prevent bone destruction in RA [8, 9, 24]. The Pan-JAK inhibitor, pyridine 6, significantly suppressed osteoclast differentiation and bone resorption by inhibiting RANKL-induced NFATc1 expression in mouse bone marrow macrophage cultures [24]. In an experiment using STAT3 knockout mice, induction of RANKL was inhibited by stimulation with IL-6 and IL-6R [9]. Recently Mori et al. provide evidence that suppression of STAT3 might be beneficial by inhibiting osteoclatogenesis mediated by the IL-6/STAT3-dependent inflammatory cascade [8]. We investigated whether tacrolimus has an inhibitory effect on RANKL production by blocking or attenuating JAK2 and STAT3 activity in cultured RA synoviocytes treated with IL-6/sIL-6R. We observed that tacrolimus has inhibitory effects on the phosphorylation of both JAK2 and STAT3 in FLS stimulated with IL-6/sIL-6R. Our results suggest that tacrolimus may be involved in the activation of JAK-STAT signaling in RA synoviocytes. Furthermore, we demonstrated that down-regulation of JAK-STAT activation secondarily induced the expression of SOCS3, a negative regulator of STAT, whereas the expression of SOCS1 and CIS1 was not similarly induced. Functional SOCS1 deficiency is mainly involved in an unregulated response of IFN-γ, resulting in neonatal defects in SOCS-/- mice [25]. The phenotypes of CIS transgenic mice are remarkably similar to those found in STAT5 KO mice, suggesting that CIS is an important regulator of STAT5-mediated cytokine responses [26]. However, SOCS3 is considered a crucial determinant of IL-6 signaling through negative feedback. This study also revealed that tacrolimus, a known inhibitor of JAK2 and STAT3 phosphorylation, increased SOCS3 expression in IL-6/sIL-6R-treated FLS.
The intracellular signaling pathways of RANKL-RANK are mediated by activation of several crucial transcription factors including NF-κB and NFATc1 via TNF receptor-associated factor-6 (TRAF-6) during osteoclastogenesis [27]. In this study, we suggest that overexpression of NF-κB and NFATc1 in SOCS3 knockdown FLS was suppressed by enhanced SOCS3 expression through treatment with tacrolimus. Although tacrolimus could directly inhibit activation of NFATc1, Banerjee et al. showed that SOCS3 interacted with calcineurin and then suppressed the activation of NFAT in primary T cells [28]. Considering the effect of SOCS3 on activation of NF-κB, SOCS3 inhibited IL-1-mediated NF-κB activation through suppression of ubiquitination of TRAF-6 [29]. Based on this evidence, SOCS3 could play a role as a crucial regulator of both NF-κB and NFATc1 transcription factors.
Among several disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs for RA, MTX demonstrates marked potency as an inhibitor of persistent synovial inflammation. Female Sprague-Dawley rats treated with intraperitoneal MTX injections exhibited a significant increase in urinary hydroxyproline, a marker of bone resorption [30]. These results suggest that bone metabolism in MTX-treated subjects is related to the upregulation of osteoclast activity. In contrast, in vitro, MTX therapy was shown to decrease the RANKL:OPG ratio in cultured osteoblasts [31]. In the present study, we assessed the inhibitory effect of RANKL expression and discovered that MTX (100 nM) has an inhibitory effect on RANKL production in IL-6-stimulated RA synoviocytes. The influence of dexamethasone on RANKL expression has been reported in different cell lines [32, 33]. Our study demonstrated that dexamethasone (1,000 nM) decreased RANKL production in RA synoviocytes cultured with IL-6/sIL-6R. Although the differential effect of dexamethasone on RANKL remained, its effect on RANKL production in synoviocytes might be distinct from that in other osteoblastic or osteoclastic cells.
In summary, the cytokine IL-6, together with sIL-6R, has a pathogenic role in the development of RA through its effects on synovial inflammation and bone destruction. As such, it is considered a promising therapeutic target molecule. The intimate interaction between synoviocytes and osteoclasts contributes to the development of bone erosion. RANKL has an essential role in the regulation of osteoclast activation and differentiation. Our study showed that FLS is another source of RANKL production in synovial inflammation seen in RA. In addition, we found that RANKL expression by RA FLS depends on the JAK2-STAT3-SOCS3 signaling pathway at both the mRNA and protein levels. As shown in Figure 6, taken together these results indicate that tacrolimus has an inhibitory effect on RANKL expression in RA synoviocytes in both in vivo and in vitro experiments through its regulation of the JAK2-STAT3-SOCS3 pathway.
Summary for the effect of calcineurin inhibitor, tacrolimus, on the regulation of RANKL expression through IL-6/sIL-6R/JAK2/STAT3/SOCS3 pathway. IL-6, interleukin-6; JAK2, Janus activated kinase; RANKL, receptor activator of NF-κB ligand; sIL-6R, soluble interleukin-6 receptor; SOCS3, suppressor of cytokine signaling 3; STAT3, signal transducer and activator of transcription 3.
cytokine-inducible SH2
(D)MEM:
(Dulbecco's) modified Eagle's medium
ELISA:
FLS:
fibroblast-like synoviocytes
H & E:
hematoxylin and eosin
IFN:
JAK2:
Janus activated kinase
M-CSF:
macrophage colony-stimulating factor
MNCs:
mononuclear cells
MTX:
MTT:
3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetra zolium bromide
NFAT:
nuclear factor of activated T cells
NF-κB:
nuclear factor-κB
OPG:
osteoprotegerin
PBMC:
peripheral blood mononuclear cells
PBS:
phosphate-buffered saline
RANKL:
receptor activator of NF-κB ligand
RNasin:
ribonuclease inhibitor
RT-PCR:
real time-polymerase chain reaction
sIL-6R:
soluble IL-6 receptor
siRNA:
SOCS3:
suppressor of cytokine signaling 3
STAT3:
signal transducer and activator of transcription 3
tumor necrosis factor
TRAP:
tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase.
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This work was supported by a grant from the Research Institute of Medical Science, Catholic University of Daegu (2012).
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Arthritis and Autoimmunity Research Center, Catholic University of Daegu School of Medicine, 3056-6 Daemyung 4-Dong, Namgu, Daegu, 705-718, Republic of Korea
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PERIPHERAL VISION : DANIEL BLAGG
8 September - 13 October 2012
Daniel Blagg, Steppin' Out, 2014
Daniel Blagg
Steppin' Out, 2014
"I am drawn to neglected areas that are in a state of limbo. For me, they have an element of something that's very ordinary, very American." - Daniel Blagg
Artspace111 features Peripheral Vision, new oil paintings and watercolors from Daniel Blagg in his first solo show at the gallery in three years. Blagg's latest work includes his stylistically flat neorealist paintings of what were once gleaming signs of commercialism, now dilapidated, rendered with an abundance of metaphorical comments on all aspects of contemporary society. Additionally Peripheral Vision includes two new pieces from
Blagg's wildly popular series of the Boneyard, Las Vegas. The Boneyard, housed in the Neon Museum in Las Vegas, is a repository for the derelict neon signage that made the city iconic decades ago and has been the subject matter for Blagg in this ongoing series.
The Texas native has been a fixture in the Fort Worth art scene for over four decades. His work has received awards from Preservation is the Art of the City and the Hunting Prize and his work is included in the collections of Chase Bank, Fidelity Investments, The Grace Museum, Abilene, TX, Museum of the Southwest, Midland, TX, and the Old Jail House Arts Center, Albany, TX. His public art includes the DFW Terminal D Project and the Worthington Hotel in Fort Worth, TX.
Within the two studio spaces of the gallery and the gardens are new works by Artspace 111 artists Alice Bateman, Dennis Blagg, Michael Bane, Michelle Brandley, Danville Chadborne, Matt Clark, David Conn, Barbara Dybala, Ann Ekstrom, Pat Gabriel, Sarah Green, John Hartley, Kelli Holmes, Cindi Holt, Carol Ivey, Jill Johnson, Loli Kantor, Nancy Lamb, Leslie Lanzotti, Jesus Moroles, Jo-Ann Mulroy, J.C. Pace III, Jo LeMay Rutledge, Charlotte Smith, and Fred Spaulding.
The show will be on exhibit beginning FWADA Fall Gallery Night September 8, 2012 from 12 - 10 p.m. and run through October 13, 2012. Enjoy beer and wine by Ben E Keith, food by Avery Jane's Catering and Yes!Taco, music by Franklin Tirrell and Fort Worth National Band. Fall Gallery Night is free and open to the public.
Artspace 111 is dedicated to its vital role in the city of Fort Worth, and to making contemporary art approachable to individuals of all ages. With its sculpture and distinctive architectural character, the gallery offers a striking setting to host corporate and private events, and is also available for tours and other social gatherings.
Artspace 111 is located east of Downtown Fort Worth at Hampton Street and Weatherford. The gallery is open Tuesday – Friday, 10 – 5 pm and Saturday by appointment. To schedule a private viewing, contact Margery Gossett by calling 817.692.3228 or emailing art@artspace111.com.
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‘NOT RITE’ - by Emmanuel Joseph August 14, 2019
Emmanuel Joseph
The Muslim community distanced itself from claims that a rise in the dumping of sheep entrails is connected to ritual killings for a religous celebration.
In fact, Secretary of the Barbados Muslim Association Sulieman Bulbulia has insisted that any member of his community caught in illegal dumping should be prosecuted.
This issue emerged today when police, health inspectors and the Sanitation Service Authority were summoned to the upscale district of Atlantic Shores in Christ Church after two men were seen dumping sheep offal from a vehicle in a bushy area.
SSA spokesman Alf Padmore told Barbados TODAY that the owner of the vehicle, said to be from the same area was contacted and the driver was cautioned under Nuisance Regulation 1969 and the Collection and Disposal of Refuse 1975 as well as the Rodent Regulations of 1969.
The area at Atlantic Shores, Christ Church where the animal remains were unlawfully disposed.
“They are being cautioned at this stage and not being charged because they are being cooperative,” Padmore told Barbados TODAY this evening.
He also revealed that the parties admitted to the illegal dumping and cooperated in removing the entrails.
But the SSA spokesman said that today’s unlawful dumping was connected to an increase in the dumping of sheep remains when the animals are slaughtered as part of an Islamic festival. He did not name the festival.
He said: “We have received a number of reports that because of the festival that is being held in celebration of the Muslim belief, there is an increase of the illegal dumping of the entrails of the ram.
“We would want to urge the members of that community to check with the nearest polyclinic to see the correct way of disposing of the entrails.
“You can only dispose of entrails with the advice and permission of the health inspectors.
“Not even from SSA. You must go through health first.
“All the SSA does is provide a hole at the landfill for the safe burial of the entrails…and even that burial is done with the advice from the health inspectors.
“So while we would want to commend them for celebrating their beliefs, we would want them to dispose of the entrails of the ram correctly.”
When Barbados TODAY reached Bulbulia for comment, he sought to set the record straight regarding the dumping of entrails.
Bulbulia said: “We have a system in place for the dumping entrails and so on.
“That is done through a skip that is provided at the mosque at Kensington New Road.
“So all the members of the community are urged to dump the entrails there and not to do anything illegally.
“So anything done illegally is without our knowledge and obviously without our consent.
“We have done our best to make sure that things are put in place to ensure that none of that is done.
“So anybody acting outside of that should be brought before the court.”
5 Replies to “‘NOT RITE’”
Jess Green says:
Never heard of this festival before. Does it only happen in Barbados? Barbaric to say the least about it.
Lester Fields says:
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Elizabeth Blunte says:
Well if it is illegal the dumpers should have been prosecuted.
Marva Lashley-Todd says:
They might not want to drive all from Ch Ch to town so will find the fastest place to do it. At least someone saw them and they are cooperating. If it was down by the market then you can think that someone else put it there but it all the way up in there so it have to be one ah wannah. You cant police everyone.
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Relationships have always been important in business. Relationships can generate trust, they can provide for the flow of proprietary information both on business opportunities and on business practices and crucially they can reduce dependence on price-based competition. Particularly in a recessionary environment, relationships are arguably even more important. Networking is now well recognised as an essential activity for business leaders in developing relationships. While social networking amongst the younger generation is now largely on-line, there is no substitute for face-to-face interaction when it comes to business networking.
Senior executives in small and medium sized enterprises face particular challenges in networking. They may well be members of local organisations such as Chambers of Commerce or perhaps Rotary. However, they typically lack a broader, national networking club. Networking at a national level offers even greater opportunities, especially if an international opportunities dimension is added, for example in Dubai.
The key objectives of the Great British Business Alliance are:
Strengthen customer relations
Acquire new customers
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The Great British Business Alliance will allow all executives, particularly those in small and medium sized enterprises, the opportunity to join a major national networking club for a low cost outlay. Membership will offer two key benefits:
The opportunity to network with other executives at a series of specially designed events. Events will include drinks receptions and some dinners and will be designed to facilitate networking. While the prime purpose is networking, some events will be constructed around particular business themes, for example via the choice of guest speaker.
The opportunity to access high status locations and well-known individuals. The opportunity to visit - and entertain - at prestigious locations (such as the House of Lords, the House of Commons, an Inn of Court, a City Livery Hall etc) and to meet leading celebrities, politicians and business leaders through the wealth of contacts the Alliance possesses. It is unlikely that membership of other clubs or associations offers this kind of access.
It is also a core tenet of our strategy that the Alliance will be positioned as an elite organisation with unquestioned standards and ethics.
Why is membership generally restricted to "Business Owners" or Senior Management?
This is to protect the interests of our members. By taking the trouble to ensure that each applicant is a genuine business decision maker we ensure that the quality of contacts remains high. We are also able to weed out the less honourable contingent that exists in business. A minimal vetting procedure protects all concerned.
Why is membership of The Great British Business Alliance just £99 per year (plus VAT) when all the other organisations charge so much?
Our aim is to remain as cost effective as possible. Many organisations see such networking clubs as purely a money making venture for themselves. Whereas we exist to help businesses wherever we can and in turn we strive to keep our own operating costs to a minimum so we can remain competitive and affordable for all businesses.
Do I have to join a different club/chapter for each town/city that I operate in?
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Many organisations operate a "One member per profession/trade policy" is this the same with The Alliance?
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The Return Of The Big Boss
Title:The Return Of The Boss
Artist:The Big Boss
Genre:Electronic
Format:LP (CD & Download)
Released:01/01/2017
Categories:Album
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Return Of The Big Boss
Return Of The Big Boss is the second studio album from Martin Byrne aka The Big Boss.
The Return Of The Big Boss is the 2nd album from Macclesfield based artist The Big Boss. After a 15 year gap between writing and releasing the debut album “Good Bad But Not Evil” the process for The Return Of The Big Boss has been much shorter. Written over the last 2 years, the sound and feel has kept forward bringing The Big Boss fully up to date. Described as “Leftfield meeting Martin Garrix and kicking him about a bit” there are elements of many dance genres that make up what is an original palette that only The Big Boss paints with. You can hear The Chems, Vitalic, Daft Punk, Zero 7 and even a little bit of Sphongle and Blondie in the (re)mix.
The album is founded off with a collaboration with Japanese artists Getnoise@ and features the hauntingly beautiful vocals of Kusayou. Sounding like Death In Vegas having pre-dinner drinks with John Murphy while a Screamadelica remix of Portishead plays in the background, this track was only supposed to be a bonus track for those that backed the successful crowd fund campaign for the album but such is the richness of the track, it had to go on the album.
The Big Boss is once again released on Ambiel, an independent label based in Ipswich under the guidance and watchful eye of Ambiel supremo and resident production genius Nat Clarkson. Himself coming though a particularly difficult period of his life having just been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome and fighting through the shitstorm that ensued to get back in the saddle and keep on doing what he does best.
The Big Boss can be found at:
www.thebigbossuk.com
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Lily in the Garden
Mrs Frank Millet ("Lily", nee Elizabeth Merrill) John Singer Sargent -- American painter 1885-1886) via Wikipedia
Continuing the Archie & Frank series based on Jacopo della Queria's book The Great Abraham Lincoln Pocket Watch Conspiracy...
Check out Jacopo's works here:
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Raps at the door startled Archie. He lay his book flat on the end table, cursing himself for forgetting a proper bookmark. He glanced toward Frank’s closed door.
Archie hoped the visitor’s knocks did not disturb his beloved painter. Frank was finally shrugging off malaise. He’d kissed Archie quickly, dismissing him with a playful shove after breakfast. Frank had closed his door, and presumably was throwing paint around even now.
Archie tip toed past Frank’s door and down the hall. The visitor did not share Archie’s concern. Three forceful tat a taps rang through the foyer. He lunged the final feet to the door, throwing it open before another percussive set could echo throughout the house.
The visitor stared up at him from under the brim of her cloak. He stared down at her. She cleared her throat. Manners lovingly drilled into him from his mother saved him. It was muscle memory that made him say, “How may I help you?” when what he was thinking was What in blazes are you doing on my porch, you she-devil?
“I’m here to see my husband.” She said. “I thought you were in Italy?” Archie said, stepping back as she forced herself past him. “Pardon me. I meant to say, is the family well?”
She spun on her heel as he shut the door. She jabbed a finger into his chest. “You tell me. Is my family well?”
Archie winced. “May I get you some tea?”
She flounced down the hall. “No, you could offer to get my husband.”
Archie rushed after her. “He’s painting!”
“Ha! He’s painting! Did you know that is what he used to tell me when he met his other lovers?
That he was painting?” Her chest heaved as she flung open one door and then the next. “Afraid of what you might find, Archibald? He’s painting.”
Frank’s door swung open. “In this case, I am painting, Lily.”
Lily froze, her flushed face rapidly losing colour. Archie dove forward to slip his arm around her. She shrugged him off. She took a step forward.
Frank took a step backward.
“Where. Is. My. Anniversary. Present.” She said, her voice barely a whisper. Archie took several steps backwards, then turned and shut the door behind him.
Frank let out a sigh. He studied the wood grain of the door, the golden knob. There was a thin line of light coming through the space between the door and floor. Minutes passed before he forced himself to look up at his wife.
“I’m the mother of your children,” she said. She blinked, but tears slipped down her face anyways. Frank slid his gaze back to the thin space of light under the door. Archie was so much better with people.
“Do you want to sit in the garden for awhile?” Frank murmured. Lily liked flowers. Maybe she could be coaxed into a conversation about the proper soil for roses.
“Yes.” She sniffled.
They settled across from one another in the garden, under hanging ivy. The long green fingers dripped down towards them, casting latticed shadows across their faces. Frank watched the light play along Lily’s pale skin, shimmering dots like boiling water in a kettle until a cloud overhead dissolved them.
“I missed you.” He said. She dipped her head, saying nothing. He studied the fine lines etched into her lovely skin, the places time had claimed as its own while he wasn’t paying attention. His chest ached for her loveliness, not just the gleam of her hair as it turned silver, but the kindness she had extended to so many people through out their lives. He tried to be kind, but he was not Archie. He was not Lily. And they loved him, the both of them.
His eyes burned as he contemplated that love. Surely undeserved, the love of even one person of their calibre, but he had been blessed twice. Such blessings always come with their own responsibilities.
Frank leaned forward. He lifted his hand to reach her, but she didn’t look up. He dropped his hand.
Birds chirped. The trees and the wind danced with one another. Lily was silent.
Archie appeared and just as silently disappeared, leaving behind a tea service. Frank poured two cups of tea. He held out a cup to Lily, and mercifully, she finally looked up at him and took it.
“Lily, I-” he began, having no idea where his apology might take him. “Wait.” She held up one palm. He pressed his lips together.
“Do you remember when I was ill… oh, it must be twenty years ago now… but anyhow. I was sick and you carried me to the garden. We sat out there all morning, and you scolded me. Scolded me! You told me I had to get better.”
Frank leaned forward, daring to scoop up her free hand. “Yes, I remember.”
“You asked me who would take care of an old, decrepit artist if I gave out on you.” Lily squeezed his hand lightly, and then let it go. “We didn’t need to worry about that.”
“Do you worry about being taken care of? I promise you, you will never go wanting.” He said.
Lily raised her eyebrows at him. “Is that right? You of all people know there are various things to want.”
“I’m sorry. We can go to the country if you’d-”
She cut him off with a shake of her head. “I was angry. I wanted to be the only one.” She paused, sipping. “I knew about your lovers before, but I thought it was alright as long as you didn’t love them.”
It was his turn to avoid her gaze.
“I was angry all the way here, thinking about why I am not enough for you. Our whole marriage… I was not enough. I loved you. Love you.” She corrected. “No one tells you love is a complicated mess.”
“I’m sor-”
“No, Frank, I don’t need apologies. I just want us to be honest. We’ve earned that, haven’t we?” Lily nodded her head in agreement with herself. “I thought the whole time it was about me. But it never was.”
They sat in silence, each lost in thought. Lily poured herself another cup of tea.
“It was Archie all along.” Lily said.
“What?” Frank said, confused.
“Archie sent me the anniversary gifts, not you.”
“I’m… I’ve been terrible. I just assumed you were getting along fine when I’m out of town.”
Lily laughed. It started quietly, but it turned into the full throated laugh that had first got his attention all those years ago. “When you’re out of town…” she wiped her eyes. “You are something. Well, in the spirit of honesty, Sam and I have been exchanging letters since his wife died.”
“Sam? Sam Clemens?” Frank asked.
“I knew you would think it odd.”
“Everything about you is a bit odd. But that’s what I like about you.” He teased.
“I’m going to see him.” She confessed.
“You don’t need my permission.” Frank smiled.
“I know. But… I wanted you to know.”
“Because you’re angry?”
They embraced on the steps, and Frank tucked a loose strand of her hair back into her hood. “You’ll come see me again before you leave town, won’t you?”
Lily smiled up at him. “Yes. You are my dearest friend, even though you annoy me so.”
“We’ll get you an anniversary present,” Frank promised.
Archie was in the hall when Frank came back inside. “You were spying!” Frank said. He clutched his chest in mock horror.
“Of course I was spying!”
Frank pulled on his mustache. “Why have you bought Lily anniversary presents?”
“She’s the mother of your children.” Archie said, as if that settled things. “I can’t believe I forgot this year. I’ve been so busy, but I feel terrible.”
“I feel terrible. I’m her husband.” Frank said.
“Alright. You feel terrible. I’m going to pour a whiskey. Do you want one?”
“It’s my goddamn anniversary. Fill my cup.”
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Christening ‘Peg Leg’: White, Hinchliffe and Soderquist ski the north face of Capitol Peak
by Arielle Gordon-Rowe June 11, 2015 2 Comments
Last Thursday, Aspen locals Jordan White, Colter Hinchliffe and Riley Soderquist skied the first descent of a line now known as “Peg Leg,” located on the north face of Capitol Peak (14,130 ft.) in Colorado’s Elk Mountains. Before Thursday, five variations had been skied off Capitol’s summit, but the trio’s line is now the most direct. The group descended 2,530 vertical feet from the summit, completing three rappels—one of which measured 400 ft.—along the way.
We caught up with White—a guide for Aspen Alpine Guides and a seasoned ski mountaineer who has skied all of Colorado’s 14ers—to talk about conditions, line choice and a runaway ski.
The north face of Capitol Peak (14,130 ft.). Elk Mountains, Colorado. [Photo] Jordan White
Backcountry Magazine: How long had you been eyeing the line? What made you want to ski this line in particular?
Jordan White: A few years ago, Colter and another friend of ours, Anton [Sponar], skied a different line on Capitol a little bit farther to looker’s left on that same face, but it had a lot more traversing and bullshit compared to this one. I had a picture of this line just this season really.
I’ve spent a lot of my ski mountaineering career so far skiing the 14ers, and every time you’re up there, you’re looking for the most direct, most aesthetic line that has the least traversing and the least junk to deal with. It’s the sixth way that somebody has skied off the top of Capitol but it’s now the most direct way. And that’s what we were looking for.
BCM: What were the conditions like?
JW: It hadn’t frozen super heavily overnight, but we figured, based on the fact that we were skiing a north-facing aspect, that was OK as long as we finished our climbing on southern aspects early enough. There was definitely some wintery snow up there on top of some older, more firm snow so it made for edgeable, carvable snow for pretty much the entire length of the line. It was sunny with a little bit of wind. As far as the snow went, we couldn’t really ask for much better.
Colter Hinchliffe and Riley Soderquist make their way up the steeps of Capitol Peak. [Photo] Jordan White
BCM: What kind of logistics went into planning for such a technical route?
JW: Anything you go after you pack your pack based on what you think you’re going to deal with. A lot of days are just crampons, ice-axe and your ski gear. That’s the end of it. But when you go for a line like this, you’re fully expecting to have to do a lot of rappel work and a bunch of extra rope work, so you’re bringing a whole lot more gear to accomplish that.
We had two 60-meter ropes, cordelettes; we had webbing; we had cams and pickets. We had a rack to build an anchor in just about any scenario.
BCM: What went into the final decision making for your route when you were up on the summit?
JW: We had a backup plan and we were trying to decide between the backup plan and this line. I think, for us, it was looking at what was available for rappel anchors and the fact that our line was in the sun and the other one was going to be in the shade for several hours. We ended up choosing this one because it was the more aesthetic line.
Colter Hinchliffe and Jordan White setting the bootpack toward the summit. [Photo] Riley Soderquist
BCM: What were some of the technical elements of the line that made it difficult?
JW: It was a 60-degree pitch. It had cliff bands, and you’re skiing over incredibly gnarly exposure. For one, you’re not allowed to fall on it. I think everybody was pretty on their toes until we got to the second rappel. I wouldn’t say you let your guard down but you’re a little bit more comfortable than you were above that and, as the snow got better, the skiing got better and there were less rocks to be worried about.
Riley Soderquist linking turns through 60-degree corn. [Photo] Jordan White
BCM: Tell me about Colter losing his ski.
JW: That happened at the very bottom. I mean, he was bummed. But we’d skied the entire line before that happened. All we had to do was rappel off that last cliff. He was just trying to transition from skiing to putting [his ski] on his pack so he could rappel and it slipped out of his hand as he was pulling it off. His ski was a little more beat up than when he started but it was fine to ski out the rest of the way.
BCM: How does this line compare to the other lines you have tackled on the 14ers?
JW: This is the biggest line I’ve tackled in Colorado, by far. It may not be the longest, but it’s still the most stout line I’ve done in Colorado.
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Humor July 12, 2018 October 1, 2018
A guy walks into a bank and says to the teller at the window,
“I want to open a fuckin’ checking account!”
To which the lady replied,
“I beg your pardon, what did you say?”
“Listen up dammit,
I said I want to open a fuckin’ checking account right now!”
“Sir, I’m sorry but we do not tolerate that kind of language in this bank.”
The teller left the window and went over to the bank manager and told him about her situation.
They both returned and the manager asked,
“What seems to be the problem here?”
“There’s no damn problem,” the man said,
“I just won 50 million in the lottery and I want to open a fuckin’ checking account in this damn bank!”
“I see sir,” the manager said,
“and this bitch is giving you a hard time?”
(Source: Work Joke)
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Home » ALGO Theory » Binary Trees
We extend the concept of linked data structures to structure containing nodes with more than one self-referenced field. A binary tree is made of nodes, where each node contains a “left” reference, a “right” reference, and a data element. The topmost node in the tree is called the root.Every node (excluding a root) in a tree is connected by a directed edge from exactly one other node. This node is called a parent. On the other hand, each node can be connected to arbitrary number of nodes, called children. Nodes with no children are called leaves, or external nodes. Nodes which are not leaves are called internal nodes. Nodes with the same parent are called siblings.
More tree terminology:
The depth of a node is the number of edges from the root to the node.
The height of a node is the number of edges from the node to the deepest leaf.
The height of a tree is a height of the root.
A full binary tree.is a binary tree in which each node has exactly zero or two children.
A complete binary tree is a binary tree, which is completely filled, with the possible exception of the bottom level, which is filled from left to right.
A complete binary tree is very special tree, it provides the best possible ratio between the number of nodes and the height. The height h of a complete binary tree with N nodes is at most O(log N). We can easily prove this by counting nodes on each level, starting with the root, assuming that each level has the maximum number of nodes:
n = 1 + 2 + 4 + ... + 2h-1 + 2h = 2h+1 - 1
Solving this with respect to h, we obtain h = O(log n) , where the big-O notation hides some superfluous details.
Advantages of trees
Trees are so useful and frequently used, because they have some very serious advantages:
Trees reflect structural relationships in the data
Trees are used to represent hierarchies
Trees provide an efficient insertion and searching
Trees are very flexible data, allowing to move subtrees around with minumum effort
Traversals
A traversal is a process that visits all the nodes in the tree. Since a tree is a nonlinear data structure, there is no unique traversal. We will consider several traversal algorithms with we group in the following two kinds
depth-first traversal
breadth-first traversal
There are three different types of depth-first traversals, :
PreOrder traversal – visit the parent first and then left and right children;
InOrder traversal – visit the left child, then the parent and the right child;
PostOrder traversal – visit left child, then the right child and then the parent;
There is only one kind of breadth-first traversal–the level order traversal. This traversal visits nodes by levels from top to bottom and from left to right.
As an example consider the following tree and its four traversals:PreOrder – 8, 5, 9, 7, 1, 12, 2, 4, 11, 3
InOrder – 9, 5, 1, 7, 2, 12, 8, 4, 3, 11
PostOrder – 9, 1, 2, 12, 7, 5, 3, 11, 4, 8
LevelOrder – 8, 5, 4, 9, 7, 11, 1, 12, 3, 2
In the next picture we demonstarte the order of node visitation. Number 1 denote the first node in a particular traversal and 7 denote the last node.
These common traversals can be represented as a single algorithm by assuming that we visit each node three times. An Euler tour is a walk around the binary tree where each edge is treated as a wall, which you cannot cross. In this walk each node will be visited either on the left, or under the below, or on the right. The Euler tour in which we visit nodes on the left produces a preorder traversal. When we visit nodes from the below, we get an inorder traversal. And when we visit nodes on the right, we get a postorder traversal.
Binary Search Trees
We consider a particular kind of a binary tree called a Binary Search Tree (BST). The basic idea behind this data structure is to have such a storing repository that provides the efficient way of data sorting, searching and retriving.
A BST is a binary tree where nodes are ordered in the following way:
each node contains one key (also known as data)
the keys in the left subtree are less then the key in its parent node, in short L < P;
the keys in the right subtree are greater the key in its parent node, in short P < R;
duplicate keys are not allowed.
In the following tree all nodes in the left subtree of 10 have keys < 10 while all nodes in the right subtree > 10. Because both the left and right subtrees of a BST are again search trees; the above definition is recursively applied to all internal nodes:
We implement a binary search tree using a private inner class BSTNode. In order to support the binary search tree property, we require that data stored in each node is Comparable:
public class BST <AnyType extends Comparable<AnyType>>
private Node<AnyType> root;
private class Node<AnyType>
private AnyType data;
private Node<AnyType> left, right;
public Node(AnyType data)
left = right = null;
this.data = data;
The insertion procedure is quite similar to searching. We start at the root and recursively go down the tree searching for a location in a BST to insert a new node. If the element to be inserted is already in the tree, we are done (we do not insert duplicates). The new node will always replace a NULL.
Exercise. Given a sequence of numbers:
11, 6, 8, 19, 4, 10, 5, 17, 43, 49, 31
Draw a binary search tree by inserting the above numbers from left to right.
Searching in a BST always starts at the root. We compare a data stored at the root with the key we are searching for (let us call it as toSearch). If the node does not contain the key we proceed either to the left or right child depending upon comparison. If the result of comparison is negative we go to the left child, otherwise – to the right child. The recursive structure of a BST yields a recursive algorithm.
Searching in a BST has O(h) worst-case runtime complexity, where h is the height of the tree. Since s binary search tree with n nodes has a minimum of O(log n) levels, it takes at least O(log n) comparisons to find a particular node. Unfortunately, a binary serch tree can degenerate to a linked list, reducing the search time to O(n).
Deletion is somewhat more tricky than insertion. There are several cases to consider. A node to be deleted (let us call it as toDelete)
is not in a tree;
is a leaf;
has only one child;
has two children.
If toDelete is not in the tree, there is nothing to delete. If toDelete node has only one child the procedure of deletion is identical to deleting a node from a linked list – we just bypass that node being deleted
Deletion of an internal node with two children is less straightforward. If we delete such a node, we split a tree into two subtrees and therefore, some children of the internal node won’t be accessible after deletion. In the picture below we delete 8:
Deletion starategy is the following: replace the node being deleted with the largest node in the left subtree and then delete that largest node. By symmetry, the node being deleted can be swapped with the smallest node is the right subtree.
Draw a binary search tree by inserting the above numbers from left to right and then show the two trees that can be the result after the removal of 11.
Non-Recursive Traversals
Depth-first traversals can be easily implemented recursively.A non-recursive implementation is a bit more difficult. In this section we implement a pre-order traversal as a tree iterator
public Iterator<AnyType> iterator()
return new PreOrderIterator();
where the PreOrderIterator class is implemented as an inner private class of the BST class
private class PreOrderIterator implements Iterator<AnyType>
The main difficulty is with next() method, which requires the implicit recursive stack implemented explicitly. We will be using Java’s Stack. The algorithm starts with the root and push it on a stack. When a user calls for the next() method, we check if the top element has a left child. If it has a left child, we push that child on a stack and return a parent node. If there is no a left child, we check for a right child. If it has a right child, we push that child on a stack and return a parent node. If there is no right child, we move back up the tree (by popping up elements from a stack) until we find a node with a right child. Here is the next()implementation
public AnyType next()
Node cur = stk.peek();
if(cur.left != null)
stk.push(cur.left);
Node tmp = stk.pop();
while(tmp.right == null)
if (stk.isEmpty()) return cur.data;
tmp = stk.pop();
stk.push(tmp.right);
return cur.data;
The following example.shows the output and the state of the stack during each call to next(). Note, the algorithm works on any binary trees, not necessarily binary search trees..
Output 1 2 4 6 5 7 8 3
Stack 1 2
A non-recursive preorder traversal can be eloquently implemented in just three lines of code. If you understand next()’s implementation above, it should be no problem to grasp this one:
if (stk.isEmpty()) throw new java.util.NoSuchElementException();
Node cur = stk.pop();
if(cur.right != null) stk.push(cur.right);
if(cur.left != null) stk.push(cur.left);
Note, we push the right child before the left child.
