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Peter Combe on Wash Your Face In Orange Juice and why you can't underestimate kids
As told to Dave May and Richard Mockler
Updated September 23, 2018 09:05:48
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Video: Peter Combe says adults love his shows as it allows them to escape the grind for a few hours. (ABC News)
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Peter Combe is best known for his wacky children's songs but he regularly performs to sell-out adult crowds. Combe spoke to ABC's Throwback, a new series that revisits the creatives and entertainers who shaped Australian childhoods.
Kids are the toughest audience: they don't possess this thing called "manners".
If you perform for adults, they'll sit for an hour even if they're bored to tears.
Wash Your Face In Orange Juice, originally known as Mr Clicketty Cane, is indisputably my biggest hit. I would say 99.9 per cent of children know the song.
They hear the tune, and they sing it a split second later.
That's a lovely feeling. I never thought it would become the song that it is now.
Physical humour is big with children. They imagine washing themselves in orange juice, or belly flopping into a pizza.
I've got a book in my office of 178 song writing ideas — I would say 90 per cent of them are silly ideas.
External Link: Wash your face with orange juice
Adults can be silly too
I started doing 18+ shows about 12 years ago and I have done about 115 shows.
I think young adults love the idea of just reclaiming their childhood for an hour and a half. There is a real joy in the air.
All come wearing their newspaper hats, they bring toffee apples, and it is just extraordinary.
To see a thousand people at a university concert, and when I get to that bit in the song, "belly flop on a pizza" and someone walks forward with a pizza, puts it on the ground, takes off his shirt, and belly flops into it, it is quite an amazing experience.
I describe it as like going to a religious convention, but without the religion.
As we grow up, there is a tendency to be told not to be silly; I think that is an unhealthy tendency.
In the end, good children's songs are just good songs.
I think good songs do stay with people. When you are about five years old and you love something, you don't just play it three or four times, you play it 100 times.
When people come back to that music venue when they are 25, 30, they almost surprise themselves that they suddenly remember all these words.
Photo: Being silly is a serious business for Peter Combe. (ABC News: Dave May)
The road from teacher to performer
I wanted to be the world's next Paul Simon but I quickly realised there is only one Paul Simon.
In 1974, I began teaching music at two separate schools in Adelaide; that's when I knew music was the road I wanted to go down.
I realised early that writing for children suited my personality.
I have an extreme sense of the ridiculous and I've also got a very serious side as well. And I've always loved working with kids.
Mid to late 1982 I decided to drop teaching and become a full-time children's singer-songwriter.
I thought, "If I don't do it now, I might never do it", so I did it.
No one I was aware of was really writing new songs for children at that stage. I was entering a new field of creative endeavour.
The first 20 songs I ever wrote were terrible. The critical thing is, I knew they were terrible.
I simply took an old reel-to-reel tape recorder and recorded these songs onto cassette. I first sold these cassettes to family and friends. Well, the word got out.
Photo: "Never underestimate children", says beloved entertainer Peter Combe. (ABC News: Dave May)
When I first started performing they were paying a very small amount per concert, it would have been less than a dollar.
After the concerts kids will say the oddest things to you.
A little girl once said: "You're very good for 70 cents."
And I thought, "I'm very good for 70 cents". I wanted to say, "how would you feel about 95 cents? How about $1.10?"
I hate kids growing up too soon
Childhood is a precious thing and should always be almost jealously guarded.
I hate it when things in society force kids into growing up too soon. One of those things can be inappropriate, sophisticated pop songs.
But never underestimate children.
External Link: Newspaper Mama: Peter Combe
There is a misconception that you only do funny, up-tempo, "get up and dance"-type songs.
You can write in all sorts of styles, keys and signatures and introduce children to a whole range of music.
I think my songs will hopefully last beyond me shuffling off this mortal coil.
I always had this vision that when I die, a perfect way of dying would be something like: "I love it every day, spaghetti bolog-uhh...."
That would be the way to go.
Watch Throwback on News Channel or i-View to meet the creators, authors and entertainers who shaped Australia's childhood pop culture.
Topics: music, arts-and-entertainment, children, community-and-society, human-interest, australia
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Vote for Huntsville HS basketball player of the week for Jan. 6-11
Lee vs. Jemison High School boys basketball 1.10.2020
By Daniel Boyette
Cast your vote for the top basketball performance in the Huntsville area from Jan. 6-11. Candidates were selected from game info reported to preps@al.com for the weekly Huntsville roundup.
The poll is open until Thursday evening.
Vote for Coastal player of the week
The winner will be announced on AL.com on Friday afternoon.
The candidates:
- Huntsville’s Xavier Fuell drilled a 3-pointer at the buzzer in a 52-49 win over visiting Sparkman.
- Hazel Green’s Ashton Elliott posted a double-double of 23 points and 12 rebounds in a 74-72 overtime win over 6A No. 8 Buckhorn. The reigning Huntsville Player of the Week also had 14 points, including the winning shot, and five rebounds in a 44-43 win over 6A No. 3 Mae Jemison.
- Buckhorn’s Alex Garcia scored 19 points in a 75-55 win over No. 7A No. 10 Austin.
- Mae Jemison’s Tony Toney scored 18 points in a 38-37 win over 6A No. 6 Lee-Huntsville.
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- Lindsay Lane’s Tommy Murr scored 52 points in a 87-68 win over Whitesburg Christian.
- St. John Paul II’s Hannah Hall had 19 points and seven rebounds in a 48-32 win over West Morgan. She went for 15 and six in a 48-39 win over Danville.
- Pricevile’s Jenna Walker dished out 11 assists, scored eight points and grabbed four rebounds in a 54-24 victory over Danville.
Hazel Green’s Farrah Pearson tallied 16 points and 15 rebounds in a 45-33 victory over Buckhorn.
Remember, AL.com polls are not scientific and reflect only the opinion of those who choose to participate. Voting runs through Thursday evening, and the winner will be announced Friday.
Cast your vote (if you have trouble seeing the poll in your browser, you can also vote online):
Who should be the Huntsville HS basketball player of the week for Jan. 6-11?
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Sudan extends state of emergency by three months
By Omer Erdem
KHARTOUM (AA) – Sudan’s parliament voted to extend a nationwide state of emergency by another three months, the head of the country’s Sovereign Council said late Thursday.
The extension will be effective as of Friday, Mohamed al-Faki Suleiman said in a statement.
In February, then-President Omar al-Bashir announced a countrywide state of emergency for a one-year period, but parliament approved a period of six months.
In July, the Transitional Military Council (TMC) approved another three-month state of emergency.
Sudan has been rocked by popular protests since last December, with demonstrators decrying Bashir’s failure to remedy the country’s chronic economic woes.
A nation of 40 million, Sudan has struggled to recover from the loss of some three quarters of its oil output — its main source of foreign currency — since the secession of South Sudan in 2011.
Sudan is being ruled under a power-sharing deal between the TMC and the opposition Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) coalition.
Bashir was removed from power by the military in April after months of protests against his 30-year rule.
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Ghana celebrated its 54th Republic Day yesterday. The day is a statutory public holiday and Senior Citizens Day, on which the elderly, some of whom played significant roles in the struggle for freedom and the nation-building process, are accorded state recognition.
54 years ago, Ghana achieved republican status which marked an event of profound historical and political significance.
The feat implied that Ghana had the freedom to draw its own constitution and elect a president, who, with the cabinet, could initiate programmes for the well-being of the people.
Since then, the country has been managed by both civilians and military rulers but still faces a lot of challenges like unemployment, diseases, poverty, chieftaincy disputes, illiteracy among others.
After becoming the first sub-Saharan African country to achieve independence on March 6, 1957, Ghana’s political freedom inspired the liberation of many other African countries from colonial governance.
Three years after gaining political independence, Ghana totally weaned itself from British colonial rule.
Prime Minister Osagyefo Dr Kwame was then sworn into office as the first President of the country, after leading the Convention People’s Party (CPP) to win the general election.
As it has been, the same person who had led the independence struggle from 1950 to 1957, his progression from Prime Minister, as he was till 1960, to that of a President was warmly-welcomed by most citizens.
Since independence in 1957, Ghana has experienced six years of one-party system, 21 years of military dictatorship and 29 years of multi-party system.
The First Republic, which came to being in 1960, was overthrown in a military coup in a 1966, as the National Liberation Council junta held power until 1969 when it restored civilian rule with Dr Kofi Abrefa Busia.
But the Second Republic survived for only three years as the military overthrew Busia’s government in 1972 and held sway until 1979 when it restored civilian rule.
After leading the People’s National Party (PNP) to win the 1979 general election, Dr Hilla Limann became the President of the Republic of Ghana under the Third Republic, but his administration was truncated on December 31, 1981 by junior officers of the military in what became the shortest civilian regime in the country’s history.
Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings, led the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) to rule the country for 11 years.
Currently, we are in the fourth republic which began in 1992. On this occasion, the over 25 million Ghanaians are expected to reflect on the chequered political strides the nation has made from a one-party state at the beginning of the first republic in 1960 to its current democratic status and also to honour senior citizens.
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New effort in the works to build trail from Bay to ocean
Trail could connect land from Ravenswood Open Space Preserve and Bair Island to Half Moon Bay
A map of the envisioned Bay to Sea Trail, running from Bair Island, and potentially the Ravenswood Open Space Preserve, into the hills near Huddart Park and Purisima Creek Open Space Preserve before heading into Half Moon Bay. (Map information courtesy ofPeninsula Open Space Trust.)
by Kate Bradshaw / Almanac
Land conservation agencies and local jurisdictions are teaming up behind a bold new plan to build a trail that would allow people to travel by foot, bicycle or horse from the San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean.
The Bay to Sea Trail, while still in its conceptual design phase, would, as envisioned now, be a multiuse path that would run from Bair Island in Redwood City to Half Moon Bay, moving past Edgewood County Park, through Huddart County Park and the Phleger Estate, through Purisima Creek Redwoods Open Space Preserve, onto Burleigh H. Murray Ranch State Park and Johnston Ranch, into Wavecrest Open Space Reserve. Another trail segment on the conceptual map would run from Purisima Creek Redwoods Open Space Preserve along a path south past Lobitos Creek to Cowell Ranch State Beach.
On the Bay side, it could also include a trail segment that would run from the Ravenswood Open Space Preserve in East Palo Alto through Menlo Park and North Fair Oaks to Redwood City along the Dumbarton rail right-of-way.
It would build off of existing trails as well, such as the Bay Area Ridge Trail, the Bay Trail, and the California Coastal Trail, according to Rachael Faye, public access project manager with the Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST).
According to Faye, POST will be operating as the "backbone" of the initiative and act as project manager. That agency has been talking about the idea since as early as 2005, but it wasn't until recently that the organization made the vision a priority.
For the project to come together, though, it will take time – early documents point to a goal of project completion by 2037 – and the support of a number of different agencies, she explained. The agency is collecting letters of intent indicating support for the project from the following agencies: San Mateo County (including the parks and public works departments and the Office of Sustainability), the MidPeninsula Regional Open Space District (MROSD), the Golden Gate National Recreational Area, the Coastside Land Trust, the Coastal Conservancy, the California Parks Department, and the cities of Redwood City and Half Moon Bay.
"We all share this vision, and we want to contribute to it in the various ways we each can to make it become a reality," Faye said. "It takes a team."
Next, the agencies will assemble a planning coalition and initiate public outreach to work through questions like: What kind of experiences should the trail offer different user groups? Where will the route go? What existing trails should be melded into this path? What new trails will need to be designed and developed?
A Dumbarton trail?
Faye said POST and other coalition agencies hope to see a path that runs along the Dumbarton rail corridor. The rail line now runs through East Palo Alto, the Belle Haven neighborhood of Menlo Park, and North Fair Oaks, areas that currently offer "very little safe active transportation (opportunity)," she said. If a multiuse path were supported there, she said, "It would make a really unique, high-quality recreational experience along that corridor."
The rail corridor is currently being studied by SamTrans and the Plenary Group, supported by Facebook, to determine whether it is feasible to rebuild and reactivate the old transbay rail line.
Faye said the planning coalition is waiting to see what the feasibility study finds, adding, "I hope we can be a voice in the conversation to support active transportation."
Because of the uncertainty of whether a multiuse path along the rail line will be technically feasible, the cities of Menlo Park and East Palo Alto were not asked to participate in the initial planning coalition, she said.
The more straightforward route to start with will be to work with the city of Redwood City to develop a route from Bair Island to Huddart Park, and then farther west through MROSD's Purisima Creek Redwood Open Space Preserve, she said.
The trail type and conditions would likely differ depending on the terrain being traversed, Faye explained. In the more urban areas, it might be as simple as a set of wayfinding signs or a separated bike lane, while in open space areas, it could include new multiuse trail segments.
Specific features of the trail, such as whether dogs would be permitted, or whether there would be overnight camping opportunities for people who wish to travel the whole route from point to point, are still to be determined, she said.
"It would be so great if we could create overnight opportunities along the way," she said. "It's something that's in the back of our minds."
While a minority of people might choose to hike or bike the whole extent of the trail, she explained, more would use it in smaller segments. Even so, it will provide an opportunity to connect communities, enable people to experience the different habitats that make up the Peninsula and connect the north-to-south trails that already exist or are in development.
Ultimately, it could enable one to travel by trail all the way from Redwood City to San Francisco and beyond, she added.
Complementary MROSD projects
MROSD is already working on two trail projects that could be part of the final Bay to Sea Trail, district spokesperson Leigh Ann Gessner said.
One is a trail segment in the Ravenswood Open Space Preserve that crews are expected to begin work on this fall, and the other is the Purisima to the Sea Trail, which would connect the Bay Area Ridge Trail in the Purisima Creek Redwoods Open Space Preserve to the Coastal Trail along the coast in Half Moon Bay.
The agency just recently acquired the last "puzzle piece" of the land needed to make that trail possible, Gessner said. The next step for that trail segment to become reality is to start the planning process for where the trail would go and begin public outreach, she added.
When MROSD put together a long-term plan in 2014, it was clear to the district that Peninsula residents have a strong desire for a network of trails to connect people to public open spaces, so this project aligns well with that vision, she said.
A connected trail network isn't just good for people, Gessner added. "It benefits wildlife, who also need to be able to move through the landscape safely to access food, water and habitats they need."
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Posted by PeterB
a resident of another community
This is awesome! Make it happen!
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Posted by senior citizen
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
Why would this take until 2037 to complete? By then, I may be too frail to attempt to bicycle this route. Hiking that distance is already out of the question at my age. Are more land purchases necessary or is it just bureaucracy?
Posted by Mary
a resident of Portola Valley: Westridge
This is a terrific new angle on the old theme for the Bay to Ridge trail which was to come across Arrastradero through Foothills Park. We are so lucky to have such good work happening on trails on the Peninsula.
Thank you everyone for keeping us all connected with green paths!
Posted by Alan
a resident of Menlo Park: Belle Haven
I'm all for hiking and biking trails ... but if the Dumbarton corridor can be reactivated as a rail line, that really should take priority.
Posted by Sandi Farrell
This looks wonderful. As an elder, I won't get much use out of it, but what a legacy for our younger folks.
I'm good with most of the plan - but the Dumbarton corridor between Belle Haven and Sequoia Station really needs to be considered for some sort of commuter rail. The amount of construction - current and planned - mean that the current transportation information is severely strained - and traffic will only become worse. As I see it, use of the Dumbarton Corridor could be one of the few ways to relieve this. As someone bicycles regularly in Belle Haven, I can assure you that we have a reasonable set of trails (if I were to ask for something, it's a trail following the Bay's edge between Marsh Road/Bedwell Park and Seaport Blvd; I don't like biking Haven Ave, that's the real risk. The Ringwood Ave pedestrian/biking bridge is sufficiently close the corridor that it meets the need there). I can imagine some of the support of this proposal that some people living along that corridor don't want it reactivated as a rail line for noise reasons. I'm can understand it, and they should plan with that as a consideration, but they have to meet transportation needs.
"Because of the uncertainty of whether a multiuse path along the rail line will be technically feasible, the cities of Menlo Park and East Palo Alto were not asked to participate in the initial planning coalition, she said."
This bugs me. This sounds like "we're afraid you'll tell us what we don't want to hear, so we'll go ahead and make our plans and involve you when we have to". Initial planning sessions should face the hard issues immediately.
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@Alan, the trail along the SamTrans-owned Dumbarton rail line would be in addition to a new transbay rail service linking east bay commuters and rail services (ACE, BART, Amtrak Capitol Corridor) with Caltrain in Redwood City. The right of way is easily wide enough (~100 feet) to safely fit a trail alongside two train tracks.
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Passions and Devotions in Medieval German Writing
Monday, May 14, 2018 - 07:00
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The field of medieval "queer studies" has included a fascination with possible erotic and sexual interpretations of religious imagery and language. Some of the interpretations, I confess, have always felt a bit far-fetched to me. But here we look at the writings of one particular religious woman, Hadewijch of Brabant, whose language is undeniably erotic and passionate, addressing the image of "Lady Minne", whose name reflects erotic rather than platonic love. And there is just enough confusion and ambiguity in how the figure of Minne is intertwined with Christ and with Hadewijch's disciples and students, that one gets a clear impression of using ecstatic religious language as a medium for expressing romantic desire between women. This provides a different angle on the idea of women's religious networks and communities as creating the opportunity for same-sex love. Rather than images of sex-starved nuns seeking erotic fulfillment, or concerns about "special friendships" developing into inappropriate closeness, what if some religious women considered their same-sex attractions to be a positive embodiment of the devotion they also felt for God?
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LHMP #195 Wiethaus 2003 Female Homoerotic Discourse and Religion in Medieval Germanic Culture
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Wiethaus, Ulrike. 2003. “Female Homoerotic Discourse and Religion in Medieval Germanic Culture” in Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages, in Farmer, Sharon & Carol Braun Pasternack (eds). Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis. ISBN 0-8166-3893-4
The author looks at texts that can be read as homoerotic addressed between religious women in medieval Germany. She specifically rejects the approach of treating women’s homoerotic experiences as equivalent to, or subsumed under, men’s experiences. After examining this type of literature in general, she applies that understanding to the writings of a specific woman who helped develop the concept of Christian bridal mysticism: Hadewijch of Brabant (early 13th century).
In a medieval religious context, a search for texts that fit a contemporary model of homoeroticism will turn up very little. Instead one must examine the social relations and power structures within which the texts are created to identify constraints on how women are able to express homoeroticism and how these feelings can be encoded in acceptable forms both as expression and resistance.
Hildegard of Bingen’s writings about homoeroticism demonstrate this conflict. On the one hand, she repeats the official condemnatory views prevalent in theological texts of the time, while her liturgical songs and personal correspondence, which were aimed at an exclusively female audience, express strong same-sex attachments and a homoerotic aesthetic.
Elite male writings set out the accepted views and opinions on female homoeroticism that could be expressed in standard theological texts. But genres that were predominantly composed by and for women found ways to explore more positive expressions of homoerotic experience. At the same time, these texts represent only a small fraction of the more elite educated female religious community and it is difficult to tell whether they reflect the experiences of less privileged women.
These woman-centered texts supply evidence for same-sex attachments within German women’s religious communities, expressed within creative and imaginative spiritual expressions that were often wrapped in layers of metaphor. Wiethaus cautions that we have no direct evidence whether the women who created these textual expressions also engaged in homoerotic sexual acts. For that matter, we can’t always know what types of acts they would have considered to be sexual.
Much of the homoerotic expression focuses on imagined spiritual figures including the Virgin Mary and Minne or “Lady Love”, a personification of divine ecstatic love which Hadewijch used regularly in her writing. This use of a female personification of a spiritual abstraction can make it difficult to determine whether Hadewijch’s writings express a spiritual experience or passionate attraction for a fellow religious woman. The female personification of Minne is also mapped onto the figure of Christ in some contexts, resulting in the bridal language associated with Christ being transformed into expressions of one woman courting and marrying one another.
Hadewijch’s writings were primarily pedagogical, exhorting her students regarding forms of spiritual experience. In format and meter, her writing draws heavily on secular love lyrics. Manuscripts of her verses and letters were circulated widely among religious houses in northern Germany and the Low Countries, indicating her fame as an authority and teacher.
Wiethaus reviews the official Christian theological opinions about gender and sex, and how attitudes toward female same-sex eroticism were driven by patriarchal principles and a focus on condemnation of usurping male roles and prerogatives. Homoeroticism (female and male) could only be envisioned within a heteronormative structure, where one partner was identified as the active “male” role and the other as the passive “female” role. Because gender hierarchy (male above female) was viewed as a theological principle, violations of that hierarchy in the context of homoeroticism were treated as religious crimes.
The most common rationale for condemning homosexuality was that it was “against nature”--a category that also covered a variety of other sex acts. But some authors called out specific acts and behavior, either as examples or as arguments. Hincmar of Reims (9th century) cited women’s use of “certain instruments” for sexual activity. Peter Abelard (12th century) argued that sex between women was sinful because God had created women’s genitals for the “use of men”. Although the details of penances often differentiated between male and female homosexuality, writers such as Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas placed them in the same conceptual category. Homosexuality became associated with religious heresy by various means, and vocabulary shifted between the two senses.
Despite the theoretical equivalence of male and female homosexuals, penitential literature often specified lighter penalties for women, with unmarried girls or widows being punished less harshly than married women, but acts involving an artificial penis were considered the most serious. Specific references to female homosexuality in penitentials can be found in Theodore (ca. 670) and Bede (ca. 734).
Due to the association of homosexuality with heresy, capital penalties often specified death by burning, though some of the rare recorded cases involving women were carried out by drowning, as for Katherina Hetzeldorfer (1477).
Secular literature tended to be less explicit on homoerotic topics. Although courtly literature includes many intense same-sex friendships between women, including visions of all-female utopias, even the idea that these relationships could involve sexual activity was avoided, in contrast to the detailed descriptions of trial records from a somewhat later date.
Moving from texts produced by male hierarchies (both clerical and secular) to texts authored by women, we find that discussions of physical same-sex attraction focus on kissing and caressing, not on the genital activity that gets the focus in male-authored works. Expressions of strong emotional attraction are common, while appreciation of physical attributes is more rare. The celibacy required of religious women might be one pressure against genital imagery, but spiritual writing was rife with heterosexual erotic imagery focused on the image of Christ as lover. When female religious authors touched on male homosexuality, then followed the party line in condemning sodomy.
The texts that most clearly express homoerotic sentiment between religious women are two (possibly three) rhymed love letters apparently written by and to nuns, dating to the 12th century. In form, they follow the conventions of love lyrics, lamenting the absence of the beloved and making references to physical attributes and suggestions of physical intimacy.
Wiethaus cautions that the letters may not literally indicate actual relationships (as opposed to being literary exercises) but neither should that interpretation be rejected. Even within some marginal theories that the poems were written by men in a female voice, there is an acknowledgement that they depict female same-sex love in a positive fashion.
The genres that women writers used most effectively to communicate with female audiences were letters, visionary writings, and devotional texts. These texts, as exemplified by the writings of Hadewijch, show a spectrum of women’s relationships, some featuring an exclusivity that is highlighted as suspicious in instructional manuals for nuns. But it is a recurring theme among elite female religious leaders to have a chosen confidante and companion whose chief attributes were faithfulness and a desire to be in close proximity to her friend. Within this context, there are blurred lines between mutual affection and same-sex desire.
Correspondence either between such confidantes or describing these relationships to others use heightened emotional language: “I would gladly have died for her”, “I never looked at her without experiencing true joy”, “I always went to her as if she were God Himself.”
Comparing these texts with the descriptions of female homoeroticism in male-authored literature, the conception of same-sex desire is radically different. Men discussed it in terms of abstract categories and genital acts, while women emphasize intense emotional experiences and attachments to a specific beloved individual.
The article concludes with an in-depth analysis of how Hadewijch’s writings develop an entirely new framework for expressing eroticized desire between women, adapting the bridal imagery of mysticism and blending explicit eroticism with spiritual imagery. Her life also illustrates a relationship-type seen for other religious women: the merging of an age-differentiated mentor-student bond into one involving an intense and eroticized bond.
One of the features of Hadewijch’s writings is the use of the allegorical figure of “Minne” (the word indicates romantic love--as in “Minnesinger”, the German equivalent of a troubadour--as contrasted with spiritual love). The figure of Minne appears in three roles: as a spiritual guide, as a symbol of love used to express female desire for another woman, and as an idealized alter ego for Hadewijch herself.
Hadewijch also employed heterosexual bridal imagery focused on Christ that was strongly erotic, and which sometimes shifts sideways into a more gender-ambiguous image, especially when emphasizing the equivalence and identity of the two lovers (worshipper and Christ). But “Lady Minne” is mentioned more often in Hadewijch’s writings than Christ and God combined, depicted as provoking an overwhelming and ecstatic emotion that was to be pursued and reveled in.
“...lightning is the light of Minne...in order to show who Minne is and how she can receive and give--in the sweetness of clasping, in the fond embrace, in the sweet kiss, and in the heratfelt experience when Minne actually speaks. ‘I am the one who holds you in my embrace!’” (There are many extensive quotations which continue this theme.)
Hadewijch’s letters to her female students provide evidence for certain specific attachments in language that evokes that of romantic love, in particular a woman named Sara. She exhorts them to “do everything with reliance on Minne” and expresses jealousy that they might turn away to other mentors. The blending of religious and personal emotions allowed Hadewijch to express same-sex desire “hidden in plain sight.” Sometimes shifts and ambiguity in reference blend Minne with her students, lending plausible deniability to passionate expressions:
I greet what I love
With my heart’s blood.
My senses wither
In the madness of Minne...
O dearly loved maiden
That I say so many things to you
Comes to me from fresh fidelity,
Under the deep touch of Minne...
I suffer, I strive after the height,
I suckle with my blood...
I tremble, I cling, I give...
Beloved, if I love a beloved,
Be you, Minne, my Beloved;
You gave yourself as Minne for your loved one’s sake...
O Minne, for Minne’s sake, grant that I,
Having become Minne, may know Minne wholly as Minne!
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7 Facts You Didn't Know About Joe Hancock
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This top American Quarter Horse sire is a legend in ranching, rodeoing and racing.
Joe Hancock (Credit: American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame)
July 8, 2019 | Ranching , Ranching | Ranching , Ranching , The American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame and Museum , Hall of Fame induction , Ranching , Ranching
By Bruce Beckmann
Nearly three-quarters of a century after his death, foundation sire Joe Hancock still has an impact. He was the Quarter Horse stallion whose name didn’t have to be promoted or shouted from the rooftops; he made a name for himself all on his own.
The backstory of this impressive sire is as deep-rooted as his bloodlines that live on today. Here are seven of our favorite facts about Joe Hancock:
He was almost gelded. Around 1925, Dr. Jim Klingensmith was poised to complete the procedure, when he turned to the horse’s owner, also named Joe Hancock, and made him reconsider.
He only sired 157 foals. Today, that number is far exceeded by many sires in the age of scientific breeding advancements and efficiencies. However, 50 years later, horsemen still talk about the streak-faced brown stud and the Hancock horses.
His present-day legendary name was given little to no thought. He was entered into a match race at a country fair in Comanche, Oklahoma, and when the racing secretary asked for the colt’s name, the handler told her, “He doesn’t have one, but he belongs to a man named Hancock. Just call him Joe Hancock.”
He matched with some major mare-power. Many people think Joe Hancock horses are big because he was a big horse, but a lot of the credit goes to the mares he was bred to. When he was standing at the Burnett/Triangle Ranch, Tom Burnett instructed his foreman to breed “Old Joe” to the “biggest, roughest mares he had.”
At one time, he was sold for just $1,000. In the middle of the Great Depression, this was no small chunk of change – but even greater was the value and future of “Old Joe,” and they grossly underestimated his price tag.
He died on historic land. Joe Hancock saw his final days in Guthrie, Texas, on the Burnett/Four Sixes Ranch.
He hangs his hat in the Hall of Fame. Joe Hancock was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in 1992. Plan your visit to see for yourself!
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World Show Qualifying
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Qualifying Period: August 1, 2019, to July 31, 2020 – view the qualifying points.
Check Qualifying Points: Wondering how many points your horse has earned during the qualifying period? Check here.
International Qualifying: Exhibitors residing and exhibiting in countries other than the United States are eligible to participate in AQHA World Championship shows under these guidelines. Exhibitors residing an exhibiting in Alaska and Hawaii are also eligible to participate under these guidelines. Click here for more information.
2020 Events which cross over the end qualifying date: Keep in mind AQHA-approved events which end prior to or on July 31, 2020, will count toward the 2020 Lucas Oil World show. If an event crosses over the end qualifying date and has a show end date of August 1, 2020 (or later) - that show's points will count towards the 2021 Lucas Oil AQHA World Championship Show. For example: A show's dates are recorded with AQHA as July 30 - 31, 2020, the points will count toward the 2020 show; however, if the dates are recorded as July 31 - August 1, 2020 (or later), the points will count toward the 2021 show.
Halter: Amateur and Open halter and performance halter competitors can earn an invitation to the 2020 Lucas Oil World by competing at a designated number of shows during the respective qualifying period.
Amateur (Level 3 and Level 2): show at ten shows in a halter class. Shows will be counted by show numbers on a one-horse/one-exhibitor basis.
Open (Level 3 and Level 2): show at 20 shows in a halter class. Shows will be counted by show numbers.
Performance Halter: In addition to earning at least the minimum number of points set to qualify in the open performance halter class, any horse to be shown in the open performance halter at the 2020 Lucas Oil World must have earned an open performance ROM during the qualifying year, or if earned prior to the qualifying period, must have earned at least ten riding points in the open division during the qualifying period.
In addition to earning at least the minimum number of points set to qualify in the performance halter class in amateur, any horse to be shown in the amateur performance halter at the 2020 Lucas Oil World must have earned a performance ROM in open, amateur or youth division during the qualifying period, or if the ROM is earned prior to the qualifying period, must have earned at least ten riding points in the open, amateur or youth divisions combined during the qualifying period. Showmanship points DO NOT count for either the ROM or the ten riding points, nor do Level 1 Amateur and Youth points or points earned at Introductory Shows; however, Level 1 Open (Horse) points will count towards the riding points in open and/or amateur.
The exhibitor in the amateur performance class at the Lucas Oil World must be the same exhibitor which qualified the horse for the amateur performance class. Likewise, the exhibitor in the amateur performance halter class at the Lucas Oil World must be the same exhibitor which qualified the horse for the amateur performance halter class. However, it is not necessary for the exhibitor in the amateur performance class to be the same exhibitor in the amateur performance halter class, as long as the two different exhibitors are "immediate family members" as defined by AQHA Amateur eligibility rules.
Racehorses with two speed indexes of 80 or higher are qualified for life, and are not required to qualify, enter and compete in a Level 3 or Level 2 performance class at the Lucas Oil World show.
State Invites: AQHA will invite the highest point earning amateur/horse combination from each state in each Level 3 amateur class, including ties, to participate at the 2020 Lucas Oil World in that class, if:
The amateur/horse combination has not qualified nationally by points or participation (halter only) to the respective Level 3 class.
The amateur/horse combination has earned at least half the minimum required Level 3 qualifying points in the respective class.
Note: To determine that amount, the required qualifying points are rounded down to the nearest whole number and then halved.
Example: In a class which requires a minimum of 9.5 points to qualify, the invitee must have earned at least 4.5 points. (9.5 rounds down to 9, then half of 9 is 4.5)
State qualification is offered by AQHA, not the state affiliates. Invitees are determined based on the state in which they reside. Ties for the highest earning amateur/horse combination in each Level 3 class from each state will not be broken; each of those tied will be invited. If the invited amateur/horse combination chooses not to attend the invitation will not be extended to the next highest placing combination. Performance halter eligibility rules as described above will apply.
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China chides Iran over threat to block oil exports through Strait of Hormuz
China chides Iran over threat to block oil exports through Strait of Hormuz /node/1334576/middle-east
The Strait of Hormuz plays a key role. (Reuters)
Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Kuwait are among China’s most important oil suppliers, so any blockage of the strait would have serious consequences for its economy
BEIJING: Iran should make more effort to ensure stability in the Middle East and get along with its neighbors, a senior Chinese diplomat said on Friday, as Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warned they may block oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz.
Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Kuwait are among China’s most important oil suppliers, so any blockage of the strait would have serious consequences for its economy.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and some senior military commanders have threatened to disrupt oil shipments from the Gulf countries if Washington tries to strangle Tehran’s oil exports.
Carrying one-third of the world’s seaborne oil every day, the Strait of Hormuz links Middle East crude producers to key markets in Asia Pacific, Europe, North America and beyond.
Asked about the Iranian threat to the strait, Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Chen Xiaodong said that China and Arab countries had close communications about Middle East peace, including the Iran issue.
“China consistently believes that the relevant country should do more to benefit peace and stability in the region, and jointly protect peace and stability there,” Chen told a news briefing, ahead of a major summit between China and Arab states in Beijing next week.
“Especially as it is a country on the Gulf, it should dedicate itself to being a good neighbor and coexisting peacefully,” he added. “China will continue to play our positive, constructive role.”
Ministers from 21 Arab countries are attending the summit. Chinese President Xi Jinping will give the opening address on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the Netherlands has expelled two Iranian embassy staff, the Dutch Intelligence service AIVD said on Friday. “We can confirm that the Netherlands has expelled two persons accredited to the Iranian embassy,” a spokesperson for Dutch intelligence said. “We will not provide any further information.”
Topics: Iran Strait of Hormuz
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Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo List Beverly Hills Home for $47.5 Million
The real estate–happy couple put a reported $7 million into renovations on the celeb-pedigreed home
By Joyce Chen
Levine and Prinsloo bought the home for $33.9 million in 2018.Courtesy of Kurt Rappaport of Westside Estate Agency / Photo: Simon Berlyn
Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo are continuing their real estate rampage by listing their sprawling Beverly Hills home less than a year after buying it from Will & Grace co-creator Max Muchnick. The palatial abode spans a whopping 10,376 square feet and includes five bedrooms and 12 bathrooms spread out across a three-story main house and a semi-detached guesthouse. Levine and Prinsloo are seeking $47.5 million for the home; they purchased it for $33.9 million.
