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Creative Destruction and Machine Learning: What Will the Humans Do?
Robbie Allen
Historically, technology has destroyed some jobs (how many of your friends are candlestick makers?) while creating new ones (how many of your grandfather’s friends were data scientists?). This is known as creative destruction. The question haunting the advance of today’s technology is whether it will simply destroy jobs without leaving enough replacements behind.
In the summer of 2018, HFS Research produced a study called “How to Avoid Your Looming Machine Learning Crisis” based on responses from “153 data science decision-makers across the Global 2000.” The report recorded a range of responses, reflected in the graphic above, to the question of what to do with displaced workers. In response, the authors wrote that:
Struck with uncertainty in how workforce requirements will change, many enterprises are confused around this challenge of what to do with displaced employees in the near and long- term future. A confounding two-thirds of respondents think that their workforce will be able to be retrained to perform data and ML related tasks. This is a highly unrealistic outcome, especially considering the . . . already severe talent gaps in ML.
. . . it is unlikely that the majority of displaced paralegals and legal assistants performing legal research and case development would go on to obtain CS, ML, MDM, or data governance and stewardship degrees and certifications. As enterprise leaders, you must rethink and redesign roles for ML-enabled operations, to augment human decision-making and input where needed.
So what can displaced workers do?
Humans Can Guide the Machines
A machine learning coach.
While I agree that it’s unlikely for data entry professionals to suddenly gain advanced machine learning skills or become Ph.D.-level data scientists, data familiarity may make these workers valuable as “machine learning coaches.” In other words, they can help teach the learning machines by ensuring that the right data is going in, and they can also verify that an ML system is not drifting off course by checking the results that come out. Human feedback can then further improve the models.
Those who are already intimately familiar with a given data set — including its inconsistencies and idiosyncrasies — may be the ones best suited to perform this teaching/coaching work. Thus, a good number of workers actually can be trained for data and ML tasks, as long as companies have reasonable expectations of the new roles to be filled. (And to be fair to those HFS respondents, it’s possible that some of them had roles akin to “machine learning coach” in mind when they said they would retrain people to do ML/data tasks.)
After all, data readiness is the difference between machine learning failure and success. Fortune 500 companies spent a lot of money installing tools like SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, etc. Fortune 500 companies may ultimately spend as much, if not more, money getting their data out of their systems and ready for ML.
Humans: still got it! Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash
The best algorithms are worthless without good data. In many cases, preparing and cleaning the data for machine learning processes will be a massive organizational need. Is your data accessible? Sizable? Usable? Understandable? Maintainable? Who better to help get your data in shape than the people who were previously processing it manually?
Data cleanup deals with anomalies and problems an algorithm might not understand. It’s a role in which people can thoughtfully apply their experience in a way that doesn’t make them feel robotic.
Imagine a person processing invoices for payment. If their standard data entry work is automated, the person is freed to evaluate the data on a higher level. Looking at whether an invoice is coming from and going to the right place, whether appropriate discounts have been applied, and whether the invoice just makes intuitive sense is a better use of their time than simply copying and pasting numbers from one screen to another.
The history of “human computers” can help shed light on the present. In her article When Computers Were Women, Jennifer S. Light writes that in the World War II era, six human computers “were selected to program a machine that, ironically, would take their name and replace them. . . ”
This is an example of how automation requires human guidance from the very people it’s automating. But it’s an ominous example, both given the word “replace” and because the six trainers came from a group of almost 200 women.
Sure, someone might think, some people have a role in the transition to automation. But the transition only requires a fraction of the displaced workers, and even those people are soon rendered obsolete. The situation may seem analogous to outsourced workers training their foreign replacements.
Fortunately, given machine learning’s massive data labeling requirements, there really is a lot of human work to go around.
Humans Can Label the Data
The company Scale labels images for companies like Lyft and Toyota, helping to train the AI behind self-driving cars. CEO Alex Wang says tens of thousands of people work on the platform. “If you look globally at the whole industry of self-driving,” he says, “there’s probably hundreds of thousands of people who are employed to help these algorithms learn.”
Wang doesn’t believe that the need for humans today is merely a way station on the road to human obsolescence. He points out that mature machine learning efforts from Google and Facebook “still require a significant amount of human input on an ongoing basis to ensure that the models are performing better and better.” The deployment of self-driving cars, he says, will require “tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people to ensure that these algorithms are behaving correctly of that they’re continuing to get better.”
Wang says machine learning is just getting started. “The true number of applications is very large and then the true amount of work that will be required in each of those applications is really underestimated.”
There is another potential concern around the new jobs that machine learning creates: when it comes to data labeling, isn’t that just another kind of tedium? Not, says Wang, if the work can be turned into a game. Words With Friends and Candy Crush may seem dull from a distance, but “people play them for hours and hours. And a lot of that is because they’ve been built to be engaging. It’s not necessarily anything complex about it that makes it engaging, but it’s about making it a fun, enjoyable experience where you can always get better and there are always things to improve and there’s always areas for you to be creative . . . . We try to do the same thing with data labeling.”
In other words, prepping data for machine learning may have a hint of Mary Poppins magic. You find the fun and snap: the job’s a game.
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Video: Vandana Shiva and the March against Monsanto, May 25, 2013
Home > News > Video: Vandana Shiva and the March against Monsanto, May 25, 2013
By Anne Sewell – Digital Journal, 20 May 2013 | Source
On May 25, 2013, there will be a worldwide March against Monsanto, protesting the giant pesticide company’s attempts to take over the world’s food supply. Vandana Shiva speaks about the movement against Monsanto and why it is necessary.
On May 25, 2013, people across the world will be hitting the streets to stand up against the agricultural pesticide company, Monsanto.
Please note that in the video, the date of March 25 is mentioned in error – the correct date of the March against Monsanto is May 25.
Dr Vandana Shiva says, “The march against Monsanto is inspired by the love for freedom and democracy, the love for the Earth, the soil, the seed. And it is our deep love for life on Earth in freedom that makes all of us march against Monsanto and we stand in solidarity with everyone, from the Seed Freedom Movement catalyzed by Navdanya.”
Shiva goes on to say that Monsanto has become the center stage for the destruction of the world’s seeds, our diversity, our food and our freedom.
Shiva explains that in the 1980’s Monsanto started imposing laws, drafting patents on life, even though life cannot be invented and therefore is not patentable.
More recently the Supreme Court of the USA has upheld Monsanto’s totally illegitimate patent right on seed in the Bowman vs Monsanto case. Further to this Monsanto has written a “Monsanto Protection Act” making the company immune from any court action, whether to protect diversity, to prevent contamination or to protect the rights of organic seed producers.
She explains that India has a very strong law, under the Environment Protection Act, predating any other laws and protocols, which is meant to regulate GMOs. India used the law to stop the BT aubergine, or brinjal. Shiva speaks of an act that Monsanto tried to pass in India, which would effectively throw citizens in jail for challenging GMOs.
Shiva speaks of the European Commission, which has become “an extension of Monsanto,” trying to bring about yet another Monsanto Protection Act to make it illegal for European gardeners and farmers to have or save their own seeds.
She states that this is a new form of fascism, a new form of dictatorship over all life itself, and its diversity. Unlike Nazism, its not like controlling one religion or one race, it is wanting to outlaw all diversity of all life on Earth and also the rights of the food producers.
Shiva brings up the huge onslaught by Monsanto against any labeling of GMO products in the USA, saying that this is part of this Monsanto dictatorship.
This is why the March against Monsanto is a march for freedom. And this march is not just for the 25th. Shiva states that we will have to carry on this fight for every day of our lives as we plant and save our seeds. She refers to us standing up with our “gardens of resistance”, growing healthy food, nurturing the soil and the seed, thanking the ancestors of those seeds and the future generations.
“Handing over to our future generations the care and custody of our precious diversity. Let us plant gardens of resistance against this new form of fascism. We will set the Earth in her diversity, and people with their diversities, free.”
Shiva concludes: “This dictatorship must end. The March against Monsanto is a call to end the dictatorship over seeds, over life, over food and over our freedom.”
For anyone wishing to participate, a list of the cities and countries participating in the March against Monsanto can be viewed here.
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Kansas ministry connects church to greater community
There are two brightly painted buses parked outside Central Church of the Nazarene in Lenexa, Kansas. These two buses are part of the church’s Heaventrain KC ministry — one of which is a chapel-on-wheels, and the other is a professional mobile kitchen.
Every Saturday from May to November, the buses visit various communities by partnering with local churches to serve and build relationships with the community members throughout the Kansas City area.
“As the buses approach a site, a train whistle sounds,” said Julie Stevens, Central Church pastor of children and families. “Kids literally come running! We build relationships through activities like face painting, parachute play, and football, and then children and families are invited on the chapel bus for a high energy worship service. After learning Bible stories, ministry and message come together when a hot healthy meal is served from the food bus.”
Each site is strategically selected to connect with families from many different financial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds, and the buses visit the same communities every week. Some of the partner churches and volunteers focus on sites where they are present each week, while others serve at all the sites for either one day or once a month during the season.
“We strive for a consistent presence,” Stevens said. “We’re passionate about teaching the transformative Word of God and building and inspiring leaders within the community.”
Heaventrain KC started nearly two years ago when the church staff felt a call to extend their reach outside of the church.
“We sensed a holy urgency to get outside the church and invest in the community,” Stevens said. “God rallied His people to pray — funds were raised to purchase and renovate two buses. After several months of preparation, God’s vision became a reality. In October 2017, we hit the streets!”
Though Heaventrain is a relatively new ministry to the Kansas City area, the original idea is deeply connected to Stevens’ call to ministry.
“My friend and mentor, Pastor Phil Batten, began Heaventrain in Cleveland, Ohio, about 37 years ago,” Stevens said. “As a teenager, my call started on his bus. Though Heaventrain KC is a separate ministry, both of the Heaventrain KC buses have been dedicated in loving memory of Pastor Phil.”
The ministry has expanded its reach over the last two years, breaking down cultural boundaries and connecting with spiritually and physically hungry families along the way. Stevens and the rest of the Heaventrain KC team are really excited about what’s in store in the ministry’s future.
“We live in a world that is desperate for hope, peace, and grace,” Stevens said. “God’s calling us to go the extra mile to spread the Gospel.”
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#MawlidDebate: Tis the time to celebrate..
January 6, 2016 Sheikh Nazim 1 Comment
In the UK among the young third generation testosterone fueled teen and young adult population of Indian-subcontinent descendants of Muslims, there is a raging storm going on between two opposing parties; Those for and against the celebration of Mawlid. A religious celebration of the birth of the noble Prophet Muhammad may Allah’s peace and blessing be upon him, done by a large section from within the Muslim world and afar. On social media sites and video-blogging web sites videos and counter-videos have been uploaded by the spearheads of both parties. Led by Imam Muhammad Asim Hussain, of the party for the Mawlid
Imam Muhammad Asim Hussain
and Imran Ibn Mansur, a Youtube celebrity, of the party against the Mawlid, each claiming to speak the final truth and showing the ‘evidence’.
Imran Ibn Mansur
It is dispiriting to the majority of hand-to-mouth Muslims why so much vehemence and vigor is being given on a topic which is not even considered a considerable tenant of the faith at a time when legions of secular atheist theologies are polarizing everyday lives of Muslims worldwide. With increasing vengeance and glee the advocates of ending religion and secularist campaigns are gaining more ground as it sweeps into mainstream acceptance through movies, documentaries and Television shows. Yet, alarmingly there are strong sections of the Muslim communities, largely the imported-culturally secluded Indian subcontinent Muslims have no answers or are unable to give coherent answers to these new fallacies taking hold rapidly in every young Muslim’s life, right from the pre-school to the highest levels of educational institutions of any land. Fallacies which eagerly promote the idea religion is a cause for chaos in the world and removing it from every civilization will put an end to the ceaseless violence across the world and bring about a utopia of bliss, hope and peace. A period which will see great scientific and technological advancement being made and people’s lives improved exponentially.
Yet, coming back to the closed-nit repetitive age-old arguments of the Mawlid it is clear where the priorities lay; on non-substantial topics which have no baring on one’s faith or no faith. There have been disagreements on the topic of Mawlid between the greatest scholars of the time throughout the centuries. It means the mass hysteria being created in UK now by the two leading proponents of the arguments will not solve this issue anytime soon. Both parties have entrenched themselves in their own views, which to them is ‘the ultimate truth and nothing but the truth’. Which, for the educated mind, should be the end of the topic – agree to disagree and move to resolving more urgent issues facing the Muslim youth en-mass. However, having said this, there are two major points which must be addressed that has arisen from the debacle between Imam Asim and Imran Ibn Mansur:
The debate is between a serious student of Ilm, who has at least studied Islam and its major facets under qualified ulema for a several years, and is a scholar in his own right – Imam Muhammad Asim Hussain, and a part-time chill-axing no body in the name of Imran ibn Mansur who may have attended a few classes on Arabic grammar, usul and seemingly gathered enough ‘fans’ to think he has now mastered the level of understanding which the traditional scholars would gain only after some serious studying under masters of their own field for many years. This has resulted in a number of things occurring most notably the name-calling and ill-fated words being exchanged between the two. Although this has been largely kept in check it is beginning to creep in with language used mostly by Imran Ibn Mansur’s followers throwing in few swear words every so often to people of the other party. This is a prime example of the captain and his crew; the type of captain you have on a ship will reflect on how his crew will be. If he is crude then crew will mirror the captain and his attitude. The contrast between the two proponents of the debate cannot be different and far part than it is! – A scholar and a back-to-front wearing cap, sports brand loving youngster.
This ultimately has led to ego-eccentric remarks being made, (when the arguments you are trying to make falls flat miserably, with stick-man argument against a man of knowledge then undoubtedly ego will come into play). In one clip the pseudo-cleric Imran ibn Mansur dismisses a point made by Imam Muhammad Asim Hussain supposedly for mispronouncing the name of a book. Claiming, ‘if you cannot pronounce the title of the book how can you quote from it?’ – Mind you, this is from a average person who may have attended a few lessons on Arabic syllables, saying this to a man who is in some respects an expert in the field – a scholar/imam. This is what happens who egos come are left unchecked and left to ravage your faculty of thought. – You stop seeing your place in line and go on to accuse and correct people you have no authority over. From the onset if Imran was to acknowledge that he is not a scholar and therefore deal with respect and dignity when speaking to an Imam, a man of knowledge it would have been a right start. Instead this individual has further enraged the opposing audience with inflammatory remarks about a companion of the Prophet may Allah’s peace and blessing be upon him. In one video from a number of counter videos produced by Imran he tries to dismiss the notion that a ‘good biddah’ (Biddah hasanah) was started by Syyiduna Umar may Allah bless him. In which he says If the Prophet may Allah’s peace be upon him, had categorically said all biddah are in hell-fire then who’s words can be used against this to prove a good biddah? Alluding to the fact Syyiduna Umar may Allah bless him, said on seeing the taraweeh being performed in congregation ‘what a good biddah that is’. He then ends the video by quoting the famous hadith in which it is reported that people who changed the religion after the Prophet may Allah’s peace and blessing be upon him passed away would be dragged to hell. This then led to a chorus of scholars condemning the novice for his ignorant remarks on the illustrious companion without understanding the nuances of the situations or statements. The audacious man then saw to redress this apparently misquoted clip in another of his endless counter videos which he ends up making similar accusations again. This is what happens when a average person tries to be something he is not and instead ends up digging a large hole for himself which he cannot get out of.
You may have realized i have not included any ‘evidence’ for, for or against Mawlid as this argument will not end by me doing so. People from both sides have made their minds up on this issue! Instead what i have tried to draw on is the level of ignorance and blindingly obvious raw nature of the debate and how it does not mean a great deal of anything never mind facing up to the level of seriousness both these individuals are making it out to be. If you do not agree with Mawlid stay silent and do not cause discord and fitna. On the flip side those who agree with it do not begrudge those who do not because brotherhood should be stronger
To close, what this commotion actually shows is the super-fast fiber optic broadband pace in which the ummah is severing its links to the traditional way of doing things. Traditionally during the companions and the time of their students no one dared argue with a scholar out of awe and respect for them if they knew next to nothing about Islam. If they disagreed with his view they never sought to seek publicity by airing their discontent to the public out of fear they may be talking with their egos and not purely for the sake of Allah azzawajal. It was considered one of the most abominable acts a person can do, – to speak against a scholar when a person is not qualified to do so – as scholars were seen as the heirs of the Prophet may Allah’s peace and blessing be upon him. Secondly, it also shows how fast the traditional concepts of learning Islam is being eroded as we fall headlong into the last days of the end times. There was a time when a man who wanted to learn about Islam would have to learn from authentic scholars, travel the lengths of this world seeking out pious men of Allah and sit at their feet. In which he would first learn how to be a student and then learn how to learn things before he can actually begin his journey on the path of knowledge. Now in the age of egocentric individuals businessmen disguised as experts of authentic Islāmic learning have become the mouthpiece of Islam along the way earning their two pence worth of fame and money through the YouTube views program.
One of Imran ibn Mansur’s Youtube videos.
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After a long fun season of summer partying we chat to Annabel Simpson, founder of website FESTIBEL, for "Your guide to all things FESTIVAL!"
Tell us about your new venture Festibel and how it came about?
Festibel.com is a go to site for all things festival. I looked at the huge amount of festivals popping up everywhere and recognised the power of the festival movement. I did some research on reviews and festival life and realised that there wasn't a hub for likeminded people like myself who wanted to learn about festivals and share their experiences and festival style.
Festivals have changed considerably over the last decade, with fans complaining that they are becoming more corporate and less about the music, what do you think about this?
I think there's a perfect festival out there for everyone, they just need to go and find it. Festibel will help them do that. People are always going to complain about festivals growing and changing but this is inevitable when they gain success. It's a bit like losing interest in a band when it becomes mainstream, there'll be another band round the corner to take its place.
Which festival has stepped outside the norm for you?
I went to a festival called Sail Away at the beginning of the summer. It was a house music festival on a cruise ship. I think that says it all! I had mixed feelings about it and there's a review on the site you can check out.
Do you think the rise of social media has introduced you to festivals around the world you wouldn't have known about otherwise?
Absolutely, it's the reason there's an explosion in festival culture because people can truly get a taste of the festival experience. Instagram is the key medium as it's so visual, the new live video element will enhance that even further. Also with 4G at festivals and the opportunity for permanently charged phones - the live feed means everyone feels part of the movement.
With burning man, money isn't exchanged and festival goers rely on the kindness of each other to swap resources - food, money, clothes etc. Do you think that this is something which could work in the UK?
Although that was the original premise of burning man, it's gradually changing unfortunately mainly because I think it can only really work on a small scale. There is a trend of 'reprivatising' festivals and running small private boutique festivals to regain the intimacy of the original festival, I'm not sure if money will every be taken out of the equation unless it's a private festival which has been paid for already. Watch this space.
What have been your favourite performances of 2016 so far and who are you most looking forward to seeing in the future?
Jamie Jones at The Shangri-La at Glastonbury, The National at Latitude, Eli and Fur at Sail Away - looking forward to Claude Von Stroke and Maya Jane Coles at Holy Ship in January.
Who would you like touring the UK festivals next year?
FLEETWOOD MAC, that would be amazing!
What was your best festival experience?
Sitting up on Pennard Hill as the sun goes down at Glastonbury is unbelievable. You're in a quiet field looking down on the whole festival, the energy is immense and it's so beautiful you have to pinch yourself.
And your worst?
A friend borrowing my wristband at Secret Garden Party for my camping area to go and get something from my bag and then falling asleep in my tent and leaving me alone in the torrential rain. It was traumatic.
Would you say it's more fun backstage or to be in the crowd?
I think a mixture is best. It's great to be able to use the loos and the bar backstage but really you want to be in the crowd fully immersed with the energy and the atmosphere.
Do you think there should have been a polling booth on June 23rd at Glastonbury, considering the amount of voters there? Do you think this is something that should be introduced for next time?
There probably should have been a polling booth yes although one could vote by proxy (where you appoint someone to vote on your behalf). It was a rare referendum, I don't think there will be a similar scenario again.
Fashion is way of expressing oneself, what has been the wildest or most poignant outfit you've seen worn at a festival?
I always wear a EKAT suit. They are skin tight lycra cat suits which come in a load of crazy patterns. They are super comfortable, flattering and make everyone smile. And of course my favourite piece to wear is The Chloe narlaka shirt, the print is fab!
Festival fashion changed the day Kate Moss strutted through glasto in hotpants and hunter wellies, do you think that anyone could top Moss in that defining moment?
I'm not sure, probably not. It was the first time anyone saw anyone looking chic in a pair of wellies and it was such a simple look but also arguably the beginning of the modern festival movement so a lot about timing.
Which item of clothing do you never want to see at a festival again?
Morph suits.
And Finally What is your spirit animal?
My spirit animal would be an Ibizan Hound. They are ancient hunting dogs from ibiza and are wild but sensitive and loyal with long legs and piercing eyes. I also have one at home called Pablo who I rescued from Spain.
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Wong Fu Productions: Advice For Filmmakers
In this week’s video “Why & How Filmmakers Should Use YouTube”, Patrick and I interviewed Philip Wang and Wesley Chan of Wong Fu Productions. Last summer when we were just starting to figure out what the National Film Society was going to be, Patrick and I talked a lot about Wong Fu. We were impressed by the huge following they were able to build on YouTube (1.2 million subscribers) as filmmakers, not as vloggers, musicians or performers, which it seems like everyone else is on YouTube. Honestly, seeing their massive success was a real inspiration to go out and give YouTube our best shot.
When we met Phil and Wes a couple of weeks ago at their office (their office is really sweet BTW), I was really impressed by how sincere and smart they are. That’s actually one of the cool things that I’ve noticed whenever we’ve met big YouTubers. They’re really freakin’ smart. Anyway, Phil and Wes were super generous with their time, sharing wonderful pieces of advice. Even though our final video with them is only 3 minutes long, filming the interview actually lasted about an hour. There were so many useful ideas and tips that got cut out of the final video that we thought it would be cool to share their complete answers in this blog post. So here’s more great insights to making it on YouTube from Wong Fu…
How do you make a living?
Phil: A lot of people ask us, “Is YouTube / Wong Fu Productions your full time thing?” It’s more than full time. It’s our life. But financially speaking, one part of it is ad revenue from videos that we make. The merchandising of the t-shirts and the plush toys, that was a big part of how we have an income and how Wong Fu Productions brings in revenue. We also do sponsored projects. We just did a web series with AT&T. We try to have a wide range of different ways to bring in revenue.
Secret to your success?
Phil: Well success is defined differently by different people. Realistically we do feel like there is still much further that we do, want to go. But to get to this point… we started at a good time, when YouTube or new media was just starting. But not just that we started, but that we also kept it going with consistent content, quality content.
We’ve been doing this for years. So it wasn’t like this overnight thing. We’ve definitely been putting in our time. A lot of people don’t expect it to take that long, but it does. This business, it takes a long time, a lot of hard work.
Wes: The secret to Wong Fu Production’s success is not expecting that success. It’s going into it not knowing what would happen. And only then can you be so truly like, I don’t want to say “fearful”, but cautious and so grounded that you take everything as an opportunity to progress and to grow as artists as a company, as people. I think when people start expecting success, then there’s a problem because you’ll get discouraged, you’ll give up. But success is a privilege. It’s a product of your hard work.
Why should filmmakers use YouTube?
Phil: Because YouTube’s free! That’s what it really comes down to. And there’s an audience that’s ready and waiting for good content. I don’t know why you wouldn’t want to use it as a platform.
Wes: Filmmakers should use YouTube because if they are truly dedicated to their craft, they’re going to want as many people to see it as they can. So just because you’re going on a festival route doesn’t mean “I’m better than YouTube. YouTube is a second rate option.” That’s not the case. If you want people to see your stuff, you’ll stand on the street with flyers, you know.
A lot of filmmakers might see YouTube as settling, but you should see it as a new option, a new opportunity to reach a whole community that you never knew existed. There shouldn’t be any kind of negative feelings about it. Things are working in both directions. People on YouTube are trying to get on the big screen, and it goes the other way around. So it’s a two way street that you need to travel both ends.
Too late to get on YouTube and find success?
Phil: Even for us, sometimes we feel like we’re the old fogies in the YouTube game. There’s all of these new people in the game getting more subscribers than us, even faster than us. It’s not too late.
Is it more difficult than before?
Wes: Now it’s hard for people because there’s so much on YouTube. There’s teenagers that are vlogging, you know talking about their stuff. There’s people talking about makeup and cars and soccer plays and Minecraft. And there’s just so much that to be outstanding on YouTube is the hardest part. To be discovered as a new talent is hard on YouTube.
Tips for success on YouTube?
Phil: There are strategies for sure. When there is something on pop culture going on, if you want to comment or do something about that. You kind of are jumping onto that bandwagon of what people are talking and searching for that stuff. You know, a lot of YouTubers will do that. Comedies are usually more popular online. Short. Keep it short. Even though Wong Fu is known for like 10-minute long dramas. Sometimes, we’re curious of how we even still exist in this world of YouTube that’s 30-second videos. What else? Consistency like we said. Making sure people know you have a schedule.
Biggest mistake for filmmakers to avoid when making YouTube videos?
“Your biggest enemy and your biggest challenge is yourself first. So just go make something and put it up there.”
– Philip Wang
Phil: People come out of film school and they say, “I want to make a short film, but I need $50,000 to do it.” And we hear that, and we’re like, “What?!” We can understand how you could spend $50,000 on a short film. But you could also just get two people that know how to read lines and act them out and sit on a sidewalk. That could be a short film. Filmmakers, maybe one thing maybe to avoid is thinking you’re too good for it. Just know that you can make good stuff on a budget. You know YouTube doesn’t have to be 4K quality. Although it wouldn’t hurt you, it would look great, but you can just use…DSLR’s are like a gift from the heavens for independent filmmakers in this era. Your biggest enemy and your biggest challenge is yourself first. So just go make something and put it up there.
Wes: I would actually say make a few mistakes and learn what works and what doesn’t work for your YouTube channel. But a few suggestions, I guess… Now that YouTube has become this huge media force, people expect things to come quickly. And they hear stories. Even Wong Fu Productions, people think, oh wow you guys 1.2 million subscribers. You guys are working with all of these huge brands and stuff. But that was not the case a few years back. It was a lot of hard work and a lot of so called mistakes for us to get where we are now. So don’t expect it to come the next day, or in a month or a year even. You have to stick with it for it to become something big. And you have to believe that it can become something big. Make more mistakes.
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Barbara Kay: Loneliness is a human catastrophe – and it's getting worse
This new form of social poverty is, paradoxically, most evident in the world’s richest nations
A May 2018 Cigna poll cited by the author found that nearly half of all Americans report “sometimes or always” feeling alone.Getty Images/iStockphoto
Heat waves kill. But selectively. If you’re relatively young, healthy and have access to a lake or air conditioning, heat is at worst an irritant. Immobile urban seniors living alone without air conditioning are at risk.
In August of 2003, a dreadful heat wave washed across Europe. Some 35,000 people died; most of them fit the above profile. A disproportion of the deaths — 14,000 —occurred in France, prompting investigation, which revealed the uncomfortable fact that it was not material poverty that was the key factor in many of these deaths. Rather it was a form of social poverty; the victims had nobody who cared enough about them to check up on them and alleviate their distress. Worse, in a way, was the fact that many of the victims did have adult children, who could not be bothered to interrupt their traditional August holiday at the seashore to take responsibility for their parents’ needs (some even requested their parents’ funerals be postponed until their scheduled return).
The victims had nobody who cared enough about them to check up on them
Recollection of this desperately sad narrative (which made a huge impression on me at the time and which I think of every time a heat wave hits us) is included in conservative cultural observer Mary Eberstadt’s latest book, Primal Screams: How the sexual revolution created identity politics. (You may wonder what identity politics and the sexual revolution have to do with heat waves in France, but trust me, the link is eloquently charted. )
The chapter in which the heat wave incident features concerns an epidemic of loneliness that is affecting great swaths of the populations in countries all over the world. The sexual revolution produced what Eberstadt calls a “Great Scattering,” the result of a breakdown of family as the pillar of society. She says, “(T)he human animal has been selected for familial forms of socialization that for many people no longer exist.”
A thermometer placed outside the church of Belin-Béliet in southwestern France shows the temperature in Celsius. Georges Gobet/AFP/Getty Images
It was once a great tragedy if one’s family was not intact. Now serial monogamy and one or more divorces is considered normal. It was once quite unusual for couples to choose a life that did not include children. Now childlessness is commonplace. Where there are children, they are fewer than they once were. Many children have no siblings. Lifetime bachelorhood or “spinsterhood” was once rare. No longer. According to Eberstadt, “loneliness studies” are the hottest trend in sociology.
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Nearly one in 10 receives no visits whatsoever
This new form of social poverty is, paradoxically, most evident in the world’s richest nations. A May 2018 Cigna poll cited by the author found that nearly half of all Americans report “sometimes or always” feeling alone, and that Generation Z — adults aged 18 to 22 — is the loneliest generation of all. Loneliness is sad in itself, but it also has public health implications. Eberstadt cites studies showing a causal link between loneliness and overeating, higher stress levels, cardiovascular conditions and immune dysfunction.
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The German Center of Gerontology reports that one in four Germans over 70 receives less than a single visit a month by family or friends, and nearly one in 10 receives no visits whatsoever. Getty Images
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Video from Kumburgaz, Turkey near Istanbul on May 13, 2009
Filer’s Files # 26 – 2013 – UFO Video With Aliens
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In special reports, this week’s files cover: Alien Pilots over Turkey, FBI: Famous UFO Memo is our Most Popular File, Mars Face and Life, South Pacific Research, and Earth Changes.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin.
Sightings of UFOs were also reported in: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Commonwealth of Bahamas, France, New Zealand, Spain, England and Wales in the United Kingdom.
The purpose of these files is to report the UFO eyewitness and photo/video evidence that occurs on a daily basis around the world and in space. These Files assume that extraterrestrial intelligent life not only exists, but my hypothesis is that the over a thousand UFOs reported each month represent technologically advanced spacecraft conducting surveillance of Earth. I personally became interested in UFOs when London Control ordered me to intercept one over England while flying for the US Air Force and Prince Phillip told me of his personal interest in UFOs. The US Air Force investigated UFOs for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
Filer’s Files are now being emailed to 18,500 addresses each week plus 500 copies are forwarded to more thousands. Consider forwarding them to your friends and neighbors.
Dedicated to 5 year old Georgie Filer V whose motto was “Be Happy” and Eddie Pedrick my grandsons who drowned and my two beautiful daughters Elizabeth Lynn died March 8, 2013 and Dr. Victoria Anne Filer died April 27, 2013.
Alien Pilots over Turkey
Video Analyzed By Mario Valdes
KUMBURGAZ — I spoke to Dr. Roger Leir yesterday about his sighting while attending a conference in Turkey. He was standing near the cameraman Murat Yalcin along with 7 to 8 others who were excited and pointing towards it. The craft was over the water and gradually flew toward them on a clear night. Many incidents took place between 2007 and 2009. Numerous UFO were reported across Turkey and sightings were seen by many people who live in the village. The UFO reports were filed with the SIRIUS UFO Research organization which is Turkey’s primary UFO organization. The footage shows various objects including formations of lights, round, disc, and cigar shaped objects which maneuvered and hovered over the sea.
The video was recorded with a camera that had a tele-converter adapter capable of filming at 200 times optical achieving a great amount of detail. The Scientific and Technology Board of Turkey and TUG National Observatory reviewed the footage attempting to prove a hoax but were unsuccessful. The film has been studied by experts from Japan, Chile, Brazil, and Russia. So far after several attempts nobody has been able to find evidence of a hoax.
SUMMARY OF THE CASE
This case developed in the location of Kumburgaz near Istanbul on the Sea of Marmara. Its main witness was a night guard named Yalcin Yalman, while on duty who registered on video these strange objects that appeared at sunrise like floating or changing while in flight over the sea coast of Marmara. Yalman was able to film many video segments, some during day light accompanied by witnesses with whom he spoke to while he was filming.
One singularity of this case was that the images were made with a camera that had an adaptor for close ups of 200X optical, achieving a great amount of details of the objects. At first, the videos were analyzed and made public by the SIRIUS UFO organization, directed by the researcher Haktan Akdogan. This case made big news in Turkey and in other countries as well. It also started a great debate between the official members of the Turkish scientific community. Specifically the NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE STUDY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (TUBITAK) got interested in analyzing the footage which was handed to the TUBITAK representatives on live TV. Their analysis follows:
“It’s concluded that the objects observed have a physical structure and are made of materials that don’t belong to any category (airplanes, helicopters, meteors, Venus, Mars, satellites, artificial lights, Chinese lanterns, etc.) and that it mostly fits in the category of UFO’s (Unidentified Flying Objects and of unknown origin)”.
Other analysis was done by video specialist, image edition and special effect companies from Japan, Russia, Chile and Turkey, all ending up with the same conclusions.
So far nobody has been able to demonstrate that the recordings are product of tricks or some type of manipulation. Therefore, the debate has concentrated more over the nature and origin of the objects filmed by Yalcin Yalman. Two and possibly three figures are seen in the footage.
raw footage: 2007-2009 Original Videos
Complete case details: Turkey UFO Incident
FBI: Famous UFO Memo Is our Most Popular File
Of all the 6,700 previous top-secret files in the FBI’s online reading room, one single- page memo about a UFO report has attracted almost a million viewers over the last two years. However, the FBI now says it never followed up on the unconfirmed account of extraterrestrial life.
In the popular March 22, 1950 memo titled “UFOs or No?” was written by the head of FBI field office in Washington, D.C. Guy Hottel related the UFO story to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover shown here.
Hottel wrote that, “Three “flying saucers” were recovered in New Mexico. The saucers, which were “circular in shape with raised centers, approximately 50 feet in diameter, each had three bodies of human shape but only three feet tall, dressed in metallic cloth of a very fine texture inside.”
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said it never followed up on the UFO memo that claimed three “flying saucers” were recovered in New Mexico. Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/
Mars Face and Life
Mars has many places where faces have been carved into the rock by Martians. Although NASA has not chosen to show us cities, there are many areas that appear to have flowing water, forests and indications of intelligent life. There remains the question if intelligent life still exists on the planet. It is apparent Mars has been pummeled by asteroids and may have been involved in a devastating war.
Carved head of statue at top of pyramid like structure; http://www.UFOsightingsdaily.com
I feel where there is Martian water, heat and a geometric structure there is life. The European Space Agency photos are often in color and reveal more information such as the apparent flowing water. Near the equator, Mars temperature reaches 80 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer.
Infrared and gamma ray images indicate there are large reservoirs of water, just below the surface of Mars. My photographic analysis indicates that all over the planet there are what appears as ancient structures and anomalies such as forts, faces, pyramids, walls, and tunnels. These anomalies are not natural geological formations, but in my opinion represent ancient cities or religious centers. We could ignore one or two anomalies, but there are hundreds.
We can speculate that the Martian climate was making catastrophic changes; the atmosphere was rapidly deteriorating possibly due to meteorite bombardment or changes in the sun. These conditions probably caused the Martians to seek shelter underground and possibly on their Moon Phobos to preserve their civilization. They may have left both carved faces of their gods or leaders and pyramids on the surface as a sign to others who would eventually visit Mars.
The Germans in World War II due to allied bombing rapidly moved underground and developed manufacturing and living quarters in a relatively short time. Virtually all ME-262 jet aircraft were manufactured underground. There was an enormous underground complex of Mittel-werkes factories in the Harz Mountains with broad tunnels, with twelve miles of underground installations that manufactured the V-1 and V-2 rockets. Infrared imaging of Mars shows areas of underground heat sources that suggest underground living facilities on Mars.
Joseph P. Skipper writes, The great bulk of the satellite imaging evidence in my book “The Hidden Truth: Water & Life on Mars.” is very fundamental and, although often strange looking, it’s right in one’s face so plain and obvious that you’ll at first be incredulous as to how it could have been missed by so many and for so long. In fact, it is some of the most powerful visual planetary evidence you will ever see. The science community consensus is that Mars is a super dry hard frozen dead world.
Further, as is always characteristic of my research, every bit of the evidence is drawn from and verifiable right in the official visual science data. Links to facilitate that verification are always provided. Even better, the evidence is plentiful enough in numbers and demonstrating consistent patterns of presence all over this world to prevent it from being ignored or dismissed as some kind of odd aberration or something confined to a single location or two on the planet like some thermal vents warming defined rare locations that are the exception rather than the rule.
The visual evidence is so fundamental in nature and so easily recognizable by anyone. It is for example in the form of very obvious LIQUID surface water rather than having a frozen ice appearance that could have been confused with CO2 ice. Remember that CO2 ice sublimates from a solid directly to a gas state with no intervening liquid state. Likewise it is pooling in depressions large and small right where you would expect it to be as well as surrounded by great forests taking advantage of it and in these ways it is so directly comparable with lakes and forests here on Earth.
When you begin to absorb this evidence and verify that it truly is present in the official science data, you will soon come to the inevitable logic that surface water just cannot exist in a LIQUID state and the Mars temperatures be as cold as they are suppose to be. In fact, the most pervasive and obvious liquid surface water and extensive bio-life is often in the South Polar Region right where some of our science data coldest temperature readings came from. Obviously, such contrary evidence existing in the record for over 10 years brings the official science data itself and its truthfulness into question and the realization that something is very wrong with it.
Make no mistake about it, the fundamental visual evidence in this book going so much as it does against the science community consensus belief system about the conditions on Mars will meet with much resistance but in the end this hard visual evidence will prevail. In fact, it will change everything we thought we knew about this world forcing us to face the fact that Mars is not a super dry hard frozen dead world as someone has manipulated us into believing but a dynamic living world full of life. Below are some samples to show you what I mean as to liquid surface water and some of the obvious but strange unknown type of bio-life.
These few samples and much more are what the science community consensus beliefs will be facing and having to deal with. Remember as you view this that this evidence is drawn from and verifiable in the official science data and is therefore hard visual evidence and not the product of flights of imagination or graphics program manipulation.
The above sample evidence images are dramatically telling aren’t they? There is no mistaking any of this for some kind of dead rock and sand geology. It is just what it appears to be, surface water surrounded by forests and some kind of unknown large size biological life in dense tangles. There is a lot more in the book and in variety.
I repeat, any observer, including those of the professional media or scientists should understand that none of the book evidence has been produced or created by graphics software in any way once downloaded from the official science data. Every bit of the evidence is completely verifiable in the official science data and all are encouraged to do just that from the online URL addresses given in the book documentation under each evidence image.
As you can see in the above sample images of some of the more unusual looking (to us) bio-life, these are forests Mars style where the bio-life of what appears likely to be a single variety in a given area dominates vast amounts of terrain tightly filling all available space leaving no room for anything else to grow and compete with it within its boundaries, at least that we can see. This super high density behavior is very typical of most large size Mars bio-life. Its various species appear to be very aggressively successful and not struggling at all on this world. However, it may also be that the growth has had a very long time measured in many centuries or millennia to evolve strategies that eventually dominate a given area forcing other competitor species out. In any case, the above is just a taste of what is in the book that can be ordered online at this LINK
Thanks to Joseph P. Skipper
South Pacific Research, New Zealand.
Richard L Pinfold from New Zealand writes, Regarding last week’s Filer’s Files #25 article penned by NASA`S Paul Hill…subject:”Visible appearance of various forms of sighted UFOs, interpreted by the human eye…” For some time now, we at SPR, (South Pacific Research), have formed an opinion, through personal event experience, that a vast unrecognized locker of element performance, which we in our short tenure of this Earth, have barely started to manipulate. For instance, putting aside “mechanical device “objects observed, the case of the “Arrival” here in NewZealand,6.5.1991, of an “Ark-Like” massive object…expelling weird “Animal” forms into the atmosphere….one a 1.5 mile long mouthless snake…Anaconda-like reptile…the others Jelly Fish and glittering Spider things…nothing mechanical about them.
The observations so profound reported then, was the TWO DIMENSIONAL, almost “FLAT””IMAGE” effect, that the eye was picking up…the whole caboodle was ten times the clarity compared with the ambient surrounding buildings and countryside…which were closer than the event…but the object images were of the gray, black, silver and blue hues only.
The main “Body” of the object, from where the “Animals” emerged, was shrouded in a swirling cloak of blue/gray mist…now thought to probably be similar to how super-cooled liquid nitrogen would react when released into the atmosphere…this could also account for the perceived marked sudden drop in temperature on this thing`s arrival …circa 500 feet. The RADIATION-TYPE burns received to the forehead, eyelids, forearms and the film that developed under the eyelids had to be peeled off. These may have been caused by the same material effects present. So folks our visitors from wherever, obviously are as diverse in form and appearance, and may even be the indignant originators of the planet that we occupy. Let`s hope that one day, that one of `them doesn`t arrive with some element that will wipe us out. Keep smiling! Thanks to Richard L Pinfold from New Zealand
Mitch Battros writes, To reflect the newly published research in the International Journal of Climatology, I will highlight this area to present data indicating a direct causal effect between charged particles and the Earth’s core. What sits under the oceans of the Greenland and Iceland area is Mid-Atlantic Ridge which is part of the world-circling undersea tectonic plate system that is the point of convergence of new crust formation. The Icelandic region formed by the spreading tectonic boundary of the North American and European plates and the emergence of a mantle plume.
Recent discoveries suggest charged particles and their interplay with Earth’s magnetic field has an effect far beneath the Earth’s surface. Researcher Denis Andrault, a mineral physicist at Blaise Pascal University, was recently published in the scientific journal ‘Nature’. His research shows mantel plumes form narrow streams of molten rock which horizontally expand as they rise to the surface.
New Equation:
Increase Charged Particles → Decreased Magnetic Field → Increase Outer Core Convection → Increase of Mantle Plumes → Increase in Earthquake and Volcanoes → Cools Mantle and Outer Core → Return of Outer Core Convection (Mitch Battros – July 2012)
As a living entity, Earth fights for its survival. If internal or external events begin to throw Earth out of balance i.e. orbital, tilt, or magnetic alignment – it begins to correct itself. When submarine tectonic subduction occurs, it cools the mantle and outer core. To balance this shift in cooling temperatures, the Earth’s core increases heat. As a result of over-heating, mantle plumes develop releasing its super-heated liquid rock as it finds its way to Earth’s crust and ocean bottoms.
This action both cools the outer core and heats the oceans. As a result of heated oceans, we get tropical storms and various forms of extreme weather. This adjustment to ambient temperatures can also be the impetus of earthquakes, volcanoes, tornadoes tsunamis, and volcanoeswww.Earth Changes Media.com
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Arizona Bronze Sphere
PRESCOTT VALLEY — On the morning of the 23 June 2013, I was on my front porch about 7:45 AM, and noticed in the eastern sky a short vapor trail. It was squared off at both ends and alone in the sky 7 or 8 times as long as it was wide. I got curious and went and got a pair of 10×50 binoculars. I noted a bronze colored sphere at the south end. The sphere’s angle changed and it was somewhat oval. It was going south and was responsible for the contrail. At first it was stationary and then did a 180 degree turn into the contrail. The object had gone back into the contrail and did not come out. There was clear blue sky all around the contrail. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Discs
VICTORVILLE — We were walking outside and noticed a strange white light high up in the sky on June 22, 2013, that kept disappearing, and sweeping across in our direction. We saw this five times, but went inside. Later that evening, my friend noticed a light moving east across the sky. He snapped this photo and enlarged it in the computer and we could see flares coming off of it and a stretched hexagon shape. This was the “Super Moon” night and next to the light there is a shiny milky colored or grey sphere.
Around the sphere is a reddish colored aura of some kind of radiation in a spectrum we can’t see, but somehow affected the image sensor on the camera. There was no noise associated with the light, but it visibly upset the cat. Thanks to MUFON CMS
SAN FERNANDO VALLEY – I saw a UFO on June 16, 2013!!!! My sighting occurred while I was driving on June 16, 2013 at 1:06 AM.
I didn’t take a picture or video, but I made up a drawing. Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.UFOsnw.com
Colorado Lights
GREAT DIVIDE – Robert in Nederland, writes, “This is a blowup of a picture taken of numerous Iights on June 16, 2013, just about 20 minutes after sunset facing west.”
I was in the mountains at around 8,502 feet.
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MEEKER — My family and I were eating on Market Street on June 17, 2013, and saw a glowing orange/white object emerge from behind a grove of trees about 300 yards away. I noticed it first because it appeared to be flying very slowly and with no noise or nav lights. I had the object in his field glasses the entire time. It moved slowly from right to left and was gaining altitude. It moved up, hovered, moved left then right, and began moving off to the south. Others reported it in Meeker to the local police department and I have the officer’s name.
Having seen an object before and having an inherent interest in aviation, I knew this object was under some sort of control but had no typical general or military aviation characteristics. We could not make sense of the object that made no noise, no nav lights, and a strange shape and glow left us all a bit unnerved. We lost sight of it abruptly. My son could see that the object was then black and spherical, about ten meters in diameter. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Connecticut Saucer
WATERBURY — On June 17, 2013, at 9:20 was looking up at sunset when a bright object in the night sky caught my attention. At first glance it looked like a star; but the object appeared much closer. Object had an erratic twinkle effect. It wasn’t until I looked through my rifle scope that I was able to determine that this object was not a star. While looking through the scope I was able to see a pewter colored craft that was classic 1950’s shaped saucer/acorn. The craft had about 8 illuminated windows and was hovering for about 25 minutes until it took off in a NE direction towards Thomaston/ Litchfield Ct. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Orbs
MIAMI — This sighting was on June 1, 2013 when we were escorted by four officers on Motorcycles from The Sweet Water Police Department., FL. Our organization, The Celestial Federation of Yahweh (CFY), was conducting our annual motorcade, The Caravan of Love 2, throughout The City of Miami, FL. We stopped traffic for over 3 hours in the city.
This photograph was taken by one of our members on her cell phone camera of several discs. Anyone that has studied the topic of UFOs will be able to verify that these pictures are authentic. We were on Interstate 95 when this photo was taken. Enjoy. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Disc
OAK LAWN — I was sitting out having a smoke and saw a circle I passed it off as a bird because their wings don’t always show up at high altitudes but as soon as I thought that it disappeared like a whom lol disintegrating. It was coming from the west and heading southwest but disappeared. I thought it was a light trick on a bird so I waited for a while and nothing showed back up. I was feeling wowed and noticed it wasn’t like the usual ships I see around here. An hour later, I am feeling tired and the object had disappeared. How do explain that? I swear I didn’t call those ships in and had no communications with it either. This photo isn’t it, but it’s the closest picture that fits the description. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Indiana Blue Orb
JASONVILLE — I was taking images on my phone of some Chemtrails on May 13th, 2013 at 6:40 PM. I do so often and upon reviewing the images recently I noticed this blue glowing object.
It’s not very clear, since the resolution is poor, but it could be simply explained by natural occurrences. I have uploaded four images … Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Hampshire Triangle
CANTERBURY — On Thursday June 20, 2013 at 9:45 to 10 PM, we were outside watching fireflies on the path when my boyfriend Damon and I noticed planes. They were flying very close to one another. About 100 feet from where we stood the objects were coming from the direction of Shaker Village.
There were three red bright lights in round shape. There were two red lights that were clearly separate objects following closely to a much larger object. It flew closer to 50 feet above us rather quickly. We were able to get a good look of a triangular shaped flying object with red lights and haze around it. The front object was very large and two red balls of light were flying behind it never beside it and hovered slowly over our pond. We could not see them after they flew over the pond. Unfortunately my camera turned off and I was unable to capture vital proof. My boyfriend called the Canterbury police department and The National UFO Reporting Center. The center said they had a similar sighting called in from Connecticut that same night. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ohio Orbs
Panning the night sky with night vision video on June 15, 2013, I came across two objects moving from left to right past the fixed star at the bottom of the image.
The two upper lights moved together then split off in different directions.
LEBANON – I was at work as a staff member at a group home on June 21, 2013, at 11:45 PM, and summoned outside to look at what he thought was an airplane on fire. Upon going outside with five others, I saw the object moving straight at a low altitude. It pulsed a fiery orange which gave the illusion of an object on fire but had no tail or trace of light in its wake. I took a photo/video of the object that only shows as a small light in the sky.
When the object was overhead it smelled like a skunk and took a minute for the object to disappear north of us. The skunk smell was gone by the time it passed out of sight. We remained outside long after the sighting, but witnessed nothing further. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oregon Orb
YACHATS — I did not notice the two UFOs while taking the photos. Several hours later, while editing the images, I noticed two metallic, oddly shaped objects hovering in the sky west above the ocean in December 13, 2012.
For lack of a better comparison, both objects resembled metallic hot dogs, with a bright light emanating from the center of both objects. I’ve talked with one person in Yachats who claims to have witnessed a “huge” UFO moving west along the Yachats River valley. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Pennsylvania Cylinder
WILLOW STREET — This photo taken at 8 PM, on May 3, 2013, lacks “descriptive information” indicating that it could have been created with a computer program.
The photo could have been hoaxed, but analysis does not indicate an edited or fabricated photo. The object was photographed near sunset so the object was not illuminated by the rays of the Sun. The strange characteristics of the object exclude most conventional explanations.
Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.UFOsnw.com
ALLEGHENY – I was driving a tractor and trailer south in Pennsylvania when I looked up and saw an object hovering over the mountain top on June 17, 2013. About that time other truckers were heard on the CB chatting about seeing the same thing.
The object was quite a distance away, but was still very visible, so its actual size was very big. I’m not sure of the exact location; however it was close to the Allegheny Tunnel.
Rhode Island Light
PROVIDENCE — Walked out into the night on my porch and noticed something glowing in the trees in the back of the property on April1, 2013. There are no street lights and it is very dark. The night was overcast. The object was hovering about 20 to 25 feet above the ground in a very treed area. There is nothing in the back of the property this is very rural with a lot of trees. It was glowing red and seemed to have some spots between the glowing lights meaning it was not dense. Decided to take some pictures and went inside the house to upload them. The pictures reflected white glowing objects in different shapes, note, I was seeing a red glowing object not white it seemed it was performing tricks for me. I went back outside and took more pictures and then it suddenly broke up into three smaller white objects and disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Utah Moon Orb
KEAMS — We went outside to look at the super moon on June 22, 2013, when my wife got my attention to look at this red dot flying across the sky right above the houses north of us. At first my wife thinks it’s just a shooting star or a plane but it didn’t have any of those characteristics. She tells me to take out my camera as it descends into the neighborhood but we can’t find any further evidence of it. We drive to a better vantage point and see a helicopter about ten miles NE of us hovering as if monitoring the sky. A red dot appears next to it but disappears quickly. It was flying far too low to be anything that man would be flying. We were totally intrigued and it seemed like it landed in the neighborhood but we couldn’t find it. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Virginia Disc
On June 21, 2013, I parked it in a nice spot in the yard and began taking some pictures.
I went for a short ride and then came home a couple hours later and put the pictures on my computer and that’s when I noticed an odd object in one of the pictures. At first, I said to my girlfriend “What the hell is that?” She took a look and I zoomed in on the picture and realized what it was, and we just stared at it for a while. I then recalled that shortly after the picture was taken that my cell phone battery had just died. I never saw or heard anything while I was taking pictures, and just happened to spot it after uploading the pictures. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington Meteor
PUYALLUP — LAST night at about 9:10 PM, I was cooking steaks and had the camera set up with a 1500 mm electronic lens. I was imaging the mountain near Mt. Rainer and I noticed an object looking like it just entered the atmosphere. It was trailing black smoke from top to bottom of photo unlike vapor contrails from an aircraft.
Maybe it was a meteor? It suddenly made a 90 degree turn toward the north. Meteors do not do 90 degree turns. Then another object seemingly identical to the one I was watching started to appear. I turned the camera on it and took many images including the ones I have attached. You can see where the second object intersected the first’s trail. What do you make of this? You can zoom in on the object. Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.UFOsnw.com
Wisconsin Orb
MENASHA — I was walking and saw that a really dark storm was moving in June 17, 2013. Looking up at the clouds and the storm moving in I saw chrome ball about the size of basketball hovering about 150 feet from me above houses right before storm. Object then moved very slowly away and then vanished. I took a few pictures on my cell phone. This occurred today around 2:30 PM. Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.UFOsnw.com
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Argentina Cylinder
Quilmes — All year we have been following the sightings, and capturing with our camera light spheres, and flying objects like these observed on June 3, 2013. These UFOs almost always affect the local electricity. Thanks to MUFON Thanks to MUFON CMS
Australia Strange Orange Light.
HOBART — I was inside and I saw a bright orange light appear in the sky, the moment the light started a dog nearby howled and my dogs woke up on May 6, 2013. This light for around 20 seconds then turned off. Wondering what this was I looked on Google sky map on my phone to see if it was a planet or the moon, however it was not. I then looked on a flight radar website to see if it was a commercial or cargo plane however there were none above the state or in the direction of the light.
Brazil Object
RIO DE JANEIRO — I did not witness this; I received the link from a friend of the witness who lives in Mesquita, near Rio, and wishes to remain anonymous for now. He is afraid for his family and his own security. It has been published in YouTube, and that is where I took this video from. I wish you at MUFON to see if this video, made with a security camera with infrared capabilities, has any credibility or if it was not faked. In case you at MUFON find this video as being trustful I am prepared to get more accurate information. Most intriguing in this video is the cat which crosses the street. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Three Orbs with Lights
THORNHILL, ONTARIO — There were three dark circles with one bright light each on June 1, 2013, at 9:15 PM. They were in a straight line with the third trailing a little behind. There was NO sound. They would have been as high as a helicopter flies but much faster. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com
Columbia Disc
BOGOTÁ — I was on the balcony of my apartment on June 7, 2013, when I saw west of the city lights that swayed on a pulsing disc. It was bulging oval shape and the structure of the ship was wide and remained static for about seven minutes and then disappeared. It had ten oval windows and about four lights or windows pulsed white, green, blue and red. The light color of the ship was white and glistening. Thanks to MUFON Thanks to MUFON CMS
Note: This photo of a similar craft.
MEDELLIN — A red orange light was seen south of the city about size of a star on June 10, 2013. It rises and twice emits bluish white lights. The light was up about 1000 to 1500 meters and after ten minutes slowly moved east until it disappeared about 12:45 PM in the rain.
On November 30, 2012, the objects behavior was very similar to that described today.
Commonwealth of Bahamas
NASSAU, NEW PROVIDENCE – We spotted an orange light that came back on in the sky on May 24, 2013. A very bright orange and then turned off after about 10 seconds Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com
France Sphere
SAINT-CYR-AU-MONT-D’OR — Ironically enough I was talking about UFOs with a guy that works on the renovation of our house on June 20, 2013, when I saw a light approaching at 11 PM. At first, I thought it was airplane with landing lights as the light came drifting in our direction. It was way too bright for any aircraft. There were absolutely no blinking nav lights just a very bright white orb. When it was closest to us we noticed two sets of small “light rays” emitting on the edges of the light ball. One was green, and one red light went over a low light cloud but was still very visible through it.
I said, “This light is very bright”. My friend said “indeed”. It past over us describing an arch changing smoothly its course. We changed our location to follow the object as it flew in the path of the very bright moon and was still clearly visible and very bright. Speed was average and it seemed to float but clearly not a Chinese lantern as it flew too big and too high. It flew south and three seconds later it turned off and vanished. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Spain Saturn-like
A CORUÑA — We are walking on the beach and a UFO appears in the photo/picture.
United Kingdom/England
LONDON – On May 9, 2013, while with a tour group I took many digital photos and videos of the most common tourist attractions. It was not until I got home and started working with the material on my computer that I discovered I had several unusual objects in some of the photos that could be UFO’s. I also have one very brief video of a UFO flying over the Tower Bridge. I wish I had realized it was there so that I would have continued taking the video. I did not realize the UFO’s were being photographed at the time. Thanks to William Puckett, Director http://www.UFOsnw.com
BOSTON, LINCOLNSHIRE — Whilst cycling to work at roughly 3.40 AM, I spotted three copper/orange lights in a perfectly triangular formation on June 1, 2013. It didn’t seem to be moving. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com
England/Wales border
HEREFORDSHIRE– Attached picture from a video of last Saturday June 15, 2013 at 4 PM. The objects are near Burl Hill and also over the woods behind the Pentre Farm buildings. The disc objects over the hill are also the same as last week prior to this film, from Hergest Ridge. The pictures are from the England/Wales borders area.
Note: This same witness has photographed and videotaped UFOs in the past. In some cases he doesn’t see the objects, but finds them when analyzing the videos and/or the photos. Thanks to Peter Davenport, Director National UFO Reporting Center http://www.UFOcenter.com
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Philadelphia is for art lovers
By Lawrence Ferber
April 23, 2013 | 4:00am
The Barnes Foundation has relocated to its new Parkway home. R. Kennedy for GPTMC
Manhattan’s Museum Mile has an out-of-town friend, and it’s called the Parkway Museum District. Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway — designed to resemble the Champs-Élysées — is lined with major art museums that rival anything we have in NYC, all within easy walking distance of one another. To boot, dozens of other museums, galleries, events and the famed Mural Mile make for an artful weekend trip.
The heaviest hitter is the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the front steps of which tourists still speed-run up all day, re-creating the iconic scene from “Rocky” (a statue of Rocky Balboa is located just to the stair’s right for your photo-op pleasure).
“Design for the Modern Child” is at PMA from May 25 to Oct. 13, and until June 9 you can see “Great and Mighty Things,” an eclectic collection of “outsider art” by self-taught folks like New Orleans gospel singer Sister Gertrude Morgan. From July 13 to Sept. 8, get a first look at the museum’s new permanent acquisitions, many never on view before, including an 1881 Monet, “Path on the Island of Saint Martin, Vetheuil” (philamuseum.org).
Speaking of Monet, the wealth of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works at the Barnes Foundation — which boasts 46 Picassos alone — makes one itch to watch Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris” again. Relocated from its suburban Merion, Pa., base last year to this brand-new Parkway building, the late Dr. Albert Barnes’ collection is displayed just as he intended: densely. Be mindful — security guards are quick to swoop in if someone gets too close to the artwork, which happens quite frequently. From May 4 to Sept. 2, a temporary exhibition, “Ellsworth Kelly: Sculpture on the Wall,” showcases the abstract artist’s major works. Visits are timed every half-hour, and walk-up tickets extremely limited ($22 adults; $10 students; $45 docent-led tour), so book tickets as far in advance as possible (barnesfoundation.org).
Renovated last year, the Rodin Museum is well worth a stop (and, ahem, think), featuring a bronze version of the sculptor’s “The Gates of Hell,” inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy and commissioned for a never-realized Paris decorative arts museum (rodinmuseum.org).
A couple of blocks from the Benjamin Franklin Parkway’s southeast end, at Center City’s Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, PAFA students just beginning to realize their talents will be exhibited from May 10 to June 2, while seasoned Brooklyn artist Jennifer Bartlett receives a retrospective, “History of the Universe — Works 1970-2011,” from June 27 to Oct. 13. And coming next year: David Lynch fans can take in the off-kilter filmmaker’s paintings, photographs and sculptures from Sept. 5, 2014 to Jan. 15, 2015. (118 N. Broad St., pafa.org ).
Focusing on contemporary work, Rittenhouse Square’s Philadelphia Art Alliance presents a world premiere — and totally genius — exhibition, “Emily Spivak: Sentimental Value,” in which the artist displays items she won on eBay with their intriguing backstories and sellers’ anecdotes (251 S. 18th St., philartalliance.org). In April, Rittenhouse Park itself became a permanent, interactive installation via the 99-cent iPhone app “The Empty Air,” which uses GPS to trigger musician Michael Kiley’s textured sound designs and an original song.
Also modern-minded, the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute of Contemporary Art will host a pair of exhibitions from April 24 to July 28: one by Scottish sculptor Karla Black, and the student-curated “Each One As She May,” featuring work by Glenn Ligon, Steve Reich and Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker (118 S. 36th St., caphila.org).
The best time to check out Philly’s smaller, independent galleries in Old City is on First Fridays, between 5 and 9 p.m. Download a participating gallery map at oldcityarts.org.
Starting in April and extending into the fall months, the city’s Mural Arts Program offers numerous tours, via foot, trolley, subway and bicycle, that share the stories behind Philly’s many large-scale works (muralarts.org). One mural off the beaten path to check out, in multiethnic South Philly, is painter Brian Senft’s depiction of Italy’s lush, rustic Abruzzo region at Le Virtu, where you can refuel with housemade charcuterie and Abruzzese pasta specialties (1927 E. Passyunk Ave., levirtu.com).
Looking forward to fall, FringeArts’ 10,000-square-foot performance arts center and festival (Sept. 6 to 21) will debut in a former fire-hydrant pumping station built in 1903. Located on the Delaware River waterfront in Old City, it includes a 225-seat theater, outdoor plaza and restaurant/bar (fringearts.com).
A year-round must: Blending art and commerce, Williamsburg-style, is Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, a shop/gallery stocking local artisanal goods like graphic T-shirts, Norman Porter Co. denim jeans, Forage Haberdashery’s men’s ties, Side Project Beef Jerky and AAMR’s own line of spirits like the Pennsylvania Dutch ginger-snap-flavored SNAP. A diverse array of multimedia exhibitions and in-store performances by hipster creators, from Seattle’s Sub Pop Records to Brooklyn typographer Jessica Hische, fill the gallery side’s calendar (116 N. Third St., artintheage.com).
Where to stay? Within a few minutes’ walk to Art in the Age, Old City’s gallery district and FringeArts, the artful 268-room Hotel Monaco opened in 2012 (from $247, monaco-philadelphia.com). Located just across the street from Independence Park and the Liberty Bell, this colorful, contemporary property is adorned with photos from Philly’s eccentric Mardi Gras-esque Mummers Parade. Complimentary guest amenities are generous — daily wine hour, Wi-Fi, use of bicycles — while in-house Red Owl Tavern features superb New American fare by James Beard Award-winning chef Guillermo Tellez.
THE ART OF EATING
Conveniently, many new, excellent restaurants have popped up in Center City and the Parkway Museum District over the past couple of years.
Prolific restaurateur Stephen Starr’s Granite Hill, boasting a decadent lobster mac and cheese, is located within the Philadelphia Museum of Art itself, while his UK-themed, Spotted Pig-resembling the Dandelion (124 S. 18th St., thedandelionpub.com) presents authentic gastropub fare, like a massive family-style Sunday roast replete with Yorkshire pudding and, at brunch, excellent Scotch Pancakes topped with a scoop of cinnamon whipped cream. Tip: Ask to sit in the Good Dog Bar Room, featuring canine-centric tchotchkes.
Chef Greg Vernick’s elegant-casual Vernick Food & Drink serves up globally influenced small plates and deliciously charred sourdough toast topped with the likes of beef tartare and peas and bacon (2031 Walnut St., vernickphilly.com).
Philadelphia Art Alliance’s on-site restaurant, Rittenhouse Tavern, offers chef Nicholas Elmi’s locavore New American fare, including a roasted Amish chicken breast with thyme reduction, in a historic setting (251 S. 18th St., rittenhousetavern.com).
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Wising up to Albany’s political ‘con’ game
Andrew Cuomo AP
Democrats' ‘unfixable’ extremism uses Trump as an excuse: Goodwin
Democrats are just still not over 2016 election: Goodwin
Trump's 'peace-through-strength' philosophy on Iran is what America needs: Goodwin
The Chicken Littles got everything wrong on Trump and Iran: Goodwin
The giant hole in Dems' criticism of Trump's attack on Qassem Soleimani: Goodwin
Sullen but not mutinous. That is the New York state of mind in this election year.
The Siena poll finding that an incredible two-thirds of New Yorkers assume state legislators are in the job only for themselves and their friends is a dismal reflection of recent history. And it’s no surprise that voters are not surprised when the pols get busted for corruption.
The only shocker is that the public seems prepared to accept the status quo as the best the Empire State can do. Big mistake.
Apathy benefits incumbents, including the worst ones, and the poll is more proof that this year’s contests are not generating any passion. If voter enthusiasm had to produce actual electricity, we’d be headed for a summer blackout.
The poll shows Gov. Cuomo holding a massive, 37-point lead over Republican Rob Astorino, 60 to 23 percent. The lopsided margin is in line with other surveys.
Yet Astorino, in an interview yesterday, insists that the race is far from over, and claims to see an opening because he is making Albany ethics, or the lack of them, a top issue. That puts him in sync with voters, although he clearly hasn’t convinced them he can clean the stables; that, in turn, has made fund-raising difficult.
He is trying to jump-start his campaign with withering attacks on Cuomo, linking the Democratic governor to the crime wave the public sees.
“This governor is the most corrupt, and the corruption is destroying this state,” Astorino told me. “Only in New York can the anti-corruption commission itself be corrupted, but that’s what happened.”
He added: “Who is the governor protecting?”
The basis of his charge is that Preet Bharara, the crusading Manhattan federal prosecutor, served a subpoena last week on an aide to the former head of the defunct Moreland Commission. The subpoena reportedly calls for the aide to testify before a criminal grand jury next week.
The move follows unusually critical comments Bharara made after Cuomo shut down the panel in March. The prosecutor wondered whether the governor traded away evidence of federal crimes in exchange for lawmakers agreeing to modest political reforms. Previous subpoenas demanded the panel’s records, as well as relevant ones from the state Senate and Assembly.
As I wrote, Cuomo has been too timid about fighting corruption, and made a mistake in disbanding the panel before it completed its work. Yet he did say repeatedly he would keep it going only until the Legislature acted, and, unfortunately, he kept that promise. But based on what we know, it is a big leap for Astorino to say the governor’s action itself was corrupt.
Still, official misconduct is surely fair game in this race. The steady indictments and convictions of public officials — 26 forced from office since 2000 — have a corrosive impact on public trust.
Moreover, corruption in Albany is not incidental to the state’s problems, ranging from super-high taxing and spending to a smothering welter of regulations, fines and fees. The endless horse-trading and transactional deals that dominate every piece of legislation undercuts even routine operations. Merit rarely sees the sun.
Astorino, the Westchester County executive, says the result is that taxpayers are saddled with a stealth “corruption tax.” His 10-point reform plan features term limits of eight years for elected officials and legislators, an independent panel to investigate public complaints of misconduct, stronger transparency requirements, and automatic loss of pension for officials convicted of using their offices to commit crimes.
He would put new restrictions on the tens of millions of dollars directed to nonprofits, a perennial source of wrongdoing, since many are connected to legislators who lobby for the funds. And in a sign of how lax rules are now, he would require receipts before lawmakers get reimbursed for food, lodging and travel. The existing honor system is easy picking for the felony-minded.
These are basic, good-government ideas and Cuomo would be wise to offer his own package. Voters also deserve at least two head-to-head debates in the fall. If they get all that and still doze through Election Day, heaven help New York.
Fools who see no evil
With images of death and destruction in Ukraine competing with images of death and destruction in Gaza, Americans probably are struggling to keep their wars straight.
Not to worry. You don’t even need a score card to tell the bad guys from the good guys.
Russia and Hamas are the evil twins, Israel and Ukraine are democracies. Everything else is bloody detail, though you’d never know it from the whimpering of American and European officials.
Their premature calls for a cease-fire in Gaza and the reluctance to slap tough sanctions on Russia capture the fatal weakness of western civilization. With the darkest forces on the rise, the free world offers only faint-hearted resistance.
Despite the clear Russian role in shooting down the Malaysian airliner, Europe and Washington proceed like mewling bureaucrats. They plan meetings that will lead to more meetings; any actions will be too little, too late to change Vladimir Putin’s murderous ways.
Similarly, the sole focus on Palestinian casualties is misplaced. Counting every corpse as a civilian is folly in a land where there is no regular army, only terrorists who fire from schools, mosques and hospitals.
Besides, Hamas aims rockets at Israeli cities, hoping to kill civilians. Their incompetence doesn’t make them any less evil.
Yet the moral and geopolitical dimensions of these conflicts escape President Obama and his Old Europe peers. Their fecklessness reflects a confusion that is both simple and profound.
Simple in that Russia and Hamas are enemies of life and liberty, the basis of western civilization, and they must be checked if not defeated. Profound in that, where principle demands support for Ukraine and Israel, western leaders offer a mushy uncertainty.
The stakes couldn’t be higher, but instead of a Churchill, we are led by a gaggle of Chamberlains.
Just a light smack for ‘heroin’ principal
A Brooklyn school principal named Sadie Silver was arrested and charged with trying to smuggle heroin into an upstate prison she was visiting. Her boyfriend also was arrested, and they had with them a 10-year-old girl.
Nor did he inhale
Maybe Bill Clinton just gets a kick out of lying. How else to explain the ridiculous whopper
he laid on an interviewer?
After telling CNN that wifey wants “time” to think about a 2016 presidential campaign, he claimed Hillary “hasn’t asked me yet” for any advice.
Right. And he never had sex with that woman.
Flagging spirits
About those white surrender flags on the Brooklyn Bridge — perhaps Mayor de Blasio put them there before fleeing to Italy.
Are we sure he’s coming back?
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Guest exchange through single crystal-single crystal transformations in a flexible hydrogen-bonded framework
Wenchang Xiao, Chunhua Hu, Michael Ward
A molecular framework based on guanidinium cations and 1,2,4,5-tetra(4-sulfonatophenyl)benzene (TSPB), an aromatic tetrasulfonate with nominal 2-fold and mirror symmetry, exhibits three crystallographically unique one-dimensional channels as a consequence of molecular symmetry and complementary hydrogen bonding between the guanidinium (G) ions and the sulfonate (S) groups of TSPB. Unlike previous GS frameworks, this new topology is sufficiently flexible to permit reversible release and adsorption of guest molecules in large single crystals through a cyclic shrinkage and expansion of the channels with retention of single crystallinity, as verified by single crystal X-ray diffraction. Moreover, the G4TSPB framework permits guest exchange between various guest molecules through SCSCTs as well as exchange discrimination based on the size and character of the three different channels. The exchange of guest molecules during single crystal-single crystal transformations (SCSCT), a rare occurrence for hydrogen-bonded frameworks, is rather fast, with diffusivities of approximately 10-6 cm2 s-1. Rapid diffusion in the two channels having cross sections sufficient to accommodate two guest molecules can be explained by two-way or ring diffusion, most likely vacancy assisted. Surprisingly, rapid guest exchange also is observed in a smaller channel having a cross-section that accommodates only one guest molecule, which can only be explained by guest-assisted single-file unidirectional diffusion. Several single crystals of inclusion compounds can be realized only through guest exchange in the intact framework, suggesting an approach to the synthesis of single crystalline inclusion compounds that otherwise cannot be attained through direct crystallization methods.
https://doi.org/10.1021/ja507689m
Guanidine
Hydrogen bonds
Positive ions
Xiao, W., Hu, C., & Ward, M. (2014). Guest exchange through single crystal-single crystal transformations in a flexible hydrogen-bonded framework. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 136(40), 14200-14206. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja507689m
Guest exchange through single crystal-single crystal transformations in a flexible hydrogen-bonded framework. / Xiao, Wenchang; Hu, Chunhua; Ward, Michael.
In: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 136, No. 40, 08.10.2014, p. 14200-14206.
Xiao, W, Hu, C & Ward, M 2014, 'Guest exchange through single crystal-single crystal transformations in a flexible hydrogen-bonded framework', Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 136, no. 40, pp. 14200-14206. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja507689m
Xiao W, Hu C, Ward M. Guest exchange through single crystal-single crystal transformations in a flexible hydrogen-bonded framework. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2014 Oct 8;136(40):14200-14206. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja507689m
Xiao, Wenchang ; Hu, Chunhua ; Ward, Michael. / Guest exchange through single crystal-single crystal transformations in a flexible hydrogen-bonded framework. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2014 ; Vol. 136, No. 40. pp. 14200-14206.
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Introducing The NOIPolls Portfolio of Indices
February 11, 2014 / Economic, Polls
Abuja, Nigeria. February 11th, 2014 – Maintaining our stance as a dynamic and innovative public opinion polling and research organization in Nigeria and the West African region, NOIPolls Limited is excited to introduce our portfolio of indices; the NOIPolls Personal Well-Being Index (PWBI), the NOIPolls Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) and the NOIPolls Eagle 30 Business Confidence Index (EBCI). The NOIPolls Personal Well-Being Index measures factors impacting on the lives of everyday Nigerians; thereby producing a complete view of the individual’s personal well-being. The NOIPolls Consumer Confidence Index provides consumer assessments of the economic situation and their intentions and expectations for the future. The NOIPolls Eagle 30 Business Confidence Index measures business leaders’ perceptions and expectations about the Nigerian business environment using the top 30 companies in the country.
Nigerian businesses, financial and government agencies largely depend on their perceptions and micro assessment of consumers’ expectation in making decisions. At best, they draw conclusion on the business environment based on information from their immediate surroundings while the minority conduct surveys that are time and money consuming. However, the introduction of these indices provides indicators that will ensure stakeholders can detect and respond to changes in consumer behaviour, the economy, and the business environment in Nigeria.
Summary of Portfolio of Indices for January 2014
Index January 2014
The NOIPolls Personal Well-Being Index (PWBI) 44.1
The NOIPolls Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) 83.9
The NOIPolls Eagle 30 Business Confidence Personal Index (EBCI) To be released in March 2014
The NOIPolls Personal Well-Being Index (PWBI)
NOIPolls started monthly polls for the NOIPolls Personal Well-Being Index in January 2013, seven key indicators were used to measure the PWBI; these were Standard of Living, Health, Achievement in Life, Personal Security, Social Interaction, Religion, and Economic Situation. The average NOIPolls Personal Well-Being Index for 2013 was 41.6%. This indicates that Nigerians were mostly neutral about their personal well-being in 2013. In February (41.3%), August (40.5%), November (41.4%) and December (37.5%), the Index was lower than the yearly average. The peak of the Index results was observed in January (42.9%) while the lowest result was recorded in December (37.5%) showing that Nigerians were neutral about their personal well-being in January 2013, but dissatisfied by December 2013. A total of 12,000 randomly selected Adult Nigerians were polled nationwide. The PWBI for January 2014 is put at 44.1%. This shows that there was an increase of 2.5% from the yearly average of41.6%. Also when the present reading of 44.1% is compared to the PWBI of January 2013 which was 43.0%, it indicates that there was a slight improvement in the personal well being of Nigerians compared to the same time last year.
Please read more on the NOIPolls PWBI here
The NOIPolls Consumer Confidence Index (CCI)
NOIPolls started monthly polling for the NOIPolls Consumer Confidence Index in January 2014. The score for January 2014 is 83.9. This score indicates that consumers are positive about their personal state and stability of the economy. In general, this optimism is expected to result in the purchase of more goods and services and ultimately stimulate economic growth.
The NOIPolls Consumer Confidence Index comprises of 2 independent variables; the Present Situation Index (PSI) and Expectation Index (EI). The Present Situation Index of 64.7, shows that Nigerians feel good about their present personal and economic situation. Also, the Expectation Index score of 96.9 reveals that consumers are highly optimistic about the future. A total of randomly selected 4,000 Adult Nigerians are polled monthly. Since this is our first reading, we clearly cannot identify trends. Once we have a track record of several months, we will be able to draw some conclusions on the patterns observed.
Present Situation Index (PSI) 64.7
Expectations Index (EI) 96.9
Please read more on the NOIPolls CCI here
The NOIPolls Eagle 30 Business Confidence Index (EBCI)
NOIPolls has conducted the NOIPolls Eagle 30 Business Confidence Survey biannually over a 5 year period; in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. The NOIPolls Eagle 30 Business Confidence Survey captures the opinions of C-level executives from thirty (30) leading companies in Nigeria and provides information about the existing business environment and short term business outlook. The surveys were conducted bi-annually and published as the NOIPolls Eagle 30 Business Confidence report. As from March 2014, NOIPolls introduces the NOIPolls Eagle 30 Business Confidence Index which will be an indicator of Business Leaders’ perceptions about the Business Environment based on survey questions.
Please read more on the 5-year EBCI here.
We believe the different indices can be used as key indicators to measure economic growth, consumer behaviour, the prevailing business environment and impact of policies on the population.
The introduction of our portfolio of indices is key to enabling stakeholders in all major sectors of the Nigerian economy and across the Globe to make informed decisions. They also serve as key pointers to would be investors in the Nigerian Economy to enable strategic entry into the country. Also Journalists, the Academia and other experts can benefit from this unprecedented resource of behavioural data to inform their research and reporting.
Overall we are quite excited to be charting these new waters in research and data management in Nigeria and look forward to introducing more indices to our portfolio as we grow.
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1st-8th June 2019 – Romania
A week-long International Tour to Romania, organised together with our friends from Oriole Birding. The Danube Delta is one of the ‘must-see’ wildlife destinations and we spent four days exploring it, sleeping each night on our floating hotel in a different location, right out in the midst of it. We also spent a couple of days exploring the Dobrogea region, down to the Black Sea coast, which is host to some species right at the western edge of their range. A fantastic experience!
SATURDAY 1ST JUNE
Our 10.35 flight from Luton Airport to Bucharest arrived on time. After realising we had come out in a different arrivals hall, we quickly found our local guide, Florin, who took us outside to where our minibus and driver were waiting. There were a few House Sparrows, House Martins and Jackdaws around the terminal building, before we set off on the long drive to Tulcea.
Out in the suburbs, we saw mostly Collared Doves and Feral Pigeons but as we got out into the countryside beyond, we could see Rooks, Hooded Crows and one or two Pheasants in the fields. More exciting, a Long-legged Buzzard circled over the road ahead of us. We broke the journey with a stop at a service station for coffee and/or ice cream, where several Greenfinches were singing outside.
Afterwards, as we continued the journey, we started to see a greater variety of birds. It had clearly rained a lot in recent weeks, given the amount of water on the fields, and some of the wetter areas held a selection of herons – a Great White Egret, a few Little Egrets, two Squacco Herons, three Black-crowned Night Herons, and a couple of the group spotted a Glossy Ibis lurking in a ditch. As we approached the Danube crossing, there were more White Storks, including several nests with chicks on the telegraph posts in some of the villages.
The wires beside the road started to get some more interesting birds too. In one area, we spotted five Rollers in quick succession. There were Bee-eaters too, particularly as we approached a steep section of road which winds down through a small grove of acacia trees. There were plenty of Rooks in the trees, but no sign of any Red-footed Falcons, which also nest here. However, just beyond the trees we spotted a smart male Red-footed Falcon hovering over the grass beside the road.
Further into the Dobrugea region, and we started to see more Red-backed Shrikes and one or two Corn Buntings on the wires. It was starting to get dark now and a Little Owl was perched on the chimney of a house in one of the villages we passed. We finally made it into Tulcea at about 9pm, and we headed straight to the port where the floating hotel, which would be our home for the next five nights, was waiting. After a delicious dinner on board, we retired to our cabins.
SUNDAY 2ND JUNE
There were a few gulls around the harbour in Tulcea when we woke up this morning. As well as plenty of Black-headed Gulls, a couple of Caspian Gulls came close enough to get a good look at. After breakfast on board – cereals with local yoghurt, bread and honey, eggs, and a selection of ham and cheese – we boarded the smaller boat which would take us around the Delta (the floating hotel would be towed out to meet us later). The main Tulcea branch of the Danube is big and open and was fairly birdless at first, apart from a few more Caspian Gulls. After a quick stop to retrieve someone’s cap, which had blown off into the river, we headed over towards the junction with the smaller Mila 36 channel. A Grey-headed Woodpecker flew in and landed in the top of some tall poplars on the bank and our first White Pelicans, a group of fourteen, circled overhead.
White Pelicans – our first of the trip, circled overhead
Having turned off the main channel onto Mila 36, we started to come across a lot more birds. There were Kingfishers calling all around here, zooming back and forth across the water and in and out of the trees. We could hear a variety of different birds in the trees, but they were hard to see in all the leaves and undergrowth. An Icterine Warbler and several Eastern Olivaceous Warblers were singing, as well as both Common and one or two Thrush Nightingales, the more grating and clicking phrases of the latter giving them away. Three calling Collared Flycatchers gave only glimpses but a couple of Spotted Flycatchers sallied out of the trees. There were more woodpeckers too, several Great Spotted, another Grey-headed, and we heard out first Middle Spotted Woodpecker.
The Delta is all about its waterbirds, and is packed full of herons of various sizes. There were plenty of Grey Herons and Little Egrets at first and then, as we got further in, we found lots of Squacco Herons which flushed from the banks as we passed, changing instantly from buff-brown to white. Several Black-crowned Night Herons and a smaller number of Glossy Ibis flew over.
Squacco Heron – a very common heron in the Delta
We encountered our first Pygmy Cormorants too, but they are very skittish and typically flew off ahead of us. More pelicans circled overhead, mostly flocks of White Pelicans, but we also saw our first Dalmatian Pelican, typically a lone bird which flew over.
Pygmy Cormorant – mostly very skittish and flew off before we got too close
A male Little Bittern flew across the channel ahead of us and landed in the base of the reeds, disappearing in before we could get a good look at it. When we stopped to scan, a Penduline Tit started calling over on the other side, and we saw it perched briefly in the top of the reeds. One of the group, scanning for the tit, found a female Little Bittern instead, up on top of the reeds further back. We had already heard several Great Reed Warblers singing in the reeds as we passed, and now one perched up nicely on a dead reed stem. A little further on, and a pair of Hobbys were zooming around through the tops of the trees beside the channel, before landing up in a poplar.
We stopped for coffee at the entrance to Lake Nebunu. As we motored up, a Raccoon Dog was on the bank nearby, but quickly scuttled into the vegetation. There were lots of Mute Swans and Great Crested Grebes out on the lake. A pair of Common Terns and about 15 Whiskered Terns were flying round and dip feeding over the vegetation across the entrance. We could see lots of cormorants and herons coming and going from their nesting colony in the tall trees at the back. Two White-tailed Eagles appeared over the trees, and one was mobbed by a Hooded Crow, which was just a tiny speck by comparison at that range. A Pallas’s Gull flew over the back of the lake too, like an oversized Black-headed Gull, but it was rather distant and disappeared from view behind the trees.
After coffee, we carried on along the channel and hadn’t gone much further when we came across our first Red-necked Grebes. The first one dived ahead of the boat and disappeared into the reeds, but then we found four more together, and had a great view of them, resplendent in breeding plumage with bright rusty-red necks.
Red-necked Grebe – in smart breeding plumage
Next stop was by a White-tailed Eagle nest, which was high in the trees beside the channel. One of the two juveniles was still on the nest, but the other was hiding higher up in the branches above. They were almost fully grown, not long to fledging now. There was no sign of either of the adults at first, until two White-tailed Eagles appeared through the treetops. One of the adults was chasing off an immature, which had presumably flown too close to the nest. Once the intruder had fled, the adult flew back round and landed in a tree not far away.
We cut back across Lake Furtuna, a large open lake surrounded by reeds. Several White Pelicans and a single Dalmatian Pelican were swimming out on the water. There was more floating vegetation over the far side, where we found lots of Whiskered Terns, four Garganey and a pair of Gadwall. It was full of grebes too, nesting Great Crested Grebes, several pairs of Black-necked Grebes and four Red-necked Grebes too. Our first Purple Heron flew over.
Dalmatian Pelican – we saw small numbers daily in the Delta
On the smaller channels especially, there were Cuckoos and Rollers everywhere. A brief Golden Oriole flew over, but was not seen by most of the group and would remain a target for a good view for many for a while yet. There were lots of dragonflies – mainly Emperor, Lesser Emperor and Scarlet Darter, and plenty of Banded Demoiselles beside the channels. As we got out into a more agricultural area, several Western Yellow Wagtails flew up from the feet of a herd cows, though it was hard to see for sure whether these ones were pure Black-headed Wagtails or one of the array of hybrids.
We met the floating hotel for lunch at Maliuc, and while we were settled on board enjoying our three course feast we were towed slowly along to the next location. After lunch, we had a couple of hours to relax over the heat of the day, take a siesta or watch the world go by from the boat. The banks were more open here and in the wetter spots there were lots of Great White Egrets and Glossy Ibis. Three Hoopoes flew alongside as we passed and there seemed to be Rollers on just about every bush.
Hoopoe – several were seen on the river bank today
With the floating hotel moored again, we set off about 5pm in the smaller boat to explore the area. A Penduline Tit was calling from the trees on the opposite bank and a Garden Warbler was singing from the trees on our side. It was still hot, and quiet to start as we checked out a couple of smaller lakes.
The first was overgrown with Water Soldier and not surprisingly there were several Norfolk Hawkers patrolling along the edge of the reeds. Marsh Frogs were everywhere on the lily pads, until a Dice Snake swam across, causing them to disappear into the water. Lots of herons were flying around again, and we saw many more Purple Herons out here. A Savi’s Warbler was reeling from the reeds, the first of many we heard this afternoon.
Purple Heron – more common in the reedier parts of the Delta
The second lake was full of Whiskered Terns, looking to nest on the floating vegetation. When a Hooded Crow flew across, they all came up en masse to mob it, and we realised just how many had been hiding there. A pair of Greylag Geese lurking in the edge of the reeds at the back had distinctive pink bills, birds of the eastern race rubirostris. We could hear a Bittern booming too.
Back along the more open Crisan channel, an obliging Black-crowned Night Heron was standing on the floating vegetation below one of the trees on the bank. We saw several more Ferruginous Ducks, mostly typically flighty, but we had a nice view of a male down on the water’s edge which lingered longer than most. On an area of open sandy shore, an adult Little Ringed Plover was keeping an eye on its already well-grown juvenile. A White-tailed Eagle flew in over the back and appeared to be coming our way before it suddenly dropped down onto the ground. We could see it was feeding on something, and was quickly surrounded by 10 Hooded Crows.
Black-crowned Night Heron – another very common species in the Delta
We continued on back past the floating hotel, and turned in down the small channel leading to Lake Iacob. There were more pelicans on the lake – with two White and two Dalmatian Pelicans on a log, giving us a nice comparison. A Garden Warbler was singing nearby and we could hear more Penduline Tits calling. As we motored back slowly along the wooded channel, a Grey-headed Woodpecker perched nicely in the tree above us. Another Pallas’s Gull flew over, much closer this time but we would still hold out for better views.
Grey-headed Woodpecker – perched nicely in a tree above the boat
Back at the floating hotel, we sat out on the deck to compile the list for the day. We could still hear the Grey-headed Woodpecker calling away in the trees. Eastern Olivaceous and Great Reed Warblers were singing and the Savi’s Warbler was still reeling. A Bittern was booming off in the distance and a Golden Oriole was taunting us, hidden deep in the bushes. What an amazing place to be! After a delicious three course dinner of salad followed by local zander, it was time to turn in, to the sound of Fire-bellied Toads calling.
MONDAY 3RD JUNE
Before breakfast, the earlier risers gathered out on the deck. A Little Crake was calling, but hidden deep in the reeds beyond the trees on the bank. A pair of Eastern Olivaceous Warblers appeared briefly low in the branches, before making their way through to the sunny side of the trees as the early mist burned off. The Bittern was still booming and the Savi’s Warbler still reeling off in the distance. Three Pallas’s Gulls flew high over, one at a time, and the first White Pelicans flapped lazily up along the channel. A Middle Spotted Woodpecker flew past through trees opposite and while we ate breakfast, a pair of Garganey circled round over the water outside.
As we got ready to set off on the smaller boat again, we picked up a distant male Red-footed Falcon on some wires, and through the scope we could just about see its red feet and legs in the morning sunshine. As we motored slowly up the channel, there were the usual herons and egrets everywhere. A Great Bittern flew across and up the edge of the channel ahead of us, a difficult bird to see here.
When we heard Bearded Tits calling we looked over to see a family party right up in the top of the willows on the bank. Another bigger group of Bearded Tits were in the reeds on the junction of the Caraorman channel, lots of juveniles. As we stopped to look at them, one of the group noticed a male Penduline Tit feeding in the sedges right down at the front – nice to get our first good views of this species. We could hear a Reed Bunting singing, and then a pair appeared in one of the willows. The birds here are a different race to back home, tshusii, being noticeably heavier-billed.
Penduline Tit – feeding in the sedges
Continuing on to Caraorman village, a pair of Caspian Gulls were loafing on the bank and a Hoopoe was wrestling with a mole cricket as we made our way down to the small harbour. The vista here was dominated by the ruins of the old communist-era industrial sand mining site, long since abandoned. As we got out at the harbour, a juvenile Northern Wheatear was feeding in between the boats pulled up nearby. Walking down the track towards the village, we were surrounded by Bee-eaters calling and perching on the wires, nesting in the low sandy banks.
Bee-eater – around the abandoned factory at Caraorman
A couple of Black-tailed Godwits were feeding in a grassy pool out where the cows were grazing. Three Red-footed Falcons were perched on the wires further down, two of the males chasing each other a little closer before landing again. It was already starting to get hot. Lots of Marsh Frogs were basking around the edge of a small pool in the sand, before hopping in as we passed, and the head of a Dice Snake appeared out of the water.
Several White Storks were on nests in the village, and one stood bill clapping and throwing its head back as two others circled over. It was eerie walking round past the huge abandoned accommodation blocks, long-since stripped of windows, doors and any other removable fittings, their roofs falling in but providing nest sites for the local Kestrels.
We continued on down the track out into the old sand pits. On the larger shallow pools here we found several Avocets and Black-winged Stilts along with more Black-tailed Godwits and a few Shelduck too. A Hobby flew over hunting dragonflies. Up on the bank of the next basin, there was pleasant breeze to stop us overheating. A single Caspian Tern was out in the middle, dwarfing the Common Terns and Whiskered Terns it was with. Through the scope, we could see its huge black-tipped red bill. A few Black-winged Stilts and Common Terns were nesting on the sandy islands.
Continuing round to the far corner, we could see a group of larger gulls loafing on the edge of the another pool. A single adult Pallas’s Gull was in with the Caspian Gulls – with its black hood, it really stood out. There were more Bee-eaters in the bushes and a male Red-backed Shrike appeared with them briefly. Then it was time to get out of the sun, so we took a short cut back to the boat. A male Northern Wheatear was singing around the abandoned factory buildings.
Northern Wheatear – singing around the abandoned factory
After a break for water and/or coffee back at the boat, we motored round to a former fish farm nearby. There were lots of Whiskered Terns flying round over the pools, but a group of people had set up for a picnic at the viewing platform, so we carried on down the channel. We went looking for a Penduline Tit nest. The reeds were too tall at the first site we tried, but we did see the pair of adult Penduline Tits in the trees calling. Further on, we found another nest hanging in the lowest branches of a willow, just above the reeds, an amazing construction. The remains of last year’s nest was still hanging in the branches further in. It was all quiet here though, so perhaps the female was incubating.