Level Order Traversal
Level order traversal processes the nodes level by level. It first processes the root, and then its children, then its grandchildren, and so on. Unlike the other traversal methods, a recursive version does not exist.
A traversal algorithm is similar to the non-recursive preorder traversal algorithm. The only difference is that a stack is replaced with a FIFO queue.
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Such vivid info on the Algorithms Tutorials ! Flabbergasted! Thank you for making the read a smooth sail!
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Your writing shines like gold! There is no room for gibberish here clearly. You nailed it in Binary Trees
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Filmfare partners with Jio for 62nd edition of Filmfare Awards
The awards will take place on January 14, 2017 at NSCI Dome, Worli and will be telecast on a later date on Sony Entertainment Television
BestMediaInfo Bureau | Mumbai | December 26, 2016
(L-R) Deepak Lamba, Alia Bhatt, Karan Johar & Jitesh Pillai
Times Group’s Worldwide Media that publishes Filmfare has announced partnership with Jio for its 62nd edition of Filmfare Awards. Powered by Jio, the Filmfare Awards, current and past, will be showcased to consumers across the country in a variety of unique ways, digitally across the Jio apps with JioTV, JioCinema, JioMusic, and many more.
Promising to be a glamorous affair filled with mesmerizing performances, the 62nd Jio Filmfare Awards 2017 will take place on 14th January 2017 at NSCI Dome, Worli. The badshah of Indian cinema, Shahrukh Khan and Karan Johar will host the ceremony and are sure to thrill audiences with their wit and charm. Joining them on stage will be Alia Bhatt as one of the performers of the night. With some great movies under her belt in 2016, this effervescent actress is sure to light up the Filmfare stage.
Talking about the much celebrated awards property entering its 62nd year, Deepak Lamba, CEO of Worldwide Media, said, "Filmfare Awards has been the longest running award franchise with millions of ardent fans; we feel that we owe our followers a magnificent and illustrious show every single year. Infact this year we also introduced a new digital segment, the JIO Filmfare Short Film Awards, the winners of which will be felicitated at the Filmfare Awards ceremony. We have constantly introduced new innovations and additions to the franchise, which truly encompasses Indian cinema as a whole with properties across - North, South, Marathi, Punjabi, East and short films. Filmfare will continue to raise the bar on award shows in India and accompanying us on this vision is JIO, who have been at the forefront of the digital revolution in India.’’
“We are thrilled to partner with Filmfare to bring the 62nd JIO Filmfare Awards 2017 to its viewers,” said Mathew Oommen, President, Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited. “Jio is bringing transformational changes in the Indian digital services space to enable a Digital Life for 1.2 billion Indians. In its endeavor to provide the best of entertainment to the audiences, Jio has partnered with Filmfare. In this edition of Filmfare, where the best of entertainment meets the best of innovation, the audiences will experience a show like never before. Powered by Jio, the Filmfare Awards, current and past, will be showcased to consumers across the country in a variety of unique ways on our platforms.”
Filmfare is set to honor the most exceptional performances in Hindi cinema for the year 2016, by bestowing the coveted black lady to the winners yet again. The awards ceremony will be telecast on Sony.
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IRS 2017
Commentary: Rethink the AIR, else meet the fate of print in West
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William Hill Bookmaker
William Hill has a betting heritage of almost 80 years – William Hill himself was born in Birmingham in 1903 and after making money taking bets at greyound tracks he founded the business in 1934, originally as a telephone / postal betting service, where punters would send a bet with a cheque in advance of an event.
The business began to open high street shops in 1966, a few years after they were made legal. William Hill retired in 1970 and died just a year later, but his legacy lives on and there are now over 2300 betting shops in the UK that bear his name (which represents about 25% of the total number of licensed betting offices) and their annual report for 2011 showed group turnover of around £18 billion.
In 1998 William Hill were the first bookmaker to have a website with the launch of the online betting service ‘Sportsbook’, which was followed by williamhill.com in 2000. Their online operation now has over 1.5 million unique customers and whilst 75% of this business comes from the UK, they now have 26 different language / territory sites, which are available to over 175 different countries.
William Hill has had various owners over the years and was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 2002 at an offer price of 225 pence per ordinary share. The offer was over- subscribed in excess of 10 times and the share price increased to an all time high of 665p in Feb 2007. However share values in the industry have declined significantly since and they are currently trading back at around 260p (Ladbrokes are around 160p).
The business has continued to expand aggressively and in 2005 purchased Stanley Leisure PLC’s retail bookmaking operations of 624 betting shops (along with absorbing their online site Stanleybet) which briefly took William Hill past Ladbrokes in terms of number of high street outlets, although the Office of Fair Trading made them sell 78 shops.
In late 2008 they announced that they were combining the online business with purchased assets of gaming software company Playtech to create William Hill Online, thus becoming one of the leading online gaming and sports betting businesses in Europe and in 2009 they moved their online division to Gibraltar.
William Hill market themselves as “The Home of Betting” and in 2010 they began to advertise this message on television in the UK for the first time, with commercials that in particular promote their breadth of in-play markets (to rather funky music). Indeed in-play markets are an area in which William Hill stands out, for example in 2011 they were the only bookmaker to offer point-by-point betting on every Wimbledon match.
It’s a message that appears to be paying dividends as William Hill was announced as “Bookmaker of the Year” at the annual industry awards in 2010 and William Hill Online was given the prestigious “Operator of The Year” award at the 2011 eGaming Review operator awards, recognising their “dynamic fresh faced online gaming brand”. In 2010 company turnover exceeded £16 billion.
They also sponsor a number of high-profile sports events including most recently being annouced as the ‘Official betting partner’ of the FA Cup and also as an ‘official supporter’ of the England football team. The deal is the first of its type for the betting industry and features a wide and unique range of image rights, advertising / promotional opportunities.
This deal adds to a sponsorship porfolio that already includes the William Hill Scottish Cup, the williamhill.com UK Snooker Championships, the William Hill Grand Slam of Darts Championship, the William Hill Greyhound Derby and their showpiece horse racing events – the William Hill King George VI at Kempton on Boxing Day (recently won by Kauto Star of a record fifth time), the William Hill Supreme Novices’ Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival and the William Hill Ayr Gold Cup (the richest sprint handicap in Europe).
Indeed the deal with Ayr Racecourse covers full naming rights of the entire three day Ayr Gold Cup Festival in September and sponsorship of the William Hill Ayr Gold, Silver and Bronze Cup’s, plus the Doonside Cup, Ayrshire Handicap and Kilkerran Cup, whilst the King George VI at Kempton is feature race of the two day William Hill Winter Festival, with all 12 races sponsored by the bookmaker – including the williamhill.com Christmas Hurdle, Feltham Novices’ Chase, Wayward Lad Novices’ Chase and Desert Orchid Chase.
Their sponsorship of the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle at Cheltenham includes sponsorship of a trial race for the Supreme – the Rossington Main Novices’ Hurdle at Haydock.
William Hill are also the official betting partner for the Investec Derby Festival and shirt sponsors for Spanish football club Malaga CF – the closest La Liga club to their business base in Gibraltar.
Former Welsh professional footballer and Strictly Come Dancing star Robbie Savage, is the official sporting ambassador for William Hill and he offers weekly football tips via their podcast service, selecting special bets for which they offer enhanced odds and also promoting the William Hill products and community via his Twitter page.
Slightly less conventionally, for the 2010 General Election they also sponsored the ‘William Hill Monster Raving Loony Party’ for £5,000 as a PR stunt.
William Hill Website
The William Hill website cleverly balances a huge amount of information and markets with a very clean and easy to use interface – so users are not overwhelmed and can navigate to and place bets without fuss.
The sports homepage is headed with a top menu of links direct to each betting market and below are odds for the most popular live events, with tabs that show how many ‘in-play’ markets are currently available for each sport – and link directly to these markets.
Further down there is a list of upcoming betting ‘highlights’ alongside odds, followed by a series of event boxes – each detailing further betting opportunities and popular markets.
Whenever a user clicks on odds for a market a bet slip is populated on the right-hand side of the site, with a stake box and ‘place bet’ button. Bets can be placed instantly as a single, or further odds clicked to add more bets to the same bet slip as an accumulator or multiple bet. As bets are added the slip shows both the odds for a straight accumulator and the different types of multiple bets available, such as doubles, trebles, trixies and patents – including the number of bets each consists of, so that a stake can be added accordingly.
Below the bet slip all the latest William Hill promotions and features are listed for all of their products, as well as the latest news, previews and both audio and visual podcasts. In fact they offer a variety of interactive online media formats, including William Hill Radio which broadcasts three channels: live commentaries on their ‘betting shop’ service, news and previews for horse-racing on ‘horse racing radio’ and other sports via ‘in-play radio’.
Alternatively customers can watch live UK and Irish racing via their RacingTV service simply by placing a bet of at least £1 on the race they want to watch. When a qualifying bet is placed, the race link will be available on their ‘Live Streaming’ page and users simply click on ‘Click here to view your qualified races’, then the link for the race they want to watch.
There is also a William Hill TV service called WHTV for account holders who can choose to watch hundreds of different sporting events including football, tennis and snooker – as it happens. Users simply need to be logged in and have a positive account balance or have placed a bet in the last 24 hours to watch.
Twitter fans can follow and interact with William Hill’s media relations representative Kate Miller (@racingkate).
William Hill Mobile App
William Hill Mobile has three exclusive football betting offers for customers placing bets via their mobile, although they can use their existing online username and password to log-in.
Firstly mobile users get a ‘Goal Scorer Second Chance’ – if their chosen First Goal Scorer doesn’t score the first goal, but scores the second, Hills refund the losing stake as a free bet. Secondly, they offer a ‘Bore Draw Money Back’ refund for matches that finish 0-0 – returning losing Correct Score and Double Result bets as a free bet. Finally, if a customer places an accumulator and only one team lets it down, they refund the stake as a free bet.
There are William Hill apps for both the iPhone and Android platforms – all that’s needed to get started is the free app and a williamhill.com account, whilst their mobile interface can also be accessed via mobile.williamhill.com on most other mobile browsers.
The Will Hill mobile sports home page has icons to allow users to click directly to horse racing, football, tennis and cricket betting, plus an A-Z icon for all other sports and there’s also an ‘in-play’ icon as well as ones for the ‘next off’ sport and ‘promotions’. Clicking odds for any event will populate a bet slip at the bottom right of the screen and clicking on this allows the user to add their stake and place the bet.
Customers with iPhones can also download an innovative William Hill ‘Shake-a-Bet’ App via iTunes. Once downloaded they simply pick how much they want to bet, how many selections they want to cheer on, how much they’re aiming to win…and the app does the rest. This isn’t a random selection – the app will only choose things that plenty of people are already betting on and it will always look for relevant events that are coming up soon.
If the user doesn’t like all the selections it suggests, they simply hold the ones they like and re-spin the ones they don’t. For example, if the market chosen is ‘First Goalscorer’ in a Liverpool v Manchester United match they can keep the market and just respin the player.
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There is a £20 welcome bonus for players who stake £100 on the wide range of William Hill Games. This is irrespective of whether they win or lose, but players should check that there is a bonus bar alongside the games as this offer excludes games where the bonus bar does not appear, such as Top Trumps.
Games include slots such as The X Factor, The Million Pound Drop and Spider-Man, plus arcade favourites such as Deal or No Deal and Bejeweled.
The casino at William Hill has a mixture of table and cards games, as well as slots, video poker, scratch cards and fun ‘casual’ games such as ‘Frankie’s Fantastic 7’ where players place bets on different horses, which move forward depending on which playing cards are randomly drawn. Some of the horses have less distance to run, reflected in their odds, and players can back different horses at odds of up to 13/1.
We also liked ‘mini-roulette’ – just 13 numbers to choose from instead of the normal 37, with six reds, six blacks and the green zero, allowing players to hit more often.
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Spied – Tata Nano CNG
Yusuf Dabhiya
Tata has been working on a CNG powered variant of the people’s car for a while now, and if these latest spy shots are to be believed, the car is very close to production. Here is a spyshot of the Nano CNG which further adds gravity to the words “very soon”. The test vehicle of the CNG Nano while it was being refilled in a fuel station. The gas inlet is located near the petrol inlet and that means you’ve got to pop the bonnet up to refuel. The recent spotting suggests that the Nano CNG is just around the corner.
Showcased at the 2012 AutoExpo, the Nano CNG had a 35 kg CNG tank under the front seats, but the production model might just come with a slightly smaller tank.
Though the addition of a CNG kit will bump up the prices of the Nano by about Rs 20-30,000, the drop in running costs will be well worth it. In fact, with a CNG kit, the running costs of the Nano will rival that of a scooter!
There won’t be many changes to the engine and gearbox, but when running it on CNG, there is bound to be a slight drop in power. And to keep costs in check, instead of using a sequential system, a more rudimentary venturi system will be used, which will result in slightly lower performance and efficiency, but will work out to be cheaper for the buyer.
While the CNG variant is expected to give the Nano a shot in the arm, it is the diesel version that is pipped to be the game changer.
Also see – The Tata Indigo eCS enters Limca Book of Records!
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« The Charleston Massacre
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Thu Jun 18th 2015 by abagond
Note: This post is based on what has been reported about Roof in the first hours after his arrest on June 18th 2015.
Dylann Storm Roof (1994- ), an American White supremacist, is suspected of having shot and killed six Black women and three Black men, including a state senator, at the Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. The police are calling it a hate crime, but not an act of terrorism. They believe he acted alone.
He joined a Wednesday night Bible study at about 8.15pm on June 17th 2015. He asked where the pastor was and sat next to him. An hour later he stood up and started shooting. He reloaded his gun five times. When asked why he was killing people, he said:
“I have to do it. You rape our women and taking over our country. You have to go.”
Three survived: two played dead, one of them a five-year-old girl. The third he let live so that she could tell others what he had done – something that terrorists do.
The church’s security camera had caught him and his car on video. When pictures from the video were made public, his family and friends told the FBI who he was.
After a 14-hour manhunt, he was taken alive near Charlotte, North Carolina, 400 km away.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, did not know about him. Based on his Facebook page, they say he seems to be a “disaffected white supremacist”. In one Facebook picture (shown above) he wears a jacket with patches showing the flags of South Africa and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) from the 1970s, back when they were still under White rule.
The front plate on his car shows flags from the Confederate States of America, which fought to defend Black slavery 150 years ago. He lived in Columbia, South Carolina, which still flies the Confederate battle flag in front of the state capitol building.
In March he was arrested on a felony drug possession charge.
In April his father gave him a .45-calibre handgun for his 21st birthday. He practised his shooting.
His mother said:
“I don’t know what was going through his head. He was a really sweet kid. He was quiet. He only had a few friends.”
She knew he was in Charleston on Tuesday, the day before the shooting, but did not know why. She did not think he was racist or would kill anyone.
His uncle said he was “quiet and soft-spoken.”
John Mullins, who went to high school with him, said Roof was “kind of wild”:
“He used drugs heavily a lot. It was obviously harder than marijuana. He was like a pill popper, from what I understood. Like Xanax, and stuff like that.”
Mullins did not think he was racist:
“I never heard him say anything, but just he had that kind of Southern pride, I guess some would say. Strong conservative beliefs. He made a lot of racist jokes, but you don’t really take them seriously like that. You don’t really think of it like that.”
Antonio Metze, a high school friend, noted:
“I never thought he’d do something like this. He had black friends.”
Sources: Mainly The Daily Beast, BBC, The Guardian, Raw Story, AP.
The Last Rhodesian – a post about his website, which gives a fuller picture of him.
The Charleston massacre
Other mass killers:
Wade Michael Page – the Sikh Temple shooter
James Holmes – the Batman shooter
The word “terrorism”
“Some of my best friends are Black”
“It was just a joke”
Black rape statistics
American White supremacy
on Thu Jun 18th 2015 at 22:03:50 Glenn (freedom of movement) Robinson @getgln
The title says ‘Root’. Is his last name ‘Roof’?
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on Thu Jun 18th 2015 at 22:22:44 Ben Munday
I’m living history all over again. I was around for the first church killing, bombing, massacre and now it’s happening all over again. How many times do I have to witness this madness????
on Thu Jun 18th 2015 at 22:22:53 solesearch
He only had a few friends.
He had black friends.
So he only had a few friends but they were mostly black?
Come on media get it together?
on Thu Jun 18th 2015 at 22:23:57 sondis
Here we go with white people acting oblivious about racism in America. They never ever think anything other white people do is racist, even if they make racist jokes!
I mean, what does a white person have to do in this day and age for another white person to see a racist for what he or she is? hang a black man?, burn a cross in their front yard? yell the “N” word from a damn roof top? sheesh!
Its just plain denial and all white people damn well know a racist when they see one, they just don’t care, plain and simple.
on Thu Jun 18th 2015 at 22:28:45 Death the Kid
White people never take racist jokes seriously until someone calls them something infantile like “mayo”
“Mullins did not think he was racist”
He had “Strong conservative beliefs”
Something ain’t adding up. I’ve never met a non-racist conservative in my life
on Thu Jun 18th 2015 at 22:36:05 sharinalr
Death the Kid
To white people saying white people is racist.
on Thu Jun 18th 2015 at 22:37:55 rmanees
“…He made a lot of racist jokes, but you don’t really take them seriously like that. You don’t really think of it like that.”
News flash: only racists make racist jokes. This friend who didn’t “really think of it like that” is just as big a part of the problem as the shooter.
on Thu Jun 18th 2015 at 22:44:53 v8driver
he musta got a first time plea bargain deal on the felony drug bust. that precludes or obviates even legal gun possession in the usa except missouri i think but you have to live there.
he’s a rather sad, troubled even, i’d say, looking fellow!
zimbabwe before mugabe? huh, rhodesia was that british?
moddied
on Thu Jun 18th 2015 at 23:31:29 Jacqueline
This should be a federal prosecution.
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 00:14:05 v8driver
wait for it … back to balfour, and i guess berlin what was that 1884
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 00:54:32 mstoogood4yall
that mf looks evil. what is it with white guys that look like Lloyd from dumb and dumber going shoot ppl. my as would’ve been suspicious from the get go, in the south white folks rarely go to black churches if they do it’s usually because they are dating or married to a black person they never come alone. it takes a special kind of evil to sit through bible study and then kill ppl.
The people that love telling black folks how to protest and about being peaceful and just praying, look what happened ,we aren’t even safe at church. Got these mfs coming into our community and doin this s** and we supposed to just pray.
It’s always the question of why, stop worrying about why and start worrying about how, how are they allowed to do this and how are we going to prevent another from happening and protect ourselves.
I’d love to see how people try to dismiss this, how can u dismiss people at bible study not being threatening and praying? U can’t, but watch them try. the mental illness card will be played soon…
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 01:03:41 sondis
I being 100% honest. Had i been in that church, when this white supremacist walked in, i would have been watching his ass like a hawk!!
I mean come on, how in hell does this white racist, walk in dressed the way he was at a all black church and raises no suspicion?
I mean the killer had a back pack for crying out loud! what white 21 year old man goes to a all black church with a back pack and nobody bats an eye lash??
He looked way out of place and i would have sat right behind him, within arms reach, so i can jump on his ass, soon as he looked like he was about to pull out a gun.
He looked to be 100 pounds, soaking wet! anyone of the men could have taken him down. Hell, even one of the black women he killed could have taken him down.
That goes to show that only black people are so trusting, so forgiving, so naive to the racist hate white people have for them, they failed to see the hidden danger that was sitting right in front of them for an hour.
I don’t know about all you black folks out there but i for one, will never let down my guard, if i see one or several white people walk in an all black church, that doesn’t live in the community.
I don’t give a rats *ss if he’s 15 years old! I’m looking for back packs and bulges in his pants or shirt!
he had black friends, and I was looking at msn and they said he had black friends and that he posted this stuff on his facebook and most of his facebook friends were black. yeah because if u have no black friends then u might be but there’s no way u can be racist if u have black friends, since u have gotten the black seal of approval and therefore all black folks must agree.
This is the only time that they are reporting on the black victims and not bringing up negative pasts, they are reporting on who they were.
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 01:23:00 Origin
“my as would’ve been suspicious from the get go”
I was just going to say that maybe we should start profiling solitary white men.
I just read an article about this crime which spoke about how the media doesn’t call a spade a spade when it comes to white mass murder.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/06/18/call-the-charleston-church-shooting-what-it-is-terrorism/
“Early news reports on the Charleston church shooting followed a similar pattern. Cable news coverage of State Sen. and Rev. Clementa Pinckney, pastor of Emanuel AME who we now know is among the victims, characterized his advocacy work as something that could ruffle feathers. The habit of characterizing black victims as somehow complicit in their own murders continues.”
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 01:54:53 Mary Burrell
I am surprised there was no talk about his mental health because when the killers are white the msm always say the killer had mental health issues. Looking at his cold dead soulless eyes he looks like the demon that he is.
And with that stupid dumb and dumber hair do he was easy to find.
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 02:11:12 King
@King: Yes he is a terrorist but he is also a soulless monster and i believe their are more of these beast all over the United States and abroad.
what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
They even gave him a bullet proof vest.
The Shadow knows…
Mary Burrell
I caught that and thought…Its nice to see that they are concerned about his safety! I never see a bullet proof vest on a black man, that was arrested for killing black or white people…
@sondis: You are right about that
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 03:55:43 ken williams
GET RID OF ALL THOSE RACIST REPUBLICAN BIGOTS THAT’S IN OFFICE
FREAKIN NOW . TAKE DOWN THAT DEMONIC REBEL FLAG .
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 04:12:05 Mochasister
@ Sondis
I think many churches are going to have to implement some type of security measures in light of this tragedy. We as Christians are supposed to welcome any and everyone into the Lord’s house. Even strange out of place white boys in a predominantly Black church. Unfortunately, evil has a way of coming as well. I have been at a couple of churches where some people with obvious mental issues interrupted the services that were going on. One lady even walked up to our Pastor as he was beginning his sermon. She only hugged him but she could just as easily have shot or stabbed him.
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 04:16:16 TeddyBearSniffer
I notice you have the word “disaffected” in front of the white supremacist. I think this kid was very much still involved in their movement. So what gives?
Wow, this mass murderer gets a bullet proof vest. Why am I not surprised. After all those bikers were allowed to sit and text on their phones after their shoot out in Waco, TX. It’s amazing the levels of privilege given to whites even after committing horrific crimes.
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 04:25:13 sharinalr
You know this situation brought out a supreme change of events among my black Facebook friends. One black chick who is always preach respectability politics called the act racist a terrorist and told white commenter that they have to be blind or dumb not to see this was a black/white thing. Another supposedly pro-black chick had the nerve. ….mean nerve to say that this dude respectfully surrendered that is why he was treated that way and had he been black he would have acted a fool and would have needed to be beaten. I thought…..in the sand her head goes.
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 04:25:40 jefe
So do Americans still want to fear Islamic terrorists in incarceration or overseas more than domestic terrorists right in their own communities?
@ Glenn @ Lord of Mirkwood
Yikes! Thanks.
Mochasister
I think many churches are going to have to implement some type of security measures in light of this tragedy. We as Christians are supposed to welcome any and everyone into the Lord’s house. Even strange out of place white boys in a predominantly Black church.”
I didn’t anything about not welcoming any white people in a black church, You’re making an argument that i wasn’t making.
I said, that if i were there, i would have watched hiss ass like a hawk!
I didn’t say i would not welcome him in the church.
God also gave his people common sense to watch out for Satan’s disciples, not to just go about our lives, blissfully oblivious!
@ TeddyBearSniffer
That was in quotes because that is how the SPLC put it. As far as I and they know (so far), he was not formally part of any group.
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 05:36:33 leigh204
@ mstoogood4yall:
mf looks evil. what is it with white guys that look like Lloyd from dumb and dumber going shoot ppl.
The hairdo and look just screams, “Something ain’t right.” Seriously, one look at him and you can already tell there’s something “off” with this scumbag.
And, ugh, his family is rallying around him and trying to paint him as some poor guy who was victimized by society. Typical explanation for this racist bullsh!t.
Wow, I hope this is a tasteless joke, but it appears some fools think that this Dylann Roof fella is, well, not even white. A reference to Rachel Dolezal, I’m sure.
@ Origin
Great link!
Excellent examples of Whitespeak that that article pointed out:
“a possible terrorist” – violence by Muslim people is systemic.
“we don’t know his mental condition”, “one hateful person”, “lone wolf” – violence by White people is NOT systemic.
The post on Whitespeak:
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2015/06/15/whitespeak/
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 06:41:59 Uncle Milton
To leigh204:
but it appears some fools think that this Dylann Roof fella is, well, not even white.
I must have missed his corn row photos, he looks quite white to me, if I had to guess his ancestral country I’d say Northern Britain.
I think that you mistook my comment towards you as argumentative when it wasn’t. At least that was not my intention. I was merely trying to explain that as Christians we are to welcome everyone into His house. Everyone. Maybe they did find it odd that this young white person chose to be with them on a Wednesday night. Or maybe not. At any rate I was not arguing with you about whether or not you would have welcomed him in your church. I am not to be arguing with people I don’t know over the internet. My apologies if I came off like I was.
Correction : I am not one to be arguing with someone I don’t know over the internet.
Mochasister:
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 09:33:03 mike4ty4
In case anyone didn’t think there was enough evidence to show that “I have black friends” does not absolve one of racism, here’s the smoking gun.
Whoa! I was just talking about this very thing with a white associate of my over the phone last night!!!
I explained everything in this article, word for word!
She mentioned not reading up on it yet and only hearing about it through co-workers. When making a comment, she said, “hmm he must have some mental illness”
I then educated her on how that is typical of the white media to give white men that commit mass murders, a pass!
I went on to say, this is how white lawyers can use the insanity plea to get off white killers but black killers can never use such a plea.
I also mentioned how deliberate and calculated this mass murder was, so he wasn’t mentally ill, if he had the mental capacity to plain this murder in the way he did.
He planned to escape, so he knew what he did was wrong, that’s why he fled!
She understood what i was saying and conceded that it made sense and that she meant no harm as she didn’t know all the facts.
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 11:36:34 Buddhuu
Justice for Roof? Shame about that vest. I don’t believe in executions by the state (any state), and I dislike violence in general. That said, if Roof’s life were to be cut short at the hands of an aggrieved individual I would consider that to be a small measure of justice.
If he is killed by the state it will be for their PR purposes. Any “justice” under those circumstances will be coincidental. Presuming his guilt, the community he harmed are the only people who would deal with him for honest motives. Convict him then shove him out the door of the Charleston court house and give the cops a day off.
It’s always maddening when a white person commits a heinous crime and his upbringing is questioned. His actions already show what kind of person he is.He’s pure evil and I hope he burns in hell.
Well played in your explanation.
As a side note white people are now trying to play damage control in claiming racism is not here today, we hAve rights, etc.
Those tweets told me two things.
1. Whites do not accept mixed people as their own.
2. White people are full of shit.
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 14:52:28 lifelearner
WP are so vested in the system of white supremacy to a blinded point of their ultimate demise. It is only a matter of time.
I hope this dude gets life without parole. May he spend every waking moment in a jail with a cellmate named JaQuan aka “Killah” that will be his main squeeze.
Death row inmates don’t share cells
I don’t want him to get the death penalty. I want him to live the rest of his life out in a jail cell rotting like the scum that fester on their toilet seats.
How about both? First he gets life… then at the end he gets executed?
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 15:37:53 blakksage
I really pity my home folks sometimes. Within the Emanuel African Methodist Church, there is a picture of a white Jesus on the wall. In reality, that is in fact the image of the beast in the name of Cesare Borgia, a son bore by Pope Alexander VI through his mistress Vannozza dei Cattanei. White Jesus was painted by Leonardo da Vinci after being commissioned by Pope Alexander. Had my folks been aware of this, they would’ve either been watching him like a hawk as Sondis suggested or they would’ve shoved him back out of the church or even called the police.
On the other hand, you get silly ass white folks foolishly say things like: It doesn’t matter what Yahawa (God) or (Yahawashi’s (Jesus) skin color was.” Darn it, well if it doesn’t matter, why is the image always white? It does freaking matter because people will then know whether to relax up or to keep their guards up when an angel of death come amongst them. My people were too comfortable with allowing this psychopath into their space and certainly was deceived.
CHRISTIANITY IS A MURDEROUS RELIGION. Go and ask the older Native Americans. Go and ask older black Americans who hasn’t been put under the spell of Cesare Borgia. Go and ask the older population who remember the Taino Indians of the Arawak people.
Revelation 1:14 says: 14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire.
Revelation 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which DECEIVETH THE WHOLE WORLD: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
The image on the wall has long stringy hair, the image of the beast, this is just the opposite of what the Bible reveals and Dylan Roof is essentially one of the angels of death. Jesus was all about spreading the gospel, His words had nothing to do with promoting Christianity. His purpose was all about keeping God’s commandments. And to put an incorrect image of Him on the wall of a house of worship is blasphemy to the utmost.
I HOPE AND PRAY THAT MY PEOPLE WAKE UP AND BEGIN TO PRAY TO THE TRUE GOD, THE MOST HIGH, YAHAWA and know that us blacks in Amerika are of the tribe of Judah, the Israelites the Bible speaks of.
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 15:39:53 Ben Munday
If he gets life in prison, he will be welcomed with open arms by the local skinhead, Nazi population. He will have found a home. Most people don’t see it this way. They just say toss him in jail and let him rot. A fine example of: be careful what you ask for. The death penalty is the way to go with this monster.
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 16:36:43 Claude Jordan
No vest on Lee Boyd Malvo! Says so much about how our society’s laws and how they perceive who’s worth protecting while innocent until proven guilty.
This kid puts as all to shame.
https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/charleston-church-massacre-victims-grieving-son-121924488567.html
things are going back to the way they were before, people got too comfortable and complacent.
Then: black folks not allowed in pools, arrested or having acid poured on them as a result.
Now: McKinney,Tx black kids attacked for being at a pool and harassed by a cop.
Then: Birmingham church bombing
Now: the Charleston massacre
Then: lynching
Now: they cover it up and call it suicide
Things are going backwards, history repeats itself…
And the interesting thing about all this that white people will continue to act naive about is……he likely got all his hate and anger from “I’m not racist but..” white people that are all over the internet making racist and stereotypical remarks and not stormfront or some other racist site.
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 21:54:15 Gen
Big surprise, entitlement and inadequacy rear their heads. Because being white should be enough to stop you from being a loser.
Exactly. White people really expected us to turn a blind eye and the moment that stop happening we became a major problem.
I honestly don’t believe anything the family says. I think they will happily spin a lie or make up a story if it will help this dude in some way.
Are you saying they might try to use some kind of emotional distress angle?
@Gen
I do. They are pulling out all the stops. Even other white people, seems to be trying to look for an angle. Anything to say it was not racism and he was alone.
Somehow i get the impression this nut has an account on stormfront
I think they don’t want to deal with the fact that those same people they love whether it be on tv, in sports, music, or their friends and relatives who make racist jokes and say racist things could act on it. In their world saying racist things has no correlation to doing racist things, it is why they can dismiss and say don’t be offended when white celebs put on blackface or tweet something. To them the kkk is racist but the everyday white person surely cannot be, since they are not acting on it, or at least not being caught acting on their racist views.
Racism starts out as thoughts, perfect example is Columbus, he thought the natives were too trusting and naïve and would make good slaves.
Then it turns into plotting, he starting plotting ways to exploit them and enslave them. Next is the gathering of resources to carry out the plan. Columbus asked for more men and more supplies. The next step is to carry it out, he had the natives look for gold and worked them to death.
The final step is to have a system in place to maintain “order” by showing how powerful they are and making the victims feel powerless. He did this by cutting off hands, killing, chasing them down with dogs, when they did not come up with enough gold.
I see what your saying.Though I feel the family threw that out there to deflect from a bigger issue here. Which is that more than likely the family openly spoke of or believed that too. It is easier for them to paint him as the racist…I mean troubled kid, so as to act as if they are “good” white people who loves everyone.
I’ve been reading the articles and the comments (as much as I can stomach) and of course that angle was already in play so I wouldn’t be surprised if the family tries to draw that card. Though I’m inclined to believe the cousin’s account since he(Dylann) had enough of an entitlement issue to believe random strangers’ mere existence was taking something from him and thus they needed to die.
Exactly! I touched on this earlier up thread. Some (many, too many it seems) white people perform all kinds of mental gymnastics to avoid any scrutiny of their way of life because heavens forbid that they’ve developed some pretty warped tendencies after several hundred years of shameless embellishing, scapegoating, silencing, raping, murdering and thieving.
From this very article:
“He made a lot of racist jokes..”
Is it normal to say racist things but not be racist? How does that work? Lol.
I don’t doubt it. I’m sure they cooed softly into his angry little ears.
on Sat Jun 20th 2015 at 00:47:44 sharinalr
This might sound odd, but I actually have to agree with them in a sense. The reason being is because white society is using them as the racist boogie men. Making it seem as if the only way Roof could have acquire such behavior is from them and their kind. They are racist pos, but Roof got his attitude and behavior from average American whites.
on Sat Jun 20th 2015 at 01:09:25 Mary Burrell
All i could hear some white co-worker remark today at lunch in our breakroom as this tragedy blathered on Fox News today was “how young he was” How he had ruined his life and shaking their heads. I was not surprised at this behavior because this is the mindset of the majority white populace. I didn’t get outraged at this, however i thought it was kind of interesting. I have come to expect this.
on Sat Jun 20th 2015 at 01:53:02 TheHipHopRecords (@TheHipHopRecord)
It get’s worse.
This is what the Judge said to Dylan Roof in the first live link up
“We have victims, 9 of them, but we also have victims on the other side…victims on this young man’s side of the family.”
What ? Are you serious ? The judghe showing sympathy for him ?
THIS IS A TEST CASE IN WHITE SUPREMACY
But I’m not suprised or shocked
In every situation, whites think they are the ones getting mistreated. “Those mean blacks, calling us racists when we do racist things. How dare they !!”