The glamorous couple reportedly sank $7 million worth of renovations into the already upgraded home, which could account for the bump in price. Updates include a fresh coat of white paint over the home’s previously vine-encrusted red brick exterior, a chic modern upgrade to the home’s large, eat-in family kitchen, and stainless steel appliances for the mansion’s second catering kitchen. The rest of the home appears to be largely untouched, though no doubt Levine and Prinsloo may have made additional changes here and there. The mansion opens onto a double-height foyer with painted paneling, which in turn leads to a stately formal living room with a TV-surmounted fireplace and molded ceilings. A nearby formal dining room boasts enough space for a long table seating 12, with a set of glass doors opening onto an adjacent wet bar. Toward the rear of the home is a cozy den surrounded on two sides by floor-to-ceiling black-lined glass doors that open out onto the backyard.
The living room in Levine and Prinsloo's Beverly Hills home.
Photo: Simon Berlyn / Berlyn Photography 2019
The dining room in Levine and Prinsloo's Beverly Hills home.
Simon Berlyn / Berlyn Photography 2019
The updated kitchen contains a long marble-topped center island with textured wood cabinets, while the catering kitchen is now entirely outfitted in sleek stainless steel. A study on the same floor boasts arresting all-black walls, with built-in shelves ideal for displaying the couple’s many awards and honors. On the lower level, a screening room with adjoining bar make up an impressive entertaining wing. The 2,000-square-foot master suite occupies its own wing on the upper floor. The light-filled bedroom features a double-height ceiling, glass doors that open onto a private sun-drenched terrace, and a gorgeously pristine bathroom with double-vanity marble countertops and a deep-soaking tub in its own separate room. The fashion-forward couple also enjoyed a number of custom-fitted walk-in closets and dressing rooms in the suite. A gym and a one-bedroom, one-bathroom guesthouse with its own private terrace complete the home’s interior offerings.
The pool at Levine and Prinsloo's Beverly Hills home.
Photo: Simon Berlyn/Berlyn Photography 2019
The screening room in Levine and Prinsloo's home.
Photo Simon Berlyn / Berlyn Photography 2019
Out back is a flagstone-paved terrace with its own outdoor kitchen and pizza oven, perfect for entertaining, as well as an oval-shaped swimming pool and a generous spread of lawn. A lighted tennis court sits further back on the property. Levine and Prinsloo have already made major real estate moves earlier this year, dropping $32 million for Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner’s former family compound in Pacific Palisades.
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Gombert Family History
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French and German: from Gundbert, a Germanic personal name composed of the elements gund ‘battle’ + berht ‘bright’, ‘famous’. The name was relatively popular in both France and Germany during the Middle Ages, and was also adopted by Ashkenazic Jews. See also Gimpel.
Similar surnames: Gobert, Gilbert, Humbert, Lambert, Robert, Gimbert, Rembert, Holbert
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You can see how Gombert families moved over time by selecting different census years. The Gombert family name was found in the USA, the UK, Canada, and Scotland between 1840 and 1920. The most Gombert families were found in the USA in 1920. In 1891 there were 3 Gombert families living in London. This was about 38% of all the recorded Gombert's in the UK. London had the highest population of Gombert families in 1891.
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Between 1962 and 2004, in the United States, Gombert life expectancy was at its lowest point in 1971, and highest in 1968. The average life expectancy for Gombert in 1962 was 63, and 81 in 2004.
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Workplace anger--well that is everywhere I have worked. And who pays? Me! Not the tormentors or judgemental snobs. No, I am the one unable to sustain employment due to unfair treatment. What is so wrong with being quiet or taking your time to get to know or get involved with people? I feel showing up and keeping on task and doing your best should be good enough. But the message nowadays is, "Do More, be more!"
What happened to individualism in this country? Why do you have to be like everyone else...sit at one table, eat the same food. The workplace has become a virtual battleground and I am usually the one that has that task to attend to alone. The more I say to defend myself, the more comes back and I have even learned to say it more calmly than before. I have lost my self esteem, freedom of speech, and passion.
My energy level has plummeted and I am no longer looking forward to the future. What future? I look forward only to a secluded and simple life. People are just too damn difficult and when they group together and gang up on you, then no matter how you handle it, you are the bad person--because you are yourself and not a clique. Eventually they work you out or force you out.
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Solitude can be a very good thing, and some people don't get enough of it. And some get too much. I caution you against too much isolation. It can cause a person to decline in their mental, emotional and physical health. We need each other in this world, but we need each other to be supportive, not critical.
Turn to those relationships where you feel understood and appreciated for who you are. You are a good person, and you are unique. You don't have to be like anybody else. Perhaps you can find a job where you work alone, or have the independence you're looking for.
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Finglas Gardaí Station Evacuated In Security Alert
Finglas Gardaí Station was evacuated on Tuesday afternoon, 24 October, in an emergency security operation.
The alert began at 3pm when a member of the public arrived at Finglas Garda Station with a suspicious device recovered near his home. As a precaution Gardaí evacuated the building and put a cordon around the station.
The scene was declared safe at 5pm. A device was recovered and removed by Army EOD for further examination and assessment.
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The bloggers at 4mation Technologies have started a new series of staff profiles to introduce you to the people behind your websites and development projects! This week we have Rob Babicci, who is the Accounts and HR Manager, and is another of our longest-serving employees.
Name: Robert Babicci
Role within 4mation: Accounts Manager / H.R. Manager
How does this role/field challenge you? With 4mation having a strong emphasis on a friendly, fun and social culture (as well as the best talent and skillsets!) it’s important to find the right people to join the team. Our selection process and criteria requires a little more than some other development companies around might do, so it’s a challenging role but nothing good comes easy, right?
How long have you been with 4mation/within this field? Began in August 2006, so basically 7 years!
Which clients do you often work with? Due to the nature of my dual role in accounts as well as H.R., I have the pleasure of contacting all of our clients, candidates and employees. It’s a rewarding feeling to be able to assist our team to be as comfortable, motivated and supported as possible.
What do you enjoy about working for 4mation? The office culture at 4mation is like nothing I’ve experienced (and very rarely hear of) anywhere else. The team is a great bunch of people who genuinely enjoy working alongside each other, learning from each other and hanging out together even outside of 4mation. Nothing is ever too much to ask or a hassle to request and there’s no office politics.
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The fourth clash of the Hero Intercontinental Cup is scheduled to take place between India and Korea DPR at the Transtadia Arena in Ahmedabad on Saturday evening.
Both India and Korea DPR took the lead in their first game but ended up losing their clashes to Tajikistan and Syria respectively.
India had a dream start against the Tajikistan side as they stormed into a 2-0 lead in the first half only to lose 4-2 in a dismal second half performance. Coach Igor Stimac will have to work on his centre-back partnership as Sandesh Jhingan and Anas Edathodika will again be missing against the North Koreans.
Here's everything you need to know regarding this clash on Saturday:
When is the kick-off? 13 July 2019
What time is the kick-off? 8:00 PM IST
Where is the game being played? Transtadia Arena, Ahmedabad
Where to watch on TV/Live Stream? Star Sports Network and Hotstar
Team News:
The Blue Tigers will be without Pranoy Halder and Anas Edathodika following their respective injuries. Sandesh Jhingan is expected to be back to join Adil Khan in the Stimac's defence. Jerry Lalrinzuala could also get a start.
Korea DPR:
No changes are expected to their team that faced Syria with Han Thae Hyok and Kim Yong IL continuing to lead the line.
Predicted Lineups:
India (4-2-3-1): Gurpreet Singh Sandhu, Rahul Bheke, Subhasish Bose, Adil Khan, Jerry Lalrinzuala, Amarjit Singh Kiyam, Anirudh Thapa, Udanta Singh, Sahal Abdul Samad, Lallianzuala Chhangte, Sunil Chhetri
Korea DPR (4-4-2): An Tae Song, Ri Thong IL, Jang Kuk Chol, Ri Yong Chol, Ri Chang Ho, Sim Hyon Jin, Ri Un Chol, Ri Un IL, Jong Il Gwan, Han Thae Hyok, Kim Yong IL
Head-to-head Record:
Both teams have played against each other on eight occasions with India not winning a single game, drawing three and losing five. Saturday could be a historical day in Indian football if the Blue Tigers manage to win.
Recent Form:
India: L-W-L-L-L
Korea DPR: L-L-L-L-L
There is no doubt that Sunil Chhetri will be the man to watch for India in this clash. The 34-year-old has been in incredible form and displayed his class with the two goals against Tajikistan. Chhetri along with Sahal could prove to be vital for India against Korea DPR.
Jong II Gwan is Korea's most capped player with 63 international caps. He wrecked havoc from the left flank against Syria and contributed the crucial opening goal for his team. Indian defenders have to stay alert against him.
Prediction:
Both teams are looking to make a comeback after facing defeats in their opening clashes. India have the home ground advantage and if they can concentrate on their defence, the Blue Tigers are expected to come up with a 2-1 win against the Koreans.
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For Those with an Interest in the Irish Silver Trade
Postby dognose » Mon Aug 17, 2009 6:04 pm
The passing of the Revenue (Ireland) Act of 1821 and the Revenue Act of 1822, prompted a House of Lords Commissoners’ Inquiry ‘for the purpose of inquiring into the collection and management of the public revenue arising in Ireland.’
The report of the inquiry that started in 1823 was finally published in 1828, it dealt with all aspects of the Stamp Duty including that raised on plate, newspapers, insurance policies etc. Our interest of course will be that of the noble metals of silver and gold.
In 1825 following the passing of the Duties on Plate Act, the revenue collection from Plate Duty passed from the hands of the Commissioners of Excise and came under the control of the Department of Stamps.
For those, like me, who have an interest in Irish silver, the report makes fascinating reading and answers many questions and provokes a lot more. It also provides a remarkable insight into the characters interviewed, William Clarke, Jacob West, Richard Williams, James Carruthers who were interviewed in September and October 1826 and Thomas Nuttall, the first to be interviewed in November 1823.
As part of their inquiry, the Commissioner of Stamps sent a certain ‘Mr Wintle’ to investigate the practices of the Dublin Assay Office. This would, I believe, have been the ‘poacher-turned-gamekeeper’ James Wintle. Wintle, the Georgian version of Frank Abagnale of ‘Catch me if you can’ fame appears to have gone through the assay office like a dose of salts and may well have been responsible for the flight of the Dublin silversmith and forger John Smith.
I will have to, due to time constraints, split this topic into several posts.
This first post contains the summary of the report to the House of Lords, this will be followed in later posts by the interviews.
Besides the duty to be paid for a license to sell Plate, your Lordships are aware that duties are payable on all Gold and Silver Plate manufactured in the United Kingdom. The rates of these duties in Ireland are as follow :
Gold Plate, per ounce - - - 1s.
Silver Plate, ditto - - - 1s.
The receipt of these duties was committed to the Excise Department until, by the Act of the 6th Geo. 4, c. 118, it was transferred to the Department of Stamps. 6 Geo. 4. c. 118. Formerly, as at present, these duties were actually levied by the Goldsmiths' Company ; but until the period above stated they were accounted for to the Commissioners of Excise, who, it would appear from the evidence of Mr. West, one of the principal manufacturers of Plate in Ireland, did not pay much attention to the collection of them. The effects of the more vigilant superintendence of the Provisional Stamp Board may be seen by referring to a Return in the Appendix of the number of Licenses paid for in the years ended 5th January 1825, 1826, and 1827. During a part of the first of these years, the Licenses were issued from the Excise Department, and the whole number returned as paid for in that year is 65; in each of the following years they amounted to more than 200. The duty on the manufactured Plate has also been better collected, and the standard which is represented by Mr. West to have been erroneous for the last fifty or sixty years, has, by the interference of the Provisional Board of Stamps, been made conformable to the Statute, and the same as the English standard.
This Duty is collected by the Goldsmiths' Company in Dublin, under regulations similar to those which are fully set forth in our Fourteenth Report; and for this service the Company are allowed five per cent., with the addition of a Salary of £70 a year for the Deputy Assay Master. Although under this arrangement the Deputy Assay Master may be considered in some degree the officer of Government, it appears to have been thought necessary to have an officer of the Stamp Department in attendance during the hours of business at the Assay Office ; and the evidence of Mr. West seems to throw a doubt upon the disinterestedness of the officers of the Company, who have the power, and whose duty it is to act for the prevention of Frauds upon the Crown and the Public. The shops of the dealers in Plate are seldom visited; the Hall-mark is represented to be defective, and the Assay Master professes himself unable to decide upon the genuineness of the Mark after it has been impressed.
The difference in the rates of duty in England and Ireland, and the exclusive allowance of a Drawback on Plate exported from the former country, afford inducements to frauds, which there is reason to believe have been practised. Mr. West states, that a good deal of Irish Plate is sent to England without being entered at the Custom-house or paying any duty, and that he has no doubt of Irish Plate having been sold in Liverpool without paying the additional duty. Another opening to- fraud is presented in the possibility of importing Plate from England which has paid the duty, obtaining the Drawback in Ireland, sending it to England again, and claiming a Drawback on its re-importation to Ireland. Such fraud is represented by Mr. West to have been practised, as he had been informed, to an " immense extent."
We have already, in our Fourteenth Report, recommended the discontinuance of the Drawback, and an equalization of the Rates of Duties on Plate in all parts of the United Kingdom. These measures are the more deserving of your Lordships' sanction, because they are calculated both to relieve the trade from restraints which, press unequally, and the Revenue from exposure to fraud.
We cannot avoid referring your Lordships to the testimony of Mr. West withr respect to the beneficial effects of the general abolition of the Union Duties. There are, nevertheless, still some obstructions alluded to by him particularly, arising out of the difference of duty on Glass and Plate, which affect the Plate Trade; and the removal of which your Lordships will no doubt be disposed on principle to accomplish.
A Memorial from the Working Silversmiths and Jewellers of Dublin will be found in the Appendix, setting forth the different operation of the law, which creates the necessity of taking out a License to manufacture Plate" in England and in Ireland, which may perhaps suggest some modification favourable to the artificers.
In a former part of this Report we have noticed the want of control on the part of the Stamp Department by the neglect of the Distributors (as in the instance of the county of Antrim) to exercise any vigilance with respect to the claims of the Crown arising upon Plate sold in the parts of Ireland distant from Dublin. The non-existence of any Assay Office out of Dublin, and the great facility of intercourse between England and the most wealthy parts of Ireland where the sale of Plate appears to be the most extensive, as at Belfast and Cork, afford inducement and opportunity to evade the law, and make it desirable that the attention of the Board of Stamps should be directed to the establishing some effective means for the collection of this branch of Duty.
We were informed upon inquiry, that the Plate Manufacturers at Cork formerly applied for an Assay Office to be established in that city, but the project was not adopted in consequence of the expense that would have attended it.
We are not prepared to state how far (if at all) it may be incumbent on the Goldsmiths' Company, in claiming the benefit of their charter, to grant facilities that might prevent the inconvenience to the trade of transmitting Plate from distant parts to Dublin for the purposes of the Assay; but it seems very desirable for the attainment of those purposes, so far as the Crown is concerned, that the business of the Assay Office and the collection of the King's Duties should be effected immediately by and under the responsibility of some public Department. We would therefore submit to your Lordships' consideration, the practicability of acting in Ireland upon the suggestions which we have offered in our Fourteenth Report for the better management of this business in England.
Under the existing system the expense incurred by the Crown is, we think, more than adequate to the service performed by the Goldsmiths' Company. We are of opinion that the appointment of persons directly or indirectly connected with the trade, to officiate on behalf of the Company, should be precluded; that the Board of Stamps should act in concert with the Company for the detection and prevention of illicit practices; and that, independent of such co-operation, the respective officers of the Stamp Department, namely, the Comptroller, the Distributors, and the Inspectors, should be from time to time actively employed by the Board in furtherance of those objects, and of the due collection of the Revenue.
The interviews that were conducted with various persons connected with the trade will follow in subsequent posts.
Postby dognose » Tue Aug 18, 2009 5:36 am
As stated the first witness questioned was the then Dublin Assaymaster Thomas Nuttall. Nuttall who spent an extraordinary forty nine years as Assaymaster was appointed to the job in 1776 and continued in that role until his death in 1825. Prior to that position his was appointed Third Warden in 1773, Second Warden in 1774 and First Warden in 1775 resigning in 1776 to take up the position of Assaymaster. As a silversmith he is noted as working out of 2, Gordon’s Lane in 1766 and 30, Skinner Row from 1774 until 1776. He was a former apprentice of William Townsend, indentured in 1752 , noted as a Quarter Brother 1761 and Freeman in 1766. In his role as a silversmith he known to have taken only one apprentice, that of Daniel Crosby, indentured in 1764.
In the year 1776 following his appointment as Assaymaster, he would have been obliged, under the rules of the Company, to cease the craft of a silversmith.
At the time of this interview, Nuttall was about 87 or 88 years, even more amazing is the fact that he was continue in his position for another couple of years, having said that, he appears from his testimony still to possess a sharp mind.
Appendix, No. 102.
Saturday, 1st November 1823.
Mr. Thomas Nuttall called in and examined.
What is the office which you hold ?–I am assay master to the corporation of goldsmiths; I was elected in the year 1775, forty-eight years ago, and I have been in the office ever since.
What duties do you discharge ?–I try the work, and I receive the money, and I put the money into the bank, and I get twice or thrice in a quarter a check from the master of the corporation of goldsmiths to put in to the collector of excise; I have the two last receipts which I got with me; the account is made up by my clerk or assistant.
How long have you had an assistant ?–Ever since the year 1784. I first take the money there, and he brings the whole account of what has been assayed, and the money received to the office in the Custom House; this is the last receipt I got, (producing it,) it is for £632. 19s. 7d. Irish; that is for only part of the quarter, but I have a document that contains the whole payments for the quarter.
What duty is charged on plate in Ireland ?–An English shilling per ounce.
By what regulations are the silversmiths compelled to send the plate to your office?– There is a penalty if they do not do it, and it is liable to be seized.
Has that penalty ever been enforced ?–Indeed I do not know that ever it was, for in general they send it. I do not doubt that some of them may have sold without it, and of course paid no duty–I have heard of such things.
Do you believe they are frequent ?–Indeed I cannot say that they are.
Is any search or examination ever made for plate ?–There was.
When?–I myself have taken up plate when I have got an information.
How long ago ?–Indeed I believe it may be sixteen or seventeen years ago.
Is it your duty to weigh the plate ?–No; but it is my duty to see it weighed.
Is there a record kept of the quantity weighed?–There is; the accounts are as regular as those of any office in the kingdom, I believe; there is an account for the corporation, there is an account for any commissioners of the revenue who may choose to call for them, the books are kept separate.
Is there any account rendered to the excise of the quantity stamped ?–There is; it is given in every quarter day; I pay in the money, and that is given in every quarter day.
When is the money paid by the persons who bring the plate to be stamped ?–When it comes.
At the time when it is stamped ?–The money and plate is given in together.
How soon after the receipt of the duty do you pay it to the excise?–Sometimes twice, sometimes three times in the quarter; I used to pay it every week.
When was that altered ?–It was altered so far as this, that they told me, (I remember it was Mr. Norton,) " I had rather take it from you at the end of the quarter, than to be coming with your little matters every week." " Why, sir," says I, " that is as you please." Sometimes according as the money is collected I pay it in. I can show that I put the money every day into the bank. I am paid for the corporation. I am not accountable, but the corporation.
Do you give any security?–I give £1,000 to the corporation.
Do the corporation give any security for the payment of the duty ?–Not that I know of; I never heard whether they did or did not, but I generally leave the work ready for finishing between two and three o'clock; I either go myself to the bank, or send my assistant.
Is the account in your own name to which the money is paid at the bank?–No.
In whose name is it?–The Corporation of Goldsmiths. This is the pass book (producing it). I cannot draw for that money.
By whom are the drafts signed?–The master of the corporation and the wardens must sign the check for drawing out that money. I cannot draw for any of it in my own name; but they give me a check for that, and I get the money for that, and take it to the excise.
You pay the money in daily ?–Yes.
Do you pay it in in cash, or in bank notes?–In bank notes.
What allowance do the bank make the goldsmiths corporation for this balance ?–I do not think they make them any.
What reason have you to think that ?–Because I have never known it allowed.
Do not they allow a percentage on the balance ?–I have never heard that they allowed them a penny.
Have the Goldsmiths Company the power of drawing on their account generally ?– They cannot draw on that account but through me; they must draw in favour of me; that is the law of the corporation.
Does the money that is placed to this account stand generally to the account of the Goldsmiths account, or is it a separate account over which the goldsmiths have no control?–It is the property of the corporation", not of any individual; and the reason given for not being able to draw without my assistance, is, that they cannot draw it at their own discretion; it must be signed by three, and made payable to me.
Is that regulated by Act of Parliament ?–Indeed I cannot say that the Act of Parliament says that I shall receive the money, and pay it to the corporation of goldsmiths; and the corporation of goldsmiths for some time took the money from me, and they thought it too much trouble, and they employed me to take the whole upon myself, and to pay it, and to account with them, and they paid me for it.
What fees do the persons pay at the office, who send plate there to be examined ?–The English duty, an English shilling on the ounce, and I collect upon every ounce a penny extraordinary.
What becomes of this penny ?–The corporation has half of it, and the assay master has the other half.
What salary have you over and above these halfpenny fees?–I have, exclusive of that, £100 a year and no more.
What portion of alloy is allowed by the law to be mixed with pure silver in the plate assayed in Ireland ?–In virgin silver an eighteen pennyweight of copper mixed with the pound troy.
Are you aware that some of the silversmiths in Dublin believe that the standard is eleven ounces of pure silver and one ounce of alloy, and that probably they prepare their plate according to that standard ?–The eleven ounces two upon the eighteen makes the two ounces by the rules of the Mint. If the money that is minted comes within two pennyweights of the standard, it is passed; if it is two pennyweights and a half, it is broken, and must be melted over again. Now the corporation of goldsmiths in London took the advantage of that, and they have been always regulated by that, and we have been regulated by the corporation
there. Another thing is, that always in working the silver it will be better by the time that it is completed than it is when it is first melted; in melting it loses part of the alloy, for copper is the more perishable matter, and will lose something every time it is annealed, as we call it; that is, made red in the manufacture of it; some of the copper comes off in a black surface on it, and by putting that into pickle to quench it, that goes off, and it is still growing better every time. I never break any silver that comes within the two pennyweight, and it is the same in London.
Where are the stamps made with which the plate is marked when the proper assay has taken place ?–The stamps are made by Mr. Mossop; he is the best mechanic we have here for making them. I believe they were made for forty years by one man, a Mr. Standish, that is a seal engraver.
How long do they wear ?–Sometimes a year, sometimes more.
Is there any difficulty in forging them ?–Indeed a clever fellow might forge them, but they generally have a private mark on them.
Have you ever seen any plate marked with forged stamps ?–Indeed I have.
Is not such a process extremely common ?–Indeed I cannot say; I will say nothing but what I know. I know that a little after I came into office, which I believe was about forty- six years ago, I know I was not sworn in at the time a man was detected, and he saved his life by my not being sworn before the commissioners.
Have any detections been made since that time?–No; I have taken up plate that had an old mark in the bottom of it, that was taken out of an old piece of plate.
Is that a common description of fraud ?–It was till it was altered ; and the way in which it was worded in the Act was " removing from one piece to another;" but there is a matter that if the Act were made again I would wish put in.
What is that ?–That it should be penal to add to any piece after it has come to the office.
Has that process been frequent ?–There have been things of that sort.
Is there any other improvement you can suggest ?–Indeed I do not recollect any other, except that if there was an inspector appointed, with a salary that would put him above temptation of any trifling matter, it would pay very well. There are a great many towns in Ireland which sell a great deal of plate, and never send it to my office. I get a good deal from Cork, but not from any other place. I got only twice or thrice from Kilkenny, mere trifling things, and I think once or twice from Limerick ; but there is not anything of a town in Ireland that does not sell goldsmiths work.
Thomas Nuttall.
Conclusions to follow.
Postby dognose » Wed Aug 19, 2009 11:01 am
For a man of his advanced years, Thomas Nuttall handled his examination with comparative ease. His evidence, however, does reveal great shortcomings as one of the guardians of the craft. He was aware of the frauds and flouting of the law throughout Ireland, but appears to had done very little to redress the situation, but the real blame, surely, must lay squarely at the feet of the Wardens of the Dublin Goldsmiths Company.
Their employment of a man approaching his nineties in this most important position must surely be called into doubt. Also at this time the company were employing two Beadles, who were, as a primary part of their job, there to seize suspect plate and to accompany the Sheriff when arrests were made. They were also, as from 1812, the markers at the assay office, so would have been well acquainted with the marking system.
Nuttall’s claim that he had been the Assaymaster since 1775, rather than 1776, as quoted by most sources, can probably be explained by his statement when he makes reference to the man who was detected, but escaped the death sentence, due to Nuttall not having been sworn in, the swearing in, I suspect, occurred in 1776, but he may have been trying the assay in 1775. Nuttall would seem to be the natural choice for the position of Assaymaster, as I sure he would have been aware of the skills used by his old master, William Townsend, who was the Assaymaster from 1770 until his death in 1775. The short appointment of Richard Forster, the Assaymaster between Townsend and Nuttall, is something I’ve found nothing about as yet.
The reference to ‘Mr Mossop’, the maker of the official stamps, is most likely that of William Mossop, a former Warden and Master of the Dublin Company, who we shall learn later, was to be declared insane.
Nuttall also stated that he gives £1000 security to the Company, a considerable amount in comparison to his counterpart at Newcastle at that time, who was only required to give £100 security.
Thomas Nuttall remarked that the position of assistant Assaymaster was introduced in 1784. There was probably a general expansion in the staffing of the assay office during that year. The Act requiring the registration of all silversmiths was brought into force in 1784 together with the proposed setting up of the New Geneva Assay Office and the introduction of the new gold standards in Ireland must have caused a considerable increase in the workload of the Dublin Assay Office.
Postby dognose » Wed Aug 19, 2009 12:13 pm
The next to be interviewed, nearly three years later, was Thomas Nuttall's successor as Assaymaster, William Clarke.
William Clarke was granted his Freedom in 1798, became 3rd Warden in 1802, 2nd Warden in 1803, 1st Warden in 1804 and Master in 1805. He was appointed Assaymaster in 1825 following the retirement of Nuttall. His career as the Assaymaster, however, would turn out to be but a short one, he died in 1828.
Appendix, No. 94.
1st September 1826.
Mr. William Clarke called in and examined.
You are assay master at Goldsmiths' Hall ?–I am.
How long have you held that situation ?–Since November last.
Were you in the assay office before?–I was.
In what capacity ?–Deputy assay master.
What were the improvements that you introduced in the assay office a short time back when Mr. Wintle came from England ?–Nothing more that I know of than a new furnace and new scales.
You had imperfect scales before?–Yes, they were not so correct.
Did he make no other improvements ?–No.
Not in the charcoal you used ?–We used to burn charcoal.
Did he not make an improvement in the form of the cupples ?–Yes, we got bone ash, from England, and the assay lead also.
You have introduced a more perfect standard, have you not?–Yes. "
Is your standard now correct with the English standard ?–I think it is.
You have lately detected a fraud, have you not, in the trade?–Yes, we are about it; we have not exactly come to it yet, but I think we will; I assayed one spoon and sugar tongs sent to me from the Stamp Office; number one, a spoon, and number two, a pair of sugar tongs; the spoon was one ounce worse, and the sugar tongs were eleven pennyweignts
worse than our standard.
You are taking measures to detect the authors of the fraud ?–Yes.
Who brought those articles to you ?–They were sent to me from the Stamp Office.
What mark did they bear?–The Dublin Hall mark.
Was it a correct mark, or a forgery ?–I think it is a forgery; it is impossible it could pass our hall so bad as that, no matter who was at the head of the office at the time.
Can you tell who manufactured that plate?–We can.
Who was it ?–Smith.
Where does he live?–I think he lives in Eustace-street.
What is his Christian name ?–John.
Can you undertake to say that the marks appearing upon those articles are-forged marks ? –I cannot; if I was to judge as far as my examination of the marks went, I would say that they were forged.
Upon whose opinion would you rely as to the authenticity of those marks ?–On the cutter, the engraver.
On no one else ?–No.
Who is he ?–Massop was the engraver, who cut one of those, and he is insane.
Who is the other?–Parkes, I think.
Is he living ?–Yes; he has but lately come into the employment as die sinker.
Do you attend yourself personally to every assay ?–Yes.
How often does that take place?–Every day except Monday; this day there was so little came in we did not light a fire to-day.
The assay office is always open, except on a Monday ?–Yes, always. Has it frequently occurred to you to receive plate which you have not been able to mark ? –Very often.
Do you mark the individual who brings such plate ?–Yes, we make an observation in our book against them.
How many manufacturers of plate are there in Dublin ?–There are, perhaps, about six or seven and twenty.
You mark the names of those who send you imperfect plate ?–Yes, I make a mark of those who send us work barely standard beam, that we must pass. I make an observation, though I do not tell them that I do so ; and those that bring us articles that we are obliged to break as below the standard I mark.
You return the plate when broken ?–Yes.
Do you levy any penalty ?–No, we return them the plate and the duty.
So that there is no penalty ?–No, except a penny an ounce to pay the corporation; that is the touch penny.
To whom does the penny an ounce go?–An halfpenny to the assay master and an halfpenny to the corporation.
Would it not prevent the bringing imperfect plate to your office if the duty were taken upon it ?–There are some of them do not know whether it is perfect or imperfect when they send it.
Do you conceive that possible ?–Yes, indeed I do; I do not think they would run the risk if they knew it.
It might prevent the fraud, might it not ?–If we allow it to pass there is a fraud, but we should not allow it to pass; if they act fraudulently they must use fraudulent punches of their own; none of those articles could ever go through the examination of the corporation.
You say you have great difficulty in. detecting a forgery, and that you would not of your own personal knowledge say it was a forgery ?–No, I cannot take upon myself to say it was.
Then what protection can your assay marks give to the revenue if they are so easily forged ?–When they are put on articles of plate they are polished and they are hammered over, and that damages them-in a measure.
That would apply to all?–Yes, we have no greater protection in this country than they have in England; the die sinker who sinks the die is the only man who can come forward and say that they are not his dies ; then the not sending the article to the hall and having it assayed is a strong proof that they have not paid the duty; they never could have passed through the office in the state in which they are.
Have those been tried by the old or the present standard ?–By the present standard.
At what date do those profess to have been tried ?–One about three years ago, and the other last year.
How much inferior if compared with the old standard would those articles be?–One nineteen pennyweights, and the other would be eight.
They are still very much below the old standard ?–Yes; the one nineteen pennyweights is too much.
Do you conceive that the inferiority of the old standard was a source of profit to the trade ?–Yes, it clearly was.
Is there any person connected with the trade who is concerned in the assay office ?–No.
You were in the trade formerly yourself?–I was.
You left it on coming into the assay office probably ?–I have left it ever since the year 1815.
When did you enter the assay office ?–I entered the assay office last year. I was deputy eight months, and became assay master last November.
Is there any officer there who has been of longer standing ?–Yes.
What situation does he fill ?–Weigher and drawer.
Is he competent to speak to the old practice ?–He is; the assay master whom I superseded is living.
Why was the assay master superseded ?–He was fifty-two years in the office. I believe he is ninety years of age; he is allowed £150 a year out of what I get.
That is by an agreement with the company ?–Yes, it is.
Are there any perquisites in your situation besides the salary ?–No, except private assays.
What do you mean by private assays ?–Persons sending articles to be assayed to know the value.
What is the expense of that ?–To a freeman 2d., to a non-freeman 4d, and the gold assay Is,
You never heard of any thing being offered to a person in the assay office to facilitate the application of the marks ?–No.
What is the present legal standard in Ireland ?–We weigh with what they call the twelve ounce, and count 11. 2., that is giving eighteen pennyweights of copper to twelve ounces of pure silver, that reduces it to 11. 2., which is the English standard.
Have you any reason to suppose that much plate is sold in Dublin which has not passed the hall ?–I understand latterly there has been ; I very much suspect it.
What grounds have you for supposing that ?–Nothing more than seeing those spoons come in.
What do you mean by latterly ?–Within these few days past.
If it had not been for what you received from the Commissioners of Stamps, should you have entertained the same suspicion?–Indeed I should not.
This has completely opened the eyes of the assay office ?–Quite so.
Do you take any steps with regard to ascertaining whether such and such plate manufacturers or dealers in plate really have brought their work to your hall ?–As far as we could.
Did you ever examine their shops ?–No.
You do not consider yourself bound to do that ?–I have not power to do it; the master of our corporation has a power vested in him by the charter.
Who is the master ?–Mr. Hines ; he is what is called in England the chief warden ; there are three wardens besides.
Do you act under his personal direction ?–No; I am merely sworn into the office to attend there and assay, and receive the money, and pay it in to the commissioners once in five days.
Is there no control over you by any of the officers of the company ?–None by the company ; a gentleman attends there from the Stamp Office, and remains there the whole time every morning.
The whole time that the assay is going on ?–Yes ; he has one key of the chest, the deputy assay master has another key, and I lock them up in the iron safe.
Is the officer from the Stamp Office in attendance the whole of the day ?–Yes; he is in attendance from twelve o'clock till half-past one.
Is it within those hours only that an assay can be had ?–Yes; the office opens at twelve and closes at three, but there is so little work it may be done in a short time.
You receive the duties personally ?–Yes.
At what periods do you pay them over to the Stamp Office ?–On a Saturday.
Do you pay the whole sum?–Yes.
To the receiver general ?–Yes, to a fraction.
What sum do you receive for paying that ?–I am paid by the corporation ; the corporation receive five per cent.
Under what authority is that paid ?–Under Act of Parliament.