Continuing on, we stopped to look at a pair of Red-backed Shrikes in the bushes on the bank. An Eastern Olivaceous Warbler was singing here too, and perched up in the top of a bush for ages, being unusually obliging. Back round to Caraorman channel, a Common Cuckoo perched on the wires.
Common Cuckoo – abundant in the Delta
As we headed back towards the floating hotel, we heard another Savi’s Warbler reeling. This one seemed to be closer, and a careful scan revealed it perched up in the reeds in full view. We stopped the boat and had a good look at this typically very elusive species. We certainly would not go hungry this week – lunch was another three courses of soup with meatballs, followed by stuffed vine leaves and a delicious traditional pudding.
Savi’s Warbler – we had a good view of this typically elusive species
After lunch, the floating hotel was towed slowly back up to the main channel at Crisan before turning onto the course of the old Danube. Here we got back onto the smaller boat again, to head out for the afternoon. As we motored slowly along a side channel, we could hear several Golden Orioles fluting from some very tall poplars. We saw a couple flying in and out through the treetops, but you had to be quick to get on them. Both Grey-headed Woodpecker and Lesser Spotted Woodpecker were calling here too, but there was no sign of any Black Woodpeckers today.
The usual selection of herons flew out of the trees beside the channel as we passed, and a Little Bittern flew out of the reeds and alongside the boat, before crashing back in. We were still waiting for a really good view of one perched in the reeds. Turning on to Bogdaproste channel, Common Cuckoos were everywhere again. Several Hobbys zoomed in and out of the trees on the banks, and one perched up nicely.
Hobby – perched up nicely in the trees by the boat
There were lots of Rollers here too – one pair was coming in and out of a nest hole in a tree, and another male was bringing food for the female. An Otter was floating in the channel ahead of the boat, crunching on something it had just caught. As we cut the engine, it saw us and dived.
Roller – we saw several pairs in the trees along the channels
The water opened out into Lake Bogdaproste, where we found a scattering of White Pelicans and Pygmy Cormorants, plus rafts of Common Pochard and Eurasian Coot. Two Black Terns flew over calling behind the boat, but disappeared away from us before we could get a good view. We could see several distant Pallas’s Gulls circling and as we motored across the lake we noticed one on the water, so we diverted over for a closer look. We got much closer before it took off – a very smart gull with its black hood and black-and-white wing tips, and multi-coloured yellow bill.
Through the channel on the far side, we found ourselves coming out into another large lake. As we were crossing, we could see some very distant Whiskered Terns hovering over an island of vegetation on the far side, and we picked up a White-winged Black Tern in with them, so we headed over for closer look. As we got nearer, we could see there were actually two White-winged Black Terns and lots of Black Terns too, at least a dozen, loafing on the floating vegetation. We had great views of one of the White-winged Black Terns dip feeding beside the boat – a real bonus, as they are not common here, with just a few pairs breeding in inaccessible areas. All the terns then took off, and flew round over the boat.
Black Tern – breeds fairly commonly in the Delta
White-winged Black Tern – the rarest of the three ‘marsh terns’ in the Delta
Continuing on to the next lake, a pair of rubirostris Greylag Geese swam across in front of the boat with four goslings. An amazing number of Whiskered Terns, probably at least 150 pairs, were starting to nest on carpet of floating vegetation here. We sailed along a channel through the middle, and had amazing views of them flying all round the boat, calling noisily. What an experience! A Hooded Crow flew over, and was immediately chased by a horde of Whiskered Terns. It made repeated visits, looking for eggs. Two Black-necked Grebes swam along the channel ahead of us.
Whiskered Tern – nest-building on the floating vegetation on the lakes
Whiskered Tern – amazing close views as we sailed across the lake
As we sailed back through the lakes, there were lots of Great Cormorants nesting in the surrounding trees. One tree on the edge of the reeds was full of cormorants of two species, Great and Pygmy Cormorants side by side, so we could really appreciate the size difference. Another Pallas’s Gull was swimming ahead of us on the water, and allowed us to approach closer still before it finally took off and flew round past us. Then we headed back to meet the floating hotel which was moored on a different channel nearby.
Pallas’s Gull – we came across several adults out on the larger lakes
After a break to freshen up, we met up on deck to do the day’s list. A group of eight White Pelicans was loafing and preening on a log by the boat, Whiskered Terns and Marsh Harriers were flying round, another Savi’s Warbler was reeling in the distance, and several Great Reed Warblers were singing in the reeds nearby. After dinner of salad, breaded chicken and local cake, we retired to a deafening chorus of Marsh Frogs outside. Another amazing location and a privilege to be able to spend the night out here again.
TUESDAY 4TH JUNE
Up on the deck before breakfast, we spotted a White-tailed Eagle which had obviously roosted in a tree a short way back along the channel. Three Black Terns patrolled up and down the channel past us and we could hear Bearded Tits and Penduline Tit calling from the reeds, and the Savi’s Warbler was still reeling.
After breakfast, on the smaller boat we headed down to look at the White-tailed Eagle. It eventually took off, and flew back upstream, where it caught a fish and landed on the floating vegetation nearby to eat it. We turned round and motored back and had a great view of it feeding, before it eventually flew again.
White-tailed Eagle – caught a fish just after breakfast
Continuing on along the channel, we saw the usual selection of herons, cormorants, Red-necked Grebes and Ferruginous Ducks – amazing that these species had become so commonplace after just a couple of days here!
Ferruginous Duck – a common sight out in the Delta
On the next channel, there were more trees either side, with several Lesser Whitethroats and Blackcaps singing. A Middle Spotted Woodpecker called and a Grey-headed Woodpecker flew across and perched in a dead willow, the first of several we would see today. Once again, there were plenty of Cuckoos, Rollers and Kingfishers, with one of the latter perching up nicely as we passed.
We came out into a more open agricultural area. Several Western Yellow Wagtails flew up calling and one perched on the top of a dead stem. With its dark grey head and white supercilium it was a ‘dombrowskii’, a hybrid form of Black-headed and Blue-headed Wagtails, a speciality of Romania. A little further on, a Cattle Egret was standing on the grassy bank, the first we had got a good look at – they are not very common here.
Cattle Egret – uncommon in the Delta
A female Red-footed Falcon was perched in a willow right above the channel, so we stopped the boat for a look. It was perched just above our heads, staring down at us, and then a male came up off a nest in the tree nearby. The male flew round calling, so we backed off, and watched as the female returned to the nest. We saw several more Red-footed Falcons as we motored along this stretch of channel.
Red-footed Falcon – the female perched in the trees above us
Red-footed Falcon – the male came up off the nest and flew round
Everyone also finally got a look at a Golden Oriole, albeit just in flight, as one came out of the trees and headed away down the channel. Further on, a shrike in the willows was hidden from view at first, but when it finally flew up into the top, we could see it was a Lesser Grey Shrike, its black mask extending over the top of its bill and with a pink flush to the breast. It flew round the back of the trees and we noticed there were now two perched up together in a bush, a pair. Several Grass Snakes and Dice Snakes swam across the channel as we motored on.
There was a large area of reeds on the right of the channel and lots of Glossy Ibises and Purple Herons were flying round as we passed. When we came to a more open area of short wet grass, we counted at least 80 Great White Egrets in one big group, feeding. There were lots of White Storks here too, plus the usual Grey Herons and Little Egrets. We turned onto another channel at the far side of this field and headed out across the meadows where lots of horses and cattle were grazing. A pair of Hoopoes on the bank, flew off ahead of us. A pair of European Stonechat perched on some wires. A couple more Western Yellow Wagtails flew up, one another ‘dombrowskii’ and one a normal Black-headed Wagtail.
Great White Egret – another common heron in the Delta
The channel disappeared into some dense trees. Another Grey-headed Woodpecker flew across and perched up nicely, but a couple of Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers were typically more elusive, just heard calling. Blackcaps and Garden Warblers were singing. A succession of Black-crowned Night Herons and Grey Herons flew out of the bushes ahead of us.
We had our coffee break as we sailed down here before, at the end, we came out into a huge open lake. We were closer to the main White Pelican breeding site here, a restricted area, but we could see several hundred circling in the distance. There were just a few on the lake here though, along with two Dalmatian Pelicans. Apart from that, all we could find here were a rather distant Pallas’s Gull, a distant White-tailed Eagle, and a distant Little Bittern which flew across. The next lake had a similar variety of birds.
Taking the sinuous Eracle channel back, one of the group spotted a Black Stork circling high over the reeds to one side, a new bird for the trip. As if that wasn’t good enough, we had just started moving again when someone else spotted an owl in the trees. We turned back and found a Long-eared Owl staring back out at us – a very good spot as we motored past! As we pulled up towards the bank, a second Long-eared Owl flew out of the trees.
Long-eared Owl – well spotted by a member of the group in the trees
As we continued on along the channel, it clouded over, and we could hear a thunderstorm away to our left. We turned into a small lake, covered in lily pads, where at least twelve Black Terns were dipping down to the vegetation with all the Whiskered Terns. There were several Black-necked Grebes here too. It started spitting with rain now, and continued on and off as we made our way back to the floating hotel for lunch. It felt much cooler too. At least the local weather forecast promised us that the rain would end in precisely 23 minutes!
After lunch and a short break, it had indeed stopped raining as forecast, so we headed out again on the small boat, through various small channels. A smart male Marsh Harrier circled low over. A Purple Heron flew across with a Grass Snake in its bill. A Savi’s Warbler was reeling and when we got out of the small channel we were in and it opened out, we found it perched high on a dead reed stem. Along the next channel, with lots of trees either side, a Thrush Nightingale was singing from deep in cover.
We came out on the Stipoc channel, by an old fish farm which has now been converted into agricultural land (but would make a fantastic nature reserve!). A couple of Stock Doves were on the wires by the farm buildings and a liberal scattering of Rollers were then on the wires all the way down. Several Red-footed Falcons hovered out over the open grassland. A Corn Bunting sang from the top of a bush on the bank on one side and a Sedge Warbler sand from the reeds on the other. We stopped to look at a European Pond Terrapin which was basking on a log in an area of pondweed and realised there were several more lurking in the weed nearby.
European Pond Terrapin – several were in a weedy along the channel
There was an area of open water and wet grass on the other side of the channel. A couple of small flocks of White Pelicans were swimming in the water and lots of Great White Egrets, Little Egrets, Glossy Ibises and a single Cattle Egret were feeding in the wet grass. Two Green Sandpipers flew round calling, and landed in the vegetation. Four Black-tailed Godwits were feeding here too.
Two Western Yellow Wagtails flew up from the grass, one an obvious ‘dombrowskii’, but the other looked like it might be a Black-headed Wagtail until we got better look. Then we could see it had some grey on the nape, and a small amount of white in the supercilium. The Western Yellow Wagtails here are a real minefield of different hybrid forms!
Lesser Grey Shrike – perched in the willows above the channel
Further on, another Lesser Grey Shrike was perched up in the top of a willow overhanging the channel. Two Golden Orioles flew across over the reeds, across the channel ahead of us and up into the trees the other side. A Musk Rat swam across in front of us, but dived and must have resurfaced in the reeds. Two Hobbys and another female Red-footed Falcon were perched in the trees as we made our way over to Lake Furtuna.
As we came out into the huge open lake, a White-tailed Eagle was down in the reeds on the edge of the water on one side. We started to head over towards it, but it was chased off by a Hooded Crow before we got there. We could see lots of White Pelicans gathered over the far side so we decided to head over that way instead. They were loafing on islands of reed and logs, several immatures, but including several breeding adults with orange facial skin and bump on the forehead.
White Pelicans – there were lots loafing around on Lake Furtuna this evening
There were several Black-necked Grebes with the Great Crested Grebes over by the reeds and Pygmy Cormorants flying back and forth. The channel the other side was absolutely covered with Mayflies low over the water, but others were also flying round, providing food for the Black-headed Gulls and Whiskered Terns which were hawking up and catching them.
Pygmy Cormorant – with a distinctive flight silhouette
The floating hotel was moored over the other side of the lake and when we got back there we could hear a Lesser Spotted Woodpecker calling in the trees nearby and a Little Bittern was hiding in the reeds. We watched the sun set with White Pelicans swimming past outside over dinner.
WEDNESDAY 5TH JUNE
Up on the deck before breakfast this morning, it was a stunning view with the early light out on the lake. Several White Pelicans swam past and Pygmy Cormorants and Caspian Gulls were flying around.
White Pelican – swimming past the floating hotel early morning
After breakfast, we could see a feeding frenzy out on the other side of the lake, so we motored over on the small boat for a closer look. There were at least 2,500 Great Cormorants and 175-200 White Pelicans. They were obviously chasing a shoal of fish across the lake, and the stragglers at the back of the flock kept flying up in smaller groups, leapfrogging the massed horde and landing again at the front. Amazing to watch!
By the time we got over, they had chased the shoal of fish across the lake and into the reeds over the far side. Some of the White Pelicans were swimming in and out of the reeds trying to find them again. About a dozen Little Egrets were waiting on the floating vegetation beside the reeds to see what might be pushed their way. Then the shoal of fish reappeared out in the middle, and everything raced back over and started feeding again, the White Pelicans in groups upending in unison.
Feeding Frenzy – thousands of Great Cormorants and hundreds of White Pelicans
We headed back out of the lake along the channel next to where we had moored for the night. As we were motoring slowly along, we noticed a Little Bittern climb up into the top of the reeds on one side. It was promptly chased off by a second Little Bittern and we watched the two of them fly round after each other. One landed again in the top of the reeds right on the edge of the channel, where we had a great look at it, a smart male with a bright red bill, indicating it was in breeding condition. The two of them then chased round over the reeds again and disappeared back.
We were on a wide channel now, with very big mature trees on the bank on one side. We were hoping to find a Black Woodpecker along here, but the best we could manage was a Black Woodpecker nest hole in a dead tree beside the channel. The hole looked reasonably fresh, so we waited for a minute and listened, but there was no sign of any woodpeckers. Two Common Starlings were in the tree but we didn’t see them using the hole.
Further on, a family of Great Crested Grebes were in the weeds beside the channel, and we watched as the three juveniles climbed onto the back of one of the adults as we passed. Just beyond, we could see a Red-necked Grebe and a Ferruginous Duck. Two White-tailed Eagles were perched in the trees above.
Little Bittern – with some bright red on the bill base
Another male Little Bittern flew across the channel ahead of us, and once again perched up nicely in the reeds on the far side, allowing us to get quite close. We had a good view before it flew back across the tops of the reeds, its bill bright but not quite as red as the one earlier. It already seemed like this might be the day of the Little Bittern!
There was lots of lush vegetation along the bank here and as we carried on we heard two Thrush Nightingales singing deep in cover. We stopped and listened for Black Woodpecker, but once again there was no sign. However, we did find a female Golden Oriole mobbing a Hooded Crow in a willow bush right on the edge of the water. It possibly had a nest nearby, as the male was flying in and out of the trees behind too. We drifted over and had a good view of it, finally a perched Golden Oriole!
Golden Oriole – we finally got good views of one perched
We tried another channel for woodpeckers. A Grey-headed flew over, and we heard both Great Spotted and Lesser Spotted calling, but once again there was no sign of any Black. We joined the main channel for a bit at Mila 23 before we turned onto another side channel. A Red-backed Shrike flew up into a willow on the bank, but landed out of view.
Yet another Little Bittern flew across. Out into a lake, a single Red-necked Grebe was outnumbered by all the Great Crested Grebes. An adult Black-crowned Night Heron was feeding on the lilypads on one edge, chasing frogs, but kept sinking into the vegetation when it landed. A White-tailed Eagle was perched in the distance, in the top of a dead tree beyond the lake. As we sailed through a narrow channel and out into the next lake beyond, two more Little Bitterns chased round through the tops of the reeds.
Little Bittern – it was definitely the best morning for them today!
The next channel had more lily pads and floating vegetation either side. We had just remarked how the Squacco Herons has been outnumbered by Little Bitterns this morning, when normal service was resumed and five Squacco Herons flew out! There were several Red-necked Grebes in the lilypads too – the first pair had the juveniles on the back of one of the adults, but swam into the reeds as we approached. The second pair were much more obliging, and stayed lurking in amongst the lilypads as we passed.
Red-necked Grebe – in the lilypads as we sailed past
A smart male Red-footed Falcon was perched in a tree in some dead branches just above the channel, and stared down as we passed right underneath. We had a great view, slaty grey with red ‘trousers’, bright red legs and feet and red cere and eye ring. Stunning! As we made our way back round to the floating hotel, a female Red-footed Falcon was perched in another tree, rather pale buff below and with brown wings, presumably a young bird in its 2nd calendar year.
Red-footed Falcon – perched in a dead tree above the channel
Back at the floating hotel, our stay in the Delta was unfortunately coming to an end. Up on deck before we set off on the journey back, two more Little Bitterns chased each other round an island of reeds in the middle of the junction between two channels. It really had been a day for them! As we set off on board the hotel, past the reeds where they had landed, one flew out and across the channel on the other side. We scanned the reeds for the other one but all we could find was a Great Reed Warbler feeding down at the base of the reeds.
As we motored back, we would be passing the White-tailed Eagle nest we had visited on Sunday. We were just coming up towards the eerie when suddenly one of the adults flew out of the trees right beside the boat, before circling round over the trees where the nest was. We slowed down to have a look at the nest, but the two youngsters had climbed up into the tree above and were half hidden in the leaves.
We didn’t have a chance to look at them though because, just at that moment, a Black Woodpecker called in the trees right by the nest. We glimpsed it dropping down through the branches, but we were going away all the time and not everyone got onto it. Then it flew out, right past us up on the top deck, and landed in the top of a dead tree just ahead. We had a good view of it now, its red crown catching the light as it turned, before it flew on. A great way to finish our visit to the Delta!
Black Woodpecker – just as we were sailing back out of the Delta
We retired inside for lunch – soup with meatballs, vegetable stew, followed by apple strudel. It was a slow journey back on the floating hotel, so we relaxed on deck listening to all the birds singing in the lush trees along Mila 36 – a Thrush Nightingale and lots of Common Nightingales, Eastern Olivaceous Warblers, Common Redstarts, a couple of Collared Flycatchers. Several Great Spotted Woodpeckers were seen, but Middle Spotted and more Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers were only heard. Kingfishers zipped back and forth calling.
Back out onto the main Tulcea branch of the Danube, there were more Caspian Gulls. Several Western Yellow Wagtails on the grassy bank as we approached Tulcea looked like ‘dombrowskii’ again. We spent our last night on the boat in the harbour, with a delicious dinner of the local speciality, tochitura.
We were up early, and after breakfast said our goodbyes to the floating hotel. As we drove west out of Tulcea, a Glossy Ibis was feeding in the plastic rubbish along the shore of a lake. In the villages, we saw White Storks on their nests as we passed. Out into more open country, there were Bee-eaters flying around the old terraces in the grassy fields. Our first stop was near Somova.
As we got out of the bus, a male Red-backed Shrike was perched in the top of an oak tree. A large flock of Common Swifts circled high overhead, a few Sand Martins with them. We started to walk up along the track towards the trees but hadn’t got very far when a male Levant Sparrowhawk flew over. We watched as it circled up high with the Swifts.
Levant Sparrowhawk – this male flew over first thing this morning
In the open woodland, a Hoopoe was calling and several Golden Orioles were fluting. We had brief views of both as they flew round. A woodpecker called, and flew across, landed on the trunk of an oak tree. We walked over to try to get a look at it and confirmed it was a Syrian Woodpecker. We watched it repeatedly dropping down to the ground, then flying back up to the trunk.
A little further on, another Levant Sparrowhawk, this time a female, flew up from the ground and landed in another tree. We had a great view of it in the scope – we could see its gular stripe and more heavily barred underparts than the male.
Levant Sparrowhawk – this female flew up into the trees
It was getting hot now, a good time for raptors. First, three Common Buzzards circled up over a distant ridge, and were joined by a Marsh Harrier. Then a Booted Eagle came up, followed by couple of Honey Buzzards. All were rather distant, but thankfully shortly afterwards, a Booted Eagle and a Honey Buzzard appeared much closer, over the trees, along with a Hobby.
Several Sousliks (aka European Ground Squirrels) appeared in the short grass before disappearing down into their burrows. Lots of grasshoppers and moths came up from the vegetation as we walked through, along with Silver-studded Blues and a couple of Lesser Spotted Fritillaries. A small group of Hawfinches flew over calling. We met the bus again down by the road further on, and stopped for a cold drink. A flock of White Pelicans were circling up in the distance beyond the ridge. Another male Levant Sparrowhawk flew over with a lizard in its talons.
Souslik – there were several in the short grass
Our next stop was at the monastery at Celtic Dere. A couple of male Red-backed Shrikes were around the gardens and farmyard by the parking area. We took the track up to the old orchard, where a Turtle Dove was purring and an Icterine Warbler was singing in the trees.
Red-backed Shrike – a male, one of several at Celic Dere
Several Golden Orioles flew back and forth over the opening clearing, including a stunning golden male. Lots of Hawfinches zipped over in ones and twos, calling. On the edge of the wood over on the far side, a Black Redstart and a Spotted Flycatcher were feeding, dropping down from the trees to the grass below.
A Steppe Buzzard flew over – different to the Common Buzzards we had seen earlier, with a rather pale rufous tail, dark rusty body and underwing coverts, prominent clean white bases to the flight feathers with a well-marked black trailing edge.
Steppe Buzzard – different to the Common Buzzards we saw
Walking through the trees on one side, we came out into another clearing by the stream, where a Nuthatch was calling. We followed the track here up and into the wood. A striking longhorn beetle was in the middle of the track and when we stopped to look at it, we could hear a Red-breasted Flycatcher singing a little further on. It was very active, constantly changing perch, and hard to follow at times in all the trees. Eventually it came out closer to the track, and everyone got a better look at it. There were lots of Icterine Warblers calling and singing in the trees too, but they were very hard to see high in the branches.
Red-breasted Flycatcher – this male was singing in the trees
As we walked back down the track, we finally got good views of a pair in the trees over the path. A Hawfinch flew in and perched briefly on a branch and a Wood Warbler was singing deep in the wood. A family of Marsh Tits worked their way through the trees beside the path. We made our way back out of the trees. A Wryneck had been seen earlier by another group up along the edge of the stream so we walked up to look for it. There was no sign of it, but we decided to stop here for lunch and the minibus drove over to join us.
Just as lunch was set out, a Middle Spotted Woodpecker called in the tree right over the picnic table. We had to take a few steps back to see it, feeding high on the trunk. While we were watching the woodpecker, the Wryneck called once from the same tree. We didn’t see it fly out, but despite looking from all round the tree there was no further sign of it.
Middle Spotted Woodpecker – feeding in the tree above us while we were having lunch
Over lunch, there were Greenfinches and Goldfinches coming down to drink in the streak. Another flock of White Pelicans and another Booted Eagle, this time a pale phase, circled up over the ridge beyond. A young Long-legged Buzzard was chased by two Steppe Buzzards over the clearing.
After lunch, we had a longer drive over to the Macin Mountains. There were lots of White Stork nests in the villages on the way, and several Rollers and Bee-eaters on the wires by the road. We eventually turned off the road and up along a rough track. There were a few Corn Buntings on the wires but pride of place went to a smart male Black-headed Bunting here too. They are scarce here, so always a good bird to catch up with, and this one posed nicely as we pulled up in the minibus alongside it.
Black-headed Bunting – this smart male was on the wires by the track
There were a few Rollers in the trees and on the wires too, and a Short-toed Lark flew up from a field of sunflowers as we passed.
Roller – there were one or two on the wires too
We parked opposite a quarry. As we got out of the bus, a pair of Crested Larks flew in and one of them perched up nicely nearby. We walked over through the grass towards the quarry, flushing lots of grasshoppers, moths and butterflies as we walked. A female Pied Wheatear appeared on the rocks in the grass and stayed just long enough for us to get a quick look at it, before it flew back up into the quarry. Scanning the rock faces, we found several smart black and white male Pied Wheatears and we had a look at them in the scope. An Ortolan Bunting was singing, and we picked up a couple of males distantly on the rocks. A Northern Wheatear flew in too.
We could hear a Common Rock Thrush singing, but couldn’t see it at first. As we scanned the rock faces looking for it, we did find a Long-legged Buzzard on a nest. Then the Rock Thrush flew in over the top of the quarry and landed on the rocks on the top ridge. It flew up singing a few times, gliding round with its wings and rusty tail fanned. It was very active, constantly flying around the quarry, the white patch on its back really standing out when it turned and caught the sun.
It was a hot afternoon, so we walked back to the minibus for a drink of cold water and then stopped in the next village for an ice cream. Afterwards, we headed out onto an area of steppe. It didn’t take long to find an Isabelline Wheatear perched on bush. We stopped and got out, and realised there were several more here too. We got one in the scope, perched on the top of a ridge. Others were feeding in the short grass or occasionally hovering up singing.
Isabelline Wheatear – common out in the steppe grassland
We had a brief glimpse of a Tawny Pipit, but couldn’t refind it, despite walking round through grass where it had been. A Short-toed Lark fluttered singing high in the sky, and one or two Turtle Doves flew over. A Spur-thighed Tortoise appeared on top of the bank where the Isabelline Wheatear had been earlier, but disappeared surprisingly quickly into a hole. Finally the Tawny Pipits showed themselves. Two chased each other round just behind us, and one landed on the same grassy bank, where we got it in the scope. Another two then appeared on the other side of the track and then, as we got back into the bus, one was quite close by in the grass.
We had heard a thunderstorm building away in the distance, and could see the rain now lashing down over the hills. It was a long drive back to Tulcea, and we caught the edge of the rain on our way. But it was dry back in Tulcea as we checked into our guesthouse for the night.
FRIDAY 7TH JUNE
It was another early start, to try to beat the heat of the day, but it was already getting quite warm as we arrived on the edge of Babadag Forest. The minibus dropped us off and we walked down a track through the scrubby woodland.
There were lots of butterflies out in the sunshine – Cardinal and Silver-washed Fritillaries, Ilex Hairstreak, Silver-studded and Green-underside Blues – and loads of dragonflies – mostly Lesser Emperor and Norfolk Hawker.
Ilex Hairstreak – one of several butterflies seen this morning
We found several Spur-thighed Tortoises in the grass, and lizards including Snake-eyed (European Copper) Skink and Balkan Wall Lizard.
Spur-thighed Tortoise – a young one, in the Babadag Forest
There were not many birds active now – a Chiffchaff, a Lesser Whitethroat, a Blackcap and one or two Common Nightingales singing, and a few commoner tits. We had really come to try to see Sombre Tit and we thought our luck was in when we heard one call close by. We stood and listened but it didn’t call again and disappeared deeper into the scrub. Despite looking, we couldn’t find it again. We carried on along the track, where several Turtle Doves were purring and Golden Orioles were fluting, with one or two of each seen flying back and forth.
The raptors were starting to circle up now that it was getting hot, Booted Eagles and a Common Buzzard. As we got out of the trees and into a more open area, we heard a Levant Sparrowhawk call and looked back to see two displaying over the trees. We met the minibus here, down by the road. As we stopped for a drink of water, we spotted a couple of Isabelline Wheatears perched up on small dead stems sticking up out of the short grass. We could hear Tawny Pipit and Ortolan Bunting singing too. There were more butterflies out here too, in particular several striking black and white Great Banded Grayling.
Great Banded Grayling – common in the open grass on the edge of the forest
Back in the minibus, we drove over to a track across a rough area of open ground, where we found three more Turtle Doves, plus several more Isabelline and Northern Wheatears. We stopped to look at a Corn Bunting in the top of a bush and it was joined by a male Spanish Sparrow. The track continued over to the edge of some open woodland, where we stopped and got out for a walk.
A Red-backed Shrike was in the bushes right next to where we parked, and there were several Ortolan Buntings singing as we walked up the hill. A Woodlark flew over singing, and several more came up out of the short grass, but there was no sign of any Sombre Tits here.
Ortolan Bunting – this one perched in the top of an oak tree singing
We walked back to the minibus, stopping on the way to look at an Ortolan Bunting which perched in the top of an oak tree. A Middle Spotted Woodpecker was calling in the trees too. We were back at the minibus and jst about to get back on when we heard a Sombre Tit calling from somewhere in the trees nearby. We walked into through trees, and played cat and mouse for several minutes, before we eventually tracked them down. A pair of Sombre Tits, feeding quietly in the trees, right within sight of the bus!
There had been thunderstorms audible off in the distance for a while, but now unfortunately it started to rain here, so we dashed back and into the minibus. It was a long drive south to Vadu, and it was raining on and off for much of the journey – not what we had been forecast. When we arrived in the village, we decided to stop for lunch first and it was a good call as it stopped raining and started to brighten up.
After lunch, it was hot and sunny again as we headed back to an area of pools we had passed on the edge of the village. As we got out of the bus again, there were several Bee-eaters on the wires. We could hear Red-footed Falcons calling in the trees across the road, and we could just see a nest up in one of the trees.
Turning our attention to the pools, we scanned round the edge where there were lots of Little Gulls. We counted 44, mostly young, 1st summer birds. A pair of Pied Avocets, several Green Sandpipers and a pair of Little Ringed Plovers were on the shore too, along with a single smart summer plumage Little Stint. There were Shelducks on the brackish pool at the front, and several Great Crested Grebes and Ferruginous Ducks on the larger fishing pond behind.
Little Gulls – we counted 44 around the first pool we looked at
A Marsh Harrier quartered over the reeds on one edge and, as we walked down the hill and round the pools, three Red-footed Falcons and a Hobby flew overhead. At the back of the pools, we found two different waders in the far corner, two Marsh Sandpipers in breeding plumage, late migrants through here. We had a good view of them through the scope.
Marsh Sandpiper – one of two still at Vadu
We cut back round to the road on the far side of the village, where we met the minibus again. After a quick drink, we continued on along the road past the old abandoned communist-era factory buildings. We found several pairs of Northern Wheatears in the sandy grassland, with at least two feeding streaky juveniles. Then once we got to the damper areas with reeds, there were lots of Western Yellow Wagtails in a bewildering array of different forms, a couple that looked good for pure Black-headed Wagtail, but mainly ‘dombrowskii’ types of varying hues, and even one ‘xanthophrys’ with a black head and yellow supercilium.
Two Collared Pratincoles appeared, hawking high over the reeds, with one at one point coming quite close overhead, rather like a cross between a tern and a swallow. A little further on, three were loafing down on the short grass where the cattle were grazing. Several Spoonbills and pelicans circled over too.
Collared Pratincole – hawking for insects above the reeds
Our main target here was Paddyfield Warbler, but we weren’t sure how easy it would be to find one in the heat of the afternoon. At first, we found nothing but Eurasian Reed Warblers, singing or collecting food. There were Great Reed Warblers singing too, with one or two seen flying across over the tops of the reeds. We heard Bearded Tits pinging and saw several zooming back and forth. And there were Reed Buntings here as well.
Then, as we walked slowly along the road, we heard a Paddyfield Warbler singing further up. We hurried along, and found it perched briefly on a stem in the top of the reeds. For those who were there quickly, it was a good view, but all too quickly it disappeared down into the reeds. Several of the group had gone back in the bus to use the facilities in the village, so had missed it. It was still singing but with a bit of a breeze, it was keeping well down in the reeds most of the time. We stuck at it though, and eventually it made another appearance for those who didn’t see it first time. The Black Sea coast of Romania is the westernmost point of the breeding range of Paddyfield Warbler, so you need to see it here, unless you want to go further east!
Paddyfield Warbler – we found one singing in the reeds
There were some large sandy banks surrounding some wet basins a little further on, so we walked up for a look. On the first, hundreds of pairs of Common Terns were nesting. Two Little Gulls were in with them, along with several Common Redshanks round the edge of the islands. The basin on the other side of the road was deeper and less productive. Four Spoonbills and a Grey Heron flushed from the brackish marsh on the edge of the reeds on the way, and a Purple Heron flew over.
It is a long drive own to the coast even from here, and we had one more area we wanted to visit this afternoon, so we decided to head back, with a quick stop on the way for ice cream. We made our way over to an agricultural area, passing through another band of rain on the way, and turned onto a newly tarmacked road through the fields. A Calandra Lark circled over a rough field of grass and oats, just the bird we had come to see, but dropped down out of view.
We continued on slowly up the road and stopped by a track. Several Western Yellow Wagtails were bathing down in a puddle and two Black-headed Buntings perched in the tops of some young sunflowers in the edge of a field singing. A Red Fox walked down the track towards us.
We could see another Calandra Lark standing in the middle of the road further up. It seemed to like the new tarmac, as a couple of times it flew round but came back to the road. We drove slowly up towards it, but we were looking through the windscreen and into the sun so it was not going to be the best of views. The Calandra Lark eventually flew up, but circled round and landed again on the road behind. Now we got out and had a look at it through the scope. There was a lot of heat haze from the tarmac, but it helpfully decided to fly up and land much closer to us, where we could see its big bill and black neck patches.
Calandra Lark – kept coming back to the new tarmac
Eventually it flew again, right past us, flashing the broad white trailing edge to its wings and black underwings, before dropping down in the middle of a field of wheat. There were several other Calandra Larks flying round over the fields and several Skylarks here too.
Two Long-legged Buzzards circled over while we were standing here. Then we looked up across the fields to see a Montagu’s Harrier quartering along a ridge. It had been sunny, but now it started to spit with rain again. We had been very lucky dodging the showers this afternoon – we hadn’t been caught by the rain at all while we were out – and it was time to head back anyway now, with a long drive to Tulcea ahead.
Long-legged Buzzard – one of two which circled over
Back at the guesthouse, after a break to freshen up and start packing, we gathered for our final dinner, which was finished off with a celebratory cake prepared by the guesthouse to mark the end of our visit.
After a more leisurely breakfast, we checked out of the guesthouse and set off on the long drive back to Bucharest. We had a quick stop on the way at an area of marshes for Ruddy Shelduck.
As soon as got out of minibus, we saw one flying across over the water down below the hillside. There was a big colony of Sand Martins by the road, and several Bee-eaters with them. Two Rollers flew past and a Cuckoo came over calling. It was great we had seen so many Common Cuckoos on this trip – mostly in the Delta, but we had seen at least one every day so it was good to keep up the record. Further down the grassy hillside, a Hoopoe was feeding out on the grass with a single Isabelline Wheatear nearby.
We walked down the path to where we could get a better view out over the marshes and found at least 9 adult Ruddy Shelducks here, including a pair with several shelducklings. There were a few waders out on the marshes too. Several Black-winged Stilts and Lapwings were out in the middle, and two Green Sandpipers were down on a muddy patch on the near edge. Four Collared Pratincoles flew high overhead calling. In the distance, we could see lots of White Storks circling over the hillside beyond, and a Spoonbill flew in.
All too quickly it was sadly time to move on again. We had another break for an early lunch at the filling station back in Slobozia, where a Lesser Whitethroat was singing in the bushes beyond the back fence today.
Then it was on to Bucharest. We got to the airport in good time, only to find our flight was delayed by 20 minutes, but we were soon on our way back to Luton. We sailed through passport control, but then had to wait almost an hour for bags. Welcome back to the UK! Then we bid our farewells and headed off home.
It had been an unforgettable experience – with lots of good birds, good food and good company. If you would be interested in joining us on our next visit to Romania, please get in touch.
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Volvo livens things up with its most powerful car ever
By C.C. Weiss
Volvo livens things up with it...
The XC90 T8 Polestar sprints from 0-62 mph in 5.5 seconds, according to Volvo
The S90 and V90 Polestars get throttle response, gear speed and precision, and engine performance upgrades
Volvo announced the new S90 and V90 Polestars a week before the XC90 T8 Polestar
The Polestar version of the V90 estate
The Volvo S90 Polestar will be offered with both diesel and gas engines
Volvo XC90 T8 Polestar
The T8 Twin Engine XC90 has both a four-cylinder engine and an electric motor
The XC90 T8 Polestar debuts as the most powerful Volvo yet
Since rounding out the 90 series lineup with the V90 estate back in February, Volvo has been focusing a little more downmarket, previewing the new 40 series while working on the new 60 series. Now it's circled back to the top, putting a Polestar cherry atop all three 90 series models. The XC90 T8 Polestar now becomes the most powerful Volvo ever.
Announced today, the new XC90 T8 Twin Engine Polestar Performance Optimization follows last year's debut of XC90 T6 and D5 Polestar options. The package increases the potency of the T8 hybrid powertrain to 421 hp (314 kW) and 501 lb-ft (680 Nm), up from 400 hp (298 kW) and 472 lb-ft (640 lb-ft) on the standard model.
More than just basic engine tuning, the Polestar package brings a multi-point modifications suite that improves throttle response; gearshift hold, speed and precision; and engine performance in the mid-range, promising more driving enjoyment all around. Volvo explains that the gearshift hold feature works to prevent unwanted shifting during high g-force cornering, thereby improving response and control.
While it's only modestly more powerful than the standard XC90 T8, Volvo calls the new Polestar its most powerful offering ever (we'll have to discount anything out of the trucks division). The performance model hits 62 mph (100 km/h) from stop in 5.5 seconds while offering estimated fuel consumption of 112 mpg-e (2.1 L/100 km), unchanged from the standard XC90. It can drive an estimated 26.7 miles (43 km) on battery power alone.
The XC90 T8 will be immediately available in select markets and will launch in the US in October. The EPA rates the standard XC90 T8 at 53 mpg-e (4.4 L/100km) in EV mode and 25 mpg (9.4 L/100km) combined city/highway driving.
The XC90 Polestar, which is available now, follows the S90 and V90 Polestar models (pictured above) announced last week, which feature similar multi-point performance upgrading.
Source: Volvo
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In an interview with ET Auto, the Royal Enfield’s CEO Mr Vinod Dasari has confirmed that the brand has already started working upon its electric motorcycles. He also added that even though there is a downturn in the market, the brand has not reduced the capital infusion for the year. Instead, Royal Enfield is trying to utilise the amount in the development of its new products and it also includes the development process of its electric motorcycles.
He said in his official statement, “I think we have hit the bottom. Given the range of products that will come, it (a double-digit growth rate) is possible. The general economic sentiment has also got to improve. High-end vehicles get hit much worse during downturns. But the minute the sentiment improves, the fastest-growing segment will also be this.”
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ESPS Cantabria takes part in TRITON CENTENARY 13
Published on 23 October 2013 LEUT Christopher Thornton (author)
Topic(s): Exercises, International Fleet Review
Commander Jose L Nieto, ESPS Cantabria CO, looking very pleased after job well done. USS Chosin is the last ship that Cantabria would refuel whilst participating in TC13.
ESPS Cantabria has taken part in her final exercise as part of the Royal Australian Navy Fleet. The Spanish Armada ship was in high demand during exercise TRITON CENTENARY (TS13) part 2, and refuelled ships from participating nations.
TS13 was the final phase of the Royal Australian Navy’s International Fleet Review and involved 14 ships from Australia, France, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Spain, Tonga and the USA.
During TS13 the ships exercised all facets of coalition maritime operations, including air defence, surface and anti-submarine warfare serials, ship maneuvering and station keeping, Replenishment at Sea and flying operations.
During the ten months that Cantabria has operated as part of the Royal Australian Navy Fleet, the Spanish ship has augmented Australia's afloat logistic support capabilities. At the same time, the Spanish Armada has trialled Cantabria’s full range of capabilities, including the operating maintenance cycle of ships systems, and ship logistics and maintenance support.
The lessons learnt by each Navy will have a lasting impact, and will enhance the ability of the two Navies to work together in the future.
During her time in Australia, over 230 Australian personnel embarked in Cantabria to learn about her systems, which are similar to those in the LHD and AWD.
Cantabria also provided many training opportunities for Australian personnel to progress their individual qualifications. Lieutenant Nathan Smith spent time in Cantabria working towards his Grade 2 Helicopter Control Officer (HCO) qualification.
“It was a treat to work onboard Cantabria. I was training under the guidance of Cantabria’s HCO whilst 723 SQN were embarked. At times there were challenges communicating with the Flight Deck Crew whose second language is English. Despite the language barrier, it was a pleasure and a great opportunity to operate with such a professional ship,” said Lieutenant Smith.
Armada personnel also had the chance to experience life in the Royal Australian Navy.
Marinero Alba Miguens Bravo cross decked onto HMAS Ballarat and says that she was thankful for the opportunity and noticed some interesting operational differences.
“My job on Cantabria is in the bridge where I am the helmsman. I take fixes and conduct ship to ship communication with flashing lights and flag work. After being on Ballarat, I noticed the boatswains and communicators do a combination of these jobs.”
“We don’t have Physical Training Instructors (PTIs) onboard in the Spanish navy, but I really like the idea. It is something I would like us to have in the Armada,” said Marinero Bravo.
The combat support ship is now preparing to say her final farewell to the Royal Australian Navy and will depart Garden Island, Sydney on 1 November for her homeport of Ferrol, Spain.
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Arrested after smashing fan’s phone
McGregor is arrested after he allegedly smashes a fan’s phone outside a nightclub in Miami Beach. The fan, who has not been named, was trying to take photos of McGregor as he was leaving the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel, home to the LIV nightclub, just after 5am, when McGregor allegedly ‘slapped’ the phone out of the out of his hand and stomped on it several times, then picked it up and walked away with it. The fighter is facing charges of misdemeanor criminal mischief and strong-armed robbery.
Led out of police station in handcuffs
McGregor is led out of Brooklyn’s 78th Precinct police station in handcuffs.
Conor McGregor Leaves Police Station In Handcuffs | TMZ Sports
Two suspects arrested
Quebec mosque shooting
Quebec City Police arrest one suspect at the mosque and another is apprehended after a chase that ends near l’île d’Orléans around 15 miles from the scene.
Arrested after standoff
Brown is arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon after a daylong standoff at his home in the Tarzana neighborhood in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley. The police were called after a 3am 911 call from a woman, who said he Brown threatened her with a weapon. Brown denied any wrongdoing in posts on Instagram before he was taken into custody in the afternoon. Police:
Mr Chris Brown will be transported to robbery/homicide division where he will be booked for assault with a deadly weapon.
Three ex-diplomats arrested
Fethullah GulenTurkey
An Ankara court remands Gurcan Balik, Ali Findik and Tuncay Babali in custody ahead of trial over suspected links to Gulen.
Blac ChynaRob KardashianCharged
Chyna is arrested before her flight takes off at a Texas airport, bound for London. Police respond to a call of a woman whom appeared to be heavily intoxicated. Charges include: possession of a controlled substance and public intoxication.
Shoots woman in theater
Dane GallionMichelle Mallari
Gallion is arrested after he shoots Mallari in the back during a showing of 13 Hours. His attorney claims that Gallion was so concerned about the threat of mass shootings in cinemas that he defied the theater’s ban on concealed weapons and carried a handgun into the theater, and that the weapon accidentally discharged during the movie.
Otto Warmbier
North Korea arrests Warmbier, a student at the University of Virginia, on charges of “committing a hostile act“ against the state. Warmbier entered North Korea through China as part of a tourist group through Young Pioneer Tours, a tourism company. The U. S. is working through the Swedish Embassy in Pyongyang to resolve the incident, as the U. S. and North Korea have no direct diplomatic relations. The U. S. State Department strongly advises U. S. citizens against travel to North Korea.
Joseph Hassan FarrokhMahmoud Amin Mohammed Elhassan
Police in Richmond, VA, arrest Farrokh as he attempts to leave the US for Syria. Police also arrest Elhassan who allegedly drove Farrokh to Richmond. Both men are from Woodbridge, VA. Farrokh is charged with attempting to provide material support and resources to a terrorist organization. He is alleged to have been attempting to join ISIS upon arrival in Syria. He was caught through an FBI informant.
Human Rights WatchSamar BadawiSaudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia detains Badawi along with her two year old daughter. Saudi authorities deny that Badawi has been arrested, but do say that she is being questioned at a police station. Amnesty International calls for her immediate release. The Raif Badawi Foundation, says that Badawi is charged with running the Twitter account of her ex-husband, another activist serving a 15 year sentence. Human Rights Watch:
The detention of Samar Badawi shows once again Saudi Arabia’s determination to silence those with the courage to speak out for human rights and reform.
Murder suspects arrested
ISISNaji Jerf
Turkey arrests three suspects in Jerf’s murder. The trio have been remanded into custody by a judge in the city of Gaziantep and await trial there.
Three arrests in Belgium
Charles MichelNovember 2015 Paris Attacks
Belgian police arrest several suspects in the Molenbeek neighbourhood of Brussels on Saturday during raids connected to the Paris attacks, including one who was in the French capital at the time of the attacks. One of the vehicles used in Friday’s attacks in the French capital was registered in Belgium and hired by a French national living in Belgium. Prime Minister Michel:
A case has immediately been opened linked to suspect vehicles in Paris, to check people linked to those vehicles. There have been several arrests.
Agents arrested for cocaine smuggling
Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)San FranciscoTransportation Security Administration (TSA)
Three TSA officers are arrested for smuggling cocaine through San Francisco International Airport. They were bribed to turn their heads while drug traffickers had cocaine in their carry on luggage, but did not know that the “drug trafficking” was actually part of an undercover operation by the DEA. The officers are charged with conspiring to defraud the TSA by obstructing a lawful government function, which warrants up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000. They are also charged with conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine, which has a minimum of ten years in prison and a maximum life sentence, along with a fine of up to ten million dollars.
Officers arrested
Derrick StaffordJeremy MardisNorris Greenhouse Jr.Charged
The Louisiana State police arrest Greenhouse and Stafford for their involvement in Mardis’ killing and charge them with second degree murder and attempted second degree murder. Police say 18 rounds had been fired by two different guns. Police:
We took some of the body cam footage. I’m not gonna talk about it, but I’m gonna tell you this. It is the most disturbing thing I’ve seen and I will leave it at that…As a father, much less the head of the State Police, [it was] extremely disturbing, and it is partly why we’re here tonight with these charges…Let’s make tonight about Jeremy Mardis. That little boy was buckled in the front seat of that vehicle, and that is how he died…Justice has been done tonight, but the investigation is far from over.
Woman takes clothes off, trashes store
A 35-year-old Anchorage woman is arrested for taking her clothes off and trashing an East Anchorage Subway store. Nikki Abrell went into the store and locked herself in the bathroom for two hours and refused to come out. When she emerges she is naked, and begins to break the furniture, pull down ceiling tiles and throw food, tables and chairs around the restaurant. Customer:
When I pulled up, I saw a bunch of the Subway workers outside and I thought they were taking a smoke break. But when I looked inside there was a naked woman literally tearing the place apart…I thought there was a fire in the restaurant because it looked smoky in there but it turns out she had just set off a fire extinguisher inside. I really didn’t want to get anywhere near her. She was smearing feces all over stuff.
Abrell is being charged with third-degree criminal mischief, harassment and resisting arrest.
Public intoxication arrest
LaBeouf is arrested in Austin for misdemeanor public intoxication. Witnesses say LeBeouf and a woman are denied entry to a bar because they are too intoxicated. LeBoeuf becomes verbally abusive and tries to force himself into the bar, but is stopped. He then runs down the street and jaywalks in front of police. They warn him to stop, but he continues to act bizarrely and is arrested. He is taken to the Travis County Jail.
Arrested after mac-n-cheese commotion
Luke GattiUniversity of Connecticut
Gatti, a University of Connecticut freshman, is arrested after he argues with a food service worker when denied service for carrying an open container of alcohol in the campus student union. He uses a gay slur against the manager and repeatedly demands:
Just give me some (expletive) bacon-jalapeno mac and cheese.
After shoving the the manager Gatti is tackled, subdued and arrested, charged with breach of the peace and criminal trespass.
UConn:
Generally speaking, any UConn student found to have violated the provisions of the Student Code may face penalties imposed by the Division of Student Affairs that range from probation to expulsion.
Formally arrested
ChinaSandy Phan-Gillis
Phan-Gillis is formally arrested, after being held for six months accused of stealing state secrets. He husband said he decided to go public about her circumstances ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to the U.S. Her family deny the allegations. The US government has not commented. China’s Foreign Ministry confirms Phan-Gillis is under investigation.
Mrs Phan-Gillis is suspected of carrying out activities endangering national security, and is currently being investigated by relevant departments. We hope that the outside world will respect China’s handling of this case according to law.
Gildardo Lopez Astudillo (El Gil)
Mexico’s authorities arrest Astudillo, a gang leader who they say is the leader of a drug cartel and who is a key figure in the disappearance of 43 students last year in a town in one of the country’s states. He is alleged to have given the orders to abduct and kill the students because he thought they were members of a rival gang. After having the students murdered, Astudillo then had the bodies disposed of by burning them at a rubbish dump outside the city. There have so far been 111 arrests over the disappearances. International experts have disputed the government’s accounts of what happened and have said its investigation was deeply flawed.
Mohamed is arrested after taking a homemade clock to school. The clock — a circuit board with a power supply wired to a digital display — is confiscated during English class because the alarm kept beeping.
She was like, it looks like a bomb. It doesn’t look like a bomb to me.
He is taken out of class by the principal and questioned by five police officers who demand to know his intentions and why he brought the device into school.
They were like, ‘So you tried to make a bomb? I told them no, I was trying to make a clock. He said, ‘It looks like a movie bomb to me’.
They take him to a juvenile detention center. He is suspended from school and may still face charges of making a hoax bomb. Mohamed’s father, who emigrated from Sudan:
He just wants to invent good things for mankind. But because his name is Mohamed and because of Sept. 11, I think my son got mistreated.
I expect they will have more to say tomorrow, but Ahmed's sister asked me to share this photo. A NASA shirt! pic.twitter.com/nR4gt992gB
— Anil Dash (@anildash) September 16, 2015
Police say a woman tells them she was walking towards the restroom of a West Palm Beach Burger King when she noticed Jefferson King, a homeless man, touching himself inappropriately.
Woman: What are you doing?
King: What? I’m playing with my penis.
When a store manager asked King to leave, he refused and continued to touch himself. King is facing a charge of indecent exposure of sexual organs, and is being held at the Palm Beach County Jail in lieu of $1,000 bail.
David BunningKim Davis
U.S. District Court Judge Bunning orders Davis remanded into to U.S. Marshall custody until she complies with his order to issue the licenses as her job requires. Bunning said he didn’t think fining a defiant Kentucky clerk would force her to comply with his order to issue marriage licenses. Davis testifies for about 20 minutes at the hearing and is very emotional.
I didn’t have to think about it. There was no choice there. Marriage is between one man and one woman. You can’t be separated from something that’s in your heart and in your soul.
Bunning:
The court cannot condone the willful disobedience of its lawfully issued order. If you give people the opportunity to choose which orders they follow, that’s what potentially causes problems.
#KimDavis leaves Fed Building in handcuffs. pic.twitter.com/ymJcPVDaQW
— JonathanPalmer (@JonathanPalmer) September 3, 2015
Khalifa is arrested after allegedly refusing to get off a hoverboard at LA International Airport. He later posts a video taken by an onlooker that depicts a swarm of border patrol agents and police officers confronting him.
This? I didn’t do nothing, anyway. What you want to do? Put me in jail because I didn’t listen to what you say? We can have all the conversations you want to, you can end up on TMZ, destined to become as famous as you wanna be.
All because I didn't want to ditch the technogy everyone will be using in the next 6 months. Do what you want kids. pic.twitter.com/7F0KIQgFrA
— Cameron (@wizkhalifa) August 23, 2015
A second video shows Khalifa being slammed to the ground on his stomach by three officers yelling, “Stop resisting!” Khalifa doesn’t appear to be resisting in the video, and is shown lying still on the ground, calmly replying, “I’m not resisting, sir,” as the trio of cops continue to yell “stop resisting” at him whilst cuffing him and applying pressure to his back.
3 cops yell stop resisting. Only thing to do is let em know. I'm not resisting, I'm doin what I want.
A post shared by Wiz Khalifa (@wizkhalifa) on Aug 22, 2015 at 5:36pm PDT
20 people arrested in Ferguson
Police arrest 20 people during a night of night of protests, during which some protesters throw both rocks and bottles against police. Police used loudspeakers to tell protesters to move out of traffic. When they don’t comply, several people are taken into custody. At least one officer fires pepper spray into the crowd. More arrests follow before protests and the police presence begins to diminish at 1 a.m.
Shooting and arrest on Brown’s death anniversary
Loretta LynchMichael BrownTyrone Harris
A gunfight occurs between four policemen and 18-year-old Harris on the periphery of demonstrations commemorating the killing a year ago of Brown. Harris is shot and critically wounded by the police. County prosecutors file charges against Harris for felony assault on law enforcement officer. Authorities say that the shooting is not related to the Brown protests. Attorney General Lynch:
The weekend’s events were peaceful and promoted a message of reconciliation and healing. But incidents of violence, such as we saw last night, are contrary to both that message, along with everything that all of us, including this group, have worked to achieve over the past year.
Right wing extreme activists arrested
Evyatar SlonimIsraelMeir EttingerMordechai MeyerMoshe Ya'alonWest Bank Settlements
Police detain three “extreme right-wing activists” in the West Bank region. While the arrests are not yet being linked to the recent arson attack that killed Dawabsheh and his father, Israel says there will be a complete investigation with a stringent law enforcement response based on what is discovered. Spokesperson:
Following recent events in the Judea and Samaria district, the unit for nationalist criminal activity carried out during the overnight hours a few searches and arrests in various outposts in the Binyamin region. Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon signed a 6-month administrative detention order for two extreme right-wing activists, Meir Ettinger and Evyatar Slonim, in connection with their involvement in organized extremist Jewish activity.
The third individual detained is Meyer. This type of detention allows Israel to hold an individual for up to six months without being required to inform them what they are being held for or informing them about any evidence that may exist.
DUI, gun possession arrest
McAfee is arrested in Tennessee for DUI and possession of a handgun while under the influence. Police confirm McAfee is a resident of Lexington, TN, in the western part of the state between Nashville and Memphis. He is released on $5,000 bond.
Rangers catch eight poachers
Kruger National ParkRhino poachingSouth Africa
Eight suspected rhino poachers are arrested in the Kruger National Park. The first incident took place in the early hours of the morning while rangers conducting anti-poaching operations along the Crocodile River – south of the Park encounter three suspected poachers; a shoot-out ensues during which one poacher is wounded. All three suspects are arrested. Two hunting rifles, silencers, ammunition and other poaching equipment are confiscated. A follow-up investigation later the same day outside the park leads to the arrest of a further five suspects. Minister of Environmental Affairs:
Just a week after commemorating World Ranger Day I want to again commend our rangers for their hard work together with other law enforcement units including the South African Police Service (SAPS). [These arrests are] a clear indication that resilience and dedication pays off.
IsraelMeir EttingerWest Bank Settlements
Ettinger is arrested due to his involvement in a right wing network. More arrests are expected to follow. Spokesman:
As Israeli investigators released their findings that a right-wing Jewish terrorist network is gaining power throughout Israel and illegal West Bank settlements, they detained Meir Ettinger, the grandson of the late Meir Kahane, but declined to charge him with the arson attack Thursday night that burned a baby to death and severely wounded his mother, father and 4-year old brother.
Ettinger smiles and jokes with onlookers as he was taken into custody.
Ali DawabshehIsraelMeir Ettinger
Israel’s Shin Bet security agency says it is interrogating Ettinger, the suspected head of a Jewish extremist group. The agency would not say if he is also suspected in the arson attack, but it accuses Ettinger of heading an extremist movement seeking to bring about religious ‘redemption’ through attacks on Christian sites and Palestinian homes. Ettinger denies leading an extremist movement. His lawyer says that authorities arrested his client to appease an Israeli public outraged by the arson attack.
There was no urgent need to arrest here, other than some kind of desire to show, Here, we’re doing something, here, we’re arresting. Of course, what is better than the number one most wanted target?
Arrests two suspected terrorists
Boko HaramCameroon
Cameroon authorities arrest two suspected members of Boko Haram disguised as female refugees. The men, who were carrying explosives in their luggage, are stopped at the Minawao refugee camp in the north of the country, near the border with Nigeria. Cameroon’s government spokesman says the men are being interrogated. He also says authorities arrested a number of foreigners suspected of collaborating with Boko Haram.
Shoplifting arrest
Kim RichardsTarget
Richards is released on $5000 bail after spending the night in jail after being accused of taking about $600 in merchandise from a Target store in the Van Nuys area.
Mark KarpelesMt. Gox
Karpeles is arrested at his home by Japanese police who say he accessed a computer system and falsified data on its outstanding balance. Police say Karpeles protested at his arrest and said he will not sign any documents until his lawyer arrives. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police say they believe Karpeles had manipulated transaction records on a computer system that Mt. Gox used to swap Bitcoins for dollars, and had “unjustly inflated the balance” of an account held under his name:
He created false information that $1 million had been transferred into the account, when in fact it had not been.
Karpeles has not been formally charged. Police can detain him for up to 23 days before charging him.
Arrestation de Mark Karpelès, fondateur de la plateforme d'échange de bitcoins Mt. Gox
Turns himself in
Ray TensingSamuel Dubose
Tensing turns himself in to the Hamilton County Courthouse. Tensing’s Lawyer criticized Joe Deters’ announcement, saying he believes his client “has been thrown under the bus,” and that “what Deters’ said was a disgrace” to Cincinnati law enforcement.
Tensing just arrived at courthouse with lawyer @wcpo pic.twitter.com/fiUtoNtWGe
— Tony Mirones (@TMironesWCPO) July 29, 2015
Arrested on child porn charges
Jason "Jace" AlexanderCharged
Alexander is arrested in New York for possession and file-sharing of child pornography. He is charged with one count of promoting a sexual performance by a child and one count of possessing an obscene sexual performance by a child. He posts $10,000 bail.
Arrested on drug suspicion
Snoop DoggSweden
Snoop Dogg is arrested on suspicion of narcotic drug use after a concert in Sweden. He is taken to the police station for tests and is released a few hours later.
They made me pee in a cup — didn’t find shit.
On my mamas im sick and tired of the pigs. N America n these countries that jus don't respect us fuck that new me new u u do we do 2 💥💥💥💥🔫
A post shared by snoopdogg (@snoopdogg) on Jul 26, 2015 at 6:46am PDT
Caught taking drugs with prostitutes
House of LordsJohn SewelThe Sun (UK newspaper)
The Sun releases photos and videos of Sewel naked, snorting lines of cocaine with prostitutes.
Prostitute: You’re such a party animal!
Sewel: I know. Disgusting, isn’t it?
One of Sewel’s former responsibilities as deputy speaker was to enforce standards and ethics within the House of Lords.
Lord John Sewel snorts coke with hookers
John David Berrett
Missouri indicts Berrett for charging $476,000 on his corporate credit card for online strippers. Berrett used his company’s credit card to fund his sexscapades and file fraudulent expenses. He charged his corporate card $100,000 for tokens – good for 2,200 visits – to chat with women, watch them strip naked and masturbate via webcams on the sex site MyFreeCams.com. He lavished his favorite strippers with gifts — chocolates, flowers, electronic equipment, wine, shoes, a TV, a handbag, a laptop computer and an iPod. He also sent $26,800 to help a stripper with her college tuition bill, new tires and parents’ utilities. Berrett also charged $131 on the company card to purchase a Fleshlight sex toy for himself.
Two teens detained
2015 Broken Arrow killings
Police detain two teenagers in deaths of five family members in eastern Oklahoma. All nine people at crime scene members of same family. Five dead, one is in critical condition, one child is OK, and two teens in police custody. Police:
It appears that the two suspects fled out the door sometime during our arrival. We had a K-9 track and they were apprehended.
Arrest after hiding three days under bed
Hubbard is arrested after spending three days hiding under a bed in the spare bedroom. He had entered the home while the homeowner is taking out the garbage. He is arrested for burglary and electricity he uses to charge four cellphones. Homeowner:
He was hiding upstairs underneath the bed, in my daughter’s bedroom. He used to date my daughter five years ago. It didn’t end well. He didn’t say why he came back. He just picked our house to hide out in. He didn’t have a home to live in…I haven’t heard from him in five years. [I] wasn’t scared. I was just angry…I don’t think he was eating. I think he just had water under the bed…Stay away from this house and never come back.
Eyewitness video
Brian EnciniaSandra Bland
An eye witness shares a YouTube video showing Bland as she is roughly removed from her car, handcuffed on the ground and arrested on suspicion of assaulting a public servant, a felony charge.
Sandra Bland's Arrest
Arrested in Miami
Bernard TomicJail
Tomic is asked three times by security guards to turn down loud music in his penthouse suite at Miami at the W South Beach Hotel. He refuses to obey and they call the police. He refuses to leave the room and resists arrest. He spends the night in a jail cell and pays $2000 bail to get out.
It was definitely my fault
Alexander CiccoloFBI
Ciccolo is arrested on gun charges after buying two pistols and two rifles from an undercover FBI confidential informant. A search of his apartment reveals possible bomb-making equipment including a pressure cooker, a variety of chemicals, an alarm clock, along with “attack planning papers” and “jihad” paperwork. An FBI affidavit says Ciccolo initially planned to travel to “another state” and used a pressure cooker bomb “to conduct terrorist attacks on civilians, members of the U.S. military and law enforcement personnel.” The FBI says the attack location was later changed to a town with a state university and would be concentrated on “college dorms and cafeteria, to include executions of students, which would be broadcast live via the internet.” Ciccolo says he was “inspired” by the Marathon bombing and the use of pressure cooker bombs, and tells the FBI undercover operative, “Allahu Akbar!!! I got the pressure cooker today.” He also said he is, “not afraid to die for the cause,” and that he characterized America as ”Satan” and “disgusting.”FBI:
This is a very bad person arrested before he could do very bad things
FBI agents say Ciccolo used the name Abu Ali al-Amriki and neighbors said he was a recent convert to Islam. He is being held at the Wyatt federal lockup in Rhode Island. According to the FBI, Ciccolo attempted to stab a nurse in the head with a pen during a routine screening, “leaving a hole in the nurse’s skin.”
Two suspected ISIS terrorists held
ISISMalaysia
Two Malaysians with suspected links to the terrorist group Islamic State are arrested for plotting to launch attacks in the country. National police chief:
The fresh arrests, which involve locals planning to launch attacks after communicating with senior members of IS in Syria, is a new trend that is most worrying.
State Trooper Encinia pulls over Bland for failing to signal while turning. During the stop Encia asks Bland to put out her cigarette.
Encina: Would you mind putting out your cigarette, please?
Bland: I’m in my car, why do I have to put out my cigarette?
Encina: Well, you can step on out now
Bland: I don’t have to step out now.
Bland refuses, saying she does not have to step out of the car. Encinia opens the driver’s door and attempts to physically remove Bland from the vehicle.
Encina: I’m going to yank you out of here…I’m going to drag you out of here.
Bland: Don’t touch me, I’m not under arrest.
Encina: You are under arrest!
Bland: I’m under arrest for what? Why am I being apprehended
Encina (pointing Taser at Bland): GET OUT OF THE CAR! I will light you up! NOW!
Bland walks towards the cruiser. Encina tells her to get off the phone. Bland calls him a “pussy ass cop” and berates him. She complains he is hurting her. There is an off-camera altercation that leads to Bland being shoved onto the ground.
Bland: You’re a real man now, you gonna slam me, knock my head in the ground. I got Epilepsy you motherf-cker.
Encina: Good, good.
FULL DASH-CAM VIDEO OF SANDRA BLAND ARREST RELEASED!!
Francisco SanchezKate Steinle
About one hour after the shooting, a mile from the scene, Sanchez is detained by police. He is taken to San Francisco County Jail and faces a homicide charge.
2015 Charleston Church ShootingsDylann Roof
Police arrrest Roof in Shelby, North Carolina, almost 250 miles (400 km) – about three and a half hours’ drive – away from Charleston, when local police stop his car after a citizen called in about suspicious activity. Police say Roof was “cooperative” with the officer who stopped him.
DUI arrest
Stamos is pulled over after Beverly Hills police receive numerous calls about a possible drunken driver. After showing his driver’s license and identifying himself verbally, paramedics transport him to a local hospital due to a possible medical condition. There he is assessed as driving under the influence and arrested. He is given a citation for DUI and released to the care of the hospital.
Thanks to everyone for their love & support. I'm home & well. Very appreciative of the BHPD & Cedars for their care.
— John Stamos (@JohnStamos) June 13, 2015
David SweatJoyce MitchellRichard MattCharged
Mitchell is arrested and charged with providing Sweat and Matt, with contraband and helping them escape Clinton Correctional Facility. The charges: first-degree promoting prison contraband, a felony, and fourth-degree criminal facilitation, a misdemeanor. Sources say Mitchell was charmed by Matt, to the point that “she thought it was love,” and planned to be the men’s getaway driver before she got cold feet. Mitchell’s husband, who also works at the prison, has not been charged.
Generals arrested
BurundiGodefroid NiyombarePierre Nkurunziza
Three army generals and two police generals are arrested for plotting a failed coup attempt against Nkurunziza, along with three lower-ranking officers and eight soldiers. One of the generals arrested is a former defense minister. Gen. Niyombare, is in hiding and has not yet been arrested.
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Cocaine in fire extinguisher: Timehri man pleads guilty, friends freed
By Editor Last updated Apr 26, 2019
Twenty-eight-year-old Dinesh Dias known as ‘Anil’ of lot 26 Timehri, East Bank Demerara, on Friday pleaded guilty to having 1.8 kilogrammes of cocaine and 1.89 grams of cannabis in his possession for the purpose of trafficking on April 23.
He was charged jointly with Anthony Collins called Black Boy, 31; Seenarine Mathura called Desi, 43 and Mohamed Insha,48 but they were all released from Police custody following Dias’ guilty plea at the Providence Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Sunil Scarce.
The men were arrested at Dias’ house by ranks of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) after the drug enforcement agency found a fire extinguisher filled with 1.8 kilogrammes of cocaine.
Dias was sentenced to 48 months imprisonment and slapped with a $5.1M fine on the cocaine charge and fined $15,000 or face one-week imprisonment for the possession of cannabis charge.
Dias told the court that his three friends had no knowledge of the cocaine and the cannabis which were at his house.
CANU said it is believed that the cocaine-filled fire extinguisher was expected to be placed on an aircraft at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport and that it was destined to an international destination.
Boodoosingh enlists for scorching action at Georgetown Grand Prix
10-Y-0 commits suicide in Bush Lot Village
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Three new solar farms and battery storage system to power NT airports
By Sophie Vorrath September 7, 2018 Battery/Storage, Solar 2 Comments
Three solar farms and a large-scale battery storage system will be built in the Northern Territory as part of $300 million expansion of airport facilities in the Territory, co-funded by the federal government’s $5 billion Northern Australia Infrastructure Fund.
Minister for resources and northern Australia, Matt Canavan, said on Thursday, that the NAIF would extend a $150 million loan to the project, focused on upgrading the airports of Darwin, Tennant Creek and Alice Springs.
The project would include the construction of a 40MW solar farm at Darwin International Airport (DIA), a 10MW array at Alice Springs Airport and another, of an as-yet undisclosed size, at Tennant Creek.
An “off-site multi-user battery” will also be built, and sited 80km from Darwin, the details of which we are trying to dig up.
The loan will also fund development of a cold storage and an export hub at DIA – which will, presumably be powered by the big new solar and storage system – and various upgrades of the Alice Springs airport runway, taxiways and lighting.
The NAIF-backed solar farms will add to the 6MW of solar previously installed at DIA (pictured above) – and switched on just over two years ago; and to the 800kW of PV already installed at Alice Springs airport.
It will also help bring the NT up to speed with most of the rest of Australia’s major airports, which are meeting the majority of their electricity demand with either on-site solar, or – in the case of Sydney International Airport, just last month – substantial renewable energy power purchase agreements.
Airport Development Group CEO Ian Kew said the investment would be used to expand the solar power currently in operation at Darwin Airport.
“We have the largest solar power station in the Northern Territory at the moment,” he said.
“[But we would like] to build a 40MW power farm … to create sufficient power to export into the grid for everyone else to use,” he said.
Brisbane Airport last year kicked off work on a massive $11 million, six-stage solar upgrade, that will ultimately install a total of 6MW of PV panels across six sites.
And Adelaide Airport completed a 1.17MW addition its rooftop solar capacity in July 2016, bringing its total solar capacity to 1.28MW and supplying just under 10 per cent of the major airport’s energy needs.
For the NAIF, the announcement marks another loan targeting renewable energy, from a federal government facility many had feared would be used exclusively to shore up fossil fuel generation and infrastructure.
That concern was compounded when the fund’s first loan, in October last year, was issued to a WA shipping base that would service the oil and gas industry.
Since then, however, the balance has been redressed somewhat, with a $516 million loan towards Genex Power’s world-leading solar and pumped hydro storage project in north Queensland.
NAIF CEO Laurie Walker said the NT airports project would be the fund’s largest investment to date.
“We are very pleased to promote the significant public benefit that will be delivered for the Northern Territory through this project,” he said.
And in a statement on Thursday, Minister Canavan said the NT airports project would spark new job and economic opportunities across the Territory.
“These investments will increase the operational capacity of each airport and that will increase economic opportunities for each community,” he said.
“The projects will create jobs, drive new export opportunities into Asian markets, boost the NT’s tourism potential and support energy security for businesses and residents in the north.
“Up to 1,000 jobs are expected to be generated through the construction phase. In turn, those positions will support around 500 indirect jobs through the supply chain, and create more than 140 new ongoing positions.”
NT Treasurer Nicole Manison said the initiative would help the Territory reach its target of 50 per cent solar and renewable energy by 2030.
“As the price of delivering renewables goes down, that presents more opportunities for delivering renewable energy, but in a sustainable and secure way,” she said in comments here.
“One thing we’ve learnt from looking at the markets down south is that you have to do it in a sustainable and secure way.”
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Mysterious nonhuman intelligences are leaving strange geometric designs in fields of cereal crops around the world. Whoever unlocks the key to these bizarre circular markings will discover if the unknown artists are here to help or to hinder humankind. Strange geometric designs have appeared in stands of cereal crops around the world, even in the rice paddies of Japan. The designs are often hundreds of feet in width and length and may cover many acres.
Controversy rages over how these “crop circles,” as they are generally known, originate, as they are usually formed overnight and involve downed, not cut, swaths of grain stalks. Although many people believe crop circles are a comparatively recent UFO-related phenomenon that began in the late 1970s or early 1980s,the mystery is hundreds of years old.
Unexplained geometric designs occurred in fields of wheat and corn in Scotland in 1678, and rural residents of England speak of the “corn fairies” that made similar designs in the fields in the late 1800s. Researchers have discovered accounts of the discovery of so-called fairy circles in fields and meadows dating back to medieval times throughout the British Isles, Germany,Scandinavia,and France. Recent evidence indicates that Chinese farmers found crop circles as much as three thousand years ago.
In those cases of crop circles that have appeared since the 1980s,investigators have determined that the crops were biochemically or biophysically altered. Cerealogists (experts in this bizarre field of research) state that since 1989 there have been in excess of two hundred formations in the UK each year. The so-called golden years of crop circle appearances seem to have been 1990 and 1991, in each of which there were between three hundred and four hundred formations.
In 1991 Doug Bower and Dave Chorley, two retired artists in England, confessed that they were responsible for making the crop circles that had baffled the world for so long and that they accomplished the most intricate of designs by using a simple board pulled by a length of rope. While the confession of Bower and Chorley satisfied a good many skeptics and journalists, serious crop circle researchers asked how these two elderly gentlemen could have accomplished their hoaxes throughout the world in such great numbers.
While admitting that there have been hoaxes, cerealogists point out that pranksters have been unable to create crop circles with the same precision and undisturbed nature as those thought to be of alien or unknown origin. Some suggest pranksters and tricksters far older than the retired artists as the perpetrators of the enigma. Why deviate, they ask, from the suspects who were originally named as culprits?
The creators of the crop circles might be found among that group of beings commonly called fairies, elves, or devas—entities that have played a significant role in the myths and legends of every planetary culture for centuries. Regardless of general dismissal of the crop circle phenomenon by conventional scientists, it would appear that there is a genuine mystery in the formation of many of the incredible designs that suddenly appear in fields around the world. Four principal theories regarding the origins of crop circles are the following:
1. extraterrestrial entities offering clues to their identity and intentions toward earthlings;
2. natural phenomena, ranging from insects to lightning, from plasma vortices (a kind of ball lightning) to electromagnetic anomalies;
3. hoaxers, such as the duo of Doug and Dave;
4. an ancient nonhuman intelligence indigenous to this planet that is utilizing archetypal designs in order to warn contemporary humankind to be more responsible and more respectful toward Mother Earth.
Various scholars have focused on the fourth possibility and suggested that many of the designs appear to be bound by the laws of sacred geometry. Sacred geometry, these experts state, embodies harmonic waves of energy and universal proportions. Some mysterious intelligence could be attempting to communicate geometrical and proportional wave forms—veritable keys to the cosmos and symbols of the archetypal world.
The English researcher Lucy Pringle believes that many crop circle formations are due to natural causes, such as the discharge of some electromagnetic energy, but she also notes that a particular design formed around April 21, 1998, appeared very close to the prehistoric mound of Silbury Hill. She likened the double-ringed circle with thirty-three scroll-like bands between the rings to a Beltane wheel, an ancient symbol used at Celtic fire festivals on May Day.
In July 2002 a three-day conference of leading crop circle investigators was held in Somerset, England. Andy Thomas, an organizer of the meeting, commented that his eleven years investigating the enigma had convinced him of one thing—that not all the circles were made by pranksters. Other than that, he stated, it was hard to say whether the phenomenon was caused by extraterrestrials, some kind of superconsciousness, collective psychokinesis (mind over matter), natural forces, or some other thing currently beyond human awareness.
Most cerealogists in attendance insisted that it is relatively easy to tell the difference between circles made by hoaxers and those made by what appears to be some kind of superior intelligence. The first crop circle of 2005 appeared in the Netherlands, and cerealogists predicted that the strangely designed circles would soon be manifesting primarily outside the United Kingdom, the nation previously most associated with the phenomenon.
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Crop Circle Research . https://www.cropcircleresearch. com. “Experts ‘Amazed’ by Crop Circle Designs.” BBC News , July 19,2002. https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/ uk/england/newsid_2138000/2138424.stm.
Howe,Linda Moulton. Mysterious Lights and Crop Circles . 2d ed. Jamison,PA: Linda Moulton Howe Productions,2002. Lin,Rosanne.
“China Says Crop Circles Appeared There 3,000 Years Ago.” Shanghai Star ,August 2, 2002. Rense.com . https://www.rense.com/general 27/crops.htm.
Pringle,Lucy. Crop Circles—The Greatest Mystery of Modern Times . New York: HarperCollins,2000.
Silva,Freddy. Secrets in the Fields: The Science and Mysticism of Crop Circles . Charlottesville,VA: Hampton Roads,2002.
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Iran Signs Oil For Goods Deal With Russia: Breaks Free Of Petrodollar
Iran signed an agreement with Russia under which it has broken free from the petrodollar, and will "sell", or rather barter crude oil to Russia in exchange for products. The announcement was made by Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh, as reported by Russia’s RIA and TASS news agencies.
"The deal has been concluded. We are just waiting for the implementation from the Russian side. We have no difficulties; we signed the contract, everything is coordinated between the parties. We are waiting for Russian oil companies to send tankers,” he said, as quoted by Russian news agencies. While sanctions against Iran have been lifted, restrictions on trade in US dollars for the country's banks remain, making it difficult to sell oil on the open market.
As reported here just over three years ago, the $20 billion agreement was initially signed in April 2014 when Iran was under Western sanctions over its nuclear program. Russian traders were to participate in the selling of Iranian oil. In exchange, Iran wanted essential goods and technology from Russia.
This is what Reuters reported in April 2014 when the deal was first announced:
Iran and Russia have made progress towards an oil-for-goods deal sources said would be worth up to $20 billion, which would enable Tehran to boost vital energy exports in defiance of Western sanctions, people familiar with the negotiations told Reuters.
In January Reuters reported Moscow and Tehran were discussing a barter deal that would see Moscow buy up to 500,000 barrels a day of Iranian oil in exchange for Russian equipment and goods.
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The White House has said such a deal would raise "serious concerns" and would be inconsistent with the nuclear talks between world powers and Iran.
Little did the US know back in 2014 that less than three years later, Russia would also be running the US, courtesy of wholesale manipulation of tens of millions of Americans, whom it hacked and convinced to vote for Trump.
Sarcasm aside, when the sanctions against Tehran were lifted in 2016, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said the deal was no longer necessary. However, Novak said in March 2017 that the plan was back on the table with Russia buying 100,000 barrels per day from Iran and selling the country $45 billion worth of goods, Russia Today reported.
Russia and Iran discussed energy, electricity, nuclear energy, gas and oil, as well as cooperation in the field of railways, industry, and agriculture.
Novak had announced in February that Russia’s state trading enterprise Promsirieimport has been authorized by the government to carry out the purchase of Iran’s oil through the oil-for-goods program under study by both countries. Meanwhile, Zanganeh had been quoted by the media as saying that Iran would be paid in cash for half of the oil that would be sold to Russia. The due payments for the remaining half would be made in goods and services, the Iranian minister had said.
A February report by the International Monetary Fund said that while Iran has been reconnected to SWIFT, significant challenges prevent Iranian banks fully-reconnecting to global banks still exist mostly due to remaining US sanctions.
“US primary sanctions apply to US financial institutions and companies, including their non-US branches (but not their subsidiaries). Moreover, with very limited exceptions, businesses and individuals related to the US continue to be generally prohibited from dealing with Iran, including with the government,” the IMF said.
“US dollar clearing restrictions have not been lifted and pose a significant challenge for non-US banks who may do business with Iran, but may not be paid in US dollars,” it added.
And since necessity is the mother of invention, what better way to bypass the world's reserve currency than to go back to the way commerce was conducted before currencies were even created: through barter.
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NickSJ on May 29 2017 said:
Since Russia is a large oil exporter, it presumably is going to sell Iran's oil to third parties as, effectively, an agent or intermediary of some kind.
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Last Tango in Halifax might be Last Tango in Santa Fe
The Guardian tells us that Diane Keaton plans US remake of BBC’s Last Tango in Halifax. It will air on HBO. Sally Wainwright, the creator of the show, says she will be a producer of the American version but will not have a huge role in the production.
I know I have lots of feelings about this news, and I’m sure the dedicated Last Tango fans do, too.
First, where would it be set? I just made up the part about Santa Fe. It’s a cool place, there are ranches surrounding it, and a lot of films get made in New Mexico. It might be a sensible location for a series that needs both urban and rural settings along with great scenery. Diane Keaton has not asked for my opinion in this matter, however.
Who would be in it? Would Diane Keaton play Celia? She’s 67. What American actresses are in their 70s? Shirley MacLaine, Barbra Streisand, Faye Dunaway, Jane Fonda, Ellen Burstyn, Olympia Dukakis, Julie Christie, Candice Bergen are a few possible names. So we have talent in that age category, but American women don’t look their age. That’s a bit of a problem. Do we want to see anyone who doesn’t look as genuine Anne Reid in the role?
Anne Reid and Derek Jacobi in Last Tango in Halifax
There are simply tons of older men to choose from for Alan. Robert DeNiro, Robert Redford, Harrison Ford, Peter Coyote and dozens more. But I so like Derek Jacobi’s sweet and loving Alan. Some swaggering American who is used to waving a gun around just doesn’t feel right. And 70 year-old American men still fancy themselves leading men who should be snaring women 30 and 40 years younger than themselves. That’s a bit of a problem, too. As for the feckless John, Tony Gardner was perfection in this part. Who could equal that?
What about Caroline and Gillian and Kate? Remember my dream actress pairing of Ashley Judd and Jennifer Beals? Think they’d make a good Caroline and Kate? Other actresses in their 40s abound, include Sandra Bullock, Halle Berry, Jennifer Lopez, Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts, Jennifer Garner, Renée Zellweger and lots more. But I’m sort of convinced that Sarah Lancashire is irreplaceable as Caroline. Nicola Walker in her jeans and Converse sneakers brings such nuance and subtlety to Gillian.
Casting is a challenge. Adapting the dialog and locations will be a challenge as well. Diane Keaton has taken on a huge task to make this wonderful story American. I wish her well, and I wish her great luck finding the right people to do the writing and casting and create the sets.
I’m really attached to Last Tango in Halifax . Even so, Diane Keaton is trustworthy, in my opinion. If anyone can make a love story about older adults shine, it should be Diane Keaton. Who knows, I may love the American version of this tale of second chances as much as I do the British one.
When I get attached to a show, like the Millennium series in Swedish ( The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , The Girl Who Played with Fire , and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest ) I feel a vague dread at the arrival of American versions. Then I go see it (of course) and I like it on it’s own merit. It isn’t the same as the original, but it still has the characters and the story and I end up enjoying both versions. I’m ready to see what happens to this lovely British tale of second chances. Go, Diane!
One extra good piece of good news from The Guardian post is,
The second series of Last Tango In Halifax, one of BBC1’s biggest-rating new shows of 2012, launches next month and a third is planned.
A big hurrah for season 3.
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Google Wants You to Out Good Sites. Really!
By Rhea Drysdale in SEO
Yesterday, Google’s Head of Web Spam, Matt Cutts, shared a link to a simple Docs survey where they’re asking webmasters to report high-quality small sites that you think should rank better. Yes, you heard that right. They want to know about GOOD sites!
If there's a small website that you think should be doing better in Google, tell us more here: https://t.co/s80BibIBhN
— Matt Cutts (@mattcutts) August 28, 2013
If you’re like the Outspoken Media team, this was met with a company-wide, “wha?!”
While Google has been working hard over recent years to make it easier for the Web Spam team to connect with and inform webmasters, they’re usually looking for help outing bad sites. Whether it’s more support for reconsideration requests, new language on link schemes, or the recently released (then revoked, then re-released) Manual Actions report in Webmaster Tools.
For years we’ve debated the issue of size and brand as it relates to rankings and it’s interesting to see that Google is now soliciting advice from the masses to test the quality of the algorithm. The debate has raged since 2008 (and before). I put the “big business vs little guy” graphic together (thanks Todd for sharing it so long ago) to help sort through some hypocritical assumptions on Google’s part when it comes to website behavior. We’re used to the perception that big brands get away with murder while small businesses suffer, but I’ve always believed that when it comes to the algorithm it really is a matter of brand signals versus the actual size of the brand. The more sites behave like actual businesses and invest in brand development, the more they’ll align with the direction Google is going with quality signals for greater search rankings.
However, as Barry Schwartz cited,
“only 30% of SEOs believe web site size does not matter in terms of rankings.”
At first we didn’t believe the survey was legit, because it’s so simple. How could Google possibly review all of the submissions they’ll undoubtedly receive? But truthfully, how many webmasters feel confident enough in their site’s backlink profile to submit?
I know there are plenty of webmasters who believe in the legitimacy of their link building practices, but we typically find a history riddled with old, highly questionable links. At Outspoken, we work hard to rehab those efforts, but the threshold of what’s acceptable is changing daily with the most recent updates affecting press releases, guest posts, advertorials, and Twitter reacts to Google’s request for good sites:
@Rhea Seems like a desperate move to me. Isn't Google's job to determine "good" sites?
— Rich Spaulding (@RichSpaulding) August 29, 2013
@Rhea I don't know of a single site owner that doesn't think their site should do better, so I don't see how it will be helpful.
— Ben Cook (@BenjaminCook) August 29, 2013
@Rhea & w/G's ever changing rules (rapidly expanding nofollow demands etc) I'm not sure anyone should want G looking closely at their site.
@Rhea @skitzzo Up next: International Athletics Federation asks world's runners if they think their times really should be a bit faster…
— Jane (@janemcopland) August 29, 2013
Sorting through yesterday’s tweets, it looks like Google had only received a couple hundred websites at that point:
@robdwoods nah, less than a couple hundred so far. It's a good way to get input from a wider circle of folks.
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Rhea Drysdale is the Chief Executive Officer of Outspoken Media. When she isn't fighting for the SEO industry, she's advocating for women in tech, breaking rules, or spending time with her family. Connect with Rhea on Twitter.
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in The Oxford Handbook of Animals in Classical Thought and Life
Published in print August 2014 | ISBN: 9780199589425
Published online April 2014 | | DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199589425.013.013
Series: Oxford Handbooks in Classics and Ancient History
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This chapter examines references to forms of animal communication in ancient Greek and Roman literature. It analyses prose texts from the fourth century BC until the third century AD, which include those of Aristotle, Pliny the Elder, and Aelian, in order to determine specific types of verbal and non-verbal interaction on the part of certain animals. This chapter also presents some findings from modern research in the natural and social sciences on animal communication and argues that ancient reflections on the characteristics of animal communication are to a large extent influenced by the...
This chapter examines references to forms of animal communication in ancient Greek and Roman literature. It analyses prose texts from the fourth century BC until the third century AD, which include those of Aristotle, Pliny the Elder, and Aelian, in order to determine specific types of verbal and non-verbal interaction on the part of certain animals. This chapter also presents some findings from modern research in the natural and social sciences on animal communication and argues that ancient reflections on the characteristics of animal communication are to a large extent influenced by the generic or literary conventions of the texts in which they occur.
Keywords: animal communication; ancient Greek literature; ancient Roman literature; Aristotle; Pliny the Elder; Aelian; literary convention
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Portrait of Ellin , the artists daughter
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Publisher: Editions Sagot, Paris
Provenance: This was bought many years ago from an heir of Sagot who had it stored in his attic for many years. The seller said that it was given by Sagot to good customers.
Edition Size: Unknown
Note 1: In the late 1890’s Helleu was approached by the print dealer Sagot to make a lithographic poster to advertise his business. The initial work produced showed an attractive female client draped on a chair examining one of Sagots prints on an easle. This was ultimately printed by Chaix, Malhotra II, No. 466. The poster (Jan 1901) III, p.35. Helleu’s lithographs are rare - he was much more famous for his drypoints. It would seem that Sagot made more then just the poster described above but there is, alas, no catalogue raisonee so it is not possible to say exactly what his output was. In 1912 he received the commission to paint the ceiling of New York's Grand Central Terminal, a masterpiece which was recently cleaned and restored to the great pleasure of the commuting public who still pause to look up at his night-time sky en route to their trains.
Note 2: The artists daughter, Ellen, whose portrait we believe this to be, was born in 1887.
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Original Lithograph, circa 1910, in Sepia Tone, signed by the artist in the stone to right of image, with the publishers blindstamp in an oval form “EdSAGOT EDITEUR with PARIS in the centre, on heavy wove paper
Width 20 in (50 cm)
Height 26 in (65 cm)
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52 Ancestors: #31 The Still Not Quite Done Schmit-Weicker Family of Bertrange
Peter SCHMITT’s Parents
In 1756 two children were born in Bertrange, in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, one on September 20th[1] and the other on October 2nd.[2] Their baptismal records are on the same page in the parish register, the second right below the first. The twelve days between no children were born in Bertrange.
1756 Baptismal Record No. 242 for Petrus Schmid[1] and No. 243 for Rosa Clemens[2]
A little over twenty years later, on 10 February 1777, the two children were once again seen in the parish register, this time getting married – to each other.[3]
1777 Marriage Record No. 318 for Petrus Schmid and Rosa Clemens.[3]
Peter SCHMIT (1756-1816) and Rosa CLEMENS (1756-1815), the children who were baptized in 1756 and the couple who married in 1777, had ten children born between 1778 and 1799. Their second son Peter SCHMIT, my children’s 5th great-grandfather, was born and baptized on 3 April 1779 in Bertrange.[4] His godparents were Petrus KREMER and Catharina SCHMIT. His father was present and signed the record in longhand.
1779 Baptismal Record of Petrus Schmit with father’s signature [pater].[4]
Peter SCHMIT married Margaretha WEICKER before 1811. Their marriage took place before their first child was born however a marriage record has not been found. The couple was always referred to as legally married when their children were born. The marriage record was not found in Bertrange parish records from 1802-1811 or in the tables décennales (10-year lists) for the years 1802-1812 for Bertrange and Steinfort. Records were usually very well kept and I believe one day Peter and Margaretha’s marriage will turn up. Perhaps sooner than later as my genealogy society Luxracines has dedicated members working on a marriage project – indexing all marriages in Luxembourg from 1802 to 1923.
Why is Margaretha WEICKER’s Parentage Unknown?
Margaretha, my children’s 5th great-grandmother, was born about 1795 in Hoën (Hagen), Sterpenich, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The year of birth was estimated from her age at the time of death.[5] Records for Hagen, a village in the Steinfort area, are not in the FamilySearch collection for Luxembourg for this period.
The Grand Duchy was under a double administration for about eight years before the Treaty of London was passed in 1839 when the present borders of Luxembourg were defined. Repatriation of the records (return to the country of origin) was not simple. Records for Steinfort for the period before the borders were changed can be found in Autelbas in the Province of Luxembourg in Belgium. Civil records beginning in 1796 for Autelbas are online at FamilySearch.
As Margaretha’s birth may have been earlier I checked the parish records for Sterpenich in the FamilySearch catalog. The parish records of Sterpenich for the years 1779-1793 are conformed copies made from the originals by the Luxembourg authorities and given to the Belgium government in December 1844 per the convention of Utrecht signed in 1843, i.e. repatriation. I have no idea where the records for the years 1794-1795 may be found and am at a standstill on my research for Margaretha, her birth, and parentage.
Not only are the records missing, Margaretha’s name has been found with several variations. Her family name was spelled WEIKER or WEICKER and also seen as WIKERT. Her first name was Margaretha in early documents and Anne Marguerite in later years. These are all things which need to be considered when future research is done on her parentage.
Peter and Margaretha’s Children
Peter and Margaretha were the parents of seven children. Two died before their 2nd birthdays while the five others grew to adulthood, married, and had their own children. These are the SCHMIT children:
Magdalena SCHMIT was born on 10 February 1811 in domo Donnen in Bertrange.[6] She was baptized the same day.[7] Her godfather was Joannes SCHMIDT from Bertrange and her godmother was Magdalena KÜNSCH from Hohen (or Hagen) in the parish of Sterpenich. Was her godmother her grandmother, an aunt, or cousin? This may be a clue to solving the question of her mother’s parentage.
1811 Baptismal Record for Magdalena Schmit[7]
Rosa SCHMIT was born on 7 Feb 1815 in domo Bour in Bertrange[8] and baptized the same day.[9] Her godmother was her paternal grandmother Rosa CLEMENS. Her godfather was Nicolaus WEICKER of Hohen. Could he have been her maternal grandfather or an uncle?