They value victim status because they’re a cult, and that’s how cults work. A cult can never be the oppressor, it always has to be oppressed. That’s what keeps the members insular, they have to stay in the cult because they’re being attacked by forces from outside. Every bunch of bad guys has to think they’re the good guys. The Ku Klux Klan thinks they’re the heroes. The Nazis thought they were the good guys.
It’s twisted, but it’s how many whites think. They can’t admit the truth because then they’d have to give up the victim status they’ve reserved for themselves. And they desperately need that if they’re going to preserve the f.u.cked-up lie that is their view of the world.
Despite the world of outrageous privilege whites generally live in, they think they’re getting the short end of everything. It’s mind-boggling that they could think that, but, it’s really how they see the world.
Dylan Roof ?
He’ll plead insanity, meaning he won’t get the death penalty. Even if he goes to the slammer. He’ll be hero aryan nation groups.
on Sat Jun 20th 2015 at 01:55:18 leigh204
@ Mary Burrell:
If I read/hear one more thing about this horrible massacre as “how could such a thing have happened?”, I am going to scream.
on Sat Jun 20th 2015 at 06:11:13 King of Trouble
Well we all know that since it is 2015, we have a black president racism is dead! Soon we are going to find out that it wasn’t racism but some kind of mental condition that had been left untreated.
Never mind the his friends casual saying that Roof was just a good old conservative southern guy. Who crack a few of those jokes that we never take serious. Which means people around him were probably cracking those jokes.
@ Kiwi, I love how the article puts it as “Black guy takes his girl” was she ever his girl or just someone he lusted after.
I just feel sorry for those church members, his mind all set, his heart closed they received him with open arms. It is a shame to see what really lurks in the the heart of this country.
on Sat Jun 20th 2015 at 06:11:38 Origin
@Pumpkin
I know. It’s frustrating to think about it. It goes back to what Gen said:
…white people perform all kinds of mental gymnastics to avoid any scrutiny of their way of life because heavens forbid that they’ve developed some pretty warped tendencies after several hundred years of shameless embellishing, scapegoating, silencing, raping, murdering and thieving.
They do what they want to fill their bellies then then they create a legal, historical, mythological, and religious framework that justifies it all. By the time whites are finished, the people who had they victimized deserved it, by their account. The villification of the victim on an individual level in cases such as Trayvon Martin/John Crawford/Tamir Rice is a smaller-scale reflection of their character assassination of whole cultures after whites raped, pillaged, and enslaved. It’s the culturally endorsed pattern of thought. I expect it all the time and I’m never disappointed.
One of the more creative victim blaming statements I read was that Pastor Pinckney contributed to his own death by voting against allowing concealed carry in churches.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/19/guns-church-charleston_n_7621988.html
Cotton [NRA board member] wrote [on a forum] that the victims “might be alive if he had expressly allowed members to carry handguns.”
A conservative radio host named Bryan Fisher also tweeted:
Misguided bans on guns in houses of worship turned this black church in SC into a shooting gallery. Nobody could shoot back.
Time to allow concealed carry in churches. #BlackLivesMatter
How do you even respond to that? There was a time when I would have been shocked but now I have accepted their amorality as chronic.
on Sat Jun 20th 2015 at 07:01:50 tulio
Is there any proof that he had black friends? Have any of them stepped forward?
They have officially pulled the drug defense.
^ Wow, that’s BS! Last time I heard, drugs don’t make you plan to murder innocent people months before. It’s a weak and pathetic excuse.
I fully agree. I find it hilarious though. They are pulling out everything. Will he have been raped by a black man next?
on Sat Jun 20th 2015 at 13:04:08 v8driver
Like The Hip-Hop Records said it was just effing unbelievable to me that judge called the killer’s family “victims” really? I feel his family harbors these same beliefs. I don’t just buy this lone wolf narrative either. This stuff is not created in a vacuum. In a state that still allows the racist confederate flag to fly in front of the state capitol that’s pretty telling about the white majority population of that state in South Carolina. Not just S.C. but all over America. Many white want to bury their heads in the sand and just pretend this is an isolated incident and that it’s about mental illness. That mental illness card has been pretty convenient to pull out in regards to white people who perpetuate heinous crimes in this country. This is a “terrorist act as well as a hate crime. I was watching a clip of the candidates running for the office of POTUS and they had remarks about the Charleston tragedy. Each one never mentioned the word “racism” They all called it a case of the shooter being mentally ill. And one used religious freedom being violated. Mental illness and attacks on religious freedom are deflection tactics. None of them wanted to call this thing what it really is a hate crime. America especially a large majority of white Americans are never going to be honest about how racism is huge in this country and how it is destroying lives of black people.
^perpetrate crimes^^^
So guns, mental illness and attacks on religious freedom are going to be deflection tactics the msm will use to spin their narratives about this tragedy in Charleston. The friends and roommate knew about this psycho and it’s possible they too harbor the same mentality and ideologies as him. It’s amazing how in these incidents they always find a black so called friend. The he had black friends narrative. Zimmerman had a black friend, The woman in the Mckinney swimming pool incident who instigated the incident by hurling racial insults at the black teens had a black roommate who said she didn’t have a racist bone in her body. America needs to have a “Come to Jesus meeting.” White American are to cowardly to have this dialogue.
I find it funny they went from not really knowing what he said to he was talking about shooting up a school.
Exactly and we’ll said. I read an article asking white people to stop having these fake conversations about race. Most of the whites wanted to pull white woman’s tears. Then you had the blacks that wanted to coddle them. Then you had the blacks who did not have a problem laying down the truth.
I look at it like this….can you expect a liar to tell you the truth?
@sharinalr: Exactly. I don’t know what else needs to happen before white America can sit with black America and have an honest dialogue about race in this country. It’s so crazy too me how white Americans don’t want to address the elephant and his stinky sh**t in the room.
So he (Roof) was really angry about a black young man and a girl that Dylan Roof liked and the young girl chose the young black man instead of him. That is what he was angry about.
on Sat Jun 20th 2015 at 16:35:36 bygodsloveandgrace
It’s been a while since I’ve been on Abagond’s blog. Primarily because I’ve spent the past year getting settled on the West Coast.
I’ve always appreciated many of your insightful perspectives on the diverse topics Abagond writes about. I’m so glad there’s a forum like this to express ourselves. So I hope to contribute to the conversation when possible.
A lot of you have covered how I’ve felt about Dylann Roof’s senseless, evil and IMHO terroristic act. My heart breaks for the victims and their families. As I watched some of the family members forgive him in court yesterday and pray for his soul… What strength and spirit that must have taken. I personally couldn’t have done it.
As Mary and others have highlighted, the MSM is already digging out the excuse playbook: mental illness, troubled young man, the act of a lone wolf, attack on religious freedoms; oh and my personal favorite (it’s Obama’s fault). Somehow Obama is to blame for declining race relations in the minds of some. In my Chris Rock voice, “I’m tired…tired..tired..tired.” I’m tired of the spin. We see it time and time again after these mass shootings by mostly White gunmen.
My question to everyone is, what can we/I do differently to call the media out on their BS? Sometimes I feel really hopeless because you can see the spin so clearly and very few challenge these reporters to shed balanced perspectives. Something needs to change. Where does one start?
So Dylan Roof’s young black friend said “The Dylan that i know doesn’t do things like this. He was not in his right mind”. Then the young black man goes on to say that Roof was going to shoot up a community college in Charleston but he couldn’t get in the school and went to the church instead.” What in the five fiery rings of hell is that about? If he knew about something like that he should have reported him. That might have saved those nine victims lives.
@bygodsloveandgrace: So good to read you. I always enjoyed your post.
Hi Mary! Glad to be back. I’ve enjoyed your posts as well.
A website registered in Dylann Root’s name has a page with what are apparently his views on Blacks, Jews, Hispanics and East Asians:
http://lastrhodesian.com/data/documents/rtf88.txt
In the intro it says
“The event that truly awakened me was the Trayvon Martin case. I kept hearing and seeing his name, and eventually I decided to look him up. I read the Wikipedia article and right away I was unable to understand what the big deal was. It was obvious that Zimmerman was in the right. But more importantly this prompted me to type in the words “black on White crime” into Google, and I have never been the same since that day.”
The friend is a flat out liar and I have no doubt they were in on it or knew a lot more than he claims. They found a manifesto of his showing he racism. I will post the link soon.
Abagond beat me to it.
on Sat Jun 20th 2015 at 17:36:17 jefe
In the webpage Abagond gave us the link for, at least he admitted whites pretending to be colour-blind is a farce. He said
The pathetic part is that these White people dont even admit to themselves why they are moving. They tell themselves it is for better schools or simply to live in a nicer neighborhood. But it is honestly just a way to escape n-gg-s and other minorities.
Here’s another link to Dylann’s manifesto and incredibly telling photos.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/20/1394948/-Racist-manifesto-and-selfie-collection-confirms-what-we-knew-Dylann-Roof-a-racist-terrorist#
Also, I found the below commentary interesting. Let’s see if politicians can have an honest conversation on race going into the 2016 elections.
http://www.theroot.com/articles/politics/2015/06/republicans_are_running_for_president_and_running_from_race.html
@bygodsloveandgrace: Hilary Clinton is saying all the right things especially in regards to the tragedy in Charleston. I guess that’s to secure votes from the black community. Jeb Bush has kind of side stepped the race conversation. Rand Paul said that it was an attack on religious freedom. I have to give Hillary some respect for at least acknowledging the tragedy.
@jefe: Yes he told the truth about whites being disingenuous about racial color blindness. Yes, whites do move away from the neighborhoods to get away from blacks. We have always known this.
So those with his ideology are called white nationalist. Dully noted.
Some white supremacist group will welcome him in prison and take him under their wing. This reminds me of that movie American X.
The Dylann Roof timeline illustrated with selfies:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/20/dylann-roof-visited-slave-plantations-confederate-landmarks-before-massacre.html
on Sat Jun 20th 2015 at 19:48:42 King
“I have to give Hillary some respect for at least acknowledging the tragedy.”
Sorry. I don’t trust her. I remember well what she and Bill were like the first time Obama ran. Nothing has changed. She is just wiser in how to win an election.
@King: I understand not trusting Hillary Clinton in comparison to her an the other politicians at least she did say race was problematic in this country. I don’t trust any politician. I just observed that the other candidates were deflecting and she at least did mention race was a huge problem in this country. i don’t think we can trust any of them.
on Sat Jun 20th 2015 at 20:18:12 Slickline311
@Everyone
First timer on this blog and I’m finding it very educational and thought provoking. Also a little off-base and laughable at times, but the variety of opinions is what makes it an interesting read.
The one problem I have with the trend of comments being posted is that mostly all posts refer to this ‘Son of Satan’ as white people and this is an example of how evil white people are. Why is this not looked at for what its is. An evil human being committing an equally evil act against his fellow brothers and sisters. Plain and simple, it’s not all that complicated or steeped in mystery. Which is why it is beyond me why atrocities of America’s past are being used to try and drum up a debate on a subject that doesn’t even apply to this tragedy. The kind of talk going right now all over the internet and in our communities is one that’s being directed and manipulated by the small group of elites that control every ounce of our left and right mainstream media. The powers that be don’t want either you and I , or your family, your friends, your neighbors & coworkers to have the intellectual and unifying discussion that can produce real results for the change this country so desperately needs. Instead of what color this demon decided to show himself as or what privileges he may or may not be given. Why not look at why, and not the conservative white supremacist racist stormfront fan club excuse. A look at the real reason why, the deep rooted problems to the constant failing of our society. Our society as a whole, which each and every one of us has some skin in the game and should be deeply concerned with how the people in this country have become so void of what I believe is a natural and instinctual behavior to be good to your fellow man/woman. We’ve let our kids/next generation down by not holding onto and instilling in our youth, the basic morals of right and wrong. Instead we have let ourselves become victims of indoctrination and corporate controlled programming to give excuses for ones actions and to always blame the other person instead of reflecting inward to indenify and correct or at least work on bettering one’s spirit by turning our faults to triumphs overcame. Using those life lessons to pass down and guide the innocence of our children to stay innocent. In hopes they can become moral and spiritual leaders for their own families and communities while continuing the cycle. When after all most of our societal problems begin at home, whether you or I and anyone close to us are willing to admit.
This was a severely disturbed individual that in no way represents any financial class, or race of people. Any political affiliation or religious beliefs a group or sect of people might have. This was evil perpetrated by evil. We should ask ourselves why this young man did not have the moral aptitude to understand the pain and anguish he was about to inflict or human emotions that our Father/Higher Power put in us to be able to connect with his other children he’s blessed the world with.
In society today, it has become cool and in some areas of the country normal, to not believe in God or the higher power you’ve chosen to follow and guide you through life. We have let the rulers decide what is right and what is wrong. How we should educate and discipline our kids. We let them tell us our children are sick or not smart enough and won’t be productive members of their society unless you make ’em take some sort of drug. We have let them dictate how we should feel or what we should believe through the opinions of a few who truly believe they know what is best for you when they few have lived on a hilltop and view the everyday life of everyday Americans from afar. For generations this has been happening and a great majority of the population have finally began waking up from the effect and impact it has made on this country. As you can see from this latest tragedy of what seems to be an endless string of chaos feeding the coming implosion of our country and society, it has not worked for our betterment. However the rulers have maintained control through multiple generations and have only grown even more wealthy and dangerously more powerful.
I’ll end my long winded comment with this, the sooner we realize this is not a black-white-young-old-racist-non-racist issue. We as humans and children of something greater have to start taking responsibility of the society we’ve created and understand what the real problems are. Then and only then will we be able to correct the path we are on currently. That means stop the blaming, nothing ever got fixed by blaming and pointing fingers. Creating more chaos from chaos only leads to more chaos.We need smart intelligent and compassionate conversation with a whole lot of common sense thrown in. Don’t be afraid to speak the truth eventhough you may be crucified for it.
Before change comes truth.
Charleston Shooting Families Proved Grace Wins Out Over Hate http://thebea.st/1Gq6ZE7 via @thedailybeast
@ Slickline311
Let me save you some trouble about the term “White people.”as used here.
1) Rarely does it mean “ALL” White people.
2) Usually is shorthand for the White System/ White Power Structure
3) “Whiteness” is not real in the sense that it is an arbitrary designation
4) There always have been and are now regular White commenters here
So you must take all of those things under advisement as you read. Most of us are not saying that everybody with light skin and straight hair acts like this or does that.
As I mentioned “first timer” on the site.
Glad to know that now but it is misleading to passers-by and may turn some away from discussions that must include everyone to be successful.
@Slickline311
Now that king has gotten the basics out of the way I will attempt to politely address the other stuff. Some of it anyway.
You stated:
An evil human being committing an equally evil act against his fellow brothers and sisters. Plain and simple, it’s not all that complicated or steeped in mystery. Which is why it is beyond me why atrocities of America’s past are being used to try and drum up a debate on a subject that doesn’t even apply to this tragedy. The kind of talk going right now all over the internet and in our communities is one that’s being directed and manipulated by the small group of elites that control every ounce of our left and right mainstream media.
This line of thinking among people is part of the problem. Yes he was an evil individual who committed a racist act of terrorism, but need we ignore where he got this from? Heck no. What he said was things I have seen on this blog and many others from whites who say “I’m not racist” “I have black friends” “All lives matter” etc.This is the point where white people need to stop blaming it on his drugs, broken heart, psychotic mind, or the powers that be and own up to the fact that his racist attitude came from the average everyday white people. Until white people are ready to own up and stop pacifying people of color with loads of bs that mean nothing at the end of the day, then the divide will continue on and it won’t be because the elites are doing it. It will be because average whites refuse to take responsibility and call out racism instead of continued blind eyes.
@bygodsloveandgrace
I am afraid the only option we have for dealing with media is creating our own news outlets and media. The media will lie, you can ask for a correction, and it will continue to push that lie regardless. They are about money and money only. If the story does not sell then they are not interested.
@Sharnair
You are speaking to my point, for the most part. We all have to start taking responsibility for our own and our neighbors. Start holding people accountable. This kid had parents, where were they? Should we believe they too have the same hateful racist views as he? If so then they are just as culpable, if they don’t(since the dad ID’d him, I wouldn’t think they do)and stood idely by while he spiraled out of control, I say they are equally culpable from that point of view. His friend who said in his statement that he began talking of wanting to start a civil/race war. Why not hold him accountable for not speaking up. He also said that it was unlike him to speak that way. The point is, it’s not just white people that need to stand up for what is right and take responsibility. Every American who loves this country should take on that same responsibility.
Having a group of people admit they are inherently racist and that the racism they spread consumes and possess humans with unstable physcological mentalities. Driving them to commit heinous acts. May make some people feel better but will do absolutely nothing to resolve an issue that affects every American one way or another.
For the record I’m a mutt, with a black&white father and a white&Hispanic mother. I have the fortunate ability to look objectively from outside the box, and what I see runs a lot deeper than black & white.
on Sat Jun 20th 2015 at 22:16:34 V-4
So what do we know about this guy?
Possibly mentally deficient, got to 9th grade, took it twice and then dropped out.
Some kind of mental problem.
Supposedly taking a drug that can cause violent out-bursts.
Was mooning on a chick that went out with a black guy instead of him.
Killed mostly women.
An incredibly racist guy.
His two potential targets?
1. A college, where intelligent people could do things with their lives.
2. Black church
Went with the black church.
Things to consider; these guys often look similar don’t they?
Skinny dudes, bowl cuts and that far away/crazy look in the eye.
As for Lee Boyd not getting armor:
Ultimately the biggest problem with all these guys as for why they decide to go on a killing spree…..is they can’t get laid and their ego can’t handle it. Well; there’s all the other stuff too but that seems to be the number 1 qualifier here.
This is a long one guys. I was about to respond again to Pumpkin’s point about white projection but had to leave so this is two posts in one. Mary’s posts about the media’s deflection from Dylann Roof’s expressed motives, dishonesty about white racism and Roof – of all people – calling them out, also gave me ideas. IMO, it’s all related.
Guys, this BS is not about us but about white needs. It’s not that they’re afraid to tell the truth because they’re embarassed to admit their racism to us. No, no, hell no!!! They’re still racist and many express their views out of earshot of anyone who won’t challenge them. It’s not about fear of being ostracized either because the media is covering for someone who was openly racist and didn’t care.
However, there is a cultural narcicissm associated with whiteness that entitles whites to feel good about themselves or that their “shit don’t stink”. Part of the function of the media is to act as a funny mirror which hides their true reflection so they can live comfortably in that illusion on land they stole, and among people they enslaved, terrorized, or virtually exterminated. Any honest self-examination of their white ways would result in uncomfortable cognitive dissonance. That is why it doesn’t happen! White cognitive dissonance is a mouthful compared to “white guilt” but is more accurate. Guilt improperly implies contrition or remorse which is not the norm.
I grabbed this from Wikipedia:
In psychology, cognitive dissonance is the mental stress or discomfort experienced by an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time, or is confronted by new information that conflicts with existing beliefs, ideas, or values.
Leon Festinger’s theory of cognitive dissonance focuses on how humans strive for internal consistency. An individual who experiences inconsistency (dissonance) tends to become psychologically uncomfortable, and is motivated to try to reduce this dissonance—as well as actively avoid situations and information likely to increase it
IMO, whites experience cognitive dissonance on a cultural scale. This is why they also “project” as Pumpkin pointed out. They want to believe that they, as a group, are “good” even in the face of their fondness for theft and genocide. In order to arrive at the desired conclusion, despite all the contrary evidence, they must decide that everyone else is “bad”. This makes them deserving of the treatment whites meted out. They gain internal consistency of thought while they lose touch with reality; and humanity.
This also explains why white people have a big problem with being called racists but seem fine with a racist system. They recognize racism as “bad” so being called racist conflicts with their desired self-image. “I can’t be racist because I am not a bad person.” Therefore they find it uncomfortable when people bring up racism because of cognitive dissonance. It’s not shame since there is no associated feeling of regret. Rather, it’s a nagging awareness that their group self-image is inacurate and they don’t want to be reminded. This is why they get ANGRY and accuse YOU of “playing the race card” so you’ll shut up. It’s like the man who snatches the old lady’s bag then angrily argues that she’s a liar and he’s an entrepreneur after she yells “thief”.
The centuries of racism have had obvious effects on black people but whites have not escaped unscathed. If they had any humanity to begin with, they had to sacrifice it in order to create and sustain a monstrously exploitive system which is incompatible with empathy.
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/the-hearts-of-white-people-the-science/
Isn’t that almost literally selling your soul to the devil? That is the price they paid. It’s ironic, though entirely just, that the ones who presided over a dehumanizing system were dehumanized as a consequence.
We never lost our empathy and we were born into a system designed to assuage white cognitive dissonance. In this hostile environment, we have been conditioned to avoid making whites uncomfortable because that could have negative consequences. Wasn’t Reuben Stacey lynched for startling a white woman by asking for water? It’s not surprising that the media can find a “black friend” to help downplay Roof’s racism.
It also explains why black people need healing spaces away from whites. We have entirely different recuperative needs. There can be no equivalence between the oppressor and the oppressed. We need our experiences validated while their pathologies drive them to deny us that very thing. Trying to get water from a stone only leads to endless frustration. Many white people who claim to be against racism still want to feel coddled, like a hero, made comfortable and placed on a pedestal. Their presence triggers the black conditioning to take care of whites’ feelings instead of “keeping it real”. If you make them upset you might become “worse than Hitler” over expressing rage at an unprovoked church massacre.
Finally, there may be unexpected empirical evidence for the theory: Rachel Dolezal. I didn’t plan on mentioning her here but, in retrospect, she is walking, talking, cognitive dissonance. However, she chose to resolve her internal inconsistencies by portraying herself as black (people are complex so I’m not discounting other reasons). This allowed her to examine the facts about white racism while distancing herself personally from it. Furthermore, she found communities that dealt with racism issues just not from the perspective she needed. So she performed mental gymnastics to justify lying about her experiences and background. It probably felt nice to be admired as a heroic light-skinned black woman working hard for social justice. That is the narcissistic element because that persona was false. Dolezal may seem delusional but virtually all whites are, just in a different way. We are more accustomed to its other expressions.
“many express their views out of earshot of anyone who WOULD challenge them”
“lastrhodesian.com” down
http://web.archive.org/web/20150620184505/http://LastRhodesian.com
click on the text link to see the article abagond is referring to, i’m not sharing it
You know all this guys friends, black even, are saying they didn’t think he was racist.
It’s like, he had a manifesto, he made jokes, he wore the badge, I mean he was blatantly, “openly” racist.
But because he was basically polite and not an ass-hole to black people he couldn’t be racist?
Its like, dude just because the guy has basic manners….it’s still possible he can be racist.
As for the people who say he might be mixed-race.
Possibly but he would have to be an octoroon or something. He might not even be aware of it.
he’s a true neo-na*i, the text file name is rtf (rich text format?) and “88” etc, *sigh*
well there’s a true lack of white guilt starin ya right in the face, with a gun
Was watching ABC news and his childhood friend from grade school to middle school Caleb Brown who is bi-racial. “He wasn’t like this always he just recently came in this mind.”
After viewing the ABC news footage and seeing Roof’s childhood friend Caleb Brown who is bi-racial it occurred to me maybe because Brown who is bi-racial probably doesn’t understand white supremacy and is naive just like the poster Slickline 311.
If you look at the victims, was he targetting women more?
Yes I saw Hillary’s speech today. She’s saying all the right things. Whether that translates into new policies for gun control and domestic terrorism remains to be seen.
On the GOP side, I can’t take Rand Paul, Rick Perry and others seriously. They have and always will be out of touch on race.
@sharilnar.. fair point. Unfortunately we do have some media outlets speaking to our issues but they’re not as heard as the MSM. You’re right it’s all about the $$. So we’d need to find an organized work to write to network’s corporate sponsors. Let our spending power do the talking.
v-4 made a very good point here:https://abagond.wordpress.com/2015/06/18/dylann-root/#comment-287271
This kid had parents, where were they? Should we believe they too have the same hateful racist views as he? If so then they are just as culpable, if they don’t(since the dad ID’d him, I wouldn’t think they do)and stood idely by while he spiraled out of control, I say they are equally culpable from that point of view.”—Apparently you did not read his manifesto, but even so that does not mean his parents are magically not racist. That just means they are either A) shocked he acted on it or B) trying to cover their tracks of where he got his racist views from.
“His friend who said in his statement that he began talking of wanting to start a civil/race war. Why not hold him accountable for not speaking up”—I sure do believe he should be as I believe I said that before on this thread.
“The point is, it’s not just white people that need to stand up for what is right and take responsibility.”—Why should black people take responsibility for white peoples inability to call out racism? That is a problem that plagues whites. Why is it every time the call for whites to own up leads to whites saying “we all should” after contradictions such as “everyone should deal with their own group”?
“Having a group of people admit they are inherently racist and that the racism they spread consumes and possess humans with unstable physcological mentalities. Driving them to commit heinous acts. May make some people feel better but will do absolutely nothing to resolve an issue that affects every American one way or another.”—Admitting is one thing we are calling for action and this is not some people this is for every non-white person. White racism and supremacy is the issue. One you don’t seem vested in fixing.
“For the record I’m a mutt, with a black&white father and a white&Hispanic mother. I have the fortunate ability to look objectively from outside the box, and what I see runs a lot deeper than black & white.”—I don’t care if you were Jesus. What you look like does not mean snot to me who can not prove or disprove such assertions.
@TheHipHopRecords , @ Mary
The judge’s comments were totally inappropriate IMO.
I’ve also seen some of the chatter on the conservative news blogs and some people really do feel for Dylann’s family. His sister cancelled her wedding this weekend. The conservative blogs are saying she turned Dylann in to the FBI. She’s getting tons of support from people writing her saying how sorry they feel for her situation. Not ONE comment about the 9 people who lost their lives.. smh
By the way, there is no equivalence between black anger and white racism. For the same reason, you cannot understand the violence of slave revolts without the context of the evil plantation system.
White people love to reframe the argument in terms of “hate” so they can claim that black people hate too. The onus then falls on black people not to hate whites. If only you didn’t hate white people they wouldn’t be racist. Say that out loud and digest how ludicrous it is.
Projection again.
@bygodsloveandgrace: That is what’s messed up about that nothing about the victims. This too me is “whiteness” And by that i mean all they can see is this situation through their white lens. The judge and the white people who have this type of narrow mindset are the problem. This is infuriates me and then they want to know why we are angry.
How the hell can you ignore the dead victims? WTF?
on Sun Jun 21st 2015 at 00:09:22 Mary Burrell
@bygodsloveandgrace: They are true sons and daughters of the confederate south.
on Sun Jun 21st 2015 at 00:17:37 Origin
I remember a lot people were saying Adam Lanza’s mother deserved what she got and they didn’t consider her a victim. After all, she left her guns unsecured and her son later used them to slaughter (mostly white) young children. Many people were angry and thought that bore some of the blame because she should have known the risks.
I wonder how many people feel sorry for Roof’s family despite the reports than his father bought him a gun for his birthday.
Oy typos everywhere
“…thought that *she* bore some fo the blame…”
“…despite reports *that* his father…”
on Sun Jun 21st 2015 at 00:48:19 sharinalr
@ bygodsloveandgrace and Mary
Very well said and I agree I have seen much of the same. Those that I have seen mention the victims always slide in some “they did it too” remark. One example is one white lady made the comment to pray for the victims, but then went on to say blacks are not innocent and they had slaves. When responses came in she would say “we should focus on the victims.” She wanted to appear moral and loving when I reality she was nothing short of a racist pos.
@Origin: I am sure it sucks to where in their position today. I am sure there are a great many that sympathize with Roof’s family. I haven’t heard his family express sorrow for their evil son’s heinous actions.
on Sun Jun 21st 2015 at 01:28:28 bygodsloveandgrace
Unfortunately some of those folks show us how inhumane they are. They don’t value Black life. Therefore, it’s not even a thought to mention of think about the actual victims.
The children of the confederate South have passed down the traditions for each generation. It’s so ingrained that I don’t think some people can be reached. The cycle never ends.
@sharinalr.. I’ve seen similar comments too. Instead of just owning that this guy was a racist killer, you’ll have someone brining up Black people owning slaves or black on black crime or any of 100s of deflection points. The further they can shift and deflect, the easier it is to deny the truth. Quite frankly, I don’t always have the energy to deal with people who think like that; especially online.
NBC is reporting that the same judge that expressed sympathy for Roof’s family was reprimanded for using the “n-word” in court back in 2003.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/charleston-church-shooting/judge-who-presided-over-dylann-roof-bond-hearing-was-reprimanded-n379066
Gosnell was reprimanded by the state Supreme Court in 2005 for telling a black defendant in 2003, “There are four kinds of people in this world: black people, white people, rednecks, and n******.”
I think Mary Burrell knew what this guy was about right away. It’s strange for a judge to express sympathy for the familly of a mass murderer at his arraignment.
on Sun Jun 21st 2015 at 03:49:30 v8driver
@pumpkin octoroon? not a word i think i ever used… this cat is a white supremacist. maybe v4 you meant, i didn’t read eveyrthing here
At first, I had the impression that Roof just burst in and started shooting. When I learned that he sat in that study for 1 hour it took it to another level for me. Unless I’m mistaken, this was a pretty intimate gathering rather than a huge church service. I could never murder a dozen or so people that I hung with for an hour after they welcomed me. That’s long enough to learn everyone’s names.
I just saw a report on NBC that he told police he almost didn’t go through with it because “everyone was so nice to him”.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/charleston-church-shooting/dylann-roof-almost-didnt-go-through-charleston-church-shooting-n378341
That, right there, is the story of the last several centuries of history in a nutshell.
Columbus said this about people the Spanish later exterminated:
“..they are so unsuspicious and so generous with what they possess that no one who has not seen it would believe it, never refusing anything that is asked for and they also offer themselves and show so much love that they would give their very hearts.”
“In the first isle I discovered I took by force some of the natives.”
The events surrounding the Charleston massacre say a lot about black people and even more about how white racism. Roof went there on a mission and he followed through and slaughtered almost all of those people despite the fact the they welcomed him kindly. Regardless of white spin, their racism is not a reaction to what’s wrong with us. It’s generated 100% from their cultural imperatives and it’s 100% their pathology.
Anyway, I have to take a break from this. I just need to clear my head and enter a place of peace right now. Take care everyone. Be safe. Hug the people you love.
on Mon Jun 22nd 2015 at 00:10:24 Origin
Yeah, it’s stressful. I was up late the night I found out about it too.
Charleston’s church massacre is direct and sickening. We have been experiencing white terrorism consistently even as it manifests in different forms over the centuries. Even attacking a black chuch not a new tactic in the white terror campaign. Heck, they leveled the prosperous black part of the city of Tulsa in the 1920s. They dropped bombs from airplanes! It’s also sickening that black people die from the indirect effects of the white system of racism every day. I don’t think most of us are awake to where this fits into the larger pattern so that’s frustrating.
I’m like you. I feel like we have to take advantage of our freedom to stop supporting this system. Even if our divestment starts out with tiny steps, it can grow into something.
on Mon Jun 22nd 2015 at 01:13:15 Mz.Nikita
@Pumpkin, agreed 1,000,000%
on Mon Jun 22nd 2015 at 07:18:26 Dylaan Roof: As a South African I am not suprised | African in the 21st century
[…] Dylann Roof. […]
on Wed Jun 24th 2015 at 09:19:04 mike4ty4
I wonder why the media doesn’t launch into campaigns to try to dig up any sort of negative thing they can find from their past like they do with Black people so often.
This guy is a THUG, plain and simple. Anyone who called Eric Garner or whoever a thug should go take a look at this REAL THUG.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/thug
thug, n.
” 1.
a cruel or vicious ruffian, robber, or murderer.
Think that sums it up. This attack was most definitely vicious and most definitely murder. And there is NO excuse for it.
Racist-in-arms “defends” this thug as follows:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/white-separatist-dylann-roof-sympathizer-calls-victim/story?id=31962334
Dylan Roof is a victim in regards to he was a white man born to a society that actively hates him and hates his people, hates his culture and his identity,
LOLZORZ! Like the most privileged and powerful group on the whole planet is hated by the whole “society” so much that it’s reduced to a terribly downtrodden state. I could name another group that is not only TRULY hated by the whole society, one whose “people, culture, and identity” are TRULY despised but which THIS racist AND this THUG are complicit in the HATRED of.
“Dylann Roof” is a THUG of Thugs and should be HANGED. #HangEmHigh ! Hanging is a very fitting punishment here, considering that’s what his ideological and maybe even biological (who knows what’s in his family tree?) predecessors did to thousands who were far less deserving of it.
@ bygodsloveandgrace
When Michael Brown was killed, she was silent:
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2014/08/23/ferguson-know-them-by-their-tweets/
on Wed Jun 24th 2015 at 13:13:38 jefe
^ That was before she announced she was running for President.
^ Exactly.
on Wed Jun 24th 2015 at 18:25:49 Michael Cooper
With all that’s been going on in the mainstream media with the nation’s latest massacre and the pulling down of the Confederate flag in South Carolina many of these right-winged politicians are talking with CAREFUL words. I guess they don’t want to shake any waters – translated as upset their fan base.
on Wed Jun 24th 2015 at 19:25:59 resw77
“I feel his family harbors these same beliefs.”
Yeah, it’s the same old story. The victim’s family pretends they knew nothing about it and can’t understand where their boy went wrong. He’s only been a legal adult for a few years, and no one believes he became racist overnight.
I just got around to watching some of a video called “Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome” by Dr Joy De Gruy Leary. I was excited to hear her touch on cognitive dissonance as a reason for white dehumanization of others. I may have been following the right trail there.
John Newton…Amazing Grace. Well let’s figure out what happened before he got Amazing Grace.
He said, “Slaves are lesser creatures without Christian souls and this are not destined for the next world”.
Now what becomes important about this kind, and you’ll see it both in American history as well, there is this kind of dehumanization of African people. Because you gotta ask yourself this question, how do people who deem themselves superior, who see themselves as the civilizers, who recognize themselves as the what we call the “Manifest Destiny”, the “White Man’s Burden” of civilizing the rest of the races, how do you reconcile being the superior being and engaging in barbaric behavior?