You make a deduction of that five per cent. ?–Yes; that is the mode they have for paying their officers, and lighting fires, and the house-rent, and so on.
Do you allow articles of plate to be brought to you in an unfinished state ?–No.
Such as parts of a tea-pot ?–No; all the articles to be put to it must be brought.
If it is brought in detached pieces you will not take it at all ?–No.
What deduction do you make from the weight for what is called unfinished plate ?–A sixth.
Uniformly ?–Yes, that is what is allowed.
In what state is it generally brought to you ?–They bring it in a tolerably finished state, in as forward a state as they can.
Do you observe a great difference in the state in which it is brought by different manufacturers ?–Yes; some of them are very poor ; the generality of them are very poor; and they get the silver at a late hour, perhaps for spoons or forks, and they have to work late at night to get them ready for the hall in the morning, and those they send in rather an imperfet state.
You consider every article of plate invariably as subject to that deduction of one-sixth of the weight?– Yes.
Do you pay any drawbacks ? – No.
Have you reason to believe it is the practice among the silversmiths here to sell mourning rings unstamped ? – I do not know that there is any such thing made ; I do not know that we have seen a mourning ring since I came to the office – one or two, but not more.
They are stamped in England, are they not ? – Yes.
It is not the practice to make them here ? – No ; whatever they use chiefly they get from London, I believe.
William Clarke
Postby dognose » Fri Aug 21, 2009 1:29 pm
William Clarke appears a little resentful regarding the improvements that James Wintle has instigated at the Dublin Assay Office, and reluctant to give him credit for it. This may be because he had entered into the position of Assaymaster just a short time before and believed that he was capable of bringing about the improvements without the interference of the man from London.
Clarke’s revelation of the name of the forger, John Smith, is of much interest. Smith, possibly the same John Smith that registered with the Company in 1784, is noted as working out of 11, Eustace Street, Dublin, as a ‘Silversmith & Gold Beater’. He was known to have used a punch marked ‘S & W’, the ‘W’ is, as yet, unidentified. He was last heard of around this period, and may well have taken flight following the exposure. 11, Eustace Street, was formerly the place of business of the partnership of William Hamy (Hammay, Hanney, in some sources) and Edward Hopper, ‘Jewellers & Sheffield Plate Warehouse’ until 1819.
For ‘Massop’, read ‘Mossop’.
William Clarke’s reference that Thomas Nuttall was still alive, is of note, he must surely be correct, for, as part of his allowance was paid to Nuttall as a pension, I’m sure he would have been very interested in the health of the former occupier of his position.
‘Mr Hinds’ is Isaac Hinds, appointed 3rd Warden in 1822, 2nd Warden in 1823, 3rd Warden in 1824 and Master in 1825.
The next to be interviewed was the goldsmith and jeweller, Alderman Jacob West. West was granted his Freedom in 1801 and was elected Alderman in 1821. Until 1815 he was in partnership with John Clarke at 9, Capel Street. The firm of Jacob West (Alderman) & Son was registered with the Company in 1827.
Friday, 1st September 1826.
Jacob West Esq., and Alderman of Dublin, called in and examined.
You are carrying on the business of a silversmith in this city ?–I am.
Have you done so for a considerable time?–For many years.
Have the goodness to inform the Commissioners what are the different rates of duty payable on the manufacture of gold and silver plate in Ireland at present?–On silver it is Is., and 1d. touch, that goes to support the expenses of the hall; that is 1s. 1d. British.
For the gold plate, how much ?–I do not know exactly what the gold plate is; there is very little manufactured here.
Is there any?–Yes ; all the plain rings I make are hall-marked, and occasionally some snuff-boxes; but the amount of duty paid on gold is very trifling.
What allowance is made for the supposed diminution of weight in finishing ?–One sixth on silver.
Since when was that ?–I think it is above ten years; but there always had been an allowance at the option of the assay master.
Is there much silver plate exported from Dublin ?–A good deal goes to England, but there is no record of it, because it is carried over without paying any duty.
Is there any export of silver plate to foreign countries from Ireland ?–There is occasionally, but we cannot get the drawback here, and there is Is. an ounce lost; they can get the drawback in England, they can get the whole Is. 6d. back; but in Ireland there is no drawback allowed, so that there is Is. an ounce against us here; if we enter it for England we pay the Is. 6d. and get back the 1s. we pay here.
Do you actually get back the 1s. and afterwards pay the 1s. 6d., or do you pay the additional 6d. in England ?–I do not think it has been in operation; I do not think any one has entered goods from this place to England with a view of getting the drawback and paying the duty; but if I enter plate from England, where it pays the Is. 6d. I shall pay no duty, but get a certificate, upon which I get back the 6d.
You are not in the habit of exporting to England ?–No, but I know it is done to a considerable extent in spoons.
Without being entered at the Custom House ?–Yes.
Do you import from England to a considerable extent ?–I do.
If plate made in Ireland were exported from Ireland, would you by law receive a drawback of the 1s.?–No; there is no provision for exportation to foreign countries; I have searched for that when persons have wished to purchase plate, and they have been obliged to buy it in England in consequence.
Have you exported much duty-paid plate to foreign countries?–I have never exported any, the shilling an ounce prevents it; the Goldsmiths' corporation did apply to the Commissioners of Stamp Duties who have the management now of Goldsmiths' Hall; they said they had no power, nor could they recommend it, but advised the corporation to memorial the Lords of the Treasury to put us on the same footing that England is with regard to exporting plate to foreign countries; they did so six months ago, but no reply has been returned to the corporation that I know of.
Would there be a considerable export to foreign countries if the drawback were allowed ? –I do not think there would to any great extent: but still it would be an act of even-handed justice to allow it, because gentlemen going out, officers and others going abroad that are here, I know, have applied to shops in town, saying that they would purchase plate if they could get the drawback, being aware that it is to be obtained on exportation from England; and when they found they could not get a drawback here, they purchased it in England.
What is the mode of paying the duties on the manufacture of plate at present observed in Dublin ?–The order is that the plate should be at the hall at ten o'clock in the morning; it is there weighed, and the duty that is to be paid on it handed over to one of the officers of the hall; then it goes through the process of examination, and if it is found to be sterling it is hall-marked and returned; and if it is ordered to be broken for not being sterling, they stop a penny an ounce for the trouble.
Does that frequently happen ?–Latterly it has frequently happened, because they changed the standard; we had an erroneous method of calculating our standard here for many years past, for fifty or sixty years; and since the Commissioners of Stamps have had the management of it, they have insisted that we should conform to the Act of Parliament, which of course we were willing to do. Above a year, I believe two years, ago, one day when I was before the Commissioners, I mentioned that I thought we were wrong in not having the same standard as they have in England.
Have you now the same standard ?–Yes.
How long is it since that improvement was adopted?–In January last, or rather before it.
Was that immediately after the duties were placed under the Commissioners of Stamps ? –It was; they have been most attentive to it.
Was it owing to the neglect of the Commissioners of Excise, that the former standard was permitted ?–Entirely so; they paid little or no attention to the collection of the duty.
In what state do you usually send your plate to be assayed ?–As nearly finished as possible, except the polishing, for it must be scraped; they must scrape it in different parts with sharp tools; then every impression that is made on the silver will require to be taken out, and with a polishing hammer to flatten it in most cases.
Do you uniformly receive the allowance of one-sixth, whatever the state of the finishing the plate may be ?–Yes; we are exactly under the same regulation as at the hall in England, for we had an officer from the hall in England to put us on the same footing; except the 6d. an ounce less that we pay here, I do not know that there is any difference.
The one-sixth of course greatly exceeds the actual loss ?–No; in some articles I dare say very nearly a sixth comes off, for they have often different flaws; the manufacturers make a little by it no doubt, and it goes into their pockets; the shopkeepers neither here nor in London are manufacturers; there are heads of shops that have men under them, and if I want a quantity of plate I send for one of those manufacturers; one man makes spoons, and another tea-pots, and so on ; and I give him the order and the silver, and he takes it to the hall, puts his name upon it, and is accountable for all being right; a shopkeeper and a manufacturer are not compatible at all together.
Messrs. Rundell and Bridge are shopkeepers and manufacturers too, are they not ?–They have tried it, but they do it to a very little extent; whatever we manufacture we are bound to, whether it is badly executed or not, but where we are not bound to the manufacture we may refuse it if it does not suit. I have manufactured more plate under my own name than any other in Dublin, but it is not found advantageous to conduct the manufacturing and keeping a shop too.
Is your own name put upon it ?–The maker puts his own name; he sends in to the Goldsmiths' Hall such a mark punch as he puts upon the plate ; they will not take it in unless there is a mark upon it according to that mark punch; he must always be accountable for it in case there is a suspicion of a fraudulent imitation of the mark.
Are any persons who have the management of the assay office in the trade?–No; by law they cannot be in the trade; according to our charter they cannot follow any branch of the goldsmith's business.
In point of fact they are not ?–No, certainly not.
How do they become acquainted with the business ?–They must originally have been manufacturers of either gold or silver.
They must abandon their profession in order to be elected as officers of the Goldsmiths' Company ?–Yes.
Are you a member of the Goldsmiths' Hall ?–Yes.
Can you be an officer of the Goldsmiths' Hall ?–Every member of the Goldsmiths' Company can be master and warden ; in the Goldsmiths' Hall there are but three persons who have been formerly silversmiths, the assay master, deputy assay master, and touch warden; the deputy assay master is allowed £70 a year by Government; we appoint him, and the Government confirm it and pay him £70 a year, and he is their officer ; but the Commissioners of Stamps wishing to know how every thing goes forward, and to see that the punches are properly taken care of, send an officer of theirs every day to the hall, and he has a key, together with the assay master, of the iron chest in which the punches are kept; he remains there till all the work is finished, and sees the chest locked up again, and sees that every thing is right, that he may report to the Commissioners of Stamps.
The assay office is a part of the Goldsmiths'Hall?–There is a charter giving to the Goldsmiths' Company a power of electing officers and managing the collection of the King's duties; we have regulations which are printed, which would show at once the entire management or regulation of the hall, and we gave the Commissioners a copy of our charter; in fact every information that they could require; they came on different days and remained with us during our sittings as a corporation.
What are the members or officers of the Goldsmiths' Hall who are precluded being in the trade?–Those belonging to the assay office having the punches, or having any thing to do with the assaying or touching gold or silver, must give up all their business as goldsmiths or silversmiths.
Is the business of the assay office sufficient to give them a maintenance?–It keeps them very poorly; the assay master indeed has about £300 a year, but the late assay master is still alive, and I believe he gets £150 of the late Irish currency out of what the present assay master has, for we have no funds out of which to superannuate him, the deputy assay master has £70 a year; the corporation make it a £100 new currency ; and the same to the weigher and drawer.
The assay office will consist of retired tradesmen, probably ?–Exactly so.
Have you reason to think that the Public are imposed upon by the sale of plate by any part of the trade, either with forged or transposed marks ?–There is an impression that there are persons who make up spoons, and other work too, which have a fraudulent hall-mark.
Have you reason to believe that the Assay Office or Goldsmiths Hall take any pains to discover such a fraud ?–I do not know that it is possible for them to ascertain it in any way; their time is entirely engaged about their own duties and business there.
Has it never happened that any of the assay officers visit the trade to inspect their work ?–Never, without positive information. I have had different meetings with Mr. Cooper, who is the commissioner, who has taken so much pains on the business. We have often consulted how the business could be best managed so as to ascertain as to suspected houses if any thing was considered as going on wrong, but the law is not clearly defined.
What has been the result of your conversations with Mr. Cooper upon that subject; have you come to any conclusion ?–We could not come to any conclusion for want of bringing any ostensible person forward who could go to the workshops, and have authority sufficient to get the work ; the Act of Parliament throws it into the hand of the master of the corporation.
Is there any improvement of the law you would suggest for that purpose ?–I think the Commissioners of Stamps ought to have power to take one of the officers of the police, and to go to those shops, and take a proper person with them who could ascertain and examine the work, and have power to go through the house, and examine the house generally.
Does not the charter give the Goldsmiths Company power to examine the stock ?–The master may have power, and they have power, for they have often exercised it. About two years ago they went through the trade, having got positive information, and took up a good deal of work which was fraudulently hall marked.
Did they proceed against the proprietors ?–They forfeited the work; they would have proceeded against the man,–we traced it to one particular workman–but he fled. The present master has no interest, for he is not in the business; he has been a watchmaker; he is acquainted with most of the persons in the trade, and would not like to go into shops in that unpleasant capacity. The wardens are more or less interested perhaps in concealing; perhaps some of the articles may be traced into their own shops ; they may be shopkeepers.
Is it customary to expose plate for sale before it is marked ?–No ; I have not known that to be done since the Act passed by Mr. Forster.
There is only one assay office in all Ireland ?–Only one ; that is quite sufficient.
Is there any manufacture of plate in any other part of Ireland ?–A great deal comes from Cork ; no other place.
Is not it extremely inconvenient for them to send up their plate to be marked ?–They made an application ten or twelve years ago for an office at Cork; they were directed to point out what they would pay the officers, and it was found that the whole duty which it was probable would be paid there would not pay the officers, and unless they are well paid there is too much temptation to intrust a power of having an assay office.
What sum was considered to be the minimum of what would be sufficient to support an assay office?–I think £400 a year to pay house-rent and taxes, and the other expenses attending it; £400 is the very lowest.
Is Cork the only place where there is any manufacture of plate to any extent besides Dublin ?–No plate is manufactured in Ireland, except in Dublin and Cork.
Have you reason to suppose there are any evasions of the duty so far as the manufacture of Cork is concerned ?–I have no reason to believe there is.
Is there any export of plate from Cork ?–Nothing but what officers or persons going abroad may purchase for their own table ; not in the ordinary way of export.
Are there many venders of plate in Cork?–I dare say there are four. I think there are but two manufacturers in Cork.
You do not consider the trade carried on to any great extent in Ireland ?–It is not.
Can you form an estimate of the quantity of plate manufactured in Ireland ?–No; I have often had it before me, but I cannot recollect the quantity; at present there is very little ; it is all to be found at the Stamp Office, and at Goldsmiths Hall.
That would show all on which duty was paid ?–Yes; and that is all which is manufactured, unless that there are petty spoon makers who manufacture and send them over to Liverpool. I told Mr. Cooper of this, and he said he would send over to Liverpool, and make purchases of some Irish hall-marked spoons there to ascertain it; but it is impossible almost to tell, for the stamp is not put on so well as it ought to be; in the finishing it is so defaced that it would be difficult to ascertain whether it was a real hall-mark, or a forgery on spoons and small articles; and indeed I think the hall-mark upon all our plate is deficient in that respect, that it is not legible.
Is that a fault in the dies ?–Yes.
Are they renewed annually?–Yes, they are; it is the fault of the dies, and I think a good deal the fault of the manufacture. I speak from the comparison with England.
What is the defect of the manufacture of plate ?–Touching it at all if it can be avoided after it is done; in the bottoms of tea-pots and so on it need never be done, for it does not affect the eye, but I think they do not finish them exact, or they attempt to finish them afterwards, and polish them where the hall marks have been put upon much more than they do in England.
Have you reason to suppose that the manufacturers are in the habit of carrying to the assay office parts of intended articles, getting them stamped, and then finishing the articles with other parts; suppose a pair of spectacles, for instance, consisting of three or four pieces, may they not get one piece stamped, and then sell the whole under the protection of that one stamp ?–No; I do not think such a thing could happen here; in the first instance, there is very little made in Ireland ; it is got in a great measure from England ; and the officers of the assay office are very particular to see the entire of it, and to stamp the whole; if they send a tea-pot without a handle and button, they would ask where they were, and if they said it was wood, they must bring the wood and show it.
Is the greatest part of the plate manufactured in Ireland exported or used in the country ? –Used in the country.
Is the manufacture of plate increasing or decreasing ?–Just according to the times; the last spring there was a great deal manufactured and brought to the hall , it usually falls off in summer, but there has been less this summer sent to the hall, than any summer I recollect.
An officer from Goldsmiths Hall in England came to Ireland a short time ago; Mr. Wintle ? –Yes; he exerted himself very much to put us all to rights.
What are the improvements he introduced ?–In the first instance, we wanted new scales and weights, which he recommended, and we got; we made alterations in regard to the fuel which was used; we get our charcoal now from Bristol, which we use in place of turf; turf was supposed to have some metallic properties in it, which did not enable us to assay correctly.
Could not you get Irish charcoal ?–We could, and had got it; but we found it better to get it from Bristol; and the bone-ash which they had used here was of a porous quality, not good; and the shape of the cupples on which the article is placed was not such as they found from experience the best in London; and he got over a quantity of that also; and another was with regard to the lead; our lead was merely the common lead we purchase any where, that always contains a certain portion of silver. I have got both lead and bone-ash over from London, the same which the assay office in London use, which contains no particle of silver; and he brought over the regulations of the assay office in London, and we have conformed exactly to the management and regulations of the London Assay Office.
Did Mr. Wintle detect any frauds ?–I do not think that he brought home any; he had suspicions, but I do not think he made any actual discovery of fraud that could be brought home; but for some time after we commenced on the new standard according to law the assay master was not exactly acquainted with it; for want of the bone-ash, and for want of lead and other articles, our silver that would be reported as standard here, and hall-marked here, would be reported in London two or three pennyweights worse than in London; and Mr. Wintle, under the directions of Mr. Cooper, did make repeated trials; he purchased articles hall-marked in Dublin, sent them to London, and found they would not have been hall-marked in London; then, when we got the new scales, and bone-ash and lead, I think we are now brought exactly to the standard.
Has the experiment been made by sending any articles to London ?–It has.
Do the Goldsmiths Company here send their diet to the Mint in London ?–No; that regulation has not been followed up ; I believe the assay master, who is acting under the direction of Mr. Cooper and the commissioner, has for some time past kept the diets, and gives the manufacturer the weight of them, by which they can establish a pix.
Is it your belief that no plate is imported from Liverpool or any other English port into Ireland, on which the duty has not been fully paid ?–I do not think there is an ounce comes into this country, but the full duty is paid upon it in England; it would be from respectable manufacturers only that plate could be imported.
There is a great deal of plate manufactured in Liverpool ?–They have a hall at Chester; but very little is manufactured at Chester; it is manufactured at Liverpool. They have halls also at Sheffield, Birmingham, and London; they have a hall also at Bristol, but very little comes from thence.
Do you find it more advantageous to buy English manufactured plate than Irish ?–In many articles I do, where there are dies used; the die of a waiter, perhaps, would cost me £20, and that die will answer to the manufacturer in London to make many from; whereas if it was here there might not be as many sold as that the amount of profit would pay for the die.
Do you think an alteration of the rate of duty would materially affect the sale of plate in Ireland ?–If taxes are to be taken off, it would be, in my opinion, better to take off the sixpence in England, and to leave both countries alike. But if the sixpence is put on here it could not make any great difference; it would produce very little. I think they would get as much duty in the hall in London, by having it a shilling an ounce, as one-and-sixpence; there would be less temptation to commit fraud; and I am sure much more fraud is committed in England than here.
What is the particular sort of fraud in London which you suspect?–I am sure there is a vast quantity of plate made in England that goes to the Jews shops, and is sold as secondhand, that never has been to the hall; and there are articles with bottoms which have been stamped, which are put in.
Can you point out by what means that could be prevented ?–Only by the officers visiting the shops; but then they will say that they purchased it second-hand. Gentlemen tell me that they get such and such articles at six shillings an ounce; if they do get them at that price, I am satisfied they have never been stamped; they are sold as second-hand, and they say that they have lent money upon them.
Do the stamp duties attach to the same articles in Ireland as in England?--Yes.
The exemptions also are the same?--Just the same. If the excess of duty on glass were taken off, it would be a good thing. I believe the goods going from this to Liverpool may be opened and searched ; that certainly does away the advantage we expected from the coasting trade. I got over some plated goods from England, those were articles I could not sell here and I returned them, and part of them were articles on which the duty had been paid as plated ware, for I had them before the duties were taken off; but three months ago they seized the cask because it had some glass cruets in it, to ascertain whether they were liable to duty, whether it was glass going over to England which had not paid the duty. I dare say it was two months before they were released. Packages are opened that are landed in Liverpool, and examined by officers, and there is no such thing takes place here nor at Holyhead ; it prevents the carrying fully into execution the system of the coasting trade.
Does Irish manufactured glass pay the duty in England ? – Yes ; there is a duty both in England and in Ireland ; they do not now search for spirits, for that is entered on paying a duty ; if the difference of duty on plate and glass was done away, it would be a great benefit; if it was a shilling in both countries, and Ireland had a demand for the drawback on export, it would be better ; the want of these things prevents the completion of the Act of Union.
Have you found any benefit in your trade from the recent abolition of the union duties? – A considerable benefit ; the best proof is, that there has not been a manufacturer since the duty was taken off without employment, any more than there was previously to it; there the thing to be apprehended was the persons being out of employment, but no man has been out of employment who thought proper to work.
You refer to your own business ? – Yes ; the jewellers and silversmiths have all had full employment. The intercourse now is rendered so complete that we can get immediately from England any thing we may require; we get things over in four days now; we get over parts of the manufacture which are well done in England.
Are those detached parts stamped before they are sent from England ? – No ; when I get over parts from England I had other parts here, and it is all stamped together.
There is no declaration that it is Irish manufacture? – No ; it is no matter to the government which it is.
Is it not an infringement of the law to export from England articles which have not paid the duty? – No; the article is not finished ; it must be stamped here; there is no more difference than if a piece of plate was manufactured in Sheffield and sent to Birmingham to be finished.
Do you conceive that under the law what you term unfinished plate can be exported from England without being first subjected to the duty? – I do; as much as it might be carried from one part of London to another ; ultimately it must pay the duty ; there can be no injury to the revenue, for if it paid the duty of Is. 6d. in London, we should get back the 6d. extra; the object in all cases is to protect the revenue.
You mean that if it is ultimately to be sold in Ireland, it is immaterial whether it pays the English duty, and the drawback is allowed, or whether it is stamped in the first instance here ? – Certainly the Crown does not lose by it : it is the same to the revenue. If there were protecting duties, or if we had two exchequers, and the two were put to two accounts, that would be another thing ; but there being one revenue, it comes to the same thing.
It comes to the same thing, unless it were to be sent back to England ? – There is the opening to fraud. I could send for goods from England, get the drawback on those goods, and then send them back again, and that is one reason why I think the duties in the two countries ought to be alike. I could import an article that I bought at Liverpool, obtain the drawback, send it back by Holyhead, where it would not be opened, then bring it over again from Liverpool, and get the 6d. an ounce upon it again, entering it each time for the drawback. The Jews have done that, I have been informed, to an immense extent; it was found that there were more plain rings reported to have had drawback got upon them in England than were actually stamped at the hall ; but then they got the whole duty upon them.
What would be the drawback on Irish plate exported to any foreign port? – There is no drawback on Irish stamped plate, and that prevents our having an export trade.
Supposing Irish plate were exported from England, could a drawback be claimed for that? -–That will have paid the additional duty on going into England.
Would Irish plate be seizable in England, unless it had paid the additional duty ? – I think it would be if it was sent over to be sold in England. If a person went to a silversmith's shop, and found spoons having the Irish hall mark, I think the shopkeeper might be called upon to show that they had paid the additional 6d. in England.
You have not known an instance of a seizure under such circumstances ? – No, I have not.
You have no doubt that Irish plate is sold in Liverpool ? – I have no doubt of it.
You believe it is sold without paying the additional duty ? – Yes ; articles of that kind may be carried over in a carpet bag, or in any way without observation, and that is another reason why I think that when it is looked into it will be found that it will be better to have the duty the same here as in England, and not to require entry any more than any other article, because that is a part of the old system still kept up, and which in case of the assimilation would be unnecessary.
Are not the plate manufacturers in Cork subject to a considerable inconvenience in sending their plate up to Dublin to be stamped? – Merely the expense of the carriage.
Must they not have an agent in Dublin to receive it ? – No ; it goes directly to Goldsmith's Hall, directed to the assay master; he opens it, and regulates every thing for them, and the package is made up and returned again without any expense or trouble.
That is a regulation for the benefit of the distant manufacturers ?–Yes ; and they never sustained any loss; it is merely the expense of a few shillings for the carriage.
You have no branch of your establishment in any part of the country except Dublin ?– No.
There is a great deal of gold and silver coming into this country, is there not ?–There has been a good deal coming in from America in dollars; there is a great dulness at present.
What is the price of silver at present ?–I am now giving for the old Irish sterling, 4s. 7d. an ounce British, I am giving 4s. 4d. for Spanish dollars, and 4s. 8d. for English sterling.
What has occasioned the influx of silver in this country ?–I think there is a good deal has come in from Newfoundland; a good many Americans come here for linen, and dollars are occasionally brought in for other matters.
The Bank of Ireland object to taking in a large quantity of silver, do they not ?–They do; and I do think it would serve the trade of this country if there was a place where any foreigner bringing coin here could get an established rate for it, and not be at the mercy of the trade. In England there is only about a farthing an ounce difference between the bank price and the brokers prices. If they go to the refiners they get within a farthing an ounce in silver, and I believe, not more than three-pence an ounce in gold, of what they could get at the bank ; they can always count upon the fair value: here they are at the mercy of the trade: if the trade is brisk, and silver is wanted, they do not care about a penny or two-pence an ounce; but if they do not want it for the purposes of trade, they give so much less, because they must then send it to London, and there is the expense of the carriage of it. I sent a hundred ounces of bank tokens over to London last week: a great many people had some of them; the 6s. tokens; it is unpleasant that they have not any place where they can part with them at the fair rate: I sent over to see whether I could get a proper price for them, and I found I could not give them more than 4s. 4d. an ounce for them; that was a great loss.
That price puts the bank tokens on the same footing as the Spanish dollars ?–Yes; they were made from Spanish dollars -, if any thing, the dollars would be more valuable to have, for we could sell them to persons going out to America, whereas the others must be melted. The Bank of Ireland is not in the same situation relatively to the public as the Bank of England ?–The directors, I believe, conceive that by their charter they cannot do any act which would be considered a trading act; that they are concluded by their charter, and they do not purchase. If a glut came in here, our capital would be all gone; there is no means of realizing the value, so as to go on buying, unless I send over to London. Unless I replenished my means, I could not continue to purchase; but in England the refiners whenever they are over-stocked, have nothing to do but to send to the bank any overplus, then they keep the remainder to sell to foreigners who may be returning to different parts of the world ; what goes into the Bank of England they can get back again at a small advance. A gold and silversmith, if he has an order, may get an hundred ounces, or any quantity upwards, of gold from the bank, so that that keeps the value of bullion as close as necessary to the standard of coin.
Do you conceive that the variation is greater here than in London ?–Yes, it is; for it must be so much lower, when there is an overplus in the market, as the expense of sending it over amounts to. If the Bank of England had a branch here for the purchase and sale of bullion, supposing it to be the case that the Bank of Ireland are prevented purchasing, it might be found very useful.
What advantage would the Bank of England derive from that ?–I do not speak of the advantage to the Bank of England, though of course they must derive a profit from their purchases in London, but I speak of it as being of advantage to Dublin.
Have you any idea what amount of bullion or coin there would be for sale in that way in Dublin in a year ?–I cannot state that; but I am sure that if it was certainly known that there was a place of the kind here, a great deal of that which now goes to Liverpool would come to Dublin.
Why should Dublin be preferred to Liverpool ?–I do not say that it would be preferred; but in Liverpool they go within a farthing an ounce, for the transmission of it is so much less from Liverpool to London. I have sent over various coins to London for the purpose of seeing what I could get for them, in order to establish a rate that I could give to any foreigners with very little more difference than the carriage to London.
Do you send bullion to London directly by water, or through Holyhead ?–I send it by the Holyhead mail; but I intend to ascertain whether I cannot have it sent much cheaper by the new packet from Kingstown to Liverpool. I should hope there will be established rates for it.
There is no inconvenience arising to your trade from the mode of collecting the duty ?– Not the smallest.
I beg to remark, that connected with the last question, I might have observed, that there appears to be a hardship on the trade, by requiring both the shopkeepers, and the workmen, who manufacture for them, to take out a licence.
Jacob West.
Postby dognose » Fri Sep 04, 2009 2:15 am
There is much information in Jacob West's testimony, but it needs little explanation as he demonstrates such a thorough knowledge of the trade in Ireland, he appears to answer all the questions put to him with ease.
He was far more open, regarding the visit of James Wintle, than William Clarke, and welcomes the improvements instigated by Wintle and openly admits the previous shortcomings of the assay at Dublin.
His information regarding the illegal export of spoons through Liverpool is interesting, and it is, perhaps, a little surprising that we do not see more gold items entering the English market at this time, bearing in mind the great difference in the Duty charged between the two countries.
His knowledge of the assay offices in England, however, was not so good, making no mention of the offices in Exeter, Newcastle and York, but in the belief that the assay office in Bristol was still in existance.
There is one point in Jacob West's evidence that I do find somewhat odd, it is the reference that there was full employment within the trade in Ireland. Well, full employment there may have been, but that does not mean that the working silversmith was enjoying riches, far from it, most Irish spoonmakers were very poor, working from their homes, they were dependent on the retail silversmiths who held great sway over them. It was the retail silversmith who supplied the raw material and advanced the money to pay the Duty, for many working silversmiths could not fund the execution of their work. It was the working silversmith who submitted his work for the assay and any failure would have fell on his shoulders. At this time the Plate Licence was extended to the working silversmith, it previously had only been a requirement for the retail silversmith in Ireland and this extension was a crushing blow to many. Jacob West does make a point of mentioning the suffering that was being caused by this added burden in his final remark.
The next to have the light shone in their eyes was Richard Williams.
Richard Williams is perhaps to be identified with the long standing Williams family of Dublin Silversmiths, and may be the son of Richard Williams (Free 1752-Died 1798) and possibly the brother of Robert Williams the Master of the Company in 1803.
The 'Mr Law' in question, would have been Matthew Law, who became head of the well known firm of Dublin silversmiths, William Law & Son, following the death of his father in 1820.
Appendix, No. 96. Examinations.
1 September 1826.
Mr. Richard Williams called in and examined.
You are in the employment of Mr. Law ?–Yes.
Mr. Law is in the business of a silversmith ?–Yes.
Does he manufacture his own articles ?–Not in the house ; he has workmen employed.
On his own account ?–They work for other shops as well as for his; but he generally keeps them pretty well employed himself.
He does not work on his own account ?–No.
He is not a manufacturer of plate ?–No; when the workmen come he gives out the silver, and he pays the duty, and they put their names with his name upon it.
He pays the duty?–Yes.
How does he get the work from the manufacturers when it is to go to the hall ?–It goes in an unfinished state to the hall.
Who sends it there?–The workman; the man who keeps the journeymen employed.
Does Mr. Law furnish them with money to pay the duty ?–Yes.
Do you ever accompany the workmen to the hall ?–No.
Are the marks of the hall very clear and sharp ?–Latterly they have been more so than the former ones we had.
Can you easily detect a forgery ?–I could not; never having seen one I could not detect it; the only person who would be able to detect a forgery is the person who cuts the dies.
Would not the assay master himself ?–I cannot immediately say; he would be better able to answer for himself as to that.
Have you any reason to believe that there is much evasion of that duty; that there is any forged plate on sale in Dublin?–I cannot say now; but I was given to understand there was some, some time ago.
What would have remedied that ?–I think strict investigation is the only thing.
What do you conceive is the reason there is none on sale now ?–From a stricter examination : there was a person sent over to this side of the water, of the name of Wintle, who went about as soon as the corporation got information of any thing of the kind, and the man who was supposed to have forged ran away at that time.
Did Mr. Wintle introduce any improvements in the mode of assaying ?–I cannot say ; I am not acquainted with the assay office.
Does Mr. Law import any of his articles from England?–Not any silver.
Does he export any to England ?–Yes, he does.
To what port chiefly ?–Chiefly to Liverpool; sometimes we send by the Head. Mr. Law has sent some things to London, to Mr. Peel, and to Mr. Dawson ; they went by the Head.
Those were not in the way of trade, but ordered over from him ?–Yes.
You do not export to Liverpool for sale: in Liverpool ? No, we do not.
Do you consider your articles here equal to those of Liverpool and London ?–Certainly, according to the prices paid them.
What difference is there in the price ?–Rich plate will come something on the same ratio in both countries; a very rich plate article we can manufacture, I think, cheaper, and pretty nearly, if not equally, as well as in London.
You must have dies to work from, must you not ?–No; that is by chasing.
Does it answer to you to work by dies ?–That would create a great deal of expense ; we have dies for a great many articles ; those things which are in general use, such as forks and spoons, the King's pattern, and other patterns which are in general use, and edges of dishes and tea-pots, and those things in the general run of work.
Does Mr. Law import from England any parts of articles to be completed here ?–Never.
The whole of his articles that he sells are of Irish manufacture ?–Yes; sometimes when he goes to London he may see a pattern which he would wish to have, and he purchases a cup or a tea set, or something of that kind, but nothing further than that.
Is it usual in Dublin to expose plate for sale before it has got the assay mark ?–Never.
In what state is it sent to the assay ?–When it is pumiced; and after it is assayed it goes to the polisher.
Nothing remains to be done but the polishing before it is sold ?–No, except the taking off the scraper marks, which have been made at the office.
Are you always allowed a sixth on the plate ?–Yes.
Does not that amount to more than the actual loss?–I cannot say ; the polishing takes off a great deal of the weight sometimes ; a man cannot send it in that perfect state to the assay office.
Mr. Law pays the shilling an ounce?–The man generally comes to us for the money.
Does he receive an abatement of one-sixth ?–The workman has it; if there is any advantage, that goes to the workman ; Mr. Law pays the full duty on the work when it comes in finished to him, of the Is. Id. British.
The duty is Is. Id. British ?–Yes; it was 1s. 2d. Irish; Id. out of that goes to the hall to support the expenses of the establishment.