Rosa’s godmother and paternal grandmother Rosa CLEMENS died only a few months later on 22 May 1815. Her paternal grandfather Peter SCHMIT died on 11 February 1816.
1815 Baptismal Record of Rosa Schmit[9]
Rosa died two weeks later on 26 February 1816 in domo Donnen in Bertrange shortly after her first birthday.[10] She was buried the following day. Her religious death and burial record has her mother’s name as Anna Margaretha Hinnicker instead of Weicker.[11]
1816 Death and Burial Record of Rosa Schmit[11]
Nicolas SCHMIT was born at seven in the morning on 8 April 1817 in Bertrange. His father reported the birth two hours later.[12] As baptismal records for Bertrange are only available online up to 1816 the godparents of Nicolas and his younger siblings were not found as they were for Magdalena and Rosa.
Michel SCHMIT was born at two in the morning on 10 February 1819 in Bertrange. His father reported the birth eight hours later.[13]
Following their youngest child Michel’s first birthday, Peter and Margaretha lost their second child, son Nicolas. He died on 21 February 1820 in Bertrange at the age of nearly three years.[14]
Jean SCHMIT* was born at three in the afternoon on 12 July 1820. His father reported the birth two days later at eight in the morning on the 14th.[40] This child’s birth record was only found after this post was ready to be published. While reading through the final draft I realized something was wrong and checked again on SCHMIT children born in Bertrange.
Maria Catharina SCHMIT was born at two in the morning on 25 February 1822 in Bertrange. Her father reported the birth the same day at nine in the morning.[15]
Jean SCHMIT was born at 9:30 in the morning on 3 September 1825 in Bertrange. His father reported the birth the same day at eleven in the morning.[16] As was the case with all of his children’s births, Peter declared not being able to write. I found this strange, his being the second born of a father who was able to write as seen above at the time of his own baptism in 1779.[4]
Margaretha WEICKER’s Death in 1826
The mother of the five living children, Margaretha WEICKER, died on 17 January 1826 in Bartringen. She was 31 years old at the time of her death.[5] Her youngest child was only four months old and her oldest would shortly be turning fifteen. Her name on the record was Anne Marguerithe WEICKER. The addition of Anne to her name was also seen on the birth records of her two youngest children.
Widowed Peter Remarries
Following the death of his wife, Peter waited two years before taking a second wife. This seems unusual as he had been left with five children, one still a baby. Magdalena, his oldest child, likely took on the responsibilities of a little mother, helping care for her younger siblings.
Peter married Anne Marie SCHOLER, daughter of Jean SCHOLER and Susanne BOURENS, on 22 March 1828 in Bertrange.[17] Anne Marie was born on 4 June 1792 in Obersyren (Schuttrange).
Peter and his second wife Anne Marie had only one child, a daughter, Madelaine born four years into the marriage on 16 July 1832 in Bertrange.[18] Her half-siblings were by this time 7, 10, 12, 13, and 21 years old. She did not, however, grow up without a playmate.
Peter’s oldest daughter Magdalena gave birth to a natural daughter on 7 November 1835.[19] Anne’s father’s name was not on the birth record. Natural was the term used for children born out of wedlock. Anne appears to have been raised in her maternal grandfather’s household as she was listed with Peter and Anne Marie on the 1843[20] and 1846 census.[21]
Peter’s second wife Anne Marie had a sister Margaretha SCHOLER (1802-1842) who was married to Jacob RUCKERT (1787-1856). Margaretha gave Jacob eight children, six of whom were living when she died after giving birth to the last on 20 March 1842.[22]. Peter’s brother-in-law Jacob became his son-in-law eight months later.
Peter and Margaretha’s oldest daughter Magdalena married Jacob RUCKERT, son of Johann RUCKERT and Angelique MICHELS, on 26 November 1842 in Bartringen.[23] Jacob was born on 23 July 1787 in domo Michels in Bertrange and baptized the same day.[24] The marriage would last fourteen years ending with Jacob’s death on 24 June 1856 in Bertrange.[25] Magdalena and Jacob were my children’s 4th great-grandparents. This is their story: 52 Ancestors: #41 How Jacob RUCKERT’s Brother-in-law Peter SCHMIT Became his Father-in-law.
Peter SCHMIT’s Death in 1847
At eleven in the morning of 27 March 1847 Peter SCHMIT age 22 reported the death of his father Peter SCHMIT who had died only two hours earlier at his home in the neighborhood called Eichels in Bertrange.[26]
1847 Death Record No. 15 for Peter Schmit[26]
I have a small problem with this death record as Peter did not have a son named Peter. Both of Peter’s wives are correctly named on the death record. Is the signature of the informant that of Jean SCHMIT the youngest son who was 22 years old at the time? The younger Jean was the only child to remain in his father’s household in 1843 and 1846 and was seen with his step-mother in 1847. Due to the fact that I found another son named Jean born in 1820, I believe the younger son may have been known as Johann Peter (Jean Pierre) to distinguish him from his older brother Jean.
Widow Anne SCHOLER last seen in 1847 census
1847 Luxembourg Census. Household of Anne Scholer, widow of Peter Schmit, with her step-children and daughter.[27]
In the 1847 census, Peter’s widow Anne SCHOLER was the head of household with her stepsons Michel, Jean (26), Jean (22) and stepdaughter Maria Catharina (children from Peter’s first marriage) and her only child, daughter Madelaine from her marriage to Peter.[27] This entry in the census led me to search once again for children of Peter and Margaretha but only after I had finished the research and written this post.
Michel, the elder Jean, and Maria Catharina were not in their father’s household in 1843 or 1846. This was not unusual as they were of an age to be working outside of the home. I had wrongly assumed the elder Jean found in the 1847 census was an error or relative other than child.
Peter’s widow Anne Marie SCHOLER and their daughter Madelaine have not found after the 1847 census.
The SCHMIT children lived in the three districts of Luxembourg
The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is divided into three districts: Luxembourg, Diekirch, and Grevenmacher (dark gray areas in the maps below). Each district is divided into cantons (red areas in the maps below) and each canton is divided into communes. Several towns and villages may be part of a commune.
The District of Luxembourg
The darker gray area is the District of Luxembourg
Peter SCHMIT and Margaretha WEICKER’s children grew up in the town of Bertrange. Peter had deep roots in the town as his parents and grandparents all came from the town.
Their oldest daughter Magdalena SCHMIT raised her family in Bertrange. She was likely the first of the siblings to pass away.* She died on 30 September 1870 in Bertrange.[28] Other than her natural daughter Anne, she had a son and three daughters with Jacob RUCKERT. The son has not been found after he turned 21 in 1864. One daughter died as an infant. The youngest daughter had a natural son (1867-1868) and it is not known if she ever married or where she lived after her mother’s death. The older daughter Margaretha, my children’s 3rd great-grandmother, married but there is still the mystery of what happened to her and of her family after 1895. It is only through the marriage of her daughter Maria MERTES in 1894 and the census of 1895 that I know that Margaretha and her husband Michel MERTES were still living in 1895.
Peter and Margaretha’s youngest son Jean SCHMIT (b. 1825) also spent his married life in Bertrange. But before this, he was living and working in other places. One residence was Mondercange where he was in May 1852 when his brother Michel married. He was one of the four witnesses and signed “Jang Schmit.” Six years later he was living and working in Noertzange (Bettembourg) when he made plans to marry. Jean married Maria RISCHARD on 20 January 1858 in Schuttrange.[29] Maria was born on 16 March 1827 in Uebersyren (Schuttrange), the same place Jean’s step-mother was born.[30] They lived in Bertrange their entire married life. They were the parents of 6 children, three of whom died at a young age. Of the three living children, a daughter married and had children. The two sons were working in Lothringen (France) in the late 1890s – they have not been traced.
Jean SCHMIT died on 28 November 1892 in Bertrange.[31] His death record has the right wife but the wrong parents. The information was given by his son-in-law Mathias HANSEN. Jean’s wife died six years later on 30 April 1898 in Bertrange.[32]
The District of Diekirch
The second daughter of Peter and Margaretha, Maria Catharina married Joseph POECKER on 20 February 1852 in Bettendorf.[33] Joseph was born on 25 February 1819 in Bettendorf.[34]
The darker gray area is the District of Diekirch
How Maria Catharina came to marry in Bettendorf is unknown at this time. She and her husband raised their family on Fooshof. They had seven children, four of whom died in infancy. A daughter who never married died at the age of 38 years. The youngest living son born in 1864 was unmarried at the time of the 1900 census. He was living with his brother Nicolas who had married in 1893 and continued the line.
Maria Catharina died on 1 September 1879 on the family farm, Fooshof in Bettendorf.[35] Her husband Joseph died on 19 January 1895 on Fooshof.[36]
The District of Grevenmacher
The darker gray area is the District of Grevenmacher
Peter and Margaretha’s oldest son Michel married Anna Margretha BRAUN on 5 May 1852 in Waldbillig.[37] Anna was born on 12 May 1826 in Bettange-sur-Mess (Dippach). Michel and Anna Margretha started their family when they were working on the Wolperhof in the commune of Consdorf. Three of their children were born here.
The darker grey area is the District of Diekirch
The third child’s birth at Wolper was followed by a move to the western part of Luxembourg in the commune of Bettborn. Three more children were born in Pratz, part of the commune of Bettborn.
Michel and Anna Margretha lived in Horaz from 1885. Not far from Pratz, Horaz, which is also spelled Horass, only had two households.
Michel SCHMIT was the oldest son and last living child of Peter and Margaretha. He died on 26 December 1898 in Horaz.[38] His wife Anna Margretha predeceased him on 12 November 1890 in Horaz.[39]
Still Not Quite Done
* Due to my only learning of the existence of the elder son Jean born in 1820 after writing this post, I have not had the time to research where he may have lived and worked, if he ever married and had children, and when and where he died. Considering his name Jean SCHMIT – just another John Smith – the search may take a while.
There is an update to this post!
This is the last post on my children’s paternal 5th great-grandparents. I already wrote about half of their maternal 5th great-grandparents (my paternal 4th great-grandparents) in 2014 when I did the first round of Amy Johnson Crow‘s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge.
Next up will be 16 sets of my maternal 4th great-grandparents. The first eight being from small towns and villages which are now part of Germany near the Luxembourg border. The last eight will be from Luxembourg. I hope to finish up this series by the end of the year even though there are only 13 weeks left. Wish me luck and lots of free time.
Maps used are in the Public domain (Wikimedia Commons) and were annotated using Evernote.
[1] Luxembourg, registres paroissiaux, 1601-1948 (images), FamilySearch (original records at Luxembourg National Archives, Plateau du Saint-Esprit, Luxembourg), Bertrange > Baptêmes 1723-1780, confirmations 1755-1767, mariages 1723-1780, sépultures 1723-1780 > image 59 of 200. 1756 Baptismal Record No. 242. (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G971-1CGD?cc=2037955&wc=STH6-92Q%3A1500936901%2C1501072268 : accessed 15 September 2017).
[2] Ibid., Bertrange > Baptêmes 1723-1780, confirmations 1755-1767, mariages 1723-1780, sépultures 1723-1780 > image 59 of 200. 1756 Baptismal Record No. 243. (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G971-1CGD?cc=2037955&wc=STH6-92Q%3A1500936901%2C1501072268 : accessed 15 September 2017).
[3] Ibid., Bertrange > Baptêmes 1723-1780, confirmations 1755-1767, mariages 1723-1780, sépultures 1723-1780 > image 150 of 200. 1777 Marriage Record No. 318 (right page, 2nd entry). (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G971-1C6Q?cc=2037955&wc=STH6-92Q%3A1500936901%2C1501072268 : accessed 15 September 2017).
[4] Luxembourg, Volkszählungen 1843-1900 (images), FamilySearch (original records at Luxembourg National Archives, Plateau du Saint-Esprit, Luxembourg), Bertrange > Baptêmes 1723-1780, confirmations 1755-1767, mariages 1723-1780, sépultures 1723-1780 > image 106 of 200. 1779 Baptismal Record No. 19. (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L971-1CTL?cc=2037955&wc=STH6-92Q%3A1500936901%2C1501072268 : accessed 13 September 2017).
[5] Luxembourg, Registres d’état civil, 1662-1941 (images), FamilySearch (original records at Luxembourg National Archives, Plateau du Saint-Esprit, Luxembourg), Bertrange > Mariages 1828-1890 Décès 1796-1890 > image 684 of 1416. 1826 Death Record No. 6. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12131-52047-76?cc=1709358 : accessed 2 April 2010).
[6] Ibid., Bertrange > Naissances 1796-1890 Mariages 1796-1827 > image 125 of 1480. 1811 Birth Record (left page). (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-X363-TRT?cc=1709358&wc=9RY8-YWL%3A129622901%2C129854201 : accessed 10 Apr 2013).
[7] Luxembourg Church Records, Bertrange > Baptêmes, mariages, sépultures 1808-1816 > image 32 of 86. 1811 Baptismal Record. (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9WS-SZWW?cc=2037955&wc=STHD-3YW%3A1500936901%2C1500942502 : accessed 14 September 2017).
[8] Luxembourg Civil Records, Bertrange > Naissances 1796-1890 Mariages 1796-1827 > image 168 of 1480. 1815 Birth Record (right, top). (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-X363-RLJ?cc=1709358&wc=9RY8-YWL%3A129622901%2C129854201 : accessed 14 September 2017).
[9] Luxembourg Church Records, Bertrange > Baptêmes, mariages, sépultures 1808-1816 > image 69 of 86. 1815 Baptismal Record (left). (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99WS-SCF7?cc=2037955&wc=STHD-3YW%3A1500936901%2C1500942502 : accessed 15 September 2017).
[10] Luxembourg Civil Records, Bertrange > Mariages 1828-1890 Décès 1796-1890 > image 595 of 1416. 1816 Death Record No. 5. (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6X89-1WQ?cc=1709358&wc=9RYC-829%3A129622901%2C129640401 : accessed 15 September 2017).
[11] Luxembourg Church Records, Bertrange > Baptêmes, mariages, sépultures 1808-1816 > image 84 of 86. 1816 Death Record (right page, last entry). (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99WS-SCHD?cc=2037955&wc=STHD-3YW%3A1500936901%2C1500942502 : accessed 15 September 2017).
[12] Luxembourg Civil Records, Bertrange > Naissances 1796-1890 Mariages 1796-1827 > image 191 of 1480. 1817 Birth Record No. 16. (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-X36Q-SWY?cc=1709358&wc=9RY8-YWL%3A129622901%2C129854201 : accessed 14 September 2017).
[13] Ibid., Bertrange > Naissances 1796-1890 Mariages 1796-1827 > image 210 of 1480. 1819 Birth Record No. 4. (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-X363-RCS?cc=1709358&wc=9RY8-YWL%3A129622901%2C129854201 : acccessed 14 September 2017).
[14] Ibid., Bertrange > Mariages 1828-1890 Décès 1796-1890 > image 637 of 1416. 1820 Death Record No. 7. (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6X8S-39Q?cc=1709358&wc=9RYC-829%3A129622901%2C129640401 : accessed 14 September 2017).
[15] Ibid., Bertrange > Naissances 1796-1890 Mariages 1796-1827 > image 242 of 1480. 1822 Birth Record No. 5. (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-X36Q-SHK?cc=1709358&wc=9RY8-YWL%3A129622901%2C129854201 : accessed 14 September 2017).
[16] Ibid., Bertrange > Naissances 1796-1890 Mariages 1796-1827 > image 288 of 1480. 1825 Birth Record No. 36. (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-X363-TST?cc=1709358&wc=9RY8-YWL%3A129622901%2C129854201 : accessed 14 September 2017).
[17] Ibid., Bertrange > Mariages 1828-1890 Décès 1796-1890 > image 11 of 1416. 1828 Marriage Record No. 9. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12131-54927-45?cc=1709358 : accessed 8 October 2015).
[18] Ibid., Bertrange > Naissances 1796-1890 Mariages 1796-1827 > image 411 of 1480. 1832 Birth Record No. 28. (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-X363-RKD?cc=1709358&wc=9RY8-YWL%3A129622901%2C129854201 : acccessed 14 September 2017).
[19] Ibid., Bertrange > Naissances 1796-1890 Mariages 1796-1827 > image 479 of 1480. 1835 Birth Record No. 69. (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-X36Q-987?cc=1709358&wc=9RY8-YWL%3A129622901%2C129854201 : accessed 7 October 2015).
[20] Luxembourg Census Records, Bertrange > 1843 > image 144 of 407. Schmit-Scholer household. (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-897B-FJ1T?cc=2037957&wc=M5LR-NQ9%3A346116301%2C345863501 : accessed 14 September 2017).
[21] Ibid., Bertrange > 1846 > image 206 of 431. Schmit-Scholer household. (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-997B-VDT6?cc=2037957&wc=M5LT-ZJF%3A346116301%2C345858602 : accessed 14 September 2017).
[22] Luxembourg Civil Records, Bertrange > Mariages 1828-1890 Décès 1796-1890 > image 907 of 1416. 1842 Death Record No. 10. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12131-51891-68?cc=1709358 : accessed 6 October 2015).
[23] Ibid., Bertrange > Mariages 1828-1890 Décès 1796-1890 > image 156 of 1416. 1842 Marriage Record No. 21. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12131-57204-95?cc=1709358&wc=M9M6-2DC:725853054 : accessed 10 Apr 2013).
[24] Luxembourg Church Record, Bertrange > Baptêmes 1781-1797, confirmations 1791, mariages 1781-1797, sépultures 1781-1797 > image 64 of 254. 1787 Baptismal Record No. 215. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-32462-8679-85?cc=2037955 : accessed 6 October 2015).
[25] Luxembourg Civil Records, Bertrange > Mariages 1828-1890 Décès 1796-1890 > image 1084 of 1416. 1856 Death Record No. 10. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12131-55634-51?cc=1709358&wc=M9M6-2DC:725853054 : accessed 10 Apr 2013).
[26] Ibid., Bertrange > Mariages 1828-1890 Décès 1796-1890 > image 988 of 1416. 1847 Death Record No. 15. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12131-51852-95?cc=1709358 : accessed 8 October 2015).
[27] Luxembourg Census Records, Bertrange > 1847 > image 386 of 448. Schmit-Scholer household. (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-997B-CYTF?cc=2037957&wc=M5LR-MJG%3A346116301%2C345864101 : accessed 16 September 2017).
[29] Ibid., Schuttrange > Naissances 1826-1890 Mariages 1797-1890 Décès 1797-1843 > image 996 of 1488. 1858 Marriage Record No. 2. (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6F8K-J9?cc=1709358&wc=9RY3-T38%3A130363201%2C130466501 : accessed 14 September 2017).
[30] Ibid., Schuttrange > Naissances 1826-1890 Mariages 1797-1890 Décès 1797-1843 > image 22 of 1488. 1827 Birth Record No. 12. (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6F8K-RN?cc=1709358&wc=9RY3-T38%3A130363201%2C130466501 : accessed 29 September 2017).
[31] Ibid., Bertrange > Naissances, mariages, décès 1891-1894 > image 82 of 99. 1892 Death Record No. 21. (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-DRHS-CY5?cc=1709358&wc=9RYM-L2V%3A129622901%2C129717601 : accessed 19 September 2017).
[32] Ibid., Bertrange > Mariages 1895-1923 Décès 1895-1912 > image 252 of 370. 1898 Death Record No. 11. (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L97J-JZWQ?cc=1709358&wc=9RTY-J4C%3A129622901%2C129807601 : accessed 15 September 2017).
[33] Ibid., Bettendorf > Mariages 1817-1890 Décès 1800-1859 > image 444 of 1494. 1852 Marriage Record No. 1. (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6RW9-8PB?cc=1709358&wc=9RY8-SP8%3A129626601%2C129729901 : accessed 14 September 2017).
[34] Ibid., Bettendorf > Naissances 1800-1827 > image 177 of 306. 1819 Birth Record (left, top). (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-DRLL-2Y?cc=1709358&wc=9RYW-DPD%3A129626601%2C129760501 : accessed 19 September 2019).
[35] Ibid., Bettendorf > Décès 1860-1890 > image 305 of 465. 1879 Death Record No. 26. (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6M8S-HJV?cc=1709358&wc=9RYH-82S%3A129626601%2C129626602 : accessed 14 September 2017).
[36] Ibid., Bettendorf > Décès 1895-1923 > image 2 of 389. 1895 Death Record No. 3. (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L97V-HR8J?cc=1709358&wc=9RT1-926%3A129626601%2C129623802 : accessed 14 September 2017).
[37] Ibid., Waldbillig > Naissances 1871-1890 Mariages 1796-1798, 1800-1803, 1805-1890 Décès 1796-1803, 1805-1838 > image 863 of 1486. 1852 Marriage Record No. 5. (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-DR53-L8K?cc=1709358&wc=9RYW-N38%3A130535001%2C130636701 : accessed 14 September 2017).
[38] Ibid., Bettborn > Décès 1895-1923 > image 34 of 217. 1898 Death Record No. 20. (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-897V-9X2K?cc=1709358&wc=9RTB-C6L%3A129627501%2C129623802 : accessed 14 September 2017).
[39] Ibid., Bettborn > Décès 1813-1891 > image 691 of 695. 1890 Death Record No. 20. (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-DRL2-1J?cc=1709358&wc=9RYW-DP6%3A129627501%2C129627502 : accessed 14 September 2017).
[40] Ibid., Bertrange > Naissances 1796-1890 Mariages 1796-1827 > image 224 of 1480. 1820 Birth Record No. 16. (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-X36Q-948?cc=1709358&wc=9RY8-YWL%3A129622901%2C129854201 : accessed 29 September 2017).
Author Cathy Meder-DempseyPosted on September 30, 2017 October 10, 2017 Categories 52Ancestors 2017Tags 52Ancestors, Bertrange, Bettborn, Bettendorf, Braun, Clemens, FamilySearch, in domo Michels, Künsch, Kneitgen, Michels, Poecker, Rischard, Ruckert, Schmit, Scholer, Weicker, Weiker, Wikert11 Comments on 52 Ancestors: #31 The Still Not Quite Done Schmit-Weicker Family of Bertrange
52 Ancestors: #15 Clemens-Weber Family of Steinheim, Luxembourg
Joannes CLEMENS (1750-1827) and Susanna WEBER (1750-1825) were my children’s 5th great-grandparents. Their research took me to villages I had not yet researched but I wasn’t surprised they had me searching through the parish records of the town I live in. The parish registers of baptisms, marriages, and burials for Echternach (blue cross) date from 1637 to 1797 and include the villages of Bech, Osweiler, and Steinheim (all in Luxembourg) and Ernzen, Ferschweiler, Irrel, Menningen, and Minden (all in Rhineland, Germany) (ruby icons).
Minden and Steinheim
Johannes Bertelius [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Minden lies at the confluence of the Nims, a tributary of the Prüm, and the Sauer on the German side. The village was formerly attached to Echternach, but since the abbey was abolished it now belongs to the Edingen parish. Across the Sauer on the Luxembourg side lies the village of Steinheim (Steenem in Luxembourgish). It was also attached to Echternach and today belongs to the commune of Rosport. In a document from the 7th century, the place was called “Staneheim.” In earlier times quality stone was quarried there. In the Trierischen Chronik in 1822 Court of Appeals judge Müller tried to prove the stones used for the construction of the Roman baths near the monastery of St. Barbara in Trier, which had been uncovered that year, originated from Steinheim.
Susanna WEBER aka Susanna FEILEN
Susanna was baptized on 10 January 1750 in Minden.[1] She was the daughter of Matthias WEBER and Anna Margaretha FEILEN who married on 19 November 1748 in Echternach.[2] She was Matthias’ first born but not Anna Margaretha’s. Her mother was previously married in 1745[3], had a son in 1747[4], and was widowed in January 1748[5]. Ten months later she married Matthias.
Susanna had five known full siblings, all baptized in Minden where they were born: Maria on 14 September 1752, Peter on 2 August 1755, Maria on 9 May 1758, Johann on 14 December 1760, and Matthias on 13 April 1763[6]
Susanna WEBER married Joannes CLEMENT on 20 November 1771 in Steinheim.[7] If you take a close look at the marriage entry in the church records, you may ask, can this be the correct record?
In prasentia Petri Saubert ex Birckelt et Matthia Feilen ex Minheim R.D. Lucius Solemniza vit nomine meo in Stienheim matrimonium inter honestos adolescentes Joem filium gegitimum Danielis Clement ex Steinheim et Susanna filiam legitimam Matthias Feilen ex Minheim.
In the presence of Petri Saubert from Birckelt and Matthias Feilen from Minheim, R.D. Lucius solemnized a marriage in Steinheim between the respectable young Joem, legitimate son of Danielis Clement from Steinheim, and Susanna, the legitimate daughter of Matthias Feilen from Minheim.
Susanna and her father Matthias were seen with the surname FEILEN, her mother’s maiden name, on the marriage record. This was not unusual as men and their families were at times known by their wives’ surname if they were living and/or working in the woman’s family home and/or business.
Joannes CLEMENS aka Joannes CLEMENT
Joannes “Jean” CLEMENT (1750-1827) was born about 1750 in Steinheim. No baptismal record has been found. The estimated year and place were taken from his death record.[8] He was seen as the son of Daniel CLEMENT on his marriage record (above). A woman named Elisabetha, wife of Daniel CLEMENT, died on 6 November 1777[9] and a man named Daniel CLEMENT died on 29 June 1778[10], both in Steinheim. These are believed to have been Joannes’ parents.
Over the years entries were found for Joannes with his surname spelled CLEMENT and CLEMEN. By the time he died his surname spelling had changed to CLEMENS.
Susanna and Joannis’ Children
Susanna and Joannes were the parents of eight children. When their first child was born in 1773 the mother’s maiden name was seen in the parish register as FEILEN. Later, at the time of the baptisms of their next seven children, she was seen with her father’s surname, WEBER.
Elisabeth was baptized on 22 September 1773 in Steinheim; the godparents were Matthias Weber of Minden and Elisabeth Clement of Steinheim. Her godparents were likely her paternal grandmother and her maternal grandfather.[11]
Lucia was baptized on 9 December 1775 in Steinheim; the godparents were Peter Sauber of Steinheim and Lucia Diemer of Ernzen. Lucia Diemer was the wife of Johann Feilen, the brother of the maternal grandmother.[12]
Anna was baptized on 17 March 1780 in Steinheim; the godparents were Mathias Sauber and Anna Maria Hemsthal, both of Steinheim.[13]
Following the births of the first three children and before Susanna became pregnant with her fourth child, two of her daughters died. Lucia on 19 August 1781[14] and Anna Maria in 1782.[15]
Pierre was baptized on 12 March 1783 in Steinheim; the godparents were Peter Kayser of Berdorf and Margaretha Feilen of Minden.[16]
Johann was baptized on 9 February 1786 in Steinheim; the godparents were Johann Peters of Bollendorf and Maria Catharina Grupper of Steinheim.[17]
The family was now made up of one daughter and two sons. Their oldest child, daughter Elisabeth died on 11 May 1787.[18] It was about this time the family name spelling changed from CLEMENT to CLEMEN likely due to a change in the person who was in charge of making entries in the parish records (clearly seen in the change in handwriting).
Hubert was baptized on 8 July 1788 in Steinheim; the godparents were Hubert Helfen of Kirsch and Anna Maria Goeden of Steinheim.[19]
Anna was baptized on 20 February 1792 in Steinheim; the godparents were Christian Schneider of Minden and Anna Maria Grupper of Steinheim.[20] She lived only two days.[21]
Elisabetha was baptized on 30 October 1796 in Steinheim; the godparents were Johann Feilen of Minden and Elisabeth Wagner of Steinheim.[22]
The youngest of Susanna and Joannes’ children was my children’s 4th great-grandmother.
Name: Joannes CLEMENS
Parents: Daniel CLEMENS and Elisabetha
Name of spouse: Susanna WEBER
Parents of spouse: Matthias WEBER and Anna Margaretha FEILEN
Whereabouts: Steinheim, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
Relationship to Cathy Meder-Dempsey: children’s 5th great-grandfather
1. Joannes CLEMENS and Susanna WEBER
2. Elisabetha CLEMENS
3. Catharina SCHERFF
8. Cathy’s children
The children begin to marry
The first of Susanna and Joannes’ children to marry was Pierre who married Marguerite KOENIG on 9 January 1809 in Rosport.[23] Pierre’s brother Johann must have met Marguerite’s sister following their marriage as Johann married Anna Maria KOENIG six years later, on 17 January 1815 in Rosport.[24]
By 1815 four of the eight children born to Susanna were deceased and two were married leaving only Hubert (27) and Elisabetha (19) at home. The family surname was now spelled CLEMENS in most records. Ten years later Susanna WEBER died on 4 March 1725 in Steinheim at the age of 75.[25] She left her husband Joannes (75), son Hubert (37), and daughter Elisabetha (28).
Nearly two years later Elisabetha at the age of 30 married the 34 years old Michel SCHERFF (1792-1865) on 12 February 1827 in Born.[26] Elisabetha and Michel’s story can be read here.
Joannes CLEMENS died on 25 September 1827 in Steinheim at the age of 77.[8] Three of his children were married. It is not known what became of his fourth child, Hubert who was not located in the marriage or death records of the commune of Rosport. Did he go off to work in another village or town in Luxembourg; in France, Germany, or Belgium; or did he emigrate to one of the Americas? Or do I really need to go back and check the parish records for deaths from the time of his birth in 1788 until 1797 (end of available church records online)?
Joannes and Susanna’s sons Pierre and Johann did not live to the ripe age of their parents. They died only a few years after their father, Pierre on 27 February 1830[27] at the age of 46 and Johann on 6 March 1831[28] at the age of 45.
The only known living child of Susanna and Joannes was their youngest, Elisabeth. She outlived her siblings by forty years, dying on 17 June 1870 at the age of 73.[29] She did not live quite as long as her parents but came close to their 75 and 77 years.
This post brings me halfway through my children’s paternal 5th great-grandparents.
[1] Luxembourg, registres paroissiaux, 1601-1948 (images), FamilySearch (original records at Luxembourg National Archives, Plateau du Saint-Esprit, Luxembourg), Echternach > Baptêmes 1638-1676, 1706-1760 > image 245 of 291. 1750 Baptismal Record. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-32401-1757-49?cc=2037955&wc=STHZ-SP1:1500937901,1500973966 : accessed 13 August 2015).
[2] Ibid., Echternach > Mariages, décès 1706-1778 > image 100 of 293. 1748 Religious Marriage Record. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-32399-12628-34?cc=2037955&wc=STHC-PYM:1500937901,1501028848 : accessed 13 August 2015).
[3] Ibid., Echternach > Mariages, décès 1706-1778 > image 92 of 293. 1745 Marriage Record (left page, 4th entry). (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L971-1X3T?cc=2037955&wc=STHC-PYM%3A1500937901%2C1501028848 : 9 January 2015).
[4] Bodo Bölkow and Richard Schaffner, Familienbuch 2 der Pfarrei St. Lambertus Edingen an der Sauer Daten bis 1798 aus den Kirchenbüchern der Pfarrei Echternach (damals für Minden und Menningen zuständig) mit Edingerberg, Minden u. Menningen 1680-1899 Edingen selbst ab 1705 (2000), page 196, family nr. 822. Roths-Feilen family group.
[5] Luxembourg Church Records, Echternach > Mariages, décès 1706-1778 > image 234 of 293. 1748 Death Record (left page, 8th entry). (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-8971-169B?cc=2037955&wc=STHC-PYM%3A1500937901%2C1501028848 : 9 January 2015).
[6] Bölkow and Schaffner, FB Edingen, page 196, family nr. 822. Roths-Feilen family group.
[7] Luxembourg Church Records, Echternach > Mariages, décès 1706-1778 > image 160 of 293. 1771 Marriage Record (right page, 5th entry). (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L971-16P2?cc=2037955&wc=STHC-PYM%3A1500937901%2C1501028848 : 9 January 2015).
[8] Luxembourg, Registres d’état civil, 1662-1941 (images), FamilySearch (original records at Luxembourg National Archives, Plateau du Saint-Esprit, Luxembourg), Rosport > Naissances 1889-1890 Mariages 1797-1890 Décès 1797-1853 > image 1110 of 1410. 1827 Death Record No. 26. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11613-14127-96?cc=1709358&wc=M9M6-L6L:n1038283664 : accessed 5 Apr 2010).
[9] Luxembourg Church Records, Echternach > Mariages, décès 1706-1778 > image 282 of 293. 1777 Death Record (left page, 3rd entry from bottom).(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L971-1XGK?cc=2037955&wc=STHC-PYM%3A1500937901%2C1501028848 : 9 January 2015).
[10] Ibid., Echternach > Mariages, décès 1706-1778 > image 283 of 293. 1778 Death Record (left page, 3rd entry). (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-9971-1XGM?cc=2037955&wc=STHC-PYM%3A1500937901%2C1501028848 : 9 January 2015).
[11] Ibid., Echternach > Baptêmes 1761-1797 > image 65 of 131. 1773 Baptismal Record ( left page, 8th entry). (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-8971-1X7D?cc=2037955&wc=STHC-PY3%3A1500937901%2C1501065634 : 9 January 2015).
[12] Ibid., Echternach > Baptêmes 1761-1797 > image 76 of 131. 1775 Baptismal Record (left page, 8th entry). (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-8971-1XQL?cc=2037955&wc=STHC-PY3%3A1500937901%2C1501065634 : 9 January 2015).
[13] Ibid., Echternach > Baptêmes, mariages, décès 1779-1787 > image 45 of 319. 1780 Baptismal Record (left page). (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99WM-9HGX?cc=2037955&wc=STH6-FM4%3A1500937901%2C1501004260 : 9 January 2015).
[14] Ibid., Echternach > Baptêmes, mariages, décès 1779-1783 > image 104 of 177. 1781 Death Record (right page, 8th entry). “Luxembourg registres paroissiaux, 1601-1948,” images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99WM-MD5X?cc=2037955&wc=STHC-YWT%3A1500937901%2C1500939202 : 9 January 2015).
[15] Ibid., Echternach > Baptêmes, mariages, décès 1779-1783 > image 139 of 177. 1782 Death Record (left page, 7th entry). (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99WM-MDR3?cc=2037955&wc=STHC-YWT%3A1500937901%2C1500939202 : 9 January 2015).
[16] Ibid., Echternach > Baptêmes, mariages, décès 1779-1787 > image 149 of 319. 1783 Baptismal Record (right page, last entry). (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9WM-94RR?cc=2037955&wc=STH6-FM4%3A1500937901%2C1501004260 : 9 January 2015).
[17] Ibid., Echternach > Baptêmes, mariages, décès 1779-1787 > image 260 of 319. 1786 Baptismal Record (right page, top). (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9WM-942J?cc=2037955&wc=STH6-FM4%3A1500937901%2C1501004260 : 9 January 2015).
[18] Ibid., Echternach > Baptêmes, mariages, décès 1779-1787 > image 317 of 319. 1787 Death Record (left page, 1st entry). (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99WM-94GG?cc=2037955&wc=STH6-FM4%3A1500937901%2C1501004260 : 9 January 2015).
[19] Ibid., Echternach > Baptêmes, mariages, décès 1788-1797 > image 12 of 331. 1788 Baptismal Record (right page, 3rd entry). (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99WM-94RR?cc=2037955&wc=STHZ-4W5%3A1500937901%2C1500937902 : 9 January 2015).
[20] Ibid., Echternach > Baptêmes, mariages, décès 1788-1797 > image 131 of 331. 1792 Baptismal Record (left page, first entry). (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89WM-9CH5?cc=2037955&wc=STHZ-4W5%3A1500937901%2C1500937902 : 9 January 2015).
[21] Ibid., Echternach > Baptêmes, mariages, décès 1788-1797 > image 145 of 331. 1792 Death Record (left page, 7th entry). (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89WM-9C8Q?cc=2037955&wc=STHZ-4W5%3A1500937901%2C1500937902 : 9 January 2015).
[22] Luxembourg Civil Records, Echternach > Tables décennales 1823-1892 Registres paroissiaux 1779-1797 Naissances 1796-1808 > image 936 of 1446. 1796 Baptismal Record. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-11573-69388-66?cc=1709358&wc=9RY9-3TL:129623201,130776701 : accessed 10 August 2015).
[23] Ibid., Rosport > Naissances 1889-1890 Mariages 1797-1890 Décès 1797-1853 > image 110 of 1410. 1809 Marriage Record No. 1 (part 1). (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11613-16270-46?cc=1709358&wc=9RY4-3TL:130314401,130555301 : accessed 13 August 2015).
[24] Ibid., Rosport > Naissances 1889-1890 Mariages 1797-1890 Décès 1797-1853 > image 146 of 1410. 1815 Marriage Record No. 2. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11613-8390-85?cc=1709358&wc=9RY4-3TL:130314401,130555301 : accessed 13 August 2015).
[25] Ibid., Rosport > Naissances 1889-1890 Mariages 1797-1890 Décès 1797-1853 > image 1085 of 1410. 1825 Death Record No. 5. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11613-8498-12?cc=1709358&wc=M9M6-L6L:n1038283664 : accessed 5 April 2010).
[26] Ibid., Mompach > Naissances 1834-1890 Mariages 1797-1814, 1796-1809, 1799-1830 > image 1061 of 1393. 1827 Marriage Record No. 2. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12131-134204-2?cc=1709358&wc=M9M6-LHS:2047330937 : accessed 7 Apr 2010).
[27] Ibid., Rosport > Naissances 1889-1890 Mariages 1797-1890 Décès 1797-1853 > image 1134 of 1410. 1830 Death Record No. 6. (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-DY34-JJ?cc=1709358&wc=9RY4-3TL%3A130314401%2C130555301 : accessed 14 April 2017).
[28] Ibid., Rosport > Naissances 1889-1890 Mariages 1797-1890 Décès 1797-1853 > image 1143 of 1410. 1831 Death Record No. 8. (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-DY36-8J?cc=1709358&wc=9RY4-3TL%3A130314401%2C130555301 : accessed 14 April 2017).
[29] Ibid., Mompach > Mariages 1831-1890 Décès 1796-1814, 1799-1830, 1799-1880 > image 1393 of 1480. 1870 Death Record No. 13. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-12874-16490-66?cc=1709358&wc=9RYW-MNL:130097801,130138901 : accessed 9 August 2015).
Author Cathy Meder-DempseyPosted on April 14, 2017 April 15, 2017 Categories 52Ancestors 2017Tags 52Ancestors, Clemens, Clement, Echternach, Feilen, Koenig, Minden, Scherff, Steinheim, Weber13 Comments on 52 Ancestors: #15 Clemens-Weber Family of Steinheim, Luxembourg
52 Ancestors: #14 SCHERFF-STEIMETZ Family of Born, Luxembourg
After five weeks of posts on five sets my children’s 5th great-grandparents who lived in what is now Germany, this week’s couple takes me back to research in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. [What can I say, I love Luxembourg research!]
However, before we go to Luxembourg, I’d like to share a little bit about the ancestry of the male actor in this week’s post. Joannes SCHERFF was born in Waldrach, Trier-Saarburg, Rhineland, Germany, abt. 1754 to Nicolaus and Helena SCHERFF. Period.
This was all I knew when I started this post. Now, having access to the German family books at my genealogy society’s library, I was able to add several generations to Joannes’ pedigree. His parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and four of his great-great-grandparents were born, lived, and/or died in Waldrach. They have names. They have dates of birth, marriage, and death. They have descendants. Missing, however, are the records to back all of this up. For now, they are placeholders in the family tree, waiting to be researched.[1], [2]
Joannes SCHERFF of Waldrach in Germany
Joannes SCHERFF, the son of Nicolaus SCHERFF and Helena OTTO, was born on 20 September 1754 in Waldrach.[1], [2]
I learned from the family books that Joannes’ mother Helena first married in 1743, at the age of 33, to Nikolaus SCHUH who was only 25. She gave him two children. A son Matthias was born in 1744 and a daughter Margaretha was born in 1745, four months after Nikolaus SCHUH died. A year after her first husband’s death, Helena married Nicolaus SCHERFF. Helena was 36 and Nicolaus was 22. [Note to self: What was going on in the Kingdom of Prussia or in Waldrach that made it necessary for a woman to marry, both times, a man much younger than she was?]
Helena’s son Matthias from her first marriage may have died before age four as she and her second husband named their first child Matthias in 1748. It is unknown if Helena had any other children before Joannes was born six years later. Helena died in 1755 when her youngest son Joannes was only 14 months old. Her widower Nicolaus married again in 1757 to Katharina OTTO, Helena’s first cousin once removed.
Joannes’ father Nicolaus SCHERFF died between 1764 when his last known child was born and 1791 when his son Joannes married.
Anna Maria STEIMETZ of Born in Luxembourg
Anna Maria STEIMETZ, daughter of Dominique STEIMETZ (1737-1799) and Magdalena “Helena” KOCH (1739-aft.1799), was born and baptized on 25 May 1763 in the village of Born in the Duchy of Luxembourg. Her godparents were Anna Maria BERSCHENS and Petro WERNER. On her baptismal record, her name was given as Anna Maria. Later, in other records produced during her lifetime her name seen as Maria without Anna.[3]
1763 Baptismal Record of Anna Maria STEIMETZ [3]
The Connection Between Waldrach and Born
We have two people, a young man from Waldrach and a young woman from Born. How they came to meet is unknown. The straight distance between Waldrach, to the east of Trier, and Born which lies to the west of Trier is about 17 km. A short distance in today’s world.
If you zoom out enough on the above map to compare with the one below, you will see that Waldrach belonged to the area of Germany which was not part of Luxembourg during the time period.
By Spanish_Inquisition (LuxembourgPartitionsMap_english.jpg), via Wikimedia Commons
Joannes and Maria Marry in Born
1791 Marriage Record of Joannes SCHERFF and Maria STEIMETZ [4]
Joannes married Maria on Thursday, 5 May 1791 in Born. At the time of their marriage, Joannes’ parents were both deceased. Joannes and Maria signed with a +, Maria’s father Dominique signed with a D, and Joannes’ brother “Niclas SCHERFF” left an F as his mark on the marriage record. The witness Paulus SCHÖLER and the pastor signed the record as they were the only persons able to write. [4]
On the marriage index card an obvious transcription error was made, given her first name as Margaretha.[5]
1791 Marriage Index Card for the SCHERFF-STEIMETZ marriage [5]
Joannes and Maria had four children during their first eight years of marriage.
1792 Baptismal Record for Michel SCHERFF [6]
Michel SCHERFF was born on 2 July 1792 in Born at two in the morning and was baptized seven hours later. His godparents were Michael BRAUN of Givenich and Catharina STEIMETZ, his maternal aunt from Born. Michel was my children’s 4th great-grandfather.[6]
1794 Baptismal Record for Nicolaus SCHERFF [7]
Nicolaus SCHERFF was born on 6 December 1794 in Born at three in the morning and baptized in the afternoon. His godfather came from Waldrach and was his paternal uncle Niclas SCHERFF, half-brother of his father who had also been a witness at the 1791 marriage. His godmother was his maternal grandmother Helena STEIMETZ. Helena would normally have been seen with her maiden name KOCH however in this case she was named with her husband’s surname. Nicolaus was the last child baptized in the year 1794. Directly below his entry, we see the pastor has likely transcribed births for the year to the parish register after the fact and makes note that this is a conformed copy.[7]
1797 Baptismal Record of Anna SCHERFF [8]
Anna SCHERFF was born on 18 September 1797 in Born at three in the morning and was baptized the same afternoon. Her godparents were her paternal uncle Peter SCHERFF from Waldrach and Anna TRIERWEILER from Born.[8] Peter was not a name found in the family books for Waldrach. Is there an error on Anna’s baptismal record? Was Peter a full sibling or only half-sibling of the father of the child?
1799 Civil Birth Record of Dominique SCHERFF [9]
Dominique SCHERFF was born on 15 Thermidor in the 8th year of the Republic or 6 December 1799 in Born. His birth was recorded in the civil register by the acting mayor of Born, Michel KINN who lived in Girst where the register entry was made. The child’s father, in the record written in French, was listed as Jean SCHERFF. He was an ouvrier de la commune de Born meaning he was likely working for the town in some capacity.[9]
This last child was very likely named after his maternal grandfather Dominique STEIMETZ who died earlier in the year, on 9 April 1799 at his own home. He was in his sixties. His death was reported by his widow Helena KOCH.[10]
Six years after the loss of her father, Maria was widowed and left with four children between the ages of six and twelve. Her husband Joannes SCHERFF died on 20 January 1805 in Born. He was fifty-one years old.[11]
It is not known how long Maria may have had the support of her mother Helena as no death record has been found for her. Helena was the mother of eleven children: seven died young, one son has not been traced, a son married and went to live in Dahnen (Germany), leaving Maria and her sister Catharina who has not been traced after the birth of an illegitimate child in 1796.
On 2 October 1818 Maria’s daughter Anna died at the age of twenty-one. Her death was reported by two of their neighbors.[12] Census records are only available online from 1843 making it difficult to determine where her two older brothers were and why they didn’t report her death. It is possible they were working away from home. No trace of Nicolaus, the younger of the two, who would have been 24 by this time, has been found. No marriage record. No death record.
Michel, the oldest son, married Elisabetha CLEMENS (1796-1870), daughter of Joannes “Jean” CLEMENS and Suzanna “Susanne” WEBER, on 12 February 1827 in Born.[13] Michel (34) and Elisabetha (30) were my children’s 4th great-grandparents and were featured in my post 52 Ancestors: #33 SCHERFF-CLEMENS, A Family Dependent on Each Other.
Maria STEIMETZ died on 12 January 1833 in Born at the age of sixty-nine.[14] She lived long enough to see her first grandchild Johann celebrate his fourth birthday, having been born on 8 April 1828.[15] She must have known her daughter-in-law Elisabetha was pregnant with her second child who would be born on 24 June 1833[16], a son Peter. Later census records indicate Michel and Elisabetha lived in the STEIMETZ family home, a home which would remain in the family for several generations.
Michel and Elisabetha had a third and last child, Catharina SCHERFF (1836-1908) born on 25 October 1836 in Born.[17]
The youngest child of Joannes and Maria SCHERFF-STEIMETZ, Dominique married Anne WEISEN (1804-1885), daughter of Michael WEISEN, on 13 January 1846 in Mompach.[18] They were both in their forties when they married. The marriage lasted only a little over five years as Dominique died on 12 August 1851 in Born.[19]
The oldest son, and only known living child at the time, Michel SCHERFF died on 2 January 1865 in Born at the age of 72.[20] His widow Elisabetha CLEMENS died five years later on 17 June 1870 in Born.[21]
Dominique’s widow Anne outlived him by 34 years dying on 11 November 1885 in Born.[22] As they did not have any children, her only survivors on her husband’s side of the family were the three children of her brother-in-law Michel SCHERFF.
Pushing Back Another Generation
Not only did I look into Joannes SCHERFF’s ancestry, as seen in the beginning of this post, but also into Maria STEIMETZ’s. Hers was not as simple. I had the years of birth for all of her siblings as well as the links to their baptismal records but needed to download the documents, add the information, and cite the sources.
While doing this I noticed an annotation in the margin of the baptismal record of the youngest child Henricus born to Dominique STEIMETZ and Magdalena KOCH. It read, Submersus Surlippe Mesenich. At first, I could not read the first two words but I knew Mesenich was a location. Submersus means drowned. This annotation may mean Henricus died by drowning possibly in the Sauer River in Mesenich, today a part of Langsur.
I have a few digital copies of German family books and Mesenich is one of them. I checked for Steimetz in the book as I thought I might find information on the child named Henri/Heinrich. What I found was an entry for his parents: Dominic STEINMETZ of Born and Helena KOCH of Mertert married on 4 March 1759 in Mesenich.[23] There is no further information concerning their children. However, now knowing where they were from, at the time of their marriage, may help to push back yet another generation.
While I was at home finishing up this post, my husband went on a 100 km bike ride through the Luxembourg and German countryside and came back with this photograph.
Yes, he listens when I ask about places (even when I really mess up the pronounciation) and surprises me with new photo content for my blog.
[1] Armin Giebel, compiler, Familienbuch Standesamt Ruwer-Waldrach, (Stand: Sept. 2016), page 3036, family nr. 15422. Scherff-Otto family group.
[2] Leo Schuh, Familienbuch der katholischen Pfarrei Sankt Laurentius in Waldrach mit Kasel 1681 bis1899 (2002), page 436-437, family nr. 2214. Scherff-Otto family group.
[3] Luxembourg, registres paroissiaux, 1601-1948 (images), FamilySearch (original records at Luxembourg National Archives, Plateau du Saint-Esprit, Luxembourg), Born > Baptêmes 1761-1797, mariages 1761-1797, sépultures 1762-1797 > image 7 of 88. 1763 Baptismal Record part 1. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-32399-4460-51?cc=2037955&wc=STH6-MJQ:1500965969,1500965970 : accessed 12 August 2015) and image 8 of 88. 1763 Baptismal Record part 2. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-32399-4285-31?cc=2037955&wc=STH6-MJQ:1500965969,1500965970 : accessed 12 August 2015).
[4] Ibid., Born > Baptêmes 1761-1797, mariages 1761-1797, sépultures 1762-1797 > image 65 of 88. 1791 Religious Marriage Record. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-32399-3792-9?cc=2037955&wc=STH6-MJQ:1500965969,1500965970 : accessed 12 August 2015).
[5] Ibid., Born > Tables des mariages 1764-1800 (index organisée par l’époux) > image 31 of 46. 1791 Scherff-Steimetz marriage card. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-32462-25635-70?cc=2037955&wc=STH8-TQ9:1500965969,1501369362 : accessed 12 August 2015).
[6] Ibid., Born > Baptêmes 1761-1797, mariages 1761-1797, sépultures 1762-1797 > image 44 of 88. 1792 Baptismal Record. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-32399-4066-61?cc=2037955&wc=STH6-MJQ:1500965969,1500965970 : accessed 10 August 2015).
[8] Ibid., Born > Baptêmes 1761-1797, mariages 1761-1797, sépultures 1762-1797 > image 51 of 88. 1797 Baptismal Record, part 1 (right page, bottom) (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-32399-3883-9?cc=2037955&wc=STH6-MJQ:1500965969,1500965970 : accessed 12 August 2015) and image 52 of 88. 1797 Baptismal Record, part 2 (left page, top) (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-32399-3761-17?cc=2037955&wc=STH6-MJQ:1500965969,1500965970 : accessed 12 August 2015).
[9] Ibid., Born > Naissances 1796-1802, mariages 1797-1800, décès 1796-1802 > image 51 of 59. 1799 Birth Record (left page). (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-32399-4707-30?cc=2037955&wc=STH6-MJ7:1500965969,1501017588 : accessed 12 August 2015).
[10] Ibid., Born > Naissances 1796-1802, mariages 1797-1800, décès 1796-1802 > image 44 of 59. 1799 Death Record ((20 Germinal An 7), part 1(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-9971-176D?cc=2037955&wc=STH6-MJ7%3A1500965969%2C1501017588 : 9 January 2015) and image 45 of 59. 1799 Death Record ((20 Germinal An 7), part 2. (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-8971-17ZM?cc=2037955&wc=STH6-MJ7%3A1500965969%2C1501017588 : 9 January 2015).
[11] Luxembourg, Registres d’état civil, 1662-1941 (images), FamilySearch (original records at Luxembourg National Archives, Plateau du Saint-Esprit, Luxembourg), Mompach > Naissances 1834-1890 Mariages 1797-1814, 1796-1809, 1799-1830 > image 713 of 1393. 1805 Death Record part 1 (lower right hand corner). (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12131-131175-10?cc=1709358&wc=M9M6-LHS:2047330937 : accessed 12 Apr 2013) and image 714 of 1393. 1805 Death Record part 2 (upper right hand corner). (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12131-130091-27?cc=1709358&wc=M9M6-LHS:2047330937 : accessed 12 Apr 2013).
[12] Ibid., Mompach > Mariages 1831-1890 Décès 1796-1814, 1799-1830, 1799-1880 > image 865 of 1480. 1818 Death Record (left page, top). (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-12874-17833-63?cc=1709358&wc=9RYW-MNL:130097801,130138901 : accessed 13 August 2015).
[14] Ibid., Mompach > Mariages 1831-1890 Décès 1796-1814, 1799-1830, 1799-1880 > image 1116 of 1480. 1833 Death Record No. 1. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-12874-14665-65?cc=1709358&wc=M9M6-L4B:1262051718 : accessed 12 Apr 2013).
[15] Ibid., Mompach > Mariages 1831-1890 Décès 1796-1814, 1799-1830, 1799-1880 > image 510 of 1480. 1858 Marriage Record No. 2. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-12874-22567-77?cc=1709358&wc=9RYW-MNL:130097801,130138901 : accessed 10 August 2015). Note: The date of birth was found on the tables décennales however the birth record has not been located.
[16] Ibid., Mompach > Naissances 1799-1834 > image 267 of 272. 1833 Birth Record No. 20. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-12332-98522-18?cc=1709358&wc=9RYQ-ZNP:130097801,130378501 : accessed 27 April 2015).
[17] Ibid., Mompach > Naissances 1834-1890 Mariages 1797-1814, 1796-1809, 1799-1830 > image 33 of 1393. 1836 Birth Record No. 26. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12131-131830-98?cc=1709358&wc=9RYC-C68:130097801,130406101 : accessed 21 Nov 2014).
[18] Ibid., Mompach > Mariages 1831-1890 Décès 1796-1814, 1799-1830, 1799-1880 > image 442 of 1480. 1846 Marriage Record No. 2. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-12874-20696-75?cc=1709358&wc=9RYW-MNL:130097801,130138901 : accessed 27 April 2015).
[19] Ibid., Mompach > Mariages 1831-1890 Décès 1796-1814, 1799-1830, 1799-1880 > image 1241 of 1480. 1851 Death Record No. 16. (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-XCQP-3G?cc=1709358&wc=9RYW-MNL%3A130097801%2C130138901 : 17 July 2014).
[22] Ibid., Mompach > Décès 1880-1891 > image 48 of 90. 1885 Death Record No. 26. (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-DBBQ-LDP?cc=1709358&wc=9RY4-DPF%3A130097801%2C130097802 : 17 July 2014).
[23] Heinrich Wagner, Familienburch Mesenich 1705-1899 (Ortschaften Födlich (1705-ca.1800), Grewenich, Mesenich, Metzdorf und Moersdorf (Luxembourg) (1705-1807)), Mersch 1997 (Association Luxembourgeoise de Généalogie et d’Héraldique), p. 302, family nr. 1104. Entry for Dominic Steinmetz of Born and Helena Koch from Mertert.
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52 Ancestors: #33 SCHERFF-CLEMENS, A Family Dependent on Each Other
Week 33 (August 13-19) – Defective, Dependent, & Delinquent: In 1880, there was a special census schedule for “Defective, Dependent, and Delinquent Classes” — the blind, deaf, paupers, homeless children, prisoners, insane, and idiotic. Do you have someone in your family tree who would have been classified as such? (To learn more about the special 1880 schedule, see my post, “Do You Have a Defective Ancestor?“)
A Researcher’s Wish List
As soon as I read Amy’s post, Do You Have a Defective Ancestor? I knew wanted to search for two of my 4th great-grand uncles, John G. “Jehu” (deaf & dumb) and Jubal (idiot) SUMNER. Although I have my own little trick to access FREE census records these schedules are only available on Ancestry.com with a subscription. The Research Manager in my genealogy program is going to come in handy when I decide to subscribe again. In the meantime….
Imagine what your research would be like if the census had been taken every 3 or so years instead of once a decade. What would you wish for on the census to make your research easier? Maiden names? Birthdates? The name of the town instead of the state for the birthplace? Religious affiliation? The whereabouts of a missing household member? Signature of the head of household? Wish no more if you are one of the lucky ones to have ancestors in Luxembourg. Thanks to FamilySearch these census records are FREE although browse only.
House Name (Maison dite)
Along with the above research helpers the Luxembourg census also included the house name (maison dite). In Luxembourg the homes of long established families were known by their surname or their occupation. The SCHERFF-CLEMENS family lived in a house called Steimetz or Steimes in 1855, 1858, 1861, 1864, 1867, 1875, and 1880. [see census discussion below] Steimetz is an occupation, i.e. stone mason, and a surname. In later years, on the census, the street where the family lived, Duerfstrooss, was listed instead of the house name. I’m certain the SCHERFF-CLEMENS family was living in the ancestral home of the paternal grandmother’s family since she was a STEIMETZ.
Michel SCHERFF (1792-1865) was born and baptized on 2 July 1792 in Born. His parents were Joannes SCHERFF (1754-1805) and Maria STEIMETZ (1763-1833).[1]
1792 Baptismal Record for Joannes Scherff [1]
Michel’s godparents were Michael BRAUN from Givenich and Catharina STEIMETZ, his mother’s sister, from Born. His father Joannes and his godmother Catharina signed the baptismal record with a mark (Hand X zeichen) while his godfather Michael BRAUN had a very strong signature. (above)
Michel, the oldest of four known children, was only 12 1/2 years old when his father Joannes SCHERFF died on 20 January 1805 in Born. (see next image for 2nd part)
Elisabetha CLEMENS (1796-1870) was born and baptized on 30 October 1796 in Steinheim. She was the daughter of Suzanna “Susanne” WEBER (1750-1825) and Joannes “Jean” CLEMENS (1750-1827).[2], [3], [4] An extract of her baptismal record was obtained as evidence of her birth when she married in 1827.
1827 Extract of 1796 Baptimal Record of Elisabetha Clemens (part 1)[2]
This extract of the baptismal record led me to the original church record.[4] (below)
Original 1796 Baptismal Record for Elisabetha Clemens [4]
Her godparents were Joannes FEYLEN of Minheim (today known as Minden in Germany) and Elisabetha WAGENER of Steinheim. It’s important to pay attention to the godparents. The mother Susanne was from Minden and I wondered if Joannes FEYLEN could be a relative. I hadn’t researched Susanne’s parentage. Sometimes you have to go with the flow and check out these things. I won’t go into how I pulled this ancestor out of the hat but it turns out Susanne’s mother was a FEILEN per her 10 January 1750 baptismal record (right page, 2nd entry under 1750). The relationship to Joannes FEYLEN will have to wait for later.
Elisabetha’s mother Susanne WEBER died 4 March 1825 in Steinheim at the age of 65 years.[5] Her father Jean CLEMENS died 25 September 1827 in Steinheim also at the age of 65 years.[6] His birth/baptismal record has not been located to confirm his age at time of death.
Michel SCHERFF married Elisabetha CLEMENS on 12 February 1827 in Born.[7] Michel was 33 and Elisabetha was 30 years old. Michel’s mother Maria STEIMETZ and Elisabeth’s father Joannes CLEMENS were present and consented to the marriage. The bride and the mother of the groom were unable to right and made their mark (Hand X zeichen). The four witnesses were all from Born and possibly distantly related to the groom. The handwriting on the marriage record is faint and difficult to read. As the marriage took place in Born the bride Elisabetha, who was from Steinheim, had to produce a record of her birth and her mother’s death. These extracts were found at the end of the marriage records for 1827. The supporting documentation helped decipher the faint handwriting on the marriage record.
Signatures of the groom, father of the bride, four witnesses, civil servant, and the marks of the bride and mother of the groom.[7]
As seen in the marriage record Michel and Elisabetha were not a young couple when they married. Their first child was born 14 months after the marriage, the second followed 5 years later, and their third and last 16 months later. Elisabetha was 5 days short of her 40th birthday when she gave birth to her last child and only daughter Catharina.
Johann SCHERFF born 8 Apr 1828 in Born.[8] He married Margaretha GOTTONG (1830-1903) on 27 Jan 1858 in Mompach.[9] Johann died 7 Dec 1901 in Born.[10]
Peter SCHERFF born 24 Jun 1833 in Born.[11] He married Catharina WEYLAND (1839-1912) on 5 Feb 1862 in Mompach.[12] Peter died 18 Mar 1912 in Born.[13]
Catharina SCHERFF born 25 Oct 1836 in Born.[14] She married Johann GORGES (1838-1913) on 14 Jan 1868 in Mompach.[15] Catharina died 2 Nov 1908 in Born.[16]
The Census
On 22 December 1843 the SCHERFF-CLEMENS family was enumerated in Born. The surname was spelled Schärff instead of Scherff. The birthdates are not all exact matches. Michel was working as a garde champêtre or rural guard (forest ranger, game warden). The children were all living at home and between the ages of 15 and 7.[17]
1843 Luxembourg Census
On 3 December 1846 the birthdates were once again included. The surname was spelled correctly. Michel was now working as a day laborer, Elisabetha was taking care of the household and three children.[18]
On 31 Dec 1847 the SCHERFF-CLEMENS household remained unchanged. The census form was in German and French and included a column with the length of time a person had been living in the community. Michel and the children had been living there since birth. Elisabetha had been living in Born for 20 years, since her marriage in 1827. Michel’s occupation was once again garde champêtre.[19]
In Dec 1849 the person who enumerated the census added the German translation of the headers for columns 2, 3, and 4. The SCHERFF-CLEMENS household remained the same. Michel’s occupation is illegible to me while the sons worked as day laborers. His wife Elisabetha and their daughter Catharina did not work outside of the home.[20]
On 31 Dec 1851 when the census was taken the information requested was the same as in 1847 – including the length of residence. As on all the census forms, for the place of birth the town was listed and if a person was a foreigner his country of origin was to be included. Although the sons were 24 and 18 they were still living at home and listed as not working. Michel was now the town crier/messenger (Gemeindebote).[21]
The census taken on 4 Dec 1852 gives very little information compared to the previous census. Missing in the SCHERFF-CLEMENS household is the younger son Peter. I cannot decipher Michel’s occupation but believe it may be another term (perhaps French) for Gemeindebote.[22]
On 3 Dec 1855 the SCHERFF-CLEMENS family is seen living in a house called Steimetz. Son Peter is back home. Michel is seen as a day laborer and most likely his sons are working with him. This census was signed Michel Scherff. Why is his signature on the census sheet? I had a look at several households before and after this one and came to this conclusion: Michel SCHERFF was the enumerator![23]
On 3 Dec 1858 the SCHERFF-CLEMENS family, living in a house called Steimetz, had a new member in the family. Their oldest son Jean married Margaretha GOTTONG in January of the same year and the newlyweds were living with his parents and siblings. Michel’s occupation is the same as it was in 1852 but I still cannot decipher the word. The enumerator for the census was once again Michel SCHERFF and his son Jean SCHERFF signed instead of the head of household.[24]
On 3 Dec 1861 the home of the SCHERFF-CLEMENS family was still known as Steimetz. Michel was 70 years and 2 months and still working as the town crier, his wife Elisabetha was 68 years and 6 months, his son Peter was 27 years and 6 months and worked as a stone mason (Steinmetzer), and their daughter Catharina was 25 years and 3 months and did not work.[25] Their son Jean, his wife, and their second son (their first died at 7 weeks) had moved out of the family home however the census page found for them indicated they also lived in the house named Steinmetz.[26] Jean SCHERFF was the enumerator of the 1861 census for Born, his father signed this page and the page found for Jean was signed by his wife Margaretha GOTTONG.
The census taken on 3 Dec 1864 shows two families living in the Steimens house. Michel, Elisabetha, Catharina and her illegitimate son Jean are one family. Son Jean, his wife Margaretha, and their daughter Catharina are the second family.[27] Son Peter was also married with two children. His home was called beim Steimens Pit, meaning “at Peter Steimens’ ” or “at Peter Steimetz’s.”[28] Not only were houses known by the name of a family or their ocupation, a person could also be known by the name of his house or his occupation. So Peter SCHERFF, the grandson of Maria STEIMETZ, was known by his father’s mother’s maiden name Steimetz OR by his occupation which was Steinhauer on the 1864 census or Steinmetz.
On 2 January 1865, a month after the above census sheet was filled out, Michel died in his home at 0ne o’clock in the morning.[29]
On 3 December 1867 his widow Elisabetha CLEMENS was living in the Steimetz house. She was 75 years old and working as a day laborer. With her in the household were her grandson Jean and her daughter Catharina. Elisabetha, seen as Elise, could not write and her son Jean SCHERFF signed for her.[30]
The 1867 census was the last before Elisabetha’s death on 17 June 1870 in Born.[31]
Her oldest son Jean and her daughter Catharina continued to be enumerated in the house called Steimetz in 1875[32], [33] and 1880[34], [35]. They were listed separately which may indicate the homeplace was large enough for two families to live as two households.
What did I learn from this census study? Michel and Elisabetha and their three children Johann, Peter, and Catharina had to be a close-knit family. They lived together in the Steimetz family home even after the children married and started their own families. They depended on each other. Although I haven’t seen the pre-1843 census records, I can imagine Michel’s mother Maria STEIMETZ must have lived with them, or they with her, in the Steimetz home until her death in 1833.
It is my firm belief the Steimetz family home was a multigenerational home for the STEIMETZ and later the SCHERFF families. The family’s welfare was dependent on each member of the family. When Maria was still living she most likely helped care for her grandchildren while her son and daughter-in-law cared for her. This dependence on family members continued as the next generation joined the family.
The Grandchildren
The three children of Michel and Elisabetha gave them 23 grandchildren – all born in the little village named Born. Michel lived to see the first six although two pre-deceased him. Elisabetha lived to see the first eleven, nine were living when she died.
G.Ch 1: Peter SCHERFF (Johann) born 9 Apr 1859 in Born and died 27 May 1859 in Born.
G.Ch 2: Peter SCHERFF (Johann) born 2 Sep 1860 in Born and died 19 Jan 1863 in Born.
G.Ch 3: Johann (the elder) GORGES (Catharina) born 30 Jan 1862 in Born. He married Barbara BECHTHOLD (1864- ) before 1885.
G.Ch 4: Jacob SCHERFF (Peter) born 24 Dec 1862 in Born and died 14 Nov 1941 in Dudelange. He married Anne LANG (1857-1924) on 5 Feb 1887 in Dudelange.
G.Ch 5: Catharina SCHERFF (Peter) born 26 Feb 1864 in Born.
G.Ch 6: Catharina SCHERFF (Johann) born 13 May 1864 in Born and died 4 Jul 1898 in Born.
G.Ch 7: Dorothea SCHERFF (Peter) born 6 May 1866 in Born and died 17 Jun 1932 in Beaufort.
G.Ch 8: Peter SCHERFF (Johann) born 22 Jul 1866 in Born and died 19 Jul 1875 in Born.
G.Ch 9: Margaretha GORGES (Catharina) born 27 Jul 1868 in Born and 23 Oct 1938 in Osaweiler. She married Johannes “Johann” “Jean” SCHWARTZ (1866-1920) on 24 Aug 1891 in Rosport.
G.Ch 10: Johann SCHERFF (Peter) born 18 Mar 1870 in Born and died 15 Sep 1921 in Born. He married Anna BIERCHEN (1880-1965) on 21 May 1902 Mompach.
G.Ch 11: Maria GORGES (Catharina) born 4 Jun 1870 in Born and 30 Jun 1921 in Born. She married Mathias LEMMER (1878- ) on 30 Dec 1906 in Mompach.
G.Ch 12: Elisabeth GORGES (Catharina) born 11 Oct 1871 in Born and died 6 Sep 1894 in Born.
G.Ch 13: Anna SCHERFF (Peter) born 26 Dec 1871 in Born.
G.Ch 14: Johann SCHERFF (Johann) born 4 Oct 1873 in Born. He married Anna-Elisabeth “Anna” BECHTHOLD (1872- ) on 16 Jan 1899 in Mompach.
G.Ch 15: Anna SCHERFF (Peter) born 25 Feb 1874 in Born
G.Ch 16: Peter GORGES (Catharina) born and died 16 Oct 1874 in Born.
G.Ch 17: Helena GORGES (Catharina) born 5 Jan 1876 in Born.
G.Ch 18: Michel SCHERFF (Peter) born 14 Jul 1877 in Born.
G.Ch 19: Peter GORGES (Catharina) born 16 Apr 1878 in Born and died 25 May 1906 in Born.
G.Ch 20: Mathias GORGES (Catharina) born 9 Mar 1880 in Born.
G.Ch 21: Mathias SCHERFF (Peter) born 25 Apr 1880 in Born and died 7 Jul 1880 in Born.
G.Ch 22: Johann (the younger) GORGES (Catharina) born 24 Jun 1883 in Born.
G.Ch 23: Georges SCHERFF (Peter) born 16 Feb 1886 in Born.
Source citations with links to the birth, death and marriage records of the grandchildren may be requested per email or viewed in my gedcom file.
Defective, Dependent, & Delinquent
I hope you’ve enjoyed how I defected from the theme for it to work for the SCHERFF-CLEMENS family. A theme based on U.S. research records cannot be used when writing about European or other non-U.S. families. Was it a delinquency on my part to twist it around to work for this family who was dependent on each other?
[1] Luxembourg, registres paroissiaux, 1601-1948 (images), FamilySearch (original records at Luxembourg National Archives, Plateau du Saint-Esprit, Luxembourg), Born > Baptêmes 1761-1797, mariages 1761-1797, sépultures 1762-1797 > image 44 of 88. 1792 Baptismal Record. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-32399-4066-61?cc=2037955&wc=STH6-MJQ:1500965969,1500965970 : accessed 10 August 2015).
[2] Luxembourg, Registres d’état civil, 1662-1941 (images), FamilySearch (original records at Luxembourg National Archives, Plateau du Saint-Esprit, Luxembourg), Mompach > Naissances 1834-1890 Mariages 1797-1814, 1796-1809, 1799-1830 > image 1082 of 1393. 1796 Baptismal Record (extract) part 1 (right page). (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12131-129477-92?cc=1709358&wc=M9M6-LHS:2047330937 : accessed 13 Apr 2013).
[3] Ibid., Mompach > Naissances 1834-1890 Mariages 1797-1814, 1796-1809, 1799-1830 > image 1083 of 1393. 1796 Baptismal Record (extract) page 2 (left page). (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12131-129723-23?cc=1709358&wc=M9M6-LHS:2047330937 : accessed 13 Apr 2013).
[4] Ibid., Echternach > Tables décennales 1823-1892 Registres paroissiaux 1779-1797 Naissances 1796-1808 > image 936 of 1446. 1796 Baptismal Record. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-11573-69388-66?cc=1709358&wc=9RY9-3TL:129623201,130776701 : accessed 10 August 2015).
[5] Ibid., Rosport > Naissances 1889-1890 Mariages 1797-1890 Décès 1797-1853 > image 1085 of 1410. 1825 Death Record No. 5. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11613-8498-12?cc=1709358&wc=M9M6-L6L:n1038283664 : accessed 5 April 2010).
[6] Ibid., Rosport > Naissances 1889-1890 Mariages 1797-1890 Décès 1797-1853 > image 1110 of 1410. 1827 Death Record No. 26. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11613-14127-96?cc=1709358&wc=M9M6-L6L:n1038283664 : accessed 5 Apr 2010).
[7] Ibid., Mompach > Naissances 1834-1890 Mariages 1797-1814, 1796-1809, 1799-1830 > image 1061 of 1393. 1827 Marriage Record No. 2. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12131-134204-2?cc=1709358&wc=M9M6-LHS:2047330937 : accessed 7 Apr 2010).
[8] Ibid., Mompach > Mariages 1831-1890 Décès 1796-1814, 1799-1830, 1799-1880 > image 510 of 1480. 1858 Marriage Record No. 2. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-12874-22567-77?cc=1709358&wc=9RYW-MNL:130097801,130138901 : accessed 10 August 2015). Note: The date of birth was found on the tables décennales however the birth record has not been located.
[9] Ibid., Mompach > Mariages 1831-1890 Décès 1796-1814, 1799-1830, 1799-1880 > image 510 of 1480. 1858 Marriage Record No. 2. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-12874-22567-77?cc=1709358&wc=9RYW-MNL:130097801,130138901 : accessed 10 August 2015). Note: The bride’s maiden name was spelled Gottung.
[10 Ibid., Mompach > Décès 1895-1912 > image 48 of 143. 1901 Death Record No. 17. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-32063-14505-75?cc=1709358&wc=9RT1-4WT:130097801,129657201 : accessed 9 August 2015).
[12] Ibid., Mompach > Mariages 1831-1890 Décès 1796-1814, 1799-1830, 1799-1880 > image 536 of 1480. 1862 Marriage Record No. 3. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-12874-18912-63?cc=1709358&wc=9RYW-MNL:130097801,130138901 : accessed 10 August 2015).
[13] Ibid., Mompach > Décès 1895-1912 > image 137 of 143. 1912 Death Record No. 6. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-32063-14169-91?cc=1709358&wc=9RT1-4WT:130097801,129657201 : accessed 9 August 2015).
[15] Ibid., Mompach > Mariages 1831-1890 Décès 1796-1814, 1799-1830, 1799-1880 > image 567 of 1480. 1868 Marriage Record No. 1. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-12874-12362-9?cc=1709358&wc=M9M6-L4B:1262051718 : accessed 02 Apr 2013).
[16] Ibid., Mompach > Décès 1895-1912 > image 111 of 143. 1908 Death Record No. 24. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-32063-14001-78?cc=1709358&wc=9RT1-4WT:130097801,129657201 : accessed 27 Sep 2014).
[17] Luxembourg, Volkszählungen 1843-1900 (images), FamilySearch (original records at Luxembourg National Archives, Plateau du Saint-Esprit, Luxembourg), Mompach > 1843 > image 25 of 149. Scherff-Clemens household. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-32357-12854-38?cc=2037957&wc=M5LT-921:345859501,345863501 : accessed 9 August 2015).
[18] Ibid., Mompach > 1846 > image 26 of 158. Scherff-Clemens household. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-32355-4055-17?cc=2037957&wc=M5LR-N3Y:345859501,345858602 : accessed 9 August 2015).
[19] Ibid., Mompach > 1847 > image 30 of 153. Scherff-Clemens household No. 29. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-32368-15200-50?cc=2037957&wc=M5LY-ZJL:345859501,345864101 : accessed 9 August 2015).
[20] Ibid., Mompach > 1849 > image 13 of 161. Scherff-Clemens household. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-32358-23246-78?cc=2037957&wc=M5LT-821:345859501,345864801 : accessed 9 August 2015).
[21] Ibid., Mompach > 1851 > image 26 of 163. Scherff-Clemens household. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-32378-32104-84?cc=2037957&wc=M5GM-K66:345859501,345865601 : accessed 9 August 2015).
[22] Ibid., Mompach > 1852 > image 24 of 176. Scherff-Clemens household. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-32377-33464-25?cc=2037957&wc=M5L1-Y45:345859501,345865501 : accessed 9 August 2015).
[23] Ibid., Mompach > 1855 > image 8 of 166. Scherff-Clemens household. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-32378-12281-40?cc=2037957&wc=M5GM-WQQ:345859501,345866501 : accessed 9 August 2015).
[24] Ibid., Mompach > 1858 > image 26 of 165. Scherff-Clemens household No. 21. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-32379-16496-16?cc=2037957&wc=M5G9-92Y:345859501,345867601 : accessed 9 August 2015).
[25] Ibid., Mompach > 1861 > image 4 of 176. Scherff-Clemens household No. 3. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-32377-2222-95?cc=2037957&wc=M5LB-DPT:345859501,345867101 : accessed 9 August 2015).
[26] Ibid., Mompach > 1861 > image 10 of 176. Scherff-Gotting household No. 7. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-32377-2173-77?cc=2037957&wc=M5LB-DPT:345859501,345867101 : accessed 26 April 2015).
[27] Ibid., Mompach > 1864 > image 157 of 181. Scherff-Clemens household No. 35. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-32371-5969-83?cc=2037957&wc=M5LY-Y4M:345859501,345868401 : accessed 9 August 2015).
[28] Ibid., Mompach > 1864 > image 143 of 181. Scherff-Weiland household No. 21. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-32371-6250-28?cc=2037957&wc=M5LY-Y4M:345859501,345868401 : accessed 9 August 2015).
[29] Luxembourg Civil Records, Mompach > Mariages 1831-1890 Décès 1796-1814, 1799-1830, 1799-1880 > image 1339 of 1480. 1865 Death Record No. 1. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-12874-13264-86?cc=1709358&wc=M9M6-L4B:1262051718 : accessed 05 Apr 2013).
[30] Luxembourg Census, Mompach > 1867 > image 85 of 186. Elizabeth Clemens household no. 10. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-32383-28029-48?cc=2037957&wc=M5GQ-HZ4:345859501,345869101 : accessed 24 April 2015).
[31] Luxembourg Civil Records, Mompach > Mariages 1831-1890 Décès 1796-1814, 1799-1830, 1799-1880 > image 1393 of 1480. 1870 Death Record No. 13. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-12874-16490-66?cc=1709358&wc=9RYW-MNL:130097801,130138901 : accessed 9 August 2015).
[32] Luxembourg Census, Mompach > 1875 > image 79 of 368. Scherff-Gotting household No. 35. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-32382-8957-83?cc=2037957&wc=M5G3-N3V:345859501,345870501 : accessed 26 April 2015).
[33] Ibid., Mompach > 1875 > image 59 of 368. Gorges-Scherff household no. 26. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-32382-9185-71?cc=2037957&wc=M5G3-N3V:345859501,345870501 : accessed 22 April 2015).
[34] Ibid., Mompach > 1880 > image 55 of 390. Scherff-Gotting household No. 24. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-32391-17381-30?cc=2037957&wc=M5G3-DP5:345859501,345872201 : accessed 9 August 2015).
[35] 19. Luxembourg, Volkszählungen 1843-1900 (images), <i>FamilySearch</i> (original records at Luxembourg National Archives, Plateau du Saint-Esprit, Luxembourg), Mompach > 1880 > image 93 of 390. Gorges-Scherff household no. 43. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-32391-17202-76?cc=2037957&wc=M5G3-DP5:345859501,345872201 : accessed 22 April 2015).
Name: Michel SCHERFF
Parents: Joannes SCHERFF and Maria STEIMETZ
Spouse: Elisabetha CLEMENS
Parents of spouse: Joannes CLEMENS and Susanna WEBER
Whereabouts: Born, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
Relationship to Cathy Meder-Dempsey: husband’s 3rd great-grandfather
1. Michel SCHERFF
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Author Cathy Meder-DempseyPosted on August 17, 2015 July 29, 2018 Categories 52Ancestors 2015, LuxembourgTags 52Ancestors, Bechthold, Bierchen, Born, Clemens, Feilen, Feylen, Gorges, Gottong, Lemmer, Luxembourg, Scherff, Schwartz, Steimes, Steimetz, Steinheim, Weber, Weyland2 Comments on 52 Ancestors: #33 SCHERFF-CLEMENS, A Family Dependent on Each Other
52 Ancestors: #17 They Didn’t Take The Rags to Riches Journey?!
Week 17 (April 23-29) – Prosper. Which ancestor has a rags-to-riches story? Which ancestor prospered despite the odds?
When my husband’s great-grandmother Margaretha GORGES was 8 months old her parents Johann GORGES and Catharina SCHERFF planned to emigrate to North America with Marguerite and her older brother Johann. It was quite a surprise to me when I found this information in the work of Richard Schaffner who compiled the Family Book for the town of Fell in Germany where the GORGES side of the family came from. Schaffner wrote, “Familie mit den beiden Kindern laut Mergen, Kreis Trier, Seite 96 nach Nordamerika ausgewandert, Antrag vom 12.03.1869.” Translation: The family with both children according to Mergen, Kreis Trier (shortened form of the publication name by Mergen) p. 96 emigrated to North America, application from 12 March 1869.[1]
The labor market in America offered opportunities to earn money to feed the families, improve their positions in life, and maybe even to save for hard times. A promise of rags-to-riches.
A person’s native country is precious. Why would he want to emigrate with his family? How did they know what life would be like in the new country? Did they have relatives who preceded them?
Emigration at that time was a costly hardship. How could a single person who worked as a servant afford to pay for the passage which would amount to two years of earnings? How much would a family need?
The family’s intention to emigrate is documented in this entry from the office of Schweich (Landkreis Trier-Saarburg, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany)
Entry 642: Der Tagelöhner Johann Gorges, geb. 14.2.1838 zu Fell, gegenwärtig in Born, Lux., mit s. Frau Katharina Scherff, geb. 12.10.1836 zu Born in Luxemburg, und den Kindern Johann 30.1.1862 und Margaretha 28.7.1868 nach N. A. “dass er dort einen besseren Arbeitsverdienst zu finden hoffe”. 12.3.1869.[2]
Translation: The day laborer Johann Gorges, born 14 February 1838 in Fell, currently in Born, Lux., with his wife Katharina Scherff, born 12 October 1836 in Born in Luxembourg, and the children Johann b. 30 January 1862 and Margaretha b. 28 July 1868 to North America “that he hoped to find better earnings there”. 12 March 1869
Two entries above this is another GORGES couple seeking permission to emigrate to North America six months earlier. Mathias Gorges, born 20 June 1842 in Fell, currently in Mertert, Lux., with his wife Barbara Achten, to North America “that he expected better earnings in America”. 23 September 1868.
Entry 640: Mathias Gorges, geb. 20.6.1842 zu Fell, gegenwärtig in Mertert, Lux., mit s. Frau Barbara Achten, nach N.A. “dass er in Amerika einen besseren Artbeitsverdienst erwarte”. 23.9.1868.[2]
Mathias was Johann’s younger brother according to Schaffner. How do I know these two men were brothers? Did they go to America? There is no mention in the Family Book of Fell that either of the GORGES brothers’ applications for emigration were withdrawn.
Did my husband’ great-grandmother travel to America when she was less than a year old? From my visit to the Red Star Line Museum in Antwerp, Belgium, I have a very good idea of what the emigrants went through to get to their port of departure where they were processed for their journey to their new homeland. What are the probabilities that either of the GORGES brothers went through these hardships to travel to North America?
Marguerite GORGES and her parents were living in Luxembourg when she married in 1891. When did they come back to Luxembourg? Did they ever leave? I followed both of the brothers and their families using the Luxembourg census and civil records and have come to the conclusion that they did not take the rags to riches journey.
The GORGES-SCHERFF Family
Town sign for Born in Luxembourg (24 April 2015). A special “thank you” to my husband who puts up with my asking him to stop to take photos while we are racing through the Luxembourg countryside on our bikes.
Catharina SCHERFF was born 25 October 1836 in Born, Mompach, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Yes, the name of the town where she was born is Born or Bur in Luxembourgish. Her parents were Michel SCHERFF (1792-1865) and his wife Elisabetha CLEMENS (1796-1870).[3]
On 30 January 1862 when Catharina was 25 years old she had a son Johann SCHERFF, born in Born. Michel SCHERFF, the child’s grandfather, was the informant and said the father was unknown.[4]
On 14 January 1868 Catharina SCHERFF, 30 years old and without an occupation, married Johann GORGES, a 29 years old servant (Knecht) in Mompach. Johann was a resident of Born, previously of Fell in Germany. Catharina’s father and Johann’s parents were deceased leaving only Catharina’s mother Elisabetha to give her consent to the marriage. Catharina’s illegitimate son Johann SCHERFF was given all the rights of a legitimate child through his mother’s marriage. Catharina’s only brothers Johann and Peter SCHERFF were witnesses to the marriage. All persons present, except for Elisabetha CLEMENS who could not write, signed the marriage record.[5]
Catharina’s husband Johann GORGES was born on 14 February 1838[1] and baptized on 15 February 1838[6] in Fell, Longuich, Trier, Preußen (Germany). His parents were Johann GORGES (1800-1860) and Anna Maria BOTZ (1808-1863).[1] He lived in Born and worked as a servant in 1864 and 1867 when the census was taken.
Six months after the marriage Catharina and Johann’s daughter Margaretha was born on 27 July 1868 in Born.[7]
As seen above Johann GORGES applied to emigrate on 12 March 1869. At the time the family of four was living in Born in Luxembourg. A little over a year later on 4 June 1870, Catharina gave birth to her second daughter Maria in Born.[8] Was this enough time for Johann and Catharina to make preparations for their departure, a journey to North America and then come back to Europe? I have my doubts.
A third daughter Elisabeth was born on 11 October 1871 in Born.[9] The family of six was seen for the first time on a census on 1 December 1871.[10], [11], [12]
Johann and Catharina’s next son, Peter, born on 16 October 1874 in Born lived only one hour.[13], [14] In 1875 when the census was taken Johann GORGES’ household was made up of 5 persons. The 13 years old son Johann was not with his parents [15], [16], [17] and was not seen with them again on the census listings from 1875-1900. As was often the case, he may have been learning a trade while living with another family.
When the census was taken in 1875 Catharina was 8 months pregnant with daughter Helena born 5 January 1876 in Born.[18] Two years later she gave birth to a son they named Peter on 16 April 1878 in Born.[19] Another son, Mathias, was born on 9 March 1880 in Born.[20]
When the census was taken in 1880 Johann GORGES was working as a quarryman on his own account to support his family which included his wife Catharina, and his children, Margaretha, Maria, Elisabeth, Helena, Peter and Mathias.[21], [22], [23]
On 24 June 1883, at the age of 46 years, Catharina gave birth to a son Johann in Born.[24] Their family was now complete – 21 years after the birth of her first son Johann.
What happened to the first son named Johann? He did not live with his parents from the age of 13 but he did visit them. Unfortunately, it was during one of these visits that a document was drawn up which tells a bit of his story. On 13 November 1885, Johann GORGES declared the death of his 7 months old grandson Mathias GORGES, son of Johann GORGES and his wife Barbara BECHTHOLD. The child died at the home of his grandfather. He was born in Ernz (Ernst), Germany, where his parents still resided.[25] This record shows that Catharina’s firstborn had married before 1885 and lived in Germany.
In 1887 when the census was taken Johann and Catharina had their children ages 3 to 18 living at home. Margaretha 18 and Maria 16 were working as day laborers; Elizabeth 15 did not work; Helena 10, Peter 8, and Mathias 7 were going to school leaving the youngest, 3 years old Jean (also seen as Johann), at home with his mother.[26], [27], [28]
Back sheet of the 1890 Luxembourg census for the Gorges-Scherff family listing persons who were not living at home when the census was taken.[31]
The census taken on 1 December 1890 was very important in terms of the timeline of my husband’s great-grandmother Margaretha as it was the year before she married. The GORGES-SCHERFF household shows their three sons living at home and their four daughters working as maids (Dienstmädchen) and living in other places. Margaretha is in Osweiler where she met and married her husband Johann SCHWARTZ in 1891. Marie is in Herborn, Elisabeth is in Echternach, and Helena is in Mertert. I have not checked these towns to see which families they lived with.[29], [30], [31]
Before the time came for the 1895 census, Johann GORGES’ neighbor Heinrich THIEL went to Mompach to declare a death in the GORGES-SCHERFF family. The daughter Elisabeth died on 6 September 1894 at home in Born at the age of 23.[32]
I had some problems with the 1895 census. I nearly did not find it due to an issue I discovered on FamilySearch for the collection “Luxembourg, Volkszählungen 1843-1900.” This collection is browse-only. While searching for the section of the census taken in Mompach for the town of Born, I saw names of towns not found in the area. Then I realized that the batch for Mompach and for Mondercange had been mixed up. FamilySearch was immediately contacted by email. I have not received a reply but my experience with the support team is very good. I am sure that they are looking into the matter and will give me feedback – they may be able to fix it now or will list it under issues for the collection that will be fixed at a later date.
By 1895 Margaretha was married and Elisabeth was deceased. Only five children remained to be enumerated with their parents Johann and Catharina. Marie was once again living at home and was not working. Her younger brothers Peter, Mathias, and Jean were at home and still too young to work. Her sister Helena had been working in an unknown place for the past three years.[33], [34], [35]
Johann GORGES declared the birth in Born of a granddaughter named Catharina on 1 May 1898. His 28 years old daughter Maria was the mother of the child and no father was listed. In the margin, a note was made that the child was legitimized when her mother married Mathias LEMMER on 30 December 1906 in Mompach.[36] The marriage record confirms this.[37]
Little Catharina was living with her mother Maria in the household of her grandparents Johann and Catharina GORGES-SCHERFF when the census was enumerated on 1 December 1900. Also at home was Maria’s 22 years old brother Peter who was working as a quarryman. Helena, a cook, and Mathias, a waiter, had been working in Rheims (also spelled Reims), France, halfway between Luxembourg and Paris, for the past 3 years.[38], [39], [40] The youngest son of this family, 17 years old Jean, was in the Jean HELFIN household in Born and working as a stable hand (Stallknecht).[41], [42], [43]
More censuses were taken after 1900 but this is the last presently found online at FamilySearch. Civil records help to tell the rest of the story. On 25 May 1906 son Peter GORGES died in Born at the age of 27. His 36 years old cousin Johann SCHERFF, an innkeeper (Gastwirt) was the informant.[44] Peter like his father had been a quarryman. Who was left to help Johann as he was not getting any younger?
Seven months later daughter Maria, as mentioned earlier, married Mathias LEMMER on 30 December 1906 in Mompach. Mathias was 8 years younger than Maria and both of his parents were deceased. Maria’s parents Johann and Catharina were present and gave their consent to the marriage. Catharina GORGES, Maria’s daughter, was legitimized and given the name Catharina LEMMER at the time of the marriage.[37] Did Mathias take the place of Maria’s brother Peter helping Johann GORGES in his quarry work?
The mother of this family, Catharina SCHERFF, died on 2 November 1908 in Born at the age of 72 years. Her son-in-law Mathias LEMMER, a quarryman, was the informant. Her husband survived her.[45]
Mathias LEMMER went to Mompach on 2 May 1913 to report the death of his father-in-law Johann GORGES the previous day in Born. Johann was 75 years old at the time of his death.[46]
This was not the last time that Mathias LEMMER had to report a death in the family he married into. On 30 Jun 1921, his wife Maria GORGES died at the age of 50 in Born.[47]
The longest living person of this family may have been my husband’s great-grandmother Margaretha SCHWARTZ-GORGES. She died 23 October 1938 in Osweiler where she lived her entire married life. Her obituary mentions the Gorges family but no names of living relatives are giving. Is it possible that her siblings Johann, Helena, Mathias, and Jean, who have not been traced, were still living?
A final note concerning Johann GORGES’ brother Mathias mentioned at the beginning. How do I know these two men were brothers? I have both of their marriage records which list their parents as Johann GORGES and Anna Maria BOTZ as well as their respective wives as named in the emigration records.
If Mathias and Barbara made the trip to North America they would have had to return in time for their first child’s birth and Barbara would have been pregnant on both trips. Mathias’ family was found in the civil records in Mertert, Luxembourg, from the time he married Barbara ACHTEN on 30 June 1868[48], through the births of 8 children between 1869-1885, until his death in 1899 and her death 1921.