What that produces is something called cognitive dissonance. […] Cognitive dissonance is reallly thinking discord. It’s when you begin to feel conflict between what you believe or understand or hold to be true and you are then faced with behaviors, either in yourself or others, that conflict with your fundamental belief. It produces cognitive dissonance. Human beings don’t function well with cognitive dissonance. You must remove the cognitive dissonance in order to function. So in order for people to perpetuate slavery and to perpetuate that whole system that lasted for centuries you had to remove all dissonance associated with it. “Can’t be anything wrong with me. Certainly isn’t us. We’re the civilizers. We’re the superior so it must be them. Oh yes, well you see they don’t even have souls. No I can go to sleep because I’m not really dealing with a human being.”
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRQ-Ci6LwVw&t=22m11s)
on Sat Aug 6th 2016 at 00:22:57 Herneith
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/08/04/report-dylann-roof-assaulted-in-jail.html?via=newsletter&source=CSPMedition
on Tue Dec 20th 2016 at 23:33:12 Michelle
I don’t remember people talking about who his main influences were but the CCC was a big one. Also pay attention to the link between the CCC and Steve Bannon. http://wonkette.com/609447/white-power-charleston-church-murderer-convicted-wonder-where-he-got-self-radicalized
on Wed Dec 21st 2016 at 09:13:29 munubantu
This guy, Dylann Roof, is sick.
Recently, during court procedures he laughed when invited to think about what he did. He seems to show no remorse at all. It seems to me that he will be punished with the death penalty.
See,
http://abcnews.go.com/US/accused-charleston-church-shooter-dylann-roofs-video-confession/story?id=44070131
on Wed Jan 11th 2017 at 01:46:12 sharinalr
I don’t think he deserves the death penalty. Torture yes.
One part of me thought put him with the black inmates eating and sleeping and breathing with black inmates. That would drive him to kill himself. Sticking a needle in his arm and letting him just go to sleep is too humane. He needs to suffer as he has no remorse for what he did. He is a rabid mongrel and needs to be treated like the animal he is. I suppose it’s a waste of the tax payer’s money to keep this waste of skin alive breathing oxygen. Maybe the rabid mongrel needs to be put down.
on Wed Jan 11th 2017 at 02:54:53 Fan ...
“What are people’s thoughts?”
MIRKWOOD – is that YOU hiding out under a new name??
I could be incorrect but if I am I don’t imagine it’s by much… Fifty to five hundred years ago the multiple killing of 9 African descended people by a white person wouldn’t have been much of a crime (aside from the loss of monetary value …) or if it were it would have been covered up. Perhaps Amerikan society moved forward one or two inches in that span of time??
How many more inches and hundreds of years will it take to remove the rest of the color based mistreatment (white supremacy/racism) from the world?
Roof, in my opinion, deserves to live the next 100 years in a prison where all the inmates, staff – everyone – is Black. (Though I have not heard of such a segregated place in present day Amerika!) Let him exist as the sole white person in an ocean of Blackness. Death by execution for Roof would be too cheap and too easy a price to pay for what he did.
I do not believe in the death penalty.
He should be gut shot! No, the bullet is too good for him! Perhaps they can segregate him in one of those prisons where he is on 23 hours lockdown. I agree with Fan and Mary.
on Wed Jan 11th 2017 at 03:44:08 Afrofem
“One part of me thought put him with the black inmates eating and sleeping and breathing with black inmates. That would drive him to kill himself. Sticking a needle in his arm and letting him just go to sleep is too humane.”
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Man ID'd as driver in fiery River North crash found dead of suicide
By Diane Pathieu, Chuck Goudie and Barb Markoff
CHICAGO (WLS) -- The man identified as the driver accused in a fiery crash that killed a woman in River North Monday morning has been found dead from an apparent suicide.
RAW VIDEO: Fiery crash in River North
Raw cell phone video shows a fiery single-car crash in Chicago's River North neighborhood that killed a 21-year-old woman.
Flowers now mark the scene of the crash near the Ontario feeder ramp where one woman was killed. Police said that the driver of the car fled the scene on foot. Surveillance video showed the car hitting a utility pole before exploding and witnesses said the driver seemed to being going at least 100 miles-an-hour.
Alejandra Damian, 21, of Joliet was killed. She also went by Aly and was a student at DePaul University.
The driver of the car she was in was able to escape. The I-Team reports sources close to the investigation identify the driver as Anthony Milder. Milder also goes by the name Anthony Van Morre. The Cook County Medical Examiner said Milder died of hanging.
Milder, 34, was found dead Monday night, the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office said. He died of "asphyxia hanging suicide," according to the medical examiner.
The driver was not the car's owner. The car was registered to a northwest Indiana man who told the I-Team he loaned the car to a friend to go to a charity car wash in River North. After learning of the fiery and fatal crash, the Nissan owner says he immediately went to Chicago police.
NIGHT AT THE BOTTLED BLONDE
In a photo obtained by the I-Team, the white sports car crashed by Milder is seen parked in front of the Bottled Blond at about 7:15 p.m. June 25, 2017.
In a photo obtained by the I-Team, the white sports car that would later crash and burn is seen far right, parked directly in front of Bottled Blonde on Sunday night about 7:15 p.m., according to the person who took the picture and the photo timestamp. That was several hours before the fatal crash on the Ontario Street extension.
Sources familiar with the investigation have told the I-Team that Milder was at the nightclub, located at 504 N. Wells, for several hours on Sunday night prior to the deadly, high-speed crash. Bottled Blonde officials did not respond Tuesday afternoon to numerous messages left by the I-Team.
However, Milder checked in to Bottled Blonde on Facebook at 6:32 p.m. Sunday and then headed to Underground at 12:30 a.m. for 30 minutes or so before the accident.
"DID WE JUST SEE THAT?"
Alejandra Damian, 21, of Joliet
While Damian's family gathered in her hometown of Joliet to comfort each other, witnesses still can't believe what they saw and heard.
"My friends and I, we're in a bit of shock. We're looking at this explosion and we're like 'did we just see that?' We have to get out. We have to call 911," said Bob, a witness.
Aly Damian's distraught family said they do not know the driver of the car.
Damian's family has set up a GoFundMe page to help pay for her funeral and memorial services.
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More on trends in ebooks and libraries
jrochkind General March 22, 2012 March 22, 2012
Nicole Engard presents a great summary of a talk at some unnamed conference, Ebook Trends: Info Pros Perspectives. Go read it.
The salient summing up for my perspective:
What we’re using now to facilitate the delivery of electronic content is broken. The current methods are very expensive, very inefficient and very unsustainable. We need something new and innovative.
On the other hand, other participants seem to imply that we don’t need to worry about ebooks, either because people aren’t actually using them (and never will be?) in significant numbers, or because libraries can do just fine without ebooks. (I doubt both those things, perhaps I misinterpreted the paraphrases).
But also very interesting from Engard’s summary is notice of a new organization I hadn’t heard about before:
Michael is here to represent a non profit (Library Renewal) made up of libraries who are trying to facilitate this change. He said it started with a question – what if we realized that we actually have control?
So Library Renewal is an organization that works on behalf of libraries to deal with the publishers. Right now we have vendors going in to secret meetings with the publishers to negotiate costs that benefit them – not us. And they are inviting libraries to come to Library Renewal and take back the control.
For the last 1.5 years they have been doing a lot of research at Library Renewal so they’ve been pretty quiet. They have been negotiating and building partnerships and developing solutions. At this point they are seeking funding to build the infrastructure.
Awesome, that’s so just what we need. I was probably unrealistic to expect ALA to ever do significant public advocacy, lobbying, or negotiating on the issue of ebooks and libraries, although it would kind of make sense if they did, it’s their mission. But okay, new organization, Library Renewal. If I was a decision making administrator at my library (I ain’t), I’d be having us join it.
What’s actually going on to make usable infrastructure, cutting out libraries?
About articles rather than ebooks, but still relevant, rsinger alerts me to deepdyve. Described by some as a “netflix for scholarly articles”, it looks to me like they actually probably charge per-item fees rather than netflix’s flat rate for certain use limits model, but I’m not sure.
They describe their model as “rental” of articles, which probably means DRM. I’m skeptical that a DRM solution is going to ultimately result in a good usable experience, at least beyond certain specific vendor devices, but maybe, it’ll get better and maybe it’s already there.
I haven’t tried the service myself, but I suspect it’s actually pretty good, probably easier to use than what libraries provide their patrons for electronic article access (with the possible exception of the DRM).
Deepdyve describes themselves as focusing on those unaffiliated with a library with good access to scholarly articles….
Our mission is to make authoritative information more affordable and accessible to users who are “unaffiliated” with a large institution and therefore lack easy and affordable access to these vital sources of information.
But really, I could see them poaching users who are willing to pay (for material their library theoretically already pays for on their behalf), in order to get a more convenient and usable experience than libraries are able to provide. We do a bit better with good interfaces to scholarly article fulltext than we do for ebooks, but we still don’t do great. And it may be that publishers would rather we don’t do great, they’d rather cut the libraries out of the equation.
And per-use payment?
At one point, in the early days of digital online databases, libraries mostly paid per-use for online/digital fulltext. (And in some cases even per search). Then at some point (around 15 years ago?) we started shifting to paying flat rate contracts for unlimited access to provider’s online collections.
David Walker pointed out to me that the new disintermediated Copyright Clearance Center “Get It Now” service could be considered not just an alternative to ILL (which has always involved per-transaction costs, although none of the payments wind up going to the content owners), — but also an alternative to licensing journal packages (flat rate), for titles that CCC can deliver. (CCC deliveries are charged to the library per-transaction).
And that in some cases this may actually work better for the library, perhaps even financially. Is the pendulum swinging back around to per-transaction payments instead of flat-rate licenses to collections?
I suspect the the content owners would prefer per-use charges rather than flat rates. Well, at least for ebooks that’s what it’s been looking like, perhaps for articles too. (Of course, the content owners ultimately prefer whatever makes them the most money, just as one of our main criteria is whatever costs us the least for the best service we can give our patrons).
Perhaps a switch to per-use charges will be what allows libraries to stay in the e-content market. Much as I don’t like the sound of it — per-use fees encourage libraries to ration or meter patron access, or in the academic world charge back to departments (meaning bigger budget departments can afford more), or even consider “Why are we paying for these things on behalf of people, why shoudn’t they just buy them themselves?” The library exists (public or in most cases academic too) as a way of sharing costs for information resources collectively, so all members of the collective can access them on an equal basis regardless of financial means. This is a great thing about libraries, and per-use fees kind of work against it. But maybe it’s the only path to libraries finding a mutually sustainable relationship with content owners for e-content. But, really, geez, I hope if that future comes to pass it can at least be DRM-free.
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It’s Fun To Be Bad…Sometimes
Sex is the primary subject that connects all four short stories in renowned children’s author Roald Dahl’s Switch Bitch together. Not just any sex, but for the most part frivolous in nature, at some times life-changing, in other cases mind-numbing, and in rare instances an awakening, but always fulfilling. There is also a personal journey of sorts found throughout these stories and the majority of the main characters. Oswald Hendrycks Cornelius is the subject of two of these stories and when he is not searching for his next few-hour fling, he is on the hunt for the elusive and large female opisthophthalmus, more commonly known as the scorpion. Oswald has his personal life’s pleasures outside of his notorious thirst for women: he is into Chinese porcelain, he’s an opera enthusiast never shy to sing Verdi’s Otello, purchasing walking sticks with elaborate handles; but in The Visitor, the hunt for the scorpion takes him to the Sinai desert and presents him with many problems that will challenge his willpower with respect to his insatiable appetite for the fairer sex and his desire to find the treasure that eludes him.
Thou shalt not cover thy neighbour’s wife. Victor Hammond is married to his beautiful, yet straitlaced wife Mary. At a cocktail party he can’t get over how stunning his friend and neighbor Samantha Rainbow looks mingling with guests. Like Michael Caine from Hannah & Her Sisters, something about her bottom lip makes his loins quiver and his imagination run wild. The eyes may be the window to the soul, but the lips are the doorway to true profound pleasure. Using the power of persuasion with Sam’s husband Jerry, Victor conjures up an extravagant and well-organized plot to get a little taste of the forbidden. In The Great Switcheroo you truly realize the gravity of the old saying ‘be careful what you wish for’ as some things are best left to imagination.
“Samantha was seated opposite me and whenever she leaned forward with her face close to the flame, I could see that tiny crest of skin at the top centre of her lower lip. ‘Now,’ she said as she accepted a menu from the waiter, ‘ I wonder what I’m going to have tonight. Ho-ho-ho, I thought, that’s a good question.”
In the fourth and story Uncle Oswald finds himself in gay Paris. He is contacted by a decrepit looking creature and equally wicked little man in olfactory chemist Henri Biotte. As hideous as he may look there is no doubting his passion for his work and the desire to rule the world with his science. The problem is, is that he needs financial resources in order to move morward. After hearing out Henri’s master plan for his concoction Oswald can’t help but feel elated about the possibilities. This story reminded me of David Cronenberg’s film The Fly, and more specifically, the after effects of Seth Brundle’s first go round in the telepod. I would give an arm and a leg to…….no wait, I think I’ll pass.
“Simone was a slim thirtyish woman with a pleasant scrubbed face. Her hair was brushed back and plaited into a bun. This, together with the white spectacles, the white overall, and the white skin of her face, gave her a quaint antiseptic air. She looked as though she had been sterilised for thirty minutes in an autoclave and should be handled with rubber gloves. She gazed at the boxer with large brown eyes.
‘Let’s get going.’ Henri said. ‘Are you ready?’ “
In The Last Act, Anna Cooper gets the most horrifying news imaginable when she is startled to find two police officers knocking on her front door. All alone, she can’t go on, her love is completely gone and her world is shattered to pieces. With a final decision made, she is abruptly pulled from the abject part of her mind back into the real world reconciling her life’s purpose. Back in the swing of things she finds solace in hard work. At the feeling of loneliness she contacts an old friend and while she’s enjoying the company, he can’t shake the feeling of looking at the one that got away.
You can definitely see a connection to his child writing ways in his playfulness with language and the joy that is palpable when leaping through the pages. There is a feeling that the author was snickering while writing and almost grateful for a release from having to be on his best behaviour all the time. I also liked how there really was no protagonist, most of the characters had something working against them to fall in favour with the reader, and ultimately left me laughing at their various misfortunes. Oswald is a complete wad who is a constant philanderer and a selfish lover at that. He can’t relate to the working class and walks along keeping people at arms length because of his prejudices or his extreme hypochondriac nature. He’s regarded as a hero for knowing thousands and thousands of woman but I would call him an intriguing character because he is a legendary wealthy, wandering, regimented, bachelor; you know there’s fun to be had with that guy, especially when he finds himself in 1940’s Africa of all places.
“The man’s vitality was unbelievable. He was always on the move, from city to city, from country to country, from woman to woman, and in between the women, he would be searching for spiders in Kashmir or tracking down a blue porcelain vase in Nanking. But the women always came first. Wherever he went, he left an endless trail of females in his wake, females ruffled and ravished beyond words, but purring like cats.”
I found every story quite compelling. I had the expectation that these would be scary and frightening from a visual interpretation standpoint, but I couldn’t help but be totally enthralled by the hilarity that ensued; I mean what person doesn’t love a little dexterity in their sexual partner. There are moments of sadness and compassion when it came to an inhumane abuse of power leading to a coercion of one’s self-actualization, but around the corner your left embracing your own passion and angered at the author for kissing but not telling, or perhaps not telling enough for your own liking. Something about vices and the lengths people will go to fulfill their need makes for plenty of sad and funny moments. What your left feeling as a reader is the true power of desire, and the rewards and repercussions that take place when choices are presented, or decisions are forced to be made. I enjoyed my time reading these four short stories.
“A trout jumped high in midstream and the sunlight flashed on its body. ‘You must forget,’ said Monsieur Biotte, ‘all the nonsense about musk and ambergris and the testicular secretion of the civet cat. We make our perfumes from chemicals these days. If I want a musky odour I will use ethylene sebacate. Phenylacetic acid will give me civet and benzaldehyde will provide the smell of almonds. No sir, I am no longer interested in mixing up chemicals to make pretty smells.”
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How interesting that Roald Dahl should have written these fascinating sounding stories about sex. I have read Tales of the Unexpected which are adult stories and can be quite chilling and suspenseful but I have never associated Roald dahl with sex! It just shows you learn new things every day on WordPress even about authors you think you know.
bindblottyandcajole says:
While reading his stories for ‘children’ I knew he could deliver a story for adults if given the stamp of approval from the powers that be.
I’m going to have to put Tales of the Unexpected on my shopping list. Thanks for commenting as well as the recommendation.
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What is the effect of non-vaccinated people on vaccinated people?
Many times have I heard that anti-vaccine people are dangerous even to the vaccinated population. Is that true? If so, how can it be? People say that germs will attack them, and soon they would eventually grow and spread even toward general population which actually got its vaccines.
I mean it's so counter-intuitive: if I'm vaccinated even when disease will spread I shouldn't be in danger.
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$\begingroup$ I'm upvoting because this is an important question. There are problems with the assumptions (if i'm vaccinated even when disease will spread I shouldn't be in danger), but that's exactly what makes it important. $\endgroup$ – De Novo Jul 18 '18 at 16:27
$\begingroup$ The only way to prevent a species to evolve is by extinguish (eradicate) it. If some people continue to carry a disease, those germs can evolve into a new, more resistant, more pestilent form that could attack even the immunized individuals. $\endgroup$ – J. Manuel Jul 19 '18 at 11:17
$\begingroup$ Putting aside people who do get vaccines, there are some people who can't get some vaccines and rely on everyone who can getting the vaccine and ideally eradicating the disease altogether, or, second-best case, not contracting it themselves so they can't give it to anyone who can't get the vaccine $\endgroup$ – Au101 Jul 20 '18 at 21:22
$\begingroup$ the more it can spread the larger chance it can mutate and become dangerous to those who are vaccinated for the first unmutated version. $\endgroup$ – mathreadler Jul 21 '18 at 16:16
$\begingroup$ Vaccines do not protect 100% from the disease. When enough people are vaccinated the disease outbreaks die out quickly. The problem is that when not enough people are vaccinated, the diseases do not die out, but linger in population. So, you keep bumping into sick people, and eventually get sick too. That's the simplest explanation I could come up with. If you're not satisfied, I'm afraid some differential equations will be in order. $\endgroup$ – Aksakal Jul 23 '18 at 15:29
Biology is rarely black or white, all or nothing. Protective immunity is generally not an on/off switch, where from the moment you're vaccinated you're infinitely resistant for the rest of your life. You shouldn't expect that, having received a smallpox vaccine, you could have billions of smallpox viruses squirted directly into your lungs and shrug it off without noticing.
Given that (fairly obvious) fact, you should immediately think of scenarios where vaccinated people are still at risk of disease following exposure to unvaccinated people. What about older people who were vaccinated 20 years ago, 50 years ago? What about people whose immune systems are slightly weakened through lack of sleep or obesity or stress? Any of these vaccinated people might well be protected against a brief encounter, but not against, say, being in an airplane seat for 18 hours beside an infected child shedding huge amounts of virus, or caring for their sick child.
It's all sliders, not switches. You can have a slight loss of immunity (4 hours sleep last night) and be protected against everything except a large exposure (your baby got infected and won't rest unless you hold him for 8 hours). You can have a moderate loss of immunity (you were vaccinated twenty years ago) and be protected against most exposures, but you're sitting next to someone on the subway for an hour. You may have a significant loss of immunity (you're a frail 80-year-old) and still be protected against a moderate exposure, but your grandchild is visiting for a week.
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$\begingroup$ I think one point you can add to this is that unvaccinated people who host a virus allow it to propagate and evolve, which can undermine the efficacy of the vaccination. $\endgroup$ – BlackThorn Jul 18 '18 at 22:37
$\begingroup$ You could add that, depending on the disease, some percentage of the vaccinated may show a low immune response and will never develop immunity, although vaccinated. $\endgroup$ – Dubu Jul 19 '18 at 12:09
$\begingroup$ to restate Blackthorn, unvaccinated people also provide a place for the disease to reproduce and potentially mutate into a new strain that the vaccine does not help with. This happens constantly with the flu. $\endgroup$ – John Jul 19 '18 at 15:17
$\begingroup$ I like this answer, except for the "(fairly obvious)" part. It sounds condescending, and it is not something that is obvious to everyone. $\endgroup$ – Beska Jul 19 '18 at 19:09
$\begingroup$ @BlackThorn viral escape mutants are rarely observed in an effective vaccine, and generally are not the public health challenge they seem to be in fiction. They are an issue during vaccine development. Influenza variation (and subsequent vaccine failure) is due to recombination in non-human hosts. The unvaccinated certainly cause harm to the vaccinated, but this is not a significant mechanism for that harm. $\endgroup$ – De Novo Jul 22 '18 at 3:31
Since 2000, in the United States alone, there were 16 reports of outbreaks or groups of outbreaks where the outbreak started with an initial case in an unvaccinated individual and resulted in disease in previously vaccinated individuals. The epidemiology of pertussis is a little different, and transmission happens in many cases apart from a clear outbreak, but there are several documented pertussis outbreaks that led to disease in vaccinated individuals as well. This JAMA report provides a good summary.
Herd immunity is important, especially in highly contagious diseases with no significant non-human reservoir, e.g., measles and pertussis. @iayork's answer is correct that vaccination is not an on/off switch. About 15% of measles cases in the US involve vaccinated individuals, and these have all been the result of transmission that started with an initial unvaccinated case (see previous reference).
These are bad diseases. They can cause serious illness. Half of infants who get pertussis need care in the hospital. For measles, 25% of all cases involve hospitalization. For both, life long disability (deafness, brain damage) and death are real possibilities. 1 in 100 infants with pertussis die, 1-2 in 1000 measles cases die. The harm intentionally unvaccinated people cause to vaccinated people and people who can't get vaccinated (because of their age or other health problems) is real and well documented.
In light of another answer and some comments, I'm adding a couple paragraphs putting vaccination in context with other strategies for prevention of infectious disease.
Relevant to this question, as is clear from the epidemiological data discussed above, vaccines are not 100% effective. Some vaccines are more effective than others. Measles vaccine, for example, is in the mid to high 90s. Flu vaccine effectiveness, depending on the population and year, can range from the 40s to the 80s. You can read about vaccine effectiveness in the CDC pink book, Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases.
Other strategies for preventing infectious diseases depend on the great diversity of host/pathogen interactions. A few things are generally useful, and often effective. Wash your hands, wear a condom, and stay home when you have a fever. There is no good data on the general advice to stay home when you have a fever, but quarantine is effective for specific illnesses, especially in concert with vaccination and other preventative measures (see the CDC pink book). Limiting the isolation and sedentary behavior associated with staying home to cases where there is a fever has biological plausibility and minimizes the negative immune and other health effects of those behaviors (see Cecil Medicine, Chapter 288).
Along with vaccines, each of the strategies mentioned in the previous paragraph helps protect the individual who uses them as well as other people. So they are good for you and the people around you. You can practice all of them. I'm confused, but not surprised, when the effectiveness of some other strategy is used as an argument against the use of any of the others. You can compare the measured preventative efficacy and effectiveness of each strategy, and come to the conclusion that vaccines generally give the best results (both on an individual and population level), but I'm not sure why, for example, you would decide not to wash your hands because you got a particular vaccine, or not to get vaccinated because you washed your hands.
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$\begingroup$ Can you expand on people who can't be vaccinated? You mention them in the last paragraph and I don't want to just add another very similar answer. Though the amounts of people who can't get vaccinated for medical reasons isn't great (roughly a 1000 children a year in the US states I checked) that's still some and probably doesn't cover children who just have delayed vaccinations for health reasons which can also be a problem. $\endgroup$ – DRF Jul 18 '18 at 16:45
$\begingroup$ @DRF that's a reasonable answer in itself. Feel free to add it. You start by looking at the JAMA article I linked (it's on PMC, so no paywall). Table 1 includes numbers on non-medical exemptions. If you subtract unvaccinated cases from unvaccinated with non-medical exemptions, you'll get the number of cases in individuals who couldn't get vaccinated (prior to getting measles). It wouldn't be a bad idea to include a little bit on what level of vaccination coverage is required to have herd immunity. $\endgroup$ – De Novo Jul 18 '18 at 16:52
$\begingroup$ @DRF sorry, CAN start, or COULD start. You're free to answer however you like; I just wanted to give you some helpful data :) $\endgroup$ – De Novo Jul 18 '18 at 18:13
$\begingroup$ @DennisWilliamson it's a different denominator. For pertussis, infants get severe illness much more frequently. Half of all infants with pertussis need to be hospitalized, but very few otherwise healthy adults. For measles, 25% of everyone (all cases) ends up needing hospitalization. $\endgroup$ – De Novo Jul 18 '18 at 23:08
$\begingroup$ +1 for mentioning herd immunity $\endgroup$ – JollyJoker Jul 19 '18 at 7:46
Something which may help is a model. There is a standard model based on a key number called R₀, the basic reproductive number. This is a highly boiled up number which indicates how many uninfected people will be infected by a single infected individual. Trivially, if R₀>1, the disease will spread through society, and if R₀<1, it will vanish because each infected generation infect fewer new people each generation. R₀ is basically derived from the number of contacts a person can make before showing enough symptoms to sequester them at home, times the chance of any interaction transmitting the infection. The longer the incubation period and the more infectious the disease, the higher R₀ is.
It's a massively massively boiled up model. You can look to science for more accurate models which account for all sorts of features. However, it is a good enough model to demonstrate a concept called herd immunity. Herd immunity decreases the odds of a contact with an infected person spreading the disease. After all, a vaccinated individual is far more likely to go unaffected. This is typically modeled with an extra factor S, such that the reproductive rate of the disease is R₀S. If q is the vaccinated portion of the society, then (1-q) is the number of succeptable people, so the reproductive rate is R₀(1-q).
Now remember, if the reproducitve rate is greater than 1, the disease flourishes. If it's less than 1, it dies off. Having a strong vaccinated base has been shown to be a very effective way of keeping that reproductive rate down.
Consider, as an example, Measles. Measles is considered to be an excellent disease for demonstrating herd immunity. Its R₀ is somewhere between 12-18, meaning each infected person is likely to infect 12-18 people before getting quarantined. If a populus is 95% vaccinated, then the reproductive rate drops to R₀*(1-.95), which is somewhere between .6 and .9. This means the disease will die out if the population is that vaccinated.
Again, modeling based on the basic reproductive number is considered to be a gross tool, but it is effective at demonstrating the risks associated with insufficient vaccinations. If there is a large enough unvaccinated pool to let the disease flourish, everyone is exposed to the disease every day as it runs rampant in the society. Vaccines are awesome, but they are not magic bullets. You can still get diseases after being vaccinated, it's just much more rare (the term to look up is Vaccine Efficacy). The more you're around a disease, the more likely it is that you just get unlucky. Even a vaccinated person benefits from a reproductive rate less than 1, so that the disease never flourishes in the first place. The less effective a vaccine is, the more one is dependent on a high rate of immunization to drive the reproductive rate down below 1.
Also, another strong argument for vaccination is the presence of immunocompromized individuals. Many individuals cannot receive vaccinations for one medical reason or another. For instance, immunizing someone with HIV is a tricky business which I would refer one to a doctor for more information. Those on transplant lists may be advised against receiving vaccinations. These individuals are entirely dependent on the so-called herd immunity effect to insulate them from these diseases. As the reproductive rate for a disease gets closer or above one, it becomes hard to protect these individuals.
Think of every human being as being a walking petri-dish, full of growth medium. When you grow a large colony of micro-organisms, you are allowing that population to experience a larger number of mutations. Every mutation is one more potentional strain that can beat the defenses of our immune systems, even those provided by vaccines. So, if you don't get vaccinated, you are potentially providing safe harbor to the micro-biological parent of the next vaccine-resistant/anti-biotic-resistant super-flu.
This same principle is why large super farms are so dangerous: huge numbers of animals provide more opportunities for micro-organisms to experience mutations that allow them to infect more resistant hosts. The fewer hosts that a micro-organism can infect, the lower the number of opportunities for mutation.
This is one facet of the issue, among those others have mentioned.
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Vancouver could soon be home to Canada’s Best Restroom
By Lindsay William-Ross, Vancouver Is Awesome | July 16, 2019
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When it comes to bathrooms, not all cans are created equal. Sure, when nature calls, our needs are pretty basic. But our wants, well, those can turn a regular ol’ john into a restroom that’s damn near a work of art. That’s where the annual Canada’s Best Restroom competition comes in.
Bravely exploring the nation in search of the sweetest of facilities, the Cintas company puts together this annual recognition of the finest places to drop the kids off at the pool coast to coast. After taking submissions from everyday users, Canada’s Best Restroom has now revealed the final, oh-so-very-flush-worthy, five, and the list includes two loos right here in Vancouver.
Both Bauhaus restaurant in Gastown and Laurence and Chico Cafe in the West End are on the list, and your votes can help determine the dearest of johns.
Here’s the scoop on Bauhaus’ bathrooms: “Bauhaus Restaurant was inspired by the early 20th-century design movement ‘Bauhaus’ translated to ‘construction house’ which was famous for its unique approach to architecture and design where every form has a function. The restaurant’s Berlin street art-inspired washrooms were commissioned by Naza del Rosal Ortiz (Almería) and Juan Rico (Salamanca/Madrid) are Olliemoonsta, an art duo from Spain with a background in Fine Arts and Graphic Design. The washrooms feature quotes from Walter Gropius, the ‘Bauhaus’ School founder and original graphic designs and graffiti in celebration of the Bauhaus design movement.”
And meanwhile, over at Laurence and Chico: “The Laurence and Chico Café was designed by Laurence Li and Chico Wang, complete with whimsical wallpapers, tiles and furnishings replicating their signature prints. You can Instagram every corner of the café, including the washrooms, which offer customers an escape from reality. One of the washrooms is rubber ducky themed where if you look up, you’ll see the ceiling adorned with them. Another is a floral-themed washroom featuring paper mâché flowers.”
The other finalists are the Beaverhill Shell in Lac la Biche, AB; Cluny Bistro in Toronto; and Cosmos Cafe in Quebec City.
Last year, Vancouver’s Anh & Chi restaurant was among the finalists.
The public voting period opened up July 15, and wraps up on August 16, 2019.
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Outer retinal hyperreflective deposits (ORYD): a new OCT feature in naïve diabetic macular oedema after PPV with ILM peeling
Matias Iglicki1,
Anat Loewenstein2,
Adiel Barak2,
Shulamit Schwartz2,
Dinah Zur2
1Ophthalmology Department, Private Retina Service, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2Ophthalmology Division, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Correspondence to Dr Matias Iglicki, Private Retina Service, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires 1414, Argentina; matiasiglicki{at}gmail.com
Aims We aimed to investigate a novel optical coherence tomography (OCT) finding of outer retinal hyperreflective deposits (ORYDs) in patients with naïve diabetic macular oedema (DMO) seen after small gauge pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) with internal limiting membrane (ILM) peeling. Furthermore, we evaluated the predictive value of ORYD for visual outcome over 24 months follow-up.
Methods Retrospective cohort study including 111 eyes from 111 patients with naïve DMO treated by PPV and ILM peeling with a follow-up of 24 months. OCT scans were analysed for the presence of ORYD 1 week and 1, 6, 12, 18 and 24 months after surgery. Change in baseline best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) and central subfoveal thickness (CST) after surgery were measured over the follow-up period. Presence of ORYD was correlated with baseline characteristics and BCVA after 24 months.
Results Hundred and eleven eyes from 111 patients were included (mean age 67.5±14.8 years). ORYD was identified in the outer plexiform layer as hyperreflective deposits in 92 patients (82.8%) 7 days after surgery but it was not present before surgery. There was a significant reduction in the presence of ORYD. After 24 months ORYD disappeared in all cases (p<0.001).
Conclusions We describe a novel OCT feature of ORYD present in the early postoperative phase in the majority of patients after PPV with ILM peeling for naïve DMO, disappearing over the postoperative course. These deposits might be a result of sudden desinflammation and could shed new light on the process of DMO resolution after operative intervention.
treatment surgery
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bjophthalmol-2019-314523
Contributors MI and DZ contributed to the planning, conduction and reporting of the study. AL, AB and SS contributed to the conduction and reporting of the study.
Patient consent for publication Not required.
Ethics approval Individual Institutional review boards (IRBs) at the participating institutes.
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MICHAEL SCHENKER FEST: Lyric Video For New Song 'Behind The Smile'
Legendary German guitarist Michael Schenker's MICHAEL SCHENKER FEST project has just released its second studio album, "Revelation", through Nuclear Blast. The disc was produced by Michael Schenker and Michael Voss and was recorded and mixed by Voss at Kidpool Studio Greven & Kidwood Studio in Münstertal, Germany between December 2018 and March 2019.
The official lyric video for the disc's latest single, "Behind The Smile", can be seen below.
"Revelation" track listing (CD-digipak, 2-LP, digital)
01. Rock Steady
02. Under A Blood Red Sky
03. Silent Again
04. Sleeping With The Light On
05. The Beast In The Shadows
06. Behind The Smile
07. Crazy Daze
08. Lead You Astray
09. We Are The Voice
10. Headed For The Sun
11. Old Man
12. Still In The Fight
13. Ascension
14. Armed And Ready (live)
15. Bad Boys (live)
16. Rock Bottom (live)
"Michael Voss is a fantastic musician with great input as a co-producer," Schenker said. "Our chemistry is something else. We have a way of working together that is extremely creative."
The follow-up to 2018's "Resurrection", "Revelation" was mastered by Christoph "Doc" Stickel for CS Mastering in Vienna, Austria. Additional recordings were completed as follows: Simon Phillips's drums were recorded by Jason Mariani at Brotherynstudios in Ojai, California. Bodo Schopf's drums recorded by Rolf Munkes at Empire Studios in Bensheim, Germany. Graham Bonnet's and Robin McAuley's vocals were recorded by Jimmy Waldo at Where's That Track Studio in Los Angeles, California.
"Based on the fun that we had recording 'Resurrection', the success of the album and the surrounding tours we undertook that were just fantastic, I was deeply inspired to make a start on writing new songs for a new MICHAEL SCHENKER FEST album," said Schenker. "It is even a step up from 'Resurrection', with amazing input from all singers and all musicians. I could not ask for a better result. The songs are blazing, snappy, energetic, melodic and with drummers like Simon Philips and Bodo Shopf, we got amazing results. This time we even managed to record three great mid-tempo songs with all singers involved, singing their hearts out."