Has Mr. Law a licence for dealing in plate ?–Yes, he has.
You have mentioned that Id. an ounce goes to the hall, is that penny paid in English currency ?–Yes.
What duty is paid on silver gilt plate ?–The gilding is a thing done after it goes through the hall.
There is no additional duty paid upon that ?–No.
You have not heard Mr. Law complain of frauds or evasions committed by any inferior dealers of late ?–I heard that the last hall they had some investigation, just previous to Mr. Law's going abroad.
What situation does Mr. Law hold in the hall ?–He is one of the corporation.
What is the requisite in order to belong to the hall ?–That he must be a freeman of the city of Dublin; and if he was born in the corporation, he can take out his freedom in that corporation; but it would be by special grace that any person not born a member of the corporation can get into the company on paying certain fees; he must be proposed, and perhaps they may reject him.
Must he necessarily be in the trade ?–No; there are many gentlemen whose fathers were silversmiths ; there are a great number of them attornies.
Has the sale of plate much increased in Dublin ?–Not within the last three or four months.
In all the articles exposed for sale in your shop, is each piece of silver marked separately, or the article alone marked ?–Every piece of plate attached to any large article has the hall mark.
In how many pieces is a tea-pot ?–That is considered only three; the body and spout is all one; the handle and button, if they are silver, are marked, and the body is marked.
What is the lid ?–The lid is always fastened to the tea-pot by a joint . You do not consider that a separate part?–No; if it drops on without a joint, then it is marked; the little knot that fastens the button underneath is marked.
In the case of the lid not having a mark, how do you know it has been at the Goldsmiths' Hall ?–If it is attached to the tea-pot by a joint.
How are you convinced that it has been at the Goldsmiths' Hall ?–We must only take for granted that it has.
Could not the lid be attached to the tea-pot after its being marked?–Yes, but a tea-pot will not be taken in at the hall unless it is perfect, and all its parts are taken in with it.
Have you known any instances of articles being rejected for not being perfect?–Yes, in the old assay master's time. He has sent back a tea-pot because the handle was not sent, and he would not be contented unless he saw that it was a wooden handle.
A pair of spectacles for instance ?–That is not in our business ; that lies with the opticians.
Does Mr. Law ever export plate to foreign countries ?–Last spring he sent things out to America, and the gentleman to whom he sent them wished to have the drawback; Mr. Law could not get it for him.
What duty did he pay ?–The Is. 2d.
Was it a considerable shipment?–We had not a great order for silver work; we send a great deal of plated work.
What would have been the amount of the drawback if it could have been received ?–I am not able to say.
Does it ever happen that plate is sent to England to be exported from thence?–Not to my knowledge; we were told that if we sent to England, we could get the drawback thence; that plate was sent to Liverpool to take a ship to Halifax, but we did not apply for the drawback, not supposing we could get it there.
If you make plate for a gentleman in London, and are ordered to send it to him, where do you pay the additional duty ?–We pay no additional duty except what we pay at the hall.
Is there no additional duty payable in England ?–No; we pack it up in a box, and send it directed to the gentleman who ordered it.
Just the same as if it was any other article of household furniture?–Yes.
Do you do much in that way?–Indeed we do.
There is an evident saving by the English purchaser of the sixpence an ounce?–I should think there must.
Is there much plate of English manufacture imported into this country for the use of English gentlemen?–That I cannot state; that rests with the gentlemen themselves; some will say, I will have no plate but English plate.
Is there much brought in by individuals, in your opinion ?–Indeed I do not doubt but there has been; that only rests in prejudice, I should think, some people thinking they could not get them so good here.
Is the manufacture of plate improving here in point of execution ?–Yes, vastly.
Is your shop ever visited by any person from the assay office?–I cannot immediately say that it has been of late.
Formerly, you have known it visited ?–Sometimes I have; but perhaps it may have been visited at a time of day when I was not there.
How long is it since the practice of visiting shops ceased?–It was in a great measure on account of that inquiry being made about the forgery of the hall-marks.
Do you think any person from the assay office has been of late in the habit of visiting the traders in Dublin ?–I cannot say that I ever knew it to be inspected ; I think when Mr. Wintle was here, there was some person called to visit us, but I do not know that I saw him myself.
You are not in any other way controlled by the assay office than as you send them your plate to be assayed ?–Nothing further; our house is open to the inspection of any person from the assay office, if he pleases to come and examine.
No officer from the excise has ever been ?–No further than to see that we had our licence.
Is there a considerable manufacture of plate in Cork?–I cannot say; I know there is a manufacture there, but I do not know to what extent.
Has Mr. Law any branches of his establishment in any other part of Ireland ?–No.
Does he supply any shops out of Dublin ?–No, I cannot say that he does.
Postby dognose » Mon Oct 05, 2009 11:14 am
Richard Williams's testimony, like that of Jacob West's, reveals some more interesting information. I think it can now be understood as to why a larger, than might be imagined, amount of Irish silver spoons are to be found today. The difference in the Duty between England and Ireland would have made the undercover import of Irish flatware into England an attractive proposition with a third of the Duty to be saved. If the main artery into England was, as it appears to be, through the port of Liverpool, then this perhaps is the reason why we see little flatware marked at the Chester Assay Office during these times.
It is also clear from Richard Williams's statement that the firm of William Law & Son are now retailers only. The large retailers held great sway over the often impoverished spoonmakers and as can be seen they fronted up the raw material and the Duty, only paying for the fashioning of the pieces. As can be seen from our Irish Retailers Project the 'workmen' that Williams refered too is likely to be that of Thomas Townsend and Thomas Farnel at this period of time.
The following month the Board interviewed the Belfast retail silversmith James Carruthers who had registered with the Dublin Company in 1821 as a watchmaker.
James Carruthers is noted as a Watchmaker & Jeweller of 8, Castle Street, Belfast, in the Belfast & Lisburn Directory of 1819.
28th October 1826.
Mr. James Carruthers called in and examined.
You are a silversmith in the town of Belfast ?–I am.
Do you make any plate ?–No.
Are there any in the trade here who make plate ?–No; we make small articles under the weight allowed by Government to exclude the hall mark; two or three pennyweights; but there are no large plate articles made here.
From whence does it come ?–From Dublin.
You do not import any?–No, I think not; the hall duty in England is much higher than it is here.
Whom do you deal with in Dublin ?–Mr. Le Bas and Mr. Commin.
Are they manufacturers ?–Yes.
Is there any plate exported from this place ?–No, not that I know of.
Has it come to your knowledge that any plate is sold by inferior dealers in Belfast without a proper hall-mark?–No; I have heard it reported that there was silver made in Dublin by a person of the name of Smith of that description.
Did you hear it was sent to Belfast?–I do not know; I did once deal with Smith.
Where did you get your information ?–It was mentioned in the paper the other day ; there were some gentlemen here a short time ago from the Goldsmiths' Hall to inspect the plate.
Did the Excise Office use to visit your place when the duty was under the collection of the excise ?–No, never.
Do you take out a license?–Yes.
That is from the Stamp Office, is it not ?–Yes.
What do you pay?–£6-1s., I think.
Has any officer from the Stamp Office ever visited your shop ?–They sometimes call to ask whether we have licenses to sell plate; they never call to examine the stock.
In what state do you get your plate from Dublin ?–Completely finished.
You never finish any here ?–No.
Mr. J. Carruthers, 28 October 1826.
Postby dognose » Mon Nov 02, 2009 3:04 pm
There is not much information to be gleaned from James Carruthers testimony. If he is correct, the larger Belfast silversmiths of the period, Robert & John Gray, Henry Gardner, and Robert Neil were all buying in at this time and were not manufacturing silversmiths.
Carruthers notes his suppliers as Mr Le Bas and Mr Commin, this would have been James Le Bas and William Cummins (Cumying), both who worked out of Great Ship Street, Dublin.
Postby dognose » Tue Nov 03, 2009 9:41 am
Besides the inquires made of the silversmiths and assay office staff, officers from the Comissioner of Stamps office were also interviewed. Although much of their evidence concerned the Stamp Duty on newspapers etc., there are some details of the silver trade that are worth filtering out.
The first extract comes from the evidence given by Jonathan Sisson Cooper, the Senior Commissioner to the Board of Stamps in Dublin and number two to William Campbell the Chairman of the Provisional Board of Stamps in Dublin. Cooper had held this position since early 1824, previous to that he had been in the receiver-general's Office of the Customs and Excise.
Cooper was interviewed on Friday 25th August 1826 and the extract from his evidence that is of interest to us is as follows:
Is the plate duty received by the Stamp Office now?–It is. The plate duty under the Board of Excise was only paid in quarterly; it occurred to us that great inconvenience might arise from that, and we suggested to the Goldsmiths' Company that as all our distributors paid in weekly, we requested they would do the same; they concurred in the propriety of the measure, and it is all paid in weekly to the receiver-general.
You have only one Assay Office in Ireland ?–Only one; that is in Dublin. All the goods are sent up from Cork and Belfast to be assayed in Dublin.
Have you any reason to suspect that there is a good deal of fraud committed in the plate duty?–There is an apprehension abroad that there is. That there is some I have no doubt, but I apprehend to a very trifling extent. I am working this moment at a private information, which I think will lead me perhaps to the whole of the extent. I believe it is confined to only one character. I rather apprehend that will turn out to be the case. There were lately two or three dozen of forks sold here at public auction; they had no mark of duty but the word "sterling" impressed upon them. We sent for them immediately that we heard of it; the auctioneer declared it had escaped his observation; that the person who purchased them had returned them to him, and that he, on observing the marks, had them melted down, so that we could get no clue. He was a regularly licensed auctioneer, and we could not doubt that he was telling us the truth.
What is the name of the auctioneer ?–I do not at the moment recollect it, but he is an auctioneer in Dame Street.
Where is the Assay Office ?–It is in Kennedy's Lane.
In what parts of Ireland besides Dublin is there a manufacture of plate ?–In Cork and Belfast.
Do you think there is any considerable quantity of plate imported which has not paid duty ?–We suspected there was, but one case where we inquired turned out. to be otherwise; there were some articles imported into Belfast, and it was conceived that the stamps were not correct, but they turned out to be so.
You think there is no unstamped plate sold ?–No; I do not think there is any quantity.
Are you aware whether there is much importation of plate from England ?–I am sure there is not, because the duty here is lower.
There is a drawback ?–I believe not on plate sent to Ireland: it would be better they should lower the duty in England, and have no drawback. The manufacturers here wished us to apply to the Treasury for a drawback on Irish plate going abroad, but understanding Examinations, there was a general arrangement of the duties proposed, and that they are to be equalized, we declined to make any representation.
The duty on plate in Ireland is less than in England?–Yes; it is only 1s. here, it is 1s. 6d. in England. I believe it is only on going to foreign countries that the drawback is allowed, and not between England and Ireland. We have effected a great alteration and improvement in the mode of assaying here: on the duty being placed under our Board, we found a man eighty years of age, who had been fifty years assay-master, and who was exceedingly incompetent; the Assay Office was open only every second day; we got him removed, and an efficient man in his place; got the furnace new modelled, and established a daily attendance at the office, and the business is now going on very fairly.
Is the assay officer an officer of the Stamp Office ?–No; the whole is under the Corporation of Goldsmiths. But when we got into contact with the Goldsmiths Company, we pressed upon them the necessity of conforming to the English plan; we made them change two officers, and incur further expense, which they were very loth to do. There was one and a half difference between the English and the Irish assay; the Irish was one and a half worse, owing to the imperfect manner of making the assay, and the imperfect materials employed: they employed turf in their furnace instead of charcoal, and whiting in their cupples instead of bone-ash; the shape of their furnace was wrong, it did not give it all the advantage of the heat it should have done; the scales in use were not at all fit for the object, and we insisted upon their getting a pair from London. Mr. Campbell, our chairman, got them a set of scales and weights, which I conceive are as good as those used at the Assay Office in London. Our assay master has now a pride in his office, and has sent some of his bits to the Mint for trial.
Is he not bound by Act of Parliament to do that ?–No, I believe not; in England they do it, but I am not aware that they are bound to do it. The bits he sent to the Mint for trial he tells me have turned out very fair.
Is the Assay Office open every day ?–Every day but Monday; they find that the workmen are not sufficiently recovered from their indulgence on Sunday to work on a Monday.
Is there any charge made by the Goldsmiths Company ?–Yes; they are allowed seventy pounds a year for their deputy assay master, and twopence in the shilling for collecting the King's duty.
Are you aware whether there are any statutable regulations applying to the Goldsmiths Company with respect to the collection of the plate duties ?–There are; but we have looked more to the English precedents for our guidance. There are certainly provisions in the Excise laws for the collection of the duties on plate, but the particulars of them I do not recollect.
Postby dognose » Sat Nov 07, 2009 1:52 pm
The next member of the Stamp Office staff who was called in and examined was D'arcy Mahon. Mahon was one of the Commissioners of the Provisional Board of Stamps, he was appointed in February 1824, prior to that postion he spent over twenty years as the Inspector-General of the Stamp Duties of Ireland.
He was interviewed on Monday, 28th August 1826.
Again, much of Mahon's evidence does not concern us here, but the extract that is of interest to us is as follows:
The collection of the duty on gold and silver plate has lately been transferred to your Board, under the Act of 6 Geo. 4. ?–Yes, it has.
What steps have you taken to insure the due collection of that duty ?–We got a man over from England, a very intelligent man, and he went about to the persons who were subject to the duty for gold and silver plate; and we have got all but four working persons who plead poverty, and say that persons of their description are not called upon to take out licenses in London; and I got Mr. Cooper to take a memorandum of it, and he said he would write to Mr. Pressley, to ascertain whether persons of the description I allude to were licensed in London or not.
What is the number of licenses at present out?–About 100, I think, in Dublin, and upwards of 100 in the country.
Are there any licensed dealers out of Dublin ?–There are several; altogether, in Dublin and country, 226, as well as I recollect.
How is the duty on plate accounted for to you ?–It is accounted for by the guild of goldsmiths and silversmiths; we have not a sufficient control over it, but we are getting them on as well as we can, and I think we are improving it.
How often do they pay the duty ?–They pay it now weekly; they used to pay only once a quarter.
Do they receive it under any statutable regulation ?–Under their charter. We cannot interfere with the receipt of the duty; they receive the duty, and afterwards pay it to our receiver-general.
Are you clear that their charter gives them the power of receiving the stamp duty ?–I am not certain whether their title under charter is not strengthened by Act of Parliament. They receive the duty under an Excise Act of the 47 Geo. 3, c. 15, s. 5 & 6, I believe it is; I know it originates in their patent or charter.
Do you know what is allowed to the Goldsmiths' Company for receiving the duty ?– Mr. Cooper attends more to that branch of duty. I have all the cancels to attend to, which occupy me two entire days in the week: and Mr. Cooper has devoted himself a good deal to the plate license duty.
Are you aware how the duty which is incurred in the country is received ?–They are obliged to send their plate up to Dublin to be assayed and charged.
There is only one assay office in all Ireland ?–Only one
Postby dognose » Mon Nov 16, 2009 9:50 am
Another member of the Commissioner's staff that was interviewed was Anthony O'Conner. He was appointed distributor of stamps for the county of Antrim in 1806.
Anthony O'Conner's office was situated in Arthur Street, Belfast and he brought with him, when he was questioned on the second day of giving his evidence, the 27th October 1826, an account of the Plate Licence returns for the county of Antrim.
How many persons are there in Belfast who have taken out plate licenses ?–Twenty-one in Belfast, and one at Ballymena.
How far is Ballymena from Belfast ?–It is about forty miles.
Are there none in any other parts of Antrim ?–No.
The plate duty has only lately been put under your direction ?–Only lately.
What instructions did you receive on that occasion?–They sent me the licenses with instructions to sell them when called for.
What do you do with respect to the collection of the duty on plate ?–There is no plate duty paid here; I do not think there is any plate duty paid in Belfast.
Do you think there is plate made in Belfast ?–Indeed I do think there is but I thought a person taking out a license had a power to make plate.
Is it a license to make plate, or a license to sell plate ?–Both, I believe.
How would he get it stamped when he had made it ?–I do not know indeed.
You have no Assay Office here ?–No, I believe not.
Have you reason to suspect any frauds in the plate duty?–No, indeed, I cannot say that I have.
You know nothing about it either the one way or the other ?–No, I do not, it is only since the 5th of January last that it was put into my hands.
Were you ever instructed to attend to that subject?–No, not further than to give out those licenses when called for.
Postby dognose » Thu Nov 19, 2009 6:52 am
The presence of Anthony O'Conner before the Board of Inquiry is a truly important one to us, not for what he stated, but for what he brought with him.
An official inquiry such as this meant that O'Conner's account of the Plate Licence returns for the county of Antrim, because he presented it to the Board to support his evidence that he was doing the job that he was appointed and paid to do, was officially recorded in detail by a clerk as part of the evidence for the Parliamentary Inquiry and today provides a wonderful record of the silver trade in Belfast in the year 1826.
The account was recorded as follows:
Antrim.–A RETURN of the several Persons who have taken out Plate Licenses from the Distributors of Stamps for the County of Antrim, from the 5th day of January 1826, being the period at which they came under the Management of the Commissioners of Stamps.
1. John Moore---Belfast
2. James Carruthers---Belfast
3. Robert and John Gray---Belfast
4. Patrick Keenan---Belfast
5. Robert Neil---Belfast
6. George and Hugh Hyndman---Belfast
7. Edward Gribben---Belfast
8. Hugh Kennedy---Belfast
9. Henry L. Gardner---Belfast
10. Robert Shaw---Belfast
11. John Riddel---Belfast
12. David Mitchell--Belfast
13. John Bryan---Belfast
14. William Hutton---Belfast
15. Robert Patterson---Belfast
16. William White---Belfast
17. Richard Baxter---Belfast
18. Edward Porter---Belfast
19. John Stewart---Belfast
20. John Wallace---Belfast
21. James Ward---Belfast
22. James Gordon---Ballymoney
Dated this 27th day of October 1826....A. O'Conner.
Bearing in mind the new found enthusiasm of the Commission of Stamps and their eagerness to prove that they were doing a better job of enforcing the law than the former authority of the Excise department in the issue of Plate Licences, then I believe the above list will be the most accurate record of those, or at least who were the employers of those in the silver trade in Antrim at this period of time.
Re: For Those with an Interest in Irish Silver
Postby dognose » Fri Feb 11, 2011 2:57 pm
The physical evidence of the changeover in authority for the collection of duty on gold and silver from the Commissioners of Excise to the Commissioners of Stamps can be seen in the date letter used at the Dublin Assay Office for the period 1825-1826. The Act of Parliament (6 George IV Chapter 118) that transfered the authority also changed the allowance of variation used at the assay from 2 1/2 dwt per Ib Troy to 1 1/2 dwt. per Ib Troy, thus bringing the Dublin Assay Office into line with the same allowance used at the London Assay Office.
The date letter upper case 'E', in use since January 1825, was discontinued in use on the 19th September 1825 and replaced by the date letter lower case 'e' as from the 20th September 1825 and was in use until the 28th May 1826 when the date letter system was returned to its former cycle with the use of an upper case 'F'.
Postby dognose » Mon Oct 29, 2012 9:23 am
The Introduction of the Mark of Hibernia
As this topic deals with taxation on Irish silver, I thought it worth adding some details regarding the mark of Hibernia.
The mark of Hibernia was introduced following the passing of the Act 3 George II, Chapter 3. The Act, the purpose of which was to raise revenue to finance land drainage, canal construction and river maintenance for the long term improvement of trade in Ireland, was passed in 1729 and came into effect on the 25th March 1730 and imposed a Duty of 6d per oz on all gold and silverwares.
Although the Act came into effect on the 25th March, the first striking of the Hibernia mark was not until 21st April 1730, nearly one month later. We know this as in the Dublin Goldsmiths' Company Work Book, an entry for that date states: 'This day ye duty came on'. What caused the delay is unknown, Perhaps the Company thought the punch was going to be supplied by the Revenue Commissioners and they were awaiting delivery of it, but this was not to be the case, and they supplied the Hibernia punch, proof of which will be stated later. Another possible reason for the delay may have been that perhaps there was no silver to assay between those dates, the Dublin 'smiths were well aware of the oncoming Duty and made every effort to beat the deadline, the revenue received for hallmarking for the first three months of the year 1730 amounted to £121-11s-1d, but following the passing of the Act, the next nine months produced only £106-15s-8d.
Below are the details of the Act:
Following the abolition of Duty on gold and silver in 1890, the Dublin Goldsmiths' Company published the following notice in 1892:
The Wardens of the Goldsmiths' Company remind the trade that notwithstanding the duty on gold and silver is abolished, hall-marking is still compulsory, under a penalty of £10.
Prices to be made for assaying and marking gold and silver wares on and after the 1st January, 1892 :
For each Wedding-ring under 6 dwts. ......0s.-1d.
For each Fancy Ring...........................0s.-2d.
For each Medal or Badge .....................0s.-4d.
For each pair of Sleeve-links.................0s.-4d
For each Bracelet .............................0s.-6d
For each Chain.................................1s.-0d.
For each Watch-case..........................0s.-8d
Plate per oz.....................................0s.-6d
One shilling is charged in all cases for assaying above the marking.
Plate per oz. ..............................................0s.-1d.
Wares (not plate) weighing under 3 dwts. each.......0s.- 0½d.
Under 30 articles extra for assaying....................0s.-4d.
Wares under 6 dwts. each ...............................0s.-1d.
Under 12 articles extra for assaying ....................0s.-4d.
Badges over 6 dwts........................................0s.-2d.
Watch-cases, each ........................................0s.-6d.
Lowest charge for silver ................................. 0s.-6d.
The above office is open on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, from 10 o'clock. Work must be sent before 11 o'clock; letters and work from the country, to ensure prompt attention, should be addressed to S. W. Le Bass, Assay Master, 5, Fleet Street, Dublin.
Postby dognose » Mon Mar 24, 2014 5:49 am
HALL-MARKING AGITATION IN DUBLIN
The Dublin correspondent of the Times writes under date August 23 : –"A deputation of working gold and silver smiths of Dublin waited yesterday upon the Goldsmiths' Corporation at the Custom House, for the purpose of representing the alleged illegality of the practice of putting the hall-mark on articles of English and foreign manufacture. Mr. Lowen, the secretary, observed that the working gold and silver smiths desired to point out the injury which the practice complained of was calculated to do to their trade, and asked that if it were legal the Corporation should assist them in endeavouring to have the Hall-Mark Bill which was brought in last Session extended to Ireland. Mr. Johnson, the Master of the Guild, stated that the Corporation had obtained counsel's opinion, which was adverse to that of the deputation upon the question of legality. Mr. Bouchier Eaton, to whom the Goldsmiths' Company had referred the matter, said that he advised them to obtain the opinion of counsel as the Acts of Parliament bearing on the question were very numerous and extended back nearly 100 years. Mr. Fitzgerald, whom they had consulted, had given it as his opinion that notwithstanding the words " manufactured by them," in the 17th and 18th Vic, cap. 66, sec 2, dealers in Dublin could have articles of gold and silver which, they purchased in England legally assayed and marked in Dublin, the object of the assay being to certify as to the quality of the material and not the place of manufacture. Counsel's opinion was strongly confirmed by the interpretation put upon the law in England by Mr. Walter Prideaux, clerk of the Goldsmiths' Company in London. Mr. Eaton added that since he had come into the room he had received a communication from the Commissioner of Inland Revenue to the effect that they would adopt a course which would have the effect of preventing English manufactured goods being assayed in Ireland. The Goldsmith's Company were desirous of protecting their interests as far as they could. He did not think that any member of the Goldsmiths' Corporation of Ireland had goods manufactured in England and brought here to be assayed. Mr. West was not a member of the Corporation. The Master remarked that persons buying goods looked upon the hall-mark as an indication of the country from which they came. Mr. Martin said if the practice were general it would sweep away the trade altogether. Mr. Wortham said that the instance referred to (the testimonial to the Duke of Connaught) was the first which had occurred. Mr. Wallace stated that there had been two instances, but what happened in the Duke of Connaught's case had drawn public attention to the subject. After some conversation, in which the practice was strongly condemned as deceptive, and a change in the law advocated, Mr. Lowen said it was intended to hold a meeting and appeal to the public not to countenance the practice. The Corporation were then thanked for their reception of the deputation, and satisfaction was expressed at the communication which had been received from the Inland Revenue."
Source: The Watchmaker, Jeweller and Silversmith - 5th September 1879
16th Sept. 1751 - Mr. John Wilne elected Assay-master and collector of the duties on wrought plate.
Source: The Monthly Chronologer for Ireland - 1751
John Wilne was to remain in the office of Assay Master until 1754. He succeeded William Archdall, who held the position since 1736, and was replaced by William Williamson, who was Assay Master until 1770.
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Horatio Nelson’s Grog Chest Just Sold for $95,000
Also, what is grog?
by Anne Ewbank January 18, 2018
Horatio Nelson's Grog Chest Just Sold for $95,000
The glassware within is etched with lilies of the valley. All images courtesy of Sotheby’s.
Yesterday, the auction company Sotheby’s sold a small chest for a big price: £68,750, which comes out to a little more than $95,000. Lined with plush purple velvet, it contains a set of glasses, beakers, and flasks, all empty of what they used to hold: grog. And not just any grog, but grog that belonged to the British naval hero, Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson.
The larger-than-life Nelson died in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Killed by a sharpshooter while leading his men to victory against French and Spanish fleets, the one-armed, one-eyed Vice-Admiral became an iconic symbol of British bravery. According to Sotheby’s, Nelson’s grog chest was in his cabin on the HMS Victory at the time of his death. It’s one of several items belonging to Nelson that Sotheby’s auctioned. Also on the block: part of the Union Jack flag that the Victory flew during the final battle and Nelson’s love letters to Emma Hamilton, his equally famous mistress.
But what exactly was this grog that Nelson drank? Despite its fancy carrying case, grog was an essential libation for every member of the British navy. Vice-Admiral Edward Vernon, a British sea captain from the generation previous to Nelson, inspired the name. Vernon’s men nicknamed him “Old Grog” due to his distinctive coat made of grogram fabric. In 1740, he ordered that the navy’s rum provisions be mixed with water. (Giving sailors lots of undiluted rum every day led to understandable issues.)
Adding rum to long-stored water made it safer to drink as well, and the resulting “grog” became the drink of choice during the Age of Sail. And not just for the British navy—pirates also developed a taste for grog. Sailors sometimes added lemon juice and sugar, and some bars, especially those of the tiki variety, still serve it. Now, somewhere in the world, there’s a lucky buyer who can drink grog from Nelson’s own glass.
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From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among them a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery and an Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating injuries in childbirth. Drawing on the breadth of their combined reporting experience, Kristof and WuDunn depict our world with anger, sadness, clarity, and, ultimately, hope.They show how a little help can transform the lives of women and girls abroad. That Cambodian girl eventually escaped from her brothel and, with assistance from an aid group, built a thriving retail business that supports her family. The Ethiopian woman had her injuries repaired and in time became a surgeon. A Zimbabwean mother of five, counseled to return to school, earned her doctorate and became an expert on AIDS.Through these stories, Kristof and WuDunn help us see that the key to economic progress lies in unleashing women's potential. They make clear how so many people have helped to do just that, and how we can each do our part. Throughout much of the world, the greatest unexploited economic resource is the female half of the population. Countries such as China have prospered precisely because they emancipated women and brought them into the formal economy. Unleashing that process globally is not only the right thing to do; it's also the best strategy for fighting poverty.Deeply felt, pragmatic, and inspirational, Half the Sky is essential reading for every global citizen.From the Hardcover edition.
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Such a plethora of a.k.a.'s suggests something inconclusive is in the works.
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) announced June 6th that a little definition is in order. Susan Borst, IAB's Director of Industry Initiatives, blogged about IAB's new Native Advertising Task Force (over 50 member companies and over 60 individual participants) with its aim "to establish a framework for the native advertising space by putting forth a prospectus that clearly lays out today's 'native' landscape." And, IAB also kicked off a Content Marketing Task Force (with 25+ member companies and about the same number of individual participants). (Ad Week picked up on the ironies of IAB's attempts "to bring some clarity to the Babel-like confusion" by noting that "it's unclear if the latter [Content Marketing Task Force] is a cousin to or umbrella of the first [Native Advertising Task Force]." Cousin -- umbrella -- we can't even get our metaphors on the same page.
By the way -- no PR firms on either IAB task force.
IAB obviously hadn't read Forrester Research's Laura Ramos' blog from May 6th: "The Role of PR in Content Marketing and Thought Leadership." Ramos calls out the argument for PR to lead the content marketing charge: ". . . the advantages of PR to stimulate conversation, engage in two-way interactions, and develop interesting story lines that involve the intended audience are a natural fit for creating great marketing in this new digital world." Ramos gives kudos to Richard Edelman's evolving stance, most recently sketched out in his April 30th 6 A.M. blog post, "The New Look of Public Relations -- A Dissenting View." in which he discusses his agency's intent to "expand the remit of the public relations business . . . to take full advantage of the inherent advantages of PR, which are credibility, speed, two-way interaction and continuous story creation."
Edelman had set many PR people buzzing (some grumbling) earlier, back on January 7th, with his 6 A.M. blog post, "Paid Media -- A Change of Heart," in which he gingerly, but "unafraid," embraced the brave new world of paid content: "I can assure you that Edelman will be at the bleeding edge of aiming for the right thing, unafraid of the wrong thing." (The "right thing" he refers to there, that he is edge-bleeding towards, is "'own-able' insight" that is to be "co-produce[d] content with media companies.") (PRNewser's report made this sound a bit like going over to the Dark Side: "Edelman Switches Sides, Joins the 'Paid Content' Team.")
Presumably, all this doesn't mean PR is going the way of Buzzfeed. (Does it?) In the meantime, however, you'll find the PR trades, the tip sheets, the boot camps and webinars are now providing non-stop, fully confident advice about how surely PR people can succeed wtth content marketing (I guess PR is ahead of the IAB after all, since advertising is only at the point of forming task forces?).
This is the point at which the blogger (wisely, humbly) must write, "Time will tell." But a last reflection: this current battle between advertising and PR for ownership of content marketing is coalescing as a stand-off between Money/Scale vs. Righteousness (the much greater resources and infrastructure of advertising vs. the moral/authenticity claim of public relations). Was it ever so? Or is there some hint at a synthesis of a new institutional communications function that both demonstrably works and can have sustainable integrity?
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by Bicycle Junkies February 26, 2014
February 26, 2014 1 comment 5610 views
It’s a tough one! Don’t get the wrong idea when we write about tough routes, we kind of actually like it! It’s our fetishism apparently… 😉 So, crossing from El Chalten to Villa o’Higgins is more of a pushing adventure than a bicycle one, but a must!
El Chalten, Fitzroy and the backdoor into Chile
For the last couple of days we kind of forgot about the wind, but heading West to El Chalten is a good reminder; straight in the face. Over a 100 km with nothing in between and it’s very difficult to find a spot to pitch our tent without being blown away. But, we really want to be here! I have this photo in my mind and a bucketlist thingie is waiting to be crossed out. We are being sandblasted, but I do get my photo: photomodel Elmar is looking good again on his Santos Travel Lite with Mount Fitzroy and Cerro Torre in the background. It’s worth it!
We stay a few days in El Chalten and hike to Fitzroy, which decides not to show himself to us, but nonetheless, it’s a great hike. Besides hiking we enjoy waffels and buy groceries for the crossing into Chile. It should take no more than three days, but when it’s too windy you could get stuck waiting for the boat on the other side of the mountain. And by now we know, it can get a bit windy here…
Mt. Fitzroy
The first day we cycle to Lago del Desierto to take a tiny boat to the other side where the Argentinan customs is situated. At the dock we meet three other cyclists: Cesar from Tenerife, Mickey from Germany and Al from Australia and the next couple of days we will be spending together. On the other side of the lake we all camp together next to the customs office and have dinner with a fire, until it starts to rain and we all retreat to our tents. But the next morning the view is incredible! Fitzroy is there lit by the first rays of sunlight.
We break up camp and head for our exit stamp. Behind the customs building a narrow track is our way to Chile, a small wooden sign confirms that. Immediately we have to stop and start pushing, it’s just not rideable. Al already went ahead with his very light bike, Cesar and Mickey have teamed up and are a little behind us. It’s steep and after a few meters it’s supersteep.
Again a few meters further it’s supersteep and supernarrow! This means, loose the panniers and hike up and down a few times. It’s muddy and slippery. After the narrow and steep part, we have the streams to cross. Too deep to just wade through with our shoes. What’s next? Angry bees??? No, it’s a swamp! It’s like a computer game with every time another, more difficult level. After the swamps it’s the thick bushes and then… after pushing 7 kilometers in more than 5,5 hours… “Bienvenido a Chile!”
We reach the pass after pushing our bikes for about 7 km
El Chalten to Villa O’Higgins
But, what is our reward? A 4×4 track with steep descends and an amazing view on a huge turquios lake. The ride to the Chilean customs is 16 kilometers and when we finally get there, we are exhausted but proud. We can camp at the estancia and Mickey opens a bottle of wine to celebrate our victory! We made it.., or didn’t we?
A short boat ride to Villa o’Higgins
Is the boat coming or is the boat not coming? That’s the question! We ask the owner of the estancia and she replies with very wise words: “When you see the boat, it’s coming!”
So, the five of us are waiting at the dock from 9 o’Clock on, staring into the open waters. At 11 a boat arrives, but it’s full! But, maybe, another boat will come.., so we wait. At three PM an old and run-down fishing boat arrives, that must be the one! We all jump on board and as soon as it hits the open waters, the waves are eating the little boat. Throwing us from one side to the other. Everybody is laughing, oh what a joy! But that doesn’t last long… within fifteen minutes it’s quiet and people are throwing up. Lucky for us, the whole ride only takes about 5 (!!!!) hours! That night, at campsite El Mosco in Villa o’Higgins it still feels like I’m being thrown all over the place! But, now we can actually say.. yes, we made it! We can cross this off our bucket list!