Imagine the repercussions of one tiny decision. If my husband’s great-grandmother Margaretha GORGES had gone to America with her parents and never returned, she would not have met her husband and had the child who would be my husband’s grandmother. In turn there would not have been a grandson who would be my husband’s father or a great-grandson who would be the father of my children. An entire branch of a family tree changed forever.
[1] Richard Schaffner, Einwohnerbuch der Orte Fell u. Fastrau mit Fellerhof, Fellerburg und den verschiedenen Mühlen im Gemeindebereich, 2008/2009, p. 106-107 family 502 and p. 109 family 510. Citing Kirchenbücher der Bistumsarchivs Trier (church records of the Diocese of Trier archive).
[2] Josef Mergen, Die Amerika-Auswanderung aus dem Landkreis Trier (1855-1910), 1952, p. 96 entry 640 and 642
[3] Luxembourg, Registres d’état civil, 1793-1923 (images), FamilySearch (original records at Luxembourg National Archives, Plateau du Saint-Esprit, Luxembourg), Mompach > Naissances 1834-1890 Mariages 1797-1814, 1796-1809, 1799-1830 > image 33 of 1393. 1836 Birth Record No. 26. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12131-131830-98?cc=1709358&wc=9RYC-C68:130097801,130406101 : accessed 21 Nov 2014).
[4] Ibid, Mompach > Naissances 1834-1890 Mariages 1797-1814, 1796-1809, 1799-1830 > image 274 of 1393. 1862 Birth Record No. 5. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12131-133581-48?cc=1709358&wc=9RYC-C68:130097801,130406101 : accessed 5 April 2010).
[5] Ibid, Mompach > Mariages 1831-1890 Décès 1796-1814, 1799-1830, 1799-1880 > image 567 of 1480. 1868 Marriage Record No. 1. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-12874-12362-9?cc=1709358&wc=M9M6-L4B:1262051718 : accessed 02 Apr 2013).
[6] Deutschland, Geburten und Taufen 1558-1898 (Germany, Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898), index, FamilySearch, GS Film number: 463564, Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C98369-2. “Name: Joannes Gorges; Gender: Male; Christening Date: 15 Feb 1838; Christening Place: Sankt Martinus Katholisch, Fell, Rheinland, Prussia; Father’s Name: Joannis Gorges; Mother’s Name: Annae Mariae Botz.” (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NPC7-BQW : accessed 05 Apr 2013).
[7] Luxembourg, Registres d’état civil, 1793-1923 (images), FamilySearch (original records at Luxembourg National Archives, Plateau du Saint-Esprit, Luxembourg), Mompach > Naissances 1834-1890 Mariages 1797-1814, 1796-1809, 1799-1830 > image 337 of 1393. 1868 Birth Record No. 14. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12131-132414-2?cc=1709358&wc=M9M6-LHS:2047330937 : accessed 01 Apr 2013).
[8] Ibid, Mompach > Naissances 1834-1890 Mariages 1797-1814, 1796-1809, 1799-1830 > image 352 of 1393. 1870 Birth Record No. 13. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12131-131283-9?cc=1709358&wc=9RYC-C68:130097801,130406101 : accessed 5 April 2010).
[9] Ibid, Mompach > Naissances 1834-1890 Mariages 1797-1814, 1796-1809, 1799-1830 > image 363 of 1393. 1871 Birth Record No. 21. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12131-130403-13?cc=1709358&wc=9RYC-C68:130097801,130406101 : accessed 5 April 2010).
[10] Luxembourg, Volkszählungen 1843-1900 (images), FamilySearch (original records at Luxembourg National Archives, Plateau du Saint-Esprit, Luxembourg), Mompach > 1871 > image 119 of 377. Gorges-Scherff household no. 25. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-32378-30865-48?cc=2037957&wc=M5GM-K61:345859501,345869501 : accessed 22 April 2015).
[11] Ibid, Mompach > 1871 > image 120 of 377. Gorges-Scherff household no. 25. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-32378-30862-51?cc=2037957&wc=M5GM-K61:345859501,345869501 : accessed 22 April 2015).
[13] Luxembourg, Registres d’état civil, 1793-1923 (images), FamilySearch (original records at Luxembourg National Archives, Plateau du Saint-Esprit, Luxembourg), Mompach > Naissances 1834-1890 Mariages 1797-1814, 1796-1809, 1799-1830 > image 392 of 1393. 1874 Birth Record No. 30. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12131-135359-12?cc=1709358&wc=9RYC-C68:130097801,130406101 : accessed 5 April 2010).
[14] Ibid, Mompach > Mariages 1831-1890 Décès 1796-1814, 1799-1830, 1799-1880 > image 1428 of 1480. 1874 Death Record No. 12. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-12874-12384-95?cc=1709358&wc=9RYW-MNL:130097801,130138901 : accessed 22 April 2015).
[15] Luxembourg, Volkszählungen 1843-1900 (images), FamilySearch (original records at Luxembourg National Archives, Plateau du Saint-Esprit, Luxembourg), Mompach > 1875 > image 58 of 368. Gorges-Scherff household no. 26. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-32382-9049-78?cc=2037957&wc=M5G3-N3V:345859501,345870501 : accessed 22 April 2015).
[16] Ibid, Mompach > 1875 > image 59 of 368. Gorges-Scherff household no. 26. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-32382-9185-71?cc=2037957&wc=M5G3-N3V:345859501,345870501 : accessed 22 April 2015).
[18] Luxembourg, Registres d’état civil, 1793-1923 (images), FamilySearch (original records at Luxembourg National Archives, Plateau du Saint-Esprit, Luxembourg), Mompach > Naissances 1834-1890 Mariages 1797-1814, 1796-1809, 1799-1830 > image 410 of 1393. 1876 Birth Record No. 2. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12131-135504-55?cc=1709358&wc=9RYC-C68:130097801,130406101 : accessed 5 April 2010).
[19] Ibid, Mompach > Naissances 1834-1890 Mariages 1797-1814, 1796-1809, 1799-1830 > image 430 of 1393. 1878 Birth Record No. 13. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12131-130877-9?cc=1709358&wc=9RYC-C68:130097801,130406101 : accessed 5 April 2010).
[20] Ibid, Mompach > Naissances 1834-1890 Mariages 1797-1814, 1796-1809, 1799-1830 > image 447 of 1393. 1880 Birth Record No. 5. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12131-133418-98?cc=1709358&wc=9RYC-C68:130097801,130406101 : accessed 21 Nov 2014).
[21] Luxembourg, Volkszählungen 1843-1900 (images), FamilySearch (original records at Luxembourg National Archives, Plateau du Saint-Esprit, Luxembourg), Mompach > 1880 > image 92 of 390. Gorges-Scherff household no. 43. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-32391-17167-63?cc=2037957&wc=M5G3-DP5:345859501,345872201 : accessed 22 April 2015).
[22] Ibid, Mompach > 1880 > image 93 of 390. Gorges-Scherff household no. 43. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-32391-17202-76?cc=2037957&wc=M5G3-DP5:345859501,345872201 : accessed 22 April 2015).
[24] Luxembourg, Registres d’état civil, 1793-1923 (images), FamilySearch (original records at Luxembourg National Archives, Plateau du Saint-Esprit, Luxembourg), Mompach > Naissances 1834-1890 Mariages 1797-1814, 1796-1809, 1799-1830 > image 490 of 1393. 1883 Birth Record No. 18. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12131-131523-2?cc=1709358&wc=9RYC-C68:130097801,130406101 : accessed 5 April 2010).
[25] Ibid, Mompach > Décès 1880-1891 > image 48 of 90. 1885 Deth Record No. 27. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11668-127283-50?cc=1709358&wc=9RY4-DPF:130097801,130097802 : accessed 22 April 2015).
[26] Luxembourg, Volkszählungen 1843-1900 (images), FamilySearch (original records at Luxembourg National Archives, Plateau du Saint-Esprit, Luxembourg), Mompach > 1887 > image 115 of 380. Gorges-Scherff household no. 28. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-32391-4373-99?cc=2037957&wc=M5GH-4WL:345859501,345875201 : accessed 22 April 2015).
[27] Ibid, Mompach > 1887 > image 116 of 380. Gorges-Scherff household no. 28. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-32391-4083-94?cc=2037957&wc=M5GH-4WL:345859501,345875201 : accessed 22 April 2015).
[29] Ibid, Mompach > 1890 > image 120 of 393. Gorges-Scherff household no. 28. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-32391-14244-86?cc=2037957&wc=M5G4-FMK:345859501,345876401 : accessed 22 April 2015).
[32] Luxembourg, Registres d’état civil, 1793-1923 (images), FamilySearch (original records at Luxembourg National Archives, Plateau du Saint-Esprit, Luxembourg), Mompach > Naissances, mariages, décès 1891-1894 > image 108 of 111. 1894 Death Record No. 28. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12165-229666-84?cc=1709358&wc=9RYM-N31:130097801,129717601 : accessed 22 April 2015).
[33] Luxembourg, Volkszählungen 1843-1900 (images), FamilySearch (original records at Luxembourg National Archives, Plateau du Saint-Esprit, Luxembourg), Mondercange > 1895 > image 76 of 423. Gorges-Scherff household No. 34. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-32396-1348-67?cc=2037957&wc=M5GX-JWR:345859101,345878001 : accessed 22 April 2015). Note: The browse path is correct for this record however the collection is mislabelled. It should be Mompach instead of Mondercange. The issue was reported to FamilySearch support on 22 Apr 2015.
[34] Ibid, Mondercange > 1895 > image 77 of 423. Gorges-Scherff household No. 34. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-32396-1270-92?cc=2037957&wc=M5GX-JWR:345859101,345878001 : accessed 22 April 2015). Note: see [29]
[36] Luxembourg, Registres d’état civil, 1793-1923 (images), FamilySearch (original records at Luxembourg National Archives, Plateau du Saint-Esprit, Luxembourg), Mompach > Naissances 1895-1923 > image 32 of 289. 1898 Birth Record No. 7. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-32063-13727-85?cc=1709358&wc=9RT1-W3L:130097801,129648901 : accessed 22 April 2015).
[37] Ibid, Mompach > Mariages 1895-1923 > image 69 of 168. 1906 Marriage No. 10. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-32063-12915-87?cc=1709358&wc=9RT1-W32:130097801,129649201 : accessed 22 April 2015).
[38] Luxembourg, Volkszählungen 1843-1900 (images), FamilySearch (original records at Luxembourg National Archives, Plateau du Saint-Esprit, Luxembourg), Mompach > 1900 > image 81 of 420. Gorges household No. 27. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-32396-11618-33?cc=2037957&wc=M5GX-2J9:345859501,345873901 : accessed 22 April 2015).
[39] Ibid, Mompach > 1900 > image 82 of 420. Gorges household No. 27. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-32396-12061-71?cc=2037957&wc=M5GX-2J9:345859501,345873901 : accessed 22 April 2015).
[41] Ibid, Mompach > 1900 > image 49 of 420. Jean Helfin household no. 11. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-32396-11560-86?cc=2037957&wc=M5GX-2J9:345859501,345873901 : accessed 25 April 2015).
[44] Luxembourg, Registres d’état civil, 1793-1923 (images), FamilySearch (original records at Luxembourg National Archives, Plateau du Saint-Esprit, Luxembourg), Mompach > Décès 1895-1912 > image 93 of 143. 1906 Death Record No. 15. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-32063-14862-73?cc=1709358&wc=9RT1-4WT:130097801,129657201 : accessed 22 April 2015).
[45] Ibid, Mompach > Décès 1895-1912 > image 111 of 143. 1908 Death Record No. 24. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-32063-14001-78?cc=1709358&wc=9RT1-4WT:130097801,129657201 : accessed 27 Sep 2014).
[46] Ibid, Mompach > Décès 1913-1923 > image 5 of 80. 1913 Death Record No. 15. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-32045-3913-24?cc=1709358&wc=9RTB-G53:130097801,129622902 : accessed 27 Sep 2014).
[47] Ibid, Mompach > Décès 1913-1923 > image 57 of 80. 1921 Death Record No. 4. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-32045-3602-65?cc=1709358&wc=9RTB-G53:130097801,129622902 : accessed 22 April 2015).
[48] Ibid, Mertert > Naissances 1852-1890 Mariages 1813-1890 Décès 1813-1859 > image 958 of 1491. 1868 Marriage Record No. 7. (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-12125-161445-39?cc=1709358&wc=9RY3-N38:130080101,130192001 : accessed 25 April 2015).
Parents: Johann GORGES an Anna Maria BOTZ
Spouse: Catharina SCHERFF
Parents of spouse: Michel SCHERFF and Elisabetha CLEMENS
Whereabouts: Fell, Germany, and Born, Luxembourg
Relationship to Cathy Meder-Dempsey: husband’s great-great-grandparents
Johann GORGES and Catharina SCHERFF
Margaretha GORGES
Catharina “Ketty” SCHWARTZ
Marcel Mathias MEDER
Cathy Meder-Dempsey’s husband
Author Cathy Meder-DempseyPosted on April 27, 2015 July 29, 2018 Categories 52Ancestors 2015, LuxembourgTags 52Ancestors, Achten, Bechthold, Botz, Clemens, Emigration, France, Germany, Gorges, L-Born, L-Osweiler, Lemmer, Luxembourg, Scherff, SchwartzLeave a comment on 52 Ancestors: #17 They Didn’t Take The Rags to Riches Journey?!
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CMU Goes Eco-Friendly, Brings In Goats To Landscape Overgrown Hillside
Filed Under:Allegheny GoatScape, Carnegie Mellon University, CMU, Goatscaping
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Carnegie Mellon University is known worldwide for its high-tech innovations.
But, CMU is taking a step back in time in order to landscape an unsightly weed-covered hillside on their Oakland campus. And it’s all very eco-friendly.
The school brought in a herd of goats from Allegheny Goatscape on Wednesday to munch on weeds between the Gates Center and Purnell Center for the Arts.
(Photo Credit: KDKA Photojournalist Bryan Orr)
“It’s an opportunity for the campus community to see this activity, to learn about it and to just see an alternative to other grounds maintenance practices,” said Dave Wessell, CMU’s groundskeeper.
The university says the area is being taken over by Kudzu vines, which are choking off all the native plants and trees.
Goats from @AllGoatscape are on campus for some eco-friendly landscaping! 🐐🐐Great views from the Pausch Bridge: https://t.co/6DhtSP9oIk pic.twitter.com/UomlwN4dsY
— Carnegie Mellon (@CarnegieMellon) September 13, 2017
“They eat 24 hours a day, essentially. They eat, they ruminate and rest, and then they keep eating, so this is around the clock,” said Gavin Deming, of Allegheny Goatscape. “I’ve read that they can eat, an adult goat, can eat up to eight or so pounds a day of vegetation, so that’s no small amount, especially when they’re in an enclosed area like this one.”
The herd of goats will spend about three days and nights on campus clearing the hillside.
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PAX West 2019 Schedule and Exhibitor List Now Available
Posted by Eric Watson | News | No Comments
The full schedule of panels, tournaments, and events at PAX West 2019 has been revealed. The mega-popular annual gaming convention takes place later this month, Friday August 30 – Monday, September 2 in Seattle, Washington.
Most tickets are sold out, but you can still grab Friday-only, and Monday-only badges.
PAX West 2019’s schedule includes panels and podcasts from big gaming websites and YouTubers including Giant Bomb, IGN, and Mega64. Event panels include AAA developers on upcoming games, such as Gearbox and Borderlands 3 (Friday, 1pm Pacific) and Square Enix on Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers on Sunday (2:30 pm Pacific). Gaming-themed concerts, tournaments, and other events can be found throughout the weekend.
“I love PAX West because we get to have a one-of-a-kind event that’s focused on our fans, and has so many incredible games and live events in once place” said Jerry Holkins, co-founder, Penny Arcade. “Also, we’re the only show where you can see the show organizers get up on stage dressed in fantasy costumes and play Dungeons and Dragons.” The live D&D show Acquisistions Incorporated takes place Friday at 7:30 pm Pacific.
The show floor features booths from the biggest publishers in gaming down to tiny indie developers. Big names in attendance include Nintendo, PlayStation, Ubisoft, and Capcom.
PAX is produced by Penny Arcade in conjunction with event planner ReedPOP. Several PAX conventions are hosted throughout the year around the country, as well as in Australia. PAX West remains the original PAX convention and the most popular, with tickets selling out almost instantly. Many events and panels will be live streamed throughout the weekend via official PAX Twitch and YouTube channels.
PAX West 2019, PAX Unplugged 2019 Dates Revealed
ReedPOP and Penny Arcade have announced the dates for PAX West 2019 and PAX Unplugged 2019. PAX West will take place August 30 – September 2 at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle. PAX Unplugged, which will be the 50th PAX convention, has been bumped one week later from last year, running December 6 – 8 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia.
“When we came up with all this, I don’t think we could ever have imagined putting on 50 of these events and counting,” said Jerry Holkins, co-founder, PAX and Penny Arcade. “We can’t wait to welcome the gaming community to our home in Seattle this summer, and to our Winter Lair in Philadelphia this December. We hope you’ll be able to join us.”
PAX West is the most attended gaming convention on the West Coast. It features an exhibition hall, a competitive PAX Arena, industry panels, autographs signings with streamers, concerts, and other attractions.
The third annual PAX Unplugged convention focuses entirely on tabletop games. For 2019 the convention will expand into a larger expo hall to fit even more board games, card games, and tabletop RPGs. PAX Unplugged also features live shows and panels with designers.
PAX Unplugged 2019 badges will go on sale May 9. PAX West 2019 tickets will go on sale later this month.
Penny Arcade and ESRB Create Video Series Aimed at Parents
Posted by Eric Watson | News, Tips for Parents, Video | No Comments
The Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB) has announced a new partnership with gaming webcomic and media empire Penny Arcade to produce a series of PSA-style short videos called Conversations. These…
PAX West 2018 Reveals Dates, Tickets Almost Sold Out
It’s nearly impossible to write a timely news post on PAX West. Each year tickets sell out within minutes, and this year was no exception. As of right now only single-day tickets for Monday remain available.
PAX West 2018 will take place at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, WA on Aug. 31 – Sep 3. Single-day badges are $50 each, though only Monday, the final day of the convention, remains.
“PAX West is where it all started, so whenever we have a chance to invite people into our home it’s just a good feeling,” said Jerry Holkins, co-founder, Penny Arcade. “Purely as a word advice, I would briefly minimize this window and try to get tickets as soon as you can. They tend to go fast.”
PAX West 2018 is the 14th incarnation of the original gaming convention that began in Seattle by webcomic Penny Arcade. Now run by event company ReedPOP, PAX has since spawned multiple annual conventions around the United States, from Boston to Texas, and Australia.
PAX West (once simply called PAX, then PAX Prime) remains the largest of the PAX conventions, and certainly the biggest gaming event in the west coast. It spans eight buildings in downtown Seattle. It features multiple exhibition halls with develoeprs and publishers presenting new and upcoming games. You can also find autograph signings with YouTube and Twitch stars, esports tournaments, professional panels, live concerts, and freeplay areas for consoles, PC, and tabletop games.
The full PAX West 2018 schedule has not yet been revealed. Non-attendees can still watch many of the tournaments and panels at PAX thanks to multiple twitch channels that broadcast the live event.
PAX West 2018 will take place Aug. 31 – Sep 3 in Seattle.
PAX Unplugged Officially Returns With a New Date
When PAX Unplugged was announced last year, some where skeptical that it was a one-off event. Put those fears to rest, as Penny Arcade and ReedPOP have officially announced PAX Unplugged 2018. Badges will go on sale May 17.
“I know we’re biased, but we really did have a blast at Unplugged last year and we’re really excited to come back,” states the official announcement. “Not just come back, but we’re growing the scope of the show considerably. Don’t worry, it’ll still be focused on tabletop gaming, but parts of the building will be opening up to us this year and we should have a bit more room to stretch our legs and smooth out some of the wrinkles.
PAX Unplugged 2018 will take place at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, PA. Last year it took place the weekend before Thanksgiving, but this year the dates have been shifted two weeks later, taking place Nov 30 – Dec 2. That should hopefully ease the chaos of traveling around the holidays. Not to mention another big board gaming convention, BGG Con, that took place at the same time last year.
Like other PAX shows, PAX Unplugged features an exhibit hall stuffed with vendors, develoeprs, and publishers, discussion panels, musical performances, and tournaments. All other PAX events focus on video games and the gaming industry, with a light sprinkling of tabletop. Unplugged focuses exclusively on tabletop games, board games, and RPGs, from a massive freeplay area with lending library to a dedicated area for painting minatures.
PAX Unplugged also includes a special family room area with kid-friendly games. The final day of the expo, Sunday, is designated Kids Day. Kids Day will provide an extra emphasis on family-friendly games, as well as offering reduced single-day Kids Day Badges for the Under 12 crowd. The Kids Day Badge still provides full access to the event.
PAX Unplugged 2018 badges will go on sale at 12 pm Pacific/3 pm Eastern on May 17. You can sign up for Twitter notifications when registration opens.
PAX South 2018 Tickets on Sale Next Week
Tickets for the fourth annual PAX South gaming convention will begin going on sale next Tuesday, July 18 at 12 pm Pacific/3 pm Eastern. PAX South 2018 takes place January 12-14 in San Antonio, Texas.
“It’s been incredible to see how quickly PAX South has grown and solidified its place in the PAX lineup, cultivating a culture all its own in beautiful downtown San Antonio,” said Jerry Holkins, co-founder, Penny Arcade. “We’ve seen an increase in the number of attendees and exhibitors at every PAX South, and this coming show will continue to up the ante.”
Single tickets can be purchased for $40 each, while a three-day badge will run $80. Special Sunday Kids Badges are available for 6-12 year olds at a discounted $10. If you want to bring your own PC for LAN gaming you’ll need to purchase a special pass for another $40.
PAX South 2018 will include exclusive branded merchandise. A set of dice can be had for $40, a pair of socks for $20, and a pack of drink coasters for $20.
The Penny Arcade Expos are among the largest gaming conventions of the year. Each PAX show features industry panels, esports tournaments, gaming booths, upcoming games, concerts, and live shows.
Earlier this year Penny Arcade announced their next annualized PAX show, PAX Unplugged. It will focus on tabletop gaming. PAX Unplugged will take place November 17-19 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Tickets are now available.
PAX shows are produced by ReedPOP with Penny Arcade. The next scheduled PAX show will be PAX West (formerly PAX Prime), the original as well as the biggest of the PAX events. It takes place September 1-4 in Seattle, Washington. As usual with PAX West tickets sold out very quickly.
Media registration will be available three months before the show. PAX South 2018 takes place next year, January 12-14.
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Home > Geography home > Research > Profile > Researchers > Dr Innes M. Keighren > Publications
Dr Innes M. Keighren
Book and print technology
Keighren, I. M., 9 Aug 2019, The Routledge research companion to travel writing. Pettinger, A. & Youngs, T. (eds.). Abingdon: Routledge, p. 354–364
History and philosophy of geography III: The haunted, the reviled, and the plural
Keighren, I., 23 Dec 2018, In : Progress in Human Geography. p. 1-8 8 p.
The confiscated library of William Macintosh in the Bibliothèque municipale d’Avignon
Keighren, I., 10 Nov 2018, (Accepted/In press) In : The Library: Transactions of The Bibliographical Society.
History and philosophy of geography II: The excluded, the evil, and the anarchic
Keighren, I. M., 1 Oct 2018, In : Progress in Human Geography. 42, 5, p. 770–778 9 p.
Worlds into words—and back again
Keighren, I. M. & Newman, B., 1 Feb 2018, (Accepted/In press) The SAGE Handbook of Historical Geography. Domosh, M., Heffernan, M. & Withers, C. W. J. (eds.). SAGE
History and philosophy of geography I: The slow, the turbulent, and the dissenting
Keighren, I. M., 1 Oct 2017, In : Progress in Human Geography. 41, 5, p. 638–347 10 p.
“A Royal Geographical Society for Ladies”: The Lyceum Club and Women's Geographical Frontiers in Edwardian London
Keighren, I. M., 8 Sep 2017, In : The Professional Geographer. 69, 4, p. 661–669 9 p.
Teaching the history of geography: Current challenges and future directions
Keighren, I. M., Crampton, J. W., Ginn, F., Kirsch, S., Kobayashi, A., Naylor, S. & Seemann, J., 1 Apr 2017, In : Progress in Human Geography. 41, 2, p. 245–262 18 p.
Circulating seditious knowledge: the ‘daring absurdities, studied misrepresentations, and abominable falsehoods’ of William Macintosh
Keighren, I. M., 17 Jan 2017, Mobilities of knowledge. Jöns, H., Meusburger, P. & Heffernan, M. (eds.). Cham: Springer International Publishing AG, p. 67–84
Introduction: Toward More Inclusive and Comparative Perspectives in the Histories of Geographical Knowledge
Jöns, H., Monk, J. & Keighren, I. M., 2017, In : The Professional Geographer. 69, 4, p. 655-660 6 p.
Environmental determinism
Keighren, I. M., 2015, International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences. Wright, J. D. (ed.). 2 ed. Oxford: Elsevier, Vol. 7. p. 720-725
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
Travels into print: exploration, writing, and publishing with John Murray, 1773–1859
Keighren, I. M., Withers, C. W. J. & Bell, B., 2015, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 392 p.
Review of Scholars in action: the practice of knowledge and the figure of the savant in the 18th century, edited by André Holenstein, Hubert Steinke, and Martin Stuber in collaboration with Philippe Rogger.
Keighren, I. M., Sep 2014, H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Research output: Contribution to non-peer-reviewed publication › Internet publication
Unpacking geography: a brief history, 1973–2013
Keighren, I. M., 2014, In : Area. 46, 2, p. 210–13
Review of Science in print: essays on the history of science and the culture of print, edited by Rima D. Apple, Gregory John Downey, and Stephen Vaughn.
Keighren, I. M., Dec 2013, H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Collaborative geographies: the politics, practicalities, and promise of working together
Craggs, R. (ed.), Geoghegan, H. (ed.) & Keighren, I. M. (ed.), 2013, Royal Geographical Society. 125 p. (Historical Geography Research Series; no. 43)
Coming of age? Marking the centenary of women’s admission to the Royal Geographical Society
Evans, S., Keighren, I. M. & Maddrell, A., 2013, In : Geographical Journal. 179, 4, p. 373–376
Geographies of the book: review and prospect
Keighren, I. M., 2013, In : Geography Compass. 7, 11, p. 745–758
Introducing collaborative geographies
Craggs, R., Geoghegan, H. & Keighren, I. M., 2013, Collaborative geographies: the politics, practicalities, and promise of working together. Craggs, R., Geoghegan, H. & Keighren, I. M. (eds.). London: Royal Geographical Society, p. 5–10 (Historical Geography Research Series; no. 43).
Review of Print culture: from steam press to ebook, by Frances Robertson
Keighren, I. M., 2013, In : Cultural Geographies. 20, 4, p. 552
Teaching historical geography in the field
Keighren, I. M., 2013, In : Journal of Geography in Higher Education. 37, 4, p. 567–577
The spectacular and the sacred: narrating landscape in works of travel
Keighren, I. M. & Withers, C. W. J., Jan 2012, In : Cultural Geographies. 19, 1, p. 11-30
Commentary on The passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the shaping of America, by Laura Dassow Walls.
Keighren, I. M., 2012, H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, 2, p. 17–19.
Fieldwork in the archive
Keighren, I. M., 2012, Fieldwork for human geography. London: SAGE, p. 138–140
On canonical geographies
Keighren, I. M., Abrahamsson, C. & Della Dora, V., 2012, In : Dialogues in Human Geography. 2, 3, p. 296–312
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Home > English home > Research > Profile > Publications > Landgartha: A tragie-comedy by Henry Burnell
Landgartha: A tragie-comedy by Henry Burnell : This is the first ever scholarly edition of the play. The comprehensive introduction situates the play in its literary, political, and historical contexts offering compelling insights into the intellectual world of an Old English writer working in pre-Cromwellian Ireland. . / Rankin, Deana (Editor).
Dublin : Four Courts Press, 2013. 164 p. (The Literature of Early Modern Ireland).
http://www.fourcourtspress.ie/product.php?intProductID=1071
Deana Rankin (Editor)
Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance
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17th and 18th Century Literature and Culture
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This is the first ever scholarly edition of the play. The comprehensive introduction situates the play in its literary, political, and historical contexts offering compelling insights into the intellectual world of an Old English writer working in pre-Cromwellian Ireland.
Four Courts Press
The Literature of Early Modern Ireland
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The 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders, the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and James Earl Ray’s Back
April 4, 2011 in Activist Art, Documentary, Historical, Institutional | Tags: Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders, Civil Rights, Eric Etheridge, Jackson, James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King, Mississippi | by petebrook | Leave a comment
Born: November 27, 1932; Philadelphia; Arrested July 30, 1961; Train station, Jackson; Then: Student, Santa Monica City College; Since then: Arts administrator, now retired; Then and Now: Marrried to Robert Singleton; Photographed: August 24, 2005; Los Angeles. © Eric Etheridge
I’ve been meaning to write about Eric Etheridge’s project Breach of Peace for too long. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Riders and their key 1961 victory for civil rights.
Today, the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther Kings 1968 assassination, is an appropriate moment.
Firstly, a brief history of the Freedom Riders, as told by Etheridge:
In the spring and summer of 1961, several hundred Americans — blacks and whites, men and women — entered Southern bus and train stations to challenge the segregated waiting rooms, lunch counters and bathrooms. The Supreme Court had ruled that such segregation was illegal, and the Riders were trying to force the federal government to enforce that decision.
Though there were Freedom Rides across the South, Jackson soon became the campaign’s primary focus. More than 300 Riders were arrested there and quickly convicted of breach of peace — a law many Southern states and cities had put on the books for just such an occasion. The Riders then compounded their protest by refusing bail. “Flll the jails!” was their cry, and they soon did. Mississippi responded by transferring them to Parchman, the state’s infamous Delta prison farm, for the remainder of their time behind bars, usually about six weeks.
A few days after the last group of Riders were arrested in Jackson, on September 13, the Interstate Commerce Commission issued new regulations, mandating an end to segregation in all bus and train stations.
Etheridge’s book Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders features his new portraits of 80 Riders and the mug shots of all 328 Riders arrested in Jackson that year, along with excerpts of interviews with the featured Riders. (See the Breach of Peace archives here)
The Mississippi Museum of Art is showing the mugshots of all 329 Riders arrested in Jackson as a giant, 54′ long mural, along with 20 of Etheridge’s portraits (March 19 – June 12). Free to the public.
Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Freedom Riders installation, Mississippi Museum of Art, March 2011
Etheridge’s work is a continuing multi-year effort. Through interviews and his camera, Etheridge gives his subject the opportunity to return to their political heroics. For those alive in the sixties, Etheridge’s work is an antidote to historical amnesia and for those who weren’t it’s an education.
KING’S GIFT TO HISTORY; A POLITICAL PHILOSOSPHY NOT TO BE FORGOTTEN, ALWAYS TO BE ACTED UPON
And so to King, whose politics are as relevant today as they were 43 years ago. As Jim Johnson reminds us, at the time of his assassination, King was in Memphis in solidarity with sanitation workers, who were striking the city not just for decent pay and working conditions but for recognition of their right to form a union. In light of the concerted, ongoing campaign by Republicans to subvert unions, it surely is plausible to wonder how far we remain from the promised land.
History is very important. Despite their self-label, progressives look back in time as readily as conservatives to pinpoint historical moments to justify their politics. Progressives look to the golden era of people power and the Peace Movement, conservatives hark back to the space-race and Reaganomics.
When history is at our backs, we must choose to leave it behind or let it propel us forward. In the case of the Civil Rights movement, its lessons should be forever in America’s conscience. The work toward social and economic equality is not yet complete, not by a long distance.
We have choices to make and a society to shape.
Which brings me to this potent image of the back of James Earl Ray, who was Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassin.
While hundreds of thousands were marching on the streets and millions across America swelled the turning political tides, James Earl Ray choose a different worldview.
Regardless of colour or creed, Martin Luther King’s promised land was for all … and for a better America. No doubt James Earl Ray was a troubled man but his rejection of America’s sea-change thrust him only in the direction of a dead-end.
James Earl Ray facing the wall at Shelby County Jail. Photo by Gil Michael/Shelby County Sheriff’s Office
As Etheridge explains this is not an act of defiance. Shoved into a Shelby County Jail cell, Ray faces the reality upon him; the physical finality of confinement with nowhere to go. As he abandoned history, so history moved on without him.
TO END ON A GOOD NOTE
REMEMBER.
INSPIRATION, LOVE AND GOOD HEARTS ARE NOT FORGOTTEN BY HISTORY
NEWS FLASH: Ground Zero Islamic Cultural Centre with Funding Ties to CIA. Famed Civil Rights Photographer an FBI Informant.
September 14, 2010 in Activist Art, Documentary, Historical, Non-Prison | Tags: CIA, Civil Rights, Ernest Withers, FBI, Ground Zero Mosque, Leslie Deak | by petebrook | Leave a comment
Two stories that broke this week demonstrate the levels to which everything is never as it seems.
The New York Observer describes links between Leslie Deak and funders of the controversial mosque, the CIA and U.S. military establishment have gone unacknowledged.
Meanwhile, The Commercial Appeal in Tennessee reports famed and revered Civil Rights Photographer Ernest Withers doubled as FBI informant to spy on civil rights movement.
Democracy now states, “Withers’s alleged involvement was revealed because the FBI forgot to redact his name in declassified records discussing his collaboration.”
Withers died in 2007.
Thanks to Stan for the tip off.
Leonard Freed and “Engaged Observers”
July 6, 2010 in Documentary, Fine Art, Historical | Tags: Brett Abbott, Civil Rights, Engaged Observers, Kristina Feliciano, Leonard Freed | by petebrook | 3 comments
"New Orleans, Louisiana," 1965, by Leonard Freed. © Leonard Freed / Magnum Photos, Inc. Courtesy the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
Kristina Feliciano interviewed Brett Abbott, curator of photography at the Getty, about their summer show Engaged Observers
Abbott succeeds in saying not a lot (it is a brief interview). Abbott lists the exhibit’s famous photographers and recounts the Getty mantra on commitment financial muscle to support acquire documentary photography.
That said, his analysis of Leonard Freed’s image (below) is pause for thought.
KF. What are some of your personal favorites of the photos on view in the show?
BA: Leonard Freed’s picture of two men passing one another on the street in Washington D.C.: Freed’s protagonists face off, their noses nearly touching on the two dimensional surface of the print. The older white gentleman occupies a commanding presence in the center of the photograph, but it is the African American on the right who is in focus. Within the context of Freed’s larger project on racial tension in America in the 1960s, they can be seen as representing basic and opposing forces of the civil rights movement: white and black, the old generation and the new, center stage and marginalized, present and future. Indeed, the two play out this dialectic beneath a balcony clearly marked as belonging to the house where Lincoln died.
"Washington, D.C., 1963" Leonard Freed (American, 1929 – 2006) © Leonard Freed / Magnum Photos, Inc. Courtesy of The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
BLACK AND WHITE IN AMERICA
Leonard Freed observed race in America throughout the sixties; this work eventually taking him to the prisons of Louisiana. Before we get to that, here’s how Magnum describes Freed’s best known work:
In 1962 Leonard Freed went to Berlin to shoot the wall being erected. There he saw an African American soldier standing in front of the wall and it struck him; that at home in the US, African Americans were struggling for civil rights, and here in Germany an African American soldier was ready to defend the USA. This prompted a lengthy examination by Freed of the plight of the African Americans at home in the United States. Freed traveled to New York, Washington, D.C. and all throughout the South, capturing images of a segregated and racially-entrenched society. The photos taken at that time were then published in 1968 in “Black in White America“.
The images below are from prisons within the same state, Louisiana.
New Orleans, Louisiana. 1963. City prison. Image Reference: NYC21690 © Leonard Freed/Magnum Photos
Freed’s documents of the New Orlean’s City Prison are galling. The mood and theatre played out by these women (inmates? nurses? orderlies?) in the “white female quarters” as compared to the claustrophobia and groping along the “colored tier” is confusing, appalling.
I am at pains to know what scene Freed is capturing here in the “white female” section.
The screengrab (below) is taken from the first of two online videos – here and here – in which Freed talks about contact sheets; money and its’ substitute; motivations; and of course, race.
Freed discusses his experience on the “colored tier” from 4:36 to 6:00.
Screengrab. Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDVJlmE18zY
The attitude of the guards is beyond disgusting, “If we desegregate this place there will be blood. Mixing white men with animals. Can’t make us do that.”
If we take Freed at his word, and there is no reason not to, the portrait he paints of Angola was a place where Black men were willingly left to stew; a place where overcrowding was used as a disciplinary tactic, and a place in which racism was the unifying policy. Foul, totally foul.
YESTERYEAR / TODAY
That Freed should have visited a prison in the South as part of his survey on race in America was logical, for perhaps in prisons – more than anywhere else – the least tolerant and most simple interpretations on race existed.
Even today, prisons perpetuate cycles of poverty in minority groups. Furthermore, prison facilities only harden the tensions and misgivings between different racial groups of the prison population.
Freed went to Louisiana, but prisons across the South during the sixties were much of a muchness; they were borne from the same structures that had informed slavery. Robert Perkinson is perhaps the best historian to map this institutional-metamorphoses. In it’s basic premise, his recent book Texas Tough, can apply to prison management not only in Texas, but right across the South.
I highly recommend Marie Gottschalk’s review of Perkinson’s book which summarises his key positions, and is shocking enough in and of itself.
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ENGAGED OBSERVERS
PhotoInduced just reviewed Engaged Observers.
NPR ran a gallery pertaining specifically to the Engaged Observers exhibition.
Bruce Silverstein and Lee Gallery present Freed’s works online.
For You on Independence Day; Wendel White
July 4, 2010 in Activist Art, Fine Art, Historical | Tags: Civil Rights, Race, Schools For The Colored, Wendel White | by petebrook | Leave a comment
Happy Birthday America.
Precisely because “The Land of the Free” is a term now inseparable from rhetoric and politicking from any and all quarters, I’ll keep this brief.
America, like every nation on this earth, is and continues to be a work in progress. “Freedom” is a relative term, and if photographers in America do some things well, one of them is to remind us that by law (until very recently) some were freer than others.
I am always happy to promote socially-conscious photography that deals with racial injustices of the past and our need to address those injustices still. Furthermore, there are many good photographers who are working on inequalities today, based not in law, but in attitudes. Again, we are all works in progress, right?
WENDEL WHITE
Wendel White‘s Schools For The Colored depicts the landscape and architecture of historically segregated schools in northern states.
Photographers, Press and the Guardian vs. UK Law
April 17, 2009 in Activist Art, Amateur, Documentary, Institutional, Opinion, Photojournalism, Press, Visual Feeds | Tags: Civil Rights, Counter Terrorism Act, G20, Ian Tomlinson, London, Metropolitan Police, NUJ Protest, Photographers of Prisons, Police, Police State, Press, Scotland Yard, the Guardian, UK Law, UK Media | by petebrook | 2 comments
London Metropolitan Police Anti-Photography Propaganda Campaign Poster
When I began writing this blog, it was meant as a vehicle to display the documentary work of photographers working in sites of incarceration and to generally expound the stories touched upon. It was also meant to deconstruct some of the persistent myths surrounding prisons and prison populations and how visual culture has played its part in weaving some of those myths.
Not once did I envisage the current situation whereby the act of photography could bring about the threat of detention and imprisonment. Such impingement on basic rights of expression has been known in some of the dictatorial and despotic regimes of modern history … but not so much in the West, right? The times they are achangin’.
Photo: Liam Oliver Newton Craik-Horan. http://www.flickr.com/photos/liamch/3423810669/
When my brother visited from the UK last month he couldn’t stress enough how much of a police state it has become. We reasoned that the fingerprints taken by US homeland security are know also the possession of the UK government. It used to be the case that fingerprints were only taken and kept on file in the UK if you had been convicted for a crime. How things change.
A few months ago I signed up as a member of ACLU, the decisive moment was when the ACLU representative said to me, “You don’t want the US turning out like Britain with all those cameras and surveillance do you?”
Photo: Stickerklub. http://www.flickr.com/photos/stickerklub/3420240889/
Britain really is a country that has got itself on edge; it’s culture promoting men and women in all guises of security to exert illegitimate power and enforce ludicrous policy. Unfortunately, this robotic application of rules has infected even our art galleries, as the venerable John Berger discovered.
This past months have seen a slew of stories coming out of Britain regarding the rights of photographers in public spaces. All these are in response to a slew of legislation to slowly whittle down the rights of photographers; the rights of UK citizens.
On 16th February, the Counter Terrorism act came into effect making it illegal to photograph a police officer or “elicit information” about them. The British Journal of Photography has the details.
After the disgust at such brazen restriction of rights, the response by the photographic community in London was to go to Scotland Yard, headquarters of the Metropolitan police, and in an act of mass civil disobedience take lots of photographs of lots of officers.
The Guardian UK has been the mainstream print media that has really pursued this topic, reminding us all of what we have just lost. They broke the story that Kent police monitored members of the press during an environment protest, for which the Kent constabulary have apologized.
The Press Gazette explained this tactic and the associated tension between police and photographers.
David Hoffman, a photographer with 32 years’ experience, said he now carries shinpads in his bag, claiming he had been kicked by police officers at protests.
“The police today [NUJ Protest] have been beautiful – but that isn’t always the case,” he said. “Recent protests have been very bad. The worst was October last year, at the Climate Rush demo. One copper spent his time kicking my leg. Stood there with his steel toe caps kicking away – and me, a silver-haired man. I’ve still got chunks missing from my legs five months on. They want you to think: I won’t cover it next time. They have been using FIT [Forward Intelligence Teams, who use cameras], they have been using intimidation.”
Hoffman added, “It’s important the police know they’re being watched and observed. If you don’t see what’s going on, your society’s less democratic.”
Photo: Tom Kondrat. http://www.flickr.com/photos/toguko/3409931955/in/pool-met
It is almost like the lines have been drawn so indelibly, people are having to pick a side. It is sad to see but the police fall in line with the government and the majority sympathise with the press. This has led to a conflation of stories involving the G20 protests, police misconduct, and the death of (and vigil for) Ian Tomlinson. Judging by the Guardian’s recent coverage, you’d be forgiven for thinking that London was on the edge of civic breakdown.
I think the media and the Guardian in particular are taking a principled stance here and just reminding the Met at every opportunity that they are watched and the press will not be cowed. I think most of us realise that with millions of people in possession of recording equipment it is unenforceable to stop people from documenting the streets.
Photo: Tristam Sparks. http://www.flickr.com/photos/friendly-fire/3287739662/in/set-72157613984292743/
Ian Tomlinson’s death received a lot of coverage and rightly so, but I shall wait for the inquiry ruling before making a call, despite the early damning evidence. We, however, in the business of images know that they can never tell the full story. This is now an investigation of excessive force by the police and distinct from the main issue of photographers/civil rights.
Yesterday, the Guardian published this footage of the police threatening photographers with arrest if they did not move. Again, later the force apologized. But what is interesting here is the Guardian‘s decision to line up video footage of various scenes of confrontation from different days in the right hand nav bar. It is a dossier of police activity and unlike anything I have seen in mainstream media.
Photo: Roger Lancefield. The protesters stickers read "I am not a Terrorist, I am a Photographer". http://www.flickr.com/photos/rlancefield/3285904973/in/set-72157613975803636/
From the sublime to the ridiculous, the Guardian showed that front-line press aren’t the only ones under scrutiny. Metropolitan police deleted a tourist’s photographs this week to “prevent terrorism”. Klaus Matzka, the tourist involved summed his experience up as such:
“I’ve never had these experiences anywhere, never in the world, not even in Communist countries.”
So, at best you are harassed for your photographic activity and at worst, if thought to hold sinister motives, arrested and face a 10 year sentence.
Photo: Tristam Sparks. http://www.flickr.com/photos/friendly-fire/3414147417/in/pool-met/
Before all this gets to any court, however, the clashes are felt on the street, on the shins and in the constantly diminished rights to freedom of expression. Where citizen photographers may feel powerless, it seems the press – and the Guardian in particular – are just getting powered up.
Thanks to all the Flickr users credited above for their images, but more importantly their acts of documentation in the face of legislation to prevent such freedoms. I hope we all stay out of prison.
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April 6, 2016 April 6, 2016 Mr. Wapojif
At What Moment (PRECISELY) Does Bread Become Toast?
You mysterious SOB, you!
It’s the mystifying question which has plagued you throughout your entire life: when, precisely, does bread stop being bread and subvert reality to become toast? At some stage when a slice of bread is in a toaster, this miraculous phenomenon occurs. When is the crossover? Is the bread feeling any pain? Is it morally sound? Is there a reverse process or, like Jeff Goldblum in The Fly, is the bread destined to a grotesque transformation?
Clearly, the toaster has something to do with it. This device is a sort of cattle prod for the bread world – you place the bread inside it and, within the wire-based confines of the toaster, it is incinerated to such a degree it changes species. Phenomenal! Except, at which millisecond is the bread no longer bread? We discuss. As Samuel L. Jackson says in Jurassic Park from 1993: “Hold on to your butts”.
When Does Bread Become Toast?
There are big questions such as “are we alone in the universe” (no – there are, like, 100 trillion planets out there, stupid), “what came first, the chicken or the egg?” (amoebic life forms, dumbass), and “what killed off the dinosaurs?” (gentrification, of course) – we’re more interested in bread and toast.
Bread is made by mixing flour with eggs, yeast, salt, and (in the absence of the eggs and salt) glue. It is a tasty product which has satiated human beings for millennia. You know your great, great, great, great grandparents? They ate bread at least once in their lives. Interesting, huh? They didn’t own a toaster, however, as they were only invented by the Scottish in 1893. Thanks, Scotland!
As for our most pertinent question, we took to some extensive theorising and carried out several tests to determine when bread becomes toast – precisely! The best option, we figured, was to get up close and personal and watch the bread toasting away. Unfortunately, this led to Mr. Wapojif (our esteemed editor) catching fire. He now has singed eyebrows and a third-degree burn in the middle of his forehead.
Next up, we decided to film it with our iPhone. So we inserted a piece of bread with our iPhone attached (with record on, of course, we’re not stupid!) and awaited the results. Unfortunately, this led to a severe amounts of choking black smoke pulsing out of the toaster and, again unfortunately, severe damage to the smartphone. We are now suing Apple for not making its phones toaster-proof.
Can You reverse The Toasting Process?
We abandoned our experiments immediately after these disasters to focus on whether or not one could subvert reality again and turn toast back into bread (kind of like what Adam Sandler has done to his acting career – toast is better than bread). Sadly, once a piece of bread has been toasted there is no physical way for you to make the aforementioned piece of toast a piece of bread again. It is a tragedy, but if you require further bread, go to your local store and buy some. It’s as simple as this.
As for French baguettes… we can only shudder in horror at the unholy, nightmarish process physics forces upon the flour to create that thing. What utter torment the flour must go through! Still, baguettes are really bloody tasty. Like, Mr. Wapojif’s brain is watering simply thinking about the stuff right now. Dammit, why is England so rubbish at making baguettes?! That’s another post for another day.
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The Quinism Foundation Partners with Spartan Wellness to Assist in Screening Canadian Veterans for a History of Symptomatic Mefloquine Exposure
Following the announcement of its recent partnership with Lifemark Health Group, The Quinism Foundation has licensed its two-question White River Mefloquine Instrument (WRMI-2) to Spartan Wellness, a Canadian provider of specialty health care to Canadian veterans, to assist providers at this organization in screening veterans for a history of symptomatic exposure to mefloquine.
Spartan Wellness CEO and co-founder Riad Byne joined executive director Dr. Remington Nevin on the steps of Parliament Hill, in Ottawa, Canada, in making the announcement, which comes on the same day that The Quinism Foundation issued a formal call to Veterans Affairs Canada to screen all recent Canadian veterans for this exposure.
“The Quinism Foundation is proud to partner with Spartan Wellness in helping to ensure all recent Canadian veterans are properly screened for a history of symptomatic exposure,” said Dr. Nevin.
“If the veteran reports symptomatic exposure on the WRMI-2,” said Dr. Nevin, “clinicians should retain an index of suspicion that any chronic neurologic or psychiatric symptoms, including those reported, could represent effects of mefloquine poisoning, a medical condition also known as chronic quinoline encephalopathy or neuropsychiatric quinism.”
Mefloquine has been widely prescribed to members of the Canadian Armed Forces on overseas deployments since the early 1990s. Health Canada now warns that mefloquine can cause several potentially permanent and disabling conditions.
“In 2017, Health Canada required that the patient medication information for mefloquine be updated to warn that in some people, dizziness, vertigo, tinnitus, and loss of balance may become permanent. Health Canada has warned that mefloquine can cause other serious side effects, including mental problems,” said Dr. Nevin. “Health Canada has also warned that symptoms of these mental problems can include severe anxiety, unusual changes in mood, panic attacks, feeling confused or disoriented, and experiencing thoughts of suicide. Health Canada states that these symptoms may last for years after stopping mefloquine.”
Annual Canadian Educational Meeting Recap
The Quinism Foundation presented its first Annual Canadian Educational Meeting at the Royal Canadian Legion Dominion Command, outside of Ottawa, Canada. Attendees at the educational meeting included advisory committee member Marj Matchee, shown here with executive director Dr. Nevin.
Archived footage of the afternoon of lectures is available for viewing on The Quinism Foundation’s Facebook page. We thank the Royal Canadian Legion for their exceptional generosity and hospitality in providing meeting space, and for their continued support of calls for further research into mefloquine poisoning.
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Quotes & Sayings About Not Being Afraid To Be Yourself
Enjoy reading and share 72 famous quotes about Not Being Afraid To Be Yourself with everyone.
You have to be consistent. You have to be yourself. You have to be committed to what you're doing. You have to not be afraid to be ambitious. — Roxane Gay
I am not a romantic leading man anymore so I don't need to nurture that public image anymore. I can talk about it now because I'm not afraid anymore ... When I grew up, being gay, being sissy or anything like that, was verboten. I disliked myself intensely and feared this part of myself intensely, and had to hide it and became 'Perfect Richard, All-American Boy' as a place to hide. — Richard Chamberlain
Of course: because it was in one of the camps that he went blind. They had performed some failed experiment on his eyes in the camp.
'No, not summer camp,' Franny had to tell Lilly, who had always been afraid of being sent to summer camp, and was unsurprised to hear that they tortured the campers. — John Irving
Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don't want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you're doing here. Believe in kissing. — Eve Ensler
The advice I would give would be to know that it's ok and natural to be nervous. The key is to rehearse, always be yourself and don't be afraid to not be perfect as we all make mistakes. — Tweet
To ignore death and to be afraid of it is dumb because everyone is going to face it at some point. If you look at death and the reality of it, you realize that we're all going to die, so let's use this time on Earth to be positive and do good things. — Ray Toro
Your objective is to avoid being on a string.
The first step, I think, is to get over the fear of losing a man by confronting him. Just stop being afraid, already. The most successful people in this world recognize that taking chances to get what they want is much more productive than sitting around being too scared to take a shot. The same philosophy can be applied to dating: if putting your requirements on the table means you risk him walking away, it's a risk you have to take. Because that fear can trip you up every time; all too many of you let the guy get away with disrespecting you, putting in minimal effort and holding on to the commitment to you because you're afraid he's going to walk away and you'll be alone again. And we men? We recognize this and play on it, big time. — Steve Harvey
In order to deal with the fear of annihilation you have to face annihilation again and again and again. It's not enough just to understand this intellectually. It's not enough just to read about this. You need to watch yourself being annihilated right now. If you can manage to sit quietly as you disappear from existence moment by moment, then you can see it's really nothing to be afraid of. You gotta meditate. Nobody likes to hear that. But it's true. — Brad Warner
Am I doomed? Flashing darkness is pretty much the same as flashing light really. Fear isn't at all the same as courage but after a certain point perhaps being afraid of everything is the same as being afraid of nothing. — Russell Hoban
I haven't noticed you being slammed into anyone's locker lately. (Nick)
That's because you're not around me all the time. Trust me. Life's not easy for anyone. Everyone has scars they're afraid to show and we all get slammed headfirst into a proverbial locker from time to time by someone bigger and badder. (Caleb) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Do you know what it is you're most afraid of?"
"I'm afraid of being forgotten," Bob said, and having admitted that, wondered if it was true. He said, "I'm afraid I'll end up living a life like everyone else's and me being Bob Ford won't matter one way or the other. — Ron Hansen
"You shouldn't feel so bad about being afraid of so many things." "Why not?" "Because if you weren't afraid never ever, then you couldn't be brave never ever. — C. JoyBell C.
Al-Qa'idah was set up to wage a jihad against infidelity, particularly to encounter the onslaught of the infidel countries against the Islamic states. Jihad is the sixth undeclared element of Islam. The first five being the basic holy words of Islam, prayers, fast, pilgrimage to Mecca, and giving alms Every anti-Islamic person is afraid of it. Al-Qa'idah wants to keep this element alive and active and make it part of the daily life of the Muslims. It wants to give it the status of worship. We are not against any Islamic country nor we consider a war against an Islamic country as jihad. — Osama Bin Laden
You speak of being afraid. Yet fear is something you generate in yourself, from your mind's lack of control; and you will learn to look at it and discover for yourself when you choose to be afraid. The first thing you must do is acknowledge that the fear is yours, and you can bid it come and go at will. Begin with this; whenever you feel fear that prevents choice say to yourself: 'What has made me feel fear? Why have I chosen to feel this fear preventing my choice, instead of feeling the freedom to choose?' Fear is a way of not allowing yourself to choose freely what you will do next; a way of letting your body's reflexes, not the needs of your mind, choose for you ... [Y]ou have chosen to do nothing, so that none of the things you fear will come upon you; so your choices are not made by you but by your fear ... I cannot promise to free you of your fear, only that a time will come when you are the master, and fear will not paralyze you. — Marion Zimmer Bradley
Don't be afraid to be yourself just because you're not like everybody else in class. If you want to dye your hair green and that's what makes you happy, then dye your hair green, no matter what other people might say about it. Not everybody is going to like you - that's the world we live in; that's reality. — Rihanna
Find someone who makes you laugh, allows you to be silly & be yourself, loves you when your at your best but loves you more when your not, kisses or touches you for no reason, looks at you in a way only you know what they're thinking and communicates with you in away your never afraid to share yourself. — Michelle Morse
Fear's a box we grow used to, convince ourselves it's all the space we need, that we like its color, its smell, its protection. Comes a time to stop hiding, stop being afraid. If we don't break free of our boxes, our spirits' shrink, we shrink in every way imaginable. Oh, Grace, my friend, don't let fear, especially someone else's fear, prevent you from living your life. — Joan Medlicott
When you stop being afraid you feel good — Spencer Johnson
Ignorance is the parent of fear, and being completely nonplussed and confounded about the stranger, I confess I was now as much afraid of him as if it was the devil himself who had thus broken into my room at the dead of night. — Herman Melville
The path to wisdom is not being afraid to make mistakes. — Paulo Coelho
I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. I get up early in the morning and go to work. I love to write. — David Mamet
The pathologized images have moved the soul in several ways: we are afraid; we feel vulnerable and in danger; our very physical sustance and sanity appear to be menaced; we want to prevent or rectify. Especially this last seizes us. We feel protective, impelled to correct, straighten, repair. For we have confused something sick with something wrong. [ ... ]
affliction reaches us partly through the guilt it brings. Guilt belongs to the experiences of deviation, the the sense of being off, failing, 'missing the mark'. [ ... ]
However the true missing of the mark is taking the guilt literally, where failings becomes faults to be set right. This places the guilt on the shoulders of the ego who 'should not' have failed. Then pathologizing reinforces the ego's style and guilt serves a secondary gain, increasing the ego's sense of importance: ego becomes superego, drivenly busy with repairing wrongs. A guilty ego is no less egocentric than a proud one. — James Hillman
The inner life is bruised by a running against the laws of the Kingdom. The bruises are guilt complexes, a sense of inferiority, of missing the mark, of being out of harmony with God and with oneself, a sense of wrongness. Divine forgiveness wipes out all that sense of inner hurt and condemnation. Brings a sense of at-homeness- at home with God and oneself and with life. The universe opens its arms and takes one in. You are accepted- by God, by yourself, and by life. All self-loathing, self-rejection, all inferiorities drop away. You are a child of God; born from above, you walk the earth, a conqueror, afraid of nothing. Healed at the heart, you can say to life: Come on, I'm ready for anything. — E. Stanley Jones
A book is a delicate friend, a white bird, an exquisite being, afraid of water.
Darling things! Afraid of water, of fire, They shiver in the wind. Clumsy, crude human fingers leave bruises on them that'll never fade! Never!
Some people touch books without washing their hands!
Some underline things in ink!
Some even tear pages out! — Tatyana Tolstaya
'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.' — John Abbott
He considered the hard times in his life. All the things he had been afraid of. All those years wasted, he told himself, because I was terrified of being different. That's why all us fifty-four-year-olds end up looking so much alike. All of us are terrified of being different. — Stuart McLean
People always ask me, 'Lech, aren't you afraid of being killed?' And as an answer I shrug my shoulders. — Lech Walesa
As an actor, you can't play big, huge things. But, what you can play is love for your father and caring for your daughter and being afraid, and having to dig deep and find out what you're made of. All of those things have been incredibly fun to play. — Kristin Bauer Van Straten
My first open mic, I drank a full pitcher of beer by myself. I wasn't afraid of being in front of people as much as, Is this funny? — Doug Stanhope
His father placed his elbows on the table and leaned toward him. "We need to know if you are simply ordinary or larger than life." To the best of his ability, he mulled over the notion of being larger than life. "Did you have to go there when you were young?" His father nodded. "Were you afraid?" His father sat back into his tall, brocaded armchair, as if in recall. "In the beginning I was. Until I learned to overcome fear. — James Luceno
I was afraid to fall asleep, but staying awake also brought back painful memories. Memories I sometimes wish I could wash away, even though I am aware that they are an important part of what my life is; who I am now. I stayed up all night, anxiously waiting for daylight, so that I could fully return to my new life, to rediscover happiness I had known as a child, the joy that had stayed alive inside me even through times when being alive itself became a burden. These days I live in three worlds: my dreams, and the experiences of my new life, which trigger memories from the past. — Ishmael Beah
So all I have is the knowledge that I saw! That I saw without being afraid and without turning away, and that I didn't forgive the unforgivable. Forgiveness is a reflex for when you can't stand what you know. I resisted that reflex. That's my sole, solitary, lonely accomplishment. — Jane Smiley
Aren't you afraid, though?" Ayumi asked Aomame.
"Afraid of what?"
"Don't you see? You and he might never cross paths again. Of course, a chance meeting could occur, and I hope it happens. I really do, for your sake. But realistically speaking, you have to see there's a huge possibility you'll never be able to meet him again. And even if you do meet, he might already be married to somebody else. He might have two kids. Isn't that so? And in that case, you may have to live the rest of your life alone, never being joined with the one person you love in all the world. Don't you find that scary?
Aomame stared at the red wine in her glass. "Maybe I do," she said. "But at least I have someone I love. — Haruki Murakami
Dread was always with her, an alarm system in her head, alert
to her next disaster.
Despite being resigned to a life of misfortune, she became
resourceful.
She grudgingly noticed that things always worked out, even
when she claimed defeat.
An inconvenient truth, yet it was right there, in her face,
betraying her self-punishments and assumptions.
She kept overcoming things, dammit, aggravating herself.
She still felt so much joy, despite her efforts to be miserable.
Her life was full of miracles and spectacles that she was afraid
to rely on so she didn't know how to enjoy, how to be thankful,
without guilt.
She didn't want to win and she didn't want to lose.
Ambiguity intrigued her and she found passion in the gaps
between hope and despair. — G.G. Renee Hill
Don't try to be unafraid. That is impossible. Rather, go ahead while being afraid. That is the entire secret for abolishing fear. The Supermind teaches us to have no self-concern at all. Whatever happens to you, act as though it happened to someone else. — Vernon Howard
And it was respect he needed, infinitely more than love. Just not to have to worry about whether people respect you. Not ever to have to feel that people are being nice to you because they are sorry for you, or afraid of you. — James Agee
It's like being dropped into a black hole. A vacuum of existence. When I turn around, I will be instantly orphaned because I'll know no one can hack it. And no one is in charge. But it's worse than being orphaned because at the same time I am tethered to his failure. His problems are tied around my heart. I will never get away. I am afraid. But I turn around. — Wendy Wunder
I feel like saying: Yes, I did something I shouldn't have done and yet I don't feel the tiniest bit guilty, just afraid of being found out. — Paulo Coelho
I tell you that I like being this close to you and how you feel against me. But now even I'm hesitant. I'm afraid that when we hit the ground, this will be over. We'll land and this feeling between us will vanish. That you won't feel it any longer. I can't stand that thought. — Jessica Park
Just is not by other men of intelligence that an intelligent an is afraid of being thought a fool, so it is not by the great gentleman but by boors and 'bounders' that a man of fashion is afraid of finding his social value underrated. Three-fourths of the mental ingenuity displayed, of the social falsehoods scattered broadcast ever since the world began by people whose importance they have served only to diminish, have been aimed at inferiors. — Marcel Proust
How tragic that the very thing that could set us free-playing the fool-is the thing we will not do. When we're afraid to be fools, we end up being afraid to be anything. — Mike Mason
Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own Death, which no Man fears by Experience. — Thomas Browne
Keesha looked at me for a long time. "I did leave you alone. We all did. But you didn't get better. You didn't stop. You're still doin' all your weird shit. And I think it's time to stop."
"You think it's time to stop!" I exploded, and lunged at her with my hands outstretched. I pushed her real hard. She almost fell down. "I don't care what time you think it is!" I screamed. "Do you think I want to do this! Do you think I like it?"
"You pushed me!"
"Yeah. So what?"
"You're so afraid of being interrupted that you pushed me!"
"I'm not scared of being interrupted, you jerk! I'm ... I'm scared ... I'm scared of being." I crumpled into a ball and sat down where I was standing. I sat on a crack. Unevenly.
"Who are you anymore, Tara?"
Tears spilled over my frozen lashes and disappeared across my cheekbones. I had never felt so defeated. "I don't know. — Terry Spencer Hesser
Well, in my experience, it's usually the things we're most afraid of that end up being the most worthwhile. — Julie Johnson
I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons. — Erich Segal
Give voice to what you know to be true, and do not be afraid of being disliked or exiled. I think that's the hard work of standing up for what you see. — Eve Ensler
The beauty of ideas is that they are like waves in the ocean and they connect with things that came before them, and I think it is very important to embrace things that interest you and influence you, and incorporate them into what you do, as all artists have always done. The ones that say they don't, are lying. Or are afraid that their work won't be seen as being original, somehow. — Jim Jarmusch
Are you that afraid of being wrong? One would assume you'd be accustomed to it by now."
He grunted. "Be careful, girl. You wouldn't want to accidentally insult a man."
"The last thing I'd want to do is accidentally insult you, Vathah," Shallan said. "To think that I
couldn't manage it on purpose if I wanted! — Brandon Sanderson
To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond. If I look at my most vulnerable places and acknowledge the pain I have felt, I can remove the source of that pain from my enemies' arsenals. My history cannot be used to feather my enemies' arrows then, and that lessens their power over me. Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me. I am who I am, doing what I came to do, acting upon you like a drug or a chisel to remind you of your me-ness, as I discover you in myself. — Audre Lorde
Why are so many people afraid to take such small steps to help others? One of the most common reasons is that they are just embarrassed to be doing something they're uncertain about. They're afraid of being rejected or appearing foolish. But you know what? If you want to play the game and win, you've got to play "full out." You've got to be willing to feel stupid, and you've got to be willing to try things that might not work - and if they don't work, be willing to change your approach. Otherwise, how could you innovate, how could you grow, how could you discover who you really are? — Anthony Robbins
In Japan, however, if you against someone and create a bad atmosphere, your relations may break-off completely. People tend to react emotionally, and most are afraid of being excluded from the group. — Roger J. Davies
You should never be afraid to be yourself, under any circumstances. The genre of cool is fleeting. What's cool today will not be cool a year from now. If you're yourself, you'll be at peace with yourself. — Jaleel White
I want my girls to love math. I want them to think that being a scientist is the coolest possible job on the planet. I want them to not be afraid to lean toward their femininity. — Jennifer Garner
Being afraid to tell the truth because of the projected consequences, whatever it may be, shows a lack of faith and an abundance of fear. — Monica Johnson
The recruit who reports for active duty at the beginning of the war can in some instances be afraid of death, but more often he is 'afraid of being afraid'; that is, he is filled with anguish before himself. — Jean-Paul Sartre
but he was afraid of being insincere and telling lies in the presence of death. It was on a fine winter's day, shot through with sunlight. In the pale blue sky, you could sense the cold all spangled with yellow. The cemetery overlooked the town, and you could see the fine transparent sun setting in the bay quivering with light, like a moist lip. — Albert Camus
I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical. — Catherine Deneuve
Courage is when you dare to be yourself, in whatever ways you want to be - to not be afraid, to just do it. — Loung Ung
Being scared is normal. My technique for erasing it is facing it. Be afraid and brave. Be nervous and courageous. The first few minutes of being scared is your test to see if you're really serious about reaching a goal. Push through anxiety and come out victorious. Fear is just a test. Honor the feeling. Know it's there. Know it's temporary. Face it to erase it. — Chrisette Michele
Also in the boom of the big bell there is a quaintness of tone which wakens feelings, so strangely far-away from all the nineteenth-century part of me, that the faint blind stirrings of them make me afraid, - deliciously afraid. never do I hear that billowing peal but I become aware of a striving and a fluttering in the abyssal part of my ghost, - a sensation as of memories struggling to reach the light beyond the obscurations of a million million deaths and births. I hope to remain within hearing of that bell ... and, considering the possibility of being doomed to the state of a jiki-ketsu-geki, I want to have my chance of being reborn in some bamboo flower-cup, or mizutame, whence I might issue softly, singing my thin and pungent song, to bite some people that I know. — Lafcadio Hearn
When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dynamic nature of your own being and of reality, you increase your capacity to love and care about other people and your capacity to not be afraid. You're able to keep your eyes open, your heart open, and your mind open. And you notice when you get caught up in prejudice, bias, and aggression. You develop an enthusiasm for no longer watering those negative seeds, from now until the day you die. And, you begin to think of your life as offering endless opportunities to start to do things differently. — Pema Chodron
Simply put, to be intimate means to allow yourself to be known - fully and deeply, in every way. I often explain this concept using the familiar saying that intimacy implies "into-me-see." This means not being afraid to let others see you for who you really are, which is the essence of being real and transparent. It means being honest about your strengths and your weaknesses; it means not trying to hide your flaws and not being bashful about your significant accomplishments. It also means being open about your hopes and dreams, and about your fears and concerns. In addition, being intimate means consistently offering the real you to another person who is also willing to be real and transparent. To be intimate with another human being is to communicate, in many different ways: "This is who I am. This is everything I am and this is all I am - nothing more, nothing less, nothing better, nothing worse. — Van Moody
My advice and wish to every woman in my country and in the world is very simple: Do not be afraid to be yourself, to have your dream, your vision, and to go for it. We can achieve a lot if we are sincerely committed to our goals and work hard to realize them. — Dalia Grybauskaite
Don't hold back because you're afraid of hurting someone else. If your best friend wants to be a cheerleader and you make the team but she doesn't, don't feel guilty. If you end up earning more than your sister, it's not a betrayal. Your success might be an inspiration for someone else, while limiting yourself to avoid upsetting the balance doesn't help anyone. Equally, rather than being paralysed by jealousy when someone else is coming out on top, use it to spur you on to greater things. Some of our best achievements will be triggered by envy at seeing someone else fulfilling our secret ambitions. — Rosie Blythe
Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not
they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry
I call them the laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves alone, and don't find themselves at all. I hate this moral agoraphobia
it's the worst kind of cowardice. You can't create something without being alone. But who's trying to create here? What seems different in yourself: that's the one rare thing you possess, the one thing which gives each of us his worth; and that's just what we try to suppress. We imitate. And we claim to love life. — Andre Gide
Understand: people judge you by appearances, the image you project through your
actions, words, and style. If you do not take control of this process, then people will see
and define you the way they want to, often to your detriment. You might think that
being consistent with this image will make others respect and trust you, but in fact it is
the opposite - over time you seem predictable and weak. Consistency is an illusion
anyway - each passing day brings changes within you. You must not be afraid to
express these evolutions. The powerful learn early in life that they have the freedom to
mold their image, fitting the needs and moods of the moment. In this way, they keep
others off balance and maintain an air of mystery. You must follow this path and find
great pleasure in reinventing yourself, as if you were the author writing your own
drama — 50 Cent
I know that it can be hard to believe that someone loves you if you are afraid of being yourself, or if you are not exactly sure who you are. It can be hard to believe that someone won't leave. — Ava Dellaira
You must not be too severe upon yourself," replied Elizabeth.
Say nothing of that. Who should suffer but myself? It has been my own doing, and I ought to feel it." You may well warn me against such an evil. Human nature is so prone to fall into it! No, Lizzy, let me once in my life feel how much I have been to blame. I am not afraid of being overpowered by the impression. It will pass away soon enough. — Jane Austen
You should never be afraid to give yourself a chance to be everything you are capable of being. If you think you're not good enough, you'll surprise yourself if you keep trying. No one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong. Everyone has their own dreams, their own struggles and a different path that makes sense for them. Remember, it's always better to be at the bottom of the mountain you want to climb than the top of the one you don't. — Anonymous
Whipping your hair means not being afraid to be yourself. — Willow Smith
Someone once told me not to be afraid of being afraid, because, as she said, 'Anxiety is a glimpse of your own daring.' Isn't that great? It means that part of your agitation is just excitement about what you're getting ready to accomplish. Don't sell yourself short by being so afraid of failure that you don't dare to make any mistakes. Make your mistakes and learn from them. And remember: No matter how many mistakes you make, your mother always loves you! — Maria Shriver
You could just do the work, you know,' I say. 'You could make better decisions, make a better life.'
'Yeah, I could,' he says. 'But I won't. We both know that.'
I do know that. I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten. He is afraid that he will not be able to put in that work, that he will squander those days, and that they will leave him worse off than he is now. And I understand that feeling - I understand being afraid of yourself. — Veronica Roth
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Effect of a treat-to-target strategy based on methotrexate and intra-articular betamethasone with or without additional cyclosporin on MRI-assessed synovitis, osteitis, tenosynovitis, bone erosion, and joint space narrowing in early rheumatoid arthritis: results from a 2-year randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial (CIMESTRA)
Møller-Bisgaard, S, Ejbjerg, BJ, Eshed, I, Hørslev-Petersen, K, Hetland, ML, Jurik, AG, Thomsen, H, Torfing, T, Stengaard-Pedersen, K, Junker, P, Krogh, NS, Lottenburger, T, Ellingsen, T, Andersen, LS, Skjødt, H, Svendsen, AJ, Tarp, U, Hansen, IT, Pødenphanth, J, Pedersen, JK, Lindegaard, H, Hanson, LG, Vestergaard, A, Glinatsi, D & Østergaard, M 2017, 'Effect of a treat-to-target strategy based on methotrexate and intra-articular betamethasone with or without additional cyclosporin on MRI-assessed synovitis, osteitis, tenosynovitis, bone erosion, and joint space narrowing in early rheumatoid arthritis: results from a 2-year randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial (CIMESTRA)' Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology, vol. 46, no. 5, pp. 335-345. https://doi.org/10.1080/03009742.2016.1209550
Møller-Bisgaard, S., Ejbjerg, B. J., Eshed, I., Hørslev-Petersen, K., Hetland, M. L., Jurik, A. G., ... Østergaard, M. (2017). Effect of a treat-to-target strategy based on methotrexate and intra-articular betamethasone with or without additional cyclosporin on MRI-assessed synovitis, osteitis, tenosynovitis, bone erosion, and joint space narrowing in early rheumatoid arthritis: results from a 2-year randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial (CIMESTRA). Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology, 46(5), 335-345. https://doi.org/10.1080/03009742.2016.1209550
Møller-Bisgaard S, Ejbjerg BJ, Eshed I, Hørslev-Petersen K, Hetland ML, Jurik AG, Thomsen H, Torfing T, Stengaard-Pedersen K, Junker P, Krogh NS, Lottenburger T, Ellingsen T, Andersen LS, Skjødt H, Svendsen AJ, Tarp U, Hansen IT, Pødenphanth J, Pedersen JK, Lindegaard H, Hanson LG, Vestergaard A, Glinatsi D, Østergaard M. 2017. Effect of a treat-to-target strategy based on methotrexate and intra-articular betamethasone with or without additional cyclosporin on MRI-assessed synovitis, osteitis, tenosynovitis, bone erosion, and joint space narrowing in early rheumatoid arthritis: results from a 2-year randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial (CIMESTRA). Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology. 46(5):335-345. https://doi.org/10.1080/03009742.2016.1209550
Møller-Bisgaard, S et al. "Effect of a treat-to-target strategy based on methotrexate and intra-articular betamethasone with or without additional cyclosporin on MRI-assessed synovitis, osteitis, tenosynovitis, bone erosion, and joint space narrowing in early rheumatoid arthritis: results from a 2-year randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial (CIMESTRA)". Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology. 2017, 46(5). 335-345. https://doi.org/10.1080/03009742.2016.1209550
Møller-Bisgaard S, Ejbjerg BJ, Eshed I, Hørslev-Petersen K, Hetland ML, Jurik AG et al. Effect of a treat-to-target strategy based on methotrexate and intra-articular betamethasone with or without additional cyclosporin on MRI-assessed synovitis, osteitis, tenosynovitis, bone erosion, and joint space narrowing in early rheumatoid arthritis: results from a 2-year randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial (CIMESTRA). Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology. 2017 Oct 1;46(5):335-345. https://doi.org/10.1080/03009742.2016.1209550
Møller-Bisgaard, S ; Ejbjerg, B J ; Eshed, I ; Hørslev-Petersen, K ; Hetland, M L ; Jurik, A G ; Thomsen, H ; Torfing, T ; Stengaard-Pedersen, K ; Junker, P ; Krogh, N S ; Lottenburger, T ; Ellingsen, T ; Andersen, L S ; Skjødt, H ; Svendsen, A J ; Tarp, U ; Hansen, I T ; Pødenphanth, Jan ; Pedersen, J K ; Lindegaard, H ; Hanson, L G ; Vestergaard, A ; Glinatsi, D ; Østergaard, M. / Effect of a treat-to-target strategy based on methotrexate and intra-articular betamethasone with or without additional cyclosporin on MRI-assessed synovitis, osteitis, tenosynovitis, bone erosion, and joint space narrowing in early rheumatoid arthritis: results from a 2-year randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial (CIMESTRA). In: Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology. 2017 ; Vol. 46, No. 5. pp. 335-345.
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abstract = "OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether a treat-to-target strategy based on methotrexate (MTX) and intra-articular (IA) betamethasone suppresses magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-determined measures of disease activity and reduces joint destruction in early rheumatoid arthritis (eRA) patients, and to investigate whether concomitant cyclosporin A (CyA) provides an additional effect.METHOD: In the 2-year randomized, double-blind, treat-to-target trial CIMESTRA, 160 patients with eRA (< 6 months) were randomized to MTX, intra-articular betamethasone and CyA, or placebo CyA. A total of 129 patients participated in the MRI substudy, and had contrast-enhanced MR images of the non-dominant hand at months 0, 6, 12, and 24. MR images were evaluated for osteitis, synovitis, tenosynovitis, bone erosion, and joint space narrowing (JSN), using validated scoring methods.RESULTS: Significant reductions were seen at 6 months in all inflammatory parameters [synovitis, mean change -1.6 (p < 0.001, Wilcoxon), tenosynovitis, -3.5 (p < 0.001), and osteitis, -1.3 (p < 0.05)] and at 12/24 months in synovitis and tenosynovitis [-1.6/-2.2 and -3.6/-3.8, respectively; all p < 0.001]. MRI signs of inflammation were not fully eliminated, and increases in erosion and JSN scores were observed at 6 months [0.4 (p < 0.01)/0.1 (p < 0.05)], 12 months [0.8 (p < 0.001)/0.3 (p < 0.01)], and 24 months [1.0 (p < 0.001)/0.4 (p < 0.001)]. Clinical measures decreased significantly (p < 0.001) at all time points. There were no consistent statistically significant differences between treatment groups.CONCLUSIONS: In this eRA treat-to-target trial, MTX and intra-articular glucocorticoids markedly reduced, but did not eliminate, MRI osteitis, synovitis, and tenosynovitis. Accordingly, minimal but statistically significant increases in bone erosion and JSN were observed. No additional effect of CyA was demonstrated.",
author = "S M{\o}ller-Bisgaard and Ejbjerg, {B J} and I Eshed and K H{\o}rslev-Petersen and Hetland, {M L} and Jurik, {A G} and H Thomsen and T Torfing and K Stengaard-Pedersen and P Junker and Krogh, {N S} and T Lottenburger and T Ellingsen and Andersen, {L S} and H Skj{\o}dt and Svendsen, {A J} and U Tarp and Hansen, {I T} and Jan P{\o}denphanth and Pedersen, {J K} and H Lindegaard and Hanson, {L G} and A Vestergaard and D Glinatsi and M {\O}stergaard",
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journal = "Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology",
T1 - Effect of a treat-to-target strategy based on methotrexate and intra-articular betamethasone with or without additional cyclosporin on MRI-assessed synovitis, osteitis, tenosynovitis, bone erosion, and joint space narrowing in early rheumatoid arthritis: results from a 2-year randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial (CIMESTRA)
AU - Møller-Bisgaard, S
AU - Ejbjerg, B J
AU - Eshed, I
AU - Hørslev-Petersen, K
AU - Hetland, M L
AU - Jurik, A G
AU - Thomsen, H
AU - Torfing, T
AU - Stengaard-Pedersen, K
AU - Junker, P
AU - Krogh, N S
AU - Lottenburger, T
AU - Ellingsen, T
AU - Andersen, L S
AU - Skjødt, H
AU - Svendsen, A J
AU - Tarp, U
AU - Hansen, I T
AU - Pødenphanth, Jan
AU - Pedersen, J K
AU - Lindegaard, H
AU - Hanson, L G
AU - Vestergaard, A
AU - Glinatsi, D
AU - Østergaard, M
N1 - COPECARE
N2 - OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether a treat-to-target strategy based on methotrexate (MTX) and intra-articular (IA) betamethasone suppresses magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-determined measures of disease activity and reduces joint destruction in early rheumatoid arthritis (eRA) patients, and to investigate whether concomitant cyclosporin A (CyA) provides an additional effect.METHOD: In the 2-year randomized, double-blind, treat-to-target trial CIMESTRA, 160 patients with eRA (< 6 months) were randomized to MTX, intra-articular betamethasone and CyA, or placebo CyA. A total of 129 patients participated in the MRI substudy, and had contrast-enhanced MR images of the non-dominant hand at months 0, 6, 12, and 24. MR images were evaluated for osteitis, synovitis, tenosynovitis, bone erosion, and joint space narrowing (JSN), using validated scoring methods.RESULTS: Significant reductions were seen at 6 months in all inflammatory parameters [synovitis, mean change -1.6 (p < 0.001, Wilcoxon), tenosynovitis, -3.5 (p < 0.001), and osteitis, -1.3 (p < 0.05)] and at 12/24 months in synovitis and tenosynovitis [-1.6/-2.2 and -3.6/-3.8, respectively; all p < 0.001]. MRI signs of inflammation were not fully eliminated, and increases in erosion and JSN scores were observed at 6 months [0.4 (p < 0.01)/0.1 (p < 0.05)], 12 months [0.8 (p < 0.001)/0.3 (p < 0.01)], and 24 months [1.0 (p < 0.001)/0.4 (p < 0.001)]. Clinical measures decreased significantly (p < 0.001) at all time points. There were no consistent statistically significant differences between treatment groups.CONCLUSIONS: In this eRA treat-to-target trial, MTX and intra-articular glucocorticoids markedly reduced, but did not eliminate, MRI osteitis, synovitis, and tenosynovitis. Accordingly, minimal but statistically significant increases in bone erosion and JSN were observed. No additional effect of CyA was demonstrated.
AB - OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether a treat-to-target strategy based on methotrexate (MTX) and intra-articular (IA) betamethasone suppresses magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-determined measures of disease activity and reduces joint destruction in early rheumatoid arthritis (eRA) patients, and to investigate whether concomitant cyclosporin A (CyA) provides an additional effect.METHOD: In the 2-year randomized, double-blind, treat-to-target trial CIMESTRA, 160 patients with eRA (< 6 months) were randomized to MTX, intra-articular betamethasone and CyA, or placebo CyA. A total of 129 patients participated in the MRI substudy, and had contrast-enhanced MR images of the non-dominant hand at months 0, 6, 12, and 24. MR images were evaluated for osteitis, synovitis, tenosynovitis, bone erosion, and joint space narrowing (JSN), using validated scoring methods.RESULTS: Significant reductions were seen at 6 months in all inflammatory parameters [synovitis, mean change -1.6 (p < 0.001, Wilcoxon), tenosynovitis, -3.5 (p < 0.001), and osteitis, -1.3 (p < 0.05)] and at 12/24 months in synovitis and tenosynovitis [-1.6/-2.2 and -3.6/-3.8, respectively; all p < 0.001]. MRI signs of inflammation were not fully eliminated, and increases in erosion and JSN scores were observed at 6 months [0.4 (p < 0.01)/0.1 (p < 0.05)], 12 months [0.8 (p < 0.001)/0.3 (p < 0.01)], and 24 months [1.0 (p < 0.001)/0.4 (p < 0.001)]. Clinical measures decreased significantly (p < 0.001) at all time points. There were no consistent statistically significant differences between treatment groups.CONCLUSIONS: In this eRA treat-to-target trial, MTX and intra-articular glucocorticoids markedly reduced, but did not eliminate, MRI osteitis, synovitis, and tenosynovitis. Accordingly, minimal but statistically significant increases in bone erosion and JSN were observed. No additional effect of CyA was demonstrated.
JO - Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology
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Indigenous (im)mobilities in the Anthropocene
Samid Suliman, Carol Farbotko, Hedda Ransan-Cooper, Karen Elizabeth McNamara, Fanny THORNTON, Celia McMichael, Taukiei Kitara
Canberra Law School
This paper explores Indigenous (im)mobilities in the Anthropocene, and their relationship to Pacific Islands climate activism. In a context where Indigenous peoples and perspectives are poorly represented in global climate politics, it is important to understand how Pacific people represent their own interests and imagine their own futures as pressures to move due to climate change take hold. We examine political action outside of formal governance spaces and processes, in order to understand how Indigenous people are challenging state-centric approaches to climate change adaptation. We do so by studying the works of Pacific activists and artists who engage with climate change. We find that *banua–an expansive concept, inclusive of people and their place, attentive to both mobility and immobility, and distributed across the Pacific Islands region–is essential for the existential security of Pacific people and central to contemporary climate activism. We find that Pacific activists/artists are challenging the status quo by invoking *banua. In doing so, they are politicising (im)mobility. These mobilisations are coalescing into an Oceanic cosmopolitanism that confronts two mutually reinforcing features of contemporary global climate politics: the subordination of Indigenous peoples, perspectives and worldviews; and the marginalisation of (im)mobility concerns within the global climate agenda.
Published - 26 Apr 2019
marginalization
Suliman, S., Farbotko, C., Ransan-Cooper, H., McNamara, K. E., THORNTON, F., McMichael, C., & Kitara, T. (2019). Indigenous (im)mobilities in the Anthropocene. Mobilities, 14(3), 298-318. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2019.1601828
Suliman, Samid ; Farbotko, Carol ; Ransan-Cooper, Hedda ; McNamara, Karen Elizabeth ; THORNTON, Fanny ; McMichael, Celia ; Kitara, Taukiei . / Indigenous (im)mobilities in the Anthropocene. In: Mobilities. 2019 ; Vol. 14, No. 3. pp. 298-318.
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Indigenous (im)mobilities in the Anthropocene. / Suliman, Samid; Farbotko, Carol ; Ransan-Cooper, Hedda ; McNamara, Karen Elizabeth; THORNTON, Fanny; McMichael, Celia; Kitara, Taukiei .
In: Mobilities, Vol. 14, No. 3, 26.04.2019, p. 298-318.
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AU - Suliman, Samid
AU - Farbotko, Carol
AU - Ransan-Cooper, Hedda
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AU - THORNTON, Fanny
AU - McMichael, Celia
AU - Kitara, Taukiei
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KW - Anthropocene
KW - Mobility
KW - Oceanic cosmopolitanism
KW - Pacific Islands
UR - http://www.mendeley.com/research/indigenous-immobilities-anthropocene
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Suliman S, Farbotko C, Ransan-Cooper H, McNamara KE, THORNTON F, McMichael C et al. Indigenous (im)mobilities in the Anthropocene. Mobilities. 2019 Apr 26;14(3):298-318. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2019.1601828
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The effect of toe-clipping on the survival of gecko and skink species
Marion Hoehn, Klaus Henle, Bernd GRUBER
Ethics committees that are required to oversee research activities involving the capture and handling of wild animals tend to take a cautious attitude because little has been published that quantifies their effects on animals. However, to address questions in ecology and evolution, it is often essential to be able to identify individual animals. Toeclipping is one of the most commonly used marking techniques for individual identification of amphibians and reptiles. The effects of toe-clipping on survival have not been well studied. We used Cormack-Jolly-Seber mark-recapture models to estimate apparent survival (Φ) and the recapture probability (p) of an arboreal gecko species (Gehyra variegata) and a ground dwelling skink (Morethia boulengeri). We captured 551 geckos and 359 skinks over 12 y, individually marked them by clipping 1–7 toes, and we classified them as juvenile, sub-adult, or adult (stage). In G. variegata, the most parsimonious model included stage as the only factor affecting survival and year affecting capture probability. The best supported model that included the number of toes as a covariate was less than half as likely (ΔQAICc = 2.02) but still had a weight of 0.2. Hence, there is a probability that the number of toes clipped had an effect on survival, with the number of toes negatively affecting survival in juveniles and subadults. In M. boulengeri, the most parsimonious model was constant apparent survival rates and capture probabilities. There was no evidence of an effect of the number of toes clipped on survival probability.
Herpetological Conservation and Biology
Gekkonidae
arboreal species
survival rate
Hoehn, M., Henle, K., & GRUBER, B. (2015). The effect of toe-clipping on the survival of gecko and skink species. Herpetological Conservation and Biology, 10(1), 242-254.
Hoehn, Marion ; Henle, Klaus ; GRUBER, Bernd. / The effect of toe-clipping on the survival of gecko and skink species. In: Herpetological Conservation and Biology. 2015 ; Vol. 10, No. 1. pp. 242-254.
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The effect of toe-clipping on the survival of gecko and skink species. / Hoehn, Marion; Henle, Klaus; GRUBER, Bernd.
In: Herpetological Conservation and Biology, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2015, p. 242-254.
T1 - The effect of toe-clipping on the survival of gecko and skink species
AU - Hoehn, Marion
AU - Henle, Klaus
AU - GRUBER, Bernd
N2 - Ethics committees that are required to oversee research activities involving the capture and handling of wild animals tend to take a cautious attitude because little has been published that quantifies their effects on animals. However, to address questions in ecology and evolution, it is often essential to be able to identify individual animals. Toeclipping is one of the most commonly used marking techniques for individual identification of amphibians and reptiles. The effects of toe-clipping on survival have not been well studied. We used Cormack-Jolly-Seber mark-recapture models to estimate apparent survival (Φ) and the recapture probability (p) of an arboreal gecko species (Gehyra variegata) and a ground dwelling skink (Morethia boulengeri). We captured 551 geckos and 359 skinks over 12 y, individually marked them by clipping 1–7 toes, and we classified them as juvenile, sub-adult, or adult (stage). In G. variegata, the most parsimonious model included stage as the only factor affecting survival and year affecting capture probability. The best supported model that included the number of toes as a covariate was less than half as likely (ΔQAICc = 2.02) but still had a weight of 0.2. Hence, there is a probability that the number of toes clipped had an effect on survival, with the number of toes negatively affecting survival in juveniles and subadults. In M. boulengeri, the most parsimonious model was constant apparent survival rates and capture probabilities. There was no evidence of an effect of the number of toes clipped on survival probability.
AB - Ethics committees that are required to oversee research activities involving the capture and handling of wild animals tend to take a cautious attitude because little has been published that quantifies their effects on animals. However, to address questions in ecology and evolution, it is often essential to be able to identify individual animals. Toeclipping is one of the most commonly used marking techniques for individual identification of amphibians and reptiles. The effects of toe-clipping on survival have not been well studied. We used Cormack-Jolly-Seber mark-recapture models to estimate apparent survival (Φ) and the recapture probability (p) of an arboreal gecko species (Gehyra variegata) and a ground dwelling skink (Morethia boulengeri). We captured 551 geckos and 359 skinks over 12 y, individually marked them by clipping 1–7 toes, and we classified them as juvenile, sub-adult, or adult (stage). In G. variegata, the most parsimonious model included stage as the only factor affecting survival and year affecting capture probability. The best supported model that included the number of toes as a covariate was less than half as likely (ΔQAICc = 2.02) but still had a weight of 0.2. Hence, there is a probability that the number of toes clipped had an effect on survival, with the number of toes negatively affecting survival in juveniles and subadults. In M. boulengeri, the most parsimonious model was constant apparent survival rates and capture probabilities. There was no evidence of an effect of the number of toes clipped on survival probability.
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KW - Gehyra variegata
KW - Kinchega National Park
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JF - Herpetological Conservation and Biology
Hoehn M, Henle K, GRUBER B. The effect of toe-clipping on the survival of gecko and skink species. Herpetological Conservation and Biology. 2015;10(1):242-254.
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR | 187
A special form of acknowledgement
Mariluce Moura - Editor in chief
Almost by accident, preparing a given issue of Pesquisa FAPESP can sometimes turn out to be a rich source of learning about the scientific method and the temporary nature of scientific discoveries and truths. As I write these words, I recall a debate that occurred late in the afternoon on a day in April 2008, in Ibirapuera Park, on the following question: “Does the progress of science make mankind better? Why?” The event was part of the cultural program of the Genomic Revolution exhibition. Those giving speeches were the physicist Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz and the former senator Roberto Freire, chairman of the PPS party (the Socialist Popular Party). My recollections linger in particular over the point when the former, in the midst of references about the genial traits of the scientific method, summarized it as follows: “It’s a way of seeking knowledge that, right from the start, admits the existence of error, which must be overcome by new research – and so on, successively.”