Regarding the "Revelation" title, Schenker said: "The album title and cover concept expresses things that have happened in my past as well as what is still happening at the present time. It's about passion and purity versus greed and corruption. There is much to say. It's about time I let people know about some of this."
Besides the four vocalists — Gary Barden, Graham Bonnet, Robin McAuley and Doogie White — Schenker also reveals a guest singer on one track. "An incredible thing happened; we had this song that was ready to be worked on and Michael Voss suggested Ronnie Romero from Ritchie Blackmore's RAINBOW, who Voss had worked with in the past, to sing on this song as a guest," Michael said. "What came out of it was classic. Amazing vocals with blazing music that absolutely rocks!"
He continued: "We are ready to present this unique album to the world and I am very much looking forward to getting this album out there. Our label Nuclear Blast is totally happy with this record and I was especially happy getting a message from Markus Staiger, the founder of Nuclear Blast, saying how much he loves this album."
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New Decora books are a great hit.
May 1, 2013 /in Uncategorized /by Paul Pollard-Fraser
I have just received my new Decora sample books and today started to show them to my customers.
The first customer that I showed the FABRICBOX range of roller blinds to was very impressed with the quality of the fabrics.
She said “I am an interior designer and often use fabrics from the likes of Harlequin and Sanderson. The designs that are available in the Fabricbox range very much complement these designer fabrics . I will be using more blinds from the Fabricbox range in the future. The designs are very modern and are a fraction of the price of drapes and curtains.”
Paul Pollard-Fraser, owner of Deva blinds Ltd said “I was very pleased with the comments that I got about the new Fabricbox range of roller blinds from Decora. I always like to judge the different sample books from the reaction of my customers. In the first day I was lucky enough to show them to a customer that knew a lot about fabrics. She showed me a lot of designer fabrics that were very similar to the range offered in the Fabricbox range. She ordered 5 roller blinds for a Manor House that she was furnishing. I think that Decora has got it right again and that this book will be a great success.”
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Tags: blinds, Manor House, New Decora, roller
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The S League don't know what League Cup
February 28, 2010 by dk·11 Comments
I was channel surfing last friday evening (Yes, I do watch TV every once in a while) when I found out that they were showing some live telecast of the S League Cup match between Tampines Rovers and Woodlands Wellington. Since there is nothing to watch on other channel, I decided to stay on that channel for a while to check out how our S League is doing. I must say it is quite bad.
I’m not a soccer fan. I don’t usually watch the English Premier League like my friends. But I do watch the matches once in a while when I’m in pub or coffeeshop. And like most people of my age, I do watch the Malaysia Cup when Singapore back in the early 90s. Those were the best days of Singapore soccer. Everyone knew who is Fandi Ahmad, Malek Awab, V. Sundramoorthy, Abbas Saad, Nazri Nasir, Jang Jung, Steven Tan etc etc. I can still remember the cheer I heard from my house whenever the Lions scored. It is louder than the cheers I heard from the English Premier League. Everyone is watching the matches, be it live at the stadium or TV.
But things are completely different now. If I didn’t blog about this, I guess most of you won’t know that there is a League Cup going on now. And I can bet most of you can’t name any players currently in the S League. In fact, I guess most of you can’t name all the teams. Singaporeans aren’t watching S League anymore. When it comes to Soccer, Singapore becomes a British colony like what what we used to be back in the 1800s. We support English clubs like Liverpool, Manchester United, Arsenal more than we support local Football Club. And I can totally understand why just by watching the League Cup for a couple of minutes. The S League is in a pathetic state.
I was wondering. What are the 22 men doing in the field? Are they there to put the ball in the opponent’s goal and prevent their opponent from putting the ball into their goal? Or are they in the field for the sake of being there? I can’t help but feel that it’s the latter. I feel like they are there because it’s their job. There is no passion. No eagerness to create opportunities to score a goal. I think watching the school kids play soccer is more exciting than watching the S League.
But the whole entire S League’s pathetic state is not just because of the Football Clubs. There is no support for the teams. The match was being played in a small stadium. And even so, the stadium is still very empty. Luckily there are more spectators than players in the stadium. But I would credit that to Singapore Pools. If there is no betting, I don’t know, maybe there might be more players than spectators. Who watches S League nowadays other than the betters?
And the live telecast was pretty badly done. OK, it’s good that Channel 5 decides to support the S League by showing live telecast of selected matches. But the commentary was horrible. I almost fell asleep watching the commentary. I can’t help but wonder if the commenter are there because it’s his job just like the players. And yes, I know that is the League Cup and there must be a winner for the night. He keep repeating that. Or maybe perhaps there is nothing he could say. Afterall, it’s not like the English Premier League where there are action happening every seconds.
The cameraman is also doing a bad job. I was watching the highlights of the first half when I notice that the cameraman have difficulties chasing the ball. There are several times when the player tries to shoot at the goal or do a fast pass and the camera loses sight of the ball for a while. And I wonder how many cameras are there in the Stadium. Most of the time, we are watching from one camera. There is no close up of the action or views from other angle. I don’t even see the face of the players.
That is how pathetic state the whole S League, together with the spectators, commenters and cameraman, is. Luckily for me, I managed to stay awake to switch channel. Well, I rather watch the chinese drama which tell us that gambling is bad. Perhaps they should do one on soccer too.
There is a saying that you can easily gather 11 men from any neighborhood soccer field, pit them against the S League all star team and still win. I think it would be a great challenge. I wonder if the folks at S League would accept this. We can do this friendly match during the off season. I’m sure it would be able to fill the entire National Stadium (if they still haven’t found enough money to tear it down).
(Mas) Selamat two year toilet break anniversary
February 27, 2010 by dk·0 Comments
Two year ago, at this timing, Mas Selamat Kastari, leader of the Jemaah Islamiyah network, escaped from the Whitley Road Detention Centre. It was the largest manhunt in Singapore involving the police and army.
15 months later, he was re-captured in Johor, Malaysia. It was reported that Mas Selamat swam across the Straits of Johor using an ‘improvised flotation device’ soon after his escape. Up till now, it still amazed me that he is able to swim across the Straits when the security has been heighten.
Mas Selamat is currently detained by the Malaysian authorities. No news on whether will he be send back to Singapore.
“What to do, it’s happened.”
Is it Goreng Pisang or Pisang Goreng?
February 27, 2010 by dk·1 Comment
Saw this interesting blog entry by Rinaz. How do you say Banana Fritters in Malay?
Is it Goreng Pisang or Pisang Goreng? Watch the video for the answer.
Interesting. She has a point. Mee Goreng, Nasi Goreng, Ayam Goreng and Kway Teow Goreng all have the word Goreng behind. Which makes me wonder, who started calling it Goreng Pisang first? Hmmm….. I got this feeling that it’s direct translation from Mandarin.
Dee Kay Dot As Gee Giveaway: Egg Story Digital Arts School Seminar Series TWO Tickets worth $480
Visited Egg Story Digital Arts School recently and had a sneak peek at their facilities. Pretty impressed with their student’s work. The school also invest heavily on equipments. They have 1 of those 3D TV which does not require the 3D glasses. (Which is quite expensive) Seen some of the 3D works done by them. Pretty good.
Egg Story Digital Arts School is having a 3 days Seminar next week which takes a closer look at Stereoscopic 3D technology. Well-known speakers such as Peter Hillman from Weta Digital who worked on Avatar and Jim Heji from Electronic Arts will be present.
The Seminar also has AK Madhavan from Crest Communications expand on the business of 3D animation, Enrique Criado expand on the art of stereographic cinematography, perception and creativity while John Dillon (of Powerpuff girls and Astro boy fame) explain how to bring characters to life in 3D. Clyde De Souza and Jimmy Wong, entrepreneurs and experts in their respective fields, complete the line-up.
The three full-day seminar will be followed by Q&A sessions and opportunity to network. This is the perfect platform for people within the industry, and those aspiring for a career in animation and new media to come together.
Egg Story Digital Arts School is kind enough to offer me 1 ticket for the 3 day seminar to give out. The usual price of the ticket is $480.00 (50% discount for Singaporeans/PRs)
Event: Egg Story Digital Arts School Seminar Series TWO
Date: 3 to 5 March 2010
Time: 10am to 4pm (daily)
Venue: Red Dot Traffic Museum, Gallery 1 and 2
Just drop me an email me with the title: “Dee Kay Dot As Gee Giveaway: Egg Story Digital Arts School Seminar Series TWO”. Closing date is this coming Sunday, 28 Feb 2010, 2359. I will randomly select the winner via the usual method. Refer to the rules for more details.
Or if you don’t want to try your luck on the giveaway, you can always buy the tickets here.
Thanks to Egg Story Digital Arts School for making this giveaway possible.
Update: Closed
Happy 2nd Birthday Dee Kay Dot As Gee
I’ve been blogging on this domain for 2 year already. Woohoo!
Happy 2nd Birthday Dee Kay Dot As Gee! Wishing you many more good blogging years to come. Cheers!
How to skip the trailers on an original DVD?
Saw this interesting chart on facebook about why people pirate DVD.
I must say that it brought up an interesting and valid point. It’s like DRM music. Why punish the paying customers?
But actually, do you know that you can skip all these “unskipable” warning message and trailers? I heard it on the Cnet podcast recently. When the trailers are playing, press STOP, STOP then PLAY on the DVD player. That should skip those crap and go straight to the menu. It should work for all DVD players. I haven’t got the chance to try it out yet. Let me know if it works.
But then, it still doesn’t give the DVD makers the excuse to put all those crap on the DVD. How many people actually knows about how to skip them? Not many, I would say. What’s the point of putting all those anti-piracy advertisements and message when the person had already paid for the DVD? Those message should be on the pirated DVD instead.
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Data-led design: Using visitor behaviour to inform touchscreen content
Digital Media,
#FutureFeatures: Gus Harrower
By Adam Coulson
Digital Product Manager
As summer turns to autumn we’re busy preparing for the opening of the new ancient Egypt and East Asia galleries at the National Museum of Scotland in spring 2019.
In the Digital Media team we’ve been scoping, story-boarding, commissioning and writing lots of new content which will feature on touchscreens in the galleries. To help us we took a deep dive into the behaviour of our current visitors to understand how we can create the most appealing and interesting stories.
Building on a recent blog post from the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa which outlined their insights into the topic, we wanted to share our findings to help others who are producing similar in-gallery content.
Through discussion with museums colleagues it became clear that there is no single term to describe the digital touchscreens in museums and galleries. Various people inside and outside of the museum refer to them as ‘digital exhibition labels’, ‘screens on gallery’, ‘touchscreens’, or’digital labels’ (which is the preferred National Museums Scotland terminology).
These names were new to me when I arrived here at the museum, so for clarity, all these phrases simply refer to the interactive touchscreens positioned by objects in a museum. They provide a way for visitors to explore information about the objects and stories on display, and visitor feedback tells us they’re popular as they help provide a blend of interpretation and allow visitors to discover more at their own pace.
Dolly the Sheep watches over a digital label in the Explore gallery.
What we looked at
Our research focused on numbers. Access to analytics data meant we could look at the number of people tapping each screen. This allowed us to interrogate which labels, chapters and content were most popular, and draw some insights which could be applied to the new content.
It took a bit of trawling through the data – we have over 50 labels running through the same content management system (CMS) with data available for each at various levels of complexity – but we were able to spot patterns in behaviour and some some surprising results.
We also tested the findings with our learning enablers and visitor experience staff to get a ‘real world’ view on the numbers, as there were some curious outliers with incredibly high view counts which were due to activity driving footfall like schools trails.
The technical bit
Our digital labels run on a customised Umbraco CMS which was built for a previous gallery project in 2016.
Each digital label tracks key interactions including taps on each chapter, video plays, screen timeouts and taps on the ‘attract’ screen (which displays when the label is not in use). Each digital label sends a daily log file of this data to our server which can then be accessed by the CMS.
In a visual sense, the CMS provides a framework to ensure a standard content format across all digital labels, meaning the layouts and chapter structure is consistent.
View count data is sent daily from each label to the server, which is accessed via an Umbraco CMS.
Before looking into the data, we had some assumptions which we wanted to test, such as:
If visitors were offered a choice between static (images and copy) and motion-led content (video or animation), they would choose motion;
The most popular museum objects would drive the most engagement with the labels close by;
Visitors would naturally find the most ‘interesting’ stories regardless of structure.
A few caveats
We had access to data in some galleries, but not the entire museum
Analytics data was only being tracked on the labels which ran through our existing Umbraco CMS setup, so this covered around five galleries.
The data covered a limited timeframe
The complexity of extracting raw data from the CMS in csv files (it’s not as easy as Google Analytics) meant the research only covered the relatively quiet period between September and October 2017. For a more robust analysis we intend to re-run the numbers once we have a full year’s data.
Context is key
For the purpose of our research, we focused on correlations between content types, titles, and the location and positioning of the labels.
However, the single biggest factor affecting engagement levels is very much a non-digital factor – is the object or gallery popular with visitors or not? Every object is unique, so while trying to draw comparisons in visitor behaviour there are no like-for-like comparisons when it comes to objects in the museum.
Analytics data on the CMS shows us which labels and chapters receive the most views.
What works, and what doesn’t?
1. Location and positioning is key
We found that location was the single biggest factor in influencing label views. The data confirmed that objects (and therefore digital labels) closest to the most common museum entry points saw the highest footfall, and therefore label engagement. This contrasted to our assumption that labels next to the most popular objects would see more views.
The orientation of the label screen also played a significant role. The labels which were angled away from the visitor’s eyeline as they stood in front of an object had fewer views.
The direction of the digital label also played a part in how visitors interacted. We found that labels facing visitors as they entered a gallery would benefit from more views, whereas those angled away from oncoming footfall were more easily missed.
The same logic applied to the rest of the visitor journey through the museum, so digital labels on the ground floor would see more engagement than the first floor, and the first floor more than the second floor etc. So, contrary to our assumption, visitor flow had a greater influence on label popularity than the objects or content on the labels themselves. The data allowed us to visually map out common visitor routes, which made for interesting reading.
[Edit: This is backed up by Amos Mann, Digital Producer at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa who presented a number of insights on the topic including “the single greatest influence on the reach (conversion rate) of a fixed-location digital product is its spatial positioning“.]
Mapping label popularity revealed some common visitor journeys.
2. Content order is more important than content type
We also assumed that the content we considered to be interesting would be found and enjoyed by visitors, but the data dispelled this myth.
Visitor behaviour was linear as they progressed through chapter screens, regardless of which content types were offered to them. This was a key lesson in how we are story-boarding the new digital label content.
Each label presents a menu of chapters. We wrongly assumed that visitors would be attracted more to dynamic content (video, animation), but we found they viewed chapters in order left to right.
3. Visitors respond to content which is explicitly related to the object in their eyeline
Visitors more commonly tapped into chapters which used an image of the object in front of them.
Telling stories about the history and cultural significance of an object is great, but if you don’t make an explicit visual connection on the top screen, visitors may not make the quick connection that the digital label is related to what they’re looking at, and move on.
Using the top screen to make a visual connection to the objects on display is essential.
4. Less is more
Just because you have unlimited space doesn’t mean you should fill it! Curators who are pressured to cut down their copy for physical object labels will understandably jump at the chance to publish more content on a digital screen if given the chance.
However, the data told us that visitors were rarely scrolling beyond the initial chapters presented on the menu screen. Many labels had four or five chapters, but visitors mostly didn’t get beyond three.
Many labels had four or five chapters, but most visitors didn’t get past the third as the screen design ‘hid’ them and required scrolling. The fourth chapter in this label (Ultramarathon runner) received fewer views due to this layout issue.
What does this mean for the new galleries?
It means we’re much more informed about how we can create content for the new galleries, and make better decisions about how we format and present content to give it the best chance of being seen by more visitors.
We’re planning the new content with these principles in mind:
Ensure label hardware is positioned and oriented with visitor flow in mind.
Order chapters to highlight the richest content first (eg, if you’re delivering detailed graphic animation, make sure it’s likely to be seen).
Make labels as explicit as possible – make a visual connection between the object and the label content (particularly the first chapter).
Think ‘less is more’. Making visitors work hard to find content in a deep structure is a bad idea. A clear top-line chapter structure is much easier to navigate.
We’re looking forward to showing off the new stories early next year, so come and see us in spring 2019 and let us know what what you think.
Do you have any tips or best practice? Share them in the comments below.
How your behaviour has changed the way we make digital exhibition labels, Karyn Brice, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa (2018)
National Digital Forum, Amos Mann, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa (2017)
Digital Exhibit Labels: Balancing Opportunities and Challenges (includes an excellent reading list of further resources), Sarah Walsh Angus (2015)
- Posted 30th August 2018
Ian Parker Heath
Can’t make out the details, but is there any data from Islamic galleries/displays at all?
Hi Ian, thanks for your comment. There are no digital labels in our World Cultures galleries so we don’t have that data at this point. However we’re working on a new set of digital labels in our Artistic Legacies gallery as part of the redevelopment project opening spring 2019, so there will be data available in 2019. – Adam
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Need Help Finding The Game? Here’s a Great Resource
By Casey Pearce on 9/6/18 8:30 AM
For some of us, the “most wonderful time of the year” arrives in early September rather than late December. Football season gives me plenty of reasons to bury myself in my couch at least six days or nights a week…or at least as many as my wife will let me!
With so many networks carrying games, it can sometimes be challenging to find the one you’re looking for. Last fall, I discovered a great resource that helps me quickly find what teams are playing on what channel, a website called 506sports.com. The site lists the time, network and in most cases the announcers for every FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision) game each week. If the game is available through streaming only, it also provides that information. You can find this week’s college lineup by clicking here.
While most college game are broadcast nationally, pro football is a little different. NFL games on Sundays air regionally. If you live in Michigan, your local affiliates will give you the Lions each week, and if you’re in South Florida, you know you’re getting the Dolphins whenever they’re playing. When your area doesn’t have a team affiliated with its region – places like Arkansas or many of the Midwest states – or your local team isn’t playing, a network executive chooses the game they believe is most appealing to their viewership.
Each Wednesday during the season, 506sports.com publishes a map that shows what games each network is airing in each market area that week. Click here to view a coverage map for this weekend’s NFL games.
Wondering how the NFL determines which networks carry which games? For national broadcasts, Fox has the Thursday night game, NBC carries Football Night In America on Sunday night and ESPN broadcasts Monday Night Football. On Sundays, CBS and Fox carry regional games at noon and 3 p.m. Central. There are a few exceptions, but most often, CBS carries games between two AFC teams and Fox has the NFC matchups. During an interdivision game – one that pits an AFC team against an NFC team – the network is determined by the road team’s affiliation. For example, if the Cowboys (NFC) are at home against the Titans (AFC), CBS affiliates would have the game because the AFC team is the road team. If the Steelers were hosting the Saints it would be on a Fox affiliate because the road team is an NFC one.
Hopefully this information helps you find and enjoy your favorite teams this weekend. Happy New Year, football fans!
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Nescafe Basement Episode 2 – Rejoicing Originals
By Aayan Arif : Nescafe Basement purely represents Pakistan’s raw music talent and the way Zulfiqar Jabbar Khan a.k.a Xulfi manages them and produces some exceptional music is just flawless. Episode 1 featured two classic songs and they were brilliantly performed by the artists. Shahmir Quidwai gave life to Awaz’s hit song Jadoo Ka Chiragh and Zeeshan Ali paid tribute to the great Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan with Tere Jiya Hor Disda in an amazing passion.
The much awaited episode 2 has somehow managed to live up to the hype created by episode 1. The episode features two songs; “Kameez Teri Kali” (originally sung by the legendary Attaullah Khan) sung by Mehek Ali and an original track “Tu Mera Nahin” by Rizwan Anwar.
Overall music arrangement of Kameez Teri Kali is amazing. The bass, lead guitar progressions, drums, flute, violin are very well arranged. An instrumental portion in the middle of the song where the traditional Dhol is used is a treat for the ears. What the song really lacks is the vocal energy. There’s no doubt in the talent of Mehek Ali, but the power that the song demands is not present. It could have been much better. Nonetheless, this is a nice attempt and Mehek has the potential to create an identity of her own as a singer.
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Tu Mera Nahin, wow this guy’s got loads of talent. Rizwan Anwar has all the elements of a heartthrob singer. He is a performer. His voice seems quite similar to Abbas Ali Khan’s but still he has a lot to prove as a singer. He enjoyed every second of the song and this shows the traits of a good artist. Slow music suits to the sore situation of the song. Inclusion of the violins has complimented the song quite well. Tabla and Flutes in the song made an amazing blend of music which land straight in the hearts. Some more stanzas or antras in the song would have taken this song to another level. But this song is worth listening. First 2 episodes are highly appreciated by the audience so far. Episode 2 has finished on a high and we are anxiously waiting for the next episodes to see what Nescafe Basement has in store for us. Sit back and Relax with a cup of coffee.
We, Taazi wish them all the best and many congratulations on the success of first 2 episodes.
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Nebraska Cancels William Ayers
by David Boles.In Urban Semiotic.33 Comments on Nebraska Cancels William Ayers
In a strange move that I unfortunately recognize, but will never condone, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln played a coward’s hand by going back on their word and canceling a speech by William Ayers.
William Ayers — co-founder of the Weathermen Underground — is also a convenient bogeyman used by the Republican party to taint Barack Obama’s presidential campaign as friendly to terrorists.
William Ayers — long before the Palin/McCain campaign branded him a “domestic terrorist” for political gain — was scheduled to speak at UNL:
Ayers, a founder of a radical group that bombed public buildings in protest of the Vietnam War, is scheduled to be a keynote speaker Nov. 15 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Education and Human Sciences’ student research conference. The conference is part of a two-day celebration honoring the college’s 100th anniversary. Ayers, a distinguished education professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, was invited to UNL to share his expertise on topics like social justice and urban educational reform, said Marjorie Kostelnik, dean of the College of Education and Human Sciences…. Said Regent Charles Wilson of Lincoln: “It was bad judgment to invite someone who has such a despicable history to participate in an event which is supposed to be a celebration. Anybody who thought this wouldn’t come up is probably naive…. Kostelnik defended the choice, saying Ayers was selected by a faculty committee in the spring, long before his ties to Sen. Barack Obama became a focus of the presidential campaign. At the time, Kostelnik said, no faculty member objected to the decision. But since then, she said, the college has made clear to Ayers his remarks must focus entirely on academics.
The ensuing “feigned rage” at UNL for inviting Ayers to speak on campus immediately pierces the naive heart of Midwestern politics and the namesake land grant university: Money speaks louder than quiet principle, and UNL gave up their intellectual freedom for the almighty dollar by canceling Ayers and burying free speech by fearing the loss of its biggest donors.
When a university caves in to threats from donors uninterested in listening to unpopular ideas — that is just as “terroristic” as William Ayers’ Weather Underground days — except the haunting effect of that intellectual betrayal is more incendiary and longer lasting than an ordinary bomb.
Witness the fear and loathing of the Outside Other at UNL:
Phone calls and e-mails flooded the offices of NU President J.B. Milliken, UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman, Kostelnik and the NU Foundation. Some donors threatened to withhold financial support to the university unless Ayers was disinvited. One such donor: the Gilbert M. and Martha H. Hitchcock Foundation in Omaha, which has provided millions to NU in the past 40 years. And statements from political leaders urging UNL to rethink its decision poured in. “This is an embarrassment to the University of Nebraska and the State of Nebraska,” Gov. Dave Heineman said. “Bill Ayers is a well-known radical who should never have been invited to the University of Nebraska.” Rep. Lee Terry, a Republican, and Sen. Ben Nelson, a Democrat, also issued statements condemning Ayers’ selection. State Auditor Mike Foley also expressed concern, saying early Friday he’d sent Kostelnik a records request seeking details on the funding of the student research conference. Kostelnik had said Ayers’ appearance was to be privately funded.
Here’s why UNL’s decision to cancel Ayers is cowardly for an institution of higher learning.
UNL is teaching its students that ideas are just as frightening as actions. We have a moral obligation to listen to each other — and if Columbia University can listen to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — then UNL can certainly listen to their invited guest, Bill Ayers.
UNL is teaching that only the past matters. Ongoing deeds are moot. There is no such thing as moral or academic redemption. You are only your history. Your future does not matter. William Ayers is presently a distinguished member of the faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago — yet he is not good enough to speak at UNL? Preposterous!
UNL is teaching students that money matters more than intellectual freedom. If big donors threaten the university, it is the moral duty of the university to refuse to bend to the threat of the almighty dollar and to soldier on into the future without braying financial support from people that obviously do not understand the greater mission of a university education.
Even the appearance of allowing money to cancel an educational opportunity diminishes the university in total and hollows out the very core of a university education: The responsibility to teach each student how to hold equal, but opposite ideas in their heads at the same time and find value in each — even if you don’t agree with either.
UNL has done a shameful thing by canceling William Ayers — and UNL has tarnished the academic sanctity of every diploma they have ever provided to a graduate.
My diploma is yellowing under the callow horror of the cowardly betrayal of my undergraduate university — UNL failed me, and they failed you, too — by failing to foster the very academic freedom it was founded upon, and then vested, to protect and honor.
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I read this with interest, David. In reading the news link you provide it seems UNL was also worried about campus security. They didn’t want a riot. Isn’t that important to consider?
David W. Boles says:
That’s a fair comment, Anne, but I don’t buy the “campus security” excuse. It’s too cute and too convenient by half. Money decided to cancel Ayers, not a gun in a gym bag.
If, however, verifiable threats were made against the Ayers engagement, then UNL had the dire responsibility to protect the free speech and to lock down the campus and continue the event.
If the good guys don’t have better weapons and smarter plans than the small terrorists afraid of hearing someone speak — then there is no hope against the bully in the schoolyard because, “I don’t like what I think you’re going to say, so I’m going to shoot you” wins every time without firing a shot.
If threats of violence were made, then that’s when UNL should’ve dug in and refused to be shouted down. I’m certain if a similar threat were made against the university football team on gameday, the Huskers would still be playing their game in Memorial Stadium.
So the question now becomes larger and more dangerous in light of this cancellation: “What sort of life do we want to have and how are we going to get it?”
Do we have a moral duty to listen to each other? Or are only some viewpoints worth expressing and protecting on a university campus?
I guess I can see how the threat of violence is an easy out, David. Isn’t Nebraska a really conservative state? Maybe that’s why. They don’t like Obama and canceling Ayers is one way to make a statement?
That’s an interesting thought, Anne. If Barack Obama were not running for president, William Ayers would be speaking at UNL. Nobody would know or care.
So yes, in the essence of the undertow, the cancellation is racist in the national condition.
msdemmie says:
Just goes to show you how much money talks – every time I hear of this kind of thing happening it sickens me.
Also where do we draw the line between freedom fighter and terrorist?
I think the line moves with time …. it did with Nelson Mandela – it has done with the Northern Ireland terrorists.
How long will William Ayers have to wait for the line to move for him?
Hi Nicola! I appreciate your international, historic, take on this and you’re right! Bad people can become better people through recantation, deeds or even doing time — but even the definition of “bad” is culturally contextual. There must eventually come a time where the person you see before you today overwhelms the husk of the person in history.
The Ayers cancellation is most certainly about money, and for UNL to even try to play the “campus danger” card and invoke other national, historic, campus killings to somehow claim they are doing the superior thing in the name of safety to protect the students from those seeking to silence Ayers, is incredibly insensitive on the surface and ridiculous in the whole.
As I’ve said here before — the definition of terrorist and freedom fighter depends on which side of the bomb you’re standing…
The UNL cancellation of the Ayers speech is getting some national play in the newspapers and on television — so it will be interesting to see how it all plays out in the end.
I have suggested UNL should have an open discussion replacing the Ayers event called “Why William Ayers Should Have Spoken on Campus” and let university leaders explain, in grand detail, why it is MORE DANGEROUS to our intellectual welfare and well-being as a society to silence free discourse than to cancel it outright out of fear and loathing.
I don’t think Ayers will ever be allowed to move on by the crazed, right wing, of the Republican Party. He’s too easy a target to let go of too fast. He’s a useful wedge tool.
Gordon Davidescu says:
It is too sad that, depending on who is getting attacked, the same person would be called either a terrorist or a ‘militant’ – call them a terrorist under all locations or not.
Where is freedom of speech heading? To no longer actually have it? What a sad day.
That’s a fine point Gordon — the danger to the UNL campus wasn’t William Ayers — it was the people in Nebraska that did not want Ayers to speak. So, who is the terrorist, again? The one speaking or the one making the threat to silence the speech with a gun or by withholding financial support?
You cannot be a conditional donor to UNL or any college or university. You either support the entire mandate of the schooling or you do not. People that try to influence policy and decision making with their donations should not be welcomed by any university, for they are playing out their own personal demons on the rest of the campus and holding hostage the intellectual mandate of higher education.
How can we show them our displeasure with their decision to censor Ayers? (I will most likely read your response Wednesday night fyi – and rest assured there are no more weekday holidays until April after this one!)
I appreciate your effort to want to express your opinion directly to UNL, Gordon, and here is the online form to express your thoughts directly to President James B. Milliken:
http://nebraska.edu/public-comment-form.html
We are always anxious to read your comments on our other blogs, Gordon, and we look forward to your return to our private staff portal!
UNL is trying hard to play the “safety” angle on the Ayers visit and it’s completely sad that UNL gave in to the terroristic threats being made against the university if, in fact, those threats can be substantiated.
Following widespread public uproar over news that Ayers, an education professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, had been invited to UNL as an education conference keynote speaker, a campus “threat assessment team” began analyzing the e-mails, phone calls and blogs that were pouring into offices across the university, Perlman said.
For that reason — and not because of public condemnations of UNL’s invitation to Ayers by Gov. Dave Heineman and others or criticism from NU President J.B. Milliken and regents — UNL was forced to cancel Ayers’ speech, Perlman said.
http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2008/10/20/news/local/doc48fcb7435b9f9247284771.txt
I hope UNL turned over all the “threats” the to FBI for investigation and prosecution by the federal justice system — but I sincerely doubt the “UNL threat assessment team” was little more than a group of self-anointed administrators looking to protect their position and high paying jobs.
Not only do they blackmail the University they compound it by playing the “fear factor” card. In this country that is when you know it stinks.
I love your idea of debating that motion – I think you should return and lead it!
Hi Nicola —
It is certainly blackmail, and what bothers me about the cavalier attitude of UNL is that by calling in the cheap “security risk” card — and they think they’re off the hook!
Why not move the event to a secure place? Why not make some sort of other accommodation for Ayers? Why play the violence/terror card and then just pretend like the invite never happened?
UNL didn’t try very hard because they didn’t want to and the real threat the university is not Ayers, but the loss of big money donations. If UNL had admitted that upfront, perhaps they’d at least save part of their educational soul instead of entirely losing it in the fright hype.
I wonder how the UNL campus police, the Nebraska State Patrol and the Lincoln Police Department feel about UNL’s decision that they are unable to protect the campus? The LPD recently dealt with a KKK rally in town and there was no violence. If UNL needs a more elite task force, call in the Omaha Police Department to protect the city from Ayers — they’re used to dealing with urban violence and they’re paid a lot more than the LPD, too.
I would love to lead that discussion about why Ayers must be heard — but I’d have a surprise at the end: Bill Ayers live via satellite! He’d virtually attend his own celebration and even say a few words, too — but that would be “just as bad” as if Ayers had appeared on campus because the issue is not really security or threats — the matter is the measure of the man conservative UNL donors believe he is… and in person, or on satellite TV, or even in the newspaper… he still taints the Cornhusker State, they think, because he is living and tactile in their associated space.
It really is a cheap trick to play and as you say insulting to the good law enforcement officers who manage to effectively police the state all the year round.
One has to ask why their campus is not secure? Should staff, pupils and parents be worried that the campus is not secure?
Maybe time for some awkward questions on that front?
You really can’t go any lower, Nicola, than using the threat of violence to coerce the behavior you want, and that’s precisely what UNL did to get the Ayers event cancelled: They played the terror card.
I agree there is danger in putting that card on the table because it expressly confirms UNL is not prepared for any sort of campus shooting or emergency or other dire circumstance that cannot be predicted because they could not even provide protection for a planned event. What a shame.
The problem with the UNL decision is that it was made in fear and in a vacuum that no longer exists. Nebraska used to be a world unto itself. It was closed and colloquial and if you didn’t fit in with the authority mandate, you were cast as an outsider.
UNL and Nebraska are no longer alone in the world. They’re in the middle of the country and any and every decision they make is now instantly propagated across the world for deeper examination and conflation.
Free-thinking people no longer accept the “Because I said so” argument and they will question the intemperate mandates of authority if those decisions are seen as capricious and non-transparent.
People want openness and exploration in their real lives because that’s what we’ve come to expect on the internet. Companies, colleges and, yes, even UNL, will have to realign their thinking to be honest and forthright from now on because the rest of us can smell a lie covering a truth from a continent away.
I sincerely hope that a LOT of questions are being asked.
Me too, Nicola, but my experience tells me nothing will be answered.
Dananjay Anandan says:
What a sad development. To see a university cravenly exchange it’s principles for money doesn’t make things better for students who hope to learn a few things in it that aren’t generally taught or valued outside.
Kathakali Chatterjee says:
When a university campus has to ban someone under pressure, it surely shows “money talks” and also marks the deviation from its mission. It’s not only sad, it’s dangerous.
Yes, it’s an incredible disappointment, Dananjay — but I don’t think anything has really been learned at UNL because of this controversy. You’re required to forget it if you want to fit in and be accepted and that’s precisely why Ayers should’ve been allowed to speak against the crushing power of the middling majority mind.
Dangerous is right, Katha. The UNL cancellation of Ayers was all about money — there’s no denying that — and UNL caved in so quickly to that artificial pressure that one wonders if the university ever had any values or morals that were not founded in foundation money.
UNL will hold a forum on the Ayers fiasco:
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s political science honorary society, Pi Sigma Alpha, will host a forum Tuesday on UNL’s decision to cancel a Nov. 15 keynote speech by 1960s and ’70s radical William Ayers.