5 hours on this tiny boat…
Carretera AustralEl ChaltenFitzroyVilla O'Higgins
Hiking the W-trek in Torres del Paine
Ruta de 7 lagos
Back to Peru
5 Reasons to go cycling in Chile
Pa en ma February 23, 2015 - 08:26
Very good story Nice pictures love to see them.
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BR Home Page > Players > Gerald Laird > 2012 Batting Game Logs
Position: Catcher
Born: November 13, 1979 in Garden Grove, CA us
Draft: Drafted by the Oakland Athletics in the 2nd round of the 1998 MLB June Amateur Draft from La Quinta HS (Westminster, CA).
High Schools: La Quinta HS (Westminster, CA), Westlake HS (Westlake Village, CA)
School: Cypress College (Cypress, CA)
Debut: April 30, 2003 (Age 23-168d, 15,861st in MLB history)
vs. TOR 0 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB
Last Game: April 8, 2015 (Age 35-146d)
vs. SFG 2 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB
Agents: Scott Boras • Previously: Alan Meersand
National Team: us USA (Pro,18U)
Full Name: Gerald Lee Laird
Nicknames: G-Money
Relatives: Brother of Brandon Laird
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Team Record in Appearances 29-34 / in Starts: 26-25
Longest Hitting Streak 5 games
Longest On Base Streak 5 games
Most Games w/o HR 43 games
Most Games w/o RBI 11 games
Grand Slams 0 in 10 bases loaded PA and 9 AB
Go-Ahead Hits: 4
RBI Opportunities
in 191 PAs 11
Actual Runners on Base 120 (61-41-18)
Avg. MLBer w/ 191 PAs 21
Avg. Runners on Base 113 (56-37-19)
Most Driven In
J Peralta 3
A Dirks 2
A Garcia 1
D Kelly 1
C Thomas 1
R Raburn 1
R Santiago 0
Most Driven In By
A Jackson 7
M Cabrera 5
B Boesch 2
O Infante 1
D Young 1
Q Berry 1
2012 Batting Game Log
Click two rows to sum games (Clear)
Gcar
Rslt
Inngs
636 4 (3) Apr 10 DET TBR W,5-2 CG 4 4 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .250 .250 .250 .500 8 1.15 -0.075 0.13 C
637 8 (3) Apr 14 DET @ CHW L,1-5 9-GF 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .200 .200 .200 .400 6 .35 -0.009 -0.24 PH
638 9 Apr 15 DET @ CHW W,5-2 CG 4 4 2 3 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .444 .444 .889 1.333 9 .93 0.156 1.19 C
639 12 (2) Apr 18 DET @ KCR W,4-3 CG 4 3 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .500 .538 .833 1.372 9 2.09 0.201 1.20 C
640 14 (1) Apr 21 (1) DET TEX L,4-10 CG 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .400 .438 .667 1.104 9 .07 -0.005 -0.46 C
641 19 (4) Apr 26 DET SEA L,4-5 GS-7 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 .353 .389 .588 .977 9 1.42 -0.145 -1.37 C
642 22 (2) Apr 29 DET @ NYY L,2-6 CG 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .316 .381 .526 .907 8 .75 -0.030 -0.22 C
643 24 (1) May 2 DET KCR L,2-3 9-GF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .316 .381 .526 .907 7 PR
644 25 May 4 DET CHW W,5-4 9-GF 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .316 .381 .526 .907 6 0.000 0.00 PR
645 29 (3) May 8 DET @ SEA W,6-4 CG 4 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .304 .360 .478 .838 9 .97 -0.011 -0.38 C
646 30 May 9 DET @ SEA L,1-2 CG 3 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .308 .357 .500 .857 8 1.50 0.032 0.12 C
647 32 (1) May 11 DET @ OAK L,4-11 CG 4 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 .300 .344 .467 .810 8 .53 0.063 -0.32 C
648 35 (2) May 14 DET @ CHW L,5-7 GS-9 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 .281 .314 .438 .752 9 1.57 -0.088 -0.98 C
649 43 (7) May 23 DET @ CLE L,2-4 GS-8 3 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .286 .316 .429 .744 9 1.20 0.020 0.06 C
650 47 (3) May 27 DET @ MIN W,4-3 8-GF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .286 .316 .429 .744 6 PR C
651 48 May 28 DET @ BOS L,4-7 CG 3 3 1 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .316 .341 .526 .868 8 .53 0.050 1.15 C
652 50 (1) May 30 DET @ BOS L,4-6 CG 4 4 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 .310 .333 .524 .857 9 1.23 -0.041 -0.59 DH
653 51 May 31 DET @ BOS W,7-3 3-GF 4 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .304 .327 .500 .827 6 .63 0.006 -0.26 C
654 52 Jun 1 DET NYY L,4-9 GS-6 3 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .313 .346 .500 .846 6 1.65 0.077 0.54 DH
655 55 (2) Jun 5 DET CLE L,2-4 6-GF 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .300 .333 .480 .813 6 1.50 -0.073 -0.61 C
656 58 (2) Jun 8 DET @ CIN L,5-6 CG(10) 4 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .315 .345 .481 .826 7 1.72 -0.063 -0.23 C
657 59 Jun 9 DET @ CIN W,3-2 CG 4 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .310 .339 .466 .804 7 .95 -0.038 -0.29 C
658 60 Jun 10 DET @ CIN W,7-6 CG 5 5 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .317 .343 .460 .804 7 1.13 0.032 0.12 C
659 61 Jun 12 DET @ CHC L,3-4 CG 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .299 .324 .433 .757 7 1.90 -0.193 -1.25 C
660 62 Jun 13 DET @ CHC W,8-4 CG 5 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .300 .342 .429 .771 7 1.02 0.131 1.06 C
661 63 Jun 14 DET @ CHC W,5-3 CG 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .288 .338 .411 .748 8 1.30 -0.056 -0.64 C
662 64 Jun 15 DET COL L,4-12 9-GF(10) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .288 .338 .411 .748 2 C
663 65 Jun 16 DET COL W,4-1 CG 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .273 .321 .390 .711 8 .78 -0.079 -1.29 C
664 66 Jun 17 DET COL W,5-0 CG 4 4 0 3 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .296 .341 .420 .761 9 .41 0.122 1.58 C
665 67 Jun 19 DET STL W,6-3 CG 4 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 .294 .337 .412 .749 9 .64 -0.092 -2.60 C
666 68 Jun 20 DET STL L,1-3 GS-5 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .302 .351 .419 .770 9 .80 0.078 0.69 C
667 73 (4) Jun 25 DET @ TEX W,8-2 CG 4 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .303 .357 .416 .773 9 .13 0.004 0.12 C
668 75 (1) Jun 27 DET @ TEX L,9-13 8-GF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .303 .357 .416 .773 6 C
669 77 (1) Jun 29 DET @ TBR L,2-4 CG 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .293 .347 .402 .749 8 .70 -0.053 -0.47 C
670 83 (5) Jul 5 DET MIN W,7-3 CG 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .284 .337 .389 .726 8 1.73 -0.116 -0.69 C
671 85 (1) Jul 7 DET KCR W,8-7 CG 4 3 1 3 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .306 .361 .429 .790 9 .56 0.139 2.66 C
672 88 (2) Jul 14 DET @ BAL L,6-8 GS-9 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .297 .351 .416 .767 8 .56 -0.046 -0.54 C
673 92 (3) Jul 18 DET LAA W,7-2 CG 4 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .288 .348 .404 .752 8 .39 0.023 -0.23 C
674 95 (2) Jul 21 DET CHW W,7-1 CG 4 3 2 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .299 .361 .411 .773 8 .44 0.057 0.62 C
675 102 (6) Jul 29 DET @ TOR W,4-1 CG 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .291 .352 .400 .752 9 .55 -0.041 -0.56 C
676 108 (5) Aug 5 DET CLE W,10-8 GS-3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .288 .350 .396 .746 8 1.36 -0.034 -0.33 C
677 111 (2) Aug 8 DET NYY L,8-12 GS-7 3 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .289 .349 .395 .744 8 .86 -0.034 -0.53 C
678 112 Aug 9 DET NYY L,3-4 9-GF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .289 .349 .395 .744 7 PR
679 114 (1) Aug 11 DET @ TEX L,1-2 CG 3 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .291 .349 .393 .742 9 .82 -0.012 -0.23 C
680 117 (2) Aug 14 DET @ MIN W,8-4 CG 5 5 1 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .295 .351 .410 .761 9 .70 0.048 -0.12 C
681 121 (3) Aug 19 DET BAL L,5-7 GS-8 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .288 .343 .400 .743 8 1.12 -0.084 -0.91 C
682 122 Aug 21 DET TOR W,5-3 CG 4 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .283 .348 .394 .741 9 .61 0.041 0.47 C
683 127 (4) Aug 26 DET LAA W,5-2 CG 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .277 .340 .385 .725 9 1.05 -0.054 -0.70 C
684 130 (2) Aug 30 DET @ KCR L,1-2 GS-9 3 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .278 .340 .383 .724 9 1.51 -0.044 -0.22 C
Sep/Oct
685 133 (2) Sep 2 DET CHW W,4-2 CG 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .272 .338 .375 .713 9 .55 -0.006 -0.93 C
686 138 (4) Sep 8 DET @ LAA L,1-6 CG 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .266 .331 .367 .698 8 .34 -0.026 -0.59 C
687 139 Sep 9 DET @ LAA L,2-3 8-GF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .266 .331 .367 .698 2 C
688 140 Sep 10 DET @ CHW L,1-6 CG 3 3 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .268 .331 .373 .704 9 1.05 -0.018 -0.27 C
689 145 (4) Sep 16 DET @ CLE L,6-7 6-GF 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .264 .327 .368 .695 8 .88 -0.044 -0.32 C
690 146 Sep 17 DET @ CHW L,4-5 GS-9 3 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .265 .327 .367 .695 9 1.01 0.025 0.28 C
691 147 Sep 18 DET OAK W,12-2 CG 4 3 2 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .280 .343 .380 .723 9 .31 0.027 0.96 C
692 148 Sep 19 DET OAK W,6-2 CG 4 4 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .286 .347 .383 .730 9 .58 0.070 0.25 C
693 149 Sep 20 DET OAK L,4-12 CG 4 4 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .285 .345 .380 .725 9 1.02 0.010 -0.01 C
694 151 (1) Sep 23 (1) DET MIN L,4-10 CG 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .278 .337 .370 .707 9 .36 -0.039 -0.75 C
695 152 Sep 23 (2) DET MIN L,1-2 10-GF(10) 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .276 .335 .368 .703 8 1.86 -0.049 -0.11 PH
696 154 (1) Sep 25 DET KCR W,2-0 CG 4 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .281 .339 .371 .710 9 .53 0.035 0.40 C
697 157 (2) Sep 28 DET @ MIN L,2-4 CG 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .276 .333 .365 .698 9 1.38 -0.105 -0.76 C
698 160 (2) Oct 1 DET @ KCR W,6-3 CG 4 4 0 2 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .282 .337 .374 .710 9 .79 0.102 2.52 C
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Music at Bates
Goals and Objectives for Majors
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Music Department Concerts
American String Band
Bates College Orchestra
Gamelan Orchestra
Steel Pan Orchestra
Carl Bettendorf
Dale Chapman
John Corrie
Gina Fatone
Hiroya Miura
Joëlle Morris
James Parakilas
Asha Tamirisa
Momenta Quartet, Artists in Residence
Applied Music Faculty
Every year hundreds of students participate in our choirs, orchestra, jazz band, jazz combos, chamber ensembles, steel pan orchestra, and Indonesian gamelan. All of our performance ensembles are open to general liberal arts students and music majors alike.
American String Band is an ensemble dedicated to developing a repertoire of fiddle music and song to share on and off campus.
Lewiston being the heavily Franco-American community that it is, the traditional French-Canadian fiddle music of this area is central to our tune list, which also delves into Irish, bluegrass and old-time dance music and song, and all other music our various members bring to the table. Fiddles are especially wanted, while all other melodic and percussive instruments are also encouraged to join. Email Eli Gilbert, director at egilber2@bates.edu to set up an audition.
Feel free to contact Eli if you have any further questions regarding American String Band.
Recording of live concert from LeRonj Coffeehouse on November 30, 2016
Recording of live concert performed in the Olin Concert Hall on April 3, 2019
The Brass Ensemble will explore varied repertoire, including arrangements of music in different styles and compositions written specifically for brass. The size is flexible, ranging from a quartet to 11-pieces or larger, depending on repertoire and/or enrollment. The ensemble is open to trumpet, French horn, trombone, bass trombone, euphonium, tuba, and percussion. The group rehearses once a week, and individual practice between rehearsals is required. The brass ensemble will perform at least one concert each semester. Admission is by audition. Basic instrumental proficiency and the ability to read standard musical notation are required.
Directed by Alan Carr. For more information contact Alan Carr at acarr@bates.edu or 207-786-6163.
Recording of live concert on April 5, 2019
Open to all Bates students and faculty, this ensemble is intended to develop the skill and knowledge to perform a wide range of musical styles and genres from a cappella to Broadway and major symphonic works from all periods. There will be an emphasis in developing each singer’s vocal ability in a positive environment as well as to present quality performances with a high level of musicianship.
There are two required rehearsals per week and a performance at the end of every semester.
Students of all majors and backgrounds are eligible to audition.
While College Choir is normally taken for credit, the Director will also consider auditors (for students whose credit load would otherwise prevent them from registering).
A 25-voice ensemble which gives two large concerts per year. Recent works performed include Mozart’s Requiem and Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. Entrance by audition. Solos in these pieces are always performed by students, an unusual opportunity for talented vocalists.
Joelle Morris, Director
Feel free to contact Joelle Morris, Director, at jmorris@bates.edu if you have further questions regarding the College Choir.
The Bates College Choir performs a wide range of musical genres including works with orchestra, recent works performed include Mozart’s Requiem and Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. Solos in these pieces are always performed by students, an unusual opportunity for talented vocalists.
To listen to the examples below use RealPlayer or Quicktime:
Magnificat by Johann Sebastian Bach No. 1. Magnificat
Requiem by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart No. 2. Kyrie
Liebeslieder Waltzes by Johannes Brahms No. 6. Ein kleiner, hubscher Vogel nahm
A Ceremony of Carols by Benjamin Britten No. 6. This little Babe
A Ceremony of Carols by Benjamin Britten No. 9. Spring Carol
Lux Aeterna by Morten Lauridsen No. 1. Introitus
Carmina Burana by Carl Orff No. 1. O Fortuna
Bates College Choir
College Orchestra
Bates College Orchestra (BCO) was founded in the 1970s. Student members are given course credit to participate in weekly rehearsals and perform a wide range of repertoire from the Baroque period to present. The BCO recently performed works by Debussy and Ravel, Symphonies by Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, and Dvorák. Each winter semester the BCO hosts an annual concerto competition providing an opportunity for Bates students to perform as a soloist with the College Orchestra.
Performing two concerts per year, the Bates College Orchestra draws members from the entire Bates community as well as the Lewiston-Auburn community.
Students of all majors and backgrounds are eligible to audition. While College Orchestra is normally taken for credit, the Director will also consider auditors (for students whose credit load would otherwise prevent them from registering).
Feel free to contact Orchestra Director Carl Bettendorf (cbettend@bates.edu) if you have any further questions regarding the BCO.
Gamelan Ensemble
Gamelan, the term for a traditional musical ensemble in Indonesia, typically refers to a percussion orchestra composed predominantly of tuned gongs of various types and metal-keyed instruments. The ensemble is conducted by a drummer, and often includes voice, bamboo flute, xylophone, and stringed instruments. The most well-known gamelan ensembles are those from the islands of Java and Bali.
The Bates College Gamelan Orchestra serves as an Indonesian music study group, performance ensemble, and provides ceremonial music for college events. The group plays traditional and contemporary music of West Java (Sunda), Central Java, and new music for gamelan by North American composers. Students enrolled in a variety of music and anthropology courses have the opportunity for a hands-on experience with the instruments as part of their coursework.
For several decades, the presence of gamelan orchestras on college campuses both in the U.S. and abroad beyond Indonesia has been steadily increasing. The inclusion of such an ensemble from outside of the West serves multiple roles within an academic setting. The mission of the Bates College Gamelan Orchestra includes the following goals:
To provide a bridge to Southeast Asian culture
To provide an alternative way to think about human organization of sound and musical expression
To create a performing opportunity for students at all levels of musical competence
To provide interdisciplinary bridges to other subjects such as Asian Studies, Anthropology, and Cultural Psychology
To provide an intercultural experience and model the College’s commitment to Diversity
The Bates College Gamelan Orchestra comprises two sets of instruments, representing two regional musical traditions from the island of Java. Gamelan Mawar Mekar (“Blossom of Inspiration”) is a Central Javanese iron/brass set built by Mulyadi in Solo, Java in 1997, acquired by Bates in 2001. In 2007, a 7-piece bronze chamber ensemble from West Java known as gamelan degung was generously donated to the Bates Music Department by David Lydgate of Kaua’i, Hawaii.
The Bates College Gamelan Orchestra hosts Indonesian visiting artists on a regular basis. These performers typically work with the ensemble towards a particular event such as a concert of instrumental music, a dance performance, or traditional puppet theater performances. Indonesian artists who have held guest residencies at Bates include Kuwat (2002), Midiyanto (2003), Joko Susilo (2003-2004), Otong and Atik Rasta (2004), Undang Sumarna (2005, 2006, 2008), Euis Komariah & Gangan Garmana (2007), Nano S. (2008), Burhan Sukarma (2008) and Wahyu Roche, Ening Rumbini, and Rina Oesmann in (2009). Additional guest instructors and performers have included I.M. Harjito, Sumarsam, Ben Arcangel, Jody Diamond, and Andy Bouchard.
The Bates College Gamelan Orchestra ensemble typically performs at Bates once per semester and often participates in World Music Weekend at Bates in early spring. The group has also performed at Bowdoin College, The University of Maine at Augusta, and the Orion Performing Arts Center in Topsham, Maine.
In addition to its gamelan orchestra, Bates College houses the Eisler Shadow-Puppet Collection. Consisting of over 200 traditional Central Javanese puppets used in the performance of shadow plays, the collection is on long-term permanent loan to the College by Mr. David Eisler of Dover, New Hampshire.
The Bates College Gamelan Orchestra, which maintains the only gamelan sets in the state of Maine, welcomes new members on an ongoing basis. For more information contact Gina Fatone at gfatone@bates.edu or 207-753-6968.
The Bates College Jazz Band is a full big band of skilled and talented Bates students. We perform at least one concert per semester and play works from a large and varied repertoire; our past concerts have featured pieces by artists such as Stevie Wonder, Michael Brecker, Steely Dan and The Count Basie Orchestra. The band is a wonderful opportunity to play in a large group setting and also provides the opportunity to improvise.
Feel free to contact Director Larry Williams atlwillia4@bates.edu if you have any further questions regarding the Orchestra.
Recording of live concert in the Olin Concert Hall on April 4, 2019
This ensemble offers students opportunities to explore and perform music of West Indian peoples on authentic instruments. Contact Duncan Hardy, director at dhardy@bates.edu.
Recording from live concert on April 5, 2019
Use RealPlayer or Quicktime to listen to more pieces from the Steel Pan Ensemble:
Stir It Up by Bob Marley
Oleo by Sonny Rollins
Sugar Bum Bum by Lord Ketchner
Zofia Ahmad ’19 of Palo Alto, Calif. joins classmates for an encore at the Bates Steel Pan Orchestra concert. The Bates Steel Pan Orchestra, under the direction of Duncan Hardy, performs traditional West Indies arrangements in the Olin Concert Hall on Monday, Dec. 7th 2015.
Olin Arts Center, Bates College
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The Daily Telegraph (AU)
Björk Digital : Vivid Sydney brings Icelandic singer’s wild visuals to Carriageworks
IT’S hard to know, when placing a call to her New York home, which Björk will answer. The whimsical pop pixie ? The tigress mother ? The patient, puzzled anatomist of a dead relationship ? The composer, 50, has been each persona and more, crafting a David Bowie-like character for each album that’s expressed in its artwork and videos.
Björk has always been almost as much a visual artist as a musical one, as her upcoming Carriageworks exhibition, Björk Digital (part of Vivid Sydney), can attest.
The exhibition marks the global debut of several virtual-reality videos made to accompany her 2015 album, Vulnicura.
Premiering them at Sydney’s Carriageworks appealed, she says, “because the people were collaborative and open-minded enough to give it a go”. The venue worked, too : “It’s a space where you have a punk, warehouse angle ; a space that shows all different things, like music and dance and art.”
As grandly epic in scale as its Latinesque title suggests, the album charts Björk’s heartbreak after her split with her partner of 14 years (and father of her daughter Isadora, 13), artist Matthew Barney.
Its lyrics are nakedly personal and its artwork hammers home the theme : she is shown with an open wound Photoshopped over her heart. How does it feel to still be talking about an album that was written during such a difficult time ? I ask.
She pauses, but answers with no trace of strain in her voice, “As time passed, it got easier — when the album came out, some of the songs were two years old. Now they’re four years old. Obviously time is the best healer in those things.”
Of her fascination with virtual reality, says Björk, “It’s a natural continuity of music videos. With music, [when] you put your headphones on and listen to an album, you have that really private thing. Virtual reality is similar. It’s that same concentration.”
She has always been an early adopter of technology and recalls the first pocket-sized dictaphones. “I was like, ‘It’s about time’,” she says. “I’ve always wanted to write music on top of a mountain and now I can. Technology gives us the freedom to follow our imaginations and be in an environment that’s inspiring.”
For the Iceland born-and-raised Björk, nature is the ultimate inspiration. “I spend half my time in Iceland by the ocean,” she says. “I like to spend a lot of time outdoors ; it’s important. After I’ve been outside for a bit I feel normal — I feel like myself.”
She also writes music as she walks. “It’s something I started as a kid walking to school,” she explains. “There’s something about when you walk, especially after about 40 minutes. It’s like the body, the spirit and the emotion synchronises automatically and you come out with a song.”
I try to position Björk in the Romantic, 19th-century tradition of artists who wrote as they moved through the natural world — Wordsworth, Thoreau, Tchaikovsky — but she believes it’s a more primal creative urge.
“For me, it comes before that, because we didn’t really have the Industrial Revolution in Iceland so we’re not informed by it, like the poets were,” says Björk. “A lot of people say, ‘You know what ? I do the same thing,’ even though they’re not professional singers. I guess, in Australia, the Aboriginals had the songlines. It’s a natural human thing.”
So natural that making music is “not really a choice”, she says. “If I say I’m not going to write this year, things just bottle up and you go insane until you write the song. Then you have that sensation of, ‘Ah, I can be normal now.’
“Then, a few months later, you feel the same again. So it becomes a part of your life, like sleeping or eating. There’s a certain rhythm, and if you don’t do it, it’s like sleep — you get into trouble.”
his rhythm started young for Björk, who recorded her first album when she was aged just 11. She made music through her teens and had her first child, a son named Sindri, at the age of 20. She found fame as the singer of alt rock band The Sugarcubes, then moved to London in 1992 where her first two solo albums were rapturously received. Amid the Britpop man-child vibes of Blur, Suede and Oasis, Björk stood out as a deliberately off-centre feminine presence whose unique virtuosity earned her both critical and popular acclaim.
She’s now reached such iconic status that New York’s Museum of Modern Art dedicated a retrospective show to her last year. It received poor reviews yet resulted in one perfect artefact : Björk Archives, the book that started life as the exhibition catalogue but morphed into a critical appreciation of her career.
It contains what she describes as “one of my most favourite things I’ve done”, an email exchange with philosopher Timothy Morton. “I was trying to define my philosophy,” she explains. “You don’t want to be too pretentious or defined. You just want to be an unwritten fog so you can make songs and find new stuff inside the fog.”
“The fog” seems a suitably numinous concept for an artist who believes that “the majority of an album is something that’s not intentional. It’s stuff that happened to be the way it is because it’s the only way it could be”.
Yet she’s sharply self-aware, too : “I like to be a pioneer and to experiment. I get bored if I’m doing something other people have done before. It means I take a lot of risks and some of them fail, but when I get it right it’s very satisfying.”
One trail she’s had to blaze is that of independent female musician. Would her career have been different if she was a man ? “Some things would have been a lot easier,” she says. “One of the most experimental things I do, actually, is doing things for the first time as a woman.”
Björk also has to contend with the gradual erasure popular culture inflicts on women who dare to age unapologetically. Characteristically, she’s responding by mapping this new terrain through her music.
“Getting older is fascinating,” she says. “It’s like going to outer space, the fact that I want to document the music inside me, however old I get — 100 or whatever. That’s pioneer work there. Up to 40, I had a lot of ladies to look up to, but after 40 you can count them on one hand. So that’s something I’m going to have to invent. That’s gonna be an exciting process.”
And that is the Björk who answers the phone. It’s the Björk she’s always been under the face paint and wigs that speak to her relentless reinvention of her public self.
Driving it all is the fearless artist who looks with a keen, curious, creative eye towards her future — all 50 more years of it.
publié dans The Daily Telegraph (AU) - 28.05.2016
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PATH security tests slated
(The following article by Bonnie Friedman was posted on the Jersey Journal website on July 6.)
JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- The federal Department of Homeland Security will launch a second round of rail security testing at the Exchange Place PATH station next week, officials said.
Starting next Thursday, screeners will again use explosive-detecting equipment to monitor commuters at the.
But unlike the previous round of testing, which used airport-style X-ray machines, the new test involves "imaging technology" that can scan passengers and their bags from a distance for explosives.
Christopher Kelly, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security, said seven different devices will be used for primary screening and one device will be used for secondary screening. He said the test will run through July 27.
"People will be imaged from a distance and also through a portal," said Kelly, adding that technologies used to detect explosive devices include millimeter wave and infrared technology.
If an alert goes off, passengers will be required to go through a subsequent screening, which uses radar technology to pinpoint the locations of foreign objects between clothing and skin.
Results of the $10 million two-phase test project will be reported to Congress in the fall of 2006, Kelly said.
"This is part of the Department of Homeland Security's broader effort to protect citizens and critical infrastructure from possible terrorist attacks," Kelly said. "This is designed to evaluate equipment performance and screeners actions to ensure it's appropriate for actual station operations."
Passengers are not expected to experience serious delays.
Roughly 15,000 riders use the Exchange Place station on weekdays.
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Volunteer Spotlight: Melissa Arch, Marietta, Ga.
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Volunteers October 24, 2018
Meet Melissa Arch, program coordinator of several programs in Marietta, Ga.
How long have you been a program coordinator for Blessings in a Backpack?
I have served as a program coordinator for six years.
How many children do you serve?
We serve 140 children at the following schools in Fulton and Cobb Counties, Ga. Children are added to the program throughout the school year.
Brumby Elementary, Marietta, 42 children
Esther Jackson Elementary, Roswell,62 children
Holcomb Bridge Middle, Alpharetta, 16 children
Roswell North Elementary, Roswell, 4 children
Sedalia Park Elementary, Marietta, 16 children
How many volunteers support your program?
We have eight dedicated volunteers who pack and deliver food each week, and dozens more within the community who host food packings, fundraisers, and food drives.
What makes your program unique?
Our food bags always include an affirmation card designed by children within the community and 10 food items which include a protein, vegetable, fruit, calcium, two breakfast items, healthy snack, fun snack, and an all fruit snack.
What part of your program are you most proud of?
The continued involvement of children of all ages within our community. We have the opportunity to teach these children how to give at a young age and then witness their excitement as they become advocates for those less fortunate. We knew Blessings was a way to feed children but we never realized it would also be an avenue in which young ambassadors would emerge within our community. It is so heartwarming to see how some of these new ambassadors have taken their knowledge, dedication and passion to another level and made an impact on the fight to end hunger. Blessings is the pebble, that when thrown into the water, creates a huge ripple.
What are some of the challenges you experience as a program coordinator?
Volunteer retention and persuading community groups to adopt our Blessings program.
What advice would you give to new program coordinators?
Consistently reach out to groups such as school clubs, churches, organizations, sports programs, and troops within the same school district to encourage participation and support. Always be accessible to these clubs and organizations and actively participate in their events, no matter how big or small.
Do you have a best practice/tip you would like to share?
Our volunteers help arrange and load the non-perishable food items on the tables for the next week after the current week’s bags are packed and loaded for delivery. This ensures each packing day goes quickly and smoothly.
Tell us one fun fact you would like to share.
Robin Meade of HLN/CNN and her camera crew joined us for a packing day, asking questions while filming as we worked together. She and her staff then went to one of our schools and interviewed three children in our program for their television special, “Champions for Change.” This segment aired June 14, 2017.
When you’re not feeding kids, how do you spend your time?
The greatest treasures in my life are my family and friends and time spent with them brings me an inordinate about of joy. Other passions include church, Jazzercise, reading, gardening, cooking, beading, sewing, and scrapbooking.
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Is A Meal Plan Or IIFYM Better For Fat Loss?
Laurin Conlin, MS, IFBB Bikini Pro
Think there's a single best way to lose fat and keep it off? This research says you might be wrong.
The system of eating known as flexible dieting, or "if it fits your macros," has plenty of adherents in gyms and online. In fact, according to some of IIFYM's more diehard supporters, anyone who doesn't follow IIFYM and is doing something more structured—say, with prepared meals or food lists—is somehow doing things wrong.
But the most important question for myself and other coaches and high-level athletes isn't just which system works best while you're dieting; it's also which one will help people maintain their success in the long term. To answer this question, I recently worked with the University of South Florida's Performance and Physique Enhancement lab on a research project.
In order to compare and contrast flexible dieting and meal-plan-based dieting, my fellow colleagues and I designed a study that examined the impact each method had on weight loss efforts, as well as weight maintenance after that diet was over. What I learned may surprise you.
The Study: Meal Plan Vs. IIFYM
Over the course of 20 weeks, we had 27 male and female subjects undergo a two-phase protocol. First, they went through a 10-week dieting period, and afterward, a 10-week reverse diet that was largely unstructured. During the initial 10 weeks, subjects were split into two groups: One group followed a flexible-dieting approach where they had macros but no meal plan, whereas the other group was provided with an individualized meal plan.
To be clear, those first 10 weeks took place in a carefully controlled dieting environment. Subjects were given either specific macronutrient numbers or a specific individualized meal plan. The latter portion of the study, by contrast, was very hands-off. We simply told subjects, "Do what you like" during those weeks, so that we could better understand how each dieting method influences eating behaviors following a period of calorie restriction.
On the front end, we examined body weight, body-fat percentage, pounds of lean and fat mass, and resting metabolic rate (RMR) at baseline. Then, we rechecked each marker at weeks 5, 10 (the end of the diet), 16, and 20 (end of post-diet period).
We also provided a psychological questionnaire that asked questions pertaining to eating behaviors at baseline, the end of the 10-week diet phase, and the 10-week post-diet phase.
What We Found
Throughout the entire dieting period, there were no significant differences between groups on any of the measured variables. Yes, you read that correctly. No difference in fat mass or lean body mass lost. Subjects following the individualized meal plan lost roughly 4 pounds throughout the 10-week diet, and those following the flexible approach lost roughly 6 pounds. The difference was not significant.
During the second phase of the study, the only significant difference was in lean-body-mass accumulation. On average, subjects who completed the dieting phase as part of the flexible-dieting group gained an average of 3 pounds throughout the 10-week post-diet period. Subjects in the meal-plan-based group throughout the initial 10-week dieting phase lost an average of 1 pound during this time.
That's not a lot of weight regained, so I wouldn't interpret it as a big strike against flexible dieting. But the IIFYM dieters certainly didn't leave the meal-plan crowd in the dust.
What I Learned
Although this study represents a small sample size, it lends support to my belief that personal context is key when deciding upon a weight-loss approach. In discussing the study with many participants, I learned that for those who had less experience with nutrition and diet, the structure of a meal plan proved to be invaluable to their success.
@laurinconlin via instagram
It's possible that diving into a flexible approach would have been overwhelming, and ultimately would have worked against both their adherence and their success. On the other hand, those with experience in nutrition, macronutrients, and dieting felt confident executing a flexible approach, and their success showed.
Personally, I follow a flexible-dieting approach, because it allows me greater variety in my diet. This is critical because of my busy travel schedule and day-to-day commitments. Since no foods are off limits, I can incorporate almost anything—within reason, of course—throughout the day when dining out, eating on the go, or shopping for bargain deals at the grocery store.
Does that mean flexible dieting is right for you? Not necessarily. The right diet for you is the one you'll stick to.
Smith, C. F., Williamson, D. A., Bray, G. A., & Ryan, D. H. (1999). Flexible vs. Rigid dieting strategies: relationship with adverse behavioral outcomes. Appetite, 32(3), 295-305.
Meule, A., Westenhöfer, J., & Kübler, A. (2011). Food cravings mediate the relationship between rigid, but not flexible control of eating behavior and dieting success. Appetite, 57(3), 582-584.
Laurin Conlin is an IFBB bikini pro who holds her master's in exercise science.
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Philippine News Agency – Comelec to reuse 2016 polls ballot boxes
By Ferdinand Patinio | Philippine News Agency
MANILA — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will be utilizing the ballot boxes that were used during the 2016 polls in the forthcoming mid-term elections.
The poll body on Wednesday ordered the city/municipal Election Officers (EOs) to empty the ballot boxes of their contents and properly transfer them on or before Friday.
“The proceedings shall be public and shall be held in the place, date, and time as indicated in the Notice,” read Comelec Resolution No. 10515.
The Comelec said the ballot boxes will be examined thoroughly to determine which will be re-used in the May 13 polls and which will be used as storage ballot boxes.
“The ballot boxes that are more damaged and appear to be unfit to be reused shall be used as the storage ballot box,” the poll body said.
The Resolution also states that “for every four ballot boxes opened, one of them will be used as the storage ballot box,” which will hold all the contents of the four ballot boxes.