What first drew my attention to the scientific method theme, while closing this issue, was the text prepared by our special editor, Marcos Pivetta, on an article about the mass of neutrinos, which the reader can check out, starting on page 44. To my mind, it clearly illustrates how science is constructed daily, causing certain propositions to advance, reviewing them experimentally, adjusting them and so on and so forth (revolutions are not an everyday thing; refer to old Thomas Kuhn). Then, the cover feature on mapping hepatitis in Brazil, based on studies designed to detect and understand the evolution of this disease, with its multiple origins and its various levels of seriousness, aroused my attention regarding this topic, as I was astonished to learn that 40% of the Brazilian population aged 5 to 19 apparently have already had contact with the hepatitis A virus. Might there be a statistical or research methodology error here, or something of a similar sort? Does coming into contact mean developing, at some point, a form of pathology due to the virus or simply harboring it harmlessly among the trillions of microorganisms that populate the human body for better or for worse? I did not bombard my own keys with questions, but our science editor, Ricardo Zorzetto, the author of the report, who reviewed his data and consulted his sources again. The percentage figure emerged from this checking process unscathed, as one can see starting on page 16. Actually, this figure already corrects data presented only slightly earlier by the World Health Organization (WHO).
There is one more highlight on the construction of scientific knowledge itself: the text by our scientific and technological policy editor, Fabrício Marques, about “hot” Brazilian articles, i.e., those that have been cited the most frequently according to a study of the areas in which Brazilian science has attained international visibility (page 32).
As for technology, I want to highlight the article on incorporating nanoparticles into the field of asepsis of medical and surgical tools, prepared by the area’s editor, Marcos de Oliveira, concerning dentistry tools with bacteria destroying surface nanoparticles, among other examples (page 62).
I also suggest that the reader take some time to read the interview with Israel Klabin, former businessperson and now an environmentalist, which he granted to our humanities editor, Carlos Haag. It is a surprising and stimulating interview in several ways (page 10). Lastly, I think it is well worth discovering the impressive poetic power of the writer Állex Leilla, in “A eternidade em carne viva,” on page 96. Fiction sometimes is also a means of acquiring knowledge.
<br><p>This work first appeared on <a href="http://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/">Pesquisa FAPESP</a> under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/">CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license</a>. Read the <a href="https://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/en/2011/09/01/a-special-form-of-acknowledgement/" target="_blank">original here</a>.</p><script>var img = new Image(); img.src='https://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/republicacao_frame?id=29017&referer=' + window.location.href;</script>
Almost by accident, preparing a given issue of Pesquisa FAPESP can sometimes turn out to be a rich source of learning about the scientific method and the temporary nature of scientific discoveries and truths. As I write these words, I recall a debate that occurred late in the afternoon on a day in April 2008, in Ibirapuera Park, on the following question: “Does the progress of science make mankind better? Why?” The event was part of the cultural program of the Genomic Revolution exhibition. Those giving speeches were the physicist Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz and the former senator Roberto Freire, chairman of the PPS party (the Socialist Popular Party). My recollections linger in particular over the point when the former, in the midst of references about the genial traits of the scientific method, summarized it as follows: “It’s a way of seeking knowledge that, right from the start, admits the existence of error, which must be overcome by new research – and so on, successively.” What first drew my attention to the scientific method theme, while closing this issue, was the text prepared by our special editor, Marcos Pivetta, on an article about the mass of neutrinos, which the reader can check out, starting on page 44. To my mind, it clearly illustrates how science is constructed daily, causing certain propositions to advance, reviewing them experimentally, adjusting them and so on and so forth (revolutions are not an everyday thing; refer to old Thomas Kuhn). Then, the cover feature on mapping hepatitis in Brazil, based on studies designed to detect and understand the evolution of this disease, with its multiple origins and its various levels of seriousness, aroused my attention regarding this topic, as I was astonished to learn that 40% of the Brazilian population aged 5 to 19 apparently have already had contact with the hepatitis A virus. Might there be a statistical or research methodology error here, or something of a similar sort? Does coming into contact mean developing, at some point, a form of pathology due to the virus or simply harboring it harmlessly among the trillions of microorganisms that populate the human body for better or for worse? I did not bombard my own keys with questions, but our science editor, Ricardo Zorzetto, the author of the report, who reviewed his data and consulted his sources again. The percentage figure emerged from this checking process unscathed, as one can see starting on page 16. Actually, this figure already corrects data presented only slightly earlier by the World Health Organization (WHO). There is one more highlight on the construction of scientific knowledge itself: the text by our scientific and technological policy editor, Fabrício Marques, about “hot” Brazilian articles, i.e., those that have been cited the most frequently according to a study of the areas in which Brazilian science has attained international visibility (page 32). As for technology, I want to highlight the article on incorporating nanoparticles into the field of asepsis of medical and surgical tools, prepared by the area’s editor, Marcos de Oliveira, concerning dentistry tools with bacteria destroying surface nanoparticles, among other examples (page 62). I also suggest that the reader take some time to read the interview with Israel Klabin, former businessperson and now an environmentalist, which he granted to our humanities editor, Carlos Haag. It is a surprising and stimulating interview in several ways (page 10). Lastly, I think it is well worth discovering the impressive poetic power of the writer Állex Leilla, in “A eternidade em carne viva,” on page 96. Fiction sometimes is also a means of acquiring knowledge.
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ARRA Investments in Bioengineering
Public Health Burden
Bioengineering combines the design and problem solving skills of engineering with the medical and biological sciences to improve healthcare. The field has made great contributions to saving and improving millions of lives worldwide through the development of biomedical technologies. The technologies that have been developed are too numerous to list but include such devices as the defibrillator, cardiac pacemaker, cochlear implant, artificial hips and knees, and vascular stents. The ARRA investment keeps the stream of innovative research flowing to develop additional biomedical devices for patients.
Technologies for Diagnosis and Treatment of Disease
The next generation of technologies for diagnosis and treatment of disease promise to be safer, less costly, minimally invasive, more precise and overall of higher value than current medical devices. The NIH, through ARRA, is funding the development of these promising technologies to enhance the diagnosis and treatment of many diseases and disorders. These include technologies in tissue engineering, in vitro diagnostics, drug delivery systems, and rehabilitation engineering as described below.
Regeneration of patient-specific temporomandibular joints (TMJ) by development of a novel stem cell source together with a supercritical fluid to engineer bone in a predetermined shape. Disorders of the TMJ affect more than 10 million Americans.1
Development of a high-throughput microfluidic system to study the effects of the cellular micro environment on embryonic stem cell differentiation for eventual applications in tissue engineering, regenerative medicine and cell based therapies for many diseases.2
Development of a rapid, accurate, and cost-effective cardiac profile sensing device for identifying acute myocardial infarction. Such a device could improve outcomes and decrease health care expenses.3
Development of a rapid, easy to use, very low cost, disposable paper diagnostic assay that can test for multiple disease conditions simultaneously for use at the point-of-care in low-resource settings. This research will contribute to moving medical diagnostic capabilities from the developed world centralized laboratory to rural and low-resource settings within the U.S. and in the developing world by turning expensive multi-step bioassays into inexpensive formats that require minimal investment and no maintenance.4
Design and synthesis of biomaterials for the development of new drug delivery systems capable of delivering toxic chemotherapy agents directly to tumor cells. This new delivery system will greatly lower the amount of drug needed, thus reducing health care costs, and will spare normal cells from the toxic effects of the therapy.5
Development of a new technology to assist individuals with severe neurological disorders allowing them to communicate their intentions and control their environments. The technology enables the tongue of the individual to wirelessly control a computer or smartphone thus reducing the need for continuous help which in turn will reduce healthcare costs.6
Technologies for Studying Human Physiology and Disease
In addition to the development of new technologies for diagnosis and treatment of human disease, another goal of bioengineering is the development and use of tools and methods of engineering to better understand human physiology and disease. NIH ARRA funds are being used to support such basic investigations including the following grants:
Computational modeling studies to investigate changes in the mechanical properties of red blood cells in malaria. The malarial parasite infects red blood cells and leads to changes in the mechanics of the cells reducing their ability to deform when going through small blood vessels which ultimately may keep them from being destroyed by the host. The knowledge gained could lead to the development of drugs to control this disease.7
Developing a microfabricated device to study the effects of hepatotoxicants on liver function. This new device will be used to determine how harmful substances affect the liver and its ability to regulate sugar levels in the body.8
Health Information Technologies
Health information technology and electronic health records (EHRs) may reduce health care costs and improve health care through more efficient and coordinated services. There are many current challenges involved in the development and implementation of EHRs. With ARRA funding, the NIH is addressing one of these challenges, the inclusion of radiology images within EHRs and electronic sharing of radiology images across health care institutions and vendor systems. This will improve the quality of patient care, reduce repeat/redundant imaging, and decrease healthcare costs. The funded grants include the following:
Establishment of a regional health image exchange system that services several large hospitals in the vicinity of Birmingham, AL. Once operational, the system will be scalable to service remote geographical areas of the state and beyond.9
Development and testing of a novel approach for sharing medical image data using a patient controlled exchange in rural and urban southeastern U.S., a diverse region with established unmet health care needs.10
1R21EB007313-01A2 -- Solvent-free engineering of a shape-specific osteochondral TMJ condyle—Detamore, Michael Scott (KS)
1R01EB008392-01A2 -- Microfluidic system for screening stem cell microenvironments -- Khademhosseini, Ali (MA)
1R21EB008825-01 -- Point-of-care system based on single polymer nanowires for real-time AMI diagnosis-Yun, Minhee (PA)
1RC1EB010593-01 -- A sensitive multiplexed diagnostic platform using disposable 2D paper networks—Yager, Paul (WA)
1R01EB008082-01A2 -- Dendritic block copolymer micelles as new targeted drug delivery systems—Hammond, Paula T (MA)
1RC1EB010915-01 -- Development and Translational Assessment of a Tongue-Based Assistive Neuro- Technology—Ghovanloo, Maysam (GA)
1R03EB006800-01A1 -- Disease states of red blood cells in vascular microvessels -- Dimitrakopoulos, Panagiotis (MD)
1R21EB006519-01A2 -- Microfabricated biosensor platform for monitoring cell metabolism -- Revzin, Alexander (CA)
1RC2EB011412-01 -- Development of a regional health image exchange service -- Guthrie, Barton Lucius (AL)
1RC2EB011406-01 -- Personally controlled sharing of medical images in the rural and urban southeast -- Ge, Yaorong, Carr, John Jeffrey (NC)
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Mike joined the University of Southern California following completion of his Ph.D. in public policy and American politics. His dissertation, “Pension Politics: Partisan Influences on Public Sector Pensions,” found several connections between states’ political environments and pension outcomes, including funding levels and reform enactments. Before doctoral study, Mike earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and mathematics with high honor from Michigan State University.
At Price, Mike most often teaches an undergraduate course, Government and Business, and one graduate course, Public Financial Management and Budgeting. He also teaches two additional graduate courses, Public Administration and Society and, most recently, Finance of the Public Sector. His research continues to focus on pension reform, public finance and public policy.
Outside of work, Mike enjoys reading, hiking, watching college basketball and football, and is an avid member of CrossFit.
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Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
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Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
Professor (By courtesy), Organizational Behavior
Ph.D., Harvard Univeristy, Health Policy/Management (2007)
M.B.A., Stanford University Graduate School of Business, M.B.A. with Certificate in Public Management (1993)
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Exploring Israel's Ecosystem in Human and Planetary Health
MED 131 (Spr)
Global Leaders and Innovators in Human and Planetary Health
HRP 285, MED 285 (Aut)
Leading and Managing Health Care Organizations: Innovation and Collaboration in High Stakes Settings
OB 348 (Spr)
The American Health Care System and Health Policy
HUMBIO 120B (Spr)
MED 299 (Spr, Sum)
Leading and Managing Health Care Organizations: Innovation and Collaboration
Maike Tietschert
Postdoctoral Research Mentor
World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist Modification: Do Changes Emphasize Communication and Teamwork? JOURNAL OF SURGICAL RESEARCH Solsky, I., Berry, W., Edmondson, L., Lagoo, J., Baugh, J., Blair, A., Singer, S., Haynes, A. B. 2020; 246: 614–22
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.jss.2018.09.035
Can Organisational Culture of Teams Be a Lever for Integrating Care? An Exploratory Study. International journal of integrated care Tietschert, M. V., Angeli, F., van Raak, A. J., Clark, J., Singer, S. J., Ruwaard, D. 2019; 19 (4): 10
Introduction: Organisational culture is believed to be an important facilitator for better integrated care, yet how organisational culture impacts integrated care remains underspecified. In an exploratory study, we assessed the relationship between organisational culture in primary care centres as perceived by primary care teams and patient-perceived levels of integrated care.Theory and methods: We analysed a sample of 2,911 patient responses and 17 healthcare teams in four primary care centres. We used three-level ordered logistic regression models to account for the nesting of patients within health care teams within primary care centres.Results: Our results suggest a non-linear relationship between organisational culture at the team level and integrated care. A combination of different culture types-including moderate levels of production-oriented, hierarchical and team-oriented cultures and low or high levels of adhocracy cultures-related to higher patient-perceived levels of integrated care.Conclusions and discussion: Organisational culture at the level of healthcare teams has significant associations with patient-perceived integrated care. Our results may be valuable for primary care organisations in their efforts to compose healthcare teams that are predisposed to providing better integrated care.
View details for DOI 10.5334/ijic.4681
A Mixed Methods Study of Change Processes Enabling Effective Transition to Team-Based Care. Medical care research and review : MCRR Kyle, M. A., Aveling, E., Singer, S. 2019: 1077558719881854
Team-based care is considered central to achieving value in primary care, yet results of large-scale primary care transformation initiatives have been mixed. We explore how underlying change processes influence the effectiveness of transition to team-based care. We studied 12 academically affiliated primary care practices participating in a learning collaborative, using longitudinal staff survey data to measure progress toward team-based care and qualitative interviews with practice staff to understand practice transformation. Transformation efforts focused on team formation and capacity building for quality improvement. Using thematic analysis, we explored types of change processes undertaken and the relationship between change processes and effective team-based care. We identified three prototypical approaches to change: pursuing functional and cultural change processes, functional only, and cultural only. Practice sites prioritizing both change processes formed the most effective teams: simultaneous functional and cultural change spurred a mutually reinforcing virtuous cycle. We describe implications for research, practice, and policy.
Toward a Corporate Culture of Health: Results of a National Survey. The Milbank quarterly Kyle, M. A., Seegars, L., Benson, J. M., Blendon, R. J., Huckman, R. S., Singer, S. J. 2019
Policy Points The private sector has large potential influence over social determinants of health, but we have limited information about how businesses perceive or engage in actions to promote health and well-being. We conducted a national survey of more than 1,000 businesses of varying sizes and industries to benchmark private sector engagement in employee, environmental, consumer, and community health, which we collectively refer to as a corporate culture of health. Overall, the private sector is taking steps to foster health and well-being but still has substantial opportunity for growth.CONTEXT: The private sector has a large potential role in advancing health and well-being, but attention to corporate practices around health tends to focus on a narrow range of issues and on large businesses. Systematically describing private sector engagement in health and well-being is a necessary step toward understanding the current state of the field and developing an agenda for businesses going forward.METHODS: We conducted a national survey of 1,017 private sector organizations to assess current levels of engagement in what we term a culture of health (CoH). We measured corporate CoH along four dimensions, which assess the extent to which businesses promote employee, environmental, consumer, and community health and well-being. We also explored potential explanations for the number of health-related actions taken in each dimension.FINDINGS: On average, businesses took 38% of health-related actions included in our survey. For each dimension, we found variation among businesses in the number of actions taken (on average, there were almost fourfold differences between the bottom and top quartiles of businesses in terms of actions taken). Mentioning health and well-being in the corporate mission, having a strategic plan for CoH, and perceiving a positive return on CoH investments were all associated with businesses' actions taken. Fewer than half of businesses, however, perceived a positive return on their CoH investments.CONCLUSIONS: Overall, the private sector is taking steps to foster health and well-being. However, there remains substantial variation among businesses and opportunity for growth, even among those currently taking the most action. Strengthening the business case for a corporate CoH may increase private sector investments in health and well-being. Actions taken by individual businesses, business groups, industries, and regulators have the potential to improve corporate engagement and impact.
View details for DOI 10.1111/1468-0009.12418
Pediatric complex care and surgery comanagement: Preparation for spinal fusion. Journal of child health care : for professionals working with children in the hospital and community Berry, J. G., Glaspy, T., Eagan, B., Singer, S., Glader, L., Emara, N., Cox, J., Glotzbecker, M., Crofton, C., Ward, E., Leahy, I., Salem, J., Troy, M., O'Neill, M., Johnson, C., Ferrari, L. 2019: 1367493519864741
The aim of this study is to assess the impact of preoperative comanagement with complex care pediatricians (CCP) on children with neuromuscular scoliosis undergoing spinal fusion. We performed chart review of 79 children aged 5-21 years undergoing spinal fusion 1/2014-6/2016 at a children's hospital, with abstraction of clinical documentation from preoperative health evaluations performed regularly by anesthesiologists and irregularly by a CCP. Preoperative referrals to specialists, labs, tests, and care plans needed last minute for surgical clearance were measured. The mean age at surgery was 14 (SD 3) years; cerebral palsy (64%) was the most common neuromuscular condition. Thirty-nine children (49%) had a preoperative CCP evaluation a median 63 days (interquartile range (IQR) 33-156) before the preanesthesia visit. Children with CCP evaluation had more organ systems affected by coexisting conditions than children without an evaluation (median 11 (IQR 9-12) vs. 8 (IQR 5-11); p < .001). The rate of last-minute care coordination activities required for surgical clearance was lower for children with versus without CCP evaluation (1.8 vs. 3.6). A lower percentage of children with CCP evaluation required last-minute development of new preoperative plans (26% vs. 50%, p = .002). Children with CCP involvement were better prepared for surgery, requiring fewer last-minute care coordination activities for surgical clearance.
Comparing Diagnostic Evaluations for Rectal Bleeding and Breast Lumps in Primary Care: a Retrospective Cohort Study JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE Pace, L. E., Percac-Lima, S., Nguyen, K. H., Crofton, C. N., Normandin, K. A., Singer, S. J., Rosenthal, M. B., Chien, A. T. 2019; 34 (7): 1146–53
Optimizing patient partnership in primary care improvement: A qualitative study. Health care management review Alidina, S., Martelli, P. F., Singer, S. J., Aveling, E. 2019
BACKGROUND: The need to expand and better engage patients in primary care improvement persists.PURPOSE: Recognizing a continuum of forms of engagement, this study focused on identifying lessons for optimizing patient partnerships, wherein engagement is characterized by shared decision-making and practice improvement codesign.METHODOLOGY: Twenty-three semistructured interviews with providers and patients involved in improvement efforts in seven U.S. primary care practices in the Academic Innovations Collaborative (AIC). The AIC aimed to implement primary care improvement, emphasizing patient engagement in the process. Data were analyzed thematically.RESULTS: Sites varied in their achievement of patient partnerships, encountering material, technical, and sociocultural obstacles. Time was a challenge for all sites, as was engaging a diversity of patients. Technical training on improvement processes and shared learning "on the job" were important. External, organizational, and individual-level resources helped overcome sociocultural challenges: The AIC drove provider buy-in, a team-based improvement approach helped shift relationships from providers and recipients toward teammates, and individual qualities and behaviors that flattened hierarchies and strengthened interpersonal relationships further enhanced "teamness." A key factor influencing progress toward transformative partnerships was a strong shared learning journey, characterized by frequent interactions, proximity to improvement decision-making, and learning together from the "lived experience" of practice improvement. Teams came to value not only patients' knowledge but also changes wrought by working collaboratively over time.CONCLUSION: Establishing practice improvement partnerships remains challenging, but partnering with patients on improvement journeys offers distinctive gains for high-quality patient-centered care.PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: Engaging diverse patient partners requires significant disruption to organizational norms and routines, and the trend toward team-based primary care offers a fertile context for patient partnerships. Material, technical, and sociocultural resources should be evaluated not only for whether they overcome specific challenges but also for how they enhance the shared learning journey.This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CCBY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
View details for DOI 10.1097/HMR.0000000000000250
Organizational Coordination and Patient Experiences of Specialty Care Integration. Journal of general internal medicine Mohr, D. C., Benzer, J. K., Vimalananda, V. G., Singer, S. J., Meterko, M., McIntosh, N., Harvey, K. L., Seibert, M. N., Charns, M. P. 2019
BACKGROUND: Delivering care to patients with complex healthcare needs benefits from coordination among healthcare providers. Greater levels of care coordination have been associated with more favorable patient experiences, cost management, and lower utilization of services. Organizational approaches consider how systems, practices, and relationships influence coordination and associated outcomes.OBJECTIVE: Examine measures of organizational coordination and their association with patient experiences of care coordination involving specialists.DESIGN: Cross-sectional surveys of patients and primary care providers (PCPs).PARTICIPANTS: Final sample included 3183 patients matched to 233 PCPs from the Veterans Health Administration. All patients had a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus and one of four other conditions: hypertension; congestive heart failure; depression/anxiety; or severe mental illness/posttraumatic stress disorder.MAIN MEASURES: Patients completed a survey assessing perceptions of coordinated care. We examined ratings on three domains: specialist knowledge management; knowledge integration across settings and time; and knowledge fragmentation across settings and time. We created care coordination measures involving the PCP and three specialty provider types. PCPs provided ratings on relational coordination for specialists, feedback coordination, and team coordination. We aligned patient's specialty services used with corresponding PCP ratings of that specialty.KEY RESULTS: Patient ratings were significantly lower on specialist knowledge management and knowledge integration when either PCPs did not use feedback coordination (b=-.20; b=-.17, respectively) or rated feedback coordination lower (b=-.08 for both). Teamwork was significantly related to specialist knowledge management (b=.06), knowledge integration (b=.04); and knowledge fragmentation (b=-.04). Relational coordination was related to coordination between the primary care provider and (i) diabetes specialist (b=.09) and (ii) mental health provider (b=.12).CONCLUSIONS: Practices to improve provider coordination within and across primary care and specialty care services may improve patient experiences of care coordination. Improvements in these areas may improve care efficiency and effectiveness.
Comparing Diagnostic Evaluations for Rectal Bleeding and Breast Lumps in Primary Care: a Retrospective Cohort Study. Journal of general internal medicine Pace, L. E., Percac-Lima, S., Nguyen, K. H., Crofton, C. N., Normandin, K. A., Singer, S. J., Rosenthal, M. B., Chien, A. T. 2019
BACKGROUND: Inadequate diagnostic evaluations of breast lumps and rectal bleeding in primary care are an important source of medical errors. Delays appear particularly common in evaluation of rectal bleeding. Comparing pursuit and completion of diagnostic testing for these two conditions within the same practice settings could help highlight barriers and inform interventions.OBJECTIVES: To examine processes undertaken for diagnostic evaluations of breast lumps and rectal bleeding within the same practices and to compare them with regard to (a) the likelihood that diagnostic tests are ordered according to guidelines and (b) the timeliness of order placement and completion.DESIGN: A retrospective cohort study using explicit chart abstraction methods.PARTICIPANTS: Three hundred women aged 30-80 presenting with breast lumps and 300 men and women aged 40-80years presenting with rectal bleeding to 15 academically affiliated primary care practices, 2012-2016.MAIN MEASURES: Rates and timing of test ordering and completion and patterns of visits and communications.KEY RESULTS: At initial presentation, physicians ordered recommended imaging or procedures at higher rates for patients with breast lumps compared to those with rectal bleeding (97% vs. 86% of patients recommended to receive imaging or endoscopy; p<0.01). Most (90%) patients with breast lumps completed recommended diagnostic testing within 1month, versus 31% of patients with rectal bleeding (p<0.01). By 1year, 7% of patients with breast lumps had not completed indicated imaging, versus 27% of those with rectal bleeding. Patients with breast lumps had fewer subsequent primary care visits related or unrelated to their symptom and had fewer related communications with specialists.LIMITATIONS: The study relied on documented care, and findings may be most generalizable to academically affiliated institutions.CONCLUSIONS: Diagnostic processes for rectal bleeding were less frequently guideline-concordant and timely than those for breast lumps. The largest discrepancies occurred in initial ordering of indicated tests and the timeliness of test completion.
Predicting Postoperative Physiologic Decline After Surgery. Pediatrics Berry, J. G., Johnson, C., Crofton, C., Staffa, S. J., DiTillio, M., Leahy, I., Salem, J., Rangel, S. J., Singer, S. J., Ferrari, L. 2019
BACKGROUND: Projecting postoperative recovery in pediatric surgical patients is challenging. We assessed how the patients' number of complex chronic conditions (CCCs) and chronic medications interacted with active health issues to influence the likelihood of postoperative physiologic decline (PoPD).METHODS: A prospective study of 3295 patients undergoing elective surgery at a freestanding children's hospital. During preoperative clinical evaluation, active health problems, CCCs, and medications were documented. PoPD (compromise of cardiovascular, respiratory, and/or neurologic systems) was measured prospectively every 4 hours by inpatient nurses. PoPD odds were estimated with multivariable logistic regression. Classification and regression tree analysis distinguished children with the highest and lowest likelihood of PoPD.RESULTS: Median age at surgery was 8 years (interquartile range: 2-15); 2336 (70.9%) patients had a CCC; and 241 (7.3%) used ≥11 home medications. During preoperative evaluation, 1556 (47.2%) patients had ≥1 active health problem. After surgery, 882 (26.8%) experienced PoPD. The adjusted odds of PoPD were 1.2 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.0-1.4) for presence versus absence of an active health problem; 1.4 (95% CI: 1.0-1.9) for ≥11 vs 0 home medications; and 2.2 (95% CI: 1.7-2.9) for ≥3 vs 0 CCCs. In classification and regression tree analysis, the lowest rate of PoPD (8.6%) occurred in children without an active health problem at the preoperative evaluation; the highest rate (57.2%) occurred in children with a CCC who used ≥11 home medications.CONCLUSIONS: Greater than 1 in 4 pediatric patients undergoing elective surgery experienced PoPD. Combinations of active health problems at preoperative evaluation, polypharmacy, and multimorbidity distinguished patients with a low versus high risk of PoPD.
Parent-to-Parent Advice on Considering Spinal Fusion in Children with Neuromuscular Scoliosis. The Journal of pediatrics Garrity, B., Berry, J., Crofton, C., Ward, E., Cox, J., Glader, L., Bastianelli, L., Emans, J., Glotzbecker, M., Emara, N., Salem, J., Jabur, T., Higgins, S., Shapiro, J., Singer, S. 2019
To convey advice from families whose children recently underwent spinal fusion to families whose children are under consideration for initial spinal fusion for neuromuscular scoliosis and to providers who counsel families on this decision.We interviewed 18 families of children who underwent spinal fusion between August 2017 and January 2019 at a freestanding children's hospital. We conducted phone interviews a median of 65 (IQR 51-77) days after surgery. We audio recorded, transcribed, and coded (line-by-line) interviews using grounded theory by 2 independent reviewers, and discussed among investigators to induce themes associated with surgical decision making and preparation.Six themes emerged about decision making and preparation for spinal fusion: (1) simplify risks and benefits; it is easy to get lost in the details; (2) families prolonging the decision whether or not to pursue spinal fusion surgery may not benefit the child; (3) anticipate anxiety and fear when making a decision about spinal fusion; (4) realize that your child might experience a large amount of pain; (5) anticipate a long recovery and healing process after spinal fusion; and (6) be engaged and advocate for your child throughout the perioperative spinal fusion process.Parents of children who had recently undergone spinal fusion had strong perceptions about what information to convey to families considering surgery, which may improve communication between future parents and physicians. Further investigation is needed to assess how best to incorporate the wisdom and experiences of parent peers into shared decision making and preparation for spinal fusion in children with neuromuscular scoliosis.
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.jpeds.2019.05.055
Incorporating Theory into Practice: Reconceptualizing Exemplary Care Coordination Initiatives from the US Veterans Health Delivery System. Journal of general internal medicine McDonald, K. M., Singer, S. J., Gorin, S. S., Haggstrom, D. A., Hynes, D. M., Charns, M. P., Yano, E. M., Lucatorto, M. A., Zulman, D. M., Ong, M. K., Axon, R. N., Vogel, D., Upton, M. 2019
This perspective paper seeks to lay out an efficient approach for health care providers, researchers, and other stakeholders involved in interventions aimed at improving care coordination to partner in locating and using applicable care coordination theory. The objective is to learn from relevant theory-based literature about fit between intervention options and coordination needs, thereby bringing insights from theory to enhance intervention design, implementation, and troubleshooting. To take this idea from an abstract notion to tangible application, our workgroup on models and measures from the Veterans Health Administration (VA) State of the Art (SOTA) conference on care coordination first summarizes our distillation of care coordination theoretical frameworks (models) into three common conceptual domains-context of an intervention, locus in which an intervention is applied, and specific design features of the intervention. Then we apply these three conceptual domains to four cases of care coordination interventions ("use cases") chosen to represent various scopes and stages of interventions to improve care coordination for veterans. Taken together, these examples make theory more accessible and practical by demonstrating how it can be applied to specific cases. Drawing from theory offers one method to anticipate which intervention options match a particular coordination situation.
Health Care Coordination Theoretical Frameworks: a Systematic Scoping Review to Increase Their Understanding and Use in Practice. Journal of general internal medicine Peterson, K., Anderson, J., Bourne, D., Charns, M. P., Gorin, S. S., Hynes, D. M., McDonald, K. M., Singer, S. J., Yano, E. M. 2019
Care coordination is crucial to avoid potential risks of care fragmentation in people with complex care needs. While there are many empirical and conceptual approaches to measuring and improving care coordination, use of theory is limited by its complexity and the wide variability of available frameworks. We systematically identified and categorized existing care coordination theoretical frameworks in new ways to make the theory-to-practice link more accessible.To identify relevant frameworks, we searched MEDLINE®, Cochrane, CINAHL, PsycINFO, and SocINDEX from 2010 to May 2018, and various other nonbibliographic sources. We summarized framework characteristics and organized them using categories from the Sustainable intEgrated chronic care modeLs for multi-morbidity: delivery, FInancing, and performancE (SELFIE) framework. Based on expert input, we then categorized available frameworks on consideration of whether they addressed contextual factors, what locus they addressed, and their design elements. We used predefined criteria for study selection and data abstraction.Among 4389 citations, we identified 37 widely diverse frameworks, including 16 recent frameworks unidentified by previous reviews. Few led to development of measures (39%) or initiatives (6%). We identified 5 that are most relevant to primary care. The 2018 framework by Weaver et al., describing relationships between a wide range of primary care-specific domains, may be the most useful to those investigating the effectiveness of primary care coordination approaches. We also identified 3 frameworks focused on locus and design features of implementation that could prove especially useful to those responsible for implementing care coordination.This review identified the most comprehensive frameworks and their main emphases for several general practice-relevant applications. Greater application of these frameworks in the design and evaluation of coordination approaches may increase their consistent implementation and measurement. Future research should emphasize implementation-focused frameworks that better identify factors and mechanisms through which an initiative achieves impact.
View details for DOI 10.1007/s11606-019-04966-z
Business Strategies to Promote Health-Reply. JAMA Koh, H. K., Singer, S. J., Edmondson, A. C. 2019; 321 (21): 2134
View details for DOI 10.1001/jama.2019.2803
Understanding Maternity Care Coordination for Women Veterans Using an Integrated Care Model Approach. Journal of general internal medicine Mattocks, K. M., Kroll-Desrosiers, A., Kinney, R., Singer, S. 2019
An increasing number of women veterans are using VA maternity benefits for their pregnancies. However, because the VA does not offer obstetrical care, women must seek maternity care from non-VA providers. The growing number of women using non-VA care has increased the importance of understanding how this care is integrated with ongoing VA medical and mental health services and how perceptions of care integration impact healthcare utilization. Therefore, we sought to understand these relationships among a sample of postpartum veterans utilizing VA maternity benefits.We fielded a modified version of the Patient Perceptions of Integrated Care survey among a sample of postpartum veterans who had utilized VA maternity benefits for their pregnancies (n = 276). We assessed relationships between perceptions of six domains of patient-reported integrated care, indicating how well-integrated patients perceived the care received from VA and non-VA clinicians, and utilization of mental healthcare following pregnancy.Domain scores were highest for items focused on VA care, including test result communication and VA provider's knowledge of patient's medical conditions. Scores were lower for obstetrician's knowledge of patient's medical history. Women with depressive symptom scores indicative of depression rated test result communication as highly integrated, while women who received mental healthcare following pregnancy had low integrated care ratings for the Support for Medication and Home Health Management domain, indicating a lack of support for mental health conditions following pregnancy.Among a group of postpartum veterans, poor ratings of integrated care across some domains were associated with higher rates of mental healthcare use following pregnancy. Further assessment of integrated care by patients may assist VA providers and policymakers in developing systems to ensure integrated care for veterans who receive care outside the VA.
Survey of Patient-Centered Coordination of Care for Diabetes with Cardiovascular and Mental Health Comorbidities in the Department of Veterans Affairs. Journal of general internal medicine Benzer, J. K., Singer, S. J., Mohr, D. C., McIntosh, N., Meterko, M., Vimalananda, V. G., Harvey, K. L., Seibert, M. N., Charns, M. P. 2019
Multiple comorbidities thought to be associated with poor coordination due to the need for shared treatment plans and active involvement of patients, among other factors. Cardiovascular and mental health comorbidities present potential coordination challenges relative to diabetes.To determine how cardiovascular and mental health comorbidities relate to patient-centered coordinated care in the Department of Veterans Affairs.This observational study used a 2 × 2 factorial design to determine how cardiovascular and mental health comorbidities are associated with patient perceptions of coordinated care among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus as a focal condition.Five thousand eight hundred six patients attributed to 262 primary care providers, from a national sample of 29 medical centers, who had completed an online survey of patient-centered coordinated care in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).Eight dimensions from the Patient Perceptions of Integrated Care (PPIC) survey, a state-of-the-art measure of patients' perspective on coordinated and patient-centered care.Mental health conditions were associated with significantly lower patient experiences of coordinated care. Hypotheses for disease severity were not supported, with associations in the hypothesized direction for only one dimension.Results suggest that VA may be adequately addressing coordination needs related to cardiovascular conditions, but more attention could be placed on coordination for mental health conditions. While specialized programs for more severe conditions (e.g., heart failure and serious mental illness) are important, coordination is also needed for more common, less severe conditions (e.g., hypertension, depression, anxiety). Strengthening coordination for common, less severe conditions is particularly important as VA develops alternative models (e.g., community care) that may negatively impact the degree to which care is coordinated.
Consumers' Suggestions for Improving the Mental Healthcare System: Options, Autonomy, and Respect. Community mental health journal Shields, M., Scully, S., Sulman, H., Borba, C., Trinh, N. H., Singer, S. 2019
While the mental healthcare-consumer voice has gained in legitimacy and perceived value, policy initiatives and system improvements still lack input from consumers. This study explores consumers' suggestions for improving the mental healthcare system. Participants (N = 46) were conveniently recruited and responded to an online survey asking: "What are your suggestions for improving the mental healthcare system?" Eight themes were identified using iterative, inductive and deductive coding. Themes included treatment options, autonomy and empowerment, respect and relationships, medication management, peer support, insurance and access, funding and government support, and treatment environment. Theoretically, there is interdependence among themes where five of the themes are foundational for the three main themes (i.e. treatment options, autonomy and empowerment, respect and relationships). Findings suggest that consumers see the need for improvement in patient-centered care. While access is the focus of much mental healthcare policy discussions, the ultimate goal should be provisioning person-centered mental healthcare.
Health as a Way of Doing Business. JAMA Koh, H. K., Singer, S. J., Edmondson, A. C. 2018
Relationship among team dynamics, care coordination and perception of safety culture in primary care FAMILY PRACTICE Blumenthal, K. J., Chien, A. T., Singer, S. J. 2018; 35 (6): 718–23
There remains a need to improve patient safety in primary care settings. Studies have demonstrated that creating high-performing teams can improve patient safety and encourage a safety culture within hospital settings, but little is known about this relationship in primary care.To examine how team dynamics relate to perceptions of safety culture in primary care and whether care coordination plays an intermediating role.This is a cross-sectional survey study with 63% response (n = 1082).The study participants were attending clinicians, resident physicians and other staff who interacted with patients from 19 primary care practices affiliated with Harvard Medical School.Three domains corresponding with our main measures: team dynamics, care coordination and safety culture. All items were measured on a 5-point Likert scale. We used linear regression clustered by practice site to assess the relationship between team dynamics and perceptions of safety culture. We also performed a mediation analysis to determine the extent to which care coordination explains the relationship between perceptions of team dynamics and of safety culture.For every 1-point increase in overall team dynamics, there was a 0.76-point increase in perception of safety culture [95% confidence interval (CI) 0.70-0.82, P < 0.001]. Care coordination mediated the relationship between team dynamics and the perception of safety culture.Our findings suggest there is a relationship between team dynamics, care coordination and perceptions of patient safety in a primary care setting. To make patients safer, we may need to pay more attention to how primary care providers work together to coordinate care.
Association of Team-Based Primary Care With Health Care Utilization and Costs Among Chronically Ill Patients. JAMA internal medicine Meyers, D. J., Chien, A. T., Nguyen, K. H., Li, Z., Singer, S. J., Rosenthal, M. B. 2018
Importance: Empirical study findings to date are mixed on the association between team-based primary care initiatives and health care use and costs for Medicaid and commercially insured patients, especially those with multiple chronic conditions.Objective: To evaluate the association of establishing team-based primary care with patient health care use and costs.Design, Setting, and Participants: We used difference-in-differences to compare preutilization and postutilization rates between intervention and comparison practices with inverse probability weighting to balance observable differences. We fit a linear model using generalized estimating equations to adjust for clustering at 18 academically affiliated primary care practices in the Boston, Massachusetts, area between 2011 and 2015. The study included 83 953 patients accounting for 138 113 patient-years across 18 intervention practices and 238 455 patients accounting for 401 573 patient-years across 76 comparison practices. Data were analyzed between April and August 2018.Exposures: Practices participated in a 4-year learning collaborative that created and supported team-based primary care.Main Outcomes and Measures: Outpatient visits, hospitalizations, emergency department visits, ambulatory care-sensitive hospitalizations, ambulatory care-sensitive emergency department visits, and total costs of care.Results: Of 322 408 participants, 176 259 (54.7%) were female; 64 030 (19.9%) were younger than 18 years and 258 378 (80.1%) were age 19 to 64 years. Intervention practices had fewer participants, with 2 or more chronic conditions (n=51 155 [37.0%] vs n=186 954 [46.6%]), more participants younger than 18 years (n=337 931 [27.5%] vs n=74 691 [18.6%]), higher Medicaid enrollment (n=39 541 [28.6%] vs n=81 417 [20.3%]), and similar sex distributions (75 023 women [54.4%] vs 220 097 women [54.8%]); however, after inverse probability weighting, observable patient characteristics were well balanced. Intervention practices had higher utilization in the preperiod. Patients in intervention practices experienced a 7.4% increase in annual outpatient visits relative to baseline (95% CI, 3.5%-11.3%; P<.001) after adjusting for patient age, sex, comorbidity, zip code level sociodemographic characteristics, clinician characteristics, and plan fixed effects. In a subsample of patients with 2 or more chronic conditions, there was a statistically significant 18.6% reduction in hospitalizations (95% CI, 1.5%-33.0%; P=.03), 25.2% reduction in emergency department visits (95% CI, 6.6%-44.0%; P=.007), and a 36.7% reduction in ambulatory care-sensitive emergency department visits (95% CI, 9.2%-64.0%; P=.009). Among patients with less than 2 comorbidities, there was an increase in outpatient visits (9.2%; 95% CI, 5.10%-13.10%; P<.001), hospitalizations (36.2%; 95% CI, 12.2-566.6; P=.003), and ambulatory care-sensitive hospitalizations (50.6%; 95% CI, 7.1%-329.2%; P=.02).Conclusions and Relevance: While establishing team-based care was not associated with differences in the full patient sample, there were substantial reductions in utilization among a subset of chronically ill patients. Team-based care practice transformation in primary care settings may be a valuable tool in improving the care of sicker patients, thereby reducing avoidable use; however, it may lead to greater use among healthier patients.
Scaling Safety: The South Carolina Surgical Safety Checklist Experience. Health affairs (Project Hope) Berry, W. R., Edmondson, L., Gibbons, L. R., Childers, A. K., Haynes, A. B., Foster, R., Singer, S. J., Gawande, A. A. 2018; 37 (11): 1779–86
Proven patient safety solutions such as the World Health Organization's Surgical Safety Checklist are challenging to implement at scale. A voluntary initiative was launched in South Carolina hospitals in 2010 to encourage use of the checklist in all operating rooms. Hospitals that reported completing implementation of the checklist in their operating rooms by 2017 had significantly higher levels of CEO and physician participation and engaged more in higher-touch activities such as in-person meetings and teamwork skills trainings than comparison hospitals did. Based on our experience and the participation data collected, we suggest three considerations for hospital, hospital association, state, and national policy makers: Successful programs must be designed to engage all stakeholders (CEOs, physicians, nurses, surgical technologists, and others); offering a variety of program activities-both lower-touch and higher-touch-over the duration of the program allows more hospital and individual participation; and change takes time and resources.
WHO Surgical Safety Checklist Modification: DoChanges Emphasize Communication andTeamwork? The Journal of surgical research Solsky, I., Berry, W., Edmondson, L., Lagoo, J., Baugh, J., Blair, A., Singer, S., Haynes, A. B. 2018
BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization's (WHO) surgical safety checklist is meant to be customized to facilitate local implementation, encourage full-team participation, and promote a culture of safety. Although it has been globally adopted, little is known about the extent of checklist modification and the type of changes made.METHODS: Nonsubspecialty surgical checklists were obtained through online search and targeted hospital requests. A detailed coding scheme was created to capture modifications to checklist content and formatting. Descriptive statistics were performed.RESULTS: Of 155 checklists analyzed, all were modified. Compared with the WHO checklist, those in our sample contained more lines of text (median: 63 [interquartile range: 50-73] versus 56) and items (36 [interquartile range: 30-43] versus 28). A median of 13 new items were added. Items most frequently added included implants/special equipment (added by 84%), deep vein thrombosis prophylaxis/anticoagulation (added by 75%), and positioning (added by 63%). Checklists removed a median of 5 WHO items. The most frequently removed item was the pulse oximeter check (removed in 75%), followed by 4 items (each removed in 39%-48%) that comprise part of the WHO Checklist's "Anticipated Critical Events" section, which is intended for exchanging critical information. The surgeon was not explicitly mentioned in the checklist in 12%; the anesthesiologist/certified registered nurse anesthetist in 14%, the circulator in 10%, and the surgical tech/scrub in 79%.CONCLUSIONS: Checklists are highly modified but often enlarged with items that may not prompt discussion or teamwork. Of concern is the frequent removal of items from the WHO's "Anticipated Critical Events" section.
Working around hierarchy: Resident and medical assistant teaming. Health care management review Brooks, J. V., Sheridan, B., Peters, A. S., Chien, A. T., Singer, S. J. 2018
BACKGROUND: In health care, hierarchy can facilitate getting work done efficiently. It can also hinder performance by suppressing valuable contributions from lower-positioned individuals. Team-based care could mitigate negative effects by creating space for all team members to contribute their unique expertise.PURPOSE: This article sought to understand how resident-medical assistant (MA) dyads interacted before and after primary care clinics transitioned to team-based care. We also studied how they negotiated changes in interpersonal dynamics given the challenge these changes presented to hierarchical norms.METHODOLOGY: We conducted two qualitative interview studies, with 37 residents and 30 MAs at primary care clinics transitioning to team-based care. Interviews were transcribed, coded, and analyzed together using a thematic networks approach and focused coding.RESULTS: An intervention that promoted teamwork prompted resident-MA dyads to change their interactions to counter traditional hierarchy. Residents increasingly asked MAs questions about patient care, and MAs initiated interactions and volunteered ideas more frequently. We also found that MAs and residents expressed some discomfort with the hierarchical ambiguity that their new interactions produced and used alternate scripts to buffer this discomfort and to collaborate as teammates despite formal hierarchy.CONCLUSION: Among resident-MA dyads, a team-based care intervention changed interpersonal dynamics by blurring hierarchical lines and shifting traditional boundaries in ways that were uncomfortable for both groups. They were able to work around discomfort by using new scripts that downplayed the threat to hierarchy.PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: Organizational structures that encourage greater interprofessional collaboration may neutralize barriers that formal hierarchy in medicine can pose for effective teamwork, but this process can also bring social discomfort. Our findings suggest that health care professionals may use microlevel strategies, such as alternative scripts, to overcome formal hierarchies without openly engaging them. Together, new organizational structures and interaction techniques can help professionals work around hierarchy and improve team performance.
Successfully implementing Safety WalkRounds: secret sauce more than a magic bullet BMJ QUALITY & SAFETY Singer, S. J. 2018; 27 (4): 251–53
Establishing Teams: How Does It Change Practice Configuration, Size, and Composition? The Journal of ambulatory care management Chien, A. T., Kyle, M. A., Peters, A. S., Nguyen, K. H., Tendulkar, S. A., Ryan, M., Hacker, K., Singer, S. J. 2018; 41 (2): 146–55
Little is known about how practices reorganize when transitioning from traditional practice organization to team-based care. We compared practice-level (1) configuration as well as practice- and team-level (2) size and (3) composition, before and after establishing teams. We employed a pre-/poststudy using personnel lists of 1571 to 1711 staff (eg, job licenses, titles, and team assignment) and practice manager surveys. All personnel (physician and nonphysician) worked within 18 Massachusetts academic primary care practices participating in a 2-year learning collaborative aimed at establishing team-based care. We found that establishing team-based care can involve changing practice configurations and composition without substantially changing practice size.
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A Comprehensive Theory of Integration. Medical care research and review : MCRR Singer, S. J., Kerrissey, M., Friedberg, M., Phillips, R. 2018: 1077558718767000
Efforts to transform health care delivery to improve care have increasingly focused on care integration. However, variation in how integration is defined has complicated efforts to design, synthesize, and compare studies of integration in health care. Evaluations of integration initiatives would be enhanced by describing them according to clear definitions of integration and specifying which empirical relationships they seek to test-whether among types of integration or between integration and outcomes of care. Drawing on previous work, we present a comprehensive theoretical model of relationships between types of integration and propose how to measure them.
Factors associated with the use of cognitive aids in operating room crises: a cross-sectional study of US hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers. Implementation science : IS Alidina, S., Goldhaber-Fiebert, S. N., Hannenberg, A. A., Hepner, D. L., Singer, S. J., Neville, B. A., Sachetta, J. R., Lipsitz, S. R., Berry, W. R. 2018; 13 (1): 50
Operating room (OR) crises are high-acuity events requiring rapid, coordinated management. Medical judgment and decision-making can be compromised in stressful situations, and clinicians may not experience a crisis for many years. A cognitive aid (e.g., checklist) for the most common types of crises in the OR may improve management during unexpected and rare events. While implementation strategies for innovations such as cognitive aids for routine use are becoming better understood, cognitive aids that are rarely used are not yet well understood. We examined organizational context and implementation process factors influencing the use of cognitive aids for OR crises.We conducted a cross-sectional study using a Web-based survey of individuals who had downloaded OR cognitive aids from the websites of Ariadne Labs or Stanford University between January 2013 and January 2016. In this paper, we report on the experience of 368 respondents from US hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers. We analyzed the relationship of more successful implementation (measured as reported regular cognitive aid use during applicable clinical events) with organizational context and with participation in a multi-step implementation process. We used multivariable logistic regression to identify significant predictors of reported, regular OR cognitive aid use during OR crises.In the multivariable logistic regression, small facility size was associated with a fourfold increase in the odds of a facility reporting more successful implementation (p = 0.0092). Completing more implementation steps was also significantly associated with more successful implementation; each implementation step completed was associated with just over 50% higher odds of more successful implementation (p ≤ 0.0001). More successful implementation was associated with leadership support (p < 0.0001) and dedicated time to train staff (p = 0.0189). Less successful implementation was associated with resistance among clinical providers to using cognitive aids (p < 0.0001), absence of an implementation champion (p = 0.0126), and unsatisfactory content or design of the cognitive aid (p = 0.0112).Successful implementation of cognitive aids in ORs was associated with a supportive organizational context and following a multi-step implementation process. Building strong organizational support and following a well-planned multi-step implementation process will likely increase the use of OR cognitive aids during intraoperative crises, which may improve patient outcomes.
Engineering safer care coordination from hospital to home: lessons from the USA. Future healthcare journal Das, P., Benneyan, J., Powers, L., Carmody, M., Kerwin, J., Singer, S. 2018; 5 (3): 164–70
The safe transition of a patient from hospital into the community requires effective coordination between healthcare professionals across organisational boundaries. Preventing transition-associated failures can be especially challenging when multiple disciplines are involved and the patient has extensive care needs. The field of systems engineering is increasingly recognised as useful to help understand, improve and redesign such complex healthcare processes to improve patient experience and outcomes. To illustrate this approach, we describe how a partnership between healthcare professionals, systems engineers, and health services researchers used a series of engineering methods at a large suburban hospital to analyse and address deficiencies in a hospital-to-home transition process. Using this approach, the team designed a new process to perform more reliably despite inherent system complexity, demonstrating the value of systems engineering approaches and clinician-engineer collaborations.
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Surgical Team Member Assessment of the Safety of Surgery Practice in 38 South Carolina Hospitals MEDICAL CARE RESEARCH AND REVIEW Singer, S. J., Jiang, W., Huang, L. C., Gibbons, L., Kiang, M. V., Edmondson, L., Gawande, A. A., Berry, W. R. 2015; 72 (3): 298-323
We assessed surgical team member perceptions of multiple dimensions of safe surgical practice in 38 South Carolina hospitals participating in a statewide initiative to implement surgical safety checklists. Primary data were collected using a novel 35-item survey. We calculated the percentage of 1,852 respondents with strongly positive, positive, and neutral/negative responses about the safety of surgical practice, compared results by hospital and professional discipline, and examined how readiness, teamwork, and adherence related to staff perception of care quality. Overall, 78% of responses were positive about surgical safety at respondent's hospitals, but in each survey dimension, from 16% to 40% of responses were neutral/negative, suggesting significant opportunity to improve surgical safety. Respondents not reporting they would feel safe being treated in their operating rooms varied from 0% to 57% among hospitals. Surgeons responded more positively than nonsurgeons. Readiness, teamwork, and practice adherence related directly to staff perceptions of patient safety (p < .001).
The Surgical Safety Checklist and Teamwork Coaching Tools: a study of inter-rater reliability BMJ QUALITY & SAFETY Huang, L. C., Conley, D., Lipsitz, S., Wright, C. C., Diller, T. W., Edmondson, L., Berry, W. R., Singer, S. J. 2014; 23 (8): 639-650
To assess the inter-rater reliability (IRR) of two novel observation tools for measuring surgical safety checklist performance and teamwork.Data surgical safety checklists can promote adherence to standards of care and improve teamwork in the operating room. Their use has been associated with reductions in mortality and other postoperative complications. However, checklist effectiveness depends on how well they are performed.Authors from the Safe Surgery 2015 initiative developed a pair of novel observation tools through literature review, expert consultation and end-user testing. In one South Carolina hospital participating in the initiative, two observers jointly attended 50 surgical cases and independently rated surgical teams using both tools. We used descriptive statistics to measure checklist performance and teamwork at the hospital. We assessed IRR by measuring percent agreement, Cohen's κ, and weighted κ scores.The overall percent agreement and κ between the two observers was 93% and 0.74 (95% CI 0.66 to 0.79), respectively, for the Checklist Coaching Tool and 86% and 0.84 (95% CI 0.77 to 0.90) for the Surgical Teamwork Tool. Percent agreement for individual sections of both tools was 79% or higher. Additionally, κ scores for six of eight sections on the Checklist Coaching Tool and for two of five domains on the Surgical Teamwork Tool achieved the desired 0.7 threshold. However, teamwork scores were high and variation was limited. There were no significant changes in the percent agreement or κ scores between the first 10 and last 10 cases observed.Both tools demonstrated substantial IRR and required limited training to use. These instruments may be used to observe checklist performance and teamwork in the operating room. However, further refinement and calibration of observer expectations, particularly in rating teamwork, could improve the utility of the tools.
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Safety in Numbers: The Development of Leapfrog's Composite Patient Safety Score for U.S. Hospitals. Journal of patient safety Austin, J. M., D'Andrea, G., Birkmeyer, J. D., Leape, L. L., Milstein, A., Pronovost, P. J., Romano, P. S., Singer, S. J., Vogus, T. J., Wachter, R. M. 2014; 10 (1): 64-71
To develop a composite patient safety score that provides patients, health-care providers, and health-care purchasers with a standardized method to evaluate patient safety in general acute care hospitals in the United States.The Leapfrog Group sought guidance from a panel of national patient safety experts to develop the composite score. Candidate patient safety performance measures for inclusion in the score were identified from publicly reported national sources. Hospital performance on each measure was converted into a "z-score" and then aggregated using measure-specific weights. A reference mean score was set at 3, with scores interpreted in terms of standard deviations above or below the mean, with above reflecting better than average performance.Twenty-six measures were included in the score. The mean composite score for 2652 general acute care hospitals in the United States was 2.97 (range by hospital, 0.46-3.94). Safety scores were slightly lower for hospitals that were publicly owned, rural in location, or had a larger percentage of patients with Medicaid as their primary insurance.The Leapfrog patient safety composite provides a standardized method to evaluate patient safety in general acute care hospitals in the United States. While constrained by available data and publicly reported scores on patient safety measures, the composite score reflects the best available evidence regarding a hospital's efforts and outcomes in patient safety. Additional analyses are needed, but the score did not seem to have a strong bias against hospitals with specific characteristics. The composite score will continue to be refined over time as measures of patient safety evolve.
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Comparing safety climate in naval aviation and hospitals: Implications for improving patient safety HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT REVIEW Singer, S. J., Rosen, A., Zhao, S., Ciavarelli, A. P., Gaba, D. M. 2010; 35 (2): 134-146
Evidence of variation in safety climate suggests the need for improvement among at least some hospitals. However, comparisons only among hospitals may underestimate the improvement required. Comparison of hospitals with analogous industries may provide a broader perspective on the safety status of our nation's hospitals.The purpose of this study was to compare safety climate among hospital workers with personnel from naval aviation, an organization that operates with high reliability despite intrinsically hazardous conditions.We surveyed a random sample of health care workers in 67 U.S. hospitals and, for generalizability, 30 veterans affairs hospitals using questions comparable with those posed at approximately the same time (2007) to a census of personnel from 35 squadrons of U.S. naval aviators. We received 13,841 (41%) completed surveys in U.S. hospitals, 5,511 (50%) in veterans affairs hospitals, and 14,854 (82%) among naval aviators. We examined differences in respondents' perceptions of safety climate at their institution overall and for 16 individual items.Safety climate was three times better on average among naval aviators than among hospital personnel. Naval aviators perceived a safer climate (up to seven times safer) than hospital personnel with respect to each of the 16 survey items. Compared with hospital managers, naval commanders perceived climate more like frontline personnel did. When contrasting naval aviators with hospital personnel working in comparably hazardous areas, safety climate discrepancies increased rather than decreased. One individual hospital performed as well as naval aviation on average, and at least one hospital outperformed the Navy benchmark for all but three individual survey items.Results suggest that hospitals have not sufficiently created a uniform priority of safety. However, if each hospital performed as well as the top-performing hospital in each area measured, hospitals could achieve safety climate levels comparable with naval aviation. Major interventions to bolster hospital safety climate continue to be required to improve patient safety.
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Identifying organizational cultures that promote patient safety HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT REVIEW Singer, S. J., Falwell, A., Gaba, D. M., Meterko, M., Rosen, A., Hartmann, C. W., Baker, L. 2009; 34 (4): 300-311
Safety climate refers to shared perceptions of what an organization is like with regard to safety, whereas safety culture refers to employees' fundamental ideology and orientation and explains why safety is pursued in the manner exhibited within a particular organization. Although research has sought to identify opportunities for improving safety outcomes by studying patterns of variation in safety climate, few empirical studies have examined the impact of organizational characteristics such as culture on hospital safety climate.This study explored how aspects of general organizational culture relate to hospital patient safety climate.In a stratified sample of 92 U.S. hospitals, we sampled 100% of senior managers and physicians and 10% of other hospital workers. The Patient Safety Climate in Healthcare Organizations and the Zammuto and Krakower organizational culture surveys measured safety climate and group, entrepreneurial, hierarchical, and production orientation of hospitals' culture, respectively. We administered safety climate surveys to 18,361 personnel and organizational culture surveys to a 5,894 random subsample between March 2004 and May 2005. Secondary data came from the 2004 American Hospital Association Annual Hospital Survey and Dun & Bradstreet. Hierarchical linear regressions assessed relationships between organizational culture and safety climate measures.Aspects of general organizational culture were strongly related to safety climate. A higher level of group culture correlated with a higher level of safety climate, but more hierarchical culture was associated with lower safety climate. Aspects of organizational culture accounted for more than threefold improvement in measures of model fit compared with models with controls alone. A mix of culture types, emphasizing group culture, seemed optimal for safety climate.Safety climate and organizational culture are positively related. Results support strategies that promote group orientation and reduced hierarchy, including use of multidisciplinary team training, continuous quality improvement tools, and human resource practices and policies.
Comparing Safety Climate between Two Populations of Hospitals in the United States HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH Singer, S. J., Hartmann, C. W., Hanchate, A., Zhao, S., Meterko, M., Shokeen, P., Lin, S., Gaba, D. M., Rosen, A. K. 2009; 44 (5): 1563-1584
To compare safety climate between diverse U.S. hospitals and Veterans Health Administration (VA) hospitals, and to explore the factors influencing climate in each setting.Primary data from surveys of hospital personnel; secondary data from the American Hospital Association's 2004 Annual Survey of Hospitals.Cross-sectional study of 69 U.S. and 30 VA hospitals.For each sample, hierarchical linear models used safety-climate scores as the dependent variable and respondent and facility characteristics as independent variables. Regression-based Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition examined differences in effects of model characteristics on safety climate between the U.S. and VA samples.The range in safety climate among U.S. and VA hospitals overlapped substantially. Characteristics of individuals influenced safety climate consistently across settings. Working in southern and urban facilities corresponded with worse safety climate among VA employees and better safety climate in the U.S. sample. Decomposition results predicted 1.4 percentage points better safety climate in U.S. than in VA hospitals: -0.77 attributable to sample-characteristic differences and 2.2 due to differential effects of sample characteristics.Results suggest that safety climate is linked more to efforts of individual hospitals than to participation in a nationally integrated system or measured characteristics of workers and facilities.
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Relationship of Hospital Organizational Culture to Patient Safety Climate in the Veterans Health Administration MEDICAL CARE RESEARCH AND REVIEW Hartmann, C. W., Meterko, M., Rosen, A. K., Zhao, S., Shokeen, P., Singer, S., Gaba, D. M. 2009; 66 (3): 320-338
Improving safety climate could enhance patient safety, yet little evidence exists regarding the relationship between hospital characteristics and safety climate. This study assessed the relationship between hospitals' organizational culture and safety climate in Veterans Health Administration (VA) hospitals nationally. Data were collected from a sample of employees in a stratified random sample of 30 VA hospitals over a 6-month period (response rate = 50%; n = 4,625). The Patient Safety Climate in Healthcare Organizations (PSCHO) and the Zammuto and Krakower surveys were used to measure safety climate and organizational culture, respectively. Higher levels of safety climate were significantly associated with higher levels of group and entrepreneurial cultures, while lower levels of safety climate were associated with higher levels of hierarchical culture. Hospitals could use these results to design specific interventions aimed at improving safety climate.
Relationship of Safety Climate and Safety Performance in Hospitals HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH Singer, S., Lin, S., Falwell, A., Gaba, D., Baker, L. 2009; 44 (2): 399-421
To examine the relationship between measures of hospital safety climate and hospital performance on selected Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs).Primary data from a 2004 survey of hospital personnel. Secondary data from the 2005 Medicare Provider Analysis and Review File and 2004 American Hospital Association's Annual Survey of Hospitals.A cross-sectional study of 91 hospitals.Negative binomial regressions used an unweighted, risk-adjusted PSI composite as dependent variable and safety climate scores and controls as independent variables. Some specifications included interpersonal, work unit, and organizational safety climate dimensions. Others included separate measures for senior managers and frontline personnel's safety climate perceptions.Hospitals with better safety climate overall had lower relative incidence of PSIs, as did hospitals with better scores on safety climate dimensions measuring interpersonal beliefs regarding shame and blame. Frontline personnel's perceptions of better safety climate predicted lower risk of experiencing PSIs, but senior manager perceptions did not.The results link hospital safety climate to indicators of potential safety events. Some aspects of safety climate are more closely related to safety events than others. Perceptions about safety climate among some groups, such as frontline staff, are more closely related than perceptions in other groups.
Patient Safety Climate in 92 US Hospitals Differences by Work Area and Discipline MEDICAL CARE Singer, S. J., Gaba, D. M., Falwell, A., Lin, S., Hayes, J., Baker, L. 2009; 47 (1): 23-31
Concern about patient safety has promoted efforts to improve safety climate. A better understanding of how patient safety climate differs among distinct work areas and disciplines in hospitals would facilitate the design and implementation of interventions.To understand workers' perceptions of safety climate and ways in which climate varies among hospitals and by work area and discipline.We administered the Patient Safety Climate in Healthcare Organizations survey in 2004-2005 to personnel in a stratified random sample of 92 US hospitals.We sampled 100% of senior managers and physicians and 10% of all other workers. We received 18,361 completed surveys (52% response).The survey measured safety climate perceptions and worker and job characteristics of hospital personnel. We calculated and compared the percent of responses inconsistent with a climate of safety among hospitals, work areas, and disciplines.Overall, 17% of responses were inconsistent with a safety climate. Patient safety climate differed by hospital and among and within work areas and disciplines. Emergency department personnel perceived worse safety climate and personnel in nonclinical areas perceived better safety climate than workers in other areas. Nurses were more negative than physicians regarding their work unit's support and recognition of safety efforts, and physicians showed marginally more fear of shame than nurses. For other dimensions of safety climate, physician-nurse differences depended on their work area.Differences among and within hospitals suggest that strategies for improving safety climate and patient safety should be tailored for work areas and disciplines.
Patient Safety Climate in US Hospitals Variation by Management Level MEDICAL CARE Singer, S. J., Falwell, A., Gaba, D. M., Baker, L. C. 2008; 46 (11): 1149-1156
Strengthening hospital safety culture offers promise for reducing adverse events, but efforts to improve culture may not succeed if hospital managers perceive safety differently from frontline workers.To determine whether frontline workers and supervisors perceive a more negative patient safety climate (ie, surface features, reflective of the underlying safety culture) than senior managers in their institutions. To ascertain patterns of variation within management levels by professional discipline.A safety climate survey was administered from March 2004 to May 2005 in 92 US hospitals. Individual-level cross sectional comparisons related safety climate to management level. Hierarchical and hospital-fixed effects modeling tested differences in perceptions.Random sample of hospital personnel (18,361 respondents).Frequency of responses indicating absence of safety climate (percent problematic response) overall and for 8 survey dimensions.Frontline workers' safety climate perceptions were 4.8 percentage points (1.4 times) more problematic than were senior managers', and supervisors' perceptions were 3.1 percentage points (1.25 times) more problematic than were senior managers'. Differences were consistent among 7 safety climate dimensions. Differences by management level depended on discipline: senior manager versus frontline worker discrepancies were less pronounced for physicians and more pronounced for nurses, than they were for other disciplines.Senior managers perceived patient safety climate more positively than nonsenior managers overall and across 7 discrete safety climate domains. Patterns of variation by management level differed by professional discipline. Continuing efforts to improve patient safety should address perceptual differences, both among and within groups by management level.
Front-line staff perspectives on opportunities for improving the safety and efficiency of hospital work systems HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH Tucker, A. L., Singer, S. J., Hayes, J. E., Falwell, A. 2008; 43 (5): 1807-1829
To contrast the safety-related concerns raised by front-line staff about hospital work systems (operational failures) with national patient safety initiatives.Primary data included 1,732 staff-identified operational failures at 20 U.S. hospitals from 2004 to 2006.Senior managers observed front-line staff and facilitated open discussion meetings with employees about their patient safety concerns.Hospitals submitted data on the operational failures identified through managers' interactions with front-line workers. Data were analyzed for type of failure and frequency of occurrence. Recommendations from staff were compared with recommendations from national initiatives.The two most frequent categories of operational failures, equipment/supplies and facility issues, posed safety risks and diminished staff efficiency, but have not been priorities in national initiatives.Our study suggests an underutilized strategy for improving patient safety and staff efficiency: leveraging front-line staff experiences with work systems to identify and address operational failures. In contrast to the perceived tradeoff between safety and efficiency, fixing operational failures can yield benefits for both. Thus, prioritizing improvement of work systems in general, rather than focusing more narrowly on specific clinical conditions, can increase safety and efficiency of hospitals.
An overview of patient safety climate in the VA HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH Hartmann, C. W., Rosen, A. K., Meterko, M., Shokeen, P., Zhao, S., Singer, S., Falwell, A., Gaba, D. M. 2008; 43 (4): 1263-1284
To assess variation in safety climate across VA hospitals nationally.Data were collected from employees at 30 VA hospitals over a 6-month period using the Patient Safety Climate in Healthcare Organizations survey.We sampled 100 percent of senior managers and physicians and a random 10 percent of other employees. At 10 randomly selected hospitals, we sampled an additional 100 percent of employees working in units with intrinsically higher hazards (high-hazard units [HHUs]).Data were collected using an anonymous survey design.We received 4,547 responses (49 percent response rate). The percent problematic response--lower percent reflecting higher levels of patient safety climate--ranged from 12.0-23.7 percent across hospitals (mean=17.5 percent). Differences in safety climate emerged by management level, clinician status, and workgroup. Supervisors and front-line staff reported lower levels of safety climate than senior managers; clinician responses reflected lower levels of safety climate than those of nonclinicians; and responses of employees in HHUs reflected lower levels of safety climate than those of workers in other areas.This is the first systematic study of patient safety climate in VA hospitals. Findings indicate an overall positive safety climate across the VA, but there is room for improvement.
Workforce perceptions of hospital safety culture: Development and validation of the patient safety climate in healthcare organizations survey HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH Singer, S., Meterko, M., Baker, L., Gaba, D., Falwell, A., Rosen, A. 2007; 42 (5): 1999-2021
To describe the development of an instrument for assessing workforce perceptions of hospital safety culture and to assess its reliability and validity.Primary data collected between March 2004 and May 2005. Personnel from 105 U.S. hospitals completed a 38-item paper and pencil survey. We received 21,496 completed questionnaires, representing a 51 percent response rate.Based on review of existing safety climate surveys, we developed a list of key topics pertinent to maintaining a culture of safety in high-reliability organizations. We developed a draft questionnaire to address these topics and pilot tested it in four preliminary studies of hospital personnel. We modified the questionnaire based on experience and respondent feedback, and distributed the revised version to 42,249 hospital workers.We randomly divided respondents into derivation and validation samples. We applied exploratory factor analysis to responses in the derivation sample. We used those results to create scales in the validation sample, which we subjected to multitrait analysis (MTA).We identified nine constructs, three organizational factors, two unit factors, three individual factors, and one additional factor. Constructs demonstrated substantial convergent and discriminant validity in the MTA. Cronbach's alpha coefficients ranged from 0.50 to 0.89.It is possible to measure key salient features of hospital safety climate using a valid and reliable 38-item survey and appropriate hospital sample sizes. This instrument may be used in further studies to better understand the impact of safety climate on patient safety outcomes.
Who searches the internet for health information? 4th World Conference of the International-Health-Economics-Association (iHEA) Bundorf, M. K., Wagner, T. H., Singer, S. J., Baker, L. C. WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC. 2006: 819–36
To determine what types of consumers use the Internet as a source of health information.A survey of consumer use of the Internet for health information conducted during December 2001 and January 2002.We estimated multivariate regression models to test hypotheses regarding the characteristics of consumers that affect information seeking behavior.Respondents were randomly sampled from an Internet-enabled panel of over 60,000 households. Our survey was sent to 12,878 panel members, and 69.4 percent of surveyed panel members responded. We collected information about respondents' use of the Internet to search for health information and to communicate about health care with others using the Internet or e-mail within the last year.Individuals with reported chronic conditions were more likely than those without to search for health information on the Internet. The uninsured, particularly those with a reported chronic condition, were more likely than the privately insured to search. Individuals with longer travel times for their usual source of care were more likely to use the Internet for health-related communication than those with shorter travel times.Populations with serious health needs and those facing significant barriers in accessing health care in traditional settings turn to the Internet for health information.
Health plans' coverage determinations for technology-based interventions: The case of electrical bone growth stimulation AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MANAGED CARE Huang, A. J., Gemperli, M. P., Bergthold, L., Singer, S. S., Garber, A. 2004; 10 (12): 957-962
To determine (1) whether commercial health plans' coverage criteria for a costly technology-based medical intervention are consistent with recent clinical effectiveness evidence, (2) whether medical directors adhere to planwide coverage criteria when making coverage determinations for individual patients, and (3) if any organizational characteristics are associated with having more stringent coverage criteria or making more frequent coverage denials.Case-based survey of medical directors of US commercial health plans.A close-ended survey was mailed to 346 medical directors meeting eligibility criteria, asking about the criteria specified in their plans' coverage policies for electrical bone growth stimulation (EBGS) and whether they would cover this intervention for a hypothetical patient with abnormal union of long-bone fracture.Responses from 228 (66%) of the 346 directors indicated that approximately 72% of plans have a formal coverage policy for EBGS for long-bone fractures. More than 30% of plans specify that longer than 4 months must elapse before EBGS is attempted, although clinical studies do not support absolute waiting times. Directors of approximately 61% of plans with policies requiring extended waiting periods would nevertheless authorize EBGS for patients who did not meet this criterion.Health plans apply varied criteria in coverage policies for technology-based treatments such as EBGS, but do not always adhere to stated criteria when determining coverage for individual patients. For-profit status, accreditation status, geographic location, and size of plan are not associated with being more or less likely to authorize EBGS.
Consumers' use of the Internet for health insurance AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MANAGED CARE Bundorf, M. K., Singer, S. J., Wagner, T. H., Baker, L. 2004; 10 (9): 609-616
We examined consumers' search for information about health insurance choices and their use of the Internet for that search and to manage health benefits.We surveyed a random sample of more than 4500 individuals aged 21 years and older who were members of a survey research panel during December 2001 and January 2002.The survey included questions about searching for health insurance information in 3 health insurance markets: Medicare, individual or nongroup, and employer-sponsored group. We also asked questions about use of the Internet to manage health benefits. We tabulated means of responses to each question by market and tested for independence across demographic groups using the Pearson chi-square test.We identified important differences across and within markets in the extent to which people look for information about health insurance alternatives and the role of the Internet in their search. Although many individuals were unaware of whether their employer or health plan provided a website to manage health benefits, those who used the sites generally evaluated them favorably.Our results suggest that the Internet is an important source of health insurance information, particularly for individuals purchasing coverage individually in the nongroup and Medicare markets relative to those obtaining coverage from an employer. In the case of Medicare coverage, studies focusing on beneficiaries' use of Internet resources may underestimate the Internet's importance by neglecting caregivers who use the Internet. Many individuals may be unaware of the valuable resources available through employers or health plans.
Use of the Internet and e-mail for health care information - Results from a national survey JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION Baker, L., Wagner, T. H., Singer, S., Bundorf, M. K. 2003; 289 (18): 2400-2406
The Internet has attracted considerable attention as a means to improve health and health care delivery, but it is not clear how prevalent Internet use for health care really is or what impact it has on health care utilization. Available estimates of use and impact vary widely. Without accurate estimates of use and effects, it is difficult to focus policy discussions or design appropriate policy activities.To measure the extent of Internet use for health care among a representative sample of the US population, to examine the prevalence of e-mail use for health care, and to examine the effects that Internet and e-mail use has on users' knowledge about health care matters and their use of the health care system.Survey conducted in December 2001 and January 2002 among a sample drawn from a research panel of more than 60 000 US households developed and maintained by Knowledge Networks. Responses were analyzed from 4764 individuals aged 21 years or older who were self-reported Internet users.Self-reported rates in the past year of Internet and e-mail use to obtain information related to health, contact health care professionals, and obtain prescriptions; perceived effects of Internet and e-mail use on health care use.Approximately 40% of respondents with Internet access reported using the Internet to look for advice or information about health or health care in 2001. Six percent reported using e-mail to contact a physician or other health care professional. About one third of those using the Internet for health reported that using the Internet affected a decision about health or their health care, but very few reported impacts on measurable health care utilization; 94% said that Internet use had no effect on the number of physician visits they had and 93% said it had no effect on the number of telephone contacts. Five percent or less reported use of the Internet to obtain prescriptions or purchase pharmaceutical products.Although many people use the Internet for health information, use is not as common as is sometimes reported. Effects on actual health care utilization are also less substantial than some have claimed. Discussions of the role of the Internet in health care and the development of policies that might influence this role should not presume that use of the Internet for health information is universal or that the Internet strongly influences health care utilization.
Prospects for improved decision making about medical necessity HEALTH AFFAIRS Singer, S. J., Bergthold, L. A. 2001; 20 (1): 200-206
In loco parentis? The purchaser role in managed care CALIFORNIA MANAGEMENT REVIEW Bergthold, L., Koebler, S. O., Singer, S. 2000; 43 (1): 34-?
Structural problems of managed care in California and some options for ameliorating them CALIFORNIA MANAGEMENT REVIEW Singer, S. J., Enthoven, A. C. 2000; 43 (1): 50-?
What's not to like about HMOs HEALTH AFFAIRS Singer, S. J. 2000; 19 (4): 206-209
Unrealistic expectations born of defective institutions JOURNAL OF HEALTH POLITICS POLICY AND LAW Enthoven, A. C., Singer, S. J. 1999; 24 (5): 931-939
The managed care backlash and the task force in California HEALTH AFFAIRS Enthoven, A. C., Singer, S. J. 1998; 17 (4): 95-110
Signs of a managed care backlash in California are increasing. This paper reports and interprets the recently completed work of the California Managed Health Care Improvement Task Force, focusing on the managed care backlash and the state's regulatory response. Although cost containment was a contributing factor, the causes of and solutions to the backlash differ among consumers, physicians, health care workers, politicians, and health plans. The recommendations of the task force could improve the market for health insurance. However, lasting solutions to the profound problems causing the backlash will require fundamental cultural and systemic change.
Economists' perspectives on health care delivery in California as of 1995 WESTERN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE Singer, S. J. 1998; 168 (5): 360-370
The health care delivery system is made up of providers--hospitals and doctors--increasingly organized into medical groups. Medical groups interact with payors, primarily health maintenance organizations, that increasingly pass through both risk and prices from increasingly demanding purchasers. This article summarizes the present and future prospects for each of these groups.
Paying more twice: When employers subsidize higher-cost health plans HEALTH AFFAIRS Hunt, K. A., Singer, S. J., Gabel, J., Liston, D., Enthoven, A. C. 1997; 16 (6): 150-156
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Markets and collective action in regulating managed care HEALTH AFFAIRS Enthoven, A. C., Singer, S. J. 1997; 16 (6): 26-32
Managed competition and California's health care economy HEALTH AFFAIRS Enthoven, A. C., Singer, S. J. 1996; 15 (1): 39-57
There is evidence in California of a broad decline in health care costs to employment groups adopting managed care and managed competition--premium reductions up to 10 percent. National comparisons and utilization data generally confirm the beginning of lower costs. Large California medical groups and health systems have responded to pressure by finding ways to reduce costs and improve quality. While examples are encouraging, there is room for improvement. Two levels of competition have emerged and continue to evolve: carrier competition and delivery system competition. Each model has strengths and limitations, but the existing mix is driving down costs.
View details for Web of Science ID A1996VB83800005
Market-based reform: What to regulate and by whom? Conference on the Problem that Will Not Go Away - Reforming US Health Care Financing Enthoven, A. C., Singer, S. J. BROOKINGS INST. 1996: 185–206
View details for Web of Science ID A1996BG28V00007
Increasing cost-consciousness for managed care: reforming the tax treatment of health insurance expenditures. Health care management (Philadelphia, Pa.) Enthoven, A. C., Singer, S. J. 1995; 2 (1): 109-114
The current Internal Revenue Code encourages employees who receive health insurance as part of their benefits package to choose more costly coverage than they would buy with their own money. The authors propose an approach that corrects this problem as well as the inequities experienced by self-employed and unemployed people.
Incentives for a better health care system. Journal of health care benefits Enthoven, A. C., Singer, S. J. 1994; 3 (6): 4-7
A SINGLE-PAYER SYSTEM IN JACKSON HOLE CLOTHING HEALTH AFFAIRS Enthoven, A. C., Singer, S. J. 1994; 13 (1): 81-95
President Clinton's Health Security Act relies on government regulation, not market forces, to control costs. The act creates an entitlement to comprehensive benefits and places the federal budget at risk for total health care costs in order to achieve universal coverage; it creates a system of new state purchasing monopsonies; and it attempts to control costs with price controls on health plan premiums, set and administered by a National Health Board that would be part of the executive branch, not insulated from political considerations. We believe there is a better way.
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PROBLEMS IN GAINING ACCESS TO HOSPITAL INFORMATION HEALTH AFFAIRS Singer, S. J. 1991; 10 (2): 148-151
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The Royal Herald in Christianity, culture, europe, Ghassanids, middle east, Religion, Uncategorized October 21, 2017 October 21, 2017 272 Words
Prince Gharios El Chemor attends Coptic Orthodox service in London
HIRH Prince Gharios El Chemor with His Grace Bishop Angaelos
Last Tuesday, HIRH Prince Gharios El Chemor of Ghassan has attended the annual Nayrouz service at St Margaret’s Church (Westminster’s) in London invited by His Grace Bishop Angaelos, the General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom.
Nayrouz or Neyrouz is a feast when martyrs and confessors are commemorated within the Coptic Orthodox Church. The Feast of Neyrouz also marks the first day of the Coptic year.
Joining members of the Coptic community at the service were international royalty, members of the House of Lords, the Office of the Prime Minister, House of Commons, the Foreign Commonwealth Office, the Diplomatic Corps, the Home Office, humanitarian and advocacy organisations, and various ecumenical, and inter-religious guests. Also, several bishops and priests from different denominations have helped Bishop Anagelos to celebrate the service.
Messages from Her Majesty The Queen, His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, the Prime Minister and the Archbishop of Canterbury, were read.
Addresses were also delivered by Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg, The Lord Alton of Liverpool, The Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Communities and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Wales and The Right Honourable Alistair Burt MP, Minister of State for the Middle East and North Africa at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, and Minister of State for International Development.
Prince Gharios El Chemor at the “prima fila” (VIP row) at Westminster (St Margaret’s Church) in London
More about the event at http://copticcentre.blogspot.com/2017/10/report-at-annual-coptic-nayrouz-service.html
HIRH Prince Cheikh Antonios El Chemor The Honorary Founder of the modern Royal House of Ghassan
Royal Family in mourning: HRH Princess Laudy El Chemor passes away in Lebanon
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Category Archives: Culture
Culture, Leadership, Relationships
Of Victims & Bullies
September 15, 2015 Drew McIntyre 7 Comments
Courtesy Andrevruas, via Wikimedia Commons.
The short version: sometimes they are the same person.
Growing up, especially in middle school, I was bullied quite a bit. Bullying is a serious thing. I still remember the names I was called and the faces who said them. I recall vividly having to restrain myself from retaliation. The kind of overt bullying I experienced is all-too-common for young people in America, and this was before social media. Now, home is not necessarily a haven, as bullying can continue on Facebook, Instagram, and other platforms. Young people are bullied for a variety of reasons: for looking different, for being attracted to someone of the same gender, for their poverty, or for a disability. 24/7 bullying culture is a serious matter. Victims of bullying are at an increased likelihood of mental and emotional problems, including temptations to suicide.
Victims deserve our sincere support and empathy. Christians in particular are called to love the marginalized, outcast, and oppressed. Psalm 34:18 reminds us that God is committed to the cause of all those who are victimized: “The Lord is near the brokenhearted, and saved those crushed in spirit.” Christians and other citizens who wish to care for the “least of these” simply cannot avoid concern for victims of physical, verbal, or other forms of violence. Many decent people are quick to come to the defense of victims.
For that reason, some unhealthy personalities will always seek to take advantage of others’ good nature and feign victim status in order to garner attention or gain power. KickBully.com offers excellent resources for addresses bullying. On a page dedicated to bullies who claim to be victims, they describe the behavior under three headings:
A bully exaggerates the impact
of your actions on him
– He exaggerates his pain and suffering
– He makes you feel guilty for causing his pain
– He claims you don’t appreciate him
A bully focuses on past
and future victimization
– He frequently reminds you of your past actions that hurt him
– He replays his pain whenever he wants to manipulate you
– He brings up his pain long after the event occurred
– He doesn’t seem to get over things
– He says you will hurt him again if you don’t do what he wants
A bully uses his victimization
to avoid changing his behavior
– He says you must earn back his trust, good will, friendship, support
– He claims his belligerence results from his being treated unfairly
– He becomes angry and indignant when you try to reason with him
– He says he is tired of doing all the compromising
– He says he isn’t going to be so polite in the future
– He suggests that others are ganging up on him
They sum up this phenomenon by describing the behavior simply, “A bully pretends to be a victim in order to manipulate others. Because most people are good and compassionate, this is bullying at its worst. ”
Tim Field of BullyOnline.org attributes this behavior to a “manipulator,” one of a variety of attention-seeking pathological personality types who
“…[m]ay exploit family, workplace or social club relationships, manipulating others with guilt and distorting perceptions. While there may be no physical harm involved, people are affected with emotional injury…A common attention-seeking ploy is to claim he or she is being persecuted, victimized, excluded, isolated or ignored by another family member or group, perhaps insisting she is the target of a campaign of exclusion or harassment.”
We live at a moment in the modern West where we may begin to see more of this kind of behavior; an insightful new Atlantic piece names a subtle shift starting to take place in our culture that will profoundly impact how we relate to one another. Pre-modern cultures were largely honor cultures, where disputes would often be settled physically (a fight, or a duel), and requesting aid from third parties would be anathema in the case of an offense. The 19th and 20th century, particularly in the West, has seen a shift to a “dignity culture,” where insults were seen as less of an affront to personal honor and people are more likely to handle conflicts directly or simply ignore them. In a dignity culture, people are not totally averse to third party aid, but it is seen as a last resort to be avoided if possible. But now we are transitioning to a new kind of culture, described by sociologists thus:
The culture on display on many college and university campuses, by way of contrast, is “characterized by concern with status and sensitivity to slight combined with a heavy reliance on third parties. People are intolerant of insults, even if unintentional, and react by bringing them to the attention of authorities or to the public at large. Domination is the main form of deviance, and victimization a way of attracting sympathy, so rather than emphasize either their strength or inner worth, the aggrieved emphasize their oppression and social marginalization.”
It is, they say, “a victimhood culture.”
Poster from the documentary Bully, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
This victimhood culture clashes with the older dignity culture; slights that would be dismissed or handled reasonably in a dignity culture become fodder for great offense and shame campaigns by those influenced by the culture of victimhood. This is one aspect of the “suicide of thought” which we’ve examined previously. The sociologists quoted by The Atlantic piece elaborate:
“People increasingly demand help from others, and advertise their oppression as evidence that they deserve respect and assistance. Thus we might call this moral culture a culture of victimhood … the moral status of the victim, at its nadir in honor cultures, has risen to new heights.”
This helps to explain why we might see a rise in bullies playing the victim. As the culture shifts – and we are already seeing this in places like college campuses – there is more and more incentive to claim victim status, whether based on legitimate experiences or not. A good example of this kind of dynamic is the #CancelColbert faux controversy, in which a failed attempt was made to silence a comedian (who hadn’t made the offending tweet) for satirizing racism – which is a form of critique! Sound inane? It was, and the inanity was nicely summed up in this hilarious interview (not to mention Colbert’s mic-drop-worthy response).
The question The Atlantic does not answer, and that I find vexing, is the obvious one: what to do? The nature of claiming victimhood status is that it demands immediate deference; to question it is to risk nebulous but severe charges like insensitivity, harm, and blaming the victim. Moreover, bullying manipulators can easily turn any criticism or question to further the pretense of victimhood (as the chart above indicates).
The best option may just be to ignore them altogether; by challenging them directly you will likely feed their delusion and simply get roped into their histrionics. As with other kinds of toxic people, the only way to win with faux victims-turned-bullies is to minimize your exposure to them. Henry Cloud has some excellent thoughts along these lines in this lecture.
In a world that is far from the promised Kingdom, there will be victims and, sadly, those who pretend victimhood to further their own selfish ends. We must care deeply for the former while being wary of the latter. Or, as Jesus put it, we are called to be “as wise as serpents and innocent as doves.” (Matt. 10:16b, NRSV)
Have you experienced what sociologists are calling “victimhood culture?” Are there positive aspects to this culture? Are there other helpful ways to deal with it? Leave a comment below!
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Culture, theologians
The Gift of Silence in a Wordy World
August 21, 2015 Drew McIntyre 3 Comments
Human ear, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Political ads. Music blaring. Advertisements. Phones dinging and ringing with texts, tweets, and emails, and notifications from a hundred different apps.
How do we cut the noise?
The Psalms encourage us to meet God in silence: “Be still, and know that I am God.”
But stillness and silence are in short supply these days, This is important because the noise, the wordiness, the verbosity and constant buzz of our world directly impact our ability to live in peace with God, each other, and ourselves. St. Philotheos of Sinai reflected many centuries ago:
“Nothing is more unsettling than talkativeness and more pernicious than an unbridled tongue, disruptive as it is of the soul’s proper state. For the soul’s chatter destroys what we build each day and scatters what we have laboriously gathered together. What is more disastrous than this ‘uncontrollable evil’ (Jas. 3:8)? The tongue has to be restrained, checked by force and muzzled, so to speak, and made to serve only what is needful. Who can describe all the damage that the tongue does to the soul?” (“Forty Texts on Watchfulness,” Philokalia: Volume III London: Faber & Faber], 17)
On the recommendation of my friend Isaac Hopper, I recently read a great little book for creatives called Manage Your Day-To-Day. One of the chapters dealt with silence, and encouraged creative people (and I would think it beneficial for anyone) to intentionally cultivate silence each day. The benefits in mental and emotional health, creativity, engagement, and clarity – if this chapter is to be believed – are manifold.
We live in an over-connected world, with messages constantly bombarding us. The urgent always demands to be addressed immediately, which puts the critical and the important off to the side. But without silence, we cannot differentiate between them and hear the voice of our own priorities and values.
What if you took 10 minutes to just unplug each morning before the day’s demands come at you? That might be prayer, or meditation, or thinking through the day. Or, perhaps, you could cut five minutes from lunch and just find a quiet corner in which to reset? Increasingly, if we are ever going to experience silence, we will have to intentionally seek it out.
Silence truly is golden, but we spend most of our days courting the din of tin.
But silence is a gift that is free; you don’t have to buy it or earn it, you only have to unplug.
How does your day-to-day routine benefit from silence? Do you find silence difficult or uncomfortable? How can we cultivate more silence in our lives and our childrens’ lives? Leave a comment below!
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Church History, Great Books, theology
Heresy As Extremism: Why the Middle Way is the Narrow Way
July 27, 2015 Drew McIntyre 2 Comments
Icon of Gregory the Great, from monasteryicons.com.
“Sincerity is no guarantee of being correct.”
-Rev. Dr. Mickey Efird
The lies of heresy are not just false, they are false in the extreme.
We’ve examined before in this space how heresy flattens the mysteries of the gospel. The great doctrines of the church, the Incarnation and Trinity, are in a real sense names for mysteries. These mysteries the church, we believe, has been led to confess by the Holy Spirit. In so confessing, we preserve and celebrate the mystery of God and God’s mighty saving work. Heresy always simplifies that mystery to something more palatable and less gospel.
But heresy can also be understood as a form of extremism. Jaroslav Pelikan, near the end of Volume 1 of The Christian Tradition, notes, “It was characteristic of heretics that they erred in one extreme or the other, denying either the One or the Three, either despising marriage or denigrating virginity.” It is worth mentioning that Pelikan, the now-deceased don of church history at Yale, writes this after multiple chapters spent painstakingly quoting and examining what the heretics themselves wrote. He then quotes Gregory the Great:
“But the church, by contrast, proceeds with ordered composure midway between the quarrels on both sides. It knows how to accept the higher good in such a way as simultaneously to venerate the lower, because it neither puts the highest on the same level with the lowest nor on the other hand despises the lowest when it venerates the highest.” (334-335)
If you’ve ever ridden a bicycle, you know that just a little ways this or that and you will take a tumble. So it is with orthodoxy. Precision in thought, as in machinery, only tolerates so much wiggle room. Chesterton noted that many are shocked at the vitriolic arguments about small points of doctrine, but they do so because they fail to recognize that there are no small points about the Divine:
“…it is exactly this which explains what is so inexplicable to all the modern critics of the history of Christianity. I mean the monstrous wars about small points of theology, the earthquakes of emotion about a gesture or a word. It was only a matter of an inch; but an inch is everything when you are balancing. The Church could not afford to swerve a hair’s breadth on some things if she was to continue her great and daring experiment of the irregular equilibrium. Once let one idea become less powerful and some other idea would become too powerful. It was no flock of sheep the Christian shepherd was leading, but a herd of bulls and tigers, of terrible ideals and devouring doctrines, each one of them strong enough to turn to a false religion and lay waste the world. Remember that the Church went in specifically for dangerous ideas; she was a lion tamer. The idea of birth through a Holy Spirit, of the death of a divine being, of the forgiveness of sins, or the fulfillment of prophecies, are ideas which, any one can see, need but a touch to turn them into something blasphemous or ferocious.”