The forum will run from 3-4 p.m. in the auditorium of the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St.
Michael Wagner, an assistant professor of political science and Pi Sigma Alpha’s faculty adviser, will moderate the forum, which will feature Chancellor Harvey Perlman. Perlman, in consultation with other UNL leaders, canceled Ayers’ speech on Oct. 17 because of security concerns.
http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2008/10/28/news/local/doc49063d5e8d013740858211.txt
UNL is still shamelessly playing the “terror” card:
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Harvey Perlman said Tuesday he’s not second-guessing his decision to cancel a Nov. 15 speech on campus by ’60s and ’70s radical William Ayers.
In the wake of deadly campus shootings at Virginia Tech, Northern Illinois University and the University of Central Arkansas — where two students were fatally shot Sunday — UNL’s threat assessment team members, not Perlman, are best trained to analyze security risks facing the campus, the chancellor said.
And in this case, Perlman said, the threat assessment team warned UNL faced significant security risks if the Ayers speech went on as planned.
http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2008/10/29/news/local/doc49079f8b118e2513552893.txt
Ah! Now the inappropriate heavy-hands are revealed:
At least two University of Nebraska regents were ready to step in to try to cancel William Ayers’ speech at UNL if campus administration didn’t do so.
And they were willing to act despite clear recommendations against such intervention from NU’s president and regents chairman.
NU e-mails reviewed by the Journal Star show Regents Howard Hawks of Omaha and Bob Phares of North Platte made multiple calls for the board to consider disinviting Ayers from UNL’s College of Education and Human Sciences Nov. 15 student research conference.
http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2008/11/02/news/local/doc490d15f6692e4227789253.txt
This is a good thing:
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln English Graduate Student Association will host a “teach-in” Friday on issues of academic freedom in response to UNL’s cancellation of a speech by former radical William Ayers.
The teach-in will be from 1-2:30 p.m. in the multipurpose room of the Culture Center, 333 N. 14th St. It is free and open to the public.
The event will feature panel discussions, presentations on the history of defending civil rights in Nebraska and readings of works by Ayers and others.
http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2008/11/13/news/local/doc491b3c8ad6694612530263.txt
Here’s a fantastic video interview with Bill Ayers you should not miss:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/11/17/ayers/
Nebraska needed him on campus to speak those truths in real time.
I like this idea a lot:
Nebraskans for Peace is calling on Regent Randy Ferlic of Omaha to apologize or resign after making what the group deemed “inflammatory” comments about the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s speaking invitation to former radical William Ayers.
After UNL announced last month that Ayers, an education professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, was scheduled to deliver a keynote address at a research conference last Saturday, Ferlic laid harsh criticism on the university, publicly suggesting that donors withhold contributions unless Ayers was disinvited.
For a regent to make such a statement about the university he was elected to lead was inappropriate, said Nebraskans for Peace President Paul Olson, also an emeritus English professor at UNL.
http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2008/11/20/news/local/doc49249ed916fa1904915152.txt
Finally, some cogent thinking comes to the emotional matter:
Faculty leaders at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have requested an investigation into UNL’s decision to cancel a speech last month by 1960s and ’70s radical William Ayers.
Tuesday, the UNL Academic Senate passed a resolution calling on Senate President Kathy Prochaska-Cue to initiate an investigation by an outside organization like the American Association of University Professors or the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.
The investigation should determine whether UNL’s cancellation of the Ayers speech violated the principles of academic freedom and also should review UNL’s policies concerning such cancellations, the faculty resolution said.
http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2008/12/04/news/local/doc49370bdab2f51677015503.txt
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Knicks Favored for Kyrie Irving as Free Agent Odds Released
By Mark Strotman | May, 29th 2019 | 3 mins
Kyrie Irving’s free agency decision has been in the public spotlight ever since the Cleveland Cavaliers traded him to the Boston Celtics in August 2017. Nearly two years later, the time has finally arrived. Irving will become a free agent on July 1 and will have plenty of suitors hoping to convince the 26-year-old six-time All-Star to accept a maximum contract.
Oddsmakers finally revealed their initial thoughts on where Irving may sign this summer, and to no one’s surprise the New York Knicks lead the way. Here, according to top oddsmakers, is where each team stands on the NBA betting market heading into the final month before Irving’s negotiations begin.
Knicks Heavy Favorite to Land Irving
Irving has been linked to the Knicks for a while on the NBA betting futures market and the pairing makes sense. He grew up 30 minutes from Madison Square Garden in West Orange, New Jersey, he reportedly has interest in teaming with Kevin Durant (also linked to the Knicks) and, of course, it would keep him in a major market.
The Knicks will have room for two max free agents, meaning there’s a chance to build a super-team. That’s enticing to players chasing titles, and the fact that New York is the NBA’s largest market only adds to the speculation that it’s destination No. 1 for free agents.
That starts with Irving, who has championship experience and is just entering his prime. His +100 odds feel like the correct play.
Could Kyrie Reunite with LeBron James?
Irving didn’t find much success in Boston (relative to what was expected of him and the Celtics) after demanding a trade away from LeBron James. Irving learned a valuable lesson about just how hard it is to be “the guy” for a franchise, so maybe he decides to go back to a No. 2 role where he’s more comfortable playing next to a guy he teamed up with to win a title.
The Lakers are an absolute mess but winning cures everything. Los Angeles has room to add a max player, and a core of James, Irving and youngsters (Ball, Ingram, Kuzma, Hart, 2019 first-round pick) is pretty solid. Add in the potential of trading for Anthony Davis and Irving could certainly entertain joining back up with James.
Like the New York option, playing in Los Angeles is enticing for superstars. At +300, it’s a good value play.
Grass Isn’t Always Greener in NBA
Congratulations @KyrieIrving on being named to the All-NBA Second Team 🙌🎉 pic.twitter.com/mLxPdejaZ8
— Boston Celtics (@celtics) May 23, 2019
The Celtics couldn’t win the Eastern Conference in either of Irving’s two seasons – he missed the 2018 playoffs – but that’s not to say Boston is in trouble. They’re still very much in play for an Anthony Davis trade, they’ve won 104 games and three playoff series the past two seasons, they should bring back much of the same roster and they have three first-round draft picks.
Though things ended poorly with a five-game loss to the Milwaukee Bucks in Round 2, Irving had plenty of success in Boston (24.1 points, 48.9% FG, 6.1 assists) and the East is considerably easier than the West. Does he really want to leave a contender for a potential rebuild? He knows what that can entail, having done it in Cleveland for three seasons.
If Irving wants to stay put, the Celtics are nice value at +500. Think Paul George in Oklahoma City as a recent example.
What About the Other New York Team?
If Irving wants to come home and play in a big market but also be the go-to guy (as in, not in Durant’s shadow), perhaps he’ll consider the Brooklyn Nets. They were a major surprise in 2018-19, winning 42 games and taking the Sixers to six games in Round 1.
The Nets are trending in the right direction and could move some pieces around to have room for a max deal. Irving certainly feels like a potential “final piece” that could turn Brooklyn into true contenders, and for that reason his +400 odds are a solid bet. If Durant stays in Golden State and Irving wants a change of scenery entirely, Brooklyn could become the favorite.
Mavs Might Be Darkhorse Pick
The Dallas Mavericks are quietly putting together nice foundation pieces while keeping plenty of salary cap open for this upcoming summer. Dallas can afford a max free agent who would pair of with likely Rookie of the Year Luka Doncic and Kristaps Porzingis. Irving and those two wouldn’t be instant contenders but it would move along a promising rebuild.
Irving and Porzingis had been linked while Porzingis was with the Knicks, so perhaps Irving still has a desire to play with the 7-foot-3 unicorn. They’re a long shot to sign Irving at +2000 but make for an intriguing darkhorse pick.
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Home/Featured, Interviews, Slider/INTERVIEW – The Comfort
Brisbane’s The Comfort are one of Australia’s most beloved bands. After singing to Greyscale Records back in 2018, the guys released their debut album ‘What It Is To Be’ which while generally warmly received, seemed somewhat divisive among their more long-term fanbase. Undeterred, the band went on to release brand new single ‘Pain’ which pushed their sound further sonially and showed the guys have no plans of slowing down. We caught up with Liam Holmes to discuss their year so far, bumps in the road and looking to the future.
What’s been going on in the world of The Comfort lately?
We just finished up a little headline tour to close the year out and now we’re going to lock ourselves away for a while and write our next release.
Pain was released quite shortly after What It Is To Be. What went into the decision to follow up with new material so quickly and was Pain written in mind especially?
It just felt like the right time, I’d started writing Pain lyrically before WIITB even came out and the music was completed pretty soon after WIITB came out. Part of the reasoning was we were sitting on WIITB for a full year before it came out so to us it had existed for a lot longer than anyone else and due to it not being received as well as we had hoped we figured we may as well get the ball rolling instead of waiting any longer. It wasn’t written specifically to be a stand alone single, but it was the most suitable song we had at the time to be able to stand on it’s own.
An amazing open letter was released along with Pain which gave an extremely moving explanation about the songs lyrical content and themes. In an age where music seems coldly released onto streaming services without CD booklets or lyrics, how important do you think it is to give art context and a little something extra for fans to sink their teeth into?
Something we learnt the hard way with WIITB was we should explain ourselves completely with out art. We’re a band that, potentially unlike others, have big reasons behind almost everything we do, it’s never “hey here is a song where I’m angry at my ex”, we want to convey big themes, ideas and feelings to help people better look at themselves and how they interact with the rest of the world. We have a platform where we can reach thousands of people so I felt responsible to take that opportunity with ‘Pain’, which is clearly about suicide, to really put something bigger out there that I feel no one is really communicating anywhere else to the same level we did and I was really proud with the amount of traction it got, it’s kinda scary putting yourself out in that extreme way but I felt I had no other choice.
How does a Comfort song usually come together with the writing process?
Probably the two main ways are either I have 25%-50% of a song written musically, either a verse and/or chorus and bring it to everyone else to complete or Marcus, our guitarist, writes a basically 90% complete song musically and we go from there. Dom and I will share lyric writing duties a lot for both ways, we often finish each others lyrics as well because we understand each other pretty well after being friends for 13 years.
You recently posted on social media commenting on the fact that What It Is To Be may not have been what your fans were expecting at the time. We personally adored the record but did you find it received a muted response or took a little longer to catch on with the day one fanbase?
I think there were a lot of reasons, but I can’t argue that it was different to our Love EP which a lot of people like. To me there is no comparison and WIITB is clearly a more mature release with better song and a better message but you can’t tell people what to like. I understand why people liked Love more because it’s more suited to the scene we are most a part of by default but Dom and I wrote Love by ourselves a long time ago and we’re not the same people anymore. I think part of it is also on us, we were scared before it came out and I think we could have explained ourselves better before we put anything out, I would also chose different singles to put out before the album was released, unfortunately it was a very big learning experience for us. But we wouldn’t change anything in terms of the final product and for the people it did connect with, that means more to us than anything.
If you guys could pick a favourite show you’ve played, which would it be and why?
This might seem like a silly answer but one show that always pops up in my mind was one on our first ever headline tour a number of years ago (footage from that tour made up our Love & Other Drugs music video). We had no idea if people would show up to any of the shows and specifically in Canberra as we had never played there before. Dom and I had to work the door because it was very DIY and people just kept showing up and we looked at each other and were kind of shocked that it was happening. A guy also came up to Dom with a blood stained knife and said if anyone bothered him to let him know and he would “sort it out”.
You guys are signed with Greyscale records which is an amazing family to be with in the current era of Aussie alternative music. They appear to be thriving in the digital age where most labels would struggle. What do you think is different about Greyscales approach that makes them so successful?
They aren’t totally motivated by money/business. They pick bands they truly like and believe in. Other labels sign bands based on filling certain spots on their roster or will sign 10 bands and hope 1 makes it and not give a shit about the rest. Good things generally happen to people with the right intentions.
Who are five of your favourite Aussie locals that we should be checking out?
Young Lions, She Cries Wolf, Deadlights, Blood Bank, Reside.
Music festivals have made a big comeback in Australia with the return of Download, Unify and Good Things. Have you seen an increase in local interest and show attendance now that Aussie up and comers are being added to bills and given the exposure to take the next step?
I mean, I’m not big on patriotism because it’s pure chance we all live here, but I do like seeing the sense of pride in people when someone like Polaris blows up overseas for example. There are a lot of very very good bands in Australia that people should pay more attention to over defaulting to big overseas bands. How Young Lions aren’t the biggest band in the world is insane.
What’s on the cards for The Comfort going forward?
We’ve had a very complicated year both as a band and in a lot of our personal lives but we’re close to a good spot and I feel we are reclaiming the band for ourselves at the moment and remembering what is most important. We’re in a great creative spot and we’re just going to disappear and write this album and then return when it’s the best thing we’ve ever done. We’re not far away.
Have you guys got anything coming up you’d like to plug?
Just keep spinning our current music and spreading the good word of The Comfort.
Any parting words?
Thank you for taking the interest to talk to us and thank you to everyone that listens to our music we appreciate everything so so much.
Check out the bands latest single ‘Pain’ below and give the boys a follow on FACEBOOK for news and tour dates.
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One Fund Boston Set To Distribute $61 Million To Marathon Bombing Victims
Filed Under:Boston Marathon Bombings, Ken Feinberg, One Fund Boston, victims fund
(Photo courtesy: OneFundBoston.org)
BOSTON (CBS) – Starting Sunday, 232 victims of the Boston Marathon bombings will be receiving checks from One Fund Boston.
The victims’ fund announced Saturday that Administrator Kenneth Feinberg has begun the process of distributing donations, which totaled $60,952,000.
“No amount of money can replace what has been lost,” Feinberg said in a news release. “It was a solemn responsibility to allocate these finite contributions across tremendous pain and suffering, but it was made lighter by the unprecedented generosity of Bostonians, of Americans, and of people around the world.”
• Six people who either had family members killed in the blasts, lost multiple limbs or suffered permanent brain damage would each be receiving $2,195,000.
• An additional 14 people who lost limbs would receive $1,195,000.
• Remaining funds were broken down by length of hospital stay. A total of 69 people spent at least one night in the hospital as a result of the bombings. Funds were broken down accordingly:
• $948,300 for 32 or more overnights
• $735,000 for 24-31 overnights
• $480,000 for 8-15 overnights
• $275,000 for 3-7 overnights
• The remaining 143 victims were treated on an emergency outpatient basis. Each will receive $8,000.
WBZ NewsRadio 1030’s Kim Tunnicliffe reports
One Fund Boston Set To Distribute $61M
Any future donations will be used to continue to support the survivors and victims’ families who have been most affected by this tragedy. There has not been any deadline established for those donations.
For more information, visit onefundboston.org.
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What To Watch For In Patriots-Chargers: Get To Know The Name Austin Ekeler
Filed Under:Austin Ekeler, James White, Los Angeles Chargers, Michael Badgley, Michael Hurley, New England Patriots, Rex Burkhead, Sports News, Stephen Gostkowski, What To Watch For
By Michael Hurley, CBS Boston
BOSTON (CBS) — Every now and again, a player suits up against the Patriots for a big playoff game and ends up coming out of (relatively) nowhere to have the game of his life. Corey Clement in Super Bowl LII comes immediately to mind.
And while this player may not be entirely unknown, you may want to prepare yourself for a heavy dose of Austin Ekeler on Sunday afternoon.
To be sure, the Chargers running back had a very good sophomore season, after not seeing tremendous action on offense as a rookie in 2017. But heading into this week, as the pundits and analysts throw out the star names of Philip Rivers and Melvin Gordon and Keenan Allen, it just may end up being Ekeler who plays the most significant role against the Patriots.
That may be a reality in part due to necessity, as it’s hard to believe Gordon will or can be his usual explosive self, given that he suffered a knee injury (to his healthy knee) a week ago in Baltimore. But it’s also in part because Ekeler is good enough for an increased workload.
Last week, against a stout Ravens defense, Ekeler put up some unimpressive numbers that understandably have not produced tremendous hype for the 23-year-old this week. He ran for 29 yards on 11 carries while picking up 14 yards on four receptions. It was an altogether forgettable performance.
But again, that was against the Ravens, and that was in a game that saw Gordon leave for a spell due to injury.
This week, against a Patriots defense that ranked 29th in the league in yards allowed per rushing attempt and also got hurt fairly badly with passes to running backs this season, and in a week where the Chargers know what they have (or don’t have) health-wise with Gordon? The results ought to be a little different.
Ekeler did start three games this season in Gordon’s absence, with mixed results. He rushed for 42 yards on 12 carries in Week 7 against Tennessee, adding 26 yards on five receptions. He couldn’t get anything going in his start at Pittsburgh, with 21 yards on 13 carries (plus 22 receiving yards, again on five receptions). But he followed up that performance with 66 yards and a touchdown on 15 carries — plus 28 yards on two receptions — against Cincinnati the following week.
His best performance of the year came back in Week 2 in Buffalo, when he rushed for 77 yards on 11 carries, while also catching three passes for 21 yards. Three of his best games all came on the road — at Cleveland, at Denver, and at the Rams — when he rushed for a combined 165 yards and a touchdown on 19 carries.
In total, Ekeler ran for 554 yards and three touchdowns on 106 carries (5.2 yards per carry) and also caught 39 passes for 404 yards and three more scores. Picking up 958 yards from scrimmage while sharing a backfield with Melvin Gordon (who got 225 touches for 1,375 yards from scrimmage) is no small feat. Clearly, Ekeler is a capable back. Don’t be surprised to hear his name called early and often on Sunday.
Here’s the rest of What To Watch For in Sunday’s divisional round game between the Patriots and Chargers.
Austin Ekeler
Austin Ekeler (Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)
What? Are you serious? Are you one of those types who skips the intro and gets right to the list? Come on. Scroll back up. Read it. We’ll rendezvous back down here in a moment.
OK go.
All right. Moving on.
Two Kickers — One A Rookie, One Not So Much
Stephen Gostkowski, Michael Badgley (Photos by Jim Rogash/Justin Berl/Getty Images)
Undrafted rookie kicker Michael Badgley has been awesome for the Chargers this year. For a franchise that’s desperately needed stability at the kicking position, Badgley has provided it.
But kicking in the playoffs … outdoors … in the frigid cold? It’s a different ballgame.
We’ll have to wait and see how Badgley handles the moment. And while his regular-season stats — 15-of-16 on field goals, 27-of-28 on PATs — indicate he should be fine, one never can know for sure how well or poorly a rookie out of the University of Miami can adapt in such a setting.
(Badgley was immense last weekend in Baltimore, going 5-for-6 on his field goals. But he did have one kick blocked — a kick he delivered much too low after a slightly bobbled snap.)
For that matter though, there are no guarantees about the 13-year NFL veteran kicking for the Patriots. While Gostkowski has booted plenty of successful kicks in innumerable big games and in all sorts of conditions, he’s also had his fair share of misses in recent years. He did hit all of his field goals under 40 yards this year (21-for-21), but he went 4-for-6 in the 40-49-yard range and just 2-for-5 from 50-plus. He only missed one PAT this season, but his field goal percentage of 84.4 ranks only as his ninth-best season.
In a game where points may be at a premium, the pressure will be heavy on the two kickers.
Threats Out Of The Backfield
Rex Burkhead, James White, Sony Michel (Photos by Scott Halleran/Tim Bradbury/Sam Greenwood/Getty Images)
The Chargers’ defensive backfield is loaded with talent. Perhaps you’ve heard?
With All-Pro rookie Derwin James at safety, and with All-Pro slot corner Desmond King, and with 2016/2017 Second Team All-Pro Casey Hayward, and with All-Pro special teamer (who’s no slouch in coverage) all roaming the field, the Chargers have quite a bit of talent in their defensive backfield. That figures to make life difficult for the likes of Julian Edelman, Rob Gronkowski, Chris Hogan and Phillip Dorsett.
But the Chargers’ unique defensive tendency to employ six defensive backs (or seven, if Lamar Jackson is the opposing QB) could make for some major opportunities for the likes of James White and Rex Burkhead coming out of the backfield.
White has proven to be a nightmare matchup whenever he’s been covered by a linebacker in open space. In that sense, perhaps the Chargers would be better off with a defensive back covering the elusive pass-catching back. But really, will the fourth or fifth-best defensive back on the field fare much better than a linebacker?
And if White struggles to find space, don’t forget about Rex Burkhead. It would not be a surprise at all to see some two-back sets where either both backs go out on routes, or where one stays in to protect only to leak out late as a receiving option for Brady in space. It could lead to some big gains. (Burkhead had career highs in receptions and receiving yards with seven for 68 last year against the Chargers, and he also had a 13-yard reception taken back due to a penalty.)
Additionally, if Sony Michel and his blocking locomotive of James Develin/Dwayne Allen/Shaq Mason/Rob Gronkowski can take advantage of that smaller and lighter defensive unit, then you have to wonder how the defensive back-heavy defense will react to play-action passes.
One way or another, the Patriots’ running back trio just might be the most important grouping on the field Sunday.
Protecting Tom’s Face
Joey Bosa brings down Tom Brady. (Photo by Jim Rogash/Getty Images)
It goes without saying that in any football game ever played, it’s important to protect the quarterback. But getting a little bit more specific, the pressure will be on the Patriots’ interior lineman trio of Joe Thuney, David Andrews and Shaq Mason to prevent the Chargers from generating pressure up the middle.
That’ll obviously be a little bit easier said than done when Melvin Ingram and Joey Bosa are involved.
And considering what Ingram did to poor Ravens left guard James Hurst last weekend …
#Chargers Melvin Ingram with another sack. He's been the best player on the field today. Dominant vs run and pass.
7 Tackles, 2 TFL, 2 Sacks, 2 QB Hits pic.twitter.com/aVI6UsQ4h8
— Steve Frederick (@_SteveFrederick) January 6, 2019
.@Chargers @MelvinIngram @jbbigbear went inside to pass rush for this sack. This game plan by Gus Bradley needs to be be framed. Pure Gold. #BaldysBreakdowns pic.twitter.com/URy6Mov6tX
— Brian Baldinger (@BaldyNFL) January 7, 2019
… the task is clearly tall for the interior of the Patriots’ line.
That’s not to say that the tackles should have themselves an easy game. But generally, Brady’s proven adept at stepping up and out of pressure when it comes from the edge. That’s a major part of what makes him perhaps the greatest to ever play the position. But when the pressure comes from directly in front of his face? Those are the times when the Patriots’ offense has looked its worst over the years.
You can email Michael Hurley or find him on Twitter @michaelFhurley.
Tune in to Sunday’s Patriots-Chargers divisional round clash on WBZ-TV — the flagship station of the New England Patriots! Coverage begins Friday night with Patriots All Access at 7 p.m., and kicks off on Sunday with a special hour-long edition of Patriots GameDay at 11 a.m.! We’ll break it all down and hear from Bill Belichick and Tom Brady LIVE on Patriots 5th Quarter on WBZ-TV after the game!
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June 17, 2008 Bruce Allen BSM Approval Ratings, WEEI
Approval Ratings – Eddie Andelman
The Godfather of Sports Talk Radio may be in semi(mostly)-retirement, but he still deserves a day on the approval ratings!
Eddie Andelman is a pioneer in the sports talk radio arena. The original Sports Huddle show back in the 1970’s was one of the first of its kind on the airwaves.
Andelman was a fixture on WHDH radio during the 80’s, and moved over the WEEI in the 90’s. He was best remembered on the station for his show with Dale Arnold, dubbed “The A Team.” Andelman left the station in December, 2001 right in the middle of the Patriots push to their first Super Bowl title.
He reappeared on sports radio 1510 The Zone, where he opened his show blasting his former employer and partner. He took many more shots over the years at the station, and WEEI to this day continues to blast right back at him with whiner line callers and various skits.
He’s had an intense rivalry with Glenn Ordway over the years, angry that Ordway had taken his time slot on WEEI and also canceled his son Michael’s weekend show on the station. With Ordway’s recent family crisis, it is thought that Andelman might’ve been one of the one’s Ordway referred to when he expressed gratitude for support from people he never thought he’d ever hear from.
Andelman currently hosts a show on Sunday nights from 7:00 to 10:00pm on talk radio WTKK, named the New Sports Huddle. These days however, Andelman is chiefly known for his annual Hot Dog Safari to raise money for Cystic Fibrosis/The Joey Fund.
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105 thoughts on “Approval Ratings – Eddie Andelman”
Wilson Tisdale says:
Can’t listen to him now, but can’t bring myself to disapprove of someone who was such a pioneer. APPROVE.
But man … I forgot how bad Michael Andleman’s show was. Brutal.
Who didn’t look forward to the huddle every sunday night
Scott Wedman for threeeeee says:
I approved simply out of respect for what this guy was in the early to mid ’80s. He was hilarious, and the Sports Huddle was must listen on Sunday nights. I used to go to my dad’s house every other weekend when i was a kid and when he would drive me back to my mom’s, we always had the Sports Huddle on. Those guys had such great chemistry and back then, talk radio was really a novelty instead of the all-encompassing engine it is now. Eddie was the Glenn Ordway of the Sports Huddle — he created the characters of Jim McCarthy and Mark Witkin. I agree that it’s sad the three of them broke up. They were awesome. It was a different era back then. Obviously, Eddie could not change with the times.
JaytotheT says:
Yeah, I used to like him when I was a kid too, but there’s the magic words – when I was a kid.
He DIDN’T invent sports talk radio – the guy from WUNR that put him on in the first place was. If it wasn’t for that guy, he’d be just another loudmouth prick in a bar. Eddie surely has overlooked that little fact.
I approve of Classic Sports Huddle, disapprove of everything since.
BilltheShark says:
A big APPROVE.
Maybe he’s not what he once was, but for a whole generation
of sports fans the Sports Huddle on Sunday night was the
talk show you never missed, Eddie, Mark, and Jim’s one liners and routines were things you laughed about with your friends the next day.
And yeah..he doesn’t like Dale or Glenn. Points for that, too.
Don Imus says:
this is the original fat pantload. thanks for the inspiration Eddie
ercadincadoo says:
love him. love him even more when the big show still talks about him. if he is so yesterday then why does the big show constantly mention him? the guy works 1 day a week and raises more money for charity than all the weei shows combined. was right about deossie and smerlas. they give about 15-20% of their charity proceeds to the actual charity.[texas hold em tournaments big joke!] was right about the superbowl tickets being scalped by patriot players. was right about that back stabber ordway.constantly stuck up for dale arnold who rips andelman every chance he gets. was right about weei’s stock value going down. when ea left stock was around $50.00 now its about $8.00. in all EDDIE ANDELMAN IS STILL IN 850’S HEAD!!! THAT IN ITSELF IS UNBELIEVABLE!!!!
I APPROVE TREMENDOUSLY!!!!1!!
If I were running a jail, I would punish the inmates with hours and hours of Phantom Gourmet reruns. Do you think Eddie will auction off Mike’s press fedora, along with the used pu-pu platters?
john reilly says:
big eddie fan. pearl franks, pro wrestling, the kowloon, jambalaya,don zimmer,fuddruckers,ripping canseco apart,real estate genius.having to work with that back stabber dale arnold, hall of fame callers, captain lou albano, paul the poet, red sox violet, mosi tatupu, big foot,phd in cornbeef,the famous 99, bruno sammartino,rico petrocelli, red auerbach, fabulous judy, hot dog safari,stan papi, joe clemente,biff bulkie aka vin maloney,phantom gourmet,ordway sucks,yankee elimination party, in all i love eddie andelman.
I wish EDDIE would sell his old sports huddle tapes & someone can put on once-a-week “The Best of Sports Huddle Shows”…………..:)
bruno sanmartino says:
i have seen war, poverty. had to run through the mountains in italy during the war to escape capture by adolf hitler.had my neck broken in a match.had med flies eat all my chest hairs.these were all extremely painful incidents. but the most pain i have ever experienced in my life was when eddie andelman put me in the “andelman gotcha” hold. i approve under extreme duress!
The Body says:
‘EEI will always be haunted by Eddie (even when he’s gone) because he was funny, original and was more about sports. Almost all the guys on EEI now would be benchwarmers for the Huddle, including Ordway. ‘EEI is like an all-you-can eat truck stop that just reheats the same stuff over and over again, day after day.
His interviews with wrestlers were priceless, mostly because the callers were true believers and were funnier than the fakers.
Approve.
Jason Coyote says:
But reheated leftovers taste sooooo good, long as you drown them in ketchup.
ron blomberg says:
love eddie. does great charity work. listen faithfully on sundays at 7pm on 96.9 fm. it is weird how eei still mentions him.kind of like the patriots were when parcells was coaching the ny jets.i approve of eddie.
skip lockwood says:
eddie is in weei’s head. i approve of you eddie
sgt slaughter says:
greatest sports talk show host ever. now get down and give me twenty!!!!!!!!!!!!
Any man who could be as ignorant as Eddie was, for his WHOLE life, about hockey is nothing more than a buffoon…. He loved making Dale uncomfortable by ignoring any recent success of the Bruins and by consistently hanging up on callers who wished to carry on a civil conversation about hockey….to Eddie they were stupid people who needed to hear HIS stories about REAL sports like wrestling and boxing……to Eddie, Bobby Orr was an overrated, media-hyped, mistake prone, uneducated Canadian bumpkin….his rants about hockey NOT being a “major sport worthy of rational conversation” was actually funny for the 1st five minutes, then it quickly became a pathetic and ignorant “skit”…..I found that his rude behavior was unsettling and could not listen to him for more than 10 minutes at a time….I don’t miss him at all.
Brian where did that untruthful rant come from? That was from way out in right field….and i mean way out! EDDIE loves Bobby Orr. Its Sinden & Jacobs that he didn’t & he was the first in this market to “voice” those opionions! So please get your facts straight!
He also referred to the the University of North Dakota as the Flying Sioux and stated on numerous occasions that hockey fans were dumb. Sure, maybe he was kidding.
But I also have it on good word that he, Kadolfo, and the Chili Guy stole 18,000 dollars or half a quarter ton of eights from a shoe bank.
curly howard says:
invented the hot dog safari. that is a fat guy’s version of heaven.all the hot dogs,chicken wings,sausage,ice cream,donuts you can eat for $10.00.as a big fat slob myself i say”i love you eddie”.
I approve simply on the fact that he is a TRUE sports fan but he is so out of his element now it’s sad. The Sports Huddle is on Sunday nights and is dreadful to listen to.
I heard him arguing about how people still like to buy newspapers the other week. Eddie, take a look at boston.com
KC O'Dunn says:
Once upon a time in the first round of broadcast deregulation Eddie and Mike O’ were partners in a venture that owned WKZY in Fort Myers, Florida. It was the mid’80s. I worked for those guys doing mornings on their station and Eddie was the most generous radio teacher I had ever known. He has impeccable timing and a great capacity for capitalizing on strengths. Yeah, he takes no prisoners on the air but he is the biggest heart in the business. I just wanted to weigh in on this.
Peace everybody!
Kevin O’Dunn B.Msc
jreils says:
Eddie andelman does more charity work than anyone.Why does weei rip him every chance they get? Because they are jealous.Any station that would allow the biggest crooks in the world on its airwaves only proves that Eddie was right.Fred Smerlas,Steve Deossie, and Glenn Ordway are involved with a police charity that gives money to widows/widowers of police officers killed in the line of duty.Well according to the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office 15% of the millions of dollars raised ACTUALLY went to the charity.SMERLAS KEPT MILLIONS!!!ORDWAY AND DEOSSIE ARE INVOLVED AS WELL!!
Mike_Fl_Sox_Fan says:
Lest we forget – Ordway bashed (Badly) the legend of Johnny Most! Ordway not a good person. Neither is Dale – Dale is such a passive non-sports person. He is just in it for the money, not the love of sports.
Eddie – I remember him from when I was a kid all the way up until the early 90’s before I moved to Florida. He was always the best. He is a New Englander through and through.
He invented Sports Radio style. Maybe not the idea of putting sports radio on the air. But he invented the style. This opened its way to ESPN. I believe if it wasn’t for Eddie A. there would be no ESPN.
great post! weei is filled with hatred!
Eddie Andelman’s anti-hockey stance was crap. He once referred to the University of North Dakota as the Flying Sioux. Ummm, no.
shadowiz says:
love eddie!!!!
Eddie when i was young in the early to mid 70s i used to put a radio under my pillow and listen to the sports huddle with mark and jim Funniest chit going on! its too bad glen fired his son for having a stripper in the studio on radio and months later glen had don imus on to go against howard stern , and soon was doing the same toilet humor , stern was kicking weeis asses and glenny panicked, i hope someday glenny will have eddie on or do a show on how eddie was a pioneer in sports radio , eddie was loyal and i remember when dale arnold didn’t back eddies choice for the new owner of the red sox and eddie went balistic and that was the end of the eddie and dale show , remeber happy trails too you until we meet again!!
JIMBOUTON says:
as tommy heinson would say"I LOVE EDDIE!!!!!!!!!!!!"
BILLY FAIRWEATHER says:
Eddie Andelman is the greatest!I APPROVE 110%!!!!
YankFan says:
Back in the early 70's when I was going to school in Boston and not having a great time I looked forward to the Sports Huddle every Sunday night. Even as a Yankee and Giant fan. It was a very funny show and Andelman was the chief reason.
I don't know what course his career has taken since the 70's but I've never found any New York sports talk show host who was his equal in those Sports Huddle years.
roberto petagine says:
Sunday nights are not the same.On his last show December 26,2010 Eddie said he might be back but he will never do a sports show again.He states that the athletes really don't like and appreciate the fans who pay their salaries.Andelman said he might do either a politics or business show.Eddie you are a radio legend!
RICHDORAN says:
Sunday nights are not the same.HUGE APPROVAL!
Bertolucci says:
for sports talk in the 80s it was Eddie on WHDH or no-one.Guy Manella and "Calling All Sports" on WBZ was history. Then came Ciff Keane and Larry Claffin on 1510 and Bill O'Connell (later John Carlson) with Tmmy Horgan, Joe Gil and an array of Boston sports writers on WRKO and to me Eddie became a wind bag in the storm. There were alternatives and I utilized them. It would be nice to see Eddies ratings compared to the competition back then.
eddie, marc and jim did start it all. all present radio/media sports guys and gals who presently cash in should thank them, especially eddie.yes he may be pompous but love or hate, he made you listen. I too am curious about their past and present relationship.