The poll body ordered that the contents of the ballot boxes must be wrapped in Kraft paper or other appropriate material.
More than 90,000 clustered precincts used one ballot box each in the 2016 polls.
On the other hand, the Comelec noted that ballots boxes involved in electoral protest cases will not be opened. (PNA)
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Dead Ends
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A riddle rarely makes sense the first time you hear it. The connection between Dane and Billy D doesn't make sense any time you hear it. But it's a collection of riddles that brings these two unlikely friends together. Dane Washington lives by two rules: don't hit girls and don't hit special kids. Billy D has Down's Syndrome and thinks a fierce boy who won't hit him could come in useful. Billy D has a puzzle to solve, after all, and he has the perfect plan to make Dane help him. Billy is sure the riddles in his atlas are really clues left by his missing dad. Together, Billy and Dane must embark on an epic road trip, although most of the clues lead to dead ends. What Dane doesn't realise is that Billy D isn't as innocent as he seems and the biggest secret is hidden close to home...
For ages 5+
Publication date 06 Feb 2014
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Erin Lange writes facts by day and fiction by night. As a TV producer, she is inspired by real-world issues. She grew up in the cornfields of northern Illinois, along the Mississippi River, but now lives in the sunshine of Arizona. Her debut novel, Butter, was published to enormous critical acclaim. Dead Ends is her second novel. Find Erin on Facebook www.facebook.com/ErinJadeLange and Twitter @erinjadelange. Find out more about Butter at www.butterslastmeal.com/
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Bull rider Luke Pendleton is a Dom who only plays by his rules. When he accuses a competitor of cheating, he gets into a good old fashioned fistfight. When they’re both arrested, Luke knows he’s made a career-ending mistake.
Border agent Dade Riley is a submissive without a Dom. He’s always had a secret crush on Luke, but he’s never had time to explore his fantasies until now. When he arrests one of his favorite bull riders, Dade gives Luke an ultimatum that he knows he will never accept.
Luke only sees one way out of the tight spot he’s in. He has to play by Dade’s rules to avoid jail time. As things intensify, Luke takes control and discovers that Dade’s brother is missing. Luke knows that Dade needs him, but will he be willing to play by his rules, or will he search for his missing brother alone?
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Luke Pendleton flew through the air and hit the ground hard. The bull stomped around his legs, kicking and flinging its hooves up toward his chest. Dust from the bull’s hooves hit him in the face. Luke had to get away before he was trampled. He landed wrong on his shoulder as he rolled away. He staggered toward the edge of the ring. The crowd gasped as the bull charged him. Luke jumped up onto the fence just before the bull could take a piece of his ass. He looked up at the scoreboard. That was not eight seconds. Fuck him. He was in last place.
Across the arena, he caught sight of his ex, John, watching him closely. Pain twisted through his heart. Luke spent a long time getting over that idiot. John had cheated on him far too many times for him to ever give him a second chance. To his chagrin, the man had some nerve to come to one of his comps. John was the least of his problems tonight.
He had enough of his competitor, Trevor Stokes, getting preferential treatment. Luke sauntered out of the ring as the crowd went wild. He dusted off his Stetson, putting it down hard on his head. He caught sight of Trevor across the way. He was going to find out how or who he was paying off to get the tamer bulls. This thing was going down now. He didn’t know how he was doing it, but he was cheating. Maybe he was paying somebody off. As he crossed the outer edge of the ring, Luke didn’t bother listing to the announcers or his scores. He knew he did piss poor tonight. He wanted only one thing. He wanted to confront Trevor now.
“Hey, Trevor! You fucking piece of shit!”
Trevor froze, turning around.
“Bring it,” Trevor said.
“You fucking cheated,” Luke said.
“You can’t freaking cheat in bull riding,” Trevor replied.
“Bullshit. I don’t know how you did it, but you fucking cheated!”
“I don’t know where you got your information from, but I did not cheat.”
“I don’t know how you did it, bribery maybe,” Luke said. “You got one of the tamest bulls out here tonight.”
“That don’t mean I cheated. I can’t help it you lost. You’re just a sore fucking loser,” Trevor said.
Luke grabbed him roughly by the waist, taking him hard to the ground. People circled around as the punches flew. Most backed up, giving them lots of room. Luke didn’t care that they were drawing a crowd. Shouts erupted around them as a punch landed on his ribs. Trevor’s fist came flying at his face and connected, making his teeth rattle. Luke fell back, hitting the ground. Blood pooled in his mouth. He was not about to let Trevor win. Luke charged again, but Trevor kicked him away. Luke stumbled backward as his size-ten cowboy boot cut into his skin. He grabbed his side where Trevor’s boot had been. He felt the wind get knocked out of him.
Trevor’s arm cocked back and his hand slammed into his jaw with enough force to rattle his emotional cage. Luke never lost a fight. Never. Luke fell back onto the ground. He fisted his hand into the dirt, grabbing a handful. He swung his hand out, throwing the dirt into Trevor’s face. A wave of dust went through the air. Trevor groaned as the dirt connected with his eyes, but he didn’t take the bait to rub them. Luke threw several wild punches, but only connected with a few. Luke drove Trevor back against the fence. They landed with an audible gasp from the crowd. Luke was quite certain that they were drawing a huge crowd and it wasn’t going to be good when it ended.
Trevor took him to the ground, wrestling him into a hold. Luke tried to push him off, but he couldn’t. All of a sudden they were grabbed by the arms and pulled off of each other. Police officers were tearing them apart. Luke was swung off of Trevor and taken down hard. Luke’s face was planted in the dirt. Dirt brushed against his mouth. He stared at Trevor, hating him, hating his ex, and hating the fact that he let his emotions get the better of him. He was shocked that the man had the balls to buy his way in. Somehow, someway he was paying somebody to give him an easier bull to ride. Luke didn’t know how he was doing it, but he sure as shit was going to find out.
From faraway, Luke was suddenly aware of the police officer patting him down. He felt his hands move down over his ass, grabbing it hard. His rough hands went down and up over his thighs. They slid inside, grabbing his balls. Luke couldn’t remember the last time any man had manhandled him like this. As a Dom, he decided when and how anybody touched him. Luke was dragged to his feet. He was taken outside the arena to an unmarked patrol car. His face was pushed up against the hood.
“Do you have any weapons on you that I need to be aware of?”
ADULT EXCERPTS
A groan tore from the back of Luke’s throat. He was having trouble driving to Dade’s place. It was because his submissive was really good at sucking cock. Luke licked and bit his lip, sucking it in as another grunt of pleasure tore through his body. He tightened his hand down on the wheel, relieved that there wasn’t any traffic on the road. At this rate, they wouldn’t make it inside Dade’s place at all.
The front porch light to Dade’s house caught his attention before he missed the turn. He turned down the long dirt driveway, heading toward the house. Luke was surprise that Dade lived at the old Miller residence. Luke had heard that it went up for sale at auction about a year ago. Dade had obviously been the man who had bought the place. The driveway turned to gravel the closer Luke got to the house. He stopped in front of the old whitewashed farmhouse with coal black shutters. He shut down the truck before he wrecked it into the wide wraparound porch.
They weren’t going to make it inside. Luke was shocked that this thing was getting so far out of control so quickly. He felt like he should have better control but he didn’t. It wasn’t as though his sub wasn’t following orders. It was just that Dade was following orders too well. Luke threaded his fingers into Dade hair, loving the feel of his teeth and lips and tongue sliding over his cockhead as he pulled his mouth off of his throbbing prick. Luke needed control of his prick. He wanted so much more than a quick blowjob.
Luke’s dick contracted as he starting to come, but he stopped himself before his juice could fly and hit Dade in the face. He’d never been so far out of control before. Luke knew he had to get a handle on the situation. He came in close, kissing Dade passionately. He flicked his tongue deep within his mouth, fucking his tongue against Dade’s. He took ownership of his submissive, loving the feel of his sub yielding to his kiss and touch. Dade moaned as Luke worked his fingers down over his fly of his tactical pants. Luke grabbed hold of his throbbing dick and jerked the fabric hard. Dade moaned for more as Luke worked his cock out of his pants and stroked his dick roughly. Luke pulled his lips away.
“Do you like that?”
Everything was spinning out between them. Both of them knew it and neither one could stop it from happening.
“You want me?” Dade asked.
“I want you naked ten minutes ago.”
Dade groaned as he started pulling his clothes off inside the cab of the truck, but Luke stopped him before he could.
“Outside.”
As Dade got out of the truck and undressed, Luke reached for the bottle of lube he kept in the glove box. Over the hood of the truck, Luke watched Dade undress. Luke couldn’t resist to eye fuck his new lover. Luke got out of the truck. He took off his clothes as well, dropping them to the ground next to Dade’s. A shiver tore through Luke’s body when Dade’s hungry gaze landed on his cock. He muscled Dade up against the side of the truck. He pulled his hips in close. He loved the feel of his athletic ass beneath his palms.
“Turn around. Hands on the truck.”
Luke loved the way Dade arched his athletic ass out. He wanted to sink his tongue over his rim, but he couldn’t. He needed to bring Dade closer to the edge first. With that thought in mind, Luke started to spank Dade and spank him hard. Dade groaned as he held onto the side of the truck. He could see that he loved being spanked. Luke watched his cock bounce up and down against his abdomen with each hit of his hand against his ass. His ass cheeks were spread wide, exposing his rim. Luke was loving the feel of his hand hitting ass hard. With Dade leaning down and his ass arched out, Luke couldn’t deny the urge he had to lean down and lick his sub’s rim. He leaned down, licking his tongue roughly over his rim. He loved the feel of his tongue running over his rim.
Dade’s moan of pleasure echoed into the night. Luke bit his lip hard as he stood up. Luke loved to see his submissive coming so undone. There was so much Luke wanted to do to his submissive, but he couldn’t do it all. Not now. Not when all of his playthings were at home and out of reach. He was out of his zone and improvising with Dade. He wanted to take him hard. Now. Luke dug into the pants pocket of his jeans. He found a condom and put it between his teeth. He found his way back to Dade within the moonlight. He tore open the condom and rolled it down over his cockhead. He licked his fingers as he came in behind Dade. When they were really wet, he started to fuck his sub with two of his knuckles. It was a test to see if his sub wanted more. Dade moaned, arching his ass out. It was all the encouragement Luke needed. Luke used all four knuckles to fist Dade. He pushed his fist in and out of Dade’s ass, loving the way his rim opened to him.
“Are you sure you want to do this?” Luke asked.
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Latest generation of Cool-phase is in a class of its own for low energy ventilation and cooling
Monodraught has announced the next generation of its award-winning Cool-phase system, representing the company’s latest innovative application of phase change material (PCM) as a thermal energy store to actively ventilate and cool buildings.
Cool-phase is a low energy cooling, ventilation and heat recovery system that reduces the running costs of buildings while creating a fresh and healthy indoor environment without compressors or hazardous coolants. The system uses intelligently controlled phase change material (PCM) to actively ventilate and cool buildings, maintaining temperatures within the comfort zone, while radically reducing energy consumption by up to 90% compared to conventional cooling systems.
The improvements provided by the new generation follows an intensive and all-encompassing two-year development programme during which the Monodraught R&D team has applied innovative new design practises and some of the most advanced manufacturing technologies available to create ground-breaking improvements.
As well as dramatically reducing design and development time the programme has provided significant enhancements and improvements in almost every aspect of the Cool-phase system.
Key customer benefits of the new system include: a more stylish, compact, lightweight and stronger housing with fewer parts to provide much improved acoustic and thermal performance. In addition, almost unbelievable fan performance has been achieved to dramatically reduce energy consumption – cutting power usage during typical daytime operation to between 7 and 20 Watts. Typical running costs are approximately £20 per year and due to the reduced power consumption Cool-phase is now significantly quieter in operation!
The ability to design complex geometry for Cool-phase air flow components has optimised the flow of air to create a far more effective and efficient system with improved controls that also provide BACnet compatibility. Ventilation rates vary from 0.1 m³/s to 0.3 m³/s.
The combination of a new modular design, fewer components and lighter weight also makes Cool-phase faster and easier to install using the highly efficient ‘Gripple’ system. Exposed void, suspended ceiling and facia models are available. The minimum ceiling void required for a suspended ceiling installation is now reduced to just 400mm.
Commenting for Monodraught, technical director Nick Hopper says:
“Cool-phase has exceeded our expectations in terms of design, performance and energy efficiency and we are delighted that the second generation of system offers the building services industry such a dramatic improvement to any alternative ventilation and cooling strategy.”
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I, like millions all over the world, watched the Jubilee Celebrations for Queen Elizabeth and was amazed by her stamina – she is truly an admirable woman. Many know her history with Kenya but the Francombe family of Ol Malo has a very special relationship with her and her ascension to the throne. I will let Colin Francombe tell the remarkable story.
A radio call from the Captain of a DC3. Dakota aircraft in the late afternoon of February the 6th 1952:–
—- “Nairobi West Tower, this is Dakota Victor Papa – Kilo Hotel Kilo, Royal plane “Sagana”.
—- “Go ahead Victor Papa – Kilo Hotel Kilo.”
—- “Request clearance taxi and takeoff as per flight plan to Nanyuki airstrip , to collect Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip for onward to Entebbe Uganda”.
—- “Victor Papa – Kilo Hotel Kilo, You are cleared to taxi for immediate takeoff on runway Zero-Three for immediate to Nanyuki and onward to Entebbe tomorrow. Report zone boundary. Happy landings. Out.
Words to this effect were spoken by my father, Wing Commander Aubrey Noel Francombe, [better known as Frankers] DSO, DFC, MBE, Europe Star, North Africa Star, Burma Star and honoured Captain of the Royal plane “Sagana”: named after the wild forested area and river on the slopes of Mt Kenya where the young Princess Elizabeth had spent the night with her husband Prince Phillip in the Royal Lodge , also named ‘Sagana’: a romantic hideaway in a peaceful forest glade with rolling lawns dipping into the crystal clear Sagana river, teaming with brown trout and looking out to the magnificent backdrop of Mt Kenya’s majestic rugged peaks, Batian and Nelian: core of an ancient volcano that erupted in distant times gone by.
The young Princess had been on a Royal tour of Kenya and was due to spend her last night at Treetops hotel in the forest of the neighbouring Aberdare mountain range on the edge of Kenya’s awe inspiring Great Rift Valley.
This beautiful hotel was built into the giant branches of an even greater giant African fig tree looking out onto a waterhole and saltlick in a forest glade that even to this day, teams with unforgettable wildlife, ranging from the mighty African elephant to the tiniest Suni antelope that live under the constant chorus of myriad species of birdlife.
It was on this day in this forest paradise that the life of this gorgeous young Princess was to change forever: for it was shortly after she had arrived that news came through the forest by runner, of the sad death of her father King George the Sixth. And so in this beautiful setting, a Princess became a Queen.
Kenya officialdom went into action mode and it was decided that she must leave immediately for Entebbe where a plane of the King’s flight was waiting.
My father received the news whilst en route to Nyeri airport, where he was due to leave with the Royal guests on the following morning. He had been planning to join my mother, brother and me for the night with friends on a farm adjoining the Aberdare forest, but now had to be ready for immediate departure that evening. With no phones in those distant areas he made a quick detour and at around 6pm a shining DC3 skimmed the treetops over the farmhouse and a message fluttered down in a weighted sock with the sad news and the change of plan.
As an excited young eleven year old this took the wind right out of my sails as I was now not going to see the Dad who I was so proud of and who was my absolute hero.
He and his crew took off with their valuable cargo into the sunset and flew through horrendous electrical thunderstorms for most of the flight. The flight was rough and cold and the new Queen had to resort to wrapping herself in newspapers in an effort to keep warm.However they made it and were back in England two days later for their harrowing ordeal.
My father was always full of admiration for the way in which she held her poise and composure and the newspaper saga was recited on many an occasion.
It was always difficult to get Frankers to talk about his amazing escapades through life and he certainly never boasted about being the first person ever to fly a British Queen; but that young eleven year old boy was always and will always be immensely proud of his Dad!
I’m sure as he looks down on us he is happy to see his flying genes have bounced down through the Francombe family with two of his grandsons now proficient bush pilots: David who can fly around the Mara blindfolded and our son Andrew who answers to the name of Frank[ers] and who has made flying an integral part of Ol Malo. He has now expanded that gene pool to include helicopters, bringing so many more wild and inaccessible areas in this beautiful friendly country so much closer.
By Colin Francombe, Ol Malo
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Agent seals deal for vacant former Derby JobCentre Plus building
The property has stood empty ever since services were centralised
Robin JohnsonDerby Business Editor
The former JobCentre Plus building in Normanton Road has been sold to Derby City Mission (Image: google)
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A prominent office building in Derby which was formerly occupied by JobCentre Plus has been sold.
The property, in Normanton Road, has stood empty ever since the decision was taken last year to centralise JobCentre Plus operations across the city to Derby City Council’s headquarters in Corporation Street.
Originally built in 1935, the detached two storey office building, which has around 11,000 sq ft of floor space, has been marketed by agents FHP Property Consultants.
Now, it has announced it has struck a deal to sell the property to Derby City Mission for an undisclosed sum.
Darran Severn, from FHP Property Consultants, said: “10 Normanton Road is a fantastic building, which sits in a highly prominent position. We received lots of interest from a variety of different users.
FHP's Darran Severn said there had been a lot of interest in the building (Image: Derby Telegraph /Alex Cantrill-J)
“Following a period of marketing, we invited best bids and successfully secured an offer at the quoting price. Overall a great result for all parties.”
Derby City Mission will occupy the property themselves in a move to grow their presence and services in the city.
Derby City Mission has said it will make the property its new head office (Image: FHP)
Julio Abraham, from Derby City Mission, said: “We’re delighted to be taking possession of 10 Normanton Road, a building that has served the city well for over 80 years.
“As well as this building being our headquarters, we will look to move Safe Space and new services to heal and empower those most in need. We are also planning to open a Community Wellness Café that will be central to all we do.”
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The sale of the Normanton Road property comes hot on the heels of a deal for another former JobCentre Plus office.
Earlier this month, FHP announced it had sold Forester House, a five-storey office block on the corner of Newland Street and Becket Street, for £1.6 million to Universal Total Care.
The property, which was built in the 1970s and offers around 42,565 sq ft of floor space, has planning permission in place to be converted into 59 apartments.
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The Salon Fortress
The irreverent news source with a sense of mission in a world of "corporate giants" is more inaccessible than its rivals.
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Letter-Writer Wrong on Barrier Statistic
In his July 7 letter to the Los Angeles Times entitled "Wall's Horrific Effect," Eugene O'Carroll makes the unsubstantiated claim that Israel's barrier "will absorb as much as 60 percent" of the West Bank. But as the Times itself has repeatedly reported, even the United Nations, hardly a pro-Israel body, put that number at 14 percent
Background on Israel’s Anti-Terror Fence
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague in the Netherlands has issued an "Advisory Opinion" that Israel's security fence is illegal and violates international law. The court advised the United Nations Security Council to take action to stop Israel's construction of the fence and to dismantle parts already built. CAMERA provides background information on the legality and effectiveness of the fence.
Up Against a Brick Wall
For months, the New Yorker stonewalled regarding errors on a Dec. 15, 2003 article by Connie Bruck. Staff people at the magazine repeatedly handed off responsibility for fact-checking, and the corrections never ran.
UPDATED: San Francisco Chronicle Op-Ed Distorts Israeli History
In its extensive coverage of Israel's targeted killing of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, founder and supreme leader of Hamas, the San Francisco Chronicle included an op-ed by Arab propagandist Mazin Qumsiyeh. The column distorted Israeli history in several ways. (The same day, the paper ran its own similarly themed editorial, yet no opinion piece appeared carrying exclusively Israeli views of the Yassin killing.)
James Carroll Errs on Israel’s Security Fence
A correction by James Carroll in the Boston Globe fails to clarify his mischaracterization of Israel's security barrier as "a high cement barrier that will run hundreds of miles..." His incomplete correction does not indicate that concrete sections will constitute only a tiny proportion of the projected 480-mile route. More than 97 percent will consist of a chain-link fence, with walled parts confined to areas that present an immediate risk of sniper gunfire.
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Bob Simon Not Fenced In By Facts
The CBS correspondent emphasizes criticism of Israel's security barrier and ignores public opinion in its favor.
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The Canadian Field-Naturalist
Tony E. Chubbs
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Home > Vol 121, No 3 (2007) > Chubbs
Winter Occurrences of Ivory Gulls, Pagophila eburnea, in Inland Labrador
Tony E. Chubbs, Frank R. Phillips
Ivory Gulls were observed during winter on three occasions up to 325 km inland from open coastal water, feeding on Caribou carcasses in inland Labrador. Other recent observations in central Labrador are also noted.
Ivory Gulls; Pagophila eburnea; range; distribution; Labrador
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22621/cfn.v121i3.484
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So little is guaranteed for Jordan Mailata. Not the three seasons left on his Philadelphia Eagles contract, not the dollar signs, not his hopes of lining up for his first NFL snap. So little, that the letters NFL might as well stand for not for long. One thing guaranteed to Eagles officials is Mailata's untapped talent. They are committed to moulding this freakishly talented ball of clay from a junior rugby league star into a bona fide offensive tackle in the NFL. Mailata is dealing with a back issue as the Eagles prepare to open their NFL campaign against the Washington Redkins in Philadelphia on Monday morning (AEST). Yet the 22-year-old remains determined to earn a start as he enters the second year of his four-year contract worth about $2.5 million - of which just his $89,392 signing bonus was guaranteed. MORE SPORT Such is the cutthroat nature of the NFL, Mailata is refusing to take any of it for granted as he sets his sights on his first start after bouncing back from an injury that left him sidelined late last season. "For me, this is unofficially my contract year. That's how I'm treating it," Mailata said. "I'm treating this as my last year and I need to earn a new contract this year. I need to come with full force, unleash and focus on what I need to be doing. "[My first year] was surreal. It made me appreciate everything I have and the opportunity I have before me. Trying to learn the sport is one thing, but being there and being a part of an organisation such as the Eagles is something you don't come by very often in your life. "It's just been unreal for me to have the mentors and the teachers I have in my corner at the Philadelphia Eagles. They're trying to teach me every day, trying to make me better, trying to build up my craft so I can try to cement myself in this league. "It's been an awesome journey so far but this is just the beginning." At first Mailata was a curiosity. In the blink of an eye, the 203cm, 157 kilogram youngster had turned into a Youtube sensation that had NFL executives inviting him to the league's international pathway program. The 21-year-old rose to prominence in the United States when videos of him terrorising defensive lines for the South Sydney Rabbitohs' under 20s team went viral. The Canberra Raiders needed three players just to slow Mailata down - and he still got the offload away. Soon after another three were trying to stop him and he crashed over to score. Three defenders was usually the order of the day to bring the giant to the ground, but when the roles were reversed it was always one-on-one with the young man in cardinal and myrtle standing tall. The NFL quickly became a genuine possibility, so Mailata's brother had him racing to Johnny Bigg for a jacket and shoes. Store staff knew nothing of him, but there he was on draft day in their attire. Whether that dominance of an under 20 rugby league competition can transition into the rigours of professional American football remains a source of intrigue. Much like it does for Valentine Holmes, who will hone his craft on the New York Jets' practice squad via the NFL's international pathways program after turning his back on rugby league to chase a dream. For no longer is Mailata the shiny new toy on the Eagles roster. Andre Dillard is now blocking his path to succeed Jason Peters at left tackle and his effortless polish suggests the Australian still has a lot of ground to cover. Mailata has been assigned to right tackle this year as both he and Eagles staff consider just what is realistic for him this year, just what is the measuring stick for success or failure come the end of the season. Rest assured Mailata knows he has a lot to learn, and he is leaving no stone unturned in his bid to become an NFL starter. "I didn't expect to get that kind of response, and when I got it, you just appreciate where you've come from and all the hard work you did while you were there," Mailata said. "It was crazy, the response I got from everything and everyone there, it was really awesome. I got big raps. Everyone has their opinions on what positions they want you to play . "But at the end of the day, I've just got to listen to what I'm being told by my coaches, and what my players ask of me. "I'll do all I can to try to make the team better."
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September 8 2019 - 10:30AM
NFL prospect Jordan Mailata ready to unleash 'full force'
Caden Helmers
So little is guaranteed for Jordan Mailata.
Not the three seasons left on his Philadelphia Eagles contract, not the dollar signs, not his hopes of lining up for his first NFL snap.
Philadelphia Eagles prospect Jordan Mailata (right) during a preseason game on August 8. Picture: Getty Images
So little, that the letters NFL might as well stand for not for long.
One thing guaranteed to Eagles officials is Mailata's untapped talent.
They are committed to moulding this freakishly talented ball of clay from a junior rugby league star into a bona fide offensive tackle in the NFL.
Mailata is dealing with a back issue as the Eagles prepare to open their NFL campaign against the Washington Redkins in Philadelphia on Monday morning (AEST).
Yet the 22-year-old remains determined to earn a start as he enters the second year of his four-year contract worth about $2.5 million - of which just his $89,392 signing bonus was guaranteed.
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Such is the cutthroat nature of the NFL, Mailata is refusing to take any of it for granted as he sets his sights on his first start after bouncing back from an injury that left him sidelined late last season.
"For me, this is unofficially my contract year. That's how I'm treating it," Mailata said.
"I'm treating this as my last year and I need to earn a new contract this year. I need to come with full force, unleash and focus on what I need to be doing.
"[My first year] was surreal. It made me appreciate everything I have and the opportunity I have before me. Trying to learn the sport is one thing, but being there and being a part of an organisation such as the Eagles is something you don't come by very often in your life.
"It's just been unreal for me to have the mentors and the teachers I have in my corner at the Philadelphia Eagles. They're trying to teach me every day, trying to make me better, trying to build up my craft so I can try to cement myself in this league.
"It's been an awesome journey so far but this is just the beginning."
At first Mailata was a curiosity. In the blink of an eye, the 203cm, 157 kilogram youngster had turned into a Youtube sensation that had NFL executives inviting him to the league's international pathway program.
The 21-year-old rose to prominence in the United States when videos of him terrorising defensive lines for the South Sydney Rabbitohs' under 20s team went viral.
The Canberra Raiders needed three players just to slow Mailata down - and he still got the offload away. Soon after another three were trying to stop him and he crashed over to score.
Three defenders was usually the order of the day to bring the giant to the ground, but when the roles were reversed it was always one-on-one with the young man in cardinal and myrtle standing tall.
Philadelphia Eagles player Jordan Mailata was home to support Johnny Bigg before returning to the NFL. Picture: Chloe Paul
The NFL quickly became a genuine possibility, so Mailata's brother had him racing to Johnny Bigg for a jacket and shoes. Store staff knew nothing of him, but there he was on draft day in their attire.
Whether that dominance of an under 20 rugby league competition can transition into the rigours of professional American football remains a source of intrigue.
Much like it does for Valentine Holmes, who will hone his craft on the New York Jets' practice squad via the NFL's international pathways program after turning his back on rugby league to chase a dream.
For no longer is Mailata the shiny new toy on the Eagles roster. Andre Dillard is now blocking his path to succeed Jason Peters at left tackle and his effortless polish suggests the Australian still has a lot of ground to cover.
Mailata has been assigned to right tackle this year as both he and Eagles staff consider just what is realistic for him this year, just what is the measuring stick for success or failure come the end of the season.
Rest assured Mailata knows he has a lot to learn, and he is leaving no stone unturned in his bid to become an NFL starter.
"I didn't expect to get that kind of response, and when I got it, you just appreciate where you've come from and all the hard work you did while you were there," Mailata said.
"It was crazy, the response I got from everything and everyone there, it was really awesome. I got big raps. Everyone has their opinions on what positions they want you to play .
"But at the end of the day, I've just got to listen to what I'm being told by my coaches, and what my players ask of me.
"I'll do all I can to try to make the team better."
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The Pro-Trump Media Has Met Its Match In The Parkland Students
The pro-Trump media chose a political enemy effectively born onto the internet and innately capable of waging an information war.
By Charlie Warzel
Charlie Warzel BuzzFeed News Reporter
On Monday night, the pro-Trump media set its sights on a new political enemy: young adult survivors of gun violence.
The attack on outspoken survivors of the Parkland school shooting began with an article on the pro-Trump blog Gateway Pundit — known for trafficking in conspiracy theories like that of the unsolved murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich — that suggested David Hogg, a 17-year-old student, had “been coached on anti-Trump lines” by his father, a former FBI agent, for television appearances in which he calls for stricter gun laws. On Tuesday morning, Lucian Wintrich, the author of the initial Gateway Pundit story, tweeted that the Parkland students were “milking the deaths of their peers for their careers.”
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Pro-Trump media sites like Infowars, Big League Politics, and TruePundit quickly picked up the talking points, adding their own spin. They dug up old photos of Hogg on a tour of CNN’s studios in Atlanta years ago, as well as a clip of Hogg being interviewed on a California local news broadcast last year for reasons completely unrelated to gun violence — offering each as proof of Hogg’s anti-Trump agenda. By Tuesday afternoon, posts ricocheted across the internet, accusing Hogg of being a paid crisis actor who pretends to be a victim during national tragedies in order to exploit them for political gain. On Facebook alone, Hogg “crisis actor” posts racked up hundreds of thousands of shares in just a few hours; similarly, YouTube’s top trending video accused Hogg of being an actor.
Outside the fever swamps, the attacks against the Parkland students have been largely regarded as the logical conclusion of a media apparatus with a knee-jerk reaction toward conspiracy theories to counter factual reporting and spin political narratives. But for those who’ve paid close attention to the pro-Trump media’s tactics, the attacks on the Parkland students feel different — and not just because of their toxicity. By antagonizing underage survivors of a national tragedy, the pro-Trump media abandoned its usual play for the moral high ground and made an uncharacteristic miscalculation: It chose a popular, deeply sympathetic, nonpolarizing political enemy. More specifically, it chose a political enemy effectively born onto the internet and innately capable of waging an information war.
Unlike the pro-Trump media’s usual enemies, the Parkland students innately understand how to use this broken system to their advantage.
Dating back to the months leading up to the 2016 presidential election, the pro-Trump media has proven it’s remarkably savvy at crafting captivating narratives for its followers. These narratives follow a similar pattern in that they identify and attack a polarizing enemy — often a legacy institution or brand that’s particularly vulnerable to digital propaganda, like Hillary Clinton, the Washington establishment, or the mainstream media. Leveraging the power of their followers across social platforms, the pro-Trump media’s best practitioners attempt to own the story and stay one step ahead of their enemy. By the time the enemy has scrambled to address the outrage or debunk false information, the pro-Trump media has moved on to the next microscandal.
In the case of Hillary Clinton, the pro-Trump media chose a target saddled with decades of political baggage. When Clinton’s stolen emails were leaked, it waged an incessant online campaign designed not only to discredit her, but to dominate news cycles by enticing mainstream outlets to cover it. In the case of #HillarysHealth and #Pizzagate, it invented defamatory conspiracy theories, forcing the candidate into an unwinnable choice: stoop to address the fever swamp’s claims or let them fester and gather steam. And the Clinton camp, in keeping with establishment politicking, struggled to counter the online invective and misinformation.
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Much the same happened with Congressman Devin Nunes’ memo just last month. Over the course of two weeks, Nunes’ memo was weaponized by the pro-Trump media and its online viral outrage machine, which forced reluctant Democrat lawmakers to obsess about, respond to, and speculate over a largely political document. When the memo was finally released and largely dismissed, Nunes and the pro-Trump media deflected all criticism — they’d already moved on. There were different, more incendiary memos on the way.
Similarly, factions of the mainstream media have proven time and again that they are unprepared for the pro-Trump media’s information war. Whether it’s Scott Pelley falling into a trap while interviewing pro-Trump personality Mike Cernovich, former New York Times public editor Liz Spayd taking the bait while being trolled on Twitter, or Megyn Kelly and NBC allowing Alex Jones to gin up outrage and scoop her on her own interview, the mainstream media has repeatedly failed to grasp the pro-Trump media’s new rules. It’s never quite understood that its online arm isn’t just an opposition force — it’s a parallel institution that insists on its own reality.
In the case of the Parkland students, however, the mold doesn’t fit. A look at the Twitter feeds of students like David Hogg shows that they are a remarkable foil for the pro-Trump media’s trolling tactics. Like the pro-Trump media, they, too, are an insurgent political force that’s native to the internet. And while they use legacy platforms like cable news to build awareness of their names and of their causes, much of the real work happens online.
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They use platforms like Twitter to call out and put pressure on politicians. They address prominent critics like Bill O’Reilly not with bland, carefully written statements, but by dunking on them, and they respond to misinformation in real-time with their own viral, emoji-laden posts. Rather than take the bait on the crisis actor narrative, they opted to have fun with the conspiracy theories by mocking them. “I’m thankful that there are people out there finding my doppelgangers for me. I’ve always wanted to have a party with a room full of people who look like me,” Emma Gonzalez, a Parkland student, told BuzzFeed News. By dismissing the conspiracies for what they are — a tired, rather boring page in the Infowars playbook — Gonzalez and her classmates have stripped them of their power. Before the pro-Trump media can finish its line of attack, the students, unfazed, have moved on, staying one step ahead of their political enemies and owning the story.
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These Parkland students are doing SO MUCH and they still find the time to own Bill O’Reilly on Twitter
The pro-Trump media will no doubt continue its onslaught. And because the online ecosystems that undergird all of these interactions are deeply broken, the assault against David Hogg and his classmates will likely continue to spread across platforms like YouTube and Facebook and Twitter. But unlike the pro-Trump media’s usual enemies, the Parkland students innately understand how to use this broken system to their advantage. They know intuitively what the pro-Trump media has known (and used to its benefit) for years now: The way to win an information war is not to shy away from conflict online, but to lean into it.
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South Texas Border Patrol agents seize over 120 pounds of crystal meth at checkpoint
U.S. Border Patrol agents in South Texas seized more than 120 pounds of crystal meth during an inspection of a vehicle Friday.