Heresy, even in the lightest of touches or turns, always perverts Christian truth into something “blasphemous or ferocious,” something extreme. The Arians, sincere though they were, turned Christians into creature-worshippers. The gnostic-influenced Christians, who’ve strangely enjoyed a kind of foolish re-appropriation of their literature in the last couple of decades, denied the good not only of God’s creation but the truth of the Incarnation as an affirmation of the physical order (modern Darbyism does something similar with its false doctrine of the rapture).
An inch is everything when you are balancing.
This not only inveighs against those who wish to deconstruct orthodoxy as some kind of conservative fantasy, it also points us to why pious rhetoric that pits “the middle way” against “the narrow way” is ultimately false. In terms of doctrine, the middle way – the balancing of heretical extremes in order to discover the one way to stand tall amid a thousand ways to totter over – is the narrow way.
Thus we can conceive of heresy, like Pelikan, as extremism. Examples might include: emphasizing the transcendence of God to the detriment of the immanence of God; emphasizing works of piety so as to leave aside works of mercy; dogmatically adhering to classical Christian teaching in one area of sexuality while completely ignoring others; a simplistic biblicism that ignores experience and tradition (or, on the other hand, a Romantic attachment to experience which runs amok over scripture and tradition); or finally, as Bonhoeffer famously noted, grace divorced from the cross.
An inch is everything when you are balancing, which is why the narrow way of Christian truth is also the middle way. I’ll let Chesterton have the last word:
“It is easy to be a madman; it is easy to be a heretic. it is always easy to let the age have its head; the difficult thing is to keep one’s head. It is always easy to be a modernist; as it is easy to be a snob. To have fallen into any of those open traps of error and exaggeration which fashion after fashion and sect after sect set along the historic path of Christendom – that would indeed have been simple. It is always simple to fall; there are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.”
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Culture, Great Books, Politics
Are We Witnessing the “Suicide of Thought”?
July 24, 2015 Drew McIntyre 10 Comments
“There is a thought that stops thought. That is the only thought that ought to be stopped.”
-G.K Chesterton, “The Suicide of Thought,” in Orthodoxy
Satire is effective because it wraps a kernel of truth in packing that, if well-constructed, is hilarious. An example of effective satire is this “story” from The Onion:
Saying that such a dialogue was essential to the college’s academic mission, Trescott University president Kevin Abrams confirmed Monday that the school encourages a lively exchange of one idea. “As an institution of higher learning, we recognize that it’s inevitable that certain contentious topics will come up from time to time, and when they do, we want to create an atmosphere where both students and faculty feel comfortable voicing a single homogeneous opinion,” said Abrams, adding that no matter the subject, anyone on campus is always welcome to add their support to the accepted consensus. “Whether it’s a discussion of a national political issue or a concern here on campus, an open forum in which one argument is uniformly reinforced is crucial for maintaining the exceptional learning environment we have cultivated here.”
Of course, college campuses are not alone in tending towards a sort of intellectual univocality. Various corners (or are they cul de sacs?) of the church vie to have their views not only recognized, but made sacrosanct. We see it also in our wider culture. I am not among those who thinks that the sky is falling due to the Oberfell ruling; nevertheless, Justice Alito was probably correct in saying this decision will be used against those who will not “assent to the new orthodoxy.” (For all the bleating about “thinking for oneself,” every community has its own orthodoxy, after all.) He was similarly prophetic in his concern about “those who are determined to stamp out every vestige of dissent.”
But it isn’t merely the reduction of valid viewpoints that is at issue, it is the manner in which those viewpoints are decided. Another aspect of what Chesterton called “the suicide of thought” is the power play that the injection of a kind of fundamentalist identity politics as brought to contemporary discourse. In many corners of American intellectual life, what matters is not what one argues but one’s identity which determines (before a word is spoken) the validity of what is proffered. A self-described liberal college student aptly described the illiberality of such power games in a thought-provoking piece titled, “Social Justice Bullies”:
“But here’s the thing — who I am does not (or should not) have any bearing on facts. The problem with this brand of modern social justice advocacy is that who one is as a person (race, class, gender, etc.) is the be all and end all of their capacity to have a certain viewpoint. A millennial social justice advocate can discount an opinion simply because it is said or written by a group they feel oppresses them. It is a logical fallacy known as ad hominem whereby one attacks the person saying an argument rather than the argument itself. But this logical fallacy has become the primary weapon of the millennial social justice advocate. It is miasma to academia, to critical thinking, and to intellectual honesty. Yet it is the primary mode of operating on college campuses nationwide.”
To be clear, at issue is not the ends to which contemporary “social justice bullies” aim but the means employed (side note: if you are worried you may be a SJB, check here). Any means that rules out certain thoughts or ideas based solely on the identity of the person who holds them (outside of, say, a KKK or Nation of Islam member, someone who self-describes in a prejudiced way) is the opposite of the liberal ideal, which values exchange of ideas and wrestling for the truth. Orginos elaborates:
“What I am talking about so far is not meant to discredit feminism or any social justice position that seeks to empower oppressed people or remedy social ills. As I made abundantly clear to begin with, these are fundamentally good and necessary goals. What is the issue here are the tactics used by some from a purported place of moral high ground to immunize themselves from criticism while promoting a close-minded authoritarian vice-grip on society through chillingly sinister tactics.”
It is both disingenuous and counter-productive to demand conversation about serious issues facing our society AND police attempted conversation so tightly that only the pre-determined righteous elite can come to the table. This is at least part of the reason for the gridlock we currently face; those who set the terms of the debate have done so in a manner that predetermines the outcome, and then shame those who refuse to play their power game as unwilling and backwards. The faux empathy which demands to settle ahead of time not just what can be said but how it is said – resulting in the exchange of “one idea,” as The Onion so aptly put it – is regressive in the extreme. Rabbi and systems theorist Edwin Friedman called such gridlock “a failure of nerve”:
“…societal regression has too often perverted the use of empathy into a disguise for anxiety, a rationalization for failure to define a position, and a power tool in the hands of the ‘sensitive’…I have consistently found the introduction of the subject of ’empathy’ into family, institutional, and community meetings to be reflective of, as well as an effort to induce, a failure of nerve among its leadership.”
It’s tempting to be an alarmist about all this. But the good news is that the flesh-and-blood people I talk to in my community, or pray with at the church I serve, are more fully-orbed than this. I worry that, with Chesterton, “We are on the road to producing a race of [people] too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table.”
But most people I know – those not trying to get a book deal or grow their Instagram following – are not like this. If you pay too much attention to the thought police – the basement bloggers, armchair theorists, and self-obsessed justice tourists – it’s easy to become convinced that truthful speech and honest, vulnerable conversation are at an end in the 21st century West. But we can do better. Thought need not be destroyed on the altar of ideology masquerading as empathy.
But fighting this trend will require all of us – left/right/center, libertarian and communitarian, Christians and atheists and agnostics, progressives and traditionalists – to embrace a hermeneutic of charity that will allow us to be more interested in genuine engagement than in scoring points with the home team, more desirous of actually achieving progress than being seen as an expert in demanding it. Otherwise, we are fated to continue trying to move forward as a church and society while fighting over the few, narrow, pre-determined views.
What do you think? Are we witnessing the suicide of thought? What institutions, places, arenas are there for genuine engagement across the usual battle lines? Leave a comment below.
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Christian living, Culture, theologians
Avoiding Conversation is No Way to Advance the Debate
June 24, 2015 Drew McIntyre 7 Comments
Tin Can Telephone, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
How do have the conversations that matter most? Like many things in life, most of it is just showing up.
We United Methodists just came through Annual Conference season; this is the yearly gathering of United Methodists in a given region, represented by clergy and laity, where budgets are set, legislation debated, and an array of training, lectures, studies, worship, and mission opportunities are offered. Here in Western North Carolina, we had an interesting afternoon at Annual Conference (AC) last Friday. Let me explain.
We voted on two pieces of legislation on that afternoon. The first of these, from our Justice & Reconciliation team, asked the Bishop to form a team to begin a series of holy conversations around controversial topics in the UMC (the unstated chief of which centers around questions of sexuality). A couple of laity spoke against this measure, trotting out some pretty unsophisticated arguments for why this should be a settled question, but all in all it passed easily.
Next up was a proposal that has been attempted at all of our recent Annual Conferences in recent memory: a petition to ask the General Conference to change the language about sexuality in our denominational rules, the collection of which is called the Book of Discipline. Over a dozen ACs passed similar petitions this year, none of which are binding, because only the General Conference (meeting every four years) speaks for the whole church.
Here’s where things got interesting. As soon as this petition was introduced, a pastor from one of our Reconciling Ministries Network (a caucus that advocates for changes in UM policy) churches asked for a suspension of the rules to move toward an immediate vote. This was approved, and we began the painstaking process of voting, which took a while because we had to be counted by hand as we stood to either vote for, against, or abstain.
A friend of mine, afterwards, asked a question to the Bishop which I had myself wondered (and tweeted):
So we voted to have holy conversation, and then to not have discussion?? #AC2015 #wnccumc
— Drew McIntyre (@DrewBMcIntyre) June 19, 2015
I’m still not sure of the motivations behind the motion to go straight to a vote. It may have been that the sponsors thought they had a better chance of ‘winning’ without the debate, or that the discussion would be offensive (most of my friends’ responses to my tweet indicated the latter concern). But regardless, it was a strange juxtaposition. Conversations do not become easier by avoiding them. Even unpleasant comments (of which we hear too many at AC, as we did last year) are helpful, in that they tell us how much more work remains in advancing the conversation. This general trend towards avoiding difficult or painful dialogue is troubling. Our society has become so dominated by the therapeutic mindset that sometimes it seems that even hearing an alternative or critical view of something is considered damaging. Should we be concerned about the prevalence of such rhetorical moves?
Hanna Rosin argued in The Atlantic,
“A proper argument takes intellectual vigor, nimbleness, and sustained attention. If carried on long enough, it can push both parties to a deeper level of understanding. Oxford debaters hack away at each other for something like two hours. Socrates could sometimes go on for weeks. But who has that kind of time anymore? Better to just shut things down quickly, using one of a new array of trump cards.
Want to avoid a debate? Just tell your opponent to check his privilege. Or tell him he’s slut-shaming or victim-blaming, or racist, or sexist, or homophobic, or transphobic, or Islamophobic, or cisphobic, or some other creative term conveying that you are simply too outraged by the argument to actually engage it. Or, on the other side of the coin, accuse him of being the PC thought police and then snap your laptop smugly.
In the art of debate avoidance, each political camp has honed a particular style. Conservatives generally aim for the prenup approach, to preempt any messy showdowns. If you want to join the club, then you have to sign a contract or make a pledge—no new taxes, no abortions, no gay marriage—and thereafter recite from a common script. Progressives indulge a shouting match of competing identities that resembles an argument but is in fact the opposite, because its real aim is to rule certain debates out of bounds.”
I recall an interview with N.T. Wright, the retired Anglican bishop and eminent New Testament scholar, in which he was asked about the same-sex marriage debate. His comment was telling: “Our problem at the moment is that we aren’t having the debate, we are simply having bits and pieces of a shouting match.”
Too often we are content with “bits and pieces of a shouting match” rather than deep engagement. Whether it is about sexuality, doctrine, race, liturgics, immigration, or creation care, too often we Christians fall into the world’s ways of doing – or, in this case, avoiding – things. We can do better. But it requires a commitment on all parties to a) a hermeneutic of charity, b) arguing against ideas and not people, and c) dedicating ourselves to hearing the best version of the opposing view, and not merely extreme examples or straw men easily dismissed.
In the church and in our national conversation, it is always easier to retreat into echo-chambers, eschewing critics and alternative viewpoints. The gnostic church of our own imaginations is always a neater, less challenging place than the flesh-and-blood church of Jesus Christ. But maturity doesn’t come by disengagement. I’ll let Rosin have the last word – a word of warning about this cultural malaise:
“The tactic has lately proved surprisingly effective, but it comes with a high cost…empathy, or humility, or actually hearing out your opponents.”
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Bishop Spong, the Fundamentalist
June 19, 2015 Drew McIntyre 1 Comment
Bishop John Shelby Spong of the Episcopal Church, retired. Courtesy Scott Griessel via Wikimedia Commons.
In our last post, we looked at how fundamentalism is actually a modernist phenomenon, and not its opposite. As I have continued to read through Billy Abraham’s excellent The Logic of Renewal, he makes these relationships even more explicit. It’s not only that fundamentalism is representative of modernity, but that the most thorough-going modernists can also be fundamentalists. Case in point is Bishop John Shelby Spong, the infamous Episcopal bishop (now retired) known for questioning virtually every distinctive Christian belief and yet – somehow – remaining a bishop. Abraham explains:
“Converted within the boundaries of modern fundamentalism, he has never really recovered from the thinness of its doctrines or the narrowness of its structures. The marks of the former Fundamentalism in his preaching and teaching are obvious. There is the same sense of alienation from tradition, the same angry self-assurance, the same hunger for intellectual and scholarly recognition, the same boundless evangelistic energy for the cause, the same pretentious self-importance, the same note of apocalyptic urgency, and the same faith in simple, sure-fire arguments that will shoot down the opposition in flames.”
Having spent many years among conservative fundamentalists, I find it pretty easy to recognize that streak among progressive fundies as well. As Abraham so aptly names, the same tone, methodology, and simplistic world-view is found in the left-wing fundamentalism of Spong as it is in the right-wing fundamentalism of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Fundamentalism, in other words, is not a matter of the left or the right. It’s a quintessentially modern habit, found in any faith or faith leader co-opted by its norms and modes of discourse.
Where do you see fundamentalism – right and left-wing – in the church today?
Source: William Abraham, The Logic of Renewal (Grand Rapids: Eerdman’s 2003), 40.
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Atheism, philosophy of religion
William Sloane Coffin on Atheism’s God
June 2, 2015 Drew McIntyre Leave a comment
Imagine a movement to abolish film based only on the work of Adam Sandler, or to abolish the radio because of Justin Bieber. What if I began a series of blogs arguing for the closing of all art museums because of the laughable efforts of my 5th grade neighbor that aren’t even worthy of a refrigerator magnet?
Most atheists, in rejecting God, are not rejecting a God I recognize. Having read much of the atheist literature, including some of the prominent voices of the virulent strain of anti-theistic writing called the ‘New Atheism,’ I am often left underwhelmed with the depth of analysis. William Sloane Coffin, near the end of his life, wrote a great little book called Letters to a Young Doubter. In it, he imagines a dialogue with a freshman college student and friend named Tom, who is navigating faith and family and studies and doubt as he begins his undergraduate career. He warn Tom,
“It may, however, be worthwhile to tell you about what I have found to be a common phenomenon in American universities today. Professors judge poetry, novels, art, and music by their very best works. Why then do so many judge religion by the worst examples of it? I used to ask professors, ‘Tell me about the God you don’t believe in.’ I know that 99 chances out of 100 I wouldn’t believe in their kind of God either.”
As Coffin hints at, the New Atheists and their fandom constantly argue against religion by highlighting its worst possible exemplars. Critical readers will recognize this tactic as arguing against a straw man – a fallacy that is unfortunately as common as it is effective.
Give me Nietzsche any day: an atheist with the intellectual virtue to actually know that which he rejected. He despised Christianity on its own terms: the life and witness of Jesus was to him disgusting, as it led to the “slave morality” he despised.
At least Nietzsche cared enough to read the source material at its best. If only today’s atheists would do the same. Orthodox theologian David Bentley Hart puts it thus, with his characteristically sharp quill:
“The principal source of my melancholy, however, is my firm conviction that today’s most obstreperous infidels lack the courage, moral intelligence, and thoughtfulness of their forefathers in faithlessness. What I find chiefly offensive about them is not that they are skeptics or atheists; rather, it is that they are not skeptics at all and have purchased their atheism cheaply, with the sort of boorish arrogance that might make a man believe himself a great strategist because his tanks overwhelmed a town of unarmed peasants, or a great lover because he can afford the price of admission to a brothel. So long as one can choose one’s conquests in advance, taking always the paths of least resistance, one can always imagine oneself a Napoleon or a Casanova (and even better: the one without a Waterloo, the other without the clap).”
In proving the undesirability of “gods” that no one, perchance for a few extremists, actually worships, contemporary atheists are not so much making arguments as they are reinforcing the boogeymen of their own imaginations. And, of course, book sales. Hysteria always sells, after all.
Sadly, in rejecting out-of-hand what they do not understand and have not critically engaged, the New Atheists and their ilk are mirroring the behavior of those they most despise: religious fundamentalists. Thus, they become two sides of the same coin. As we’ve said before, beware what you loathe, because you will become it.
(For more of David Bentley Hart tearing down New Atheist straw men, see video below.)
Source: William Slone Coffin, Letters to a Young Doubter Louisville: WKJ 2005), 17-18.
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Church, Culture, theologians
How to Recognize Evil
May 19, 2015 Drew McIntyre 2 Comments
The famous 15th cent. Rublev icon of the Most Blessed Trinity. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
We live in an age where the language of good vs. evil is not appreciated. Hyper-postmodernity would have us believe that every truth claim is merely an assertion of power, so no truth claim holds value. Bullshit.
Here’s how to recognize evil:
Love unites. Evil divides. It’s a simple premise that, if you accept it and begin to look for it, you’ll see everywhere. Churches. Families. Communities. And of course, on to whole nations and regions of the globe.
Love brings things together in ways that are life-affirming. In marriage, two become “one flesh” and join lives, hearts, and wills. Communities form when individuals become neighbors. Countries form when communities come together for the common good.
Evil is the opposite. Evil makes a marriage a contract between two individuals rather than a covenant bond. Evil turns community members into bitter, envious, hateful, and prejudiced rivals competing for scarce resources. Evil turns nation against nation.
As Augustine noted, evil has no force on its own. Evil can only ever be a parasite. It is a privation of the good only possible wherever the good is found.
God (who is love) became united with humanity for our salvation, to unite us to God and to each other. As St. Maximos the Confessor observed (emphasis mine):
“In His love for man God became man so that He might unite human nature to Himself and stop it from acting evilly towards itself, or rather from being at strife and divided against itself, and from having no rest because of the instability of its will and purpose. Nothing sequent to God is more precious for beings endowed with intellect, or rather is more dear to God, than perfect love; for love unites those who have been divided and is able to create a single identity of will and purpose, free from faction, among many or among all; for the property of love is to produce a single will and purpose in those who seek what pertains to it. If by nature the good unifies and holds together what has been separated, evil clearly divides and corrupts what has been unified. For evil is by nature dispersive, unstable, multiform and divisive.”
Evil is the power of entropy, the power to corrupt, to rot, to destroy that which God has joined together in love. Division is the way of the world (it’s no accident that Christians are often enjoined to flee it, after all). It’s hard for people, even with much in common, to be united in the bond of love; pride and experience and competing narratives all get in the way.
But let’s be clear: God’s will, the ultimate Good, is not for division but for loving unity. As God has been revealed to us as a unity of persons who are distinct but still united in will, purpose, and love – a mystery we name Trinity – so God’s will for us, His people, is that we might know that same purely other-regarding love in our lives. A high calling, but one worthy of our best efforts, despite the difficulties and many differences which too easily divide us.
May that effort be found abundantly among us: as wives and husbands, as communities, and particularly as the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Body of Christ. As David Watson has suggested, such unity is not primarily institutional but spiritual. In a world bent on incarnating the evils of division along every possible line, let us resist that tide and pray for the power of the Holy Spirit to instead live as Paul exhorted the church at Ephesus:
“…with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, making every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all.” (Eph. 4:2-6, NRSV)
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Source: “First Century Various Texts,” from the Philokalia: Volume 2 (London: Faber & Faber 1981), 174. If the Philokalia is unfamiliar to you, I highly recommend it and this helpful interview with the great Orthodox leader Metropolitan Kallistos Ware.
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Celebrities, Culture
West, Dyson, & the Independent Prophet as False Prophet
April 28, 2015 Drew McIntyre 1 Comment
Cornel West in 2008, by Esther. Courtesy Flickr/Wikimedia Commons.
In a recent public drubbing of Cornel West, Michael Eric Dyson laid into the Princeton public intellectual for a variety of reasons in what was both a stringent personal attack and a mournful elegy to a declining mentor. One of Dyson’s most incisive critiques was that West’s claim to the prophet’s mantle rings hollow, lacking the nuance both of biblical exegesis and ecclesial experience. Dyson, a Georgetown professor, raises some serious questions here not just of West but of all Christians who would blithely claim the prophetic role for themselves. Consider the following excerpts (subheadings are my own):
Defining the Prophet
“To paraphrase Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart’s famous definition of pornography, West may not seek to define a prophet, but he knows one when he sees one, and quite often, they sound just like him. This limp understanding of prophecy plays to his advantage because he can bless or dismiss prophets without answering how we determine who prophets are, who gets to say so, how they are different from social critics, to whom they answer, if they have standing in religious communities, or if God calls them.”
Prophecy Demands Institutional Accountability
“But ordained ministers, and especially pastors, must give account to the congregations or denominations that offer them institutional support and the legitimacy to prophesize. They may face severe consequences—including excommunication, censorship, being defrocked, or even expelled from their parishes—for their acts. The words and prophetic actions of these brave souls impact their ministerial standing and their vocation. West faces no such penalty for his pretense to Christian prophecy.”
“West might argue that not being ordained leaves him free to act on his prophetic instincts and even disagree with the church on social matters. Thus he avoids the negative consequences of ordination while remaining spiritually anchored. That’s fine if you’re a run-of-the-mill Christian, but there is, and should be, a higher standard for prophets. True prophets embrace religious authority and bravely stand up to it in the name of a higher power. The effort to escape responsibility should sound an alarm for those who hold West’s views about how prophets should behave.”
“As a freelancing, itinerant, nonordained, self-anointed prophet, West has only to answer to himself. That may symbolize a grand resistance to institutional authority, but it’s also a failure to acknowledge the institutional responsibilities that religious prophets bear. Most ministers are clerics attending to the needs of the local parish. Only a select few are cut from prophetic cloth. Yet nearly all the religious figures we recognize as prophets—Adam Clayton Powell Jr., King, Jackson, Sharpton—were ordained as ministers. Powell and King were pastors of local churches as well. To be sure, there are prophets who are not ministers or religious figures—especially women whose path to the ministry has been blocked by sexist theologies—but most of them have ties to organizations or institutions that hold them accountable.”
“Prophets, as a rule, don’t have tenure. West gets the benefits of the association with prophecy while bearing none of its burdens. By refusing to take up the cross he urges prophetic Christians to carry, West is preaching courage while seeking to avoid reprisal or suffering. Playing it safe means that West doesn’t qualify for the prophetic role he espouses.”
Is Anything Critical or Counter-Cultural Prophetic?
“What makes West a prophet? Is it his willingness to call out corporate elites and assail the purveyors of injustice and inequality? The actor Russell Brand does that in his book Revolution. Is he a prophet? Is it West’s self-identification with the poor? Tupac Shakur had that on lock. Should we deem him a prophet? Is it West’s self-styled resistance to police brutality, evidenced by his occasional willingness to get arrested in highly staged and camera-ready gestures of civil disobedience, such as in Ferguson last fall?”
Dyson raises crucial questions for any Christians who would blithely ascend to the prophetic office. Most especially, he reminds us that true prophets are always close enough to the Christian community (by ordination and other relationships) to be held responsible, to be able to receive praise or blame for their actions. The lone prophet has, by contrast, won his or her mantle cheaply, like a bitter child who buys a championship trophy at a pawn shop and then fancies himself All-State.
Let those with ears, hear.
P.S. Given what Dyson has said about prophets not having tenure, I wonder if it possible for United Methodist elders to be prophets in any real sense of the term?
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Entertainment, theology
The Gospel According to Frank Underwood
March 2, 2015 Drew McIntyre Leave a comment
[Warning: Spoilers about a very intense Season 3 House of Cards scene, and broader HOC spoilers, below.]
Photo of Kevin Spacey by Sarah Ackerman, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
What does Frank Underwood believe about Jesus? As Underwood, Kevin Spacey masterfully plays the House of Cards protagonist, a character with moral abandon seldom seen on the small or large screen. In season 3, just released by Netflix, now-President Underwood is not showing any signs of slowing down. He (literally) urinates on the memory of his ancestors to open the season, and an episode 4 ethical dilemma finds him talking ethics with a Bishop late one night in a church. Spacey’s Underwood is so skillfully sleezy that we almost believe him when he tells the good Bishop he wants a few moments alone to pray.
C’mon, do you really think Frank is going to pray to anyone but himself? (To be fair, he has conversed with Satan on screen as well.) Of course not. He stares up a crucifix, shares a few critical words with Jesus, and then spits upon it – a treatment not unlike what the real Jesus endured on the cross, actually. As you can imagine, this scene shocked audiences. Much has been made of this scene, but the broader implications of his conversation with and about the Son of God has been largely ignored. Here’s a snippet, edited down to the relevant statements:
Underwood: “I understand the Old Testament God, whose power is absolute, who rules through fear, but…him?” [points to crucifix]
Bishop: “There’s no such thing as absolute power for us, except on the receiving end….Two rules: Love God. Love each other. Period. You weren’t chosen, Mr. President. Only he [Jesus] was.”
(Frank asks for alone time to pray.)
Underwood – looking up at crucifix: “Love? That’s what you’re selling. Well, I don’t buy it.” [Spits]
Frank, without knowing it, has just made a theological argument for a very old Christian heresy. Notice the strong division between the “Old Testament God” and Jesus. For Underwood, the OT deity is a being of power and intimidation, and, while he doesn’t elaborate, his attitude towards Jesus on the cross indicates he understands the discontinuity: this Jesus wields power very differently than does the fictional President. This bifurcation between the Old and New Testaments, even to the point of asserting the centrality of different deities to each, is called Marcionism. The definition from Theopedia is helpful:
“Marcionism was an early heresy led by Marcion, who proposed the first canon of Christian texts. The proposed canon consisted of the Gospel of Luke and several of Paul’s epistles; however, Marcion edited the writings by deleting any references that appeared to approve of the Old Testament and the creator God of the Jews. Marcionism thus rejected the Old Testament God, claiming that Jesus represented the true sovereign God who was different from the God of the Hebrew people.”
Underwood expresses a sentiment that is still not uncommon today, though typically less developed than Marcion’s own views. Here in the Bible Belt, you even occasionally drive by churches that advertise themselves as “New Testament Christians,” whatever the hell that means.
It’s no surprise that Frank’s gospel is a false one, a heresy (to be fair, he’s kind of an inverse Marcionite, since he identifies with the “Old Testament Deity” that Marcion rejected). What is a surprise, a problem even now, is how easily we still buy into Marcion’s lie today. Make no mistake: the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament both contain the revelation of the one God’s gracious activity towards us, God’s creatures. Where Marcion posited radical discontinuity, the orthodox position has always on a strong connection between the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament. There is a beauty to the canon, which is no surprise if you believe (as Christians do) that the 66 books of our Bible represent a beautiful library in which everywhere God is revealed in loving self-disclosure.
The life and witness of Jesus makes no sense without an appreciation of the Old Testament narrative. There is no understanding Jesus and his mission apart from his role as Israel’s Messiah, fulfilling the promise to Abraham to “bless many nations” as the Suffering Servant of Isaiah. This same Jesus is sent by and begotten of the Father and united with the Spirit, one God in Triunity, who (Christians believe) is none other than the God confessed still by Jews in the Shema: “Hear O Israel, your God is one.”
Two Testaments. One God. Frank Underwood is a very effective politician, but as a theologian he is a pure heretic.
An icon of the Holy Trinity, based on the famed Rublev Icon.
The good news is that God’s loving action is revealed in both Testaments, which tell the story of a God radically committed to His creation. So committed, in fact, that God abdicated all God’s power and, in Christ, subjected Himself to the totality of wrath, sin, evil, and abandonment that vexes humanity, and submitted to death on our behalf. In submitting to death, it was conquered, and we were healed.
To Frank Underwood, and to us, the cross is and always remains a scandal. After all, a God of power is comprehensible, recognizable on the world’s terms. But what earthly ruler – a Nietzschean like Underwood, a Caesar, or a Putin – would dare endorse the seeming naiveté of a God who gives up power out of selfless, other-regarding love for ungrateful creatures who will ultimately put God to death rather than submit to His Kingdom of love and mercy?
Thus St. Paul said to the Corinthians,
“The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are being destroyed. But it is the power of God for those of us who are being saved.” (1 Cor. 1:18, CEB)
At least Underwood is honest enough to know that he cannot conduct his affairs as he does and also worship the God who hangs on a cross. Frank understands the foolishness of the cross. But now the question is to us, followers of the risen Lord. Do we, “who are being saved,” embrace the foolishness that is the cross?
I conclude with the words of Charles Wesley, who captures both the pain and the beauty, the incomprehensibility and the glory of the cross in his excellent hymn:
O Love divine, what has thou done!
The immortal God hath died for me!
The Father’s coeternal Son
bore all my sins upon the tree.
Th’ immortal God for me hath died:
My Lord, my Love, is crucified!
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CIVILIZATION WARNED Hitler & Putin
Abstract: Putin is going to war for exactly the exact same socio-economic reason as Adolf Hitler: total failure. So he will not stop, until all is consummated.
Putin’s plutocratic society has turned into a dictatorship. His economy, weakened by militarization and corruption, is failing. That decay is on a collision course with his self-admitted personal addiction to power. A difference with Hitler: oil and gas (Russia is the first producer, with the USA; Hitler had none and depended upon American and Russian oil until 1941). Faced with fascism again, having learned a bit from history, with higher stakes, this time the so called “democracies” are rallying in a more timely manner.
In September 1939, France attacked Hitler to help Poland. Alone, France was, and condemned by the presidency and Congress of the USA. This time, it’s completely different. The USA is on the frontlines, joining an increasingly serious NATO. France is sending to Poland and the Baltic republics one hundred of her lethal, nuclear capable Rafales active stealth jets:
Serious Business: Rafale Carrying Six Beyond Visual Range Infra Red Missiles &, On Its Belly A 300 Kiloton H Bomb Capable Of Making 600 Kilometers In 8 Minutes. Sent To Poland.
Both with the European Union, and NATO, attack against one is attack against all. Taken literally Putin has said he wanted to reconstitute the Czars’ evil empire. Submitting to Putin, means, for starters, sending people to be abused in concentration camps for homosexuality, opinions, and insulting the Church. Pluto’s reign: even Putin’s generals are billionaires.
[I would suggest that the USA sent anti-ballistic missile ships, in the Baltic, as the Kremlin has made nuclear threats from its occupied territory around the ancient German city of Konigsberg.]
SOCIALIST WARNING TO PLUTO PUTIN:
The French Republic is controlled by the Socialist Party, and, officially, 57% of its GDP is state (although an economist on this site, D. Deux said the real number is lower). France can hardly be called a Wall Street, or NATO puppet.
100 French supersonic active stealth fighter-bombers Rafales are deploying in Poland and the Baltics, some a few dozen miles from Russia’s Kaliningrad enclave. What’s Kaliningrad? The ancient East Prussia. Another territory invaded by the Kremlin, and declared to be Russian. Some of the Baltics have been tortured and nearly exterminated by Russia for the last 250 years. Then, after ethnic cleansing, the Czars moved in Russians (many as recently as after WWII, under Czar Stalin). Those very same Russians whose descendants now Putin wants to save so much.
The Rafales carry the active stealth system “Spectre”. Basically Spectre makes anti-noise, with a precision of less than one degree on the source. That allows to jam Very High Frequency radar that renders even stealth planes like the future USA Strike Fighter, the F35, “Lightning II, plainly visible.
Active stealth Rafales can carry a standoff missile carrying a 300 kilotonnes (of TNT) thermonuclear warhead. That’s twenty times Hiroshima. The missile is propelled by a French invention patented in 1908 (Lorin), that nearly flew as a fighter in 1940, before flying in 1947, the RAMjet. The RAMjet gives the missile a 600 kilometers range above Mach 3 (because it carries only fuel: the RAM breathes air).
(By comparison the bomber part of the arsenal of the USA consists of subsonic planes carrying obsolete subsonic cruise missiles of H bomb power at most 150 kt.)
Britain also regrets to have only strategic nuclear submarines as a deterrent (which the Scottish Independence Party wants to eliminate, presumably to switch allegiance to Putin). As Russia has threatened to use H bombs on the battlefield, and based some in occupied “Kaliningrad”, between Lithuania and Poland, it’s good to be able to reply tit for tat. Besides, Rafales could certainly land on Red Square…
Even Socialist France is warning Putin.
WAR PHILOSOPHY:
As I have argued, history is basically a compendium of ineluctable complexities, avoidable conspiracies, and ultimate wars. In particular, history is not made by pacifists inasmuch as by war. See: “War Makes History”.
There are basically two types of war: bad guys against bad guys, and bad guys, against good guys. Wars of good guys against good guys are very rare (see Note1).
A sure way to have a country led by bad guys is to make it a plutocracy. In Putin’s realm, even the top generals are wealthy plutocrats. Actually every whom Putin calls a “friend” is a multimillionaire, or multibillionaire, in the West alone. Putin has invaded now three countries, and made clear he was not going to stop there.
The enormity of what happened has not been grasped yet, just because it’s too enormous, emotionally speaking. Such a thing, a major power using military force to annex territory, did not occur since 1938-1940 (when Hitler annexed several countries and pieces thereof). Even under Stalin, countries were invaded, and controlled, but Stalin did not formally annex them. Far from annexing Ukraine, actually, Stalin gave Ukraine a seat at the United Nations, and other powers (which now Putin is busy stealing, making him, in that precise sense, worse than Stalin himself! Quite a feat).
PUTIN’S INVASION EXCUSE:
I argue that, although Putin really wants to terrorize the world with his military, and enjoys the power, his true motivation is to use his aggressive drive to hide a much less savory reality of his gigantic kingdom. But, before this, what is Putin’s official reasoning, officially a regression from concessions made by Stalin himself?
The unfolding invasion doctrine exposed by Putin, is a faithful duplicate of that of Hitler in the 1930s Hitler said: ‘invade wherever there are “threatened” “Germans”, and evoke the splendor of reconstituting the “Grosse Reich”, to protect “German” minorities. Putin says exactly the same except replacing “German” by “Russian”, and “Grosse Reich” by “the Big Country”.
As the New York Times put it, April 18, 2014 (with a few additions of mine between brackets []):
“[NEW RUSSIA] was conquered in the late 18th century by Catherine the Great, who installed [one of her many lovers, co-conspirators, and co-murderers in the assassination of Catherine’s husband, the Czar] Prince Grigory Potemkin to lead the colonization of the lands.
The prince earned fame as the architect of the Potemkin village, a town of brightly painted facades and happy people erected to deceive visiting officials and dignitaries. Critics have accused Mr. Putin of employing a similar sleight of hand in the invasion of Crimea and the supposedly spontaneous pro-Russian uprising in eastern Ukraine.
On Thursday, Mr. Putin repeated his assertion that he felt an obligation to protect ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine, where they are a large minority of the population. “We must do everything to help these people to protect their rights and independently determine their own destiny,” he said.
“The question is to ensure the rights and interests of the Russian southeast,” he added. “It’s New Russia. Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Odessa were not part of Ukraine in czarist times; they were transferred in 1920. Why? God knows. Then, for various reasons, these areas were gone, and the people stayed there. We need to encourage them to find a solution.”
What Putin is saying is that the empire of the Czars ought to be reconstituted, as it existed in the Nineteenth Century. That means that, among other places, Poland ought to be annexed (Poland was part of the empire of the Czars in the 19C).
IF ANYTHING, WHAT PUTIN SAYS OUGHT TO BE TAKEN MORE SERIOUSLY THAN HITLER:
Yes, it’s enormous. Yes, Putin went off the deep end. Yet, remember this: it’s because people did not read Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini or Hitler literally, that they got surprised by the resulting holocausts, later.
Once again, several of mechanisms launched by Putin are exactly the same as with the ones the Nazi dictator used. Hitler was surrounded by a cloud of plutocrats (many from the USA and Great Britain). Plutocrats made Hitler feel all powerful, and made him believe that so great was plutocratic power (kratos), that they would keep the Western democracies impotent, and that, never, ever, Britain and the USA would align themselves behind the French Republic in her determined opposition to Nazism.
WHY HITLER COMMITTED TO A WAR HE WAS (NEARLY) SURE TO LOSE:
[The relevance to Putin, is that, at first sight, Putin is sure to lose, especially if he conquers all of Ukraine. Putin is acting from the same political delusion, and economic necessity as Hitler.]
So Hitler was sure that the “democracies” would once again surrender, and do whatever he wanted. However, he got extremely surprised by the signing of a defense treaty between Poland and Britain (France had signed a similar one 6 months earlier… with Britain in the appendix). Hitler tried a few last tricks, and differed the invasion of Poland by a few days.
However as Paul Schmidt, a translator of the Reich’s foreign ministry relates (See Note 3 for an error in the link!): On Sunday September 3, 1939, at 9am, Berlin time:
“I then took the [British] ultimatum to the Chancellery, where everyone was anxiously awaiting me. Most of the members of the Cabinet and the leading men of the Party were collected in the room next to Hitler’s office. There was something of a crush and I had difficulty in getting through to Hitler.
When I entered the next room Hitler was sitting at his desk and Ribbentrop stood by the window. Both looked up expectantly as I came in. I stopped at some distance from Hitler’s desk, and then slowly translated the British Government’s ultimatum.
[This is the text of the British Ultimatum: ‘More than twenty-four hours have elapsed since an immediate reply was requested to the warning of September 1st, and since then the attacks on Poland have been intensified. If His Majesty’s Government has not received satisfactory assurances of the cessation of all aggressive action against Poland, and the withdrawal of German troops from that country, by 11 o’clock British Summer Time, from that time a state of war will exist between Great Britain and Germany.’]
Paul Schmidt pursues:
“When I finished, there was complete silence.
Hitler sat immobile, gazing before him. He was not at a loss, as was afterwards stated, nor did he rage as others allege. He sat completely silent and unmoving.
After an interval which seemed an age, he turned to Ribbentrop, who had remained standing by the window. ‘What now?’ asked Hitler with a savage look, as though implying that his Foreign Minister had misled him about England’s probable reaction. Ribbentrop answered quietly: ‘I assume that the French will hand in a similar ultimatum within the hour.’
[Patrice’s remark: Hitler’s foreign minister and former Ambassador and conspirator to London, Joachim von Ribbentrop, had assured him repeatedly that neither Britain nor France would honor their commitments to Poland.]
“As my duty was now performed, I withdrew. To those in the anteroom pressing round me I said: ‘The English have just handed us an ultimatum. In two hours a state of war will exist between England and Germany.’ In the anteroom, too, this news was followed by complete silence.
Goering turned to me and said: ‘If we lose this war, then God have mercy on us!’ Goebbels stood in a corner, downcast and self-absorbed. Everywhere in the room I saw looks of grave concern, even amongst the lesser Party people.”
Hitler was allied with the Kremlin, which promptly invaded Poland, even though 45 French divisions attacked Hitler’s “Westwall” in the West: “Poland never will rise again in the form of the Versailles treaty. That is guaranteed not only by Germany, but also … Russia.” (Hitler , public speech in Dantzig, now Gdansk, end September 1939.)
WHY PUTIN IS INVADING:
What is going on with Putin? Why is he so crazy? Why does he risk a widening war?
Well, the answer is simple: because he has long been at war, and has long been losing it so well that even him, in spite of his stupidity, has noticed it. Like a gambler on a losing streak, he puts more on the table. Wait, some will say: ”Is Putin not acquiring territory? How can you say he is losing”.
Once again, Adolf Hitler’s case comes to our rescue to understand the generality of the situation.
In 1939, President Franklin Roosevelt, alarmed by Hitler’s annexations sent a telegram to the German “Chancellor-President” inquiring: “Are you willing to give assurance that your armed forces will not attack or invade the territory of the following independent nations?” Roosevelt listed 31 nations including Poland, the Baltic States, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and Britain.
Hitler gave his answer to the Reichstag, assuring ‘Herr Roosevelt’ that Germany only had peaceful intentions toward its neighbors. Germany, Hitler declared, “had not thought of proceeding in any way against Poland.”
Putin, Lavrov, and company have been duplicating those comments. And duplicating the brazen lying pattern of Hitler: after claiming there was an insurrection in Crimea, Putin coolly, and publicly, admitted that his forces did it all, “acting very professionally”. In other words, Putin lies so much, he believes that everybody has got to tolerate his constant lying, and he does not mind broadcasting it. That, too is reminiscent of Hitler, who did not hesitate to say, and write, publicly, that the bigger the lie, the better. See “Mediating Pluto”.
As with Hitler, but hopefully faster this time, the “democracies” are going to get tired of the lies.
PUTIN & HITLER: WORLD WAR WANTED TO HIDE ECONOMIC FAILURE:
The truth was just the opposite. Starting in May 1939, the president of Germany gave a whole series of conferences to his top generals stating that war was unavoidable, because the German economy, far from flourishing, was breaking down.
What was going on? Germany had become a full blown plutocracy, corrupt through and through, insuring immense economic inefficiency.
Same for Putin’s Russia. Remember the Olympic games in Sochi, by far the most expensive, ever, in history, 50 billion dollars, most of the money going top plutocrats around Putin (some now struck by sanctions)?
Germany also was making a huge effort of militarization. That, too, unbalanced the economy completely. Putin is duplicating that. While NATO is disarming, Putin announced a complete rearmament with completely new weapons, including new mobile nuclear missiles.
So, of course, Putin’s economy is breaking down. The nominal GDP of Russia is significantly smaller than Italy, and is around 1.5 trillion dollars (less, smaller than California’s).
Hitler again, in his third and final conference to his top generals in August 1939:
“Our economic situation is such that we cannot hold out more than a few years. Göring can confirm this. We have no other choice. We must act,” Hitler said. Thus far, all of Germany’s territorial gains had come as a result of “political bluff” but it was now necessary to utilize Germany’s “military machine.”
“I shall give a propagandist reason for starting the war. Never mind whether it is plausible or not. The victor will not be asked afterward whether he told the truth or not. In starting and waging a war it is not right that matters but victory.”
In the latest developments, May 1, the Russian Foreign ministry condemned the Ukrainian national elections and referendum scheduled for May 25. Chancellor Merkel called Putin to ask him to say something about freeing observers of the 57 nation strong Organization or Security and Cooperation in Europe held by terrorists in South East Ukraine. Putin retorted by requesting the withdrawal of Ukrainian army from South east Ukraine (as if that was within the powers of Merkel to order around the Ukrainian army!)
Heil Putin!
BABY VLADIMIR WALKS THE VALLEY OF DEATH:
I am of courseunfair when I compare Putin to Hitler. Putin himself would to point out that he, and Hitler, used the methods Catherine The Great used to extend her borders all the way to the west. That, is west of Warsaw. Catherine would send spies and agents provocateurs, hard picked Russophiles, who would cause problems, and then what we call now Special Forces. At this point she would scream Russians are being threatened, and send her army, using the Targowican confederation. She used that method also throughout the “New Russia” which Putin mentioned repeatedly.
The entire idea of the European Union is unanimity in all important decisions, respect of the dozens, if not hundreds, of cultures and civilizations of the Old Continent. It’s the exact opposite of the spirit that has been festering in the Kremlin, ever since it exists. It’s a shock of civilizations against a predation that predates civilization.
“They say the greatest addiction is to power,” Vladimir Putin. Well, there is more than that, baby Vladimir, with your nuclear toys. As Salvador Dali pointed out, Hitler started World War Two, just because he wanted to lose it… Unbeknownst to himself!
Why? There is a streak of self-destruction in the genus Homo. By destroying the latter, just so, evolution made it possible for the environment to live another day. Putin may feel he is channeling Ivan the Terrible, and he will create his “Big Country” (not realizing that his country is 42 times California in area already, although Russia has a smaller GDP than this state of the USA).
But all what Putin is doing is walking up the valley of death, searching for the oldest instinct, destruction of the fiercest predator, himself. Evolution at its best, culling the obsolete. Too bad millions of lives are at stake.
Meanwhile all will turn out good, as long as the Occident remembers that history it its master, and collapse, its friend.
Note 0: Why did Hitler refer his generals to Goering’s assessment of the Nazi economy? Hermann Goering was an authentic hero of the World War One, whereas Hitler had been only a courageous, but lowly caporal in WWI.
Generals took a flying ace such as Goering seriously. Goering replaced Von Richtoffen at the head of his top squadron, after the latter’s demise. Moreover, the father of Goering had made Namibia safe for Germans, by exterminating the locals in a deliberate holocaust-man hunt.
So the Nazi German military officers (such as Rommel) could only venerate Goering. The most serious generals wanted Hitler dead. But that was easier said than done. When the generals turned to Anglo-American help to do so, they were betrayed.
Note1: the Swiss Civil War of 1847 is a rare example of good guys against good guys; yet, even in this case, the ones who won were the progressives federalists, and could be viewed as good guys against the staunch Catholic conservatives! Moreover, less than 150 soldiers got killed. A better example of good guys on good guys would be the much more bloody French Commune of 1871, when both French sides had good points, and no choice, as the Prussian imperial army was pulling the strings, material or emotional, on both sides.
Note 2: On the obsolescence of USA bombers: manufactured between 1979 and 1990, the SUBSONIC cruise missile’s W-80 warhead is deployed aboard 85 non-stealthy Air Force B-52 bombers to give the 1960s-era planes an ability to launch nuclear weapons without having to enter heavily defended airspace. The warhead has a variable explosive power of 5 to 150 kilotons, or roughly one-third to 10 times the yield of the nuclear weapon dropped on Hiroshima. It’s carried by 1980s-vintage Air Launched Cruise Missile.
Note 3: I gave the link on Paul Schmidt because it was in English. However it contains a grievous mistake: it claims France joined Britain in supporting Poland. However, in truth, it was the other way around: Britain was added in the fine print of the addendum of the Franco-Polish Treaty. And the truth is, that Britain was highly supportive of Hitler until 1936. In 1940, the ex British king, who was a Nazi, transmitted the French plans to his friend Adolf Hitler. Although he had been fired for being pro-Nazi, and wanting to marry a notorious Nazi spy, Edward VII had been made Inspector General of the British Forces, and spent a month studying the French defenses.
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Curiosity, Lightning, Rafale
FRANCO-AMERICAN COOPERATION IS A GOOD THING
Military-Industrial Corruption A treacherous Friend Of Plutocracy?
CURIOSITY SATISFYING:
Amazingly, the large “Curiosity” rover landed on Mars in one piece after a silly “sky crane” trick. Actually, the sky crane is not that silly; it was only 7.5 meters high, and landing on rockets causes a lot of little problems: the thick atmosphere is unstable next to the ground, and dust, rocks could have damaged the rover.
The technical achievement was great. The largest supersonic parachute ever made (16 meters across, 50 meters long, 80 suspensions, 30 tons of braking power), was deployed at Mach 2.2 (and photographed from orbit! The parachute was made by a unit of a French corporation, Zodiacareospace, which makes the famous Zodiac inflatable boats… a company founded in 1896!)
No less than 76 pyrotechnic devices and the eight rocket engines had to perform exquisitely.
This successful landing on Mars demonstrates the superiority of the USA in robotics and other advanced manufacturing (when it is tapped!)
But not just that. Hundreds of thousands of people, around the world, seven countries, worked on the project. This is exactly how the world economy ought to work: tap the best abilities, and make them collaborate. Two and a half billion dollars were spent on Earth, by the USA alone to make Curiosity (and the ongoing exploration, just starting, will cost even more). It is good economic activity. Mars has many answers about how planets evolve, just as we push our poor planet to do so, at a frantic pace. Moreover Mars makes an obvious candidate for colonization (how is not clear yet!)
Curiosity carries ten experiments, with contributions from all over the world, even Russia. Spain, very despised these days, built the high gain antenna.
France contributed two major experiments, including the crucial SAM (Sample Analysis at Mars) and Chem Cam. The Chem Cam can analyze chemical composition of rocks from 9 meters away: it fires a hyper powerful laser (conceived by French CEA, realized by French Thales), that rises the temperature of rocks to nearly twice that of the surface of the sun in a billionth of a second, and then the camera analyzes the exploded plasma.
For the first time in the history of NASA, a NASA mission will be co-piloted from the outside of the USA, in Toulouse, France.
I want to propose more of the same, further collaboration. This is the advantage of trade: different places, from different choices, hence history, develop different skills.
In fighter-bombers, the USA and France’s maverick company, Dassault have followed very different paths in the last decades. The path chosen by the USA looks like a, very costly, blind alley.
THE F35 SCANDALOUS ERROR:
The F35 Lightning II is a plane obviously completely inadequate, for its stated missions of defense and attack. Not has one single specimen yet (really) deployed. “Training” is not allowed, yet, but may start in 2013. And the first weapon has not been dropped by an F35. Yet. But soon, soon… One would not want the plane to come apart when it opens its little doors at supersonic speeds…
Yet, 400 billion dollars has already been spent on that hopeless machine, mostly made of plastic and glue (I am not kidding), which has never fired a weapon.
More than 3,000 F35s are supposed to be built (at 300 million to 800 million dollars apiece). An admiral of the U.S. Navy suggested to develop a “truck” instead. The admiral calls for new military thinking and questions stealth technology (which is, objectively, known not to work against sophisticated adversaries).
Such a flying truck already exists, a fifth generation fighter-bomber with an extremely advanced ACTIVE stealth system. It has been deployed in combat for years, and attacked Libyan armor when it was protected by fully functional air defenses, something the USA has been certifiably unable to do, even with the F22 Raptor (which has never seen combat, or even CAP overseas).
Here is a “truck“:
A Rafale going to war with plenty of goodies
French Rafales Do Not Go To Combat Naked (as the F35s do!).
Buying the French Rafale, and building it under license, would save the Western defense system trillions. American capabilities would be better put into use developing other extremely advanced weapons: space devices, drones and anti-missiles. The USA are years ahead in drones. (As the Curiosity success demonstrates!)
Another advantage of purchasing the Rafale is that the more entangled with itself the military industrial of the West is, the more a situation of co-dependency, and thus strength. For example the supreme air-air missile is the European built Mach 5 Meteor, a long range air breathing rocket with a range beyond 100 kilometers (thanks to its breathing). The Meteor is so superior that engineers are now trying to make it smaller to fit it inside a F35. American planners had not believed in a super fast very long range missile, as, in their minds, it was all about stealth, approaching without being seen.
The reason the USA will not surrender, and buy the Rafale, as it should, is corruption, something that comes to dominate imperial plutocracies, often causing their demise.
PLUTOCRATS ARE NOT REALLY MORE PATRIOTIC THAN CROCODILES:
In his farewell address, president Eisenhower, having served two full terms, warned against the military-industrial complex. (Ike did this at seven and half minutes of his full discourse, which is well worth listening to. He warned also against the political-scientific elite as a potential enemy of democracy…)
Corruption finds a home in the military-industrial complex. It can become so extensive that the Japanese and Nazi plutocracies were riddled with it in the Second World War. To the point that their war efforts became extremely enfeebled. In both cases hundreds of weapons were semi-developed, to spread the money around, as the enrichment, or empowerment, of those involved was paramount. Enormous money was spent, and little produced, or then even weapons that hindered the war effort.
For example Hitler insisted to make the Messerschmitt 262, a superlative interceptor, into a bomber. That delayed the apparition of the Me 262 by nearly two years (my own dad, officer in an anti-aircraft unit, was attacked and bombed by Me 262). Good it did for the Allies, because the Pentagon anticipated that the Me 262 would have allowed the Nazis to recover air supremacy! (It would take years for the allies to make planes as good as the Me 262, although they had seized and dissected plenty, and also captured their makers…)
The Nazis developed dozens of other, hopeless flying machines, that robbed the effort that should (from the Nazi point of view!) have been put in the Me 262. The Third Reich was full of decadent plutocrats, and all of them wanted a stream of money and power to come their way.
By contrast to the corrupted mess that the Nazi and Japanese military-industrial complexes were, the British and American weapon procurement in WWII was kept lean, mean, and smart. That allowed mass production to a much greater extent. For example the USA developed only one main battle tank, the Sherman. It was not as good as the best Nazi models, the Panther, Tiger and Super Tiger, (and others I have forgotten the name of), not at all as good, but plenty were produced. Ten Shermans against one Panther meant a dead Panther. The Nazis lost on quantity, not quality.
In general, the weapons made in the USA in WWII were all very clever. The aircraft carriers with their armored decks and nitrogen full fuel pipes were marvels of smarts, and the crews were stupendously trained. Several American carriers suffered bomb and torpedo damage that would have sent a Japanese carrier to the bottom of the sea. But American rescue crews were as good as the Japanese ones were bad.
Nowadays some weapon systems are sufficient to defend the USA (the strategic nuclear subs, as for France, UK and Russia). But corruption is rife in other areas of defense. And the corruption extends far out.
The USA succeeded to enlist eight other countries in the F35 program.
F35 LIGHTNING II VERSUS FRENCH RAFALE:
A few facts:
1) A stealth F117 bomber of the USAF was shot years ago, in Serbia, using a Czech anti-aircraft system. That system simply used multiple radars, centralized the information, and computed (the method has been long used in astrophysics). Many countries have laughed for years about USA “stealth”, saying such systems with distributed radars and centralized computing were readily available. The wing of the F117 was shot through by a shell, not shrapnel, indicative of the fact that the location of the F117 had been asserted with precision.
2) A few years back, in a war game a United Arab Emirate Mirage flown by a French pilot, “shot down” a F22 Raptor. One has to know that the F22 is the top of the line interceptor of the USA. It is forbidden to export it. The F35 is supposed to be a smaller, cheaper, much less capable version of the F22.
The French Rafale runs circles around the French Mirage. So, if a Mirage can shoot down an F22 Raptor… The Raptor is a large plane, whereas the Rafale is compact and is equipped for extremely high accelerations, up to 11 gs (same as the Mercury space capsule). This is thanks in part to its seat which inclines at 29 degrees (the pilot sees all very well, thanks to the heads up holographic display).
The F35 does, at most, 9 gs (and only 7 gs in the marine version). The F35 is not capable of “supercruise“. That means that, to go supersonic, the F35 needs to use post combustion (more easily detected, a gas guzzler, and unsustainable). Concorde supercruised at Mach 2. A fully armed Rafale (see pictures above and below) can supercruise at Mach 1.4.
3) The French “omnirole” fifth generation fighter bomber, the Rafale, is equipped with passive stealth (its reflectivity is much less than a square meter). One also calls “stealth”, “low observability“, nowadays, because, after all, the Rafale, the F35 and the F22 can all be observed.
But the Rafale can do something that the other two cannot do. The Rafale is endowed with “ACTIVE STEALTH“. The plane is covered with antennae, even in the leading edges of its canards, and analyzes continually the electromagnetic environment. Fast electronics allows it to make anti-noise (the Spectra system of Thales, the same company whose laser is going to zap Martian rocks, in a parody of war of the worlds).
The Spectra system detects the direction of a threat, with a precision of one degree, and actively suppresses it. So the Rafale is a plane which can be stealthy without losing its aerodynamics (American style stealth allows radar reflections, but only on some very sharp angles, as the planes are made with few planes, the way is diamond is cut.) Moreover active stealth can be perfected to be 100% effective, which “low observability” is not, by definition.
4) During the war in Libya, the dictator Qadhafi dispatched onto Benghazi his entire armored force, accompanied by all his mobile missile batteries. As that force entered the suburbs of Benghazi while talks were pursued in Paris, the French president gave the order to kill it. At the time all the Libyan air defense system was fully functional, adding to all the anti-aircraft capability to the charging armor. Mirages carrying bombs were escorted by Rafales attacking and confusing the missile system. The Libyan force was annihilated, demonstrating, in combat, the superiority of active stealth.
5) Rafales have conducted bombing missions in Afghanistan for years. By contrast the F22 never flew a combat mission.
6) The Rafale is a flying truck. It carries more than its own weight in bombs, fuel and reconnaissance pods. For example its naval version can carry 14 tons of weapons, whereas the F18 super Hornet (the present fighter-bomber of the U.S. Navy, a larger plane) carries only 11 tons (the F22 carries much much less in its stealthy mode and less than 11 tons, if it hanged stuff below its wings… which the Rafale can do while staying stealthy!)
Indeed, with active stealth one can hang whatever below the wings and keep the whole thing invisible. To carry significant armament, the F35 will also have to hang stuff below its wings, and then it will be as stealthy as a B52, a flying light house…
Rafale in a combat mission in Afghanistan (see the glaciers below).
7) The F35 statistics are miserable: it carries nearly no armament and has less range than some of the fighters the USA engaged against Nazi Germany to escort its bombers. The F35’s performance statistics are all in ways comparable to a F 105 Thunderchief, a plane with just one engine that failed miserably during the Vietnam war. On top of that, the F35 is slow relative a Rafale, by at least 500 kilometers an hour. (There is a good reason for that: the leading edges of the Rafale are in Titanium; it beats plastics and epoxy any day!)
Did I mention the Rafale has two engines, whereas the F35 has just one? This explains that a laden Rafale accelerates better than a naked F35. Anybody who has to fly over water will tell you they much prefer two engines rather than one.
8) The American style stealth has consisted in sharp angles (to reflect radar only in a few directions), glue and plastics (to swallow radar radiation). Four drawbacks: very fragile (B2 can’t take the rain), easily melted (can’t go fast), exaggerated stress on poor aerodynamics (some leading edges on the F22 had to be replaced by titanium, ruining stealth), everything has to be hidden inside, from fuels, to rockets, to bombs (so, whereas a Rafale, with its superior aerodynamics and active stealth can be bristling with weapons, and fuel a F35 will go to combat with just 4 missiles inside).
Conclusion: The Navy of the USA ought to buy Rafales, and, with the money saved develop anti ballistic missile system and drones. It goes without saying that it will not happen. Instead astounding amounts of money will be spent on an ineffectual weapon system. (Which is supposed to last… 60 years!)
Thinking that one can get away with massive corruption is a mark of hubristic imperial plutocracy.
The F35 is supposed to go to combat naked, as represented here, so it can stay stealthy. Two rather small compartments open up to reveal the tiny weapons, losing stealth at that instant.
The F35 program is a case of “Too Big To Fail”, outside of finance and economics. One of these cases when the commanding oligarchies just go on, because they are too far along to admit error, or simply, having their logical circuitries ossified and calcified, a case of being in a tight logical box. To keep on doing what one has done before, being dragged along by what one has engaged in, is a basic consequence of mental architecture. The inner mental space has been con-formed by, is built from, what has been happening, it’s a sort of re-production of the perceived world. To be changed, one needs un-reason, as I argued, a jolt out of the box to create new dimensions. Maybe that French laser on Mars can zap away at the calcified contempt all too many American leaders have for French weaponery.
The Curiosity lander demonstrates the advance of the USA in robotics. Purchase Rafales, and sell drones to the Europeans (both sides would sell each other technologies in these mutual collaborations, and make the weapons on location).
It may seem strange that Euro-American collaboration in defense ought to be a philosophical subject. Yet, war, assuredly is (except if one is Socrates, with a plutocratic agenda one cannot justify, so one talks of other things). World War One and Two were made possible by a dearth of cooperation and collaboration between the sister republics, France and the USA. August 6 is the anniversary of Hiroshima, and there would have no Hiroshima if the USA had joined France in declaring war to Hitler in 1939 (as Great Britain and many nations, including India, did).
That cognitive mess, World War II, Nazism, was clearly caused, fundamentally, by a lack of Curiosity. So this August 6, 2012, is a rare case where things are heading the right way, satisfying curiosity, the fundamental, specifically human activity.
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JAMES DEAN WAS BORN ON THIS DATE IN 1931
James Byron Dean is a cultural icon, best thought of as being like the
title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause (1955), in which
he starred as a troubled teenager, Jim Stark. The other two roles that
made him a star were as Cal Trask in East of Eden (1955), and the farmer,
Jett Rink, in Giant (1956). Dean’s continued popularity rests on his work
in only these three films, all leading roles. His premature death in car
crash in 1955 helped establish his legendary status. He was only 24.
James Dean was the first actor to receive a posthumous Academy Award for
Best Actor and remains the only actor to have had two posthumous acting
nominations. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Dean the 18th best
male movie star on their AFI 100 Years…100 Stars list.
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In a recent seminar about word processors, I suggested to my students that developing clear ideas about electronics might be as difficult for us as it would have been for Europeans in the 1490s to predict the consequences of movable type. The analogy is imperfect, but if computers prove as transformative as they seem, we have hardly begun to glimpse their effects. For this reason, perhaps, these four books do not squabble over well-covered territory but open less familiar questions about language and technology. Together these authors investigate the new kinds of figural thinking that electronics occasion—how they alter the meanings of terms like writing or network. Regardless of their basis in technical fact, these emerging technological figures profoundly influence literary production, reading habits, and social life. These books avoid either reducing such figural complexities to media-theoretical truisms or surrendering them...
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''New Zagitova'' and ''support'' of judges deprived Tuktamysheva of victory in Japan
While Russians are quarrelling between each other, Japanese skaters are catching up
Photo: matchtv.ru
The next figure skating Grand Prix was expected with special attention. One of the leaders of the season, world champion Tuktamysheva was going to fight in the lair of the major rival of the national team of Russia with local figure skaters. The battle took place in the end, and it was at the highest level. But Udmurtia-born athlete couldn't become the winner. The ''new Zagitova'' in the person of Rika Kihira turned out much stronger than expected. Realnoe Vremya tells the most important things at the Grand Prix in Japan.
Tuktamysheva is queen of short programmes
The fourth Grand Prix series in the city of Hiroshima promised to become the hottest since the beginning of the season. Two winners of previous stages at once were going to compete in the tournament. The Japanese were more interested in their compatriot Satoko Miyahara who confidently won the Grand Prix in the USA, while the Russian audience waited for Yelizaveta Tuktamysheva's performance who conquered Skate Canada. There was nobody particular to point out among other rivals, except for 15-year-old Rika Kihira. She's already been called ''the next Zagitova'' in small circles because she's trying to come out of Miyahara's shadow like Alina (in the rivalry with Medvedeva last season).
The expectations lived up in the short programme already. The favourite of the local audience, Miyahara imposed a serious fight on Tuktamysheva and almost went ahead of the Russian with the points. As much as the judges tried to help the Japanese, she couldn't reach Elizaveta's results. But the margin was minimal – just 0,09 points. Such a state of affairs looked bizarre amid the programmes the athletes showed on the ice. The jury demonstrated itself not in a good way again and frankly underscored Tuktamysheva for components and simultaneously added points to Miyahara.
The athlete coming from Udmurtia managed to score 76,17 points even with such a jury, which is her season's best at the Grand Prix. It's noteworthy that only Japanese besides Tuktamysheva and Miyahara has scored more than 70 points in a world series – Kaori Sakamoto. For instance, the same Zagitova demonstrated just 68,90 points at the previous stage in Finland. With this score, Alina would have been just fifth in Hiroshima losing 7 points to the couple of leaders. Such close results meant anything could have happened in free programme, even a sensation.
The favourite of the local audience, Miyahara imposed a serious fight on Tuktamysheva and almost went ahead of the Russian with the points. Photo: fso.forum.cool
''New Zagitova'' almost breaks Alina's record
After the draw, Tuktamysheva had a chance to perform penultimate. Some think such a position is much better from a perspective of psychology, but any detail in figure skating can turn an advantageous position into a bad one and put an athlete off the stride. Such force majeure happened to Korean Eunsoo Lim. During the last warm-up with Tuktamysheva, the figure skater crashed into the other almost a minute to her performance. As a result, the Korean failed her programme having made several mistakes due to her nervousness.
It was much harder for the Russian to handle the pressure. However, she seems to have coped with it. But, the words of Ilya Averbukh after the short programme became prophetic. The Russian coach supposed that the toughest fight against the Japanese awaited Tuktamysheva, even if she performed ideally.
But Liza couldn't perform ideally. She made a slip in the first triple Axel. The judges didn't lose a chance to reduce GOE points and generously excluded the jump. However, we didn't have to talk about too low points after the performance. Tuktamysheva got the points her exciting performance deserved. The stands were amazed at the Russian and didn't calm down easily after her programme.
But even such points didn't help Tuktamysheva to keep leadership. Firstly, she definitely lost to Kihira aka ''young Zagitova''. The 15-year-old figure skater performed her programme perfectly, and nobody doubted who was the winner. Kihira almost broke the world record that belongs precisely to Zagitova. But she lacked several points to reach Alina's result. Secondly, Miyahara. The Japanese athlete has got very pleasant points for the second time in the season without having a clearly powerful programme.
The 15-year-old figure skater performed her programme perfectly, and nobody doubted how was the winner. Photo: goldenskate.com
Anyway, such a success of the Japanese figure skaters isn't accidental. Many people forecasted a rise in their young athletes as early as summer, but it seems Russia got too keen on the domestic fight for medals. While Medvedeva, Zagitov and Tuktamysheva who joined them were concerned about the pie in the sky, Miyahara, Kihira and Sakamoto quietly began to catch up with the Russians. In addition, in this case, we can't blame the judges' scores only, the Japanese really smartly distributed job throughout the distance. Considering that they have at least two Grand Prix stages before the final, the results of the representatives of the Land of the Rising Sun impress.
If there might be some questions about Miyahara's results, Kihira's two triple Axels and a cascade of triple toe loops should seriously concern Medvedeva and Tuktamysheva. Zagitova doesn't need to be included to the list at the moment. But given the programme we saw in the previous competitions, Alina can seriously compete with the Japanese and has enough endurance in reserve.
But now much turns on the Russians themselves. Same Tuktamysheva already managed to claim it was much more important to get to the final, what she successfully did. In case of Medvedeva, the Grand Prix series in France will show everything where she will meet face-to-face not only Kihira but also world champion Carolina Kostner.
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The Truth About SmartTrack
Posted on June 27, 2016 by Sean Marshall
This article originally appeared on June 27, 2016 in Torontoist
In 2014, then-mayoral candidate John Tory ran on a campaign of sound fiscal management, returning decorum to City Hall, and a curious new transit plan called SmartTrack, which promised “London-style” rapid transit from Mississauga to Markham. During the election campaign Tory claimed that the new rail service—53 kilometres long, costing $8 billion—would provide needed transit relief in just seven years, all on a TTC fare.
During campaign speeches, Tory called the plan “bold.” He also promised to build the Rob Ford-backed subway extension to Scarborough Centre, rather than return to the cheaper, funded light rail alternative that candidates Olivia Chow and David Soknacki were backing.
Of course, Tory won the election, and many Torontonians were looking forward to an era of competent governance, if not visionary leadership. But two years in, the costs of the Scarborough subway keep mounting, even if the number of stations kept shrinking (from three stations to one stop), and the scope of John Tory’s “bold” SmartTrack plan kept getting watered down.
With the recent provincial and municipal transit announcements on new GO Station locations, it’s now official: SmartTrack is nothing more than a brand name for transit projects that were already in the works. And the City of Toronto is stuck with some of the construction costs that would have been borne by the province.
Mayor Tory and the provincial government held two separate transit announcements this week: one in Liberty Village, the other at the former Unilever lands that First Gulf is looking to redevelop as a major office and commercial centre. While Tory has been bullish about promoting First Gulf’s development, the East Gardiner replacement, SmartTrack Station, and even a Relief Line subway stop—projects he championed—will all serve this particular property.
Those announcements coincide with a Metrolinx report [PDF] that recommends 12 new GO Transit stations: Breslau, St. Clair, and Liberty Village on the Kitchener Line; Innisfil, Mulock, Kirby, Davenport-Bloor, and Spadina on the Barrie Line; East Harbour (Unilever), Gerrard, Lawrence East, and Finch East on the Lakeshore East and Stouffville lines. Stations at Mount Dennis, Downsview Park, and Caledonia were already approved and will connect to the subway and Crosstown LRT. Seven of those stations—from Mount Dennis to Unionville—are along the SmartTrack corridor. Spadina Station, part of Tory’s SmartTrack map, will only be served by Barrie corridor trains.
From the start, SmartTrack was a fantasy built on assumptions; the line was an idea conceived by a little-known organization called Strategic Regional Research Alliance. SRRA authored a report, “The Business Case for the Regional Rail Line,” discussing the potential of a 2009 concept for connecting suburban office parks with Downtown Toronto with rapid transit. That report became the basis for SmartTrack.
Meanwhile, Metrolinx—the provincial transportation authority for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area—was involved in studying plans for converting much of its existing GO Transit rail network from a commuter rail system to an electrified, regional rail network known as Regional Express Rail. RER and SmartTrack (as well as VIA Rail and UP Express trains) would be sharing the same corridors.
Since the election, the truth about SmartTrack has become clear. Previous plans for SmartTrack were simplistic, with maps created using out-of-date Google Maps imagery that ignored the fact that lands owned by the City of Toronto along Eglinton Avenue in Etobicoke—reserved for an unbuilt freeway—were largely sold off and redeveloped. There were serious engineering and financial complications of building the connection between the existing GO line at Mount Dennis and the Eglinton spur. The plan to use tax increment financing (TIFs) to build SmartTrack remains dubious. The Eglinton spur was removed, replaced by the revival of the approved yet unfunded western section of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT. Tory surrounded himself with experts, including a prominent University of Toronto transportation professor who gave the plan an “A+.” Critics who pointed out these flaws were ignored or insulted. There are few excuses that Tory can make for this failure.
With the latest announcements, it is clear that SmartTrack has become nothing more than a moniker for an existing GO Transit RER. Rush-hour train frequencies will likely be every eight to 10 minutes; off peak, trains will arrive every 15 minutes (the TTC subway never operates at less than six-minute frequencies). We do not know what fares will be charged on GO RER/SmartTrack as Metrolinx continues to study regional fare integration. And it is very unlikely that we will be seeing frequent, electric trains offering relief by 2021.
As the Globe and Mail‘s Marcus Gee points out, the City will now be expected to pick up much of the construction tab—similar to how the municipal government is stuck with cost overruns on the Scarborough subway extension after it rejected a provincially funded seven-stop light rail line to replace the ageing RT line.
At best, SmartTrack represents the City of Toronto’s buy-in to GO RER, a worthwhile project to provide better rail service to suburban Toronto and the 905. There’s room to negotiate at least some fare integration between GO and the TTC. But at worst, SmartTrack is a failure to deliver on a key election promise, as flawed as it is. But in order for the Mayor to save face, the SmartTrack brand will likely never go away.
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Question received on Mon, October 29, 2007 11:57:48 PM
Queen of Night writes...
Okay, you've said that Angela and Broadway will raise their children the Gargoyle way. But all three are named after the Arthurian tales, not assuming that they named them themselves, but wouldn't that be a bit coincidental? I mean I could understand if all the clutch was named after the Arthurian but there are only so many names in the Arthurian tales, and three full clutches at that. With that said the three are named after the main characters (Merlin aside). So how can you explain that?
Also with Angela's parental issues. Being raised with Tom as her adopted father and Kathrine as her adpotive mother she would seem to prefer raising her children as she was raised. I do realize that part of it would be because Kathrine, Tom, and Magus were the only adults she could identify with but when she found out Goliath was her father she was extremely insistant that she be recognized by him. Angela also wanted a relationship with Demona despite her past. Not only that she wanted to help Demona specifically because she was her mother. So how would she cope with not recognizing her children or her children not recognizing her? Seems to me that she would want the close relationship with her kids as she had (or attempted to have) with her parents.
There are HUNDREDS of names in Arthurian legend. HUNDREDS. And I COULD explain it a hundred ways. But I choose not to at this time.
What makes you think that Angela won't have a close relationship with her kids, however they're raised?
Question received on Tue, October 16, 2007 11:21:48 PM
Broadway's Angel(a) writes...
You said in your FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) archives that Broadway and Angela would probably raise their children the gargoyle way, "children of the clan, not individuals," by not favoring biological children over the rest of the clan's children, but does that mean they won't identify their own biological children. I believe that if they didn't recognize their biological children, they wouldn't have been so particular about the naming of their own children (Artus, Gwenyvere, and Lancelot) after Arthurian characters in reference to Broadway and Angela's connections to Arthur, Broadway being inspired to read from hearing about the Scrolls of Merlin and Angela living on Avalon where Arthur slept. So, do Angela and Broadway recognize their biological children but attempt to parent all clan children instead of favoring their biological children, or is the naming of all their children after Arthurian characters coincidence?
You're assuming that Broadway and Angela named them. Facts not in evidence.
Galahad writes...
I know you don't want to go into the specifics of Samson's parentage because it doesn't matter in Gargoyle culture but from what I've read on GargWiki <http://gargoyles.dracandros.com/> about Canon-in-training characters, you've hinted that "Artus will most closely resemble Broadway and Hudson," "Gwenyvere may most closely resemble Angela and Demona," and Lancelot "may resemble Goliath to some degree." (Did they misquote you?) You've said that Samson would also resemble Goliath. Sense Lancelot, among Broadway and Angela's children, resembles Goliath the most, wouldn't it be logical for fans to assume that Samson is the son of Lancelot, who he probably resembles as they both resemble Goliath? You don't have to say if I'm right or not, just tell me whether or not my logic is flawed in some way.
Well, it's not that your logic isn't... logical, but of course it is flawed. I'm sure people in most families can point to someone who doesn't particularly look like his or her parents, but could be a dead ringer for old photos of a grandparent.
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Betty Malloy, owner of the Eagle Tavern in Pittsburgh, is preparing for Super Bowl Sunday, and she must determine how much beer to stock. Betty stocks three brands of beer- Yodel, Shotz, and Rainwater. The cost per gallon (to the tavern owner) of each brand is as follows:
Brand Cost/Gallon Yodel $1.50 Shotz 0.90 Rainwater 0.50 The tavern has a budget of $2,000 for beer for Super Bowl Sunday. Betty sells Yodel at a rate of $3.00 per gallon, Shotz at $2.50 per gallon, and Rainwater at $1.75 per gallon. Based on past football games, Betty has determined the maximum customer demand to be 400 gallons of Yodel, 500 gallons of shotz, and 300 gallons of Rainwater. The tavern has the capacity to stock 1,000 gallons of beer; Betty wants to stock up completely. Betty wants to determine the number of gallons of each brand of beer to order so as to maximize profit.
Formulate a linear programming model for this problem.
Solve the model by using the computer.
As result of a recently passed bill, a congressman’s district has been allocated $3 million for programs and projects. It is up to the congressman to decide how to distribute the money. The congressman has decide to allocate the money to four ongoing programs because of their importance to his district- a job training program, a parks project, a sanitation project, and a mobile library. However, the congressman wants to distribute the money in a manner that will please the most voters, or, in other words, gain him the most votes in the upcoming election. His staff’s estimates of the number of votes gained per dollar spent for the various programs are as follows.
Program Votes/Dollar Job training 0.03 Parks 0.08 Sanitation 0.05 Mobile library 0.03 In order also to satisfy several local influential citizens who financed his election, he is obligated to observe the following guidelines:
None of the programs can receive more than 30% of the total allocation
The amount allocated to parks cannot exceed the total allocated to both the sanitation project and the mobile library.
The amount allocated to job training must at least equal the amount spent on the sanitation project.
Any money not spent in the district will be returned to the government; therefore, the congressman wants to spend it all. Thee congressman wants to know the amount to allocate to each program to maximize his votes.
Anna Broderick is the dietician for the State University football team, and she is attempting to determine a nutritious lunch menu for the team. She has set the following nutritional guidelines for each lunch serving:
Between 1,300 and 2,100 calories
At least 4 mg of iron
At least 15 but no more than 55g of fat
At least 30g of protein
At least 60g of carbohydrates
No more than 35 mg of cholesterol
She selects the menu from seven basic food items, as follows, with the nutritional contributions per pound and the cost as given: Calories (per lb.) Iron (mg/lb.) Protein (g/lb.) Carbohydrates (g/lb.) Fat (g/lb.) Cholesterol (mg/lb) Cost ($/lb.) Chicken 500 4.2 17 0 30 180 0.85 Fish 480 3.1 85 0 5 90 3.35 Ground beef 840 0.25 82 0 75 350 2.45 Dried beans 590 3.2 10 30 3 0 0.85 Lettuce 40 0.4 6 0 0 0 0.70 Potatoes 450 2.25 10 70 0 0 0.45 Milk (2%) 220 0.2 16 22 10 20 0.82 The dietician wants to select a menu to meet the nutritional guidelines while minimizing the total cost per serving.
Formulate a linear programming model for this problem and solve.
If a serving of each of the food items (other than milk) was limited to no more than a half pound, what effect would this have on the solution?
Dr. Maureen Becker, the head administrator at Jefferson County Regional Hospital, must determine a schedule for nurses to make sure there are enough of them on duty throughout the day. During the day, the demand for nurses varies. Maureen has broken the day in to twelve 2hour periods. The slowest time of the day encompasses the three periods from 12:00 A.M. to 6:00 A.M., which beginning at midnight; require a minimum of 30, 20, and 40 nurses, respectively. The demand for nurses steadily increases during the next four daytime periods. Beginning with the 6:00 A.M.- 8:00 A.M. period, a minimum of 50, 60, 80, and 80 nurses are required for these four periods, respectively. After 2:00 P.M. the demand for nurses decreases during the afternoon and evening hours. For the five 2-hour periods beginning at 2:00 P.M. and ending midnight, 70, 70, 60, 50, and 50 nurses are required, respectively. A nurse reports for duty at the beginning of one of the 2-hour periods and works 8 consecutive hours (which is required in the nurses’ contract). Dr. Becker wants to determine a nursing schedule that will meet the hospital’s minimum requirement throughout the day while using the minimum number of nurses.
The production manager of Videotechnics Company is attempting to determine the upcoming 5-month production schedule for video recorders. Past production records indicate that 2,000 recorders can be produced per month. An additional 600 recorders can be produced monthly on an overtime basis. Unit cost is $10 for recorders produced during regular working hours and $15 for those produced on an overtime basis. Contracted sales per month are as follows:
Month Contracted Sales (units) 1 1200 2 2100 3 4 5 2400 3000 4000 Inventory carrying costs are $2 per recorder per month. The manager does not want any inventory carried over past the fifth month. The manager wants to know the monthly production that will minimize total production and inventory costs.
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Robert Pattinson is pretty in a pink wig
September 21st, 2017 under Robert Pattinson, Twilight. [ Comments: none ]
Robert Pattinson is Wonderland Magazine’s cover boy, and he is wearing girly wig. Or it is a pink wig with Emo Phillips’ hairstyle. And now you are wondering who Emo Phillips is. Just like I am wondering why he is wearing the fake hair piece?
Kristen Stewart explains why she shaved her head
March 9th, 2017 under Kristen Stewart, TV News, Twilight. [ Comments: none ]
On Tuesday, Kristen Stewart shocked us all when she walked the red carpet for her new movie Personal Shopper with a shaved head and people wanted to know why she did it. Today she was on Today, and that was the first thing Willie Geist asked her.
She told the news anchor, “I am doing a movie in a couple of weeks called Underwater and I play an electrical engineer who’s working an oil rig on the bottom of the ocean floor.” Then she added, “For me it is practical, I mean, I am not going to have touch ups with the helmet on.”
Savannah Guthrie then followed up by asking her if she did it voluntary or they asked her to do it. The actress told her, “I have been wanting to do this for a long time, just for novel sake,” adding, “The director suggested it and I was like, ‘Who told you?’ That is a great idea.” And with that off when the hair.
How does she like her buzzed off look? She said, “I just want to head bang all day.” Power to her because there is no way I would do it. I am too much of a wimp and she is much more of a daredevil.
When it comes to her new look, I think she carries it off well. I just think she would look even better if she went back to brunette roots. It would bring out her features even more instead of just washing them out. What do you think?
Did Robert Pattinson come between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie?
September 21st, 2016 under Brangelina, Robert Pattinson, Twilight. [ Comments: none ]
Madame Tussauds had wax versions of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie on display; and when news of their split broke, the museum decided to split them up. Not only did they split them up, they put another life-size candle, who involved in very public breakup, between them. That statue is Robert Pattison’s, and I wonder if the former couple would’ve preferred they used his Twilight co-star and ex-lover Kristen Stewart instead.
If you could bet on which member of Brangelina will be dating first and who that person it, who would think it will be?
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Taylor Lautner might have the most epic first pitch fail!
June 9th, 2016 under Taylor Lautner, Twilight. [ Comments: none ]
Umm whoops.. @dodgers
A video posted by Taylor Lautner (@taylorlautner) on Jun 9, 2016 at 11:58am PDT
Less than 24 hours after Snoop Dogg totally missed home plate when he threw out the first pitch at the San Diego Padres game yesterday, looks like what Taylor Lautner did was even worse when he was slated to do the same thing at the Los Angeles Dodgers game. He royally stuck out, when he showed up late to the game. How late? The game wasn’t in its Twilight, it was straight out over. So over, everyone went home and sprinklers were on. Heck even the werewolves were turning back into the human form, that is how late he was.
On a positive note, at least he is very early for the next game.
What would David Spade do to get Taylor Swift’s cell phone number?
May 17th, 2016 under Adam Sandler, David Spade, Taylor Lautner, Taylor Swift, Twilight. [ Comments: none ]
A video posted by Taylor Lautner (@taylorlautner) on May 17, 2016 at 8:53am PDT
Taylor Lautner might be the star of the young people, but he wasn’t doing what they do until today. That’s because everyone’s favorite Werewolf finally decided to join Instagram and he asked some friends to help him out with his first post.
First he went to Adam Sandler, but his dog wouldn’t let him be in it. Then he went to David Spade, but he was reluctant do it. That was until Lautner offered him a number he couldn’t refuse. That number was 10 digits. Not $1 billion, but Taylor Swift’s cell. Wonder how the singer will feel about her ex-boyfriend giving out her number? She’ll probably be OK with it after she finds out who he gave it to! If they hook up, the couple could be known as Swade. How perfect is that name?
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What Non-Marvel Comic Helped Influence ‘Logan’?
Posted January 23rd, 2017 by Stuart Conover
Clearly from the previews, the ‘Old Man Logan’ story arc is what has been the main influence behind Fox’s upcoming release of ‘Logan‘ but we’ve just learned that another comic has also had quite a big influence on the direction of the film. James Mangold has shared news on a specific theme that was prevalent in a non-Marvel comic which weighs heavily on Wolverine in the upcoming release and we’re not talking about the meta kind of thing that ‘Deadpool’ would bring up with a comic book being inside a comic movie as we had seen in the final trailer.
Though, I suspect the comic book will lead directly into it.
When talking about the film we see Logan hasn’t aged well and he’ll be dealing with the feeling of inadequacy in comparing yourself to your legacy, much as what we saw happen in ‘Watchmen’ and that is a key influence here according to Mangold:
“The comic book, yes. I don’t think the movie got to come quite full circle on it, but I think that’s a great concept in Watchmen, yes.”
As this doesn’t seem to be the Wolverine and Professor X from the main X-Men films, it will be interesting to see what other differences might pop up in the film and how much we’ll actually see Logan reflecting on his life.
Do you like the thought of one of the strongest superheroes trying to live up to how he was in his prime? What are your thoughts on ‘Watchmen’ being an influence on how the story will play out on the big screen? Share your thoughts below True Believers!
Directed by James Mangold, ‘Logan’ stars Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Richard E. Grant, Boyd Holbrook, Stephen Merchant, and Dafne Keen and claws its way into theaters on March 3, 2017.
Source: Cinema Blend
Stuart Conover is an author, blogger, and all around geek. When not busy being a father and husband he tries to spend as much time as possible immersed in comic books, science fiction, and horror! Would you like to know more? Follow him on Twitter!
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Stuart Conover is a father, husband, blogger, published author, geek, entrepreneur, editor of Horror Tree, horror fanatic, science fiction junkie, lives in a world of comics, and a casual gamer (all of this when his wife lets him of course.) He fell in love with science fiction and horror at the same time while watching the movie Alien at probably far too young of an age while still being extremely impressionable and has been happily obsessed with both since! Around the same time, he had also developed an unhealthy addiction to comic books that continues to this day!Want to talk about anything geeky? Reach out on Twitter - @StuartConover
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FC Bayern Youth Cup Nigeria begins, legend Giovane Elber expected
by Score Nigeria Reporter
Bayern Youth Cup Nigeria gets underway
The FC Bayern Youth Cup in Nigeria, under the aegis of VOE Foundation, will run from November 2019 till January 2020.
Abuja, Lagos, Kano, Kaduna, Jos, Kwara, Ogun, Ekiti, Ondo, Edo, Anambra, Imo, Enugu, Rivers and Akwa Ibom will all get a taste of the FC Bayern Youth Cup Nigeria 2020 with the National Finals billed you take place in January 2020 in the presence of FC Bayern Legend Giovane Elber:
“It will be my first time in Nigeria and I am very excited about their skills and their African style of playing.”
Gernot Rohr, German national coach of Nigeria, watched the final selection games in Feb 2019 in Lagos and was really impressed:
“Initiatives such as the FC Bayern Youth Cup help us to boost interest of young people in football and motivate them. I have seen good players; it was a very committed tournament under good conditions. Giving kids the opportunity for a dream is a very nice present and therefore, thank you FC Bayern!
“I am looking forward to next year and will try my best to watch the kids play again.”
Francis Daniel (left) featured at this year’s FC Bayern Youth Cup and also made the final U17 World Cup squad to Brazil
The FC Bayern Youth Cup is an international tournament series held in different countries around the world with the best 10 players selected to represent each participating country at the world finals at the Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany.
The 2020 tournament is open to boys born between 1st January 2004 and 31st December 2005.
Tournament Director of the Nigerian Tournament and VOE Foundation representative, Victor Obinna Edeh, spoke about the success recorded so far and plans for the 2020 edition.
“We are delighted at the impact the tournament is having on the young players in Nigeria,” he said.
“We have a pool of over 25 very talented players who have been selected by the FC Bayern delegation over the last two editions who we believe will have big futures in the game and would be great ambassadors for our project.
“Already, 5 players from the group have received call-ups to the national U16 and U17 camps with Francis Daniel, enjoying a remarkable year and earning a place in the Golden Eaglets team representing Nigeria at the 2019 FIFA U17 World Cup in Brazil.
“We look forward to unearthing more talent and another life changing experience in Munich for the boys”
Victor added, “The 2020 FC Bayern Youth Cup Nigeria will reach more states so that players who have not had the opportunity to take part in previous tournaments can partake as we bid to grow the project.
“A total of 15 states will be reached and we would also introduce individual registrations”
Registration forms can be downloaded at the tournament website, www.youthcupnigeria.com or can be obtained at no cost at the participating state FAs.
Tags: 2019 FIFA U17 World CupAdam Mouktar MohammedBundesligaFC Bayern Youth Cup NigeriaFrancis DanielGiovane ElberGolden Eaglets
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CFCH.SFF.1976
Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1976 Festival of American Folklife / Old Ways in the New World
2.9 Linear feet (Boxes 2-5)
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Series consists primarily of McCausland's professional and, to a lesser extent, personal correspondence, which includes general, artist, and some family correspondence. Correspondence typically consists of letters to and copies of letters from McCausland, along with enclosures (such as clippings and other printed material; contracts, agreements, an...
Elizabeth McCausland papers / Correspondence
Ruel P. Tolman Collection
Tolman, Ruel P, (Ruel Pardee), b. 1878
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This series contains family correspondence and extensive professional letters from noted artists and art world figures including critics, writers, collectors, museums and other art institutions. Scattered letters from Pach can also be found here. See Appendix for partial chronological list of letters from Series 2.
Walter Pach papers / Correspondence
Howard W. and Jean Lipman papers
Lipman, Howard, 1905-1992
1848, 1916-2000
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The Howard W. and Jean Lipman papers measure 46.6 linear feet and span the years 1916 to 2000, with one brochure maintained in a research file dating to 1848. The bulk dates for the collection are 1932 to 1992. The papers primarily concern the art collecting activities and interests of the Lipmans which included modern American sculpture, American folk art, and other contemporary American paintings. Found within the papers are correspondence files, notes and printed material that served as research and reference material, along with financial material. The collection also contains writings, notes, and editorial material used by Jean Lipman in her dual roles as an editor for Art in America magazine and as a respected art critic and author.
Downtown Gallery records
Downtown Gallery
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The records of the Downtown Gallery date from 1824 to 1974 (bulk 1926-1969) and measure 109.56 linear feet. The records present a comprehensive portrait of a significant commercial gallery that operated as a successful business for more than forty years, representing major contemporary American artists and engendering appreciation for early American folk art. There is an unprocessed addition to this collection dating circa 1970 of a single financial/legal document.
Helen DeMott papers
DeMott, Helen, 1920-1997
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The papers of painter Helen DeMott measure 7.9 linear feet and date from 1896-1997. DeMott's painting career from 1940-1996 is documented through her numerous sketchbooks and original artwork. Also found is biographical material, correspondence, writings and poems, scrapbooks, printed material, photographic material, audio and video recordings, and scattered material from collagist Ray Johnson.
The Will to Adorn: African American Diversity, Style, and Identity
Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / The Will to Adorn: African American Diversity, Style, and Identity
Dorothea A. Dreier papers
Dreier, Dorothea A., 1870-1923
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The papers of artist and art patron Dorothea A. Dreier measure 2.6 linear feet and date from 1881-1941, with the bulk of the material dating from 1887-1923. The papers document the life and work of Dorothea Dreier and also contain the papers of and about members of her immediate family, particularly her sisters, Mary and Katherine Dreier, and Margaret Dreier Robins. Found are correspondence, printed materials, legal and financial records, photographs, and one sketchbook by Dreier.
Charles Scribner's Sons Art Reference Department records
Charles Scribner's Sons
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The records of the Charles Scribner's Sons Art Reference Department measure 7.0 linear feet and date from 1839 to 1962. The records of the department include original art works, photographs, scattered letters, and miscellaneous printed material reflecting the portraiture and other illustration work completed in support of the wide range of materials and topics published by Charles Scribner's Sons over the company's long publishing history.
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Marshawn Lynch sits for national anthem, stands for Mexican anthem
Jay Busbee
Shutdown Corner November 19, 2017, 10:26 PM UTC
The Oakland Raiders’ Marshawn Lynch has consistently sat for the national anthem this season, one of many players who have protested social inequality by sitting or kneeling during the anthem. Prior to Sunday’s game against the New England Patriots in Mexico City, Lynch sat during the national anthem and then, according to the Boston Globe’s Ben Volin, stood for the Mexican anthem.
Marshawn Lynch sits during the US national anthem, stands for Mexican anyhem pic.twitter.com/8wdaKprEki
— Ben Volin (@BenVolin) November 19, 2017
Lynch rarely speaks to the media, and even more rarely in any depth, so it’s unlikely he’ll explain his actions. But the likely rationale is that if one is protesting racial conditions in America, there’s no need to protest during Mexico’s anthem.