ELLIOT CARLIN says:
JUMBALAYA!!!!!!!!!!!! Congrats Eddie on your induction to the "Boston Radio/Television
Hall of Fame".I am honored to have met and listened to you!
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Plot Outlines of 240 characters - no warning?
This could be a minor thing for many, but if the Plot Outline is exactly 240 characters, the system doesn’t give any ”warnings” that the Outline is too long. Outlines of 240 characters are then moved to a Plot Summary.
Now I’m aware what the guide says, but it would be nice to know when the Plotline is 240 characters and therefore ”too long”. I have now three Outlines moved to a Summary, which wasn’t what I wanted.
Long story short: is it possible to tweak the system, so that it would give the ”warning” when the Plot Outline is exactly 240 characters - or longer?
( From the guide:
”Plot outlines should be no longer than 239 characters. Longer plots can be submitted as a plot summary.”
https://help.imdb.com/article/contrib...# )
Nick Riganas
Hello Eboy,
It is true that the built-in character count feature doesn’t give a warning message when a plot outline is exactly 240 characters.
However, to be fair, it does show an alert box when the plot exceeds them. A 241-character outline will prompt the user to make the necessary changes if he wants to keep his outline in the right section.
A quick question. Do you use a smartphone to compose your plots, or do you write your text directly in the field provided?
I very rarely use any smartphones or even tablets.
Yes, the point was that sometimes my character number hits exactly 240 (has happened three times fairly recently), so why not give the warning then?
Adding Plot Outlines is fun and IMO informative/important, so I usually (not always, though) write a slightly longer ”version” first and start fine-tuning from there. Sometimes you end up with exactly 240 characters.
That's why writing a plot outline is trickier than composing summaries.
Even a single character can have you editing your own text again and again until you reach the desired 239-characters limit.
If it helps, I always check the outline's word count on my word processor before submitting it.
Jaime, Employee
Hi Eboy
I've forwarded this information to our technical team for further investigation. We will follow up with you once we receive further information.
Thank you in advance for your patience.
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Hi Eboy,
You should now see a warning if your plot outline is 240 characters or longer.
Thank you for reporting this issue.
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A conversation with Fort Myers attorney and author John D. Mills
One of our favorite things about working at a family-owned island resort is getting to know our guests, even becoming lifelong friends with many of them. Take, for example, John D. Mills, a Fort Myers attorney and author of six legal thriller novels. A fifth generation local, John has been coming to our neck of the waters since he was a toddler. The Mills family fishing shack, burnt down in 1995, is a source of John’s fondest memories and how he got to know all of us at Cabbage Key. Our island cottages remind him of those childhood days and keep him coming back to us at least four weekends per year. Plus, he participates in two of our annual fishing tournaments – so we get to see him quite often.
We sat down with John to learn more about him and what he likes best about Cabbage Key. He was generous with his time, and with his interesting stories. In his own words:
“I love to fish, especially at Cabbage Key, where I believe I have stayed in all the cottages at one time or another. For the most part, I go out there to fish during the day, and to enjoy Happy Hour in the evening. I love the restaurant where the chef will cook my catch however I like it. My favorite? Triple Tail – one of the chef’s specialties. After dinner, I enjoy relaxing in one of the cottages – they are very comfortable, and outfitted with kitchens and TVs which is perfect for me.
Did you know that in under 60 minutes I can get from my desk chair in downtown Fort Myers, to my favorite bar stool at Cabbage Key? It amazes me every time how quickly I can be at a world-class, rustic, island resort. No need to spend a day traveling – in an hour I can be with other people from all over the world, at one of the best places in the world.”
John’s Boat “The Trophy Wife Divorce” is named after one of his novels
Over decades of Happy Hours, John has sipped cocktails at Cabbage Key’s bar with doctors and dignitaries, welders and electricians, movie stars and world leaders, pro athletes and celebrity chefs – people of all nationalities and from all walks of life.
“When you’re out at Cabbage Key, you can decide whether you want to socialize or revel in solitude. Sometimes I want to talk to people at the bar – other times I will take a walk on one of the nature trails, or work on one of my novels.”
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We wrapped up our discussion by asking John if he had a favorite story to share. He didn’t even hesitate:
“In March of 1996, I was at Cabbage Key for a fishing tournament and after a tiring day, a group of 15-20 of us were relaxing under the stars. There were old friends and new, some of them have since passed away. There was a gentle breeze, we were enjoying cocktails and listening to country music. There was no moon out, but suddenly the stars were the brightest I have ever seen. The sky lit up with a brilliant sight – a giant comet with a tail that went as far to the south as the eye could see. We stopped talking and just watched in amazement as The Great Comet of 1996 passed by. We joked that we want to be there in that very spot in 100 years when the comet comes around again. It was one of those moments frozen in time, a memory that I will treasure forever.”
All of us at Cabbage Key and our sister resort Tarpon Lodge are excited that our properties and the local Southwest Florida surroundings have inspired many of his novels.
Thanks, John, for sharing your stories and memories with us – and thank you for being part of our Cabbage Key family!
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Advertising is changing and fast. How fast? This fact offers some idea of the velocity: Digital advertising increased 21% last year and, perhaps even more remarkable, surpassed ad spending on television.
The question now is what does this mean for the future of advertising? How are marketers and advertising agencies adapting to this massive shift in advertising spending as audiences continue to move online and the number of people watching broadcast TV dwindles?
In this video, the latest in our “LinkedIn Presents the Future” series, thought leaders in the advertising and marketing world predict about what’s next in the world of advertising.
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The future of advertising will translate into personalize ads directly to me, my specific needs, my specific buying criteria, and information that is truly pertinent to what I’m looking for and it will be customized highly personalized. — Mario Martinez Jr., CEO, Vengresso
The future of advertising is going to be this hyper personalization and hyper customization for the individual. You know, we’ve got all that data. It’s just being able to use it in a scalable way. — A.J. Wilcox, Founder, B2Linked
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I really love this trend that advertisers are doing where they are creating longer commercials and they’re telling stories. And that’s what it’s about, right? It’s not about your 15 second or 30 second commercial, it’s about telling a story about your organization. And the fact that people will sit and watch a six-minute ad because it’s done well and it tells a great story is phenomenal to me. — Gini Dietrich, CEO, Arment Dietrich
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Formation of damascenone derived from glycosidically bound precursors in green tea infusions
Author: Tomomi Kinoshita and Satoshi Hirata and Ziyin Yang and Susanne Baldermann and Emiko Kitayama and Shigetaka Matsumoto and Masayuki Suzuki and Peter Fleischmann and Peter Winterhalter and Naoharu Watanabe
Damascenone is well-known for its potent flavour with an extremely low odour threshold. Several glycosidically bound precursors of damascenone have been isolated from several plants, but little is known about their occurrences in green tea infusions. In this work, three major glycosidic precursors of damascenone, 9-O-β-d-glucopyranosyl-megastigma-6,7-dien-3,5,9-triol (1a), 9-O-β-d-glucopyranosyl-3-hydroxy-7,8-didehydro-β-ionol (2a), and 3-O-β-d-glucopyranosyl-3-hydroxy-7,8-didehydro-β-ionol (2b) were isolated and identified in green tea infusions, and the stereochemistries at C-3 and C-9 positions of aglycone parts of the three glycosidic precursors were determined as (3S, 9R)-1a, (3R, 9R)-2a, and (3R, 9R)-2b, respectively. Compounds 1a, 2a, and 2bas well as 3-O-β-d-glucopyranosyl-megastigma-6,7-dien-3,5,9-triol (1b) were hydrolysed to form damascenone in a model system with strong acidic conditions (pH 2.0) and at high temperature (90 °C). In contrast to hydrolysis of 2a and 2b, more damascenone was transformed from 1a and 1b. Furthermore, the β-d-glucosyl moiety at the C-3 position gave a higher dehydration rate from megastigma-6,7-dien-3,5,9-triol to 3-hydroxy-7,8-didehydro-β-ionol than compound 1a carrying the sugar residue at C-9 position. Interestingly, the four glycosidic precursors of damascenone were not hydrolysed to give damascenone under slightly acidic conditions (pH 5.4 and 120 °C for 10 min), but they could be transformed to damascenone in the presence of green tea infusions even under the equal conditions.
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The best high-end laptops
Neil Cumins Friday, 24 May, 2019
Choosing a computer used to be so simple. You bought a desktop PC for homework and internet use, a laptop to work on the move, and a Mac if you were creative or aspirational.
Today, the market has fragmented into phablets and Chromebooks, mini PCs and all-in-one devices whose hardware is hidden inside a standalone monitor.
Yet despite this onslaught of new product niches, laptop sales are on the rise.
Having shrugged off the arrival of tablets (which many analysts predicted would hasten their demise), global laptop sales in 2018 rose to levels not seen since 2014.
In part, this is thanks to affordable Chromebooks replacing netbooks as the go-to device for people with heavy surfing habits but little desire to program or create.
However, high-end laptops are also enjoying something of a renaissance.
Having evolved away from their bulky and compromised forebears, it’s now possible to spend several thousand pounds on a device which can handle pretty much any digital activity.
If you’re the sort of person who shops in granite-floored malls with crystal ceilings, these are the high-end laptops worth waving your platinum credit card at:
Microsoft Surface Book 2. When tablets were staking their claim to the laptop’s throne earlier this decade, few people saw Microsoft leading the fight back.
Yet its Surface Pro range has become iconic and desirable in equal measure. The 2 model can cost over £3,000, though premium models receive 1TB of storage and a 1.9GHz CPU.
It might be advisable to save a few hundred pounds and pick a 512GB model, which still has the very latest Intel Core i7 processor and a 15-inch screen offering astonishing clarity.
Apple MacBook Pro. Brand loyalty runs deep at the top end of electronics markets, and some consumers are happy to pay a premium to own Apple products.
Despite questionable pricing, the latest MacBook Pro range is hugely appealing; 13 and 15-inch Retina displays showcase content formed by Intel Core i7 processors.
There’s a customisable OLED Touch Bar along the keyboard’s edge, handling everything from fingerprint logons to auto-suggesting words.
Dell XPS. The world’s bestselling Windows laptop, Dell’s 2019-vintage XPS range is distinguished by its almost bezel-free 4K screen.
Fashioned out of anodized aluminium and a mere 0.5 inches in thickness, the 2.7lb XPS incorporates lots of weight-saving tricks like a 0.08-inch webcam and multi-function ports.
The 1mm key travel might not suit sufferers of tendonitis or RSI, but heavy users will be pleased to know files can be transferred at a rate of 565MB/s.
Alienware M17. Impressive as their specifications are, the devices listed above might struggle to handle the latest games. Not so Alienware’s games-focused M17.
This Dell subsidiary creates dramatic-looking hardware which can effortlessly display MMORPGs and FPS titles, with Nvidia RTX 2080 graphics cards and 8GB of VRAM.
Powerful speakers with eight audio presets accentuate the gaming experience, though the Intel Core i9 processor’s brutally fast performance has a damaging effect on battery life.
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon. Despite sounding more like a printer, the latest Lenovo ThinkPad is a superb business laptop and ideally suited to docking stations.
Its sixth-generation model has almost 200 per cent reproduction of the sRGB colour spectrum, serving up eye-popping visuals. An optional IR camera supports eye-controlled instructions.
Capable of surviving 15 hours on a single charge, the X1 Carbon also has a tactile and supportive keyboard. However, its CPU and storage specs are the weakest on our list.
By: Neil Cumins
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The sparse production on Origins, the seven song debut EP from Seattle’s Black Whales creates the feel of catching a live performance of a cutting edge band in a local club. Lead singer-guitarist Alex Robert’s vocals are a haunting echo amidst chiming guitars and rhythmic drumming as they drift across the room. The inventive arrangements, infectious melodies, and cryptic lyrics bring to mind early R.E.M.
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New York Harbor Defense History and Civil War Weekend at Governors Island
Shuttling back and forth between Brooklyn and Manhattan every day on the New York City subway system, it’s sometimes easy to forget I live and work in area surrounded by coasts. This past weekend I hopped a free mid-morning ferry from Brooklyn to Governors Island National Monument for some immersion in NYC’s coastal defense history and annual Civil War Weekend sponsored by the National Park Service.
New York Harbor Defense History
From the beginning of European settlement of New Amsterdam on the island of Manhattan by the Dutch in the early 1600s, the importance of New York Harbor as a gateway to a system of trade and military defense was clear. The Dutch colony’s main defense at Fort Amsterdam eventually ceded to the British who maintained fortifications on the spot until after the American Revolution. In the post-Revolution centuries, the defense of New York Harbor remained a focus of the US military against foreign and domestic would-be aggressors.
1908 US Army Corps of Engineers map of Governors Island with Fort Jay (center) and Castle Williams (left)
Governors Island offers a good historic overview of the development of New York’s coastal defense works from the 18th through 19th centuries. Fort Jay dates from the late 18th-century when American colonists and British troops exchanged control of the island with various earlier wood and earth forts. The existing facility is a classic European-style star fort with masonry and earthen walls is typical of the design built all over the world from the 15th through 19th centuries. Entering through elaborate gates, a visitor walks into a peacefully idyllic central courtyard surrounded by Greek Revival colonnaded buildings with welcoming porches. Several cast iron Civil War era 10 and 15 inch Rodman cannons survive on the fort’s walls, pointing toward the harbor.
Guns overlook New York Harbor from Fort Jay
The later Castle Williams was built between 1807 and 1811 as a fortification just ahead of the War of 1812. The state-of-the art, circular casemate sandstone pile was designed by Col. Jonathan Williams, at the time the chief of the US Army Corps of Engineers. The first fort designed by an American engineer, Castle Williams presents three tiers of gun ports from which a nearly 360-degree field of defensive fire across the harbor.
The imposing walls of Castle Williams
Together with Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island, Fort Wood (today the base of the Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island), Castle Clinton at the southern tip of Manhattan and Fort Gibson at today’s Ellis Island, Fort Jay and Castle Williams served as part of the interlacing network of forts protecting New York Harbor through the 19th-century. Both Fort Jay and Castle Williams would go on to other roles as the site of a Confederate prisoner of war camp during the Civil War, a US Army prison in the middle of the 20th-century and the site of a large US Coast Guard base until closing in 1996. Gone is the military use of Governors Island today, but the spaces still serve the public as place to walk amid important and usually unseen history of New York.
Civil War Weekend
Each August the National Park Service presents the only Civil War encampment of reenactors in New York City. With about a dozen tents in a small camp and more than twenty staff and volunteer reenanctors, the weekend’s events gives New Yorkers an up-close glimpse of a solder’s life during the Civil War.
Reenactors encamped at Governors Island
A Civil War era soldier’s equipment sits at the ready in camp
A reenactor discusses a Civil War soldier’s life with visitors to Governors Island
An officer reenactor speaks with with visitors to Governors Island
Aside from an opportunity to speak with reenactors and view some typical soldier’s equipment and life in camp, demonstrations of canon firing, drilling and infantry weapons are presented. For the less militarily-minded, period music was also offered in the comfort of shaded grass and rocking chairs inside the walls of Fort Jay.
Officer inspection of the troops at Governors Island
Canon firing demonstration during Civil war Weekend at Governors Island
Civil War era cannon shot, canister and ordinance loads
Although the use of Governors Island has primarily been military for several centuries, visiting the island today serves up multiple experiences. While the historic forts and sites under the governance of the National Park Service occupy approximately 22 acres to the north, the remaining 150 acres is now overseen by the Trust for Governors Island. The Trust has worked to create an oasis of recreational areas for picnicking, play, bike riding, strolling and relaxing among historic buildings, allays of trees, wide grassy lawns, outdoor sculpture and newly designed landscapes. Whether you are a visitor looking for a step back into American history or just unwind from the city’s usual hustle, Governors Island can give a whole new perspective on New York at the center of the harbor and world.
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Accounting standard 2 (AS 2), Inventory valuation Complete Guide
By VRP Last updated Dec 23, 2019 2
Accounting standard 2 (AS 2): This Standard deals with the determination of value at which inventories are carried in the financial statements, including the ascertainment of cost of inventories and any write-down thereof to net realisable value. Recently we provide Accounting Standard -1, and How Accounting standards are formulated.
Accounting standard 2, Inventory valuation
Applicability :
Non applicability:
Definition of inventory:
Valuation of inventory:
Cost of inventory:
Cost of purchase:
Cost of conversion :
Direct cost:
Production overheads (fixed):
Production overheads (variable):
Cost Formulas:
1.Valuation on First In First Out (FIFO) Basis:
3. LIFO : (Last in First Out)
This Accounting Standard applies to Level I, Level II and Level III Entities.
a) Work in progress arising under construction contracts, including directly related service contracts.
b) Work in progress arising in the ordinary course of business of service providers.
c) Shares, debentures and other financial instruments held as stock-in-trade and
d) producers’ inventories of livestock, agricultural and forest products, and mineral oils, ores and gases to the extent that they are measured at net realisable value in accordance with well-established practices in those industries
Inventories are assets
a) held for sale in the ordinary course of business
b) In the process of production for such sale
c) In the form of materials or supplies to be consumed in the production process or in the rendering of services.
⇒ Do not include spare parts, servicing equipment and standby equipment which meet the definition of PPE as per AS 10.
Includes……..
Inventories encompass goods purchased and held for resale, for example, merchandise purchased by a retailer and held for resale, computer software held for resale, or land and other property held for resale. Inventories also encompass finished goods produced, or work in progress being produced, by the enterprise and include materials, maintenance supplies, consumables and loose tools awaiting use in the production process.
Inventories should be valued at the lower of cost and net realizable value.
The cost of inventories should comprise of
i.Costs of purchase,
ii.Costs of conversion and
iii.Other costs incurred in bringing the inventories to their present location and condition.
The costs of purchase includes:
i.Purchase price including duties and taxes
ii.Freight inwards and other expenditure directly attributable to the acquisition.
iii.Trade discounts, rebates, duty drawbacks and other similar items are deducted in determining the costs of purchase.
Following are to be deducted from cost of purchase:
i.Duties & Taxes recoverable from taxing authorities
ii.Trade Discounts
iii.Rebates
iv.Duty Drawbacks
v.Other similar items
Activity Ratio: Meaning, Definition, Types, Importance,…
Cost of conversion comprises
i.Direct Costs
ii.Fixed Production Overheads
iii.Variable Production overheads
Costs directly related to the units of production, such as direct labour.
Costs of Conversion also include a systematic allocation of fixed production overheads that are incurred in converting materials into finished goods. Fixed production overheads are those indirect costs of production that remain relatively constant regardless of the volume of production, such as depreciation and maintenance of factory buildings and the cost of factory management and administration.The allocation of fixed production overheads for the purpose of their inclusion in the costs of conversion is based on the normal capacity of the production facilities.
Normal capacity is the production expected to be achieved on an average over a number of periods or seasons under normal circumstances, taking into account the loss of capacity resulting from planned maintenance. The actual level of production may be used if it approximates normal capacity.The amount of fixed production overheads allocated to each unit of production is not increased as a consequence of low production or idle plant. Unallocated overheads are recognised as an expense in the period in which they are incurred.In periods of abnormally high production, the amount of fixed production overheads allocated to each unit of production is decreased so that inventories are not measured above cost.
Costs of Conversion also include a systematic allocation of fixed production overheads that are incurred in converting materials into finished goods.Variable production overheads are those indirect costs of production that vary directly, or nearly directly, with the volumeof production, such as indirect materials and indirect labour.Variable production overheads are assigned to each unit of production on the basis of the actual use of the production facilities.
Following costs should not be included
a)abnormal amounts of wasted materials, labour, or other production costs;
b)storage costs, unless those cost are necessary in the production process prior to a further production stage;
c) administrative overheads that do not contribute to bringing the inventories to their present location and condition and
d)selling and distribution costs
The cost of inventories of items that are not ordinarily interchangeable and goods or services produced and segregated for specific projects should be assigned by specific identification of their individual costs.
For other inventories, cost can be assigned by using the first-in, first-out (FIFO), or weighted average cost formula, whichever reflects the fairest possible approximation to the cost incurred in bringing the inventories to their present location and condition.
Formula Used-FIFO / Weighted Average Method
Costs Included – Cost of Purchase Cost of Conversion Other Costs incurred in bringing the inventories to their present location and condition
The FIFO formula assumes that the items of inventory which were purchased or produced first are consumed or sold first, and consequently the items remaining in inventory at the end of the period are those most recently purchased or produced.
2.Valuation of Inventories on Weighted Average basis:
Application of this Formula of Costing of Inventories:
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To Digitally Transform, Focus on People
It’s important for government executives to continue to accelerate digital transformation while balancing on-going projects and changing the culture and mindset. As a starting point, government leaders can focus activities on three areas that can help accelerate digital transformation.
Public sector organizations are embracing digital transformation, and we’re currently seeing examples of this in all levels of government. But while government executives recognize digital change as essential to their ability to cost-effectively meet the needs and expectations of their citizens, transformation efforts are sometimes hampered by outdated ways of non-agile processes and cultural resistance to change.
In the private sector, digital change is growing exponentially. More often than not, companies are embracing digital tools and platforms as a way to provide exceptional customer experiences, such as tailored products, relevant services, targeted information and shorter wait times.
Citizens’ expectations are being shaped by their experiences with various public and private organizations. Governments also feel pressure from within as public sector employees are looking for new and better ways to service citizens and businesses. They’re also accustomed to using convenient digital tools in their daily lives and want to be able to use those same tools at work.
Accelerating digital transformation
Build momentum and learn–early and often
Public sector organizations have typically taken a “big bang” approach to change–working for months or years to get every aspect of a solution perfect before launch. But at today’s rate of change, this approach doesn’t measure up to citizen and employee expectations or needs, and poses greater risk. By the time solutions are implemented, they may already be out of date. This approach can also lead to cost overruns and frustration as there are new requirements and changes needed after launch in order to satisfy citizen and employee needs.
This is why government leaders need to hit the reset button when it comes to implementing change and new solutions. In order to accelerate digital change, a more agile and human-centered approach is needed–one that focuses on making small changes with big impacts. It’s an approach many government entities across Canada are taking, and it will soon become the norm. By focusing on ongoing changes, government leaders can respond quickly to new challenges while making change less intimidating for employees and allowing for new innovations to be incorporated over time.
Procure based on outcomes
Government leaders know what they want to get from digital transformation, such as a one-stop shop for grant applications or a quicker turnaround for passport, health card or driver’s licence renewals. By focusing on outcomes as part of the RFP/Q process, governments can encourage more creative and innovative solutions.
This approach requires transformation leaders to switch mindsets and get out of the “how” business and into the “what they want to accomplish” business. By focusing on the outcomes, government and industry can better partner to find new, innovative and cost-effective ways to deliver the right solutions, which can be scaled to solve today’s issues and tomorrow’s needs. It typically brings together everyone impacted–users, employees and third parties–to develop and test prototypes, understand pain point and adjust course as needed. This approach uses principles of design thinking.
Design thinking works well when you have a problem but no definitive answer. It balances what citizens/employees want and need with government priorities. Since every person is unique, organizations can use principles of design thinking and human-centred design to develop personas to understand what each citizen or employee type wants at different stages of their journey, and test it with these users to constantly ensure we are driving value. I have seen this successfully implemented at all levels of government, and not only is it very powerful, but it leads to faster and more impactful solutions.
Break down silos
In order to accelerate transformation, government leaders need to continue to strive to break down operational silos and forge the relationships needed to solve citizens’ issues. Citizens aren’t picky about what department or program they are dealing with; they simply want to deal with the government as a whole. This helps embed human-centred design into the fabric of the public service.
This change won’t be easy, but it’s worth the effort. Consider that in today’s rapidly evolving environment, about 80 per cent of digital transformations fail–typically because of people issues, not technology. By working together to foster a culture that looks at change as an ongoing opportunity and not a threat, public sector leaders can help make the entire government more agile and able to change.
Starting small and building momentum
When it comes to embracing digital transformation, change should be looked at as a journey rather than as a destination. With the world evolving rapidly, focusing on small human-centred and outcome-driven steps can build long-term success more readily and in a lower-risk way than any single solution.
By starting small and building momentum, government leaders can harness the desire for their employees to make an impact and foster the culture shift needed to take a more agile, citizen-centric approach to service delivery.
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Bromide 'I Remember' Cassette Single
New single Limited edition cassette on Scratchy.
Music. What is it good for ? Maybe music starts where words finish.
We spend our lives absorbed by thoughts, experiences, emotions. Sometimes we can translate these into words, sometimes we need something more. Something.. other. We need sound.
Sound hotwires us direct to the soul. There are no diversions, no double meanings. There is only the purity of sound. Over a lifetime we become a living record of these sounds, a collection of sensory triggers that will transport us back in time to moments of joy, despair and everything in between.
‘I Remember’ is a collage of some of these moments. Of dancing with joy just because, of feeling the clouds draw in on a relationship, of becoming aware of music, of love. And ultimately of the realisation that there is no answer and all the roads are yellow bricked. As the song says..‘we’re just painting the bruises of our heads against the wall’.
The single is the title track from Bromide’s new album ‘I Remember’ produced by legendary producer Brian O’Shaughnessy (Primal Scream, MBV). It comes with two unreleased tracks – ‘Lovely New York’ an acoustic cover of a song by the late Tarka Cordell, former school bandmate of Bromide singer Simon Berridge and ‘Treasure Map’ the demo version of a track from previous Bromide album ‘Some Electric Sometime’.
1. I Remember
2. Lovely New York
3. Treasure Map (Demo)
"Bromide mix the best bits of The Lemonheads and Dinosaur Jr replete with melancholic melodies and J Mascis-ish guitar lines" Vive Le Rock
"‘I Remember’ is a brisk, snappy affair, which combines super-melodicism with athletic, abrasive guitars. Berridge’s confessional lyrics pull off the double feat of being both refreshingly down-to-earth and also angular at the same time" pennyblackmusic.co.uk
Release date: 14th august 2015
Bromide 'Magic Coins/Always Now' Vinyl 7"
‘Magic Coins’ is an unexpected rhythm track that is seemingly drum and bass-inspired, written collectively by all three band members. Bromide are Simon Berridge on vocals and guitar, Ed Lush on drums, and Hugo Wilkinson on bass.
These songbirds worship at the altars of Husker Du, Teenage Fanclub, The Replacements, Guided By Voices, Dinosaur Jr., The Only Ones, Buffalo Tom and other melodic rockers equally obsessed by songs, songwriting and the euphoria associated with playing music through amplified electronic equipment.
Hailing from London, their sound has been described as "Grant Hart fronting Sebadoh" and "Elvis Costello fronting Dinosaur Jr."
Vive Le Rock noted that they mix “the best bits of The Lemonheads and Dinosaur Jr. replete with melancholic melodies and J Mascis-ish guitar lines".
"Bromide haven't just woken up, they're alert and more keenly ambitious than ever" **** Record Collector
"Stunning.. if no one discovers this album now it will be claimed as one of the great lost albums of the era" 8/10 Louder than War
"I Woke Up catches the London-based three-piece punching a rather large and splendid hole in the modern alt-rock landscape" 8/10 God Is In The TV
"If you like Dinosaur Jr and The Replacements, you’ll love this" 4/5 musicOMH
"A mighty fine tune from Bromide" Gideon Coe, BBC 6 Music
"Joyously scrappy punkgaze tune" The 405
Track List Side A – Magic Coins Side B – Always Now Live: Saturday 23rd March - Scratchstock at The Birds Nest, Deptford Saturday 13th April - Records Store Day alldayer at Sister Midnight Records, Deptford Thursday 18th April - The Islington (London) as support for UT Saurday 25th May - Scratchstock at The Birds Nest, Deptford
Rafa Russo 'This Strange Place' CD
Troubadour ? Conquistador ? Or maybe a bit of both..Spanish songwriter/guitarist and screenwriter/director Rafa Russo’s travels have taken him from his native Madrid, through the folk clubs of New York and London and finally back to his homeland.
But it’s clear his spirit has only ever been in one place... Laurel Canyon. It’s in the fabled California songwriter hills of the late 60s and 70s that Rafa mines his songs and new album This Strange Place is packed full of his golden treasure.
Listen to the voice break open at the minute mark on Something Like Home and you might see a glimpse of Joni and Jackson, arm in arm over by the log cabin...Rafa started his musical career in New York in the early 1980s, playing fabled Greenwich Village clubs such as The Bitter End and Folk City.
In 1988, he moved to London. He stayed for nine years. The city was then undergoing an acoustic revival and Rafa was a regular at the capital’s many open mics such as God’s Little Joke, the Diorama and the legendary Troubadour club - this place was so acoustic that there wasn’t any amplification at all.
In London, Rafa released his first album A Petrified Forest in 1990, gaining favourable reviews from the UK press including NME: “an accomplished debut of folky, jazzy, bluesy and heartfelt mood swings.” The single from the album, Devil’s Angel, a Buddy Holly-esque pop song, made it onto both BBC Radio One and the fledgling late night television show Night Network. Support slots with Tori Amos, Melissa Etheridge, Zucchero and John Martyn followed.
And then in 1994 he was picked up by renowned British producer Mike Howlett who recorded and put out Rafa’s second album Despite Myself on the new Mauve label.
However, shortly after the release of his third album Raging Clowns (1996), things took an unexpected turn when a script Rafa had written was made into a film by Spanish director Maria Ripoll. If Only, also known as The Man With The Rain In His Shoes and Twice Upon A Yesterday was released in 1997 and featured a young Penelope Cruz. The film won Best Screenplay at the 1998 Montreal Festival and suddenly a new career was born. Music then had to take a backseat…until now.
1. Half A Chance
2. Beautiful Stranger
3. Something Like Home
4. Grey
5. Throwaway Days
6. Summertime
7. Empty Chair
8. Windshielded Sky
9. On The Side
10. You Crossed My Mind
11. The Beginning Of The End
12. Where Do You Go
Bromide 'I Woke Up'
In 2015 London-based Bromide got their electric shoes back on with new bass player Hugo Wilkinson joining long-term collaborators, singer-guitarist Simon Berridge and drummer Ed Lush.
The resulting album ‘I Remember’ was described by Vive Le Rock as mixing “the best bits of The Lemonheads and Dinosaur Jr replete with melancholic melodies and J Mascis-ish guitar lines" and won news fans including Gideon Coe on BBC6 who dubbed their single ‘Mr. Ciccone’s Daughter’ “Fantastic !” and played it for several months at the end of 2016.
Another vital piece of the puzzle had also fallen into place as they’d found producer Brian O’Shaughnessy at Bark Studios who seamlessly welded their pop onto their rock and last year the band returned to Bark to record their sixth album ‘I Woke Up’.
Again stuffed full of pop delights struggling to reach the 3 minute mark such as ‘Two Song Slot’, the story of a disastrous open-mic encounter turning into a last minute victory and ‘Tale To Tell’ a conscience-pricked near perfect example of the Bromide sound written in the studio while recording, the album also sees the band begin to stretch their wings a bit.
‘Magic Coins’ has an unexpected almost drum and bass inspired rhythm track while album closer and title track ‘I Woke Up’ is a 6 minute Doorsian odyssey. The song began life as a response to the biopic ‘Mr. Turner’ and in particular the scene in the film where the painter is tied to a mast in order to experience the full force of a nocturnal storm.
Starting with Berridge’s Glenn Branca inspired intro Lush and Wilkinson then latch on a full-on krautrock groove to build the track through to an epic conclusion complete with thunder, rain and anything else lying round the studio.
Elsewhere Patti Smith’s ‘Dancing Barefoot’ is given a thorough work out plus there are contributions from the rhythm section with Lush writing the music for both ‘I’ll Never Learn’ and ‘Always Now’ while Wilkinson provides a breath of fresh air in proceedings with the instrumental ‘Futurist Shore Leave’.
With ‘I Woke Up’ Bromide have firmly fixed the songwriter onto the band and vice-a-versa. As one recent twitter live review summed up “They rock hard but the tunes come first: like Elvis Costello fronting Dinosaur Jr” Ain’t gonna argue with that.
1. Tale to Tell
2. ’ll Never Learn
3. Two Song Slot
4. The Guide
5. Magic Coins
6. Ancient Rome
7. Futurist Shore Leave
8. Postcard From Leipzig
9. Dancing Barefoot
10. Always Now
11. Woke Up
Coach Hop 'I Like Taylor Swift b/w Everything’s Fine' Vinyl 7" - Pink
First 'Scratchy Singles Club' release on limited edition pink vinyl for Record Store Day
'I like Taylor Swift too and I don't care what you think.. bit of an instant classic' John Kennedy, Radio X
'A chunk of pop-rock with a dash of humour.. Reminds me of Fountains of Wayne" Gary Crowley, BBC London
“A golden voice” - Consequence Of Sound
I Like Taylor Swift is a sub-3-minute powerpop rock’n’roll anthem channelling the licks of Fountains Of Wayne and Weezer which tells of Coach Hop brainchild Charlie Laurence’s ‘fondness’ for the Country Queen Pop Music Maven, Taylor Swift, using a tongue-in-cheek humour that’s more disarming than it is distracting.
On the surface, I LikeTaylor Swift is a lovesong to the titular popstar but upon closer inspection, is an observation on the state of the modern music industry, “In the song I admit I haven’t really listened to much of her music but I’m inundated with images and stories about her” says Charlie. Throughout the song it verges on an admission that it’s not cool to like Taylor Swift but in his trademark style, Charlie doesn’t care what anyone else thinks, as he sings “I like Taylor Swift and I don’t care who knows it, it’s not a guilty pleasure, it’s just a normal pleasure.”
The accompanying video is a ‘state of the art’ animated affair using techniques that are an industry first, produced by Charlie’s brother, and BBC Creative’s Head of Design Lawrence Honderick and Sam Humphries.
The release’s B-side; Everything’s Fine is a subversive and evocative social commentary that expresses Charlie’s acerbic wit and lookon life with the lyric: “They say every cloud has a silver lining but I'm not a believer. I'm not gonna be bitter about it, but I don't have to be happy about it either. Everything's fine, and nothing's gonna be alright.”