South Texas Border Patrol agents seize over 120 pounds of crystal meth at checkpoint U.S. Border Patrol agents in South Texas seized more than 120 pounds of crystal meth during an inspection of a vehicle Friday. Check out this story on caller.com: https://www.caller.com/story/news/crime/2019/09/03/south-texas-border-patrol-agents-seize-over-120-pounds-crystal-meth/2203297001/
Alexandria Rodriguez, Corpus Christi Caller Times Published 4:57 p.m. CT Sept. 3, 2019
Border Patrol agents assigned to the Falfurrias checkpoint referred a Ford Fusion to a secondary inspection after a K-9 alerted to the car, according to a news release.
A search of the car led to the discovery of two containers filled with crystal meth, the release states.
In this June 5, 2014 photo, a Border Patrol agent uses a headset and computer to conduct a long distance interview by video with a person arrested crossing the border in Texas, from a facility in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) (Photo: Gregory Bull/Associated Press)
The weight of the crystal meth was more than 120 pounds with an estimated value of nearly $4 million, the release states.
Agents arrested the driver and turned the case over to the Drug Enforcement Administration.
"Across the Southwest Border, Border Patrol has experienced an increase in the amount of methamphetamine, heroin and cocaine seized between the ports of entry when compared to last fiscal year," the release reads. "The public is encouraged to take a stand against crime in their communities and report suspicious activity at 800-863-9382."
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Here's what the busiest stretch of U.S./Mexico border looks like
Border Patrol agents take a group of migrants in to custody near Mission, Texas, after tracking them though a field on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. Courtney Sacco/Caller-Times
Border Patrol Agent Hermann Rivera climbs through a fence as he assists other agents searching an area in Mission, Texas, for five migrants who ran from agents on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2019. Courtney Sacco/Caller-Times
A large group of migrant families wait along the side of the road to be transported after turning themselves in to Border Patrol agents in Penitas, Texas, on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. Courtney Sacco/Caller-Times
Border Patrol agents standing along the border wall near Penitas, Texas, look down at other agents after taking two migrants in to custody on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. Courtney Sacco/Caller-Times
Border Patrol agents take a group of migrants in to custody after they ran in to a field in Mission, Texas, on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2019. Courtney Sacco/Caller-Times
A Border Patrol Agent over looks the Rio Grande River in to Mexico after a report of raft in the river near Penitas, TX on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. Courtney Sacco/Caller-Times
A Border Patrol agent searches an area for a group of migrants spotted running in to a field near Mission, Texas, on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. Courtney Sacco/Caller-Times
A migrant is searched before being transported after being taken in to custody by Border Patrol near Mission, Texas, after he was tracked through a field on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. Courtney Sacco/Caller-Times
Border Patrol Agent Hermann Rivera approaches a group of migrants along a dirt road near Mission, Texas, on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2019. Courtney Sacco/Caller-Times
Border Patrol Agent Hermann Rivera talks with a 22-year-old women from El Salvador and her 5 and 3-year-old children after crossing the Rio Grande Valley from Mexico near Mission, Texas, on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. Courtney Sacco/Caller-Times
Border Patrol Agent Hermann Rivera searches the backyard of a home in Penitas, Texas, after a camera spotted two migrants walking in the area on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2019. Courtney Sacco/Caller-Times
Border Patrol Agent's uses their flashlights to check underneath a home in Penitas, Texas, as they search an area after a camera spotted two migrants walking in the area on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. Courtney Sacco/Caller-Times
A section of border wall and "enforcement zone" patrolled by Border Patrol in Penitas, TX on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2019. Courtney Sacco/Caller-Times
Border Patrol Agent Hermann Rivera radios to other agents as they search an area in Penitas, Texas, after a camera spotted two migrants walking in the area on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. Courtney Sacco/Caller-Times
Border Patrol Agent Hermann Rivera looks as he drives past a field as other agents as other agents on foot search an area in Penitas, TX for migrants spotted running in the area on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. Courtney Sacco/Caller-Times
Border Patrol agents take a group of migrants in to custody after they ran in to a filed in Mission, Texas, on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. Courtney Sacco/Caller-Times
Border Patrol Agent Hermann Rivera and other agents search and area of brush in Penitas, TX for migrants spotted running in the area on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. Courtney Sacco/Caller-Times
Four migrants stand along the bollard border fence in Mission TX, after being taken in to custody by Border Patrol on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2019. Courtney Sacco/Caller-Times
A Border Patrol Agent standing along the border wall near Panitas, TX, points to a spot in the brush after migrants trying to use a ladder where spotted on camera on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2019. Courtney Sacco/Caller-Times
A Border Patrol vehicle seen through the bollard fence near Penitas, TX, on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2019. Courtney Sacco/Caller-Times
Border Patrol Agent Hermann Rivera takes a fourth-four year-old Honduran man and his 16-year-old son in to custody who had been walking lost for hours after crossing the river from Mexico near Mission TX, on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2019. Courtney Sacco/Caller-Times
Border Patrol Agents take in to custody migrants shortly after crossing the river from Mexico near Mission TX, on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2019. Courtney Sacco/Caller-Times
Border Patrol Agents take in to custody a 22-year-old women from El Salvador and her 5 and 3-year-old children after crossing the river from Mexico near Mission, Texas, on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. Courtney Sacco/Caller-Times
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How new data-collection technology might change office culture
Imagine a tiny microphone embedded in your office ID badge. Sound far-fetched? In fact, a growing number of companies are using such data-collecting devices to improve efficiency and communication.
Employers experimenting with personal data collecting to boost performance
Tara Kimura · CBC News · Posted: Sep 14, 2015 5:00 AM ET | Last Updated: September 14, 2015
An office innovation worthy of George Orwell will allow your employer to keep an eye on your work and track your every move 2:46
Imagine a tiny microphone embedded in the ID badge dangling from the lanyard around your neck.
The mic is gauging the tone of your voice and how frequently you are contributing in meetings. Hidden accelerometers measure your body language and track how often you push away from your desk.
At the end of each day, the badge will have collected roughly four gigabytes worth of data about your office behaviour.
Think this is far-fetched? Well, last winter employees at the consulting firm Deloitte in St. John's used these very badges, which are being touted as the next frontier in office innovation.
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The Deloitte team was switching from a traditional cubicle farm to an open-concept space, and the badges were used to measure how well employees were performing in the new milieu.
Participation in the pilot project was optional and those who opted in were given contracts that made them owners of their own data.
A growing number of companies are using data-collecting devices such as ID badges to improve employee efficiency and communication. (Shutterstock/wavebreakmedia)
The information from the badges, which were created by the Boston-based company Humanyze, was gathered anonymously, and workers were given personalized dashboards that benchmarked their performance against that of the group.
"The minute that you get the report that you're not speaking enough and that you don't show leadership, immediately, the next day, you change your behaviour," says Silvia Gonzalez-Zamora, an analytics leader at Deloitte, who steered the Newfoundland pilot.
"It's powerful to see how people want to display better behaviours or the behaviours that you're moving them towards."
'What do happiest people do?'
The Humanyze badges are just one of many data-driven tools that some advanced workplaces are testing in a bid to improve efficiency and communication.
The tools range from complex email scanning programs to simple fitness trackers, such as Fitbits, that measure sleep patterns and movement.
Ben Waber, CEO of Humanyze, says he envisions the sensor-equipped badges will become ubiquitous. He and his colleagues developed the badges and analytical models while working on their PhDs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Waber notes that the badges do not record conversations or things like how many times an employee uses the washroom.
Instead, they're intended to help balance group discussions, create a work environment with positive interactions and show how each employee fits into the bigger picture using irrefutable data.
Massachusetts-based company Humanyze has developed ID badges that measure a person's movement, how frequently they speak in meetings and how often they move around. (Humanyze)
"To be able to show you — here's what the people who get promoted do … here's what the top performers do, here's what the happiest people do — and show that change over time and how your behaviour is changing over time" is very powerful, Waber said.
"If the company moves your desk or they changed how you get paid, what actual impact does that have?"
Human Big Data
For the Deloitte team in St. John's, Humanyze found that workers liked their new light-filled cubicles so much they were less likely to get up and take breaks.
In a similar case study for the Bank of America, the team tracked employees at a call centre for three months.
Humanyze suggested that if employees took breaks at the same time, productivity would improve.
The change was introduced and productivity increased by as much as 20 per cent while stress levels dipped by 19 per cent, according to its measurements.
We help companies understand what their top teams and top people are doing that's different from everyone else. - Ryan Fuller, Volometrix
The giant Japanese conglomerate Hitachi has also developed what it calls Human Big Data, a wearable device that is outfitted with sensors and collects data 50 times per second.
Hitachi says the data gathered from the device is used to gauge the happiness of the group.
Meanwhile, Seattle-based Volometrix is hoping to help large companies bump up their efficiency rates by offering a service that scrapes the address and subject fields of email and calendar appointments from employees, and then aggregates the data to chart how workers are spending their time and with whom.
Volometrix counts Boeing, Facebook, Qualcomm and Seagate among its clients.
"We help companies understand what their top teams and top people are doing that's different from everyone else," says co-founder and CEO Ryan Fuller.
"It might be that top salespeople are spending two more hours a week with customers and building five more relationships within each customer.
"You can get to a very granular view of what's different about the places in your organization that are working really well and the places that are working less well."
'You can become your own mini-NSA'
Employees are given personalized dashboards that show how they performed in comparison with the group at large. (Humanyze)
The obvious fear for many employees is that data collected would not be anonymous and, instead, could be used for hiring, firing and promotion considerations.
The growing market for these types of tools is sure to spawn imitators who might not uphold the same privacy safeguards.
Privacy advocates shuddered when a software developer recently boasted that it would be possible for employers to peek into the emails and messages sent through Microsoft's Lync messaging system (now known as Skype for Business).
"You can become your own mini-NSA," David Tucker, CEO of Australian-based Event Zero, told Network World.
Managers could see which employees are dating and which ones are seeking out their next job. "Just make sure it doesn't end up on WikiLeaks," he advised.
Generally, though, most companies are using these tools for positive ends, says Peter Bell, a management science professor at Western University's Ivey business school.
In fact, he says, most managers are using them to help workers who have steered off course.
"In Canada, hiring and firing people is a nightmare," Bell says. "It's much better to identify issues on the job and try to train people and mentor them to be more productive."
For companies, being open about how employee data is being collected and for what purpose is crucial, says Ann Cavoukian, executive director of Ryerson's Privacy and Big Data Institute in Toronto.
Cavoukian, who was Ontario's information and privacy commissioner from 1997 to 2014, notes however that businesses have every right to monitor their employees' performance.
"You're there to work, you're being paid," she said, "And if it is made very clear to you that we monitor your emails ... then the employee has the choice whether they want to work in a workplace like that.
"I think it is unreasonable to think that workplaces and employers are not going to use every means available to increase efficiency and productivity."
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Easy Boneless Roasted Leg of Lamb
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Lamb is readily available in most supermarkets. The freshest lamb will have soft pink and red flesh with marbling throughout. Avoid anything that looks grey in color.
Wrap the lamb in it in its original packaging, airtight, with plastic wrap or aluminum foil. From there, you can also place the meat in an airtight freezer bag to prevent freezer burn. Chops and loins fare best when wrapped individually.
Lamb can be defrosted in three ways. As with most meat, refrigeration is the most effective, albeit slowest method. Lamb meat defrosted in the fridge can actually be re-frozen before or after cooking, though there may be a loss of moisture. If you're in a pinch, lamb can be defrosted in the microwave, or placed in a bowl of cold water (which should be replaced every 30 minutes).
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1/3 cup finely chopped fresh Italian parsley
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Gremolata, a mixture of parsley, garlic, and lemon zest, offers heat and fresh herb and citrus flavors to assertive leg of lamb. The best part of this recipe is that putting it all together for a dinner party or weeknight meal is a snap. Serve the lamb with a carrot mash or roasted potatoes.
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1Heat the oven to 400°F and arrange a rack in the middle.
2Finely grate the zest from the lemons. (If you’re using a vegetable peeler, finely chop the peeled zest.) Place the lemon zest, garlic, parsley, and measured oil in a medium bowl and season with salt and pepper. Stir until an evenly combined paste forms; set aside.
3Unroll the lamb, lay it flat on a cutting board, and remove any large pieces of gristle, sinew, or fat. Season the top surface of the lamb generously with salt and pepper, then, using your hands, spread the lemon-garlic-parsley paste over the seasoned meat. Roll the lamb back up and tie it in several places, about 1 to 2 inches apart, with butcher’s twine. Rub some olive oil, salt, and pepper all over the outside of the lamb and place it in a shallow baking dish.
4Roast in the oven until the internal temperature reads 135°F to 140°F on an instant-read thermometer, about 1 hour. Transfer the lamb to a cutting board and let it rest for 10 to 15 minutes. Remove the twine, carve, and serve.
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QUT Billboard Project
KELVIN GROVE RD, BRISBANE, 2010
QUT, The Block
HUMAN VS HUMAN
Human Vs Human is a sliced and cropped image still from a video artwork which uses various autobiographical war veteran stories from online social networking sites and live recorded 3D game play from first person shooter games to create alternative narratives which subvert and intensify their original meaning. The video work inserts the real life personal narratives of soldiers into a virtual gaming world cut with pop music, in-game narratives and atmospheric sound tracks to create a disturbing, conflated look at the reality of warfare and its simulated double. The image that the viewer looks at, or passes by, is literally designed to look back at them and as a result is meant to intensify this two way viewing relationship.
While driving you have to be constantly aware of who is behind you, at the side of you and who is in front of you at all times. You have to constantly scan and surveil the space in close proximity to you. When you look back in the rear vision mirror you are looking through a frame of mirror that has been proportionally designed specifically for the dimension of your eye span and size of your rear window. All of these dimensions and shapes also reflect the dimensions of the billboard. This act of driving is a "controlled meditative experience", one which requires a lot of concentration yet lends itself to the driver lapsing into a state of auto-pilot. Spending hours in the car during the day, moving through space at speed, combined with your body in an inert position lends itself to this idea of a "controlled meditative experience". The eyes seen on the billboard and glimpsed in the rear vision mirror of the car is designed like the flashback convention to transport the viewer. Art like the car is also a form of transportation.
The video slice of a pair of eyes lies within a video narrative where the character experiences "flashback" sequences. This filmic convention has gradually, developed into a sophisticated device to distort spacio-temporal relations between the characters present and past histories while transforming visual codes of representation to indicate thought patterns. Human Vs Human uses this convention as way to question how we represent our real experience through language and how we assign "truth" through retelling the past. The power of the human imagination to present something which is unpresentable through representation, such as our past and to process emotion from a single image lies at the heart of what it means to be human - to read, to feel and to react.
Temporality is a term used in talking about the materiality of time. The traditional mode of temporality is a linear procession of past, present, future. While this linear process is experienced by the body, the mind behaves quite differently, seeking to wander in and out of our childhood memories and our current state of affairs. This image of a set of eyes looking out at us on Kelvin Grove road acts both metaphorically and literally. The cars passing by the single static image of a pair of eyes on a billboard will animate the image from their speed within a given space-time continuum. Rather than a moving or static camera recording a moving image and then playing it back to us, the reverse is happening, where those in their cars are moving in front of a static image causing the image to appear to move with them. The gaze of the character in the video slice is not looking down onto the road but away into the distance in a sort of detached, silence; contemplating something unknown to us. Ideally, once the image is passed by and out of focus, its visual pull is meant to re-occur in the thoughts of those who experienced it at a later date.
Today, we are surveiled like no other human in the history of our species. This surveillance operates both in the real space of our shopping malls to the virtual online space of the internet where our search habits are continually recorded and monitored via cookies and tracking bots. But this surveillance does not only operate from the outside but also from within. We self-surveil our movements and our habits day to day with positive and negative effects. But does it only exist because we possess a pair of eyes. Or is it only through our developments in new technology that structure a new way of thinking about private and public space, freedom and anarchy, morality and immorality?
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Weapons on the Wall
INSTITUTE OF MODERN ART, BRISBANE, 2005
SEDUCTION IS IMPORTANT1: CHRIS HOWLETT'S WEAPONS ON THE WALL
"Art is not a mirror to reflect reality, but a hammer with which to shape it."
Bertoldt Brecht2
The title of Chris Howlett’s ongoing series of exhibitions comes from the description of World War II propaganda posters as ‘Weapons on the Wall’3. This phrase indicates the extent to which such wars are not just about fighting the enemy, but also about waging a war for people’s hearts and minds. Support for a cause cannot be assumed, but must be won through reason, inspiration emotion and, if necessary, deception. Seen in this light, propaganda can be seen as advertising for an ideology; a very particular type of hype, designed to ‘work on people until they are addicted to us’4.
Today, the tactics of propaganda are so deeply imbedded within the fabric of our culture that they are indistinguishable across the fields of media reporting, advertising, cinema or reality television.
It is in this context that Chris Howlett attempts to explore the relationships between art, politics and propaganda. The earlier editions of Weapons on the Wall drew heavily on representations and reporting of September 11, the US invasion of Iraq and the resulting protests against US imperialism. They presented an eclectic array of hand-drawn protest placards, digital prints, paintings of magazine covers ranging from TIME Magazine to Art in America and videos including news reports from ‘ground zero’ of September 11, the cartoon violence of the Simpsons, episodes from M*A*S*H and imagery from internet hate sites.
These seemingly radical juxtapositions point to a certain equivalence amongst these varying statements: whether protesting against war or waging in, spearheading an advertising campaign or a terrorist strike, reporting on world politics or on contemporary art, all seems to come down to sloganeering and spectacle.
The most recent addition to the Weapons on the Wall project brings these investigations closer to home, examining the legacies of colonialism and nationalism within a local context, alongside the media critiques and political interrogations of the earlier exhibitions. An important aspect of this project is an acknowledgement of the complexity that is inherent in the issue under examination. In Howlett’s engagement with politics the idealism of Brecht’s statement is undercut by the awareness that there are no simple answers to the questions being posed, only a never ending series of linked ideologies, oppositional arguments and conspiratorial connections to be explored.
This complexity takes form in the construction of equally labyrinthine environments in which to pit the opposing forces of ‘conservative’ and ‘radical’ politics and aesthetics. The use of objects and images to explore these issues mimics, even as it questions and critiques, the practices of museum display. Howlett’s quasi-museological environment is one in which truth is always uncertain and open to debate. Howlett presents items ranging from ‘tribal’ artifacts (both ‘authentic’ and ornamental) to live animals and insects. He cajoles us with manipulated footage of sporting kings and emperors, engages us in simulated warfare with sci-fi colonialists, entertains us with outdated ethnographic texts.
Importantly, the appropriations pf prosaic landscape paintings, re-presentation of tribal artifacts and provision of computer games consist of a mixture of ‘authentic originals’, ‘assisted readymades’, and items painted, carved, moulded or generated by Howlett himself. While in some cases the products of these labours are more apparent than in others, it remains unclear whether these are acts of tribute, parody or one-upmanship.
These acts of appropriation raise questions of ownership and value, perhaps most clearly demonstrated in the landscape paintings purchased from ‘op shops’.
To these paintings, Howlett has added various figures and slogans, some political and some advertorial. Is the alteration of their content an elevation from the ‘merely decorative’ to the politically purposeful, or is this an act of colonisation in which one artist claims ownership of the work of another? This would certainly seem to be the case when he signs a work on behalf of the original artist – as if their anonymity renders the work authorless and therefore ripe for reclamation. Or is this an act of unrequited collaboration, as evidenced by the listing of the artist’s names in the gallery alongside Howlett’s own.
Similarly, the use of artifacts would seem to reflect a coloniser’s desire for the fetishes of ‘primitive’ superstition, or at the very least for exotic souvenirs. Yet alongside these artifacts (authentic or otherwise) are objects that Howlett has crafted.
As with the landscape paintings, the distinction between the genuine and ingenuous articles is not always clear; some are originals, some have been modified or fabricated from scratch, to varying degrees of plausibility. The more obvious fakes include weapons made using everyday ‘Western’ objects such as cricket bats and fence pailings. These objects appear to be the products of some sort of extreme suburban primitivism or the trappings of a very dangerous game.
An equally ominous game is found situated amidst a confusion of monitors and computer games. Here stands an arcade style game and an invitation for the viewer to assume the mantle of Coltan5 the barbarian, using a virtual reality helmet modelled on Pupua New Guinean mud masks. Donning this mask, we become a player in an environment made up of fragments of the gallery environment itself. Our perception is both focused and distracted by the mask itself. The mask, like the story behind it, not only frames our view of the world but also adds yet another layer of complexity to the worlds in which we operate.
It seems that the one task that Chris Howlett sets for himself is to articulate this complexity; to question the view of the world that is presented to us. Yet perhaps the most pressing question that can be asked by (or of) Chris Howlett is this:
how can artists engage with politics in a meaningful way? When as Brecht suggests, art does take on the responsibility of shaping society, how can it do so other than playing on our ideals and aspirations – and consequently taking on the strategies of advertising and propaganda?
It appears that this is the task that Chris Howlett sets for himself – to present his own voice amongst (rather than above) a million others. Rather than a one-sided debate, we are presented with a cacophony of dissent and argument, not simplified or diluted but dispersed around the room. It is up to us to pick through the rubble of ideologies, to tread the fine line that Chris Howlett draws between seduction and repulsion, and to make up our own minds.
Chris Handran is a Brisbane based artist, writer and curator.
1. Chris Howlett, in converation, October 2004.2. This quote is usually attributed to Bertoldt Brecht. It has also been attributed to figures such as Karl Marx, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Leon Trotsky and appears in varying forms in their writings. One of the more extreme versions suggests: ‘Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to smash it‘. 3. Earlier editions were staged at QUT Art Museum and the Farm Space, Brisbane.4. Joseph Goebbels quoted in Eduardo Cadava Words of Light: Theses on the History of Photography (1997) Princeton University Press, New Jersey, p.83.5. Coltan is an abbreviated name for columbite-tantalite, a vital element in the circuitry for cellphones, computer chips, nuclear reactors, computer games and many other electronic devices. Its high market value has served to exacerbate conflict in the Congo, where around 80 percent of the world Coltan supply is found.
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Court told of Metro attack
A teenager who led a gang of 15 in a vicious attack against a man standing on a Metro platform has appeared in court.
The 16-year-old, of the Meadow Well area of North Shields, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was part of a group who targeted the man on September 5 at 9pm at Whitley Bay Metro Station.
North Tyneside magistrates heard how the victim was repeatedly kicked, punched and stabbed until he was unconscious and lying in a pool of blood.
The horrific incident was caught by CCTV surveillance cameras.
Karen Heaton, prosecuting, said: "The defendant and his friends were seen to follow the victim like a pack of animals and the video clearly shows the victim did not want to fight.
"There were 15 in the defendant's group. He is clearly seen to head the group and brings the victim to the ground, where he proceeds to stab and kick him until the man is unconscious.
"Witnesses to the scene said they had been left shocked by the vicious attack."
The court heard how the youngster was initially given bail for the offence, but was later arrested again and charged with robbery.
Magistrates remanded him on bail. He will appear again on September 22 via video link.
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Dell Considering Selling RSA: Report
Company Acquired RSA as One Component of Its Purchase of EMC in 2016 Scott Ferguson (@Ferguson_Writes) • November 26, 2019
The annual RSA Conference in San Francisco is the world's largest cybersecurity event.
Dell Technologies is considering the possible sale of its RSA security division, hoping such a deal could be worth $1 billion, according to Bloomberg, which cites "people familiar with the matter."
The Bloomberg report notes, however, that sources say Dell executives are only considering the idea of selling RSA and that no deal is in the works.
Dell acquired RSA in 2016 as part of its purchase of EMC for $67 billion. As part of that deal, Dell also acquired VMware, which specializes in virtualization and hybrid cloud technologies, and Pivotal, which creates tools for cloud-native application development (see: Dell Buying EMC: The Impact on RSA).
EMC, which is best known for storage products, acquired RSA in 2006 for about $2.1 billion.
A Dell spokesperson declined to comment on the Bloomberg report.
RSA and Dell
Since Dell announced its mega deal with EMC three years ago, the company has allowed RSA to operate mostly independently, while Dell has focused heavily on computer hardware and hybrid cloud computing initiatives.
RSA is known for developing security software that supports governance, risk and compliance as well as advanced threat management. One of its best-known products is its SecurID multifactor authentication tokens. The company also hosts the annual RSA Conference in San Francisco, the world's largest cybersecurity event.
In its latest annual report published in March, Dell notes that RSA "provides essential cybersecurity solutions engineered to enable organizations to detect, investigate and respond to advanced attacks, confirm and manage identities, and, ultimately, help reduce IP theft, fraud, and cybercrime."
Dell does not break down RSA's revenue into its own category in its annual report, but lumps the security division's revenue in with other parts of the company in an "other businesses" column. In its own materials, RSA notes that it has about 30,000 customers worldwide.
Different Security Strategy
Even if it were to sell RSA, Dell still has an interest in security, especially if it lines up with its overall cloud computing strategy.
In August, Dell's VMware unit announced it would acquire cloud security firm Carbon Black in a $2.1 billion cash deal to bolster the virtualization giant's security portfolio, especially around endpoint and application protection (see: VMware Acquiring Carbon Black to Boost Security Portfolio).
When that announcement was made, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger noted that Carbon Black would provide security technologies and know-how for customers creating multicloud and hybrid cloud environments as well as those enterprises involved in their own digital transformation strategies.
Charles King, president and analyst at Pund-IT, an independent IT consulting firm based in Hayward, California, notes that if Dell were to sell RSA, it would help streamline the company's security offerings and avoid overlap with what Carbon Black offers.
"Carbon Black's focus on hybrid cloud security is well-aligned with both VMware's and Dell's broader end-to-end enterprise solution strategies," King tells Information Security Media Group.
"Though public key encryption and management is still a significant factor in enterprise computing, its position is likely to diminish over time," King adds. "In other words, putting RSA on the market would make sense both practically and strategically for Dell. The value that $1 billion in cash could provide for funding other acquisitions or paying down debt is also a nice sweetener."
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Merger and acquisition activity in the cybersecurity market has been picking up in recent months.
For instance, private equity firm Thoma Bravo announced in October that it would buy Sophos for $3.9 billion. And Broadcom announced a $10.7 billion deal in August to acquire Symantec's enterprise division.
Meanwhile, McAfee is considering an initial public offering that could raise over $1 billion and value the company at $5 billion, the Wall Street Journal reports (see: Cybersecurity Firm McAfee Preps for Public Market Return).
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Collecting Evidence in a Fremont Car Accident Case
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Collecting evidence in a Fremont car accident case is one of the most important steps in the litigation process. To determine liability for an accident, juries rely on the evidence presented by the parties’ attorneys.
If you were injured in a vehicle collision, it is important to speak with a dedicated personal injury lawyer as soon as possible. Accident scenes change over time, and memories fade, so it is important to begin gathering evidence without delay.
Types of Evidence
Before filing a claim, Freemont car accident attorneys would gather evidence in a combination of ways. Typically they would interview the victim and obtain their statement. They would also collect evidence such as:
The police report and photos
Body camera footage from the investigating officer
Dash camera footage from the police vehicle
Google Earth photos of the accident scene
A traffic light sequence from the engineers’ office
Witness statements.
The process of collecting this evidence involves going through a checklist of all possible sources of information. On a simple case, it may only take a couple of weeks to collect evidence to present in court. On a complicated case, it could take hundreds of hours to gather all the evidence. This process is crucial for determining liability for the accident.
Surprising Sources of Evidence
Oftentimes, some of the best evidence may come from unexpected places. For example, if the accident happened in a neighborhood, sometimes just knocking on doors could help the attorney find witnesses who were not mentioned in the police report. Putting an ad in the local newspaper can be another way to find witnesses. Another important source of evidence is security cameras from local businesses or residences.
Evidence comes from all places. By using creativity combined with some luck, attorneys find some fantastic evidence to prove the case.
Preparing a Case for Court
After gathering all of the available evidence, attorneys may hire an expert witness, such as an accident reconstructionist. Based on the state of the accident scene, these experts use mathematical probabilities to reconstruct the accident and come to a conclusion about its cause.
The next step in a Fremont car accident case is preparing all the evidence for a courtroom presentation. This process begins by indexing all of the different evidence. The attorney will come up with a theme for the case, or a narrative they will be presenting to the jury. They could use several methods to present the case, such as PowerPoint presentations, poster boards, and video. An attorney with extensive courtroom experience understands how to use the evidence to tell their story most effectively and get their point across to the jury.
Speak With an Attorney About Gathering Evidence
If you were injured in an accident, seek the services of an experienced lawyer as soon as you are able. Collecting evidence in a Fremont car accident case is extremely time-sensitive, and the success of your claim could depend on how quickly an attorney can begin work on your case. Call today to schedule a consultation.
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Donald and Melania Trump Wouldn’t Be the First Presidential Couple to Divorce
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As Donald Trump ventured further and further into his presidential campaign, Melania Trump had no choice but to embrace the political spotlight. So far, she’s stayed with him through scandal and success. Will their marriage survive his presidency — or end in divorce?
Though it’s rare, the 45th president isn’t the only one to enter the White House as a divorcee. He would, however, be the first to divorce while in office, if things went that far. Here’s why.
Donald and Melania Trump married in 2005
The couple on their wedding day in 2005. | Melania Trump via Twitter
The two first met at a New York Fashion Week party in 1998. Despite refusing to give him her number at first, she eventually agreed to marry him. They have one son together, Barron, who is Melania’s first child but Donald’s fifth.
Next: He spent millions of dollars on his first divorce.
He had divorced two wives before marrying her
Trump with his first wife, Ivana, in the 1980s. | Swerzey/AFP/Getty Images
Melania wasn’t Donald Trump’s first wife. He has actually been married three times — first to Ivana Zelníčková in 1977, then Marla Maples in 1993. His marriage to Ivana ended after a public affair with Maples.
Trump’s first divorce ended up being one of the most expensive celebrity splits in history, costing about $25 million total.
Next: Here’s what Donald really likes about Melania.
Donald likes that Melania is less needy than his other wives
She can hold her own. | Giphy
Seeing as this is Donald’s third marriage, he’s chosen someone who appears to be much different than Ivana and Marla. While his previous two wives seemed to be more high maintenance, The New Yorker reports Melania says she’s “not a nagging wife.” Donald has reportedly not taken much interest in her home country of Slovenia or her culture, but for Melania, that’s OK. “I’m not that kind of wife who would say, ‘Learn this’ or ‘Learn that’,” she says. As far as the publication could tell, she doesn’t even tease Donald, but rather obediently compliments him.
Next: Donald loves when Melania does this.
Donald loved when Melania would praise him
She knows just how to flatter him. | Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images
Going along with Melania’s seemingly obedient attitude toward her husband, Michael D’Antonio, author of The Truth About Trump, says he noticed something troubling about their relationship, Vanity Fair reports. D’Antonio says when he met Donald and Melania, Donald said to his wife, “Tell him I’m a really good husband.” He repeated this to her twice before she finally told D’Antonio her husband was great, but it seemed to be dragged out of her.
The author also said Melania had another wifely duty — praising Donald’s fame by telling him he was more well known than other actors or rich folks.
Next: Trump was OK with having another child under one condition.
They agreed to have children — as long as Melania got her body back
Are his standards completely out of line? Melania doesn’t think so. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
We know by now that Ivanka appears to be the golden child of the Trump family, but Melania wanted children of her own. Here’s where things get weird, though. As Marie Claire reports, the couple had a “contract” of sorts before her pregnancy with Barron. Donald wanted to ensure Melania would get her pre-baby body back, and she assured him everything would go back to how it was.
Of course, there are conflicting reports here, as a spokeperson for Melania claims Donald was a very warm and supportive soon-to-be dad at the time. But others say he seemed to be quite cold and transactional about the whole thing.
Next: The latest Trump marriage might not last.
Are Donald and Melania Trump headed toward divorce?
The Trumps do not appear very engaged. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images
From the outside looking in, many speculate that, like all previous unions to date, this Trump marriage will not last. Though some reports claimed she didn’t even want to become a first lady or move into the White House, she has also defended his questionable remarks and tainted history with other women.
Whether they stay together forever, until his time in office ends, or split up as president and first lady might make a huge difference.
Next: Is it even possible for the POTUS to divorce their spouse?
What would happen if they split up during his term?
Melania would become a former first lady if Trump stayed in office. | Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images
Aside from their prenuptial agreement, Melania would leave the White House and become the “former first lady.” If a president were to divorce his wife and then remarry all while still serving his term, she would become the current FLOTUS in place of the former.
Getting a divorce while still in office probably won’t happen strictly for political reasons. In fact, it’s never happened before — and only one other previously divorced president has held office.
Next: Divorced presidents aren’t common, but we’ve seen it before.
Trump isn’t the first divorced U.S. president
Ronald Reagan was married before he met Nancy. | Ronald Reagan Presidental Library/Getty Image
Most of the 45 U.S. presidents have entered the White House alongside their wives, and stayed married throughout their terms. Only one former president never married. Another, like Trump, served as president alongside someone other than his first wife.
Ronald and Nancy Reagan married after his divorce from Jane Wyman. They stayed married until his death in 2004.
Next: This is how most presidential couples say their goodbyes.
Most presidential marriages end in death
Jacqueline Kennedy is the most famous widowed first lady in history. | National Archive/Newsmakers
“Til death do us part” is a vow that’s held true for the majority of former U.S. presidents. Though some have remarried after the fact — both while in office and after their presidencies — most have stayed together despite scandal and public scrutiny.
So far, the longest-lasting presidential marriage is still going strong after 73 years.
Next: Is a “first someone” really necessary?
Does a president need a first lady?
President James Buchanan never married. | Library of Congress/Wikimedia Commons
When Hillary Clinton campaigned against Donald Trump in the 2016 election, many wondered what we’d call Bill Clinton if his wife won the presidency (“first gentleman,” if you were curious). But what would happen if there wasn’t a presidential spouse to give a “first” title?