Protesting during the anthem is a particularly provocative act on foreign soil. The Jacksonville Jaguars took heat for their protest in London earlier this season. The team knelt during the national anthem — an act that was at least as much a response to President Donald Trump as an independent protest — but stood for “God Save the Queen.” That protest, which drew criticism as being disrespectful to the flag and the military while abroad, forced the Jaguars to apologize to local military officials.
Marshawn Lynch sat during the national anthem. (via @BenVolin)
Jay Busbee is a writer for Yahoo Sports. Contact him at jay.busbee@yahoo.com or find him on Twitter or on Facebook.
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Sixers acquire Harris from Clippers in huge trade
Omnisport February 7, 2019, 4:50 AM UTC
NBA challengers the Philadelphia 76ers acquired Tobias Harris, Boban Marjanovic and Mike Scott in a trade with the Los Angeles Clippers.
Tobias Harris joined the Philadelphia 76ers in a blockbuster trade from the Los Angeles Clippers, it was confirmed on Wednesday.
NBA Eastern Conference challengers the 76ers acquired forward Harris, Boban Marjanovic and Mike Scott in the trade with the Clippers.
In return, the 76ers sent Wilson Chandler, Mike Muscala and Landry Shamet to the Clippers, along with a protected 2020 first-round pick, the Miami Heat's unprotected 2021 first-round pick and the Detroit Pistons' 2021 and 2023 second-round picks.
"We are in the unique position to contend now and we think this trade positions us well for the postseason," 76ers general manager Elton Brand said.
"Tobias is one of the best three-point shooters in the NBA and possesses an innate ability to impact the game on both ends of the floor, while Boban and Mike provide valuable skillsets, size and depth to our team.
"All three players bring high character to our locker room and we are excited about their fit alongside Joel [Embiid], Ben [Simmons], Jimmy [Butler] and our entire roster."
Harris – in his eighth NBA campaign – is averaging 20.9 points, 7.9 rebounds and 2.7 assists in 55 games this season as he prepares to team up with 'big three' Embiid, Simmons and Butler in Philadelphia.
The 76ers also thanked 2018 NBA draftee Shamet, Chandler and Muscala – the latter two joining Philadelphia in the offseason from the Denver Nuggets and Atlanta Hawks respectively.
"I want to thank Wilson, Mike and Landry for their time as members of the 76ers organisation," Brand said. "They were great team-mates and contributors, and consummate professionals. I wish them well in their respective careers."
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Italy's Decision to Join Anti-Russia Sanctions 'Was a Mistake,' Analyst Says
© REUTERS / Alessandro Bianchi/File Photo
https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201711161059167259-italy-anti-russia-sanctions-mistake/
Russia still remains an important trade partner of Italy despite the sanctions introduced by the US and the EU against Moscow, European MP Stefano Maullu told Sputnik, discussing prospects of economic cooperation between Italy and Russia.
The Italian government was wrong when it joined anti-Russian sanctions along with other European states, Stefano Maullu, a representative of the Italian party "Forza Italia!" and a member of the European Parliament delegation on EU-Russia relations, told Sputnik.
"This was a mistake, especially if we take into account the long historical relations between our countries," the politician said.
Maullu, however, noted that a crisis in Russia-Italy relations can be overcome.
"I think that this crisis is a great opportunity. I believe that we can establish good relations between Russia and Italy. It is necessary to overcome this crisis, which neither Italy nor Europe needs. With Russia, we have a lot in common, from culture to trade, and these links need to be restored and strengthened," the politician said.
© AP Photo / Geert Vanden Wijngaert
Italy Would Support Extension of Anti-Russia Sanctions, Prime Minister Says
During a recent business conference held in the Italian city of Brescia, entrepreneurs discussed Italian companies' prospects for entering the Russian market.
"This was an extremely interesting event where businessmen from Brescia, who are in charge of leading Italian companies in the field of metallurgy, manufacturing, etc., could see what opportunities Russia can offer for Italian businesses," the deputy stressed.
Due to the anti-Russia sanctions, Italian companies have suffered heavy, multibillion-euro losses. However, the government does not listen to its own people and prefers to continue the sanctions policy following the overall European course, Maullu said.
At the same time, despite the restrictive measures, economic relations between Russia and Italy have good prospects, the politician believes.
The so-called "made with Italy" model, namely the production of some Italian goods directly in Russia, is gaining more and more popularity. Moreover, Maullu is confident that the creation of special economic zones could also support Italian companies.
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From the Cradle to the Grave: Someone is Getting Paid
by Sean Blackmon, Eugene Puryear
Sean Blackmon, Eugene Puryear. Sputnik International
https://sputniknews.com/radio_by_any_means/201908301076675574-from-the-cradle-to-the-grave-someone-is-getting-paid/
MSNBC issues Russia-gate related retraction; FEMA offers no relief to Puerto Rico; "Heineken in Africa: A Multinational Unleashed" Reviewed
On this episode of "By Any Means Necessary" hosts Eugene Puryear and Sean Blackmon start the show responding to MSNBC anchor Lawrence O'Donnell's apology for reporting a dubiously sourced story revolving around the relationship between Donald Trump and Deutsche Bank.
In the second segment, Eugene Puryear and Sean Blackmon are joined by Dr. Rima Brusi, anthropologist, writer, educator and scholar-in-residence at the Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies at Lehman College-City University of New York, to talk about the damage the next big Hurricane will cause in Puerto Rico, how FEMA and the Puerto Rico Financial Board have only made matters worse for Puerto Ricans, and how austerity measures and the Charter school movement have destroyed public education on the island.
In a special third segment of "By Any Means Necessary" Eugene Puryear and Sean Blackmon are joined by Olivier Van Beemen, investigative journalist and author of the recently released book Heineken in Africa: A Multinational Unleashed. Van Beemen talk about Heineken's many scandals involving labor and sexual abuse on the African continent, its opposition to African independence movements and its close relationships to repressive governments throughout the continent.
Later in the show, Eugene and Sean are joined by Kristine Hendrix, President to the University City School Board, Junior Bayard Rustin Fellow with the Fellowship for Reconciliation and contributor to the Truth-Telling Project and "We Stay Woke" podcast to talk about what has led to the shocking number of young people being killed by guns in St. Louis and other US cities, how politicians value police over family and human services, the realities and costs facing American teachers, Congressman Lacy Clay fighting against Democratic incumbent challengers, and the hypocrisy of establishment moderate Democrats like former US Senator Claire McCaskill.
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Police Arrest Man After Bizarre Chase: Man Is Incoherent: No Alcohol Involved
Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Paragraph 8 reads: “Law enforcement from both the Laurens County Sheriff’s Department and the Georgia State Patrol came to the site of the wreck to assist in the search. Laurens Sheriff Bill Harrell called for assistance from the Dodge State Prison K-9 search dogs. During the search GSP Trooper Mark Bracewell found a blue-colored back pack containing Zoloft, Buspar and lithium carbonate in prescription bottles with the name of William Johnson on the label.”In his book, Prozac: Questions & Answers for Patients, Family & Physicians, Dr. Ronald R. Fieve warns against taking Buspar [a serotonin reuptake inhibitor for anxiety] with Prozac/SSRIs as the combination can cause psychosis and mania.
http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?show=localnews&pnpID=909&NewsID=921383&CategoryID=19667&on=0Car Chase Puts Man Behind Bars08/22/08
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An Alpharetta man is in jail today after he allegedly stole an Atlanta area vehicle, wrecked it, took law enforcement on both a vehicle chase down I-16 and a foot chase through the woods, stole another vehicle and then once caught, behaved incoherently.
“Just by the grace of God we were able to get him stopped,” Laurens Sheriff Bill Harrell said Friday afternoon, as he talked about how having a stranger in the county on the loose concerned him until the man was back in custody. “The thing about it is, this person could have broken into somebody else’s house and done more than stealing a vehicle.”
The entire episode began with a call to 911 about a potential DUI driver on I-16.
Laurens Deputy Buck Forte told how the event unfolded in his report. Forte answered the Thursday call in regards to a driver on I-16 in a silver Infinity G20 who was possibly driving under the influence.
He located the vehicle and made a traffic stop with the vehicle at mile marker 56 in the eastbound lanes of I-16 at about 9:30 p.m. Once Forte asked 911 to run the tag number and learned the vehicle had been reported stolen from Atlanta, he told the driver to exit his vehicle. But instead of obeying the request, the driver allegedly put the vehicle in gear and fled the scene with Forte giving chase while calling for backup.
Forte’s report shows he noticed the driver was “all over the road and driving very erratically.”
A short time later the driver drove the Infinity into the median and headed west bound on the interstate. He then crashed the car, which ended up on its side. Forte saw the driver flee into the woods, the report shows.
Law enforcement from both the Laurens County Sheriff’s Department and the Georgia State Patrol came to the site of the wreck to assist in the search. Laurens Sheriff Bill Harrell called for assistance from the Dodge State Prison K-9 search dogs. During the search GSP Trooper Mark Bracewell found a blue-colored back pack containing Zoloft, Buspar and lithium carbonate in prescription bottles with the name of William Johnson on the label.
While officers were still searching the area near where the Oconee River crosses I-16, a call came in that a vehicle had been stolen on B. W. Cook Road. An officer went there and gave out a description of a two-tone gray over silver Ford F-150 extended cab pickup that was stolen from the home, not far from the interstate, a report by Laurens Deputy Cpl. Thad DeLoach shows.
DeLoach noted he was still talking to the victim, L. C. Peacock, when GSP Trooper David Bryant radioed he had found the vehicle on I-16 and was in pursuit of it. The driver then drove the stolen truck into the median and again fled into the woods with Bryant right behind. Bryant was able to apprehend the suspect and place him under arrest.
Laurens Sheriff’s Major Keith Golden said EMS was called to the scene to check the suspect out. He was then transported to Fairview Park Hospital before being taken to jail.
“He was mumbling,” said Golden, adding the suspect, who was identified as William Johnson, was given the medical evaluation for his safety in case he had taken any drugs.
Harrell said the entire time the suspect was on the loose he was concerned.
“The biggest thing that concerned us about it was if someone comes in our county and they’ve already stolen a car and they’ve absconded from us, what they might do,” said Harrell. “Thank the Lord he just went to a home and stole a car and thank the Lord we were close by when it happened.”
Harrell thanked all those officers from various agencies that came to help when called, including the Department of Corrections, the Georgia State Patrol and the Treutlen County Sheriff’s Department. It was a Treutlen County EMS unit that responded to the scene to transport the suspect. Harrell said when he realized the suspect was on the run on the interstate he began to call all those counties in the suspect’s path.
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Shadow of Chernobyl Anomalies, Clear Sky Anomalies
Spatial distortion/Activated by contact
Wrenched
Gravi
The Vortex is a type of anomaly appearing in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, Clear Sky and Call of Pripyat. Alongside with its cousin, they are the first and most common anomalies in the games.
An anomaly of presumably gravitational nature. When triggered, the tremendous power of the Vortex drags everything within the radius 10-15 meters towards the center. Victims drawn into the core have little to no chance of survival: their bodies are quickly constricted into a tight lump, only to be blown up in a powerful discharge of energy a moment later. In some cases, they may levitate in air with agony, and soon their entire systems are shredded into mere skeletal and flesh parts.
The anomaly remains stationary throughout its lifetime (a week on average). Easily recognizable in daylight by the air fluctuation above, dancing leaves, fragments of dismembered corpses lying around and a distinctive dark stain in the center. Highly dangerous at night since it can be revealed only by means of a detector or by throwing metal objects into it.
The difference between a Whirligig and a Vortex is pretty simple: size and strength. The Vortex has a much larger range, much harder to escape from than a Whirligig, and it deals a lot more damage. Escaping the Vortex anomaly, once dragged in, can range in difficulty from easy to downright impossible, depending on the strength of the anomaly and the difficulty level. The type of armor worn is also very important, as the odds are that you will take at least one hit. One possible method of escaping, once drawn in, is to wait until the anomaly discharges, taking the hit. After discharging, the anomaly has no pulling power for approximately one second, allowing you to sprint out and escape it. This method will only be possible with armor with high anomaly protection. Wearing an exoskeleton and getting caught in a Vortex almost always ends in the player's death, since it prevents sprinting; meaning that the player cannot escape the anomaly once drawn in.
A Simple tactic for escaping Vortexes requires timing, jumping and stamina. the effect makes the player wobble like a 'rubber-band' effect before the anomaly does damage. A player with good enough timing can jump at just the right moment, right at the edge of the band effect, (right when it boings you away from its epicenter). At the edge, a very fast sprint and a jump can get you out of there fast enough to escape.
Of course, the simplest method of escaping a Vortex is avoiding it entirely. The presence of a Vortex can be very, very easily identified by the sounds it produces, similar to a "warping" sound you'd hear in some science fiction movies. The anomaly itself is unaffected by bullets, grenades, RPG rockets or Bolts. The Bolts, simply bounce away from it.
Encountering a lone vortex is usually not a problem for a person who can sprint fast. However, a clustered group of vortexes are very dangerous and in some cases, an artifact may be lying in the middle of the cluster.
A little bit of fun can be had with these anomalies: The player can drag various corpses of Stalkers or mutants into a Vortex's vicinity. They'll be dragged in and the player can watch the full effect the anomaly has on the body, giving a testament to the game's impressive death physics. Note, however, that all loot in the corpses will be permanently lost.
Artifacts Edit
Forms three types of artifacts:
The Preobrazhensky Bridge in Zaton holds the largest concentration of Vortex anomalies in the game. In order to reach in the middle of the bridge (or to reach the convoy), the player can either circle around until he reaches the road coming from the Waste Processing Station or use the ladder on the north side of the bridge to bypass the Vortex anomalies that are blocking the road coming from the Ranger Station. Vortex anomalies can be found in the Zaton Swamp, the Claw Anomaly, the underground Burnt Farmstead Anomaly, that blocks many of the tight pathways, and the Bitumen Anomaly. There are multiple Vortexes in the Jupiter Underground, right near the control room where the player has to open the door the second time - although if the player has recruited Vano, he will guide the team through them.
A triggered anomaly.
Vortex Anomaly
A vortex anomaly in action.
Anomalies present in Shadow of Chernobyl and throughout the series
Burner · Burnt Fuzz · Comet · Electro · Emission · Fruit Punch · Radiation · Springboard · "Teleport" · Vortex · Whirligig
New anomalies present in Clear Sky
Fault · Gas · Space Anomaly · Symbiont
New anomalies present in Call of Pripyat
Boiler · Gas Cloud · Tesla
Anomalies cut from the games
Fog · Lift · Rusty hair · Time
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Biden to reiterate US support during visit to Ukraine
Written by VOANews on November 21, 2014 in Europe - Comments Off on Biden to reiterate US support during visit to Ukraine
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden meets Ukraine’s leaders Friday in an effort to underscore Washington’s support for Kyiv, which is battling a pro-Russian insurgency.
A senior White House official said Biden intends to use the meetings to tell President Petro Poroshenko and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk that “we have your back.”
Biden’s visit comes amid disagreement in Washington over whether to supply lethal aid to the Ukrainian military, which at times has appeared to be outgunned by the rebels.
Earlier this week, President Barack Obama’s nominee to fill the number two post at the State Department said the White House should consider providing Ukraine with lethal, defensive military equipment.
Tony Blinken told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that arming Ukraine’s military could force Russia to rethink its alleged role in supporting the rebellion.
Both houses of Congress have voiced support for such aid, but the Obama administration has so far stopped short of providing lethal equipment.
On Thursday, the senior White House official said the U.S. still does not see a military solution to the crisis, which began in April and has killed more than 4,300 people.
For its part, the Kremlin has said U.S. lethal aid would further destabilize the situation in Ukraine. Top ranking Russian security official Nikolai Patrushev warned Thursday that “the conflict will grow” if the U.S. aid materializes.
In other developments, the United Nations released a new report Thursday saying nearly 1,000 people have been killed in the weeks since Kyiv and rebel leaders signed a cease-fire agreement in September. It also cites numerous incidents of killings, detentions and torture.
The document says on average 13 people each day have been killed since the cease-fire deal was signed September 5.
Source: VOANews.com
Bulgarian leaders send condolences after Ukrainian 737 fatal crash in Tehran
EU prolongs economic sanctions on Russia by six months
Bulgarian PM Borissov holds talks with Russian ambassador
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Posts Tagged ‘vineyard’
Pandas at risk from Chinese vineyards (by Lucy Shaw)
Posted: May 8, 2013 by Johan Botha in Farms, Research, Wine, World wine news
Tags: At, by, China, Chinese, Destroy, endangered, endangered giant pandas, environment, Habitat, nature, Panda, Pandas, Plantings, Risk, science, Vines, vineyard, Vineyards, Wine
Chinese wine industry could endanger Panda’s habitat.
The habitats of endangered giant pandas are being threatened by planned vineyard plantings in the Chinese provinces of Shaanxi and Sichuan.
According to the South China Morning Post, authorities in Shaanxi plan to plant 18,000 hectares of vineyards, and similar schemes are in the pipeline for Sichuan, putting the 1,600 wild giant pandas that inhabit the provinces at risk.
While the Chinese government has set up reserves for giant pandas, the animals don’t always remain inside them.
“Vineyards around a panda reserve can definitely affect the animals.
“Pandas move outside of reserves, so the forest outside is an important habitat. If forest is cleared to plant grapes, there may be direct loss of panda habitat,” climate change specialist Dr. Lee Hannah said in a study of the impacts of climate change on wine production and conservation.
Guy Fieri jumps into the wine business (by Cathy Bussewitz)
Posted: January 23, 2013 by Johan Botha in California, Celebrities, Vintage, Wine, Winemaking, Wineries, World wine news
Tags: A, celebrity, chef, County, diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Fieri, food, Grapes, Guy, in, Network, Noir, organic farming methods, Pinot, River, roadside diners, Russian, series, Sonoma, the, Valley, Venture, vineyard, williams selyem winery, Wine, wine tasting room, Winemaking
The popular, Guy Fieri.
Guy Fieri, a celebrity chef known for his rowdy personality, spiky hair and love of roadside diners, is adding an unexpected venture to his mix: winemaking.
The star of the Food Network series “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” has bought a five-acre vineyard of pinot noir grapes in the Russian River Valley appellation and submitted an application to open a wine tasting room on Willowside Road.
“Ever since I moved to Sonoma County and saw all this incredible environment of wine, from the agricultural side of it to the business side of it, to the community involvement side of it … I’ve just been in awe,” Fieri said Friday. “So my wife and I were talking about it, and saying, ‘Can we do that some day?’”
Fieri bought the property last year. In his first vintage, 2012, he sold his grapes to Jackson Family Wines for its La Crema brand and to Williams Selyem winery in Healdsburg, which both have had long-term contracts to purchase grapes from the vineyard.
He has initiated organic farming methods on the vineyard and is… read on
Vitirover: Smartphone controlled solar powered vineyard robot (by Damngeeky.com)
Posted: January 21, 2013 by Johan Botha in France, Research, Wine, World wine news
Tags: Beaulieu, controlled, David, France, French, GPS, Grapes, guided, iPhone, powered, robot, Robots, Smartphone, Solar, Vines, vineyard, Vitirover, Wine, Xavier
Considering the impact of pesticides on soil and to lighten wine’s impact on the soil, David Xavier Beaulieu co-owner of Chateau Coutet – an estate in the Bordeaux, has developed a new solar-powered vineyard robot.
Dubbed the Vitirover, the robot is created especially to mow wild plants between vine rows that for now required heavy polluting tractors and herbicides. The Vitirover is remote controlled using a smartphone, and is built-in with GPS so that robot never goes astray.
The ‘3 Vs’ of wine (by Allen R. Balik)
Posted: January 15, 2013 by Johan Botha in Cellars, Farms, Oenology, Origin, Vinification, Vintage, Wine, Winemaking, Wineries, World wine news
Tags: 3, grape vine, of, the, V, Varietal, vineyard, Vintage, Wine, Writing
Vintage, Varietal, Vineyard.
In real estate it’s “location, location, location” and in the diamond trade it’s the “4 Cs” – color, clarity, cut and carat (weight) — that are benchmarks of quality. But do any yardsticks like these exist when talking about wine?
Recently, I was leading a tasting and the question arose: “What defines the vital elements that express the quality of a specific wine?”
We discussed terroir (the grape vine’s total environment), winemaking and, of course, marketing among other topics. But nothing concisely answered the question.
While exploring the subject with the tasting group it suddenly dawned on me that a wine’s quality is a measure of its “3 Vs” – varietal, vineyard and vintage. Is the wine expressive of its varietal character? Is the wine true to its place of origin? Is the wine demonstrative of the vintage?
During a spirited discussion, everyone had an opinion but we all agreed on the significance of the 3 Vs and the importance of their order as well. Above all, the varietal character of a wine should stand out and is then supported by its vineyard and vintage characteristics.
Each varietal has its own personality. This truth has been appreciated and handed down for centuries in the growing and making of fine wine in the traditional manner. A varietal’s personality places it as the foundation of the 3 Vs whether it stands on its own (cabernet sauvignon) or is an important part of a well crafted blend (Bordeaux).
Stink bug ranks as top USDA invasive pest (by Dennis O’Brien)
Posted: January 11, 2013 by Johan Botha in California, Farms, Research, Wine, World wine news
Tags: America, ARS, environment, Grape, Number, One, Pest, science, Top, USA, USDA, Vine, vineyard, Wine
A Brown Stink Bug Nymph.
The brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB) is now in at least 39 states and is a major economic threat to orchard fruits, garden vegetables and row crops.
First detected in the United States a decade ago, the brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB) is now in at least 39 states, is wreaking havoc in homes and gardens, and is a major economic threat to orchard fruits, garden vegetables and row crops. It’s no wonder the USDA ranks this pest as its top “invasive insect of interest.”
But help may be on the way: USDA scientists at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Invasive Insect Biocontrol and Behavior Laboratory in Beltsville, Md., are searching for ways to control the stink bug by deciphering its genetic toolkit, studying the pheromones it releases, and evaluating potential attractants for use in commercial traps. ARS is the USDA’s principal intramural scientific research agency, and this research supports the USDA priority of promoting international food security.
Nyetimber to release single vineyard sparkler (by Lucy Shaw)
Posted: January 10, 2013 by Johan Botha in Cellars, Europe, MCC, Sparkling, Vinification, Vintage, Wine, Winemaking, Wineries, World wine news
Tags: British, Bubbly, Champagne, Cherie, English, estate, MCC, Nyetimber, single, Sparkling, Spriggs, Sussex, Tillington, vineyard, West, Wine
Cherie Spriggs
English sparkling wine estate Nyetimber in West Sussex is to release a single vineyard wine this year, modelled on the “clos” concept in Champagne.
Nyetimber’s winemaker Cherie Sprigs
Due for release in September, the inaugural 2009 vintage is a blend of 79% Pinot Noir and 21% Chardonnay from the estate’s 37.3-hectare Netherland vineyard.
Having toyed with the name The Netherland, as a tribute to Dutch owner Eric Heerema, winemaker Cherie Spirggs decided to call the wine Tillington, after the village where the vineyard is located, as the name had more of an English feel.
The decision to make the single vineyard sparkler came after… read on
English wine producer goes under (by thedrinksbusiness.com)
Posted: January 3, 2013 by Johan Botha in Celebrities, Cellars, Europe, MCC, Sparkling, Vintage, Wine, Wineries, World wine news
Tags: Administration, At, Bad, business, Diamond, Economic, going, Jubilee, London, Philip, Prince, Queen, served, Sparkling, Under, vineyard, Wickham, Wines
Please, don’t leave us!
An English producer that saw its wines served to the Queen during last year’s Jubilee celebrations has gone into administration.
Wickham Vineyard in Hampshire, which produces about 80,000 bottles a year, ceased trading just before Christmas with the loss of around 24 jobs.
Having established its first vineyards in 1984, the estate had since expanded plantings to around 20 acres of 10 different grape varieties. Three Wickham Vineyard wines were served at a lunch in London that was attended by the Queen and Prince Philip to mark her Diamond Jubilee.
Although the UK downturn had made trading difficult over the last year, with future prospects dampened by the disastrous 2012 vintage, which saw fellow producer Nyetimber abandon its entire harvest, Wickham Vineyard’s main issue is thought to have stemmed from its high street wine retail business.
Offering Champagne at Cava prices could ‘seriously damage’ category (by Carol Emmas)
Champagne sales down for 2012 (by Decanter.com)
Rose Sparkling Wine a First For Yorkshire (by wine-searcher.com)
Posted: December 20, 2012 by Johan Botha in Cellars, Europe, Farms, Sparkling, Vinification, Vintage, Wine, Winemaking, Wineries, World wine news
Tags: Bowden, English, english wine, english winemaking, George, george bowden, Leeds, Leventhorpe, Owner, Rosé, Sparkling, vineyard, Vineyards, Wine, winemaker, Yorkshire
Further advance in English winemaking.
The popular image of Yorkshire, the historic region in the north of England, was long set in stone. The Wars of the Roses, county cricket, Yorkshire pudding, Black Sheep beer and coal mining. But its reputation is due for an update. Yorkshire is slowly building a reputation for producing wine – a development made possible by both climate change and the development of increasingly hardy grape varieties.
The region’s longest-established vineyard, Leventhorpe, which is situated near Leeds, has just released its first-ever rosé sparkling wine. The launch has been timed to hit the Christmas and New Year market, but Leventhorpe owner and winemaker George Bowden says it’s also a celebration of the winery’s success.
Leventhorpe has just five acres (2ha) of vines, all located within the city boundaries of Leeds. Bowden and his wife, Janet, began planting vines here in 1985, when English wine was still regarded as an eccentricity, not to mention a joke. Twenty-seven years later, Leventhorpe’s wines have been singled out for praise by… read on
Planting Rights “Not My Priority” Says Commissioner (by wine-searcher.com)
Posted: December 20, 2012 by Johan Botha in Europe, Vintage, Wine, Winemaking, World wine news
Tags: 2008, Agricultural, Chief, Ciolos, Commisioner, Dacian, Europe, European, Growing, Plantings, politics, Reform, Restrictions, Vines, vineyard, Vineyards, Wine
Planting Rights “Not My Priority” Says Commissioner
Europe’s agriculture chief steps back from the thorny issue of vineyard planting.
The European Commissioner for Agriculture, Dacian Ciolos, has announced he no longer wants to deal with the controversial question of planting rights in Europe. Instead, he is handing over responsibility for the issue to member states and the European Parliament.
In a report submitted to the commission last Friday, a high-level group of experts concluded that maintaining a system of planting rights was an “absolute necessity” for the European Union. The conclusion was a slap in the face for the commission, which had recommended the complete liberalization of vine growing in the 2008 European Wine Reform.
The experts received further support on the issue of maintaining planting rights on Wednesday. At a meeting of European ministers of agriculture, “the majority of states” backed their stand, an insider revealed.
Chinese Industrialist Buys Top Saint-Emilion Estate (by wine-searcher.com)
Posted: November 30, 2012 by Johan Botha in Cellars, Europe, France, Wine, Wineries, World wine news
Tags: area, Bellefont-Belcier, Bordeaux, Château, Chinese, classe, estate, France, Grand cru, grand cru classe, industrialist, landmark, properties in bordeaux, purchase, real-estate, Saint-Émilion, sale, Vines, vineyard, Wine, Wine Making
The Château Bellefont-Belcier estate.
Grand cru classe vineyard fetches up to $2.6 million per hectare of vines.
A Chinese industrialist has completed the landmark purchase of Château Bellefont-Belcier, a leading estate in France’s prestigious Saint-Émilion wine-making area, sources involved in the sale say.
The property is the first of its rank – grand cru classé (classified great growth) – to be acquired in what has been a wave of Chinese investment in the Bordeaux region.
Bellefont-Belcier, which had been on the market for a number of years, has 13 hectares of vines on a total estate of 20 hectares. A source said the sale price was between 1.5 million and two million euros ($1.94–$2.59 million) per hectare of vines.
The new Chinese owner is a 45-year-old industrialist with assets in the iron sector who has already diversified into the wine-importing business. He met the château’s employees on Friday and has since returned to China.
Chinese investors have acquired around 30 lower-ranked properties in Bordeaux (the larger region that includes Saint-Émilion) in the past two years. During 2012 China has also become the region’s biggest export market in terms of volume.
So far, Chinese investment has not been controversial in a region with a long tradition of foreign ownership of wine estates.
In contrast, the acquisition by a Chinese buyer of Château de Gevrey-Chambertin in Burgundy this year triggered a major row, with local winemakers and far-right politicians claiming the country’s heritage was being sold.
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Search results for: "Elizabeth Warren". 28 articles found.
Every 2020 Presidential Candidate Celebrities Have Supported So Far
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The race is on. As the 2020 field of presidential candidates continues to narrow, the solid remaining 16 contenders have A-list supporters who've been vocal about who they want to see as the next president of the United States. From Oscar winners to internationally known pop stars, see who is on team Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and beyond. Donald Trump The current president , who was impeached by the House of Representatives on Dec. 18, 2019, on the charges of abuse of power...
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Meghan McCain Rages Against New York Times: It's a Garbage Publication'
The Daily Beast - 3 hours 51 min ago
Days after railing against the New York Times for publishing an opinion piece that was critical of her, The View 's Meghan McCain on Tuesday claimed that the newspaper was nothing more than a "garbage publication" after it decided to endorse both Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren. Over the weekend, the Times drew eye-rolls and criticism for issuing the controversial dual endorsement, prompting the paper's editors to take to cable news to defend the decision. During Tuesday's...
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New York Times videos of endorsed candidates Warren, Klobuchar fall flat on social media
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The New York Times announced it would endorse both Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar on Sunday night but the attention paid to specific candidate interviews on social media could prove that the Gray Lady editorial board's endorsement doesn't align with its reader's interest.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, one of the top tier contenders for the Democratic nomination for president, says she would launch a federal task force to investigate corruption in President Trump's administration if she's elected as his successor.
The New York Times endorsed not one but two women candidates for president in an unprecedented move
Hello Giggles - 5 hours 5 min ago
In keeping with the current unconventional political landscape (to put it mildly), the New York Times just made an unconventional move. After spending "more than a dozen hours talking to candidates," the paper endorsed two separate candidates for president, both of whom are women: Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar. The Times' editorial board announced their endorsement on Sunday, January 19th, saying that Warren and Klobuchar "are the Democrats best equipped to lead [the primaries]...
Hillary Clinton Says Bernie Sanders Alleged Comments About Women Not Being Able to Win the Presidency are 'Part of a Pattern'
Newsweek - 5 hours 15 min ago
In a new interview, Hillary Clinton spoke about Elizabeth Warren's allegations that Bernie Sanders told the Massachusetts senator that a woman could not win the presidency.
Warren proposes federal task force to investigate Trump 'corruption'
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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Tuesday said she would establish an independent task force to investigate corruption in the Trump administration if she is to win the White House....
The New York Times' Endorsement' Fails Us All
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Elizabeth Warren wants to create a Justice Department task force to investigate Trump administration corruption
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Elizabeth Warren said she intends to create a task force within the Department of Justice that will investigate corruption by government officials during the Trump administration if she is elected president.
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Elizabeth Warren Promises Half Her Cabinet Will Be Women
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Warren reveals more endorsements from former Castro, O'Rourke supporters
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Warren puts gender at the center of her final campaign push
Los Angeles Times - 8 hours 15 min ago
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Scott Kowalchyk/CBS On Monday night, Stephen Colbert spent his MLK Day sitting across from Tom Steyer on The Late Show . To kick things off, the comedian asked the billionaire Democratic candidate for president about the much-ballyhooed moment during the last Dem debate, when he took it upon himself to interrupt Elizabeth Warren's confronting of Bernie Sanders . "Number one, everyone's talking about the debate moment last week between Sanders and Warren. And you're part of this too...
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2020 Daily Trail Markers: Democratic candidates leaving campaign trail for Senate impeachment trial
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CNN's Brian Stelter ignores network's Warren-Sanders debate uproar on his media show
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CNN anchor admits 'we can't know what was said' between Warren, Sanders, undermining network's coverage
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A CNN anchor acknowledged on Sunday that "we can't actually know what was said" between Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., that led to the controversial spat at last week's Democratic debate.
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The Future is Here: Flexible, Paper Thin Ultra-HD Screens
The explosion in computing and personal devices in recent years has led to a world where we are constantly surrounded by displays. Whether they belong to personal computers, laptops, smartphones, LCDs, PDAs, or MP3 players, there is no shortage to the amount of screens we can consult. In turn, this proliferation has led computer scientists and engineers to address a number of imperfections these displays have.
For instance, some of these displays don’t work in direct sunlight or are subject to glare. Others are horridly energy-inefficient and will drain their battery life very quickly. Some don’t have high-definition, rich color, and can’t display true black color. Just about all of them are rigid, and all can be broken given a solid enough impact. Luckily, a new age of flexible, ultra-HD screens are on the way that promise to resolve all of this.
The first examples of this concept were rolled out at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, where Samsung unveiled its revolutionary new AMOLED display on a number of devices. This was followed up in September of 2012 when Nokia unveiled its Kinetic Device at the World Nokia Conference in London. Both devices showcased displays that could bend and flex, and were followed by concept videos produced by electronic giants Sony, 3M and Microsoft.
Since that time, numerous strides have been taken to improve on the technology before it hits the open market. In research published earlier this month in Nature, scientists describe what may be the first steps toward creating a new type of ultrathin, superfast, low-power, high-resolution, flexible color screen. If successful, these displays could combine some of the best features of current display technologies.
The new displays work with familiar materials, including the metal alloy already used to store data on some CDs and DVDs. The key property of these materials is that they can exist in two states – when warmed by heat, light, or electricity, they switch from one state to the other. Scientists call them phase-change materials (PCMs); and as Alex Kolobov, a researcher at Japan’s Nanoelectronics Research Institute who was not involved in the new work, explains:
It is really fascinating that phase-change materials, now widely used in optical and nonvolatile electronic memory devices, found a potentially new application in display technology.
A PCM display would work similar to the electronic paper used in products like Amazon’s Kindle reader. Both are made by sandwiching a material that has two states, one lighter and one darker, in between layers of transparent conductors. The inner material is a viscous black oil filled with tiny white titanium balls. To make a pixel black or white, a current is run through a tiny area of the glass to either pull the reflective balls to the front, or cause them to recede.
In a PCM display, the inner material is a substance made of silicon’s heavier cousins: germanium, antimony, and tellurium. The two states of this material (known as GST) are actually two different phases of matter: one an ordered crystal and the other a disordered glass. To switch between them, current pulses are used to melt a tiny column, and either cooled gently to make the crystal or rapidly to make the glass.
This cycle can be done remarkably quickly, more than 1 million times per second. That speed could be a big advantage in consumer products. While scrolling on a Kindle can be terribly slow because the screen only refreshes once per second, the refresh rate on a PCM display would be fast enough to play movies, stream videos, and perform all the tasks people routinely do with their devices.
To make the new displays, the research team – led by Harish Bhaskaran, a nanoscale manufacturing expert from Oxford University – used a 35-year-old machine developed by the semiconductor industry. They then laid down three layers that were a few nanometers thick of conducting glass, GST, and another layer of conducting glass. Then they used current from the tip of an atomic force microscope to draw pictures on the surface.
These images included everything from a Japanese print of a tidal wave to fleas and antique cars – each one smaller than the width of a human hair. With this sort of flexible, ultra-high resolution screen, a PCM display could be made into everything from a bendable laptop and personal device to a programmable contact lens — like Apple’s Retina Display, except that it would actually fit on your retina.
Turning this technology into products will require years of labor and hundreds of millions of dollars. Nevertheless, Bhaskaran and his colleagues are optimistic. The electronics industry has lots of experience with all the components, so there are plenty of well-known tricks to try to improve this first draft. And they are hardly alone in their efforts to bring flexible displays to market.
For instance, LG unveiled their new line of flexible OLED TVs at CES earlier this year. Now, they are taking things a step further with the unveiling of two new 18-inch OLED panels, the first of which is a transparent display, while the second can be rolled up. Although both fall short of the 77-inch flexible TV on show at CES, the company says the new panels prove that it has the technology to bring rollable TVs with screens in excess of 50 inches to market in the future.
Unlike their 77-inch flexible TV that has a fairly limited range of changeable curvature, LG Display’s latest flexible OLED panel can be rolled up into a cylinder with a radius of 3 cm (1.18 in) without the function of the 1,200 x 810 pixel display being affected. This is made possible though the use of a high molecular substance-based polyimide film to create the backplane, rather than conventional plastic .
The transparent OLED panel, on the other hand, was created using LG Display’s transparent pixel design technology. With transmittance of 30 percent, the company says the panel is superior to existing transparent LCD panels that generally achieve around 10 to 15 percent transmittance. LG Display claims to have also reduced the haze of the panel, caused by circuit devices and film components, to just 2 percent.
As In-Byung Kang, Senior Vice President and Head of the R&D Center at LG Display, explained:
LG Display pioneered the OLED TV market and is now leading the next-generation applied OLED technology. We are confident that by 2017, we will successfully develop an Ultra HD flexible and transparent OLED panel of more than 60 inches, which will have transmittance of more than 40 percent and a curvature radius of 100R, thereby leading the future display market.
Granted, it will be still be a few years and several hundred million dollars before such displays become the norm for computers and all other devices. However, the progress that is being made is quite impressive and with all the electronics megagiants committed to making it happen, an age where computing and communications are truly portable and much more survivable is likely just around the corner.
Sources: wired.com, gizmag.com, extremetech.com
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From Action to Outcomes: Georgia State University is Central to the National Agenda
Founded in 1913 and a public research university since 1995, Georgia State is now the largest institution in the University System of Georgia. Its January 2016 consolidation with Georgia Perimeter College increased its enrollment to more than 51,000. Georgia State offers more than 250-degree programs in 100 fields of study, taught by more than 1,500 faculty members who generate groundbreaking research and educate one of the most diverse student populations in the nation.
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Guided by the 2011 strategic plan, Georgia State has generated national recognition and become a national model for its extraordinary success in helping students from all backgrounds succeed and graduate in record numbers. In 2015, U.S. News & World Report ranked the university No. 5 in the nation for innovation and No. 14 for commitment to undergraduate teaching. The Washington Post called Georgia State “a perpetual laboratory for new ideas on using ‘big data’ to improve higher education,” noting the university’s innovative efforts to keep students on track toward a degree. In a speech at the White House President Barack Obama praised Georgia State for helping more college students find pathways to graduation.
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The strategic plan adopted in 2011 charted a path for the university to follow. Five major goals with supporting initiatives were identified and adopted by faculty, staff and students. The drive to achieve those goals has led to the successes and accolades noted in the separate review of the university’s accomplishments.
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Ads, Beauty, Lancôme, Lupita Nyong'o, Zendaya
Lupita Nyong’o and Zendaya Star in New Lancôme Ad.
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Zendaya Covers Garage #17. Images by Ryan McGinley.
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On the Runway. Zendaya x Tommy Hilfiger Spring 2019.
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Zendaya Goes 70s Glam in Schiaparelli Couture.
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Top 25 DIY Tips for Better SEO
You don't have to be an SEO expert to boost your website's search engine cred. The SEO community shares tips on how individuals and organizations without SEO expertise can increase their sites' search engine rankings.
Is do-it-yourself (DIY) search engine optimization (SEO) possible if you lack SEO experience?
“DIY SEO is not just possible, it's usually preferable,” according to Eric Ward, a noted linking strategist and publisher of the Linkmoses Private newsletter. “Nobody will care as much about your business as you.”
Whether you’re a small business owner or an online marketer at a large company looking to enhance your SEO, the most important thing is to “recognize that the techniques and tactics a DIY SEO'er must use are not universal,” Ward says. “A site that sells hand-carved boomerangs requires different SEO techniques and tactics than a site that sells bobsled parts. While there are some technical aspects to SEO that are common, the ultimate success or failure of your site will be based on SEO and promotion strategies that differentiate you from everyone else."
We've grouped the following 25 invaluable DIY tips from SEO experts into four categories: Keywords, Links, Blogging and Social Media, and Strategies. (Click the links to jump directly to additional sections.) A few of the recommendations may be beyond your technical reach, but understanding the concepts will help you work more effectively with SEO professionals.
1. Find the keywords Google attributes to your site
This should be the first step for any SEO campaign, according to Achalu Narayanan, vice president, Internet Marketing, Egnyte. Narayanan recommends the free Google Keyword Planner tool, which can be used to input your website’s home page URL and review the keyword ideas Google provides. You should also do the same for two or three competitive sites, he says.
2. Optimize content for relevant, long-tail keywords
A long-tail keyword phrase is one with more than two or three words, such as triathlon training for women in SF Bay Area. “The shorter keywords are usually a lot more competitive, which means that other businesses are spending a lot of time, effort and money getting them to rank as they compete,” says Michael Lazar, TrueShip Shipping Software's "growth hacker." Long-tail keywords “are easier to rank for and can drive just as much traffic,” he says.
Lazar says Hit Tail ($10 per month and up) can help you find ideas for long-tail keywords because “it tells you what your best long-tail keywords are and how to write articles, website content or blogs using them to get them ranked.”
For additional keyword research, Debbie Carkner, VP of ecommerce strategy at SMITH, says the following tools (in addition to the Google Keyword Planner) are "industry favorites": WordStream, Wordtracker, SEMRush, Search Engine Genie, SEOBook and KeywordSpy.
3. Get keyword ideas from customers
“Only optimize your site for the keywords that matter to your business,” says Adam Barker, director of demand generation, Continuum Managed IT Services. “Understand which words your customers use to describe your product by asking them face to face, on a website form, or in a survey. Once you learn this, structure your Web content around it. Use the same lingo they use on your site, because those are the words and phrases that they use to search for you.”
4. Do basic on-page optimization
“Once you’ve identified your target keywords, make sure they’re included in the title of your page, the body copy of your page, and if possible, the URL,” says Takeshi Young, SEO team lead, EntirelyPets.com. “Google is getting smarter about figuring out what a page is about, but it still helps to make it really clear your page is about a specific keyword.”
Egnyte's Narayanan offers these optimization recommendations:
A Web page’s title tag is still “the most important attribute from an SEO perspective,” he says. “Use the main keyword phrase in the beginning of the page title tag. The first 64 characters of the title tag are shown as the click-though link in a Google search result. Every page of the website should have a unique page title tag.”
Meta description tags help attract visitors from the search results page. Include one or two keyword phrases that describe the page’s content, and keep meta descriptions under 160 characters.
The H1 tag is the header of the page. “Have only one H1 tag per page. This header needs to appeal to the page visitor and describe the page.”
Use the page’s designated keyword phrase “at least once near the beginning of the content, and also anywhere it makes sense. Don’t use the keyword phrase, its variation or a synonym more than 4-5 times per page.”
Alt tags “are the floating descriptions that show up when you mouse over an image. It's usually best practice to use keywords and their variations in the alt text of an image, and also in the image filename.”
Nathan Joynt,in-house SEO manager, Volusion, Inc., says you should optimize your top ten pages based on traffic and expand outward from there.
5. Produce great content
“Many people have seen the benefit of having a healthy backlink profile, but many others have also experienced penalties or spent countless hours building links to no avail,” says Jonathan Gilde, account manager, BrightHaus. “While the importance of backlinks has certainly dropped, a high-quality link is still powerful. The link itself should not be the goal."
If you post great content, the links will follow, according to Gilde.
6. Reach out to bloggers in your field
“Google looks to see if your site has links from relevant sources in your field,” says Joe Auer, founder, Plasticity Health. “A great way to get these links is to reach out to bloggers in your space. See if they will write about you or review your products. If you’re able to do this, your rankings will increase and you may also get more traffic from those sites.”
Michael Pomposello, managing partner, Influencer Connect, says you should make a list of bloggers who talk to your target audiences. “Get the names of the sites, the author’s first name and their email address. Use this information to craft personal emails to each of the bloggers.”
7. Network with business partners
“Link building and social signals aren't about volume insomuch as they are about relationships,” notes Dave Davies, CEO, Beanstalk SEO Services. As search engines work harder to understand how people connect, and to assign authorities more weight, links and social signals are more about whom you're connecting with and how you're engaging than they are about pure link volumes. As a result, Davies recommends “building authority with the people in your industry who already have sway. Their links, and the links from people they associate with, will carry far more 'Klout' — bad pun intended.”
8. Offer a testimonial to a site or service you use
“People are always appreciative of an honest and well-thought-out testimonial, and in return you can earn a nice link back to your site, often from the homepage,” says Evan Pryce, head SEO, SUSO. “Just contact all your suppliers or business partners and ask if they’d like a testimonial for their site. If they say yes, then write the testimonial and send it over with a picture and an appropriate link back to your site so people reading it can see its real.”
9. Get links from sites that use your images
“If you have visual assets, look around the Web to see if anyone else is using them,” says Mark Runyon, president, Vandelay Web. “There’s a great Firefox add-on, Copyright Infringement Finder, that allows to you to track down any image on the Web in Google's image cache. Reach out to these people using your images and ask that they provide a reference back to your site.”
10. Set up Google Alerts to track mentions of your company
“When you come across a mention, reach out to the journalist or blogger in question to thank them for mentioning your company and to ask them to please consider linking to you in their article,” Runyon suggests.
11. Get involved on social media sites
“Google doesn’t appreciate websites and owners who remain aloof from the rest of the social networking sites,” according to Pradeep Kumar, founder & CEO, Marketingaxle. “It tracks how well you’re interacting in the social space. The number of likes, comments, shares, +1s, replies is all being watched by Google.”
12. Use or switch to a WordPress website
WordPress is, in essence, a blogging platform. But many businesses use it as the content management system for a complete website.
WordPress is favored because it’s a free, open-source platform with many free plug-ins, according to Josh Meah, COO, JackMyRep.com. “If you’re doing your own SEO, starting with a WordPress site will save you lots of time, energy, and money, because you’ll benefit from the labor of the whole WordPress community.”
Yoast’s WordPress SEO Plugin (free) is a favorite among many SEO experts. “I recommend it to my clients because it allows the automation and easy integration of important SEO strategies,” says Gavin Rozzi, president, Gavin Rozzi Technology.
Drupal and Joomla are two worthy WordPress alternatives, Rozzi says. “These free, open-source content management systems come with an assortment of plug-ins that automate much of the SEO workload.”
13. Create a company blog and update it regularly
Many SEO experts recommend having a company blog. Google tends to favor sites with fresh content over static sites, and a blog is an ideal way to add new content to your site.
Approach a company blog strategically. “Creating content that folks in your industry will enjoy and share with their friends on social networks is a great way to get traffic, organic links and brand recognition,” according to Laura Hamilton, CEO and founder, Additive Analytics. "Include images, relevant links, quotes and data. Really try to make every article 'best in class.'"
14. Find out which blog post topics provide the best traffic
Buzzsumo is an ideal site for getting blog topic ideas because it shows you how existing posts and stories have been shared on social media, according to Dan Castro, a digital marketer. Castro says you should find articles on a topic that were frequently shared on social sites and then write your version of the story — to put your own spin on it. If you simply rewrite what’s already been written, you’re not adding value to the conversation, which means you’re unlikely to get social media shares, links or other benefits that come with posting great content.
15. Understand that branding and SEO aren’t the same
“You may not consider yourself a phone company; you may think you’re a VoIP company,” says John Politsky, president, JDMK Consulting. “Guess what? Customers will never search for what you want them to search for. Focus on what your potential customers are searching for, not what you want them to search for.”
16. Think like target customers
“How would [your target customers] find you? What search terms would they enter? It probably won't be your brand name,” says Sarah Cornwell, director of marketing, Appbackr. “Start a list of search terms and Google each one. Do you show up on the first page? If not, then assign someone to write a blog post focusing on those words. The post should not be a sales pitch. Keep growing the list and assign an hour every month to review your rankings for each.”
17. Answer customer questions with online content
If you’re a dentist, your clients are probably searching for things like, How much does invisalign cost? or Are invisalign braces painful?, says Salman Aslam, CMO, Omnicore. “By answering these questions with Web content, you’re projecting yourself as an authority, which can have a direct impact on your bottom line.”
Aslam cites Marcus Sheridan, owner of River Pools, who was profiled by The New York Times in March 2013. Sheridan claimed that a single online article he wrote to answer the question, 'How much does a fiberglass pool cost?,' can be linked to at least $1.7 million of his company's sales.
18. Use Google’s free tools
Many SEO experts suggest using the free Google Analytics and Google Webmasters tools for your site.These tools cantell you how much traffic you get from Google, which keywords are driving the most traffic, and what traffic is leading to the most conversions.
19. Create local listings on Yelp, Google and Facebook
“If your business has multiple locations, create a listing for each one,” says Hamilton. “Build out the listing with rich content — photos, videos and links to your website. Google is increasingly focusing on returning local results, so it's critically important to have your local online presence properly mapped out.”
“Most people with local businesses don't know that Google has a page dedicated to their business,” adds Joshua Mackens, owner, Tutelary Marketing. Mackens recommends going to Google My Business to find your business and verify it. “Fill out the form completely and exhaust the categories [listing the services you provide]. Most local businesses don't rank well because they haven't taken this small but vastly important step.”
20. Get reviewed on Google
Mackens also touts the importance of user reviews on your Google business page. “The more reviews you get on Google, the better. This has a dual effect of raising your ranking and also making people call you over your competitors. It's a big win-win,” he says.
21. Make sure your site is mobile-friendly
You should ensure that your website is built on “responsive design,” meaning it automatically adapts for optimal display on smartphones and tablets, as well as computers. This may be out of your skill set, but it’s important to find someone who can help.
“Google has begun to favor sites that expand and contract to the varying and ever-growing screen sizes of mobile devices,” explains Ken Wisnefski, founder and CEO, WebiMax. “If your site is responsive and engages users, they’ll stay on the site more, which can lower your bounce rate.” (Bounce rate is the percentage of site visitors who leave after viewing just one page.)
22. Study your competitors
“One of the easiest ways companies can improve their SEO strategy is by researching competitors and looking at their marketing for strengths and weaknesses,” says BrightHaus's Gilde. “Get a feel for what onsite and offsite SEO strategies they’re using and for their social media strategy.”
23. Think of your site holistically
“All your site’s content should be relevant and closely associated with other content throughout the site and in line with what your brand represents,” says Robert Browne, SEO specialist, HalloweenCostumes.com. “Keep it simple and relevant. If content isn't engaging to visitors from a search engine results page, they’ll leave. Lower bounce rates on individual blog posts can have a positive impact on the SEO value they add to the entire site.”
24. Don’t forget the second largest search engine
“While most SEO efforts are focused on optimizing webpages for Google, you might also think about YouTube, which is the number two search engine on the Web,” says Jamie Grenney, vice president of marketing, Infer. “Before investing in content, the first step is to identify the keywords you want to go after. Google Trends lets you filter for YouTube to understand the search volume of different terms.” (After entering a term in Google Trends, click "Web Search" at the top of the results page and then select "YouTube Search.")
Videos often get the greatest visibility in Google rankings compared to other forms of content, according to Andrew Anderson of Strategic Web Blueprint.
25. Read Moz’s SEO for Beginners Guide
“It’s not an exciting read, but Moz is a leading authority on the topic and the advice is solid,” notes Ramon Khan, online marketing manager/business development, National Air Warehouse. “It will provide you with the basic foundation to build upon.”
Written by James A. Martin
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User Authentication With Express and Mongo
Hashing and Salting
2:53 with Dave McFarland and Jonathan Foster
Learn how to keep passwords secret. You learn how to use BCrypt, a hashing algorithm that converts a password to a fixed length, string of characters. Hashing lets you store a password in a database so that, even if the database is accessed, hackers won't be able to figure out the real password and log into your site.
New Terms
Hashing — using a function which takes some piece of information and return a hash that represents that information
Salt — randomly generated string that is concatenated with a password
Let's take a break from writing code and
talk about how we can make our application more secure.
In the last video you saw that our application stored the user's password
in plain text within the database.
Anyone who looked into the database could find a user's credentials and
login as them.
Fortunately, there's a way to protect sensitive data like a password,
when you store it in a database.
You basically jumble the plaintext password using a process called hashing.
Cryptographic hash functions take a piece of information and return a string,
called the hash, that represents that information.
There are many different hash functions, but most take a string of any length and
produce what looks like a random mix of numbers and letters.
No matter the length of the input, the resulting hash is always the same length.
The exact cryptographic function determines the length of the hash.
In our app the hash values will always be 60 characters long.
When users login to a site, they enter their plain text password.
The web application runs the plain text through a hash function and
compares the output to the hash stored in the database.
If they match then the user is authenticated and logged in.
Hashing is a one way process.
That is, you can't unhash or decrypt a hash value.
For passwords, that's ideal.
If someone gains access to the database, they'll only find the password hash value.
Typing the hash value in the login form won't do anything.
And it's not easy to unhash or
figure out the password, even if you have the hashed password from the database.
However, with enough effort and
computer power, even hash values aren't completely secure.
Someone can reverse engineer a hash to get to the original password.
So, to add more security,
we can use something called a salt to randomize the hash value.
Now it's not the salt you sprinkle on your French fries.
Salt in cryptography refers to random data that you include with the input for
your hash function.
A salt should be randomly generated for each password.
The salt is concatenated or added to the password and
then processed by whichever cryptographic hash function you're using.
The output of that function is stored in the database as well as the salt itself.
For hashing passwords in this project, we'll be using the Bcrypt node package.
As noted on the project's website Bcrypt is a cross-platform encryption utility.
It's a popular option with the nodeJS community when hashing user passwords.
We should always keep our users data safe and secure.
Hashing passwords and
using a salt are very important when developing an authentication system.
In the next video, we'll move forward with utilizing Bcrypt.
We'll also add methods to our user model to create the hash value we'll store in
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Amazon launches ad-supported music service to Echo owners
Sarah Perez @sarahintampa / 9 months
Amazon today announced the launch of a free, ad-supported music service in the U.S. that will be available to anyone who wants to play free music on their Echo speaker.
Until today, Echo owners who wanted to stream music from Amazon could either pay for an annual Prime membership for access to Prime Music or they could pay $3.99 per month to stream from Amazon Music Unlimited (or $9.99/month to stream on non-Echo devices, as well.)
The new service has the same catalog as Prime Music, which today has just over two million songs. Amazon Music Unlimited, meanwhile, has 50 million songs.
The new service gives Echo owners a way to enjoy free music from Amazon on their Echo, instead of having to turn to a third-party free provider, like Spotify or Pandora. It will also offer a way to push Echo owners to upgrade to the paid subscription services Amazon offers, including its Amazon Music Unlimited service and even Prime itself.
Amazon’s plans to wade into the free streaming market and more directly compete with Spotify had been previously leaked by Bloomberg. The report noted that Amazon had been in discussions with the labels in order to obtain the licenses to stream the free music — something it agreed to pay for, regardless of how much advertising it sells.
In addition to being a differentiating and attractive feature for potential smart speaker buyers — something that could have them opt for an Echo over a Google Home device or Apple HomePod, for example — the service also offers Amazon a new way to monetize its large and growing installed base of Echo speakers.
Amazon’s ad revenue was $10.1 billion in 2018, or 4.3 percent of its total revenues, and now it’s looking for new ways to grow that number.
The news also comes on the heels of a 2018 forecast from eMarketer that had predicted Amazon’s share of the smart speaker market would decline in 2020, as competition from rivals — including Google Home, Sonos One and Apple HomePod — would heat up. But there’s still plenty of time for that to change.
The market for smart speakers hit critical mass in 2018, with around 41 percent of U.S. consumers now owning a voice-activated speaker. Amazon also said at the beginning of the year that more than 100 million Alexa-powered devices have been sold to date — but this number includes non-Echo devices, including those from third-party manufacturers.
The launch of a free music service will be a significant blow to Spotify which, before now, was the top subscription music streaming service with a free tier. The free customers often then convert to paid subscribers as they use the service over time, something that has helped Spotify grow to reach 96 million paid users and 116 million free users. Apple Music has 56 million paying subscribers, but no free funnel.
Alexa’s new Song ID feature can announce what music is playing next
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Impact of data-based bin boundaries on a chi-square goodness of fit test?
Leaving aside the obvious issue of the low power of the chi-square in this sort of circumstance, imagine doing a chi-square goodness of test for some density with unspecified parameters, by binning the data.
For concreteness, let's say an exponential distribution with unknown mean and a sample size of say 100.
In order to get a reasonable number of expected observations per bin some account would need to be taken of the data (e.g. if we chose to put 6 bins below the mean and 4 above it, that would still be using data-based bin boundaries).
But this use of bins based on seeing the data would presumably affect the distribution of the test statistic under the null.
I have seen plenty of discussion about the fact that - if the parameters are estimated by maximum likelihood from the binned data - you lose 1 d.f per estimated parameter (an issue dating right back to Fisher vs Karl Pearson) - but I don't recall reading anything about finding the bin boundaries themselves based on the data. (If you estimate them from the unbinned data, then with $k$ bins the distribution of the test statistic lies somewhere between a $\chi^2_{k}$ and a $\chi^2_{k-p}$.)
Does this data-based choice of bins substantively impact significance level or power? Are there some approaches that matter more than others? If there is much of an effect, is it something that goes away in large samples?
If it does have a substantive impact, this would seem to make the use of a chi-squared test when parameters are unknown almost useless in many cases (in spite of still being advocated in quite a few texts), unless you had a good a-priori estimate of the parameter.
Discussion of the issues or pointers to references (preferably with a mention of their conclusions) would be useful.
Edit, pretty much an aside to the main question:
It occurs to me that there are potential solutions for the specific case of the exponential* (and the uniform come to think of it), but I am still interested in the more general issue of the impact choosing bin boundaries.
* For example, for the exponential, one might use the smallest observation (say it is equal to $m$) to get a very rough idea of where to place the bins (since the smallest observation is exponential with mean $\mu/n$), and then test the remaining $n-1$ differences ($x_i - m$) for exponentiality. Of course that might yield a very poor estimate of $\mu$, and hence poor bin choices, though I suppose one might use the argument recursively in order to take the lowest two or three observations from which to choose reasonable bins and then test the differences of the remaining observations above the largest of those smallest order statistics for exponentiality)
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$\begingroup$ Interesting question. I don't know the answer, but the idea that some degrees of freedom should be lost makes sense. If you hadn't seen it already, this answer by @whuber should be thought-provoking: how-to-understand-degrees-of-freedom. It seems to me that some simulation studies should enable you to get a toehold here, at least for some specific cases. $\endgroup$ – gung - Reinstate Monica♦ Oct 11 '13 at 4:06
$\begingroup$ Not sure how helpful this is, but there is a similar problem in the field of robust estimation. Specifically, a method of robust estimation (eg trimmed mean) often requires a parameterized input (eg parameter defining how much to trim). This parameter can be chosen by a data-driven method (eg see how fat the tails are before choosing the trimming parameter). But pre-selecting the trimming parameter does affect the distribution of the trimmed mean, versus, say, a fixed parameter rule. The usual way it is dealt with in that literature is via a bootstrap. $\endgroup$ – Colin T Bowers Oct 11 '13 at 6:10
$\begingroup$ @ColinTBowers -- potentially somewhat helpful, thanks. Didn't think about the possibility of bootstrapping. $\endgroup$ – Glen_b -Reinstate Monica Oct 11 '13 at 6:59
$\begingroup$ It could be interesting to break the problem down into a simplest case. Imagine something like just 5 observations from your favorite distribution, and put a single divider in the data to form just two bins. $\endgroup$ – zkurtz Oct 13 '13 at 11:53
The basic results of chi-square goodness-of-fit testing can be understood hierarchically.
Level 0. The classical Pearson's chi-square test statistic for testing a multinomial sample against a fixed probability vector $p$ is $$ X^2(p) = \sum_{i=1}^k \frac{(X^{(n)}_i - n p_i)^2}{n p_i} \stackrel{d}{\to} \chi_{k-1}^2 \>, $$ where $X_i^{(n)}$ denotes the number of outcomes in the $i$th cell out of a sample of size $n$. This can be fruitfully viewed as the squared norm of the vector $\mathbf Y_n = (Y_1^{(n)},\ldots,Y_k^{(n)})$ where $Y_i^{(n)} = (X_i^{(n)} - n p_i)/\sqrt{n p_i}$ which, by the multivariate central limit theorem converges in distribution as $$ \mathbf Y_n \stackrel{d}{\to} \mathcal N(0, \mathbf I - \sqrt{p}\sqrt{p}^T) \>. $$ From this we see that $X^2 = \|\mathbf Y_n\|^2 \to \chi^2_{k-1}$ since $\mathbf I - \sqrt{p}\sqrt{p}^T$ is idempotent of rank $k-1$.
Level 1. At the next level of the hierarchy, we consider composite hypotheses with multinomial samples. Since the exact $p$ of interest is unknown under the null hypothesis, we have to estimate it. If the null hypothesis is composite and composed of a linear subspace of dimension $m$, then maximum likelihood estimates (or other efficient estimators) of the $p_i$ can be used as "plug-in" estimators. Then, the statistic $$ X^2_1 = \sum_{i=1}^k \frac{(X^{(n)}_i - n \hat{p}_i)^2}{n \hat{p}_i} \stackrel{d}{\to} \chi_{k-m - 1}^2 \>, $$ under the null hypothesis.
Level 2. Consider the case of goodness of fit testing of a parametric model where the cells are fixed and known in advance: For example, we have a sample from an exponential distribution with rate $\lambda$ and from this we produce a multinomial sample by binning over $k$ cells, then the above result still holds provided that we use efficient estimates (e.g., MLEs) of the bin probabilities themselves using only the observed frequencies.
If the number of parameters for the distribution is $m$ (e.g., $m = 1$ in the exponential case), then $$ X^2_2 = \sum_{i=1}^k \frac{(X^{(n)}_i - n \hat{p}_i)^2}{n \hat{p}_i} \stackrel{d}{\to} \chi_{k-m - 1}^2 \>, $$ where here $\hat{p}_i$ can be taken to be the MLEs of the cell probabilities of the fixed, known cells corresponding to the given distribution of interest.
Level 3. But, wait! If we have a sample $Z_1,\ldots,Z_n \sim F_\lambda$, why shouldn't we estimate $\lambda$ efficiently first, and then use a chi-square statistic with our fixed, known cells? Well, we can, but in general we no longer get a chi-square distribution for the corresponding chi-square statistic. In fact, Chernoff and Lehmann (1954) showed that using MLEs to estimate the parameters and then plugging them back in to get estimates of the cell probabilities results in a non-chi-square distribution, in general. Under suitable regularity conditions, the distribution is (stochastically) between a $\chi_{k-m-1}^2$ and a $\chi_{k-1}^2$ random variable, with the distribution depending on the parameters.
Untuitively, this means that the limiting distribution of $\mathbf Y_n$ is $\mathcal N(0, \mathbf I - \sqrt{p_\lambda}\sqrt{p_\lambda}^T - \mathbf A(\lambda))$.
We haven't even talked about random cell boundaries yet, and we're already in a bit of a tight spot! There are two ways out: One is to retreat back to Level 2, or at the very least not use efficient estimators (like MLEs) of the underlying parameters $\lambda$. The second approach is to try to undo the effects of $\mathbf A(\lambda)$ in such a way as to recover a chi-square distribution.
There are several ways of going the latter route. They basically amount to premultiplying $\mathbf Y_n$ by the "right" matrix $\mathbf B(\hat{\lambda})$. Then, the quadratic form $$ \mathbf Y_n^T \mathbf B^T \mathbf B \mathbf Y_n \stackrel{d}{\to} \chi_{k-1}^2 \>, $$ where $k$ is the number of cells.
Examples are the Rao–Robson–Nikulin statistic and the Dzhaparidze–Nikulin statistic.
Level 4. Random cells. In the case of random cells, under certain regularity conditions, we end up in the same situation as in Level 3 if we take the route of modifying the Pearson chi-square statistic. Location-scale families, in particular, behave very nicely. One common approach is to take our $k$ cells each to have probability $1/k$, nominally. So, our random cells are intervals of the form $\hat{I}_j = \hat \mu + \hat\sigma I_{0,j}$ where $I_{0,j} = [F^{-1}((j-1)/k), F^{-1}(j/k))$. This result has been further extended to the case where the number of random cells grows with the sample size.
A W. van der Vaart (1998), Asymptotic Statistics, Cambridge University Press. Chapter 17: Chi-Square Tests.
H. Chernoff and E. L. Lehmann (1954), The use of maximum likelihood estimates in $\chi^2$ tests for goodness of fit, Ann. Math. Statist., vol. 25, no. 3, 579–586.
F. C. Drost (1989), Generalized chi-square goodness-of-fit tests for location-scale models when the number of classes tends to infinity, Ann. Stat, vol. 17, no. 3, 1285–1300.
M. S. Nikulin, M.S. (1973), Chi-square test for continuous distribution with shift and scale parameters, Theory of Probability and its Application, vol. 19, no. 3, 559–568.
K. O. Dzaparidze and M. S. Nikulin (1973), On a modification of the standard statistics of Pearson, Theory of Probability and its Application, vol. 19, no. 4, 851–853.
K. C. Rao and D. S. Robson (1974), A chi-square statistic for goodness of fit tests within exponential family, Comm. Statist., vol 3., no. 12, 1139–1153.
N. Balakrishnan, V. Voinov and M. S. Nikulin (2013), Chi-Squared Goodness of Fit Tests With Applications, Academic Press.
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I've found at least partial answers to my question, below. (I'd still like to give someone that bonus, so any further information appreciated.)
Moore (1971) said that Roy (1956) and Watson (1957,58,59) showed that when the cell boundaries for a chi-square statistic are functions of best asymptotic normal estimated parameter values, then under certain conditions, the asymptotic null distribution of the chi-square statistic is still that of a sum of a $\chi^2_{k-p-1}$ and a weighted sum of $p$ $\chi^2_1$ variables (for $k$ cells, $p$ parameters) where the weights are between 0 and 1 (making the cdf of the distribution between that of a $\chi^2_{k-p}$ and a $\chi^2_{k}$, as alluded to in my question for the distribution when using ML estimation), and the weights on those last $p$ terms are unaffected by that estimation.
Moore D.S. (1971), A Chi-Square Statistic with Random Cell Boundaries, Ann. Math. Stat., Vol 42, No 1, 147–156.
Roy A.R. (1956), On $\chi^2$ statistics with variable intervals, Technical Report No. 1, Dept of Statistics, Stanford University.
Watson, G.S. (1957), The $\chi^2$ goodness-of-fit test for normal distributions, Biometrika, 44, 336–348.
Watson, G.S. (1958), On $\chi^2$ goodness-of-fit tests for continuous distributions, J. Royal Statist. Soc. B, 20, 44–61.
Watson, G.S. (1959), Some recent results in $\chi^2$ goodness-of- fit tests, Biometrics, 15, 440-468
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Remarks on the New START Treaty
Senator John Kerry, and Senator Richard Lugar
U.S. Capitol
SECRETARY CLINTON: Hi, everybody. Nice to be back in familiar surroundings. Let me start by thanking the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for hosting a breakfast this morning with leadership from both the House and the Senate on some of the most critical national security issues facing our country. And in particular, I want to thank both Senator Kerry and Senator Lugar for their outstanding leadership on the New START Treaty. With their stewardship, this treaty is ready to be voted on by the United States Senate. They have held a dozen hearings. Other committees have held an additional half dozen. They crafted a resolution of ratification, incorporating input from senators on both sides of the aisle, and they were ultimately able to usher the treaty through the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on a strong, bipartisan vote of 14 to 4.
As Chairman of the Committee, Senator Kerry has shown exceptional leadership on arms control. And Senator Lugar has devoted decades to ensuring the safety of the American people. Both of these leaders understand that nuclear weapons pose the unparalleled threat to our world.
Now, we’ve had very encouraging discussions over the past months with a number of senators, in particular with a number of Republican senators who share our commitment to ensuring a robust nuclear modernization program. We will continue and intensify those discussions in the coming days, and we are heartened that there well may be a bipartisan consensus emerging on the need for such funding.
Now recently some have suggested we should hit the pause button; that it is too difficult to do this treaty in a lame duck session. I strongly disagree. This is exactly what the American people expect us to do, to come together and do what is necessary to protect our country. We can and we must go forward now on the New START Treaty during the lame duck session. We have an opportunity to ratify this treaty and to lock in consensus on modernization funding.
And perhaps most importantly, and I want to stress this because I’m not sure that everybody really understands that when the prior treaty expired we lost the ability to have inspectors on the ground. We need to get our inspectors back into Russia after a gap of nearly a year. As our intelligence and defense colleagues have repeatedly noted, we are much better off with New START than without it. Jim Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, said yesterday, the earlier, the sooner, the better. We need the stability, transparency, and predictability that New START will provide by giving us insight into Russia’s strategic nuclear arsenal. That is a rationale that previous presidents and congresses of both the Republican and the Democratic Parties have repeatedly and overwhelmingly supported.
This is also a treaty that is critical to our bilateral relationship with Russia. We have enhanced our cooperation to the benefit of our country on Iran, on Afghanistan, on nuclear nonproliferation, on counterterrorism, and on counternarcotics. That’s why our entire military leadership, as well as six former secretaries of state, five former secretaries of defense, three former national security advisors, and seven former commanders of U.S. Strategic Command support this treaty and support it now. Now, we look forward to the Senate quickly completing its advice and consent process.
And I want to stress how the American people want to see Republicans and Democrats working together on behalf of national security. That’s why in 1991, under a Republican president, the Senate approved the START Treaty by a vote of 93 to 6. That’s why in 2002, under a Republican president, the Senate approved the Moscow Treaty, which included no verification measures by 95 to nothing. I had the privilege of voting for that treaty. This treaty deserves the same overwhelming bipartisan support.
SENATOR KERRY: Thank you very much, Secretary Clinton, for joining us today. We had a very broad discussion on all of the national security challenges to our country today from Afghanistan to Pakistan to Iraq to the Middle East. And the Secretary was comprehensive in her engagement with members of the House and the Senate leadership. But this issue of the START Treaty is really at the top of the list and it was at the top of the discussion.
Our country is strongest and we protect it best when we come together in a bipartisan way or in a nonpartisan way. And historically, we have made our greatest advances in terms of national security when we leave politics at the water’s edge. That’s how we got a 95 to nothing vote on the Moscow Treaty, which had no verification at all, as the Secretary just said. People who are today in the Senate on the other side of the aisle, voted for that Moscow Treaty. Here we have a treaty that for the first time provides additional ability to count warheads on both sides. Here we have a treaty that allows us to have a spot random inspection to find out what the other side is doing. But for one year now we have had no inspections, no American boots on the ground in Russia able to protect American interests. And we will not have them on the ground protecting American interests until this treaty is ratified.
We’re in two conflicts, two wars right now. We face the threat of terror every single day. We face the threat of proliferation of nuclear weapons. This treaty is the best way to reduce and address threats to our country, and we need to proceed forward to address it now. Now, we have reached out for months. I made a decision as a chairman to delay asking for a vote on this at the request of a number of members on the other side of the aisle so we could give people more time to be able to evaluate this treaty. We have done that. As of today, I know that the last questions that were posed by some senators have been answered, and those questions up here on the Hill available for analysis.
The American people have just expressed their will in a very divisive, difficult election year. They asked the United States Congress to do its business. They asked the Congress to get rid of the politics. They asked us to protect American interests. And it is this Congress that has done the work on this treaty. It is these senators, elected here and now, who have a constitutional responsibility now to deal with this treaty. It is this Congress that has done its homework, analyzed the treaty, gone to the hearings. These are the senators who have the responsibility to vote. And the President and the Secretary of State, the Vice President, who has been deeply engaged in this, are asking the United States Senate to do its job.
Now, let me just say I talked yesterday with a number of senators on the other side of the aisle, and we discussed the outstanding issues. As of now, there is no substantive disagreement on this treaty. What separates apparently the sense of ability to move forward is a question about money out 10 years into the future, for modernization. As of now, the President has put $80 billion on the table for modernization and an additional 4.1 billion to meet the request of Senator Kyl. And so, Senator, in a way, the chairman of the Appropriations Committee, the President of the United States, the Secretary of State have all said we’re committed to the modernization. As to next year, the House of Representatives will be run by the Republicans, and we would hope that a Republican leader in the Senate can get an agreement from a Republican in the House as to what is going to go forward with respect to that.
So we stand ready to negotiate. We have two weeks. We’re going to be out of here over the course of the Thanksgiving break. We stand ready to work on any day during that period of time. We have at least two weeks before this might come before the Senate. I refuse to believe that the door shouldn’t remain open, that we can’t find the good faith to negotiate on behalf of our country in order to deal with the modernization funding and in order to resolve any outstanding questions. The national security of our country demands nothing less than that effort, and we are committed to providing it. And I’ve had no – one could have no greater partner. Vice President Biden shared that privilege for 36 years or so. I’ve shared it now for 25 years with Senator Lugar. There’s no stronger, more powerful voice for common sense with respect to proliferation and counterproliferation efforts than Senator Lugar, and we appreciate his leadership on this enormously.
Senator Lugar.
SENATOR LUGAR: Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Madam Secretary. Let me simply summarize this point of view. We’re talking today about the national security of the United States of America. The point is not simply a debate among senators at this point, it is a voice of the American people that has to inform senators that this treaty must be ratified and must be ratified in this session of the Congress. Why? Because, as Senator Kerry and Secretary Clinton have pointed out, since December 5, last December 5, we’ve had no boots on the ground to inform us of what, in fact, is occurring with regard to the nuclear weapons of Russia.
This is very serious. In my office, we have a scorecard that says at the beginning of the so-called Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, there were 13,300 nuclear warheads aimed at us, our cities, our military installations, everything we have – 13,300. I’ve stated frequently to my constituents any one of those warheads could obliterate the city of Indianapolis and there are thousands still there. The American public might have forgotten about it. The senators may have forgotten about it. We are deeply concerned about North Korea and Iran and other programs in which there are maybe one, two, five, 20. But we’re talking about thousands of warheads that are still there, an existential problem for our country. To temporize at this point I think is inexcusable.
Now I have supported the modernization of our nuclears. I’ve supported all the efforts of the President, Senator Kerry, and to work with others in the Republican Party essentially, but we are at a point where we are unlikely to have either the treaty or modernization unless we get real. That’s the point of our meeting today, and I appreciate the Secretary sharing so vividly her impressions of indefatigable travel. I appreciate the chairman’s patience through the hearings, through negotiations. We thank each one of you for helping us share this with the American people.
MODERATOR: Are there any questions?
QUESTION: What are you telling the Russians right now about the status? Is it really dead in the water (inaudible)?
SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, I hope that through our own outreach efforts to the Russians, which have been ongoing as we have discussed the process of ratifying this treaty, I hope the statement from the Vice President, I hope that the very strong statements that you just heard from Senators Kerry and Lugar send an unmistakable message that we intend to do everything we can during this lame duck session to get a vote to ratify this treaty. And I think it is, to me, essential that we bring this before the Senate. I think what Senator Lugar said is so important. Nobody knows more about this issue than Senator Lugar. And for anyone to think that we can postpone it or we can avoid it is, I’m afraid, vastly underestimating the continuing threat that is posed to our country. So we hope our friends in the Senate will bring this up, pass this treaty, and then I can inform the Russians that it’s now their turn to do the same, which they’ve told us they will intend to do.
QUESTION: Secretary, do you believe that you have enough votes to get this treaty passed? And don’t you think that the Republicans are trying to go after the START for political reasons, which has nothing to do (inaudible)?
SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, I think that both Senator Kerry and Senator Lugar are experts at dealing with their Senate colleagues. I had the privilege, as you know, to serve with them for eight years. They both believe that this must be done in the lame duck. The Administration will stand with them, will do whatever it takes, literally around the clock, to reach out, to answer questions, to have discussions, because we – this is not an issue that can afford to be postponed. So we think once we take that message with the urgency that you’ve heard from the three of us, we will get the votes and we will pass this treaty. Thank you all very much.
SENATOR KERRY: Thank you all very much.
SENATOR LUGAR: Thank you very much.
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on November 17, 2010 at 3:21 pm | Reply Jessica
was Lugar drooling this time?
on November 17, 2010 at 4:25 pm | Reply still4hill
Couldn’t tell. Looking on with great interest.
on November 17, 2010 at 6:12 pm | Reply rachel
They better ratify that treaty. On a different note looks like Hillary had dinner with two williams this week
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/blogs/yeas-and-nays/Clintons-dine-at-1789-1597232-108722614.html
What a cute little tidbit! 😀 Bill with the students. (WJC not WJH)
on November 17, 2010 at 9:43 pm | Reply discourseincsharpminor
What’s Bill Clinton doing in DC? And on a weeknight no less.
They’ve been apart a long time. Guess he missed his Mme. Secretary.
Guess he missed his Mme. Secretary.
Enough to brave a TSA security screening. It’s got to be love after all.
on November 17, 2010 at 10:05 pm | Reply still4hill
on November 17, 2010 at 10:13 pm | Reply discourseincsharpminor
Just an observation, she was wearing the same suit today as she wore during last night’s meeting with Foreign Minister Hague. Might someone have gotten up late this morning or been a little preoccupied?
I don’t have pics of her with Hague last night. It was a closed to media event. This is what she wore yesterday, and it was such a long, busy day, I don’t see when she would have changed! She had a packed schedule.
This is the third packed day in a row! This was today with Hague.
Oh, my bad! I confused yesterday’s meeting with Hague in DC with todays.
It’s easy. The past three days have sort of run together. I don’t know how she knows where she is or whom she’s with. Crazy schedules.
on November 18, 2010 at 9:34 am | Reply discourseincsharpminor
I think he was there to have a little time with her before she leaves for Portugal later this morning.
on November 18, 2010 at 11:36 am | Reply still4hill
Especially since she will be spending yet MORE time w/ that same “OTHER” William Jefferson Somebody. LOL! Everyone thought the Miliband years were hot. Interesting that WJC is inserting himself between her and the bald guy!
on November 17, 2010 at 9:16 pm | Reply pcfs
The part I saw today on Andrea Mitchell showed the Secretary mad and annoyed that the Start Treaty might be stalled. She really has her hands full. However she has alot of support from national security and many Senators. They better get this done before the new session.
She has been on a continuum from annoyed_______pi$$ed about this. All I can say is beware the wrath of Hillary. She is furious, and she means it. She’s beautiful when she’s angry, but that’s a really shallow reason to keep making her fume.
Tell that to those aging Republican gentlemen.
on November 18, 2010 at 6:30 am | Reply rachel
on November 18, 2010 at 10:49 am | Reply Jessica
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Bridge Constructor Portal Nintendo Switch Review
Posted by Jordan Humphries | Feb 28, 2018 | Reviews | 0
Bridge Constructor Portal Nintendo Switch Review by SwitchWatch
Developer: ClockStone
Publisher: Headup Games
Release Date: February 28th 2018
Price as of Article: $14.99 USD, £13.49 GBP
Despite having only two games in the series, the Portal franchise is one of the most well loved in modern gaming. The genius idea of creating two portals that lead to each other has inspired so many indie games in recent years. It was a simple concept for a physics-based puzzle game but had so many possibilities to be explored. It’s easy to see why it’s so revered. While we may be starved of sequels for the series, we have had a tie-in or two and Bridge Constructor Portal is the latest of these, crossing over the massive Valve IP with the much smaller, but still well thought of, Bridge Constructor series.
Compared to the story of a normal Portal game, this one takes a back seat to focus more on the puzzle gameplay. You are a nameless employee tasked with building bridges in order to guide this facility’s worryingly expendable workforce to its goal. With the series antagonist GLaDOS as your helpful guide, you’re set on your way.
That’s it really. GLaDOS chips in with a funny line at the start of stages which is nice but there no overall narrative which is a shame because the original Portal was a puzzle game and had one of the most memorable stories ever. I think they could have at least tried to do something in this department.
The audio is on the simple side as it doesn’t have too many musical tracks but the tracks it does have are really well put together. There’re two distinct sets of music, the building music and the action music. Naturally the building music is more on the chilled out, relaxing side whereas the music played when you release your workers is a bit more punchier. There is a bit of variety but if you’re stuck on a puzzle you may end up getting sick of hear the same track over and over. At least the music isn’t bad which would make that a living nightmare, it’s a good job they created some awesome music for it.
Visuals & Performance
Visually the game is on point with the Portal franchise. If you didn’t know it was mixed with the franchise beforehand, you would find out by just looking at it. It has the minimalistic worn whites of the test chambers and the glow of the familiar portals. And, like every section up to this point, there’s really not a whole lot too it which I do think is a negative aspect. There could have been more visual variety to stop everything looking basically the same. It’s also worth noting that the game has no performance issues.
There are 60 puzzles in Bridge Constructor Portal in which you need to safely guide the worker vehicles to the defined exit. Whether by building bridges over acidic liquid, or ramps to jump over them and fling them through the iconic portals to a different part of the stage, this physics based engineering game will definitely be a good test of your puzzle solving skills. It’s a very simple concept and one kept up throughout the game.
It has a nice introduction that guides you through the gameplay concepts one at a time in new stages and there is a very real difficulty curve. Levels start off simple but over the course of the game will get grander and more extravagant until you’re building supports all over the place and it looks completely ludicrous.
In your arsenal of bridge building equipment, you have a small but adaptable set of tools. You move your cursor around with the analogue stick to place things where you want. You can’t just place things anywhere though since they need to be connected somewhere with a bit of stability and so you’ll often have a couple of spots on walls or ceilings which you can use as a starting point for your construction. You’ll first want to start with either the supports or the roads themselves, which are used on the same tool selection. After laying down the framework that you want you, can hover over each piece and then toggle it between road and support. With a mouse and keyboard I could see this being perfectly fine but with an analogue stick it feels a little awkward because not only is it slower and less accurate, the cursor always wants to snap to the connecting joints as well, especially if you’ve zoomed the screen out a little. It does feel like you’re fighting against it at times.
It’s a very slow, methodical game. There’s no fast paced action, no tests of reflexes; instead you’re more likely to be staring at the screen for 10 minutes, rubbing your chin and pondering how to tackle the situation. You have to take into account many things when building your structures. You need to consider how heavy your load is, do you have enough supports to keep it up? There’s also stress to think about. While your structure may withstand the test of gravity, some structures and ropes may feel the burn and buckle under the pressure of your workers driving over them. A nice option in the game is the Test feature which will show you how your structure will hold up in real time but the real test is sending over your worker to see if he’s able to get to the exit safely. Once one of them makes it through, you can send the whole convey to see how truly capable your structure is. An even bigger challenge to impose upon yourself is to do it as cheaply as possible since everything you place has a monetary value. This will be a true test of your efficiency and one that I was certainly not willing to take.
Aside from just driving over bridges and through the eponymous portals, this game does include a few more Portal staples such as companion cubes which are used to press switches, as well as the turrets and these enter during the more complicated stages. And it all builds up in to quite a magnificent mess.
I’m not going to lie, Bridge Contractor Portal made my brain hurt. I’m not going to say it’s a game where you need to have an engineering degree to be able to get by, but you definitely need to be good at thinking in both a logical way and also thinking outside of the box. So in that regard it’s a great test of your cognitive skills. If you really want to test your brain then this is a great option.
I know it’s not supposed to be the point of the game but I actually found a lot of enjoyment from just creating the weirdest of contraptions and watching my workers flop and flounder about. Even when you’re actually trying your best but things go tragically wrong and you end up flinging all of your guys into pools of acid it can be quite hilarious and I found myself chuckling often which is not something I thought I would do.
As I’m sure you’re aware by now, Bridge Constructor Portal is a very solid, slickly made game and I think my only real complaint is just that. It’s too solid because it plays it safe. It has a concept and sticks with it the entire game. Being more adventurous could have taken it to the next level. A level creator and sharing options could have been a fantastic way to test your friends. Varied environments, more levels gimmicks, there’s really a lot they could have done to go whole hog with this one. It’s just a bit too safe.
I should mention that the Switch version does have touch controls, but I honestly wasn’t a massive fan of them. I’m not sure why, I guess it just didn’t feel particularly responsive. I just stayed with the regular controller.
For $14.99 or £13.49, 60 puzzles may not sound like a whole lot compared other games but for me, it’s fine. These 60 puzzles will take you a long time to solve unless you’re an engineering genius. As I said before it’s a game where you could spend an hour upwards on some puzzles especially if you head off on the wrong track initially. More additions would have been nice, of course, but for what you get I wouldn’t complain about the price.
Slickly made puzzles
Good use of the Portal concepts
Level editor should be here
Summary Overall, Bridge Constructor Portal is a puzzle game that’s a top tier in its field of engineering and physics. You can spend hours tweaking stages here and there, experimenting with different structures and so on. If you enjoy testing your engineering skills and really taking your time to find the best way to solve the puzzle at hand then this game is a no brainer. If you’re not into puzzle games or really slow methodical games then this definitely won’t be for you. I think I’d still say it could do with a little more in terms of variety and a much needed level creator and sharer though. Aside from that it’s an excellent proposition for the right audience.
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Teledyne e2v awarded second phase of €42M contract to provide custom image sensors for ESA PLATO mission
Posted on May 24, 2018 by Asianet Pakistan
CHELMSFORD, United Kingdom, May 24, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded Teledyne e2v, a division of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY), with the second phase of a €42M ($47M) contract to produce high-end Charge Coupled Device (CCD) visible light image sensors for the PLATO (Planetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) mission. PLATO is a planet hunting spacecraft that will seek out and research Earth like exoplanets around Sun like stars. About 100 Teledyne e2v large area CCDs will allow the mission to detect minute changes in the apparent brightness of stars, orbited by planets.
Teledyne e2v completed the first manufacturing phase of the contract, including the production of high end CCD wafers and the procurement and production of other key items. After a successful review of the first phase, Teledyne e2v has been authorised to start work on phase two of this prestigious contract. This includes manufacturing the wafers and the assembly, test and delivery of 114 CCDs. Together, they will form the biggest optical array ever to be launched into space (currently planned for 2026).
During its lifetime, PLATO will precisely measure the size, mass and age of planets, survey a large area of the sky and study the full diversity of thousands of stars and planetary systems across our galactic neighbourhood. To date, astronomers know of several thousand exoplanets orbiting distant stars. Many of them were discovered by the Kepler and CoRoT space missions, which were also equipped with Teledyne e2v’s CCD image sensors. PLATO is expected to discover many more exoplanets, which will then be further investigated and analysed by ground based telescopes, generating a huge amount of follow up activity by the astronomy community.
PLATO will be made up of 26 telescopes mounted on a single satellite platform. Each telescope will contain four 20Mpixel Teledyne e2v CCDs in both full-frame and frame-transfer variants, for a full satellite total of 2.12 Gpixels. This is over twice the equivalent number for GAIA, the largest camera currently in space. As with GAIA, all ofthe PLATO CCD image sensors will be designed and produced in Chelmsford, UK.
“Our reliable and high performance UK based technology remains at the very forefront of space imaging and the team are very proud to be providing ESA with a technology which enables this exciting PLATO mission to search for new planets. Our team is committed to providing new solutions to our customers and our next step is to offer the European space community a similar performance in infrared by leveraging the technology platform available through our sister company, Teledyne Imaging Sensors (California). This will provide customers with a single Teledyne one-stop-shop for X-ray, through visible, to far infrared wavelengths, for space and defense applications,” said Giuseppe Borghi, VP of Business Development at Teledyne e2v.
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The view expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Space Agency.
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Teledyne e2v’s unique approach involves listening to the market and application challenges of customers and partnering with them to provide innovative standard, semi-custom or fully-custom imaging solutions, bringing increased value to their systems. For more information www.teledyne-e2v.com
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Jurjevic takes over Indiana Chargers, now based in Fort Wayne
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With even more of an emphasis on strength and conditioning, the Indiana Chargers travel baseball organization is moving into its next phase.
Evan Jurjevic, a former Chargers player who has been on the staff since 2015, has taken over as owner and director of operations and will still be an instructor and strength coach.
The Chargers will be based solely in Fort Wayne. To begin with, there will only be 14U, 15U, 16U and 17U travel teams.
“I want to make sure we have a quality product so we will decrease the amount of teams initially,” says Jurjevic. “We want to continue to develop players both on and off the field.”
Joel Mishler, George Hofsommer and Ben Bailey founded the Chargers in 2008 and teams were based in Goshen and Fort Wayne. He will serve as a mentor during the transition.
“What he’s done with developing baseball players at all ages is something I wanted to keep going,” says Jurjevic of Mishler. “I want to prepare them for life.
“Baseball has taught me a lot more about life lessons than the game itself — things like commitment, teamwork and communication.”
Mishler, who has coached baseball for more than three decades, calls Jurjevic “a superstar person, physical therapist and baseball guy.”
Tryouts for the 2019-20 season were held for Aug. 1 and another session is scheduled Aug. 12 at World Baseball Academy, 1701 Freeman St., Fort Wayne.
Starting in November, there will be more than 120 hours of off-season training time at The Summit, 1025 Rudisill Blvd., Fort Wayne.
There will be a weight room, pull-down batting cage, PlyoCare ball and J-Band walls and plenty of space for skill, strength and agility development.
Like before, training with the Chargers is not limited to the organization’s own athletes.
“We want players to come train with us, even if they don’t play with our team, to give them the best opportunity to excel at the game,” says Jurjevic. “We want them to get bigger, stronger and faster.”
Jurjevic, a LaPorte (Ind.) High School graduate, holds an undergraduate degree in exercise physiology and master’s degree in education from Carson-Newman University in Jefferson City, Tenn., where he played baseball. He just completed course work and now needs to complete three clinical for toward his doctorate of physical therapy at Trine University-Fort Wayne.
Contact Jurjevic or the Chargers by email at inchargers@gmail.com or Twitter at @Strength_IC.
Evan Jurjevic has added owner and operator to his titles of instructor and strength trainer for the Indiana Chargers travel baseball organization. The Chargers are now solely-headquartered in Fort Wayne.
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Eye disease can’t stop Plymouth, Murray State grad Elliott
Brandon Elliott may not view the world the way he once did.
But the former standout ballplayer is not letting a rare eye disease keep him from living life to its fullest.
A three-sport athlete in the Plymouth (Ind.) High School Class of 2009 (he captained the football and baseball teams as a senior and also played basketball) who went on to play NCAA Division I baseball at Murray (Ky.) State University.
Brandon, the son of Todd Elliott and Julie and Dave Shook, was born in Munster, Ind., and played youth baseball in nearby Schererville before moving to Plymouth in 2003. His brother is Tyler Shook. His sisters are Shannon Elliott, Andria Shook and Allie Shook.