Release Date: 21st April 2018
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Hier finden Sie die Internetlinks aus dem Inhaltsverzeichnis des Buches „Der Glaube an eine ‚jüdische Weltverschwörung‘. Die Rezeption der ‚Protokolle der Weisen von Zion‘ in der arabischen Welt“. Wenn Sie etwas „nachschlagen“ wollen, müssen Sie also nicht alles abtippen.
Internetseiten (letzter Zugriff jeweils 08.12.2011)
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http://www.nahost-politik.de/syrien/diaspora.htm.
(3) Carmon, Yigal: Harbingers of change in the antisemitic discourse in the Arab world, MEMRI 2003,
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(5) Halpern, Orly, In: JPost: EXCLUSIVE: Hamas working on ‘new charter’, http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1139395429041&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter.
(6) Hunting, J. H.: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,
http://astro.temple.edu/~hfreiden/Antisemitism/protocol.htm.
(7) Jacoby, Jeff: Rousing Muslim bigotry, The Boston Globe, 23.10.2003, http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-7808335.html.
(8) Küntzel, Matthias: www.matthiaskuentzel.de.
(9) Küntzel, Matthias: Die “Protokolle der Weisen von Zion“ auf der Frankfurter Buchmesse, 2005,
http://www.matthiaskuentzel.de/contents/die-protokolle-der-weisen-von-zion-auf-der-frankfurter-buchmesse.
(10) Leslau, Ohad: The New Middle East: From the Perspective of the Old Middle East, In MERIA (The Middle East Review of International Affairs), Volume 10, No. 3, Article 4/10 – September 2006,
http://meria.idc.ac.il/journal/2006/issue3/jv10no3a4.html.
(11) Levin, Marc: Protocols of Zion, New York 2004,
http://worldfilm.about.com/od/documentaryfilms/fr/protocolsofzion.htm (Rezension).
(12) an-Naqīb, Māzin: al-Qatl, Damaskus 2004,
http://www.daralawael.com/book.php?bid=80
(13) Rāmī, AḤmad: Ein Leben für Freiheit. Eine Selbstbiographie, unter http://www.radioislam.org/einleb.htm.
(14) Stephen Roth Institute: Antisemitism Worldwide: Arab Countries 2002-2003, Tel Aviv 2003, http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw2002-3/arab.htm.
(15) Stephen Roth Institute: Antisemitis Worldwide: Arab Countries 2004, Tel Aviv 2004, http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw2004/arab.htm.
(16) ITIC: A new Arabic edition of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was issued in Egypt in July 2002, by the same company that publishes the weekly establishment newspaper, Akhbar al-Youm, one of the five large publishing houses still under Egyptian government control, January 2004, http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/html/final/eng/sib/egypt/peoz_1_04.htm.
(17) ITIC: Erlich, Reuven: Anti-Semitism in the Contemporary Middle East, April 2004,
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/html/final/eng/sib/4_04/as_hp.htm.
(18) ITIC: An additional “routine” wave (devoid of any concrete grounds) of anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli incitement on official Egyptian media, May 2004
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/html/final/eng/sib/5_05/egy_as.htm.
(19) ITIC: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion still a hit on the Egyptian book market: Two new versions of The Protocols, published in Egypt in 2003, are offered for sale in Cairo’s bookstores and, in our assessment, are marketed throughout the Arab and Muslim world, January 2005, http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/html/final/eng/sib/2_05/prot.htm.
(20) ITIC: A new Syrian edition of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (2005) featured at the Cairo International Book Fair and exhibited with other Syrian-published anti-Semitic books (…), 28.02.2005,
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/html/final/eng/sib/3_05/prot_sy_e.htm.
(21) ITIC: Bashar Assad’s Syria : A focus of continued incitement to venomous anti-Semitism, 20.04.2005,
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/html/final/eng/sib/4_05/bashar.htm.
(22) ITIC: Exporting Arabic anti-Semitic publications issued in the Middle East to Britain: anti-Semitic books (The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Mein Kampf) issued in Egypt and Lebanon are sold in bookstores in London, 10.10.2005,
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/html/final/eng/eng_n/pro_10_05_e.htm.
(23) ITIC: The Hamas Charter (1988) Overtly anti-Semitic and anti-West, radical Islamic in outlook, it stresses Hamas‘ ideological commitment to destroy the State of Israel through a long-term holy war (jihad), 23.03.2006,
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hamas_charter.htm.
(24) ITIC: Meridor, Noa: An examination of Palestinian fifth and tenth-grade textbooks for the 2004-2005 school year shows a continuing denial of the State of Israel’s right to exist and a continuing cultivation of the values of armed struggle against Israel (…), 16.04.2006,
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/html/final/eng/eng_n/html/as_nm_e.htm.
(25) ITIC: Lebanon is still a center for the distribution of anti-Semitic literature, including books by Hezbollah’s publishing house. Such literature, distributed across the Arab and Muslim world, inspires hatred against Israel and the Jewish people and may legitimize violence against them, 02.08.2006, http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/arab_hate_ind.htm.
(26) ITIC: Egypt continues as a center for the publication of crude anti-Semitic literature encouraging hatred for Israel, the Jewish people and the West, and in effect justifying the use of violence against them, 29.10.2006,
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/egypt_e_ind.htm.
(27) ITIC: Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism: the Iranian media gave wide coverage to the Holocaust denial conference held in Cairo (…), 07.01.2007, http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/as_h_denial_e.htm.
(28) ITIC: The Grand Mufti of Egypt in the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion – a “fictitious book” that “has no truth to it”; in his article he categorically denies having written the foreword to the 2003 edition of The Protocols , which was attributed to him, 15.05.2007,
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/elders_of_zion_p.htm.
(29) ITIC: Erlich, Reuven; Kahati, Yoram: Hezbollah as a case study for the battle for hearts and minds, June 2007,
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/pdf/hezbollah_e_0607.pdf.
(30) ITIC: The hate industry: a review of anti-Semitic literature published in Egypt in recent years and sold at the Cairo International Book Fair, 14.11.2007, http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/pdf/hate_ind_1107e.pdf.
(31) ITIC: Contemporary Arab-Muslim anti-Semitism. Its Significance and Implications (Updated to March 2008). The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: The Lie That Wouldn’t Die…, 17.04.2008,
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/pdf/a_s_170408e.pdf.
(32) ITIC: The Hate Industry: a blatantly anti-Semitic series which incorporates The Protocols of the Elders of Zion has recently been shown on an Iranian TV channel. (…), 21.07.2008,
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/iran_e001.htm.
(33) ITIC: Terrorism and anti-Semitism: Hamas spokesman accuses the Jews of America’s financial crisis. In the spirit of classic anti-Semitism, Jews are represented as behind every crisis anywhere in the world. The anti-Semitic incitement is part of Hamas’s methodical propaganda using myths from The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 13.10.2008,
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hamas_e007.htm.
(34) ITIC: The hate industry: Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV continues its crude anti-Semitic incitement, using The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and calling for the genocide of the Jews. In addition, a book was seized during Operation Cast Lead, rife with anti-Semitism, 21.04.2009,
(35) ITIC: The hate industry: the global spread of swine flu is used for anti-Semitic incitement across the Arab and Muslim world (…), 10.05.2009, http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/as_e004.htm.
(36) MEMRI: Inquiry and Analysis, No. 109: Arab Press Debates Antisemitic Egyptian Series ‚A Knight Without a Horse‘ – Part I, 08.11.2002,
(37) MEMRI: Inquiry and Analysis, No. 113: Arab Press Debates Antisemitic Egyptian Series ‚Knight Without a Horse‘ – Part II, 20.11.2002,
(38) MEMRI: Inquiry and Analysis, No. 114: Arab Press Debates Antisemitic Egyptian Series ‚Knight Without a Horse‘- Part III, 10.12.2002,
(39) MEMRI: Special Dispatch, No. 598: Syrian Ramadan TV Series on Hizbullah’s Al-Manar:’Diaspora,‘ Episode I, 29.10.2003
(40) MEMRI: Special Dispatch, No. 619: Jewish Holy Books On Display at the Alexandria Library: The Torah & the ‚Protocols of the Elders of Zion‘, 03.12.2003, http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/1009.htm.
(41) MEMRI: Al-Shatat: Special Dispatch, No. 627: The Syrian-Produced Ramadan 2003 TV Special, 12.12.2003,
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/1018.htm.
(42) MEMRI: Special Dispatch, No. 855: Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial in the Iranian Media, 28.01.2005,
(43) MEMRI: Special Dispatch, No. 1011: Jordanian TV Airs Antisemitic Ramadan Series, 21.10.2005,
(44) MEMRI: Special Dispatch, No. 1092: The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas, 14.02.2006,
(45) MEMRI: Video Clip, No. 1178: Former PLO Ambassador to Vienna Ghazi Hussein on the Holocaust, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the Rule of the World, 21.06.2006, http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1178.htm.
(46) MEMRI: Video Clip, No. 1313: ´Abū al-Ḥaǧǧ über den Nobelpreis, 31.10.2006, http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1313.htm.
(47) MEMRI: Video Clip, No. 1802: The secret of Armageddon, May-June 2008, http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1802.htm.
(48) MEMRI: Clip Transcript, No. 2076: Lebanese TV Host Rabi’a Zayyat: The Jews Distorted the Torah and Introduced the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 23.01.2009, http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/2076.htm.
(49) MEMRI: Inquiry and Analysis, No. 507: Chernitsky, B; and Glass, E.: Antisemitic Statements and Cartoons in Wake of Gaza War, 30.03.2009, http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/3213.htm.
(50) MEMRI: Video Clip, No. 2092: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on His Experiences from the Durban II Conference (…), 22.04.2009,
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/2092.htm.
(51) MEMRI-Blog, 01.05.2009, Schweinegrippe:
http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/16028.htm.
(52) An-Naǧǧār, Zaġlūl: www.elnaggarzr.net.
(53) ´Aqsa-TV: http://www.aqsatv.ps.
(54) ArabSat: http://www.arabsat.com/pages/AboutUs.aspx.
(55) Bild al-Masīrī www.atyafmsr.com/2009/04/…/موسوعة-الصهيونية/ [Dez. 2011 „Außer Betrieb“].
(56) Bild ᶜAbd al-Wāhid, Ḥussain:
http://goodreads.com/book/show/6238263._.
(57) Bild Syrien 2005: http://www.daralawael.com/books.php?pid=14.
(58) Bild Ṭantāwī: http://3lsooot.com/booksmall/vbook2892.html [Dez. 2011: Dieser Link funktioniert nicht mehr. Derzeit findet sich eine Abbildung des Buches unter
http://books.google.de/books?id=Nce_PgAACAAJ&hl=de&source=gbs_book_similarbooks%5D.
(59) Bild Türk. Ausgabe:
http://www.tulumba.com/storeitem.asp?ic=zBK970127KS845.
(60) Dār al-´Awā´il: www.daralawael.com.
(61) Diaspora http://www.bestarabic.com/shop/the-spread/prod_1379.html.
(62) Ipsos: www.ipsos.de.
(63) MīṮāq ḥaraka al-muqāwama al-ialāmiyya, Qalqilya 2004, In: ITIC: The Hamas Charter (1988). Overtly anti-Semitic and anti-West, radical Islamic in outlook, it stresses Hamas’ ideological commitment to destroy the State of Israel through a long-term holy war (jihad),
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hamas_charter.htm, S. 39-71.
(64) NEWTVSAT: http://www.newtvsat.tv/newtvsatold/index.html.
(65) Palästin. Autonomie: http://nakba.sis.gov.ps/ (nicht zugänglich).
(66) Radio Islam: www.radioislam.org.
(67) Radio Islam – Protokolle
http://www.radioislam.org/protocols/index-arab.htm.
(68) Radio Islam – Deutsch:
http://www.radioislam.org/islam/deutsch/arkiv/zionpro.htm.
(69) Radio Islam – Selbstverständnis:
http://www.radioislam.org/islam/deutsch/deutsch.htm.
(70) TārīḤ al-ᶜĀlam al-Ḥadīṯ wa-l-Muᶜāṣir, Geschichtsbuch für die 10. Klasse an palästinensischen Schulen, 2004, S. 63, In: ITIC: Meridor, Noa: An examination of Palestinian fifth and tenth-grade textbooks for the 2004-2005 school year shows a continuing denial of the State of Israel’s right to exist and a continuing cultivation of the values of armed struggle against Israel (…), 2006,
(71) Times Online – Zitat Mufti:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article416841.ece [Dez. 2011: Der Link funktioniert nicht mehr].
(72) Wikipedia-Bewertungen: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bewertungen.
(73) Wikipedia-Protokolle: http://www.ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/بروتوكولات_حكماء_صهيون
(74) Yale – Hamas Charta
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/mideast/hamas.htm
[automatische Weiterleitung zu
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/mideast.asp. Das Dokument findet sich unter „1988“].
(75) Edmunds: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/59055853&referer=brief_results.
(76) Dönme: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfn_MO2xleE.
(77) Ǧumᶜa, ᶜAlī: www.aligomaa.net.
(78) Arab Human Development Report: http://www.arab-hdr.org/
(79) Rezension De Michelis: Meyer zu Uptrup, Wolfram: C. de Michelis, The Protocols oft he Sages of Zion,
http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/type=rezbuecher&id=7157, 2005.
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Homeward Bound: Empowering Women in Science and Leadership
By Georgia Ward-Fear
I 'walk the walk' for the environment and I also love breaking stereotypes
As a wildlife biologist, I see firsthand the rapid (unprecedented) environmental change happening on our planet. I work to understand and combat it every day.
As a female scientist, I see firsthand the gender inequality inherent in my industry. Women enter science globally in significant numbers yet we are dramatically underrepresented in executive, decision-making roles. More broadly, women are overrepresented in the world's poor and are therefore disproportionately more likely to experience the effects of climate change and other environmental issues.
How can we address these two issues? What if achieving gender balance at the leadership table was one of the most effective ways to influence environmental sustainability and reduce human impact? Research suggests that it could be!
I strongly believe that increasing the capacity of female scientists to engage at the environmental leadership table could alter our planet's future. I also want girls to grow up in a world knowing they can work with reptiles, get their clothes dirty, drive ATVs, be passionate, loud and assertive AND be just as likely to direct federal environmental policy as their male counterparts.
The Homeward Bound program aims to build leadership capacity for passionate women in STEM; this year I have been selected for this program!
I can’t do it alone - I need your help to participate
Homeward Bound is a groundbreaking global leadership initiative to heighten the influence and impact of passionate women in science and to address global environmental change.
The vision, over the next decade, is to equip a 1000-strong global collaboration of women with a science background to network, lead, influence and contribute to policy and decision-making as it informs the future of our planet. This 12-month program develops leadership, communication, visibility and strategic capabilities. The program finishes with a three week intensive all-female leadership expedition to Antarctica - the locale currently experiencing the most severe human-induced change.
For more information about the program, visit the Homeward Bound website.
I'm a passionate conservation ecologist and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Sydney. I work to identify innovative solutions that mitigate the impacts of invasive species, rethink ecological frameworks, assess the sustainability of wildlife exploitation in a changing world and engage with local communities in education initiatives. I work closely with a suite of NGOs, conservation organisations and the government as a key researcher in large-scale projects; I also work with indigenous communities across northern Australia to collaboratively develop and implement conservation programs on their homelands. My job is my calling and I love it. I have amazing mentors, nearly all of whom are male, and it got me thinking...generations of aspiring female ecologists have few female ecologists in senior or executive roles to envision themselves as; mentors to help them push past many of the barriers women face in the Sciences. Could I become one of these mentors?
Why am I involved?
Climate instability is changing native ecosystems in myriad ways; species will be lost and systems will be less resilient to invasion. I believe we can and we must curb our future, not just for you and I, but for every other living species who share this planet with us.
To achieve this we need a global collaboration of knowledgeable, passionate and empowered people; I intend to be one of them. Furthermore, women need equal representation at the leadership table. I am thrilled and privileged to be selected for the Homeward Bound initiative this year, as one of the 80 women worldwide. I am so excited to work with this group of amazing women, to learn, share and plan. I am daunted by the prospect of witnessing climate effects on Antarctica first hand but will turn this experience into motivation for action.
What I want to achieve most out of Homeward Bound:
To inspire young women into science.
To widen my network and environmental influence and do the same for other people.
To be inspired by other amazing women in science.
To improve gender equality and diversity.
Be a part of my journey
Our leadership training and strategising is underway, and our momentum is increasing - we are already so productive. Although much of the program investment per person is subsidised or supported by the likes of Dattner Grant leadership experts; Human Synergistics; The Australian Antarctic Division; ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions (UniQLD); and the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (UniTAS); each participant is still required to cover approximately AUD$25,000 of costs themselves to cover both the leadership training and aspects of the female expedition to Antarctica.
Please help me participate in this global collaborative movement, 1000 women strong, to realise our vision for a sustainable future. By supporting me you are also supporting the entire movement.
All contributions, no matter how small, are greatly appreciated! If you can't donate, can you help me with sponsorship or other opportunities?
Upon my return
My Homeward Bound journey is just beginning. When I arrive home I will:
Implement the strategies and leadership through my research and my professional network.
Build my new found knowledge and climate science into future projects and campaigns.
Pass on the learnings through talks and presentations to mentor girls and women in science.
Create content for remote-school programs.
Empower more women to join Homeward Bound and mentor those joining future expeditions.
Play an active role in the Homeward Bound network.
Lead the charge for women in science and policy.
Georgia Ward-Fear
I'm one of 80 female scientists selected for Homeward Bound 2018; a global, collaboration to influence environmental policy for our planet's future; 12 mth leadership program ending in Antarctica.
Georgia Ward-Fear Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
$50 Pictures from the Land of Ice at the End of the Earth
I'll send you a digital collection of 10 images from the trip to the land of ice at the end of the Earth!
Est. Delivery Date: March/April 2019
$100 Penguin Postcard
In addition to the photo collection, I'll send you a personalised postcard from the Penguin Post Office at Port Lockroy, Antarctic Peninsula- the southernmost post office in the world!
Est. Delivery Date: Est. delivery date: April 2018
$500 Antarctic Photo Opportunity
As a thank-you for your generous support, I'll send you a photo of me holding your picture, personalised sign or company logo on the Antarctic peninsula. Use for advertising or as you see fit. Brand placement with a polar twist!
Est. Delivery Date: February 2019
$500 Women in Science Seminar
Seminar on leadership and strategic capacity building for young women in Science. Tailored to undergraduate or high school students. Purchase for yourself or sponsor somewhere else. NB: Available in Tasmania, Sydney surrounds, Brisbane surrounds, Darwin surrounds, the Kimberley.
Est. Delivery Date: Post February 2019
$500 Wildlife Conservation or other Presentation
I'm a passionate conservation scientist involved in innovative research with wild animals. I have travelled around the globe, conducted long distance adventure journeys, lived with indigenous cultures and worked with many amazing animals. I will give a custom presentation on any aspect of my work or travels (including Homeward Bound) that you would like to hear about. Purchase for yourself or sponsor somewhere else! NB: Available in Tasmania, Sydney surrounds, Brisbane surrounds, Darwin surrounds, the Kimberley
Est. Delivery Date: Post March 2019
Get in touch with Homeward Bound: Empowering Women in Science and Leadership
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George Oliver Adds Partner, Hires Lead Architect as Market Footprint Expands
In Executive Updates
Charles Jerkovich, Jay Sciarani join growing commercial real estate development firm
PHOENIX, ARIZ. – Phoenix-based commercial real estate investment and operating company George Oliver has hired Charles Jerkovich as a company Partner and Jay Sciarani as Lead Architect for George Oliver Design. The additions will allow George Oliver to grow and scale its business through new and innovative project opportunities.
Charles Jerkovich
In his new role, Jerkovich oversees portfolio management for all existing George Oliver assets and assists with sourcing, evaluating, underwriting and executing new development and investment opportunities. Jerkovich brings with him almost a decade of experience in asset management, acquisitions and real estate investments.
Sciarani fills an essential role on the creative side of George Oliver, managing the design and implementation of repositioning strategies through George Oliver Design. Jay brings more than a decade of experience in construction and commercial architecture.
“The addition of Charles and Jay come at a crucial time for George Oliver as we focus on growing our modernized office strategy through the acquisition and redevelopment of new opportunities,” said George Oliver founder and Managing Partner Curt Kremer. “Phoenix is evolving as an exceptionally creative office market where companies and employees want unique workplace environments. Having Charles and Jay in their new roles strengthens our ability to identify and respond to these types of demands with even greater efficiency and innovation.”
Jay Sciarani
George Oliver is currently redeveloping CASA, a $17 million renovation project that is re-establishing a 1989-built traditional office building into next-generation, modernized Class A office space focused on a strong sense of community, health and wellness. CASA is located in Phoenix’s booming Uptown neighborhood. Other successful project partnerships by George Oliver include The Quad in Scottsdale, Junction 23 in Denver’s RiNo arts district and Upcycle in Austin’s trendy Eastside submarket.
Jerkovich holds a bachelor’s degree in Finance from the University of Iowa. He is a member of ULI and NAIOP. Sciarani holds a bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the University of Nevada Las Vegas and a master’s in Architecture from Arizona State University. He is a member of the AIA and NCARB.
About George Oliver
George Oliver LLC is a Phoenix-based, privately owned commercial real estate investment and operating company specializing in transforming obsolete buildings and business parks into institutional-quality, modernized office communities. By looking beyond the surface of an asset, George Oliver turns potential into profitability through acquisition, redevelopment/transformation, asset management and development. To learn more or to discuss new project opportunities, visit www.georgeoliver.com.
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Going virtual for competitive advantage →
Not Using Open Source Software? Must be nice to have money to burn!
If your manager of HR came up to you and said, “I’d like to send every employee out for a $500.00 to $1,000.00 training program in the coming year,” as a business owner you would probably wince. After all, times are tough.
What if the HR Manager said to you — “by the way, there’s an free training alternative that may be just as good. But I still want to spend this money.”
I’m not sure what you would do? Fire him/her on the spot? Call for a paramedic? Or would you just throw him/her out of your office.
In those terms, it sounds like you’d have to be nuts to be that HR Manager, right?
So if that’s true, why aren’t people up in arms about software? Don’t get me wrong, I’m not doing Microsoft bashing here. But I still don’t get why companies will spend a small fortune on “name brand” software when the “generic” (Open Source) is often free.
And if people are telling you that its because Open Source isn’t ready to run a “real business” — let me be the first to say it. That’s nonsense.
As I pointed out on someone else’s blog — I’m a power user of Office. I do things that 90% of your employees wouldn’t even know how to do. And I use Open Office almost all the time. But 99% of your employees aren’t “power users”. The last time I checked, the average worker was using less than 10% of the functions of office software.
Now do the math. Microsoft Office costs how much? Open Office is free. Yes. Free. Free as in “can you save more money than free?”
Why pay a premium price for functionality nobody even uses? Even if you factor in the cost of switching over — and some training, can you really lose out?
I want to say it’s funny, but it’s really sad. The objections are, as my kids would say – lame. Take the question of training. Did you do any training on Office? How about when it made it’s big shift to 2007, which baffled the hell out of me. Did companies do training? Or did it just arrive on the desk? So what is the big worry about shifting to Open Office? I still recommend training – but it’s not a barrier.
Or the one I hear all the time. Open Office — there might be bugs. Who will fix them? Are you serious? Do you really think MS Office has no bugs? And who fixes those? Personally, if I had to bet on fixes, I’d stick with the Open Source community. Although its funny that somehow that community is not seen as serious by some. Newsflash. For those who must have a corporate involvement, Sun Microsystems is a big sponsor of Open Office. IBM and others are big players in the Open Source arena in general.
Or the big final one. The world is Microsoft, you say? Guess what. I save my Open Office documents as Microsoft docs before I send them out to all my friends who have money to burn. In fact, I have less problems going between Open Office and Microsoft Office than I have in going between versions of Microsoft Office. Try sending a 2007 document to a 2003 Office user. Now that’s a pain.
If it were only office. I use an open source (free) anti-virus, not because it’s cheaper, but because I can’t stand the paid alternative. My list goes on and on.
In fact, I started this journey not because of Office, but because of Sharepoint. We needed a document management type of system in our office and since we had access to a Sharepoint license, we installed it. Now we are IT consultants. But within a week the technology consultant who implemented the Sharepoint system was in my office telling me we had to hire an administrator to take care of the system. It needed specialized skills to get it up and running. We would have spent thousands.
I threw it out and went Open Source and never looked back. I (or any other reasonably intelligent techie) figured out Drupal (the Open Source CMS) in a weekend. It cost us nothing in licenses, was a dream to install and a year later, we do everything ourselves.
I could go on and on. Scalix replaces Microsoft Exchange. Our CRM is SugarCRM and even though we do pay for a license (we use the Enterprise Version) it’s still a gift in terms of price compared with the much more expensive Salesforce.com (just so I’m not picking on Microsoft)
Mind mapping? I use Freemind. As in free.
Even this blog? Word Press. Not costing me a cent.
Don’t get me wrong. We will pay, when there’s value. We have a secure email system that does cost a few shekels, but it’s remarkably reasonable. We pay for our conferencing platform, but that still saves us a ton of money and time. It allows us to do business all around the world.
The one barrier for most companies is that they just don’t know. But there is no reason for that anymore. We’re offering a license review where we’ll do a review of all your software licenses. This isn’t just individual licenses. We go into the corporate licenses as well. You would be surprised what we find. We’ve found duplication, over purchasing, maintenance programs that are way more than the company needs — sometimes you’d be shocked at what these are costs. Heck, we’ve found software that nobody is using that is still being paid for with maintenance charges every year. Hey, a few thousand here, a few thousand there — soon, you are talking about real money.
Now we’re adding an Open Source audit as well. We don’t expect our clients to just jump and replace all their software with Open Source. There are learning curves, due diligence, training and all of that. But we do expect that they will do a business case and have a strategy to migrate over time — or a damned good reason why not.
We offer this service to companies around the world. Our Open Source VOIP phone system allows us to reach anywhere and do this type of work. We offer — not everyone takes us up on it. But then, some companies have money to burn.
If you DON’T – give us a call. We’ll even pick up the tab for the call. With the money we save on phones, I don’t sweat what we pay for our 1-800 line — it’s VOIP anyway. So call us at 1-800-741-9375 ext 1000
You have nothing to lose — and a lot to gain.
Update: March 5, 2009 Here’s a link to an article that someone sent me. It deals with some of the wrong headed ideas about open source and some hope about how our federal government in Canada might be waking up.
Jim Love, Managing Partner, Performance Advantage
Tagged as cost savings, Open Office, Open Source, software licenses, SugarCRM, Technology
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NGC SMS Mint Set 2009
25C 2009-D PUERTO RICO SMS
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Origin/Country: UNITED STATES
Design Description: QUARTER DOLLARS - STATES & TERRITORIES
Item Description: 25C 2009 D SMS PUERTO RICO
Full Grade: NGC MS 69
Owner: bishopjd
Custom Sets: This coin is not in any custom sets.
Competitive Sets: NGC MS DC and US Territory Quarters 2009 Score: 237
NGC SMS Mint Set 2009 Score: 237
Research: NGC Coin Explorer NGC Coin Price Guide
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The Puerto Rico Quarter was released on March 30, 2009. This marked the second release of the 2009 DC & US Territories Quarter Program.
The reverse design features a view of the sea from a sentry box in Old San Juan. Pictured at right is the hibiscus. The inscriptions read “Puerto Rico,” “Isla del Encanto” (translated: Isle of Enchantment), “E Pluribus Unum,” and the date. The reverse was designed and sculpted by Joseph Menna.
Another proposed design included a depiction of the Governor’s residence, the Palacio de Santa Catalina. This is the oldest government building in the Americas which has remained in continuous use. A second proposed design depicted the Arecibo Observatory. This enormous telescope is the largest single aperture telescope ever constructed. The selection of the Old San Juan design was announced by the US Mint on December 15, 2008.
An official launch ceremony for the Puerto Rico Quarter was held on April 2, 2009 at San Juan’s La Arcada in Paseo La Princesa. The ceremony presented by United States Mint Director Edmund Moy and Puerto Rico Governor Luis Fortuno. Also in attendance were Puerto Rico’s First Lady Luce Vela and Secretary of State Kenneth McClintock. The festivities will include local entertainment and a coin exchange. Free coins were given to children 18 years and younger.
The mintages for the Puerto Rico Quarter declined from the levels of the previous quarter release. The reduced production came amidst a slow down in the economy and a backwash of old coinage reentering the system. The Philadelphia Mint produced 53,000,000 coins and the Denver Mint produced 86,000,000 coins.
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Neill Blomkamp Says His ALIEN Movie Will Be a “Genetic Sibling” to ALIENS
by Adam Chitwood February 25, 2015
In case you haven’t heard, a new Alien movie is on the way thanks to persistence and Instagram. District 9 and Eylsium director Neill Blokmamp got the idea for a new Alien film and, instead of going to 20th Century Fox or reaching out to see if there was interest, he went ahead and started putting the movie together himself. After posting some of the concept art online, Fox apparently came calling, resulting in the announcement that the studio had officially set Blomkamp to direct a film set within the Alien universe as his next movie, with Ridley Scott producing.
Not much is known about the film other than what we saw in concept art, which showed the return of Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley as well as Michael Biehn’s Hicks. The press tour for Blomkamp’s most immediate next feature, Chappie, is ongoing, and folks are trying pretty hard to get details out of the filmmaker. Sky Movies succeeded, with Blomkamp revealing how his new Alien movie fits into the franchise as a whole:
“I want this film to feel like it is literally the genetic sibling of Aliens, so it’s Alien, Aliens and then this film.”
It’s early days yet, but it certainly sounds like Blomkamp plans on at least partially disregarding Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection. Sure they’re not great films, but it’d be weird to just pretend like that part of Ripley’s story never happened. But again, it’s early days, so I’ll be interested to see how Blomkamp addresses (or doesn’t address) the events of those films in his movie.
The filmmaker also discussed his desire to maintain the “nightmare” element of the series:
“It’s a Freudian nightmare. That element to me is what is so appealing; to put the audience on the edge of their seat the whole time in a traditional, monster-stalking-you, dark-corridor-way. I love that. And then when you mix in all of the deign elements and the life cycle of the alien, it’s a powder keg of creativity for me.”
But possibly even more curiously, both Blomkamp and Weaver spoke with a sense of finality with regards to this new movie, with Weaver saying the following:
“I would love to take Ripley out of sort of orbiting around in space and give a proper finish to what was such an excellent story. So when someone like Neill Blomkamp said, ‘Well, I’m interested in finishing the story,’ my little ears perked up… I think it’s a great series. It deserves a proper ending—I know the fans would love that.”
I’m sure Fox feels differently about “ending” what’s been such a successful franchise for the studio, but if Blomkamp and Weaver could come up with a fitting conclusion to Ripley’s story, that would certainly be more satisfying than where we left off with Resurrection.
This is Blomkamp’s next movie, so I imagine he’ll spend the rest of the year writing the script and beginning prep work, with production likely getting underway in the first half of 2016 if it all comes together. I imagine everyone will have already forgotten that Chappie exists well before that.
Richard Jewell TV Series 'Manhunt: Deadly Games' Gets Explosive First Trailer
'Bad Boys for Life' Directors Offer an Update on 'Beverly Hills Cop 4'
'The Turning' Director Floria Sigismondi on What Inspired Her to Become a Filmmaker
Nuclear Take: Why the 'Tremors' Franchise Is Better Than the 'Alien' Movies
Will Ferrell to Star in THE HOUSE from NEIGHBORS Writers Brendan O’Brien…
Trailer for RAIDERS! THE STORY OF THE GREATEST FAN FILM EVER MADE
• Alien • Alien 5 • Neill Blomkamp • Sigourney Weaver
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Fraternal Order of Police supporters clash with counter-protestors amidst calls for resignation of Kim Foxx
By Orlando Pinder and Mike Rundle
Members and supporters of the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) were met with fierce counter-protesters April 1 outside the George W. Dunne Cook County Office Building, 69 W. Washington St. Pro-FOP demonstrators arrived in charter buses to call for the resignation of Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx after 16 felony counts against actor Jussie Smollett were dropped.
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Orlando Pinder
Bob Bartlett with the FOP argues with a counter-protester April 1.
Orlando Pinder, Former Staff Photographer
Mike Rundle, Director of Photography
mrundle@columbiachronicle.com
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Commonwealth Games Australia
Para-Powerlifting
CGA & Marriage Equality
Commonwealth Games Australia is strongly committed to our core values of Inclusiveness, Respect, Excellence and Integrity.
We celebrate the fact that our teams past, present and future have been and will be diverse and representative of all Australians.
Commonwealth Games Australia has led the way in working with the Gold Coast organising committee to ensure 2018 will represent the most inclusive Commonwealth Games in history.
This includes equal medal opportunities for men and women, and the most comprehensive integrated para-sports program in history.
Commonwealth Games Australia respects the rights of all Australians to have their say in the current postal vote on marriage equality, just as we respect the rights of our member sports to express their own views.
However, it Is important that as we assemble our team for Gold Coast 2018, our athletes and the broader Australian community understand that we are an organisation that stands strongly by its values of inclusiveness and respect.
Commonwealth Games Australia is proud to support YES for marriage equality.
Glynis Nunn recalls her first Games gold
Thirty-five years ago, today, Queensland’s Glynis Nunn, won gold in the women’s heptathlon at the Brisbane 1982 Commonwealth Games.
to assist bushfire recovery
Commonwealth Games Australia has pledged $25,000 to the Red Cross Bushfire Appeal, along with a commitment to join national sporting partners in a program of activities to assist with the recovery in affected areas.
Vale Alex Fulcher MBE OAM
It is with sadness we advise of the passing of Commonwealth Games NSW President Alex Fulcher.
Hockeyroo Amy Lawton named Emerging Athlete of the Year
Rising hockey star Amy Lawton has capped off a remarkable 12 months by winning the Emerging Athlete of the Year Award at the AIS Sport Performance Awards (#ASPAs) in Sydney.
Kurt Fearnley scholarship holders on fire in 2019
It’s fitting that the patron of this year’s International Day of People with Disability is two-time Commonwealth Games champion Kurt Fearnley.
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