He was a college graduate and working at his dream job when Brandon began to notice something wasn’t right with the vision in his left eye.
Trying to get some answers, he went to optometrists and opthomalogists in Kentucky.
It was the opinion of Dr. Landen Meeks in Paducah that Brandon likely had Leber’s Hereditary Optic Neuropathy (LHON) — a sudden, painless loss of central vision. The condition typically starts in one eye and progresses to the other eye within eight months.
Meeks had never diagnosed LHON before. Brandon underwent a spinal tap done to rule out other things.
“He was a straight shooter and Brandon liked that,” says Julie Shook. “He told him there is no cure (for LHON).”
Meanwhile, central vision in the right eye was also going cloudy. Though blurry, Brandon could see shadows and movement in his peripheral vision. He described looking straight ahead like looking into the hole of a donut.
Julie Shook found Dr. Sophia Chung, a neuro-opthalmologist with SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital, and took her son to St. Louis. Only genetic blood tests would determine the cause of Brandon’s vision loss so he went through eight hours of testing.
Several weeks went by. On May 10, 2016, the call came. A 25-year-old Brandon Elliott was diagnosed with LHON.
The condition is an inherited form of vision loss. This inheritance applies to genes contained in mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondria produce most of the energy that cells need to function and these inherited mutations disrupt the mitochondria and cause cells in the retina to stop working or die.
LHON is a maternal hereditary disease, which means it is passed from the mother. Shannon Elliott was tested and she is a carrier. It is more prominent coming out in males in their mid- to late-20’s. It is not as common to come out in females.
“It is rare,” says Julie Shook. “Everyday they’re learning more. It’s hard as a mother when you find out something they have is something you gave them. But I had no idea.”
After learning of his condition, Brandon let it be known that his life was in Murray, Ky., and he had no intention of returning to Plymouth.
“That was hard,” says Julie Shook, who is dean’s administrative assistant at the University of Notre Dame Law School. “I also know you need to let people make their own decisions on their own time.
“I needed to be strong for him and listen to what he wanted.”
After the tests in St. Louis, the ride back to Kentucky was quiet at first. Then Brandon asked his mother a question.
“He said , ‘How do you go from seeing a 90 mph fastball to not being able to see it?,’” says Julie Shook. “‘It is what it is. God gave it to me for a reason. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because I’m strong and maybe I can help someone somehow.
“‘I just have to go on with life. This is what I’ve been given. I have to go on and enjoy life.’”
That life includes marriage and children, a fulfilling occupation and plenty of support from family and friends.
About six months after graduating with a business administration degree from Murray State in 2013, Elliott went to work for Sportable Scoreboards in Murray.
The family-owned company started in 1986 by Mike Cowen serves clients all over the place and has one of their boards at Johnny Reagan Field — home of Murray State baseball and the place where Elliott earned Freshman All-America honors in 2010 and finished his four-year career with a .323 average, six home runs, 35 doubles, 85 runs batted in and 135 runs scored in 180 games (171 as a starter).
Brandon was employed in the customer service department and one day a new employee came along — digital designer Meagan Cowen. He soon learned that she was Mike and Joyce Cowen’s granddaughter.
While Brandon and Meagan knew each other before the diagnosis, they began dating after it. They did not tell their grandparents until they had become serious. The young couple was married April 14, 2018 in Paris, Tenn.
“It was an emotional day,” says Julie Shook. “He told me in the morning of that day, ‘Mom, you don’t need to worry about me anymore. This is the happiest I’ve ever been in my life.’
“What a statement for a 27-year-old to make who lost their vision at 25.”
When she walked down the aisle to become Meagan Elliott, Brandon took out a pair of binoculars to see her when she first appeared.
“That brought everybody to tears,” says Brandon Eggenschwiler, whose Murray State career parallels Elliott’s. “It’s truly amazing. He hasn’t missed a step in his daily life. He still goes on golf outings.
“He’s been a real champ about this whole situation.”
Shannon Elliott expresses her gratitude for Meagan coming into her brother’s life.
“Brandon thought he would never get another girlfriend again,” says Shannon, a 2011 Plymouth High School graduate who played tennis at Saint Mary’s College, graduating in 2015, and earned a mortuary science degree from Vincennes University in 2017. “Mom and I prayed he’d find someone who would accept him for who he is.
“It’s a touching thing.”
While the 25-year-old works for a funeral home in Austin, Texas, sister and brother remain very close.
“He’s my best friend,” says Shannon of Brandon. “I talk to him and his family in Kentucky probably three times a week.
“Meagan been there for him. It’s been unbelievable. I can’t imagine being in her shoes. She has to drive everywhere. I couldn’t be more thankful for what she does for him.”
Brandon and Meagan expect to welcome a baby girl on Thanksgiving Day.
Shannon has been raising money and awareness of her brother and LHON through a website — howhesees.org. She sells bracelets with the inscription “VI510N” — which tells the date his brother was diagnosed.
Brandon and Meagan wrote their own wedding vows. Brandon also wrote vows to Meagan’s young son, Bentley (who would turned 5 in September).
The wedding party was quite large and included Tyler Shook, Brandon Eggenschwiler, Ty Stetson and Reed Thompson.
Three of them had been the top three batters in the Murray State Racers’ lineup at the end of 2013 — left fielder Stetson (Carmel, Ind.) leading off, followed by third baseman Elliott and designated hitter Eggenschwiler (Lexington, Ky). First baseman Michael Kozolowski (Crown Point, (Ind.) was the clean-up hitter. Those four were also roommates in 2012-13.
“Brandon has so many wonderful friends,” says Shook. “That’s just a tribute to Brandon. He’s just such a sweet kid. He has a big heart. People are just drawn to him.
“He’s an inspiration.”
Tyler Shook, a 2010 Plymouth graduate, played baseball and football with stepbrother Brandon in high school and was also an American Legion teammate.
“He was one of the best athletes I’ve ever played with or against,” says Tyler. “He was just good at everything and a quick learner.”
There was competition for competitive bragging rights around the Shook/Elliott household. But never any animosity.
“We all got along really well,” says Tyler. “we still do. Brandon was pretty humble for the skill he had. He wasn’t going out and telling everybody about it. It was always about the team.”
One the football field, defensive end/linebacker Brandon and safety Tyler were called the “Bash Brothers” for their ability to hit on defense even though they wore casts on their hands much of the 2008 season as the John Barron-coached Rockies went 10-1.
“My dad (Dave) raised us with the mindset of ‘tough it out,’” says Tyler. “For lack of better words, ‘If your legs aren’t broken you walk yourself off the field, play through it for the team’ kind of mindset.
“(Brandon) had the grit and was not afraid to stick his nose in there. They called him ’Squirrel’ because he was one of the smallest guys on the field — maybe 5-10, 170. He was not a big guy, but definitely played like one.
“He’s always been incredibly competitive whether it be team sports, golf, video games, you name it. He just has the biggest and strongest heart and drive of anyone I know. I think that mentality is what has helped him through the ups and down of the last few years.”
Thompson, an outfielder from Cheyenne, Wyoming, did not play with Brandon. But he lived near him and was around when his vision began to change and has witnessed how he has adjusted since the LHON diagnosis.
“He can still move around just fine,” says Thompson. “He just has a hard time seeing fine details. His work has been awesome for him. They’ve gotten him a 40-inch flat screen as computer monitor.
“He loves that job. That’s why he stayed in Murray.”
Tony Plothow was both head baseball coach at Plymouth High School and manager for Plymouth American Legion Post 27 when Brandon was a player. Plothow also coached Brandon in basketball at PHS.
Brandon played for Post 27 each summer after his four years of high school and first year of college.
“(Brandon) started for us as a freshman,” says Plothow. “He came in with a lot of confidence and he fit in pretty well. He became a mentor to younger kids.
“He was one of those kids you didn’t have to motive. As he got older, he was a great leader in the locker room.”
Brandon hit .438 with three homers, 22 RBIs and 42 runs scored as a Plymouth senior and was named MVP of the 2009 Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association North/South All-Star Series. In Legion ball, he shined against tough competition and got the the attention of Murray State, where he played for head coach Rob McDonald.
Mike Hite was an assistant coach for PHS and Post 27 when Brandon was a player.
“As an athlete, he was a competitor,” says Hite of Brandon. “He was a winner. He was a perfectionist. He always wanted to be the one that came through in the clutch. That was pretty special.”
As Plymouth parks superintendent, Hite employed Brandon for several summers. Allie Shook, Brandon’s stepsister, works for Hite now.
“(Brandon) wanted to excel in whatever he was doing — cutting grass, pulling weeds or going deep in the hole to turn a double play (at shortstop).
“He’s used to succeeding in everything he does and he still is.”
Former Plymouth head basketball coach John Scott recalls Brandon’s contributions in 2007-08, a season that saw the Pilgrims go 22-4 and make it to the Class 3A Warsaw Semistate.
“Brandon was so very athletic,” says Scott. “He was a very streaky shooter. We played NorthWood just before Christmas. He hit some huge 3-pointers for us that night on the road. He, along with a great game from Nick Neidlinger, got us off to a good start in the (Northern Lakes Conference).”
Scott is also assistant athletic director and longtime public address announcer for Pilgrims/Rockies sports.
Evan Jurjevic got to know Brandon as a fellow middle infielder for Plymouth Post 27. Shortstop Elliott was the lone Plymouth High product surrounded by three LaPorte Slicers — second baseman Jurjevic, first baseman Shawn Rogers and third baseman Jake McMahan.
“(Brandon) was an incredible baseball player,” says Jurjevic. “He was extremely hard-working and talented. He played with a lot of energy and heart.
“He was an overall great guy, a good team player. He was always pushing others to get better.”
Jurjevic, a part-time strength coordinator and instructor for the Indiana Chargers travel organization who is pursuing a physical therapy doctorate at Trine University-Fort Wayne, sees his old friend meeting his condition head-on.
“Baseball is easy compared to something like this,” says Jurjevic. “It’s puts things into perspective.
“It’s definitely a challenge and an obstacle he had to overcome.”
While he must sit very close to view television and uses a large monitor at work, Brandon tries to lead as normal a life as possible. He bowls, plays golf and has fun in the backyard with Bentley.
“He doesn’t want people to know,” says Julie. “He was very hesitant about seeing someone about visual needs.”
Dave Shook spent a week with his stepson and they met with Kentucky Visual Aid. Brandon told them he could not take the aids because they were too expensive.
Then he was asked: “Do you pay taxes?”
His answer: “Yes.”
The reply: “You’ve paid for it.”
For more information on Leber’s Hereditary Optic Neuropathy, visit lhonsociety.org.
Brandon Elliott, a Plymouth (Ind.) High School graduate, hits the baseball for Murray (Ky.) State University, where he graduated in 2013 after four seasons. (Murray State University Photo)
Brandon Elliott finished his four-year baseball career at Murray (Ky.) State University with a .323 average, six home runs, 35 doubles, 85 runs batted in and 135 runs scored in 180 games (171 as a starter). He earned Freshman All-America honors in 2010. (Murray State University Photo)
Brandon Elliott, a 2009 Plymouth (Ind.) High School graduate, is on the school’s athletic Wall of Fame for being named MVP of the Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association North/South All-Star Series. He also excelled at football and basketball at Plymouth.
Meagan and Brandon Elliott on their wedding day — April 14, 2018.
Brandon, Meagan and Shannon Elliott share a moment during Brandon and Meagan’s wedding on April 14, 2018.
Brandon Elliott, who was diagnosed in 2016 with Leber’s Hereditary Optic Neuropathy (LHON) — a sudden, painless loss of central vision — uses binoculars to see his bride, Meagan, during their wedding April 14, 2018. The couple met at Sportable Scoreboards in Murray, Ky. Her grandfather, Mike Cowen, founded the company.
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Everything Ends, But Everything Begins Again Too
in Life on 11/05/19 by Lorena Leave a Comment
That’s Normal’s song may be ending, but the story never ends. Never fear, Doctor Who fans, TARDIScuss has found a new home at me and Emily‘s YouTube channel, Pop Goes the Geek! Join us, along with Laura, as we cover the 2020 Doctor Who season and holiday special should there be one.
Back in 2009, I joined Letters to Twilight as TeamSeth, which eventually led me to That’s Normal. But it was my undying love of Doctor Who and TN’s lack of coverage for the show that spawned my decision to start writing for the site. Without TN, I would never have met the wonderful Emily or truly discovered a shameless love for Tom Hiddleston.
Pop Goes the Geek
Pop Goes the Geek won’t just cover Doctor Who (otherwise we’d just call it TARDIScuss!)… we are going to chat all things geeky pop culture and feature special guests as we go. Things like Harry Potter book club, movie breakdowns, and even TV show reactions (oh hai, DC universe!) will be fodder for the channel. We’ll talk all kinds of fandom stuff, including favorite artists and fan fics! So be sure to subscribe now so you’ll get the alerts when we post our first videos.
In fact, last Friday Emily sent me a link to the new fan movie for Harry Potter, called Sisters of House Black. This is a perfect example of something we’d cover. It’s fanmade, but great quality, and written and directed by (an apparently) major YouTuber in Yorkshire, Kelsey Ellison. It follows the story of the Black sisters, and how their family ties fell apart with the rise of Voldemort. It’s under forty minutes, making it a short film, but it definitely feels way too short. Its non-linear storytelling almost demands a re-watch to fully experience the film. I highly recommend it, though bring some tissues. The music box part is just… heartbreaking.
Lorena and Emily cosplaying Amy Pond and Peggy Carter.
Lorena Gay, Published Author
Pop Goes the Geek may be video-based, but my writing career is about to switch from rolling along to full steam ahead. For the past year, I’ve been publishing a novel length Wizarding World fan fiction about the untold story of the 1792 Triwizard Tournament that wraps this month. It’s called The Slytherin Heart and you can read it on FanFiction.net or Archive of Our Own. All my other fan fictions are accessible through my profile on those sites. I write mainly for Harry Potter/Wizarding World and Marvel, with one Gotham By Gaslight AU thrown in for good measure.
The main goal in writing The Slytherin Heart was to see how long it took me to write a full length novel with my current job and life situation. Turns out it is just over two years. So, now I know what to budget for my next original novel! That’s right, I said next. My first novel came out in 2013 and I plan to republish it in 2020.
So, follow my author page on Facebook and you’ll be the first to see when I launch new projects! I’m also on Goodreads as an author, so find me there as well.
While I will miss TN dearly, it brought me such wonderful new friends and excellent experiences I’ll always carry with me. I met Tom Hiddleston (twice!), ventured into cosplay, interviewed the cast of Agents of SHIELD and Jeph Loeb, discovered fellow Lokane lover Jamie Whitebread of the T Hiddy Committee, and even had a commentor remind me that I’m not into celebrity gossip when I was feeling weird about Tom’s life choices (thanks Bea! I haven’t forgotten that comment some 3 years later).
The Twelfth Doctor sums it up best when he says:
Things end. That’s all. Everything ends and it’s always sad. But everything begins, too. And that’s always happy. Be happy.
Thank you to everyone who has ever read my work here, I appreciate it truly and deeply. And keep sending me random updates about Tom Hiddleston and James D’Arcy… like seriously, keep sending me these.
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About Lorena
Lorena’s current obsessions: floppy eared dogs, north Iceland, red pepper jelly, Slytherin, Fena Gitu, Manchester United, Hogwarts Running Club, Lokane, Pittsburgh Penguins, Doctor Who, west coast IPAs, and Tillamook aged cheddar.
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Bibliophile, Book Haul
Book Haul, May 2019
Date: June 3, 2019Author: carllbatnag 3 Comments
Just another book haul. SMH.
Yes, again, I was unsuccessful in overcoming the temptation to buy more books *tsundoku*. So instead of imposing on your time, I am going to skip on the preliminaries and go directly to my book purchases for the month. Without any more ado, here they are:
Title: Out of Africa (and Shadows on the Grass)
Author: Karen Blixen/Isak Dinesen
Publisher: Vintage International Publishing
Publishing Date: October 1989
Synopsis: “At the age of twenty-seven, Isak Dinesen (nee Karen Blixen) left Denmark and sailed for East Africa to marry her Swedish cousin, Baron Bror Blixen. Together they bought a four-thousand-acre coffee plantation in Kenya. From 1914 to 1931 she managed the plantation, even after she and her husband separated. Her account of those years Is transformed by the magic of her prose and her supreme gift as a storyteller into a vibrant re-creation of Africa, filled with her affection for and understanding of the land and its people.”
Title: The Shack
Author: WM Paul Young
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Synopsis: “Mackenzie Allen Philip’s youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later, in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend.
Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack’s world forever.
In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant, THE SHACK wrestles with the timeless question, “Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?” The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him.”
Title: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Translator: Edith Grossman
Publisher: Viking International Publishing
Publishing Date: November 2006
Synopsis: “On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habit – he purchased hundreds of women – he asks a madam for her assistance. The fourteen-year-old girl who is procured for him is enchanting, but exhausted as she is from caring for siblings and her job sewing buttons, she can do little but sleep. Yet with this sleeping beauty at his side, it is he who awakens to a romance he has never known.”
Title: The Sun Also Rises
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Publisher: Charles Scribner’s Sons
Synopsis: “The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises is one of Ernest Hemingway’s masterpieces, and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway’s most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. It is an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions. First published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises helped to establish Hemingway as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.” (Source: Goodreads)
Title: The Farm
Author: Joanne Ramos
Publishing Date: May 2019
Synopsis: “Nestled in New York’s Hudson Valley is a luxury retreat boasting every amenity: organic meals, personal fitness trainers, daily massages -and all of it for free. In fact, you’re paid big money to stay here – more than you’ve ever dreamed of. The catch? For nine months, you cannot leave the grounds, your movements are monitored, and you are cut off from your former life while you dedicate yourself to the task of producing the perfect baby. For someone else.
Jane, an immigrant from the Philippines, is in desperate search of a better future when she commits to being a “Host” at Golden Oaks – or the Farm, as residents call it. But now pregnant, fragile, consumed with worry for her family, Jane is determined to reconnect with her life outside. Yet she cannot leave the Farm or she will lose the life-changing fee she’ll receive on the delivery of her child.”
Title: Botchan
Author: Soseki Natsume
Translator: Umeji Sasaki
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Synopsis: “Botchan is the youngest son in a middle class Tokyo family. His elder brother is the obvious favorite of both parents, and Botchan grows up demanding attention for himself – yet succeeding only if he misbehaves. Following the early death of his mother, his servant Kiyo provides the only love and understanding he knows. When his father dies, Botchan’s brother gives him a small portion of the family inheritance and disclaims further responsibility for the boy.
So Botchan’s story begins. He drifts through college into his first job – a s a math teacher in provincial Shikoku Island, far from Tokyo and the life he has known. Botchan’s concerns for Kiyo, the only real person in his life, travels with him as he tries to apply what she has taught him in his new surroundings. Thrust into the alien realm of a country school, Botchan finds nothing but trouble – with his nosy landlord; his students, who delight in tormenting him; his fellow teachers, each of whom he christens with a scornful nickname – Porcupine, Green Squash, Badger, Red-Shirt – and others who insist on complicating his life.”
Title: Homegoing
Author: Yaa Gyasi
Publisher: Vintage Books
Publishing Date: April 2017
Synopsis: “Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captures in a raid of her village, imprisoned in the very same castle, and sold into slavery.
Homegoing follows the parallel paths of these sisters and their descendants through eight generations: from the Gold Coast to the plantations of Mississippi, from the American Civil War to Jazz Age Harlem, Yaa Gyasi’s extraordinary novel illuminates slavery’s troubled legacy both for those who were taken and those who stayed – and shows how the memory of captivity has been inscribed on the soul of our nation.
Title: Gravity’s Rainbow
Author: Thomas Pynchon
Synopsis: “Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity’s Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the 20th century as Joyce’s Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative, and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.” (Source: Goodreads)
Title: The Grapes of Wrath
Author: John Steinbeck
Synopsis: “First published in 1939, The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. This Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads – driven from their homestead by the “land companies” and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. A portrait of conflict between the powerful and the powerless, the novel captures the horrors of the Depression and probes the very nature of equality in America.”
Nine new books. Six new authors. These comprise my May purchase. How about you fellow reader, what books were you able to nab during the previous month? Share it in the comment box.
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3 thoughts on “Book Haul, May 2019”
Roy Lando says:
Me too, I love buying books to the point of straining my budget. I still have so many unread books.
Haha. We keep on buying yet the books end up unread for years! Totally relatable 🙂
kloydecaday says:
Hello! Those are a good selection of books! Where did you buy them? Glad to have found this essay, because I also blogged my September book loot from an online shop of book sale from Book Duke: https://kloydecaday.wordpress.com/2019/09/20/unwrapping-my-book-loot-from-book-duke/. I’d appreciate it if we continue talking about our books and TBR lists, and if you follow me because I’m just new here in WordPress. Thanks!
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Rick Steves: I Will Match Your Donation To The Maine Legalization Initiative
By Rick Steves, NORML Board Member
I've worked hard to help legalize, tax, and regulate marijuana for adult recreational use in Washington State (where I live) and in Oregon. This November, Maine voters will have the opportunity to approve a ballot initiative that will end prohibition and replace it with a sensible marijuana policy in their state too.
As a NORML Board Member, I am proud to announce that NORML is endorsing this initiative. And to demonstrate my commitment, I am going to match every donation up to $50,000, dollar-for-dollar. This October, I'll be visiting Maine to speak about the initiative and help build support for legalizing, taxing and regulating marijuana in the state.
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Through my travels in Europe, I've learned that pragmatic harm reduction makes much more sense than legislating morality. And I believe in civil liberties. Responsible adults should be able to use marijuana, just as they can use alcohol. Washington, Oregon, Colorado and Alaska have demonstrated that it is possible to build a system of marijuana control and regulation that works.
This isn't about being "soft" or "hard" on drugs. This is about being smart - and controlling and regulating marijuana the right way.
Please consider making a donation today. Together, we can make history in Maine. (And I hope to see you in October!)
David Boyer, Campaign Manager, Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol
207-274-4633, dboyer@regulatemaine.org
Nation's Oldest Marijuana Policy Organization - and One of Its Most Widely Recognized Board Members - to Throw Support Behind Initiative to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol in Maine
In an email announcing NORML's endorsement, internationally renowned travel writer and television personality Rick Steves said he will match up to $50,000 in contributions to the campaign and visit Maine in October to help promote the ballot measure
PORTLAND, Maine - Internationally renowned travel writer and television personality Rick Steves announced on Wednesday that he and the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) are throwing their support behind the initiative to regulate marijuana like alcohol in Maine. Steves serves on the board of directors for NORML.
In an email announcing NORML's endorsement to initiative supporters, Steves offered to match every contribution to the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol dollar-for-dollar up to $50,000. He also said he plans to visit Maine in October to help promote the ballot measure, which would end marijuana prohibition in Maine and establish a system in which marijuana is regulated and taxed similarly to alcohol.
"Through my travels in Europe, I've learned that pragmatic harm reduction makes much more sense than legislating morality," Steves said in the email. "And I believe in civil liberties. Responsible adults should be able to use marijuana, just as they can use alcohol.
"Washington, Oregon, Colorado and Alaska demonstrate that it is possible to build a system of marijuana control and regulation that works," he continued. "This isn't about being 'soft' or 'hard' on drugs. This is about being smart - and controlling and regulating marijuana the right way."
Steves actively campaigned in support of the ballot initiatives that successfully ended marijuana prohibition in Oregon in 2014 and his home state of Washington in 2012.
"NORML is pleased to be working with the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, and with our colleague Rick Steves, to help ensure that Maine joins the growing list of states to legalize the responsible adult use of marijuana this November," said NORML Executive Director Allen St. Pierre. "Our board of directors has enthusiastically endorsed this measure and we will continue to work for its passage."
NORML, founded in 1970, is a national organization with state and local chapters operating throughout the country. It is the nation's oldest and most widely recognized marijuana policy reform organization.
"NORML has spent decades educating the public about marijuana and advocating for sensible marijuana policy reform," said campaign manager David Boyer. "We are proud to have their support, and we are very grateful for Mr. Steves' exceptionally generous offer. A lot of celebrities express support for ending marijuana prohibition, but few put their money where their mouth is."
The Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol is supporting a 2016 statewide ballot initiative to end marijuana prohibition in Maine and replace it with a system in which marijuana is regulated and taxed similarly to alcohol. For more information, visithttp://www.RegulateMaine.org.
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Iraq deputy parliament speaker vows 'decisive decisions' to end U.S. presence in the country
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Iraq's deputy parliament speaker is vowing "decisive decisions" to end the United States' presence in the country after the killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
Following President Trump's ordering of a drone strike that killed Soleimani in Baghdad in a major escalation of tensions with Tehran, Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi called the strike an "aggression against Iraq," and an emergency session of Parliament has been called for Saturday, The Associated Press reports.
Deputy Speaker Hassan al-Kaabi in a statement vowed that during this session, "decisive decisions" will be made that will "put an end to U.S. presence inside Iraq," per The Guardian.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who says the strike was ordered due to a threat of an "imminent attack" in the region, tweeted Friday that he spoke with Iraqi Speaker of Parliament Mohamed al-Halbousi and "we agreed Iraq must uphold its responsibility to keep U.S. personnel safe and prevent further attacks" and that "building a sovereign and strong Iraq remains a shared priority." Al-Halbousi in a statement called the strike a "flagrant breach of sovereignty and violation of international agreements."
The AP notes that Iraq "ordering out American forces would heavily damage Washington's influence and make the U.S. troop presence in neighboring Syria more tenuous," but "Iraq's leadership is likely to be divided over such a step." Brendan Morrow
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Strong 5.3 magnitude earthquake rocks east coast of New Zealand
Tuesday, 10 December 2019 10:07AM
Anxious wait for Aussie families following New Zealand disaster
VideoFamilies of missing Australians following the White Island volcano eruption are frantically trying to get in contact with their loved ones
A 5.3 magnitude earthquake has rocked the east coast of New Zealand, less than a day after a volcano eruption left at least five dead.
The shallow quake struck near Gisborne on country's North Island just before 1 pm local time, according to information from national geological hazard monitoring system Geonet.
The jolt was felt in Whakatane, 180 kilometres south of Gisborne, the closest city to White Island where a volcano erupted on Monday.
GeoNet said the earthquake was unrelated to the eruption at White Island.
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Nigel and Gordon come together as fresh-out-of the-jungle Kezia is adopted by the McDynasty show
May 12, 2019 johnrobertson834
I imagine Gordon Brewer watched Andrew Marr failing to land a punch on Farage and thought, ‘Politicians are betraying democracy? That will be a good opener for my interrogation later of the other John Smith girl and that woman who was in the jungle.’
She didn’t like it and nipped him politely. Doesn’t he know her dad’s a saint and her sister is his boss?
Kathryn Smith, sister of Sarah, State Broadcaster (Scotland Region) News Supremo, and Kezia Dugdale were there to talk about the John Smith Centre for Neo-Liberal Economics, US Foreign Policy Support and Befriending the Tories, which will ‘restore faith in Scottish politics.’ Even Gordon was a bit skeptical about that but didn’t go so far as to suggest viewers would be better off with the Jimmy Reid Foundation. I would.
Kezia looked happy in her new family show, McDynasty, where she plays the ‘Poisoned Dafty’, and will, I feel sure, bring her much-needed, post-Labour, pest-toleration aptitude to the project.
Smith did, however, pull out a big one aimed at converting any doubters watching, when she told us her dad liked Tory PM John Major quite a bit and would often retire together with him to have tea and talk about how Labour was now ready to betray the working people in return for job security. There should be more of that! Kezia nods.
Can I be critical of the beatified John Smith? I can, of course, but should I? Well I don’t need to. See these three telling extracts from a Guardian obituary:
Smith impressed Hugh Gaitskell, who heard him at a May Day rally in Glasgow in 1963 – not only because he spoke well but because he already exuded the level-headed pragmatism of the Labour right.
Smith qualified as an advocate in 1967 and subsequently was involved in some of Scotland’s biggest trials. He defended one of the men involved in the notorious ‘ice cream wars’, during which a family of six were burned to death in an arson attack. Smith ‘s client escaped with a three-year sentence.
The other side of his character which was perhaps not clear to the general public was his enormous self-confidence. He was the sort of man of whom it is said that he thought he could walk on water.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/1994/may/13/obituaries.past
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gavin May 12, 2019 / 2:49 pm
Given the air time the BEEB generously allows Ruthie and Nigel, would it not make sense (I know) if they had their very own show!
It could be called “The Two Gonnae’s (no dae that)”.
The premise of “The Two Gonnae’s” would be preventative censorship—for our own good.
Scots would not be allowed to consider a different future—as the one “planned” for us is pure golden!
Brits would be prevented from knowledge about nasty foreign types who live in darkest Europe—unless its about Putin.
We would be “encouraged” to admire our new PM, Boris (Ruthie having done another of her famously frequent flip-flops).
Our wonderous ally and friend, The Donald@, would come to our shores to cherry-pick our best, most profitable, bits, whilst sending our children off to fight in Iran, North Korea and Venezuela.
To Make America Great Again, and enrich the Military-Industrial complex—the “iron triangle” of profit.
SNP are HIGH in the polls—soooo…..guess what?
Federalism is on the cards again! And I have a bridge for sale………………The ghost of Alec Douglas-Home never rests!
johnrobertson834 May 12, 2019 / 3:32 pm
Brilliant. I’d watch that.
Alasdair Macdonald May 12, 2019 / 2:52 pm
There is a long piece about John Smith by Anthony Barnett on Open Democracy today. Professor Barnett’s location of Mr Smith’s politics is, as you have located him, on the centre right. However, he is much more charitable with regard to Mr Smith’s stance on human rights and about constitutional change.
With regard to Mr Smith defending one of those involved in the ‘Ice Cream Murders’, defence lawyers have to present cases for the most unpleasant of people, because it is a tenet of justice that people are innocent until proven guilty. In the recent ghastly murder of Alexa MacPhail, the trial judge made a point of complimenting the defence for presenting the case on behalf of the accused. The lawyer had received a lot of abuse.
With regard to Mr Smith’s friendship with Mr John Major, such friendships across party lines are not uncommon, and, it is surely in the interests of social cohesion that people of different political outlooks can engage at a human level. By many accounts, despite his political and economic stance, it was often reported that on a human level, Mr Major showed empathy. Shortly after he became PM, the left wing Labour MP, Mr Eric Heffer, who was dying, made a final appearance in Parliament, and sat on the back benches as he always did. After PM questions, Mr Major reentered the chamber and sat on the steps adjacent to Mr Heffer and engaged him in conversation. This was done quite unobtrusively and only became known when Mr Tony Benn drew it to the attention of others. When one witnesses the appalling conduct on the Tory benches today, Mr Major’s decency is worth applauding.
I started at university a little after John Smith had left. He had been one of a long line of formidable debaters at the University Union, which included people like Donald Dewar, Dickson Mabon, Menzies Campbell, Malcolm MacKenzie (Mrs Thatcher’s adviser on education, and one of my greatly admired tutors, when I was taking my Masters). The Union at that time was very much a ‘gentleman’s club’ – nae burdz! – and Mr Smith was, undoubtedly comfortable in that milieu. However, it was his belief that there should be a Scottish Parliament, that, despite the vacillation of Messrs Blair and Brown, that Donald ?Dewar delivered as Smith’s legacy. Had there not been the Parliament, I do not think we would have advanced the case for independence to where it is now. Probably, this would have been to the chagrin of Mr Smith, who believed in the UK, albeit differently configured.
I was working in Lanarkshire at the time of John Smith’s death, in the neighbouring constituency, and many of my colleagues lived in his constituency. They were sincerely moved at his early death.
His stance with regard to socialism, and social democracy did not overlap greatly with mine (and yours, I think!), but he believed in human rights, in the value of the European Union and the framework of rights and rules that it has. I think that there is a fair amount to commend him for.
Sti not sure about the psyche of a lawyer who defends a psycho.
Your reaction is one I always have to check myself for when I read of such horrifying cases. However, we need to have ‘due process’ in the interests of a civilised society.
A former pupil of mine was left severely disabled following the attack that became known as ‘The Ice Cream Murders’. However, in the subsequent trial a man was found guilty and served a fairly long time in prison before having the sentence quashed. He escaped from prison on several occasions, but always gave himself up after some headline grabbing demonstration, such as supergluing himself to the railings of Buckingham Palace. He had been branded a psychopath. We need someone to defend people who are accused so that the chances of a miscarriage are minimised.(Incidentally, I had educational connections with that family, too.)
I have just watched a DVD of ‘Twelve Angry Men’.
Brian Powell May 12, 2019 / 3:46 pm
One of Margaret Thatcher’s tasks as a chemist before she became something else, was to see how much air could be injected into ice cream before it collapsed, to make it look bigger.
Kezia does a similar job with a load of shite.
Legerwood May 12, 2019 / 7:44 pm
Alastair, I agree with you about everyone being entitled to a defence and so did the Scots Parliament in the 14th/15th century when the passed an Act entitled – ‘Guise as Ian puir man…’ The Act said that anyone who was tried and found guilty of a capital offence at the High Court but was not represented by a lawyer would have their sentence quashed. The Act also set up the post of Defender to the Poor who would act, unpaid, to provide legal representation for the puir man.
The post was abolished in 1965 when legal aid was introduced in the UK.
The last holder of the post was Iain Hamilton QC. It was still unpaid and his job was to arrange legal representation for those who could not afford it.
I remember reading about this many years ago on his blog.
Legerwood,
Thanks for this piece of information which is new to me and pleasantly reassuring to learn that for centuries concepts of equity and fairness have been enacted in the laws of Scotland.
twathater May 13, 2019 / 12:58 am
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MLB removes marijuana from 'drugs of abuse', to test major league players for opioids
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NEW YORK — Major League Baseball will remove marijuana from its list of banned substances and players who test positive for opioids, fentanyl, cocaine and synthetic THC under random drug tests will be referred for treatment before being disciplined, the league’s updated drug policy announced on Thursday.
The sweeping changes, which take effect from Spring Training in 2020, “favour a treatment-based approach to Drugs of Abuse”, according to the joint announcement from the MLB and its players’ union.
The updated policy comes months after the shock death of 27-year-old Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs, whose autopsy showed oxycodone, fentanyl and alcohol in his system.
Major League players were not randomly tested for drugs of abuse including opioids unless there was reasonable cause under the previous policy.
Today, @MLB and the @MLB_PLAYERS jointly announced significant changes to the Drug of Abuse provisions of the Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. pic.twitter.com/jIie1JDVAg
— MLB Communications (@MLB_PR) December 12, 2019
Commissioner Rob Manfred told reporters on Wednesday, prior to releasing the new policy, that Skaggs’ death was “was a motivating factor” in “addressing in the context of our industry what is really a societal problem in terms of opioids.”
Opioid misuse has grown to a “crisis” in the United States, according to the National Institutes of Health, with roughly 1.2 million people over the age of 12 estimated to have an opioid use disorder.
Kellyanne Conway, a senior counsellor to U.S. President Donald Trump, praised the updated policy in a written statement.
“We commend Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association for promoting treatment and recovery for those suffering from the disease of addiction and opioid misuse,” Conway said.
“We appreciate the example that a trusted and beloved American institution is setting for others.”
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Self-guided tour in the National Museum of Military History in Sofia
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Save time and book your entrance tickets in advance to the National Museum of Military History. Upon entry you can go straight to see the historic planes, tanks and artillery exhibits with a self-guided tour availble on your e-guide.
Established in 1916, at present time the National Museum of Military History preserves the national identity of Bulgarians as a part of European family. Here you can touch the richest Bulgarian state collections of weapons, uniforms, insignia, flags, military seals, photographs and experience the fascinating history of heroism, ideals and love in the greatest Bulgarian temple of immortality.
It preserves, processes scientifically and popularizes cultural valuables connected with the national and European military history. In it's nearly one hundred years of existence, the museum has collected almost a million items related to Bulgarian and European military history.
For its almost centennial presence in the cultural life, in the museum store are preserved and investigated more than 1 million artifacts witnesses of Bulgarian and European military history.
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Souvenir photos (available to purchase)
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Children aged (0-7): reduced
Cherkovna 92, Sofia 1505, Bulgaria
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Wednesdays to Sundays 10.00am to 6.00pm
Museum is closed all day Mondays and Tuesdays
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The Hotel Hershey
100 Hotel Road | Hershey, PA 17033-9507 [SEE MAP]Hershey, PA [SEE ADDRESS]
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The property is located just minutes from the Hersheypark theme park
Room rates are expensive here
Neighboring "The Sweetest Place on Earth," The Hotel Hershey caters to families and travelers in dire need of some choco-therapy. The rooms feature bold patterns, cozy beds (blanketed in Egyptian cotton linens), flat-screen TVs, coffee makers, lavish bath products and complimentary Wi-Fi access, but it's not only the spacious accommodations that have guests swooning. Adult visitors appreciate the kids club recreation program that keeps younger guests occupied when they aren't in Hersheypark, and they also love the on-site fitness center and abundant outdoor activities. Rather than chocolate, the Hershey Country Club (home to two 18-hole golf courses) and the on-site spa (with sweet treatment options like whipped cocoa or chocolate fondue baths) are the real treats. What's more, guests highly recommend dining at the one of the several on-site eateries. Though a stay here is expensive, complimentary amenities such as parking and transportation to local attractions lower the overall cost of your stay here.
Resort hotel, 276 rooms
Traditional, Opulent, Historic
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The Hotel Hershey sits on 300 acres of formal gardens, fountains and reflecting pools. Like the rest of the hotel, these lush grounds are groomed to mint condition, belying the fact that the resort dates back to 1933 and the vision of chocolate magnate Milton Hershey.
Outdoor activities include a pool complex, a ropes course and nature trails, while newer amenities include a falconry course and boutique-style shops.
Fodor's Choice
Built by Hershey during the Depression, he modeled it after one he had seen in the Mediterranean on one of his many trips abroad, complete with a Spanish patio, tiled floors, fountain and a circular dining room. Rose gardens were the focal point of the landscaped grounds around the hotel and they still thrive today.
A hotel's guest rating is calculated using data provided under license by TripAdvisor. A total of 2435 have reviewed the The Hotel Hershey, giving it a rating of 4.5, on a scale of 1-5.
The Hotel Hershey offers guest rooms, suites and private Woodside Cottages. The property's standard guest rooms feature upscale decor along with beds topped with goose-down duvets, pillows and Egyptian cotton linens. All rooms have flat-screen TVs with On Demand, single-cup coffee brewers and iPod alarm clocks. All bathrooms feature amenities from The Spa at The Hotel Hershey.
Standard room size: 220 square feet
Situated on 300 acres of rolling hills, The Hotel Hershey is a chocolate lover's paradise. Built in 1933 by chocolate magnate Milton S. Hershey, the hotel features Mediterranean-style architecture inspired by Hershey's trips to Europe. The family-friendly resort is less than 3 miles from Hersheypark, Hershey's Chocolate World and ZooAmerica.
Hotel provides complimentary shuttle service to Hershey attractions
Hotel guests receive priority access to Hersheypark and free admission to Hershey Gardens and The Hershey Story's Museum Experience
Located 12 miles northeast of Harrisburg International Airport
Airport and train shuttle service for an additional fee
The Hotel Hershey offers a variety of dining options, ranging in atmosphere from casual to upscale. The property's flagship restaurant, The Circular, features contemporary American flavors in a historically inspired setting overlooking the gardens. Harvest also offers American cuisine, incorporating local and regional ingredients, along with microbrews, cocktails and an American wine list. Trevi 5 is a modern Italian restaurant and the Iberian Lounge features a grand fireplace with signature chocolate cocktails and live entertainment. The Cocoa Beanery serves specialty coffee drinks, along with chocolate pastries and desserts.
Cuisine Types: Italian, American
The Hotel Hershey offers an indoor pool and a seasonal outdoor pool complex. The indoor pool is open year-round and includes a children's splash pad. The outdoor pool complex has a family pool with waterslides, a kiddie spray deck, and an adults-only infinity pool and whirlpool. The outdoor pool complex has cabana rentals along with a poolside food and beverage menu.
Indoor pool hours are 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Outdoor pool is open Memorial Day to Labor Day from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Several hot tubs
The Spa at the Hotel Hershey, also referred to as “The Chocolate Spa," specializes in cocoa-based treatments such as the whipped cocoa bath, the chocolate fondue wrap and the cocoa massage. Along with standard treatments, the 40,000-square-foot spa has soaking tubs, hydrotherapy baths, Vichy showers, inhalation and silent meditation rooms, a hair and nail salon and a spa boutique as well as The Oasis restaurant and lounge.
Teen and bridal services available
The property's seasonal kids club, The Cocoa Clubhouse, offers morning, afternoon and full-day sessions for children 5 and older, along with babysitting services for children younger than 5. Activities include sports and fitness, cookie making, art projects and trips to the butterfly garden. The hotel also offers a special kids check-in with a Hershey's candy game and a coupon for a chocolate treat. Plus, the indoor pool has a splash pad for kids, and the outdoor pool has two large slides and a kiddie spray deck.
Kids' Night Out evening session available for $60
Along with a standard fitness center, the Hotel Hershey offers complimentary fitness classes and a variety of recreational activities. Daily classes include yoga, Pilates and aquatic aerobics. On property, there are four paved fitness trails that range in distance from a quarter of a mile to 3 miles, as well as bike rentals, horseshoe pits, a putting golf course, bocce courts, shuffleboard, volleyball, tennis, basketball and croquet.
The Hotel Hershey boasts 25,000 square feet of event space for business meetings and conferences. The hotel's historic venue offers a blend of Old World decor with modern amenities such as Wi-Fi access and on-site audiovisual services. The property provides Conference Concierges to assist with business events, and it offers space for up to 450 attendees.
Team-building activities and events can be arranged
Guests of The Hotel Hershey have access to the Hershey Country Club with two private courses. The East Course is an 18-hole, par-71 course with lakes and more than 100 bunkers. The West Course is an 18-hole par-73 course with tree-lined fairways.
Guests also have access to the nine-hole Spring Creek Golf Course
The Hotel Hershey has a family-friendly, 18-hole all-grass putting course
Club rentals
Refreshment stand or restaurant
Caddie service
The Hotel Hershey offers indoor and outdoor venues for wedding ceremonies and receptions. The property's gardens and Mediterranean-style architecture provide unique spaces with arched windows, vintage chandeliers and crown molding. Outdoor ceremonies can be held in the formal gardens or the rock gardens.
Hotel can accommodate weddings with up to 250 guests
On-site catering available
Maximum wedding guest capacity: 250
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Tuam Mother & Baby Home
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The Mother & Baby Home or “The Home” was originally known as a workhouse (a place where those unable to support themselves were offered accommodation and employment). It was built in 1841 under the Irish Poor Laws. Like many other workhouses, it had been designed by Poor Law Commissioners' architect George Wilkinson to house up to 800 people. The workhouse opened in 1846, during the famine. The building had dormitories, an infirmary and an "idiot's ward". There were sheds built to house extra inmates and fever victims. A fever hospital was later constructed close by. After the Famine was over there was still extreme poverty in Ireland so the workhouse continued to house the poor and homeless for more than sixty years.
In 1916, British troops took over the workhouse evicted the occupants and turned it into a barracks. During the Civil War in 1923 there were eight IRA Volunteers executed at the workhouse. In later years when it was taken over by the nuns a monument was erected in their memory.
Between 2011 and 2013, Catherine Corless,a local historian from Tuam worked tirelessly researching the whereabouts of the children that was in the Tuam Mother & Baby Home. She paid €4 each time to get the publicly available death certificates of 796 children who died at the home at a total cost of €3,184 to her.
Over the 36-year period the average number of deaths was just over 22 a year. The youngest child to die at the institution was only 10 minutes and the oldest was 9½ years
Often up to two children per day were recorded as dying at the home, while on some dates, such as April 22nd, 1926, three deaths were recorded. Just over a week later on April 30th four deaths were recorded.
The information recorded on these State-issued certificates shows the children are marked as having died variously of tuberculosis, convulsions, measles, whooping cough, influenza, bronchitis and meningitis, among other illnesses.
The list below, compiled by Catherine Corless, lists the 796 children who died at the Tuam mother and baby home between 1925 and 1960 and 6 women who are also missing.
Patrick Derrane 5 months
Mary Blake 4 months
Matthew Griffin 3 months
Mary Kelly 6 months
Peter Lally 11 months
Julia Hynes 1 year
James Murray 1 month
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Home Users Are Some of the Most Hardcore PS3 Users Around, Says Sony
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Logan Westbrook
1 POSTED: 1 Jul 2011 08:01
Sony admits that the launch of Home could have gone better, but says the service is getting better all the time.
It's easy to dismiss Home on the PS3 as the domain of the casual gamer, but according to the services overseer, nothing could be further from the truth. Sony's Jack Buser says that the average Home user is actually way ahead of the curve when it comes using their PS3s.
Buser said that Home users were "rabid consumers of media and hardcore gamers," watching more movies and playing more games than the average non-user. Buser said that the service had around 20 million users, and the average session time in apparently around 70 minutes. People used it in different ways, he said, with some dipping in and out between games, and other literally spending hours and hours at a time in Home.
However, while Home is hardly a flop, Buser admitted that the launch could have gone better. When the service launched in 2008, there wasn't a great deal to do, and Buser thought that some people had been put off by that initial experience. Not only that, but Sony learned that just sticking a bunch of gamers in a virtual room together wasn't actually the best way to get them talking to each other.
"It seems obvious in retrospect, but it wasn't obvious back in 2008," he said. "We thought 'here, we'll build these rooms and we'll fill them with gamers and we'll theme these rooms after games and then people will self-select and talk to each other.' What we discovered very early on, even in closed beta ... we realized that gamers talk to each other and they meet each other in the context of playing games."
Buser was coy about whether or not Home actually made Sony any money however, only saying that microtransactions - which Home makes heavy use of - tended to be profitable due to their low cost and the level of traffic on the platform. The service isn't about to lose its "beta" tag any time soon either, as Buser said that it reflected Home's constantly evolving status.
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I still think it's crap. It took me about six minutes after downloading it to figure out that I would have a more fun social experience in a bar or a bowling alley.
Radelaide
"Yeah! Our users are more hard core than yours!"
Way to win a race that NO-ONE cares about.
DeadlyYellow
Black Watch:
You had to download it to figure that out?
For some reason reading this article gives me the vibe that he's referring to the "hardcore" crowd as the type whose only social life is through the internet.
DeadlyYellow:
Yea, well the guy blatantly comes off as a fluffer. He is probably just saying it to ease up on us in an effort to make us forget about the PSN outage.
Catchy Slogan
Can you brown nose any more Sony? I think I can see a little bit of bare skin.
Joking aside, Home has never appealed to me. If I wanted to talk to my friends, I would talk to them. Or go to thier actual house.
NezumiiroKitsune
Radelaide:
I think he's saying of the people who play PS3, the people who use Home are the more "hardcore" on average. Not that any self-respecting PS3 owner cares about that sort of thing either.
I haven't used Home in years, it takes an obscene amount of time to update each individual area, it's sterile, it's like playing the Sims without any life requirements and everything costs real money (and doesn't help in anyway)... it's just useless. The most interesting thing I did in it was make a maze out of free furniture in my room.
Mr Pantomime
I downloaded home once, made my guy and all that. They gave me an apartment with a whole bunch of furniture. So I made a fort that blocked off the door.
Maybe Home isnt a game, buta weird behavioural experiment.
AlternatePFG
If you spend money on it, you're pretty much paying them to advertise crap to you. I'm watching my little brother play it right now, it's such a scam.
Raddra
10 POSTED: 1 Jul 2011 08:55
I downloaded it a few months ago tried to make an avatar and disliked the options, so quit out and didn't look back. They had mohawk's but didn't have general long hair for males.
GeorgW
I tried home once. I could never get my avatar right and there was nothing to do. So nope, apparently not hardcore.
home just sounds like a g rated version of sl with only humies
Panayjon
For some reason I read that as Sony's Jack Bauer... and then I became very afraid to disagree with the man.
As to the subject at hand, I actually liked Home. I first tried it late last year but after fiddling around with it for a while I stopped caring and just deleted it altogether. Much like with SL the idea appeals to me but the execution and the community is lacking. If all of my friends weren't PC gamers and/or Xbros I might have actually done something with it. After all, I've sat down in the Xbox theater with pals before. That was pretty amusing.
Slavik_91
"Buser said that Home users were 'rabid consumers of media and hardcore gamers'"
well isn't that cute
Lord_Gremlin
Wrong. The most hardcore users all delete Home to use that extra 3 gb for even more PSN games and DLC.
PS Home. Rated P, for pussies.
mjc0961
Logan Westbrook:
However, while Home is hardly a flop, Buser admitted that the launch could have gone better. When the service launched in 2008, there wasn't a great deal to do, and Buser thought that some people had been put off by that initial experience.
Said as if there's a great deal to do in Home now. I downloaded it to look at the little E3 booth thing (which sucked BTW, just a bunch of low quality trailers you'd seen before with button prompts to view them that were quite picky about whether or not they actually wanted to work), and there was still fuck all to do. Maybe if the bubble machine still amuses you or you like extra crappy iPhone flash style games, but other than that I think this guy is blowing smoke up everyone's ass. All the "hardcores" would want nothing to do with Home because there is nothing for them there.
commasplice
I dunno. I mean, this whole thing is just flagrant promotion of a product that no one really cares about, but at the same time, it's much tamer and less corrosive than anything Kaz Hirai has ever said.
albinokid66
I saw the words 'Home users' and 'Hardcore gamers' in the same sentance and just started laughing
Ironic Pirate
Except he's also not running that race. Everyone always makes fun of Home, either they think it's only for casual gamers or like Second Life without flying penis attacks.
He's trying to do damage control, get people to try it, and such. I wouldn't be surprised if they're about to announce some new feature or something, drumming up interest.
NickCooley
THERE. IS. NOTHING. HARDCORE. ABOUT. GAMING!
Unless you game while rock climbing or sky diving or whilst in orbit or something, that would be pretty hardcore.
II2
If you strip away the buzz words and implications and such, it actually makes sense, more or less:
Home isn't (when I owned a ps3) a readily accessible or standout feature of the console. People who go digging into it and exploring their machines are indeed likely the sort to be inclined to use their console a lot.
Atheist.
An average session of 70 minutes makes you hardcore? Get the fuck out of here. Quadruple that and we'll talk.
NickCooley:
I'm pretty sure that kid in Asia that played a game at a LAN center until he literally died was hardcore.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=define%3Ahardcore
In case you don't decide to click the link, hardcore is defined as intensely loyal. What definition are you using? Or do you not even know what the word means?
Jumplion
I tried HOME a couple of times, and it was interesting, though it was heavy on the "nothing to do" side. It's an interesting application to use maybe 5 or 10 minutes at a time, but the constant downloading and redownloading of all the stupid rooms just made the whole thing extremely disjointed and artificial.
It's interesting, to say the least, and if implemented better I would like to go back, but I doubt I will.
Atmos Duality
Really? There are people that use that god-awful system?
I don't think "hardcore" was the word he was looking for: More like "Insane".
As in an insane tolerance for boredom.
What I recall of Home was an overloaded 3D chatroom with no real redeeming qualities.
Con Carne
I can see Home being used by stay at home moms. Ya know, when the kids are at school and the hubby is at work. It's like a digital Barbie experience (Being able to customize your avatar and a condo which most of us will never be able to afford.) with most of the same features as Facebook. Maybe the "hardcore" gamers are moms...
I tried Home once...for about five minutes. Then I decided I would rather play a game than mess with it.
Alphakirby
While Home isn't "hardcore" it still does have a lot of interesting things to play with...they just cost money. Things like The Odd Gentlemen's Slap Happy Sam's Stage Show and Sodium 1's Salt Shooter cost money but are definately worth the 2 to 5 dollars you pay for them. Plus they are usually tied to a nice item to wear or show off in your house that nobody is going to see anytime soon.
Donnyp
Someone out there does....actually i know there are many who do. But they are usually stupid so we just tell them to keep sniffing the paint. You know the people. The ones who say Farmville is casual and Wii is casual and anything none CoD is casual. Yeah...idiots.
OT: Hardcore. Just like the PSP...and DS....and Wii....and Potato Chips. Seriously who gives a fuck. It's something for people to do when they don't wanna game and have nothing better to do.
Saelune
The Home thing is debatable, but not so far fetched. But I give credit to Sony for actually giving some sense of humillity a chance. Its a nice change to the naive go stuff they are usually spewing.
Here's what I want to know: when did gaming switch to hardcore vs. casual mode? I mean, nowadays, we'd consider someone who plays Tetris or Pacman on their phone a "casual," right? Even if they spend 5+ hours a day playing those games exclusively. But could you really tell me that Billy Mitchell is a casual gamer?
Considering that most of my 'hard-core gaming teen-friends' do, I think it is a smart choice with that mindset. And who said they won?!
cthur
Nouw:
Yeah I didn't see any claim that Sony was winning anything, just that the average home users aren't really casual gamers... Is that a win in someway that I am just not understanding.
Anyway, I like Home. It needs more work definitely, but it's still pretty cool idea. I just wish there wasn't so much downloading and loading.
Sadly, the only people I know use Home are people who are too poor to be spending money on the service. Coincidentally, these are the same people who are pumped about Call of Duty Elite.
HydraMoon
I'm open to the idea of Home- there just wasn't anything to do. Also- I don't want to listen to kids that I didn't give birth to, walk around and act the donkey or Big Guy On The Playground. Honestly, I'm just too old for that and I won't put up with paying for a service where I get treated like crap on it and have no recourse for filtering beyond on/off switches. (I bought the PS3, I pay the internet bill to use it- so yes, I did pay for it.)
I'm not really their target demo though. I don't like online multiplayer at all, I'm too old and I still view the appropriate place to have a conversation online is on a message board. I'm a fogey I suppose.
I'd like it if the entire world of Home was the game and there were things to find or monsters to beat. Something where if I don't want to talk to anyone, I can have an overreaching narrative or goal. Even something like 'find ten blue orbs' would be fine. They had that in the Ratchet and Clank area and that was fun. Only took ten minutes but still fun- so why not make the hunt bigger than one room? Why not have random encounters in Home for a battle or game-related activity that relates to a new release or some such? Home is ok, it just needs a bit more UMPH.
Hardcore... huh. I wonder if 200 years ago there were people who were HARDCORE YARRR! board game players and felt the need to separate themselves off from the other gamers. Which board game would be hardcore and which casual? Was Parcheesi for wimps and all the cool kids played mancala? Were hardcore board games the ones with fire, a cannon and a woman of negotiable virtue?
culade
All the required downloading when you first start using it wears on your patience. I didn't care for it the first time i tried it. After i finally gave it more than a passing glance, i grew to like Home.
HydraMoon:
I don't want to listen to kids that I didn't give birth to, walk around and act the donkey or Big Guy On The Playground. Honestly, I'm just too old for that and I won't put up with paying for a service where I get treated like crap on it and have no recourse for filtering beyond on/off switches.
Really? I've never had that problem with the kids there; or maybe they do, and i'm just too old to pay them any attention. But i know you can report anyone who's being an ass along with the ignore feature.
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The Cassak Group on May 23, 2013 (L to R) - Matt Beidler, Colin Komar, Rob Baylor, Luke Shepherd, Paul Cassak
Cassak Group NEWS!
July, 2016 - Chris Doss named a finalist for the 2016 American Physical Society (APS) Leroy Apker Award!
July, 2016 - Colin Komar named as a winner of the 2016 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Space Physics and Aeronomy (SPA) Section's Basu United States Early Career Award For Research Excellence in Sun-Earth Systems Science!
June, 2016 - Colin Komar paper published in Journal of Geophysical Research.
April, 2016 - Chris Doss named one of 34 WVU Outstanding Seniors!
April, 2016 - Paul Cassak named Nath Outstanding Teacher for the WVU Honors College!
September, 2015 - Chris Doss paper published in Journal of Geophysical Research.
September, 2015 - Matthew Beidler earns his Ph.D.!
July, 2015 - Chris Doss earns second prize in the physical sciences division for best poster at the WVU Summer Undergraduate REsearch (SURE) Symposium!
June, 2015 - Paul Cassak wins a 2015 Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union for "significant contributions to the geophysical sciences by an outstanding early career scientist."
June, 2015 - Paul Cassak begins three year term on the Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM) Steering Committee
April, 2015 - Colin Komar earns his Ph.D.!
January, 2015 - Colin Komar paper published in Journal of Geophysical Research.
September, 2014 - Space Weather exhibit at the Children's Discovery Museum of West Virginia opens!
August, 2014 - Luke Shepherd earns his Ph.D.!
August, 2014 - Paul Cassak becomes a member of the AGU Space Physics and Aeronomy Advocacy Committee.
June, 2014 - Colin Komar awarded a Student Poster Award at the 2014 Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM) Workshop!
April, 2014 - Colin Komar awarded a NASA West Virginia Space Grant Consortium Graduate Research Fellowship.
September, 2013 - Luke Shepherd on paper published in Astrophysical Journal Letters.
August, 2013 - Colin Komar paper published in Journal of Geophysical Research.
July, 2013 - Ray Fermo joins group as a postdoctoral researcher.
June, 2013 - Colin Komar awarded Honorable Mention for Student Poster Award at the 2013 Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM) Workshop.
May, 2013 - Colin Komar wins a NASA Community Coordinated Modeling (CCMC) Student Research Contest, first prize for outstanding magnetospheric research using CCMC resources!
April, 2013 - Matt Beidler wins a Student Poster Award at the 2013 International Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference!
April, 2013 - Luke Shepherd awarded a Solar Physics Division (SPD) Studentship Award.
December, 2012 - Matt Beidler selected to attend the ITER International School 2012 in Gandhinagar, India.
October, 2012 - Luke Shepherd paper published in Journal of Geophysical Research.
July, 2012 - Matt Beidler selected to attend the 62nd Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany.
June, 2012 - Paul Cassak gives Plenary Talk at the 2012 Geospace Environmental Modeling (GEM) Workshop.
May, 2012 - Rob Baylor accepted to attend 2012 Heliophysics Summer School.
April, 2012 - Matt Beidler gives an Invited Talk at the 2012 International Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference!
April, 2012 - Paul Cassak wins 2012 Outstanding Researcher Award from WVU's Eberly College of Arts and Sciences.
December, 2011 - Matt Beidler paper published in Physical Review Letters!
July, 2011 - Rob Baylor paper published in Astrophysical Journal.
August, 2010 - Paul Cassak receives NSF CAREER Award grant.
July, 2010 - Luke Shepherd paper published in Physical Review Letters!
August, 2009 - Paul Cassak gives Plenary Talk at the 2009 Solar, Heliospheric and Interplanetary Environment (SHINE) Conference.
December, 2008 - Paul Cassak wins Fred L. Scarf Award from the Space Physics and Aeronomy (SPA) section of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) for outstanding dissertation research in solar-planetary science.
Cassak Group Research Areas
Theoretical and Computational Plasma Physics
Space Physics
Stellar Physics
Specific Areas of Interest
Magnetic Reconnection
Magnetic Energy Storage and Transport
Current Group Members
Paul Cassak
Cassak Website
Milton Arencibia
Past Group Members
Rob Baylor
Beidler Website
Chris Doss
Undergraduate Student
Ray Fermo
"Local properties of magnetic reconnection in nonlinear resistive- and extended-magnetohydrodynamic toroidal simulations of the sawtooth crash",
M. T. Beidler, P. A. Cassak, S. Jardin, and N. Ferraro
Plasma Phys. Control Fusion, 59, 025007(2017), PDF Version
"Observations of Hall reconnection physics far downstream of the X-line",
R. Mistry, J. P. Eastwood, C. C. Haggerty, M. A. Shay, T. D. Phan, H. Hietala, and P. A. Cassak
Phys. Rev. Lett., 117, 185102 (2016), PDF Version
"Spacecraft observations and analytic theory of crescent-shaped electron distributions in asymmetric magnetic reconnection",
J. Egedal, A. Le, W. Daughton, B. Wetherton, P. A. Cassak, L.-J Chen, B. Lavraud, R. B. Torbert, J. Dorelli, D. J. Gershman, and L. A. Avanov
"Ion Larmor Radius Effects near a Reconnection X-line at the Magnetopause: THEMIS Observations and Simulation Comparison",
T. D. Phan, M. A. Shay, C. C. Haggerty, J. T. Gosling, J. P. Eastwood, M. Fujimoto, K. Malakit, F. S. Mozer, P. A. Cassak, M. Oieroset and V. Angelopoulos
Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 8844 (2016), PDF Version
"Stable Reconnection at the Dusk Flank Magnetopause",
R. G. Gomez, S. K. Vines, S. A. Fuselier, P. A. Cassak, R. J. Strangeway, S. M. Petrinec, J. L. Burch, K. J. Trattner, C. T. Russell, R. B. Torbert, C. Pollock, D. T. Young, and W. S. Lewis
"Particle-in-cell simulation study of the scaling of asymmetric magnetic reconnection with in-plane flow shear",
C. E. Doss, P. A. Cassak, and M. Swisdak
Phys. Plasmas, 23, 082107 (2016), PDF Version
"MMS observations of electron-scale filamentary currents in the reconnection exhaust and near the X-line",
T. D. Phan, J. P. Eastwood, P. A. Cassak, M. Oieroset, J. T. Gosling, D. J. Gershman, F. S. Mozer, M. A. Shay, M. Fujimoto, W. Daughton, J. F. Drake, J. L. Burch, R. B. Torbert, R. E. Ergun, L. J. Chen, S. Wang, C. Pollock, J. C. Dorelli, B. Lavraud, B. L. Giles, T. E. Moore, Y. Saito, L. A. Avanov, W. Paterson, R. J. Strangeway, C. T. Russell, Y. Khotyaintsev, P. A. Lindqvist, M. Oka, and F. D. Wilder
"The Effects of Turbulence on Three-Dimensional Magnetic Reconnection at the Magnetopause",
L. Price, M. Swisdak, J. F. Drake, P. A. Cassak, J. T. Dahlin, and R. E. Ergun
"Magnetospheric Multiscale Observations of Large-Amplitude, Parallel, Electrostatic Waves Associated with Magnetic Reconnection at the Magnetopause",
R. E. Ergun, J. C. Holmes, K. A. Goodrich, F. D. Wilder, J. E Stawarz, S. Eriksson, D. L. Newman, S. J. Schwartz, M. V. Goldman, A. P. Sturner, D. M. Malaspina, M. E. Usanova, R. B. Torbert, M. Argall, P.-A. Lindqvist, Y. Khotyaintsev, J. L. Burch, R. J. Strangeway, C. T. Russell, C. J. Pollock, B. L. Giles, J. J. C. Dorelli, L. Avanov, M. Hesse, L. J. Chen, B. Lavraud, O. Le Contel, A. Retino, T. D. Phan, J. P. Eastwood, M. Oieroset, J. Drake, M. A. Shay, P. A. Cassak, R. Nakamura, M. Zhou, M. Ashour-Abdalla, M. Andre
"MMS Observations of Parallel Electric Fields Associated with Magnetic Reconnection",
R. E. Ergun, K. A. Goodrich, F. D. Wilder, J. C. Holmes, J. E. Stawarz, S. Eriksson, A. P. Sturner, D. M. Malaspina, M. E. Usanova, R. B. Torbert, P.-A. Lindqvist, Y. Khotyaintsev, J. L. Burch, R. J. Strangeway, C. T. Russell, C. J. Pollock, B. L. Giles, M. Hesse, L. J. Chen, G. Lapenta, M. V. Goldman, D. L. Newman, S. J. Schwartz, J. P. Eastwood, T. D. Phan, F. S. Mozer, J. Drake, M. A. Shay, P. A. Cassak, R. Nakamura, and G. Marklund
"Magnetospheric Multiscale Observations of the Electron Diffusion Region of Large Guide Field Magnetic Reconnection",
S. Eriksson, F. D. Wilder, R. E. Ergun, S. J. Schwartz, P. A. Cassak, J. L. Burch, L.-J. Chen, R. B. Torbert, T. D. Phan, B. Lavraud, K. A. Goodrich, J. C. Holmes, J. E. Stawarz, A. P. Sturner, D. M. Malaspina, M. E. Usanova, K. J. Trattner, R. J. Strangeway, C. T. Russell, C. J. Pollock, B. L. Giles, M. Hesse, P.-A. Lindqvist, J. F. Drake, M. A. Shay, R. Nakamura, and G. T. Marklund
"The local dayside reconnection rate for oblique interplanetary magnetic fields",
C. M. Komar and P. A. Cassak
J. Geophys. Res., 121, 5105 (2016), PDF Version
"Electron-Scale Measurements of Magnetic Reconnection in Space",
J. L. Burch, R. B. Torbert, T. D. Phan, L.-J. Chen, T. E. Moore, R. E. Ergun, J. P. Eastwood, D. J. Gershman, P. A. Cassak, M. R. Argall, S. Wang, M. Hesse, C. J. Pollock, B. L. Giles, R. Nakamura, B. H. Mauk, S. A. Fuselier, C. T. Russell, R. J. Strangeway, J. F. Drake, M. A. Shay, Yu. V. Khotyaintsev, P.-A. Lindqvist, G. Marklund, F. D. Wilder, D. T. Young, K. Torkar, J. Goldstein, J. C. Dorelli, L. A. Avanov, M. Oka, D. N. Baker, A. N. Jaynes, K. A. Goodrich, I. J. Cohen, D. L. Turner, J. F. Fennell, J. B. Blake, J. Clemmons, M. Goldman, D. Newman, S. M. Petrinec, K. J. Trattner, B. Lavraud, P. H. Reiff, W. Baumjohann, W. Magnes, M. Steller, W. Lewis, Y. Saito, V. Coffey and M. Chandler
Science, 352, 6290 (2016), PDF Version
"Ion-scale secondary flux-ropes generated by magnetopause reconnection as resolved by MMS",
J. P. Eastwood, T. D. Phan, P. A. Cassak, D. J. Gershman, C. Haggerty, K. Malakit, M. A. Shay, R. Mistry, M. Oieroset, C. T. Russell, J. A. Slavin, M. R. Argall, L. A. Avanov, J. L. Burch, L. J. Chen, J. C. Dorelli, R. E. Ergun, B. L. Giles, Y. Khotyaintsev, B. Lavraud, P. A. Lindqvist, T. E. Moore, R. Nakamura, W. Paterson, C. Pollock, R. J. Strangeway, R. B. Torbert, and S. Wang
"Kinetic signatures of the region surrounding the X-line in asymmetric (magnetopause) reconnection",
M. A. Shay, T. D. Phan, C. C. Haggerty, M. Fujimoto, J. F. Drake, K. Malakit, P. A. Cassak, and M. Swisdak
"MMS observation of Hall currents and associated electron scattering and bouncing near the diffusion region at Earth’s magnetopause",
B. Lavraud, Y. C. Zhang, Y. Vernisse, D. J. Gershman, J. Dorelli, P. A. Cassak, J. Dargent, C. Pollock, B. Giles, N. Aunai, M. Argall, L. Avanov, A. Barrie, J. Burch, M. Chandler, L.-J. Chen, G. Clark, I. Cohen, V. Coffey, J. P. Eastwood, J. Egedal, S. Eriksson, R. Ergun, C. J. Farrugia, S. A. Fuselier, V. Genot, D. Graham, E. Grigorenko, H. Hasegawa, C. Jacquey, I. Kacem, Y. Khotyaintsev, E. MacDonald, W. Magnes, A. Marchaudon, B. Mauk, T. E. Moore, T. Mukai, R. Nakamura, W. Paterson, E. Penou, T. D. Phan, A. Rager, A. Retino, Z. J. Rong, C. T. Russell, Y. Saito, J.-A. Sauvaud, S. J. Schwartz, C. Shen, S. Smith, R. Strangeway, S. Toledo-Redondo, R. Torbert, D. L. Turner, S. Wang, and S. Yokota
"Subsolar Magnetopause Observation and Kinetic Simulation of a Tripolar Guide-Magnetic Field Perturbation Consistent with a Magnetic Island",
S. Eriksson, P. A. Cassak, A. Retino, and F. Mozer, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 3035 (2016), PDF Version
"Theory and Modeling for the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission",
M. Hesse, N. Aunai, J. Birn, P. Cassak, R. E. Denton, J. F. Drake, T. Gombosi, M. Hoshino, W. Matthaeus, D. Sibeck, and S. Zenitani,
Space Sci. Rev., 199 ,557, 2016, PDF Version
"Inside the Black Box - Magnetic Reconnection and the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) Mission (Featured Article)",
P. A. Cassak, Space Weather, 14, 186 (2016) (Open Access), PDF Version
"Magnetospheric ion influence on magnetic reconnection at the duskside magnetopause",
S. A. Fuselier, J. L. Burch, P. A. Cassak, J. Goldstein, R. G. Gomez, K. Goodrich, W. S. Lewis, D. Malaspina, J. Mukherjee, R. Nakamura, S. M. Petrinec, C. T. Russell, R. J. Strangeway, R. B. Torbert, K. J. Trattner, P. Valek, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 1435 (2016), PDF Version
"Separator Reconnection at the Magnetopause for Predominantly Northward and Southward IMF: techniques and results",
A. Glocer, J. Dorelli, G. Toth, C. M. Komar, and P. A. Cassak, J. Geophys. Res., 120, 140 (2016), PDF Version
"Asymmetric magnetic reconnection with a flow shear and applications to the magnetopause",
C. E. Doss, C. M. Komar, P. A. Cassak, F. D. Wilder, S. Eriksson, and J. F. Drake,
J. Geophys. Res., 120, 7748, 2015, PDF Version
"Fast Magnetic Reconnection Due to Anisotropic Electron Pressure",
P. A. Cassak, R. N. Baylor, R. L. Fermo, M. T. Beidler, M. A. Shay, M. Swisdak, J. F. Drake, and H. Karimabadi,
Phys. Plasmas, 22, 020705, 2015, PDF Version
"Comparative analysis of dayside magnetic reconnection models in global magnetosphere simulations",
C. M. Komar, R. L. Fermo, and P. A. Cassak,
J. Geophys. Res., 120, 276, 2015, PDF Version
"Observation of a Retreating X-Line and Magnetic Islands Poleward of the Cusp During Northward Interplanetary Magnetic Field Conditions",
F. D. Wilder, S. Eriksson, K. J. Trattner, P. A. Cassak, S. A. Fuselier and B. Lybekk,
"Electron Heating During Magnetic Reconnection: A Simulation Scaling Study",
M. A. Shay, C. C. Haggerty, T. D. Phan, J. F. Drake, P. A. Cassak, P. Wu, M. Oieroset, M. Swisdak, and K. Malakit,
"On the 3-D structure and dissipation of reconnection-driven flow-bursts",
J. F. Drake, M. Swisdak, P. A. Cassak, and T.-D. Phan,
Geophys. Rev. Lett, 41, 3710, 2014, PDF Version
"A New Electric Field in Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection",
K. Malakit, M. A. Shay, P. A. Cassak and D. Ruffolo,
Phys. Rev. Lett, 111, 135001, 2013, PDF Version
"On the Cause of Supra-Arcade Downflows in Solar Flares",
P. A. Cassak, J. F. Drake, J. T. Gosling, T.-D. Phan, M. A. Shay, and L. S. Shepherd,
Ap. J. Lett., 775, L14, 2013, PDF Version
"Tracing magnetic separators and their dependence on IMF clock angle in global magnetospheric simulations",
C. M. Komar, P. A. Cassak, J. C. Dorelli, A. Glocer and M. M. Kuznetsova,
"Spontaneous Ion Beam Formation in the Laboratory, Space, and Simulation",
J. Carr Jr., P. A. Cassak, M. Galante, A. M. Keesee, G. Lusk, R. M. Magee, D. McCarren, E. E. Scime, S. Sears, R. Vandervort, N. Gulbrandsen, M. Goldman, D. Newman and J. P. Eastwood,
"On Phase Diagrams of Magnetic Reconnection",
P. A. Cassak and J. F. Drake,
"Magnetic Reconnection for Coronal Conditions: Reconnection Rates, Secondary Islands and Onset",
P. A. Cassak and M. A. Shay,
Space. Sci. Rev., 172, 283, 2012, PDF Version
"Guide Field Dependence of 3D X-line Spreading During Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection",
L. S. Shepherd and P. A. Cassak,
J. Geophys. Res., 117, A10101, 2012, PDF Version
"Reconnection events in two-dimensional Hall magnetohydrodynamic turbulence",
S. Donato, S. Servidio, P. Dmitruk, V. Carbone, M. A. Shay, P. A. Cassak, and W. H. Matthaeus,
"Model for Incomplete Reconnection in Sawtooth Crashes",
M. T. Beidler and P. A. Cassak,
Phys. Rev. Lett., 107, 255002, 2011, PDF Version
"Magnetic reconnection as an element of turbulence",
S. Servidio, P. Dmitruk, A. Greco, M. Wan, S. Donato, P. A. Cassak, M. A. Shay, V. Carbone, and W. H. Matthaeus,
Nonlin. Processes Geophys., 18, 675, 2011, PDF Version
"Theory and Simulations of the Scaling of Magnetic Reconnection with Symmetric Shear Flow",
P. A. Cassak,
"Scaling of the Magnetic Reconnection Rate with Symmetric Shear Flow",
P. A. Cassak and A. Otto,
"Estimates of Densities and Filling Factors from a Cooling Time Analysis of Solar Microflares Observed with RHESSI",
R. N. Baylor, P. A. Cassak, S. Christe, I. G. Hannah, Sam Krucker, D. J. Mullan, M. A. Shay, H. S. Hudson, and R. P. Lin,
Ap. J., 736, 75, 2011, PDF Version
Space Sci. Rev., doi:10.1007/s11212-001-9755-2, PDF Version
"Three-dimensional simulations of the orientation and structure of reconnection X-lines",
R. Schreier, M. Swisdak, J. F. Drake, and P. A. Cassak,
"Scaling of asymmetric magnetic reconnection: Kinetic particle-in-cell simulations",
K. Malakit, M. A. Shay, P. A. Cassak, and C. Bard,
"Magnetic Reconnection with Asymmetry in the Outflow Direction",
N. A. Murphy, C. R. Sovinec, and P. A. Cassak,
"Comparison of secondary islands in collisional reconnection to Hall reconnection",
"A saddle-node bifurcation model of magnetic reconnection onset",
P. A. Cassak, M. A. Shay, and J. F. Drake,
"Statistics of Magnetic Reconnection in Two-Dimensional Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence",
S. Servidio, W. H. Matthaeus, M. A. Shay, P. Dmitruk, P. A. Cassak, and M. Wan,
"Scaling of Sweet-Parker Reconnection with Secondary Islands",
"The Impact of Microscopic Magnetic Reconnection on Pre-Flare Energy Storage",
Ap. J. Lett., 707, L158, 2009, PDF Version
"A magnetic reconnection mechanism for ion acceleration and abundance enhancement in impulsive flares",
J. F. Drake, P. A. Cassak, M. A. Shay, M. Swisdak, and E. Quataert,
"Ion Heating Resulting from Pickup in Magnetic Reconnection Exhausts",
J. F. Drake, M. Swisdak, T. D. Phan, P. A. Cassak, M. A. Shay, S. Lepri, R. P. Lin, E. Quataert and T. H. Zurbuchen,
"The Hall effect in magnetic reconnection: Hybrid vs. Hall-less hybrid simulations",
K. Malakit, M. A. Shay, P. A. Cassak and J. F. Drake,
Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L07107, 2009, PDF Version
"Kinetic dissipation and anisotropic heating in a turbulent collisionless plasma",
T. N. Parashar, M. A. Shay, P. A. Cassak and W. H. Matthaeus,
"Structure of the Dissipation Region in Fluid Simulations of Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection",
"Magnetic Reconnection in Two-Dimensional Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence",
S. Servidio, W. H. Matthaeus, M. A. Shay, P. A. Cassak and P. Dmitruk,
"The Scaling of Asymmetric Hall Reconnection",
"From Solar and Stellar Flares to Coronal Heating: Theory and Observations of How Magnetic Reconnection Regulates Coronal Conditions"
P. A. Cassak, D. J. Mullan and M. A. Shay,
Ap. J. Lett., 676, L69-L72, 2008, March 20, PDF Version
"Scaling of Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection: General Theory and Collisional Simulations"
"Onset of Fast Magnetic Reconnection"
P. A. Cassak, J. F. Drake, M. A. Shay and B. Eckhardt,
Phys. Rev. Lett., 98, 215001 (2007), PDF Version
"Catastrophic Onset of Fast Magnetic Reconnection with a Guide Field,"
P. A. Cassak, J. F. Drake, and M. A. Shay
"A Model for Spontaneous Onset of Fast Magnetic Reconnection,"
P. A. Cassak, J. F. Drake, and M. A. Shay,
Ap. J., 644, L145-L148, 2006 June 20, PDF Version
"Catastrophe Model for Fast Magnetic Reconnection Onset,"
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Novel Diapositive Images
with Cerium Reversal Bleach
Harvey W. Yurow Ph.D.
One of the last holdouts of analog photography is the black-and-white reversal process used to produce diapositives. It behooves experimenters of chemical based photography to examine this process in detail as source material for unique results - more specifically, as regards the bleaching agent employed to remove the initial negative image. In previous papers it was reported that with insufficient second exposures, reversal black-and-white processing produced diapositives with partial positive, partial negative equidensity images (Capstaff, Verkinderen, Yurow 2014).This phenomenon, known as re-reversal, can be traced to differential desensitization by the silver bleaching bath of remaining silver bromide used to produce the final positive image. With permanganate bleach, internal image desensitization is involved, while with dichromate, surface desensitization occurs. The result with these bleaches is that shadow areas appear as low density, with flat contrast, and are quite grainy. In addition, thin, dark contour lines appear at borders between shadows and either middle tones or highlights.
In addition to permanganate and dichromate, a number of other bleach oxidizing agents, such as benzoquinone, cerate, and persulfate, have been reported for reversal procedures (Lumiere). In this paper, investigation was made of ceric sulfate, with regard to the phenomenon of re-reversal. As will be described below, the results obtained are novel.
Background: Ceric ammonium sulfate (as an analytical oxidant) was first reported in 1861 by Lange (Kolthoff and Sandell). It is always used in strong acid solution, because ceric hydroxide is a weak base insoluble in water. An early application of cerium in photography was for a cerate silver bleach around 1900 in reports by the Lumiere brothers and Seyewetz. Primarily employed for reduction of dense negatives and prints, photographers utilized a solution of ceric sulfate in sulfuric acid. The mixture was extolled by Marsh and by Lea, who indicated that the concentrated solution (10%) keeps indefinitely, is usually diluted 1:10 for use, and that reduction increases contrast, which is much greater in the shadows than in the denser part of the image. In 1929, Seyewetz suggested the use of ceric sulfate for film reversal in hot climates, because of the resulting hardening of gelatin in the bleach (Clerc). In this connection, tetravalent cerium is a known gelatin hardening agent (Mees).
Also reported, because of its photosensitivity, cerate ion in gelatinized paper is reduced upon exposure to light under a positive to yield cerous ion. Treatment of the paper with an aromatic amine, such as aniline, in the presence of unreacted cerate, produces a colored dye (Jones).
A detailed reference to ceric sulfate for film reversal was given by Glafkides, who wrote that ceric sulfate acted uniformly on the silver image, while permanganate and dichromate bleaches reacted mainly in the layer in the dense parts of the image. The author indicated that the bleach was made from 10g of ceric sulfate and 4cc of concentrated sulfuric acid per 1000cc of water, but had the disadvantage of being more costly than other bleaches. This formulation was derived from the commercial stock solution of the original Lumiere reducer, with its ceric sulfate concentration of 100g/l (Anon). As regards the relevant equation involved, Glafkides erroneously wrote that Ce3+ was reduced to Ce2+, but this should actually be Ce4+ to Ce3+. Haist made the same mistake in his text. The corrected equation is:
2H2Ce(SO4)3 +2Ag = Ag2SO4 +Ce2(SO4)3 + 2H2SO4
Additional references comment on the relatively slow reactivity of cerate when compared to permanganate and dichromate, although all three have similar high oxidation potentials (Salzberg, Mees). This factor is suspected in being significant in the unusual results obtained with ceric sulfate as described below. By way of explanation, Paulenova indicated that in dilute sulfuric acid, ceric ion is almost completely present as Ce(SO4)32- (the acid H2Ce(SO4)3 is orange), while colorless cerous ion is approximately half-complexed as Ce(SO4)+. Thus, the ceric ion is more strongly bonded to sulfate ion than is the cerous ion. Consequently, the ceric to cerous reaction is slow because of especially large structural changes associated with conversions between ionic sulfate complexes of the two species. In this connection, dissolving ceric sulfate in dilute sulfuric acid forms both H2Ce(SO4)3 (orange) and H4Ce(SO4)4 (English-red), which forms the commercial salt (NH4)4Ce(SO4)4 2H2O and a number of other ceric acids. Paulenova's solubility value for ceric sulfate tetrahydrate in 1M sulfuric acid at 20° C is 0.4M.
Shibaoka and Hayashi described rapid reversal processing of microfilm with ceric sulfate bleach and trace amounts of aminothiol catalysts such as cysteine or thiourea, added to the first developer stop bath, because of the slow bleaching speed for silver of ceric sulfate alone. The authors also indicated that a cerium salt is a preferred bleaching agent for black and white films because it does not present pollution problems – i.e., is less harmful to animals and plants.
Experimental: As indicated above, cerate compounds are considerably more expensive than are dichromate or permanganate salts. A recommended supplier is Antec Inc. in Louisville, Ky where anhydrous ceric sulfate (99%) is currently available at $65 for 100g including shipping.
In the table below, as referenced from the literature, are five commonly encountered cerate solutions considered for the experiments:
Table 1. Cerium Solutions Reported
Cerium Salt
Kolthoff & Sandell
Ammonium ceric sulfate
0.1N 63g/l
30cc/l
Analytical oxidant
Ceric sulfate tetrahydrate
0.24N 100 g/l
40 cc/l
Print reduction
Kodak R-20
Ceric sulfate anh.
0.2N 67 g/l
Dot etching solution
Glafkides
0.02N 10 g/l
Film reversal
Shibaoka
Ceric sulfate
0.125N 50 g/l
8 g (4.5cc)/l
In all of the above, except for the dot etching solution, sulfuric acid is added to water prior to addition of the ceric salt, in order to prevent the precipitation of basic ceric sulfates. The preparation of the dot etching solution is rather unconventional (NIIR Board)! To 67g of anhydrous ceric sulfate in a beaker is added 28cc of concentrated sulfuric acid with thorough mixing, followed by 30cc of water (spattering!). The mixture is heated and more water added in small amounts until the solid is completely dissolved, and the orange yellow solution becomes clear. The mixture is then made up with water to 1000cc.
In initial and all subsequent experiments, the author used a modified Glafkides formulation from the above Table, with anhydrous ceric sulfate substituted for the tetrahydrate at 10g/l and sodium bisulfate substituted for sulfuric acid at 50g/l (Bowler, Clerc). With actual usage, the solution becomes cloudy, with residue slowly settling, and its removal by decantation or by filtration previous to subsequent usage. Substitution of ceric ammonium sulfate for ceric sulfate at an equivalent concentration of 20g/l produced less satisfactory results, with weaker blue and brown tones.
In initial experiments with exposed Kodak T-Max 100 film, bleach removal of silver negative image was quite slow - in excess of 20 minutes reaction time, resulting from slow redox kinetics, as compared to 5 minutes or less for permanganate or for dichromate bleach. To speed up bleaching, following the work of Shibaoka and Hayashi, use of a first developer stop bath of acetic acid containing a small amount of catalyst such as thiourea (see below), considerably enhanced bleaching kinetics, but even at 10 minutes left a noticeably visible negative image, which did not interfere significantly with appearance of the positive. Unexpectedly, it was discovered that no second exposure was required to give satisfactory diapositives, in marked contrast to permanganate or to dichromate bleaching. An explanation for this behavior is that thiourea survived the cerate bleach and produced a modified Waterhouse Effect in the second developer, where formation of silver sulfide initiated development without second light exposure (see Discussion).
Color renditions for various landscape objects of differing luminances with conventional Waterhouse (thiourea added to negative developer), and with the cerate-thiourea catalyst procedure with thiourea present in second development of a reversal process, are as follows:
Table 2. Landscape Renditions
Cerium Rendition
Waterhouse Rendition
High luminance objects in sunlight
Light to medium blue (positive)
Dark blue (negative)
Moderate luminance objects in sunlight
Pale blue to white (positive)
Medium blue (negative)
Low luminance objects in sunlight
Medium brown (re-reversal)
Medium brown (positive)
Objects in deep shade
Dark brown (positive)
Results from the above table, depending upon the degree of object luminance, are the combination of three separate processes, normal reversal, re-reversal, and the Waterhouse “thiourea blue” effect. This complex mechanism brings to mind Marshall McLuhan's comment on “startling changes resulting from new hybrids and crossings of media” (Yurow 2011).
Of unusual visual appearance, high luminance objects in sunlight often posses a “spectral” quality, especially with structures having ornate facades.
With regard to a visual comparison of the two equidensity procedures of interest , the Waterhouse technique frequently has an overall transmission of 5-7% and can be considered as dark (Milner) and more usually resembles a negative, while the cerate rendition in this study often results in a slide with approximately 20% transmission (brilliant) and is more like a positive.
In connection with high luminance landscape objects, a number of photometric values have appeared in the literature (Adams, Encyclopedia of Colour Photography, James, Mack & Martin, Mees), and are given in the table below. Values reported in candles/ft. square have been converted to the metric value of millilamberts by a 3.38 multiplication factor. These subjects translate into lighter shades of blue as luminance values decrease, through off-white, and eventually into brown tones.
Table 3. Subjects Giving Blue Tones with Cerium-Thiourea Procedure
Subject in Sunlight
Luminance in Millilamberts (Approx.)
Bright white painted wood, marble bldg, sculpture
Sky - mid-altitude
Figures with light skin
Bright white painted wood - open shade
Concrete or granite structures
Most of the above in open shade (ca ¼ of the luminance in sunlight) will reproduce as off-white or tan to medium brown, while if in deep shade, will appear as dark brown. Some of the former may exhibit re-reversal, i.e. giving flat, featureless and grainy moderate luminance areas, which are quite noticeable, e,g., tree canopies, unpainted aged wood.
Applicability of the cerate bleach re-reversal technique to esthetically pleasing landscape photography requires considerable visualization (Adams). Although this method usually favors “high key” landscape renditions, significant shadow areas (dark brown) should be present to give balance to the image. High luminance objects in sunlight, with intricate surfaces casting local shadow areas, illuminated only by skylight, such as sculptures or building facades, can give the diapositives a novel appearance, exhibiting a blue tone with a myriad of fine white contour lines. When blue areas border brown areas, contour lines result from lateral diffusion of inhibiting bromide ion.
In Munsell color terms, shadows are rendered as ISCC-NBS color #47 – dark grayish red Brown, and highlights as ISCC-NBS #185 Blue (Manual).
The actual reversal process used for T-Max 100, following a sunlit outdoor exposure with a Wratten #25 red filter of 1/125sec at f5.6, is as follows at 20-22 C.
First Developer
Kodak D-19 + potassium thiocyanate 5g/l
Catalytic stop bath
1% acetic acid + thiourea 0.8g/l, single use
ceric sulfate anh. 10 g/l +sodium bisulfate 50 g/l
Clearing bath
sodium sulfite 25 g/l
Second developer
Kodak D-97
dilute acetic acid
Kodak F-5
Wash saver
Kodak, sodium sulfite + sodium bisulfite
Final rinse
Kodak Photo Flo in distilled water
Discussion: The elimination of any second exposure requirement with cerate bleach in the reversal process, which simplifies the procedure, is explained as follows. Assume, as also the case with dichromate bleaching, that the elimination of the sensitivity specks at the surface of the still unexposed silver halide crystals makes them almost insensitive to light (Kowaliski). Here, the Waterhouse effect comes into play, when thiourea with residual silver bromide forms silver sulfide in the second developer's basic solution to give silver sulfide specks which can act as developer initiators without the need of light (Yurow 2000). For this reaction to occur, it is required that thiourea or its silver bromide-thiourea complex survive in significant amounts attack by the oxidizing cerate bleach. This result seems plausible, because of the relatively slow oxidation kinetics of cerate ion as compared to those for permanganate and dichromate. In this connection, it was found that with too short a cerate bleach, i.e., 5 minutes, the significant amount of remaining negative image results in high fog and a dense diapositive. Conversely, too long a bleaching period , i.e., 15 minutes, oxidizes most of the thiourea complex, resulting in a brown diapositive lacking those blue highlights characteristic of the Waterhouse Effect (Yurow 2000). Consequently, 10 minutes bleaching time appears to be optimum.
A batch of cerate bleach on second use, as compared to a freshly prepared sample, gives considerably deeper blue highlights, which may be related to the the significantly higher concentration of cerous ion present, which would slow oxidation kinetics.
As regards outdoor first exposure, tonal results will vary considerably in the range 1/125 sec at f4, f5.6 and f8. Longer exposures will give a predominance of blue highlights over brown middle tones and shadows, while with shorter exposures, the opposite is true.
Reversal processing of B&W slides with permanganate or dichromate bleach with insufficient second exposure can result in re-reversal, with shadows appearing as flat and granular as a result of differential desensitization. With cerate bleach, the object of this investigation, Waterhouse reversal is involved, with elimination of a second exposure requirement. With the customary Waterhouse reversal (Yurow 2000), only one developer, containing thiourea and the absence of any potassium bromide, is involved. Waterhouse reversal in conjunction with cerate bleaching involves the presence of thiourea in the stop bath after first development to catalyze the bleaching step, some of which carries over into a second developer which does contain potassium bromide. The result here is re-reversal of middle tones that reproduce as flat and granular. While the appearance of slides with customary Waterhouse are often dense and low key, for those with the cerate procedure, high key renditions frequently predominate. Although the mechanism of the former is well known, that for the latter seems to be complicated and will require further investigation.
Middle tone re-reversals with cerate bleach and thiourea catalyst, are pictorially reminiscent of the tone separation process of Alfred Person. In brief, this latter technique involves preparation from an original negative of both specially processed intermediate positive and second negative, with subsequent printing in register of the two negatives. Here the results are images with striking middle tones that are flat and quite grainy, and are characterized by an unusual so-called “Z”shaped tone separation sensitometric curve (Romer, Kowaliski). With the current work, these flat areas can often be found in images of outer leaves of tree canopies, unpainted wood areas in open shade, etc.
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Harvey W. Yurow
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