James Buchanan was the only U.S. president who served his entire term unmarried. If Donald and Melania Trump did part ways, technically, he wouldn’t need a stand-in. But history has shown first ladies play meaningful political roles, using their positions for good. Even if he didn’t remarry, he might still consider appointing someone to fill the space a former first lady left behind.
Next: Another woman is claiming to be the first lady and Melania isn’t having it.
Ivana calls herself ‘first lady’ and Melania isn’t having it
She fired back at her husband’s ex-wife. | Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images
Melania is certainly the first lady to the American people — but not to Ivana, Trump’s first wife. CNN reports Ivana called herself the real first lady in her new memoir. Instead of sitting back and letting the ridiculousness run its course, Melania wasn’t having any of it. She fired back by saying Ivana’s comments are “attention-seeking and self-serving noise,” according to her communications director, Stephanie Grisham.
Though sources maintain Ivana and Donald are still friendly following their divorce, this particular comment seemed to bother Melania more than others.
Next: Do they have a prenup and how much would Melania get in a divorce?
Donald says a prenup is good for the relationship
Trump and Melania met with this journalist, but Donald got to her first. | Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
Donald Trump is a big fan of prenuptial agreements. He doesn’t get married without them. Because of his wealth and his relationship history, it’s easy to see why. Trump told New York magazine that a prenup made his relationship with Melania stronger. He says it’s better to know who is going to get what from the beginning.
“Believe me, there’s nothing fun about it. But there comes a time when you have to say, ‘Darling, I think you’re magnificent, and I care for you deeply, but if things don’t work out, this is what you’re going to get,'” said Trump.
Next: Donald Trump thinks this is a good amount.
Donald recommends a cool million
Trump gave unsolicited marriage advice to Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg. | Adam Berry/Getty Images
In 2012, on CNBC’s Squawk Box, Donald Trump offered some unsolicited advice to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Trump suggested that Zuckerberg should have his then-girlfriend Priscilla Chan sign a prenup. He even offered to look at the agreement if Zuckerberg chose to get one.
“I think I’d be one of the great professionals and advise him,” Trump jokingly said during his CNBC interview. He said Zuckerberg should only give Chan $1 million if they ever split up. “I think if she made a million dollars that would be very good,” said Trump.
Next: Would Melania put up a fight?
Would Melania contest the prenup?
Melania only had an air kiss to offer her husband at his inauguration. | Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images
If the way past wives Ivana Trump and Marla Maples reacted is any indication, Melania will likely contest the prenup. Both Ivana and Marla contested their agreements. In the end, Ivana was awarded $14 million in cash, $350,000 in annual alimony, and child support payments of $300,000 each year for their three children. The former Mrs. Trump also snagged their Greenwich, Connecticut, mansion and a Trump Plaza apartment. After a brief battle, Maples settled for just $2 million.
Next: Melania would probably get some of this.
Melania could be able to retain a luxury apartment at a Trump property. | Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Melania would likely be granted one of Trump’s many real estate properties. Ivana was able to get a Trump Plaza apartment, so it’s possible Melania might also be granted a luxury apartment. Jacqueline Newman, a managing partner with Berkman Bottger Newman & Rodd told Town & Country it’s not uncommon for a wealthy spouse to purchase an apartment for the spouse with less money.
Next: What would happen to this?
Personal property and businesses
Would Melania get to keep profits from her branded products?| Melania Trump via Twitter
When it comes to personal property like jewelry, these items generally stay in that person’s possession. So, for example, any jewelry given to Melania would likely be hers to keep. And what about money earned from her jewelry business? Without the actual agreement to review, it’s hard to say what would happen to any businesses Melania starts after their marriage.
Next: What about Barron?
Who would Barron stay with?
Barron Trump is closer to his mother. | Alex Wong/Getty Images
Melania has been quite vocal about the fact that she’s the main caregiver. It’s likely she would be the primary custodian if she and Donald were to divorce. Melania told People she has taken over most of the parenting duties since her husband travels often. She also told the magazine since Barron is at an age where he’s still discovering life, she wants to be an active guide. “He wants to be a golfer, a businessman, a pilot. It’s that age when you introduce him to stuff, and I like to be very hands-on,” she said.
Next: Her settlement would likely include this.
Generous child support payments
Ivana Trump got a sizeable amount of money for child support. | JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images
If Melania and Donald Trump divorce, it’s also likely there will be generous child support payments. As noted earlier, Ivana received a pretty decent payout. Marla received less cash, but her settlement did include money for private school tuition for their daughter (Tiffany Trump), payments for nanny costs, and coverage for medical expenses.
Next: Could this happen?
What if there isn’t a prenup?
The Trumps undoubtedly have a prenup. | Ethan Miller/Getty Images for SHOWTIME
You might be wondering what would happen if there wasn’t a prenuptial agreement. If there isn’t a prenup (something that’s highly unlikely), attorney Peter Stambleck, a partner at Aronson Mayefsky & Sloan, told Town & Country things would likely get very complicated.
Billionaires have complicated asset structures. They have shell companies, LLCs, investments in other companies, and it’s very, very complicated. One main purpose of a prenup is to avoid having to share in that, but also to avoid the headache that goes into producing all the documents and having accountants come in and look at all of it. Theoretically, that’s what could happen in the absence of a prenup.
Additional reporting by Lauren Weiler and Sheiresa Ngo.
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Related to Machine learning is [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_computation evolutionary computation] and its sub-areas of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_algorithm genetic algorithms], and [[Genetic Programming|genetic programming]], that mimics the process of natural [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution evolution], as further mentioned in [[Automated Tuning|automated tuning]]. The process of learning often implies [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding understanding], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perception perception] or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasoning reasoning]. So called [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rote_learning Rote learning] avoids understanding and focuses on [[Memory|memorization]]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_reasoning Inductive] learning takes examples and generalizes rather than starting with existing knowledge. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deductive_reasoning Deductive] learning takes abstract concepts to make sense of examples <ref>[http://www.beatthegmat.com/inductive-learning-vs-deductive-learning-t36273.html Inductive learning vs Deductive learning]</ref>. =Learning inside a Chess Program= Learning inside a chess program may address several disjoint issues. A [[Persistent Hash Table|persistent hash table]] remembers "important" positions from earlier games inside the [[Search|search]] with its [[Exact Score|exact score]] <ref>[[David Slate]] ('''1987'''). ''A Chess Program that uses its Transposition Table to Learn from Experience.'' [[ICGA Journal#10_2|ICCA Journal, Vol. 10, No. 2]]</ref>. Worse positions may be avoided in advance. [[Book Learning|Learning opening book moves]], that is appending successful novelties or modify the probability of already stored moves from the book based on the outcome of a game <ref>[[Robert Hyatt]] ('''1999'''). ''[http://www.craftychess.com/hyatt/learning.html Book Learning - a Methodology to Tune an Opening Book Automatically]''. [[ICGA Journal#22_1|ICCA Journal, Vol. 22, No. 1]]</ref>. Another application is learning [[Evaluation|evaluation]] weights of various features, f. i. [[Point Value|piece-]] <ref>[[Don Beal]], [[Martin C. Smith]] ('''1997'''). ''Learning Piece Values Using Temporal Differences''. [[ICGA Journal#20_3|ICCA Journal, Vol. 20, No. 3]]</ref> or [[Piece-Square Tables|piece-square]] <ref>[[Don Beal]], [[Martin C. Smith]] ('''1999'''). ''Learning Piece-Square Values using Temporal Differences.'' [[ICGA Journal#22_4|ICCA Journal, Vol. 22, No. 4]]</ref> values or [[Mobility|mobility]]. Programs may also learn to control search <ref>[[Yngvi Björnsson]], [[Tony Marsland]] ('''2001'''). ''Learning Search Control in Adversary Games''. 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Usually any given type of [[Neural Networks|neural network]] architecture can be employed in any of those tasks. ==Supervised Learning== ''see main page [[Supervised Learning]]'' Supervised learning is learning from examples provided by a knowledgable external supervisor. In machine learning, supervised learning is a technique for deducing a function from training data. The training data consist of pairs of input objects and desired outputs, f.i. in computer chess a sequence of positions associated with the outcome of a game <ref>[http://www.aihorizon.com/essays/generalai/supervised_unsupervised_machine_learning.htm AI Horizon: Machine Learning, Part II: Supervised and Unsupervised Learning]</ref> . ==Unsupervised Learning== Unsupervised machine learning seems much harder: the goal is to have the computer learn how to do something that we don't tell it how to do. 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ERC signs agreement to fund road project in Yemen
The Emirates Red Crescent (ERC) has signed an agreement to fund the construction of a 6-kilometre road project in Yemen’s Yafi Rasd
The road project will serve more than 10,000 families.
by Jumana Abdel-Razzaq
The Emirates Red Crescent (ERC) has signed an agreement to fund the construction of a 6-kilometre road project in Yemen’s Yafi Rasd.
Al Amri-Tanhara-Al Askariya road project will serve more than 10,000 families by facilitating easier travel to the region’s border areas. The new road will connect the governorates of Lahij and Abyan and the lower districts of Yafi Rasd.
On signing the agreement, Juma Abdullah Al Mazrouei, head of the ERC Team in Aden, said that the ERC aims to complete services projects in various Yemeni governorates during the Year of Zayed in 2018 and as part of the UAE’s role in rebuilding the country’s infrastructure.
In December 2017, the ERC signed an agreement to build and equip Shuhair recreational park in the Ghail Bawazir district of Hadramaut, Yemen.
The works included the provision of electricity and water, as well as the construction of a mosque, renovation of the car parking area, and a children’s playing area.
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The System vs. Democratic Multiculturalism
I would like to further explore some aspects and implications of the idea of “democratic multiculturalism” — the idea supported by Frank Salter and Ricardo Duchesne that Whites need to play the multicultural game by demanding a “seat at the table” while resolutely demanding that White identity and interests be taken seriously by the regime.
My contribution to the debate was advocating that Whites become as loud and obnoxious in this regard as are the Others, constantly pushing memes of anti-White discrimination and forcing the diversity-mongers to take their ideals at face value instead of as a thinly disguised grab for Other-Power.
This has of course prompted the usual outcry from the peanut gallery of the pathetic “movement” — this strategy is “weak” and it “dishonors our ancestors.” As if the current “movement,” with its decades of unending failure, tragicomic buffoonery, complete infiltration by System operatives, and unrelenting stupidity, is something that “our ancestors” would be very proud of. Those complaints demonstrate that the complainer is too stupid to discern that the strategy outlined is “means” not “ends” — it is, simply put, a form of sociopolitical ju-jitsu to undermine the multiculturalist system by forcing that system to live up to its own ideals down the slippery slope to chaos, or be exposed as hollow and hypocritical. Stating this openly is not a problem, since the System will know it anyway; the point is to press the issue in such a way as to create a “heads we win, tails they lose” scenario so that the System fails regardless of how they attempt to address the issue.
Consider that multiculturalism is based on the “ideal” of minority collectivist mobilization and majority atomization and passivity. Minorities will continue to be mobilized; that is the first principle of multiculturalism, even more fundamental than majority passivity. Minority mobilization is a given (and we would wish it so, since minority passivity would lead to full assimilation and miscegenation even faster than currently, and would lull Whites to sleep even more than now). Therefore, the key to destabilize the System is majority mobilization. To mobilize Whites, one needs to give them something to get mobilized about. Like it or not, in today’s Last Man society, the White masses will not get mobilized to “honor their ancestors” or to “actualize a High Culture.” The far-Right pro-White elites may be so motivated today, and, in a future state run according to our principles, the masses would follow the path of honor and greatness. But today? Today, Whites need to be mobilized through grievance, through racial self-interest, through anger, through exposure of anti-White discrimination, through the entire immersion of Whites in a self-discovery of identity through the same paths followed by other groups in the morass of multiculturalism.
At this point, we need to consider some of the possible ways the System may attempt to derail the strategy of democratic multiculturalism. The following is in no way a comprehensive analysis, but a brief survey, to stimulate further thought, analysis, and refinement. Please note this applies mostly to the American situation, the situation in Europe is quite different. Europe has rigid speech control laws (which activists there need to overturn), while, at the same time, having relatively weak social pricing. In America, we have the opposite: de jure free speech, coupled with de facto control due to intense social pricing.
The System would either Refuse or Accept the place of Whites as full partners at the multicultural table. Refusal is more likely than acceptance, at least at the early stage. Both refusal or acceptance can be turned to our benefit. However, at the same time, the System would attempt to manipulate both refusal or acceptance in ways beneficial to their side. How could they do so and what could be our response?
With respect to Refusal, there could be: Ignoring, Ridicule, Argumentation, Social Pricing.
Ignoring is the easiest to deal with in the long run, although it may seem daunting in the short run. If we are to believe our own propaganda, then the situation for Whites will become more dire, more unpleasant, with the passing of time. We must persevere in our attempts to speak out, to ask Whites why their legitimate concerns are ignored. We should look at “ignoring” as an opportunity: an empty niche to fill with our own voice. Granted, that voice has to be reasonable, and not full of “movement” Nutzis ranting about cephalic indices, 0.15% “admixtures,” Evola and Savitri Devi, Atlantis, Hitler as the man above time, or other crackpot stupidities.
Ridicule is a potent weapon, since we live in “the age of snark.” We should expect the System to mobilize its celebrities, comedy routines, quick-witted Levantines, smug politicians, etc. to mock the idea that “privileged Whites” could possibly have any problems. They would prey upon right-wing insecurities about “looking weak,” “being beta,” or “dishonoring our ancestors,” as if a stoic “stiff upper lip” while your race and civilization is being destroyed, as if “sitting poolside,” as if doing nothing — as if all of that is somehow “strong and honorable.” Winning honors our ancestors; losing disgraces them. Do what you have to do to win. Persevere through the ridicule. Again: if we believe our own propaganda, the situation for Whites will deteriorate to a point that I guarantee that, eventually, they will not find anti-White ridicule funny at all. We can ask why is the System mocking your legitimate suffering? Why are your legitimate interests ridiculed? Why is your identity a joke? And, most important: we absolutely must use the weapon of ridicule against our opponents. They are far more vulnerable in that regard, objectively speaking. It’s just that they have the “megaphone” and we do not. Getting our message out will be a challenge.
Argumentation will be used, the standard leftist boilerplate about “White privilege” and the usual sociological nonsense. In a “fair fight,” we could easily defeat our opponents in any such debate (provided we keep the Nutzis gibbering among themselves in a corner, where they belong). The problem is inherent in the other components of Refusal: having the power and the “megaphone,” the System could Ignore or Ridicule our Argumentation, or subject our representatives to Social Pricing. So, we can win Argumentation only to the extent that we can solve these other issues and create a more level playing field. In any sort of “fair fight,” intelligent and rational racialists would wipe the floor with their opponents; the System knows this, which is why such a “fair fight” is not allowed. We must struggle to obtain it.
Social Pricing is in the long run the most difficult problem we face. Le Brun stated as much in a podcast, talking to Greg Johnson. In Europe, the social system does a better job of protecting folks from social pricing, while in “free market” America, such protection does not exist. Ultimately, we need to build an infrastructure of sufficient breadth and depth so as to make social pricing a weaker weapon of the System. Unfortunately, the pathetic “movement,” with its incompetent affirmative action leadership, shows no signs of doing so or even of acknowledging that such is necessary. Decades of time, money, and support have been wasted by “movement” trash and their “Der Tag” apocalyptic fantasies. The truth is far more mundane and less “heroic.” The “movement” won’t want to hear it. I’ll say it anyway. In my opinion, the real “turning point” will NOT be when “Whites storm the ramparts” or whatever other doomsday scenario whets the onanistic fantasies of the “movement” — instead, the turning point will be when overt pro-White activists can safely and securely live a comfortable middle-class existence while simultaneously being public far-Right representatives of White interests. I can only imagine the “movement” reaction to that. All the keyboard warriors will get lathered up into a frenzy over the “dishonor” and “pettiness” of such a statement. By golly, we need to “head for the mountains” and “smash the System,” while playing “Rambo” and eating twigs and branches. That’ll show ’em! I hope sane and rational minds will consider my proposed “turning point” and realize I’m right about that.
What about Acceptance? What if the System says, yes, White Identity and Interests can be part of multiculturalism? What then? If they do so, it will be for the purpose of co-opting our strategy, from putting forth bogus “White leaders,” masters of the “implicit Whiteness” game, to lead Whites into a sterile cul-de-sac in which mild complaining will be allowed, System representatives will pretend to listen, and all else goes on as before.
Thus, Co-Opting/Selling Out is the major System ploy I expect in the event they at same point choose the Acceptance option. They would try to defuse White anger by faux concessions, transparent ploys that would be accepted by the fake leaders and thus also accepted by the not-too-bright masses (the same masses routinely hoodwinked by the GOP).
The answer here is to have disciplined, sincere, vetted, visionary leaders who know how to expose the phony leaders, who would demand that only genuine pro-White leadership be representatives of Whites at the multicultural table, leaders who understand the difference between means and ends, and who have their eyes fixed on the endgame — destabilization of the multicultural system.
For White mobilization under genuine leadership will be the death knell for multiculturalism, the harbinger of chaos. Minorities, nurtured in an atmosphere of self-righteous racial-moral posturing, who believe they have a birthright monopoly on racial mobilization, these folks would never accept White mobilization. Whites standing up for themselves as Whites is the ultimate blasphemy for Coloreds and White Leftists, the Original Sin (which is why the System would, I think, prefer Refusal if they could get away with it). And the more angry the Coloreds/Leftists get, the more White Identity will become hardened, the more the societal divisions will fossilize into balkanization, the more untenable the whole situation will be.
Chaos! Our ancestors would be honored by that; the conflict would inflame their blood. Let’s do it.
Published: January 26, 2015 | This entry was posted in North American New Right and tagged articles, Frank Salter, multiculturalism, North American New Right, populism, reprints, Ricardo Duchesne, Ted Sallis, white activism, white dispossession. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.
I’ve seen cephalic indices addressed in works dating from the late nineteenth century by Georges Vacher de Lapouge and Otto Ammon, but I’ve never seen or heard “Nutzis ranting about cephalic indices.” I think Ted Sallis is attacking a straw man here. Other forms of HBD fetishism are surely far more common today. That said, I think the underlying point made by Sallis concerning the culture of the “movement” is sound: frivolous things are treated seriously, and serious things are treated frivolously.
Nutzis? That’s not helping. We’re going to want them when Chaos descends. Or do you have other plans? The correct position is no enemies to the Right. Never throw an ally under the bus like that just to appease the Enemy. You don’t have to laud them, just remain silent about people whose activities you don’t approve – or people who are serving another function than you in the Movement. IRA/Sin Fein for example.
Nutzis are not “to the right of me.” I’m a national socialist. I’m on board with a lot of the stuff Pierce wrote in the Turner Diaries that offends others. In fact, if I were “Fuehrer” I may very well make Pierce look like a moderate.
Nutzism = stupidity, not radicalism. It’s folks walking around wearing SS uniforms, rambling about Hyperborea or Aryans from Atlantis, measuring each other’s cephalic indices with calipers, agonizing over 0.00012% admixtures, obsessing over whether Hitler was a “man above time” or a “man beyond time.” In other words, typical “movement” stupidity. When Chaos descends, the Nutzis will be useless. We’ll need hard men who act with crystal clear rationality.
Essentially the article is saying: use the system against itself, exploit its contradictions. These are good tactics. Here are some random thoughts:
Supposing a university has a multicultural program. White activists march onto campus flying the Confederate battleflag and proclaiming support for Southern culture. Of course, the university will trot out the party line that the Confederacy represented slavery and the overthrow of Constitutional government. Our activists respond: You have Muslim groups and Islamic studies programs — and for the past 1400+ years Muslims have enslaved people and invaded Europe. So why the contradiction?
Or if, say, one advocated for post-World War I European nationalist cultures, and is met with the usual horror stories about “fascism”–point out that the university has out-and-out communist professors and student groups, and communism has been responsible for gulags, the occupation of Eastern Europe, and working for the overthrow of the United States government. So why the contradiction?
One objective would be carving out a power base: a pro-White Studies department on campus, a pro-White student newspaper, a commission for White people. All this can be expanded to White legal defense groups, White student and worker fronts, pro-White information (aka agitprop) agencies, and so forth. The idea being to build up an alternative infrastructure to the current system. Eventually, this could be translated into real political power.
And if the university tries to crack down, use the tactics of civil disobedience, pace Selma. Put the multicultic establishment in the position of being the aggressor, and White activists as the advocates for Free Speech.
The multicultic establishment has given White Nationalists a real opportunity. The increasing censorship can be exploited by activists. Look at how a Lenny Bruce was able to use the seven forbidden words to push for a cultural revolution. White Nationalists could do the same by, say, standing on the student union steps and exercising Free Speech. Perhaps they can quote from Shockley or Rushton on the genetic determinants of IQ. Or quote Winston Churchill on Islam (which has reportedly gotten a British politico arrested). And can tell the truth about the third world immigrant crime wave.
This makes White activists the rebels. And there is real political power in that. Lots of people want to do the forbidden, to defy authority. And they’ll do so if given some leadership. The thing is in guiding this into a pro-White movement.
One tactic missing here: setup.
Tommy Robinson was set up by police, to take down his street activism and behead his organization, EDL.
This is a good video where he takes an oxford university audience through his experiences, but especially enlightening is perhaps a recorded sequence, where he is doing a charity walk to raise money, and is being set up by the police, who in the aftermatch is aided by the press to make him and his cousin look guilty. See for yourself from 38 minutes in to 46 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-cl=84503534&x-yt-ts=1421914688&v=GyzGayfI400#t=2296
But what if the existence of the henhouse is dependent on the goodwill and hard work of the fox? … What if they have somehow befuddled the fox into not quite realizing the situation?
Nicely stated.
The dilemma is not that the enemies of the white race are so strong. It’s that they are so weak. If white people were to wake up in any organized numbers, the war would be over in 24 hours. Much of the strategy of the anti-white side has been to exploit its own weakness via civil disobedience, the cult of victimization, and ad nauseam. This had rendered everything from police dogs to nuclear weapons useless.
But what if white people were to stand up and say: “Yes, we know, white civilization has been responsible for imperialism, aggressive wars, ‘genocide,’ apartheid, and everything else you accuse us of having committed. And we are proud of it all…and will now be using these weapons against you and your hordes of wide eyed children with their begging bowls.”
The multicult’s tactics have revolved around the psychological disarmament of white people. i.e., destroying the will to fight (and even survive). Once that occurs, the superior weaponry and technology of white civilization is rendered useless. This has been so at Selma, during the Vietnam and other wars, and now is playing out in the streets of Ferguson, Malmo and Paris.
Thing is, the non-whites need whites, whether for the welfare state or affirmative action jobs or that save-the-children ™ begging bowl. But realistically speaking, what do “peoples of color” have to offer white people? Even the cheap labor comes with a price tag which makes it counterproductive.
Supposing white people got their act together and pulled the plug, letting the peoples of color self-destruct in their own dysfunctions? Imagine what Africa would look like if for 25 years whites provided no food shipments, missionary schooling, doctors sans borders, capital investing, peacekeeping forces, AK-47s, and refugee camps? Similar points could be made for dealing with third world populaces within the limes of Europa, or in North America.
Without white people propping them up, the third worlders would be reduced to demoralized, diseased and starving mobs which could be easily handled by small numbers of white troops — see the European conquest of Africa in the late 19th century.
It comes back to that issue of: how do we wake up white people?
Trying to negotiate with the enemy is pointless. They want you dead not marginalized. This war started in the 1960s. It will end when they are dead or gone. Trying to get a seat at their table only gives credibility to a system that has none.
I’m not sure how an approach described as similar to “ju-jitsu” can be misconstrued as “negotiating.” I outline a strategy to undermine multiculturalism by forcing the multicultists to either follow the logic of inclusion and accept White identity and interests (which would eventually wreck the foundations of multiculturalism) or be forced to admit, openly, that multicultural inclusion specifically excludes Whites (which is implicit in the ideology but as it is never stated as such, allows Whites to tacitly support the system). Either way, in the long run, they lose, as long as we avoid the System counter-measures outlined above. Either they let the fox into the henhouse or they very explicitly tell the fox it is not wanted. But what if the existence of the henhouse is dependent on the goodwill and hard work of the fox? What if the henhouse exists only because the fox is both excluded but at the same time made to support the existence of the henhouse? What if the hens know that admitting the fox inside will destroy them, but they also know that if the fox abandons them and doesn’t support them, they’re finished as well? What if they have somehow befuddled the fox into not quite realizing the situation? Someone needs to slap that fox across the face and tell him to knock on the door of the henhouse and DEMAND admission.
If that’s “negotiating,” so be it.
“The turning point will be when overt pro-White activists can safely and securely live a comfortable middle-class existence while simultaneously being public far-Right representatives of White interests”
This is excellent but where does it start?
Even the congressman who ctually noted a “war on whites” seems to have gone radio silent.
Great. Now what do I do to make it happen?
http://eginotes.blogspot.com/2015/01/practical-advice-democratic.html
Brilliant piece. I have been noticing some recent reactions from the Guardians of the System, and have found them ferociously aggressive in their mockery of Whites wanting a place at the table. The ridiculing retorts are being bantered around as the Systemites blithely ignore their own so-called egalitarian policies to discriminate openly against Whites in every societal arena.
However, Whites will not blithely ignore the hypocrisy, particularly if it is brought to their attention in a consistent, intelligent, and even-handed manner. I see Sallis’ proposal working like butter in a heated skillet. The conditions are right, the strategies sound, and timing couldn’t be better.
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Toxic Waste in the Sub-Prime Market
by Robin Blackburn
In recent times high-profile Wall Street investment banks have brought slick financial reasoning to the base art of loan-sharking. The most vulnerable Americans have been targeted for loans they can ill afford. Those with poor credit histories can be charged at double or treble the interest of a customer in good standing with the rating agencies. By the end of last year housing loans to six million unrated customers ‘sub-prime’ mortgages totalled $600 billion.
Three or four years ago Citigroup, Bear Stearns, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers and HSBC acquired ‘sub-prime’ lenders (‘loan sharks’) which they historically regarded with disdain. Citigroup acquired Associates First Capital, and HSBC bought Household Finance, blazing a trail others were to follow. Finance houses have long teamed up with retailers to shower so-called gold and platinum cards on all and sundry with the hope of ratchetin up consumer debt – rising from 110 per cent of personal disposable income in 2002 to 130 per cent in 2006 – and subsequently charging an annual 18 or 20 per cent on money for which the banks are paying four or five per cent. Such hot rates of return gave the banks a taste for seamy lending. They discovered how to limit their own exposure, while raking in the charges, by re-packaging the debts as CDOs (Collateralised Debt Obligations) in which they capture the risk premium while sloughing off the risk.
With direct access to sub-prime mortgages, the banks and hedge funds bundle together and divide up the debt into ten tranches, each of which represents a claim over the underlying securities but with the lowest trench representing the first tenth to default, the next tranche the second poorest-paying tranche and so on up to the top tenth. Borrowers who can only negotiate a sub-prime mortgage have either poor collateral or poor income prospects, or both, and that is why they must pay over the odds. Of course the bottom tranche of the CDO euphemistically designated the ‘equity’ is very vulnerable but can still be sold cheaply to someone as a bargain. The purchaser will also be assured by those assembling the CDO that they can hedge the possibility of defaults in the ‘equity tranche’ by taking out insurance against it. The bank will for an extra fee also arrange this insurance, making the entire ‘credit derivative’ product very complex and difficult to value.
The top tranches, and even many of the medium tranches, will be more secure yet will pay a good return. The chief executive of a mortgage broker explains: ‘Sub-prime mortgages are the ideal sector for the investment banks, as their wider margins provide a strong protected cash-flow and the risk history has been favourable. If the investment bank packages the securities bonds for sale, including the deeply subordinated risk tranches, it can, in effect, lock in a guaranteed return with little or no capital exposureGenerally investment banks do not like lending money but they are good at measuring risk, parcelling this up and optimising its value.’ For such reasons Morgan Stanley purchased Advantage Home Loans, Merrill Lynch bought Mortgages PLC and Lehman Brothers acquired Southern Pacific Mortgages and Preferred Mortgages.
The investment banks are playing a rapidly-moving game of ‘pass the parcel’. Ideally the loans are bought one day, packaged over-night in India, and then sold on to institutional investors the next day. In recent months ‘sub-prime’ defaults have jumped. A Lehman Brothers analyst warns that some $225 billion worth of sub-prime loans will be in default by the end of 2007 but others say the figure will be nearer $300 billion. The ‘equity tranch’ is now dubbed ‘toxic waste’ by the insiders and analysts are waiting to see which bodies float to the surface. In early March the New York Stock Exchange suspended New Century Financial, a company which had taken on insurance obligations for submerged tranches of mortgage debt for most of the big banks.
The vulnerable in today’s America certainly include the aged and unemployed who risk their one possession by re-mortgaging their home to an investment bank. But many of the middle class find themselves vulnerable too. In recent years they have lost health care and pension benefits and have been tempted by easy credit into purchases they discover they can ill-afford. The Wall Street Journal reports:
Last week, HCBCs chief executive officer, Michael Geoghegan, sought to dispel the notion that the bank had lowered its lending requirements. The typical customer of HSBC Finance Corp., which oversees the bank’s U.S. consumer finance business, has an average household income of $83,000, is 41 years old, has two children and a home worth $190,000. Mr Geoghegan told investors: “This is Main Street America”, he said’.
Helped by their role in packaging and selling such ‘credit derivatives’ as mortage-backed CDOs the banks achieved remarkably good profits right through the post-bubble trough and well into the subsequent recovery. However indebted consumers were not so good for non-financial corporations in the post-bubble era since demand was dampened – by 2003 18 per cent of the disposable income of US consumers was required to service debt and only a housing price boom and re-mortgaging maintained consumer purchasing power. Neither the Fed nor the SEC were keen to crack down on the mortgage bonanza because it helped to maintain consumer demand and market buoyancy. The default crunch will not only cause great unhappiness to the victims who stand to lose their homes – it hurts the housing market and increases the chances of a downturn.
ROBIN BLACKBURN is the author of Age Shock: How Finance Is Failing Us (2007), a comprehensive account of risk and social insecurity in the age of financialization. See also Blackburn’s, ‘Financialization and the Fourth Dimension’, New Left Review, May-June 2006. He can be reached at robinblackburn68@hotmail.com
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Doubling Down: The Military, Big Bankers and Big Oil Are Not In Climate Denial, They Are in Control and Plan to Keep It That Way.
by Richard Moser
Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair
“Capitalism, militarism and imperialism are disastrously intertwined with the fossil fuel economy….A globalized economy predicated on growth at any social or environmental costs, carbon dependent international trade, the limitless extraction of natural resources, and a view of citizens as nothing more than consumers cannot be the basis…for tackling climate change….Little wonder then that the elites have nothing to offer beyond continued militarisation and trust in techno-fixes.”
— Nick Buxton and Ben Hayes [1]
The ruling class may be an utter failure but that is not stopping them taking aggressive action on climate change. Their chief concern: maintaining power, control and profits at all costs.
The plan is well underway and it sure ain’t the Green New Deal. Just imagine a more extreme version of the world that already exists: where healthcare is rationed; where wealth inequality strangles democracy; where austerity is a weapon of class warfare; where millions die prematurely from toxins in air and water; where war and incarceration is the solution of choice; where people are rounded up in concentration camps; where corporations rule unchallenged; where extreme weather wrecks havoc in an expanding circle of misery. The only new thing about their solution is the stench of fascism that grows ever stronger and more odious.
The Bosses Want More of the Same
When Trump and the Republicans deny climate change, when Pelosi, Pallone, Perez, Biden and Obama join with Trump in sabotaging the Green New Deal or dismissing climate action as too expensive, too dreamy, not practical or too pure — they are all bold-faced liars and frauds.
The Republicans know full well that their partners in crime — oil companies, bankers and the military brass have known about climate change for decades. And, the corporate Democrats know that these same powerful players they too represent already have a risky plan to deal with climate change. From their shared perspective, even the Democrat’s Green New Deal, despite its weaknesses, must be marginalized since it competes with the establishment’s plans for our future.
Framing Climate Change
To maintain power they need to limit our thinking. The two most important narratives imposed on us are climate change as a “threat to national security” and as a “business opportunity” — the twin rationales for military and corporate power. They want to focus us on how to manage the crisis, profit from it, or adapt to it, instead of opposing it.
Once framed in this way the very institutions responsible for climate change can benefit from disaster while hiding their responsibility for creating the crisis. But the military-corporate management of the crisis will undoubtedly follow the same principles that created the crisis: the costs of pollution, adaptation, endless growth and war won’t appear in the corporate ledger. Military budgets will only grow larger. The costs will be “externalized” and paid by the suffering of everyday people.
The 63 million Americans currently exposed to unsafe drinking water and the 200,000 (according to an MIT study) in the US that currently die prematurely from air pollution are just a down payment. And the US is the wealthiest country in world history. The global figure for air pollution related deaths is 5.5 million annually. The 20 million or so deaths from war since WWII are a gross outstanding debt. How is that for adaptation and management? How will our rulers plan to maintain control as the crisis deepens?
Plans? What Plans?
Unsurprisingly, the military plans to maintain its ambition for “full spectrum dominance.” A 2014 report from the Department of Defense quotes former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel who — having previously been on the Board of Directors of Chevron and Deutsche Bank — knows how to unite big oil, big banks and big guns.
“Our coastal installations are vulnerable to rising sea levels and increased flooding, while droughts, wildfires and more extreme temperatures could threaten many of our training activities….A baseline survey to assess the vulnerability of the military’s more than 7,000 bases, installations and other facilities is nearly complete, Hagel said. “In places like the Hampton Roads region in Virginia, which houses the largest concentration of U.S military sites in the world, we see recurrent flooding today, and we are beginning work to address a projected sea-level rise of 1.5 feet over the next 20 to 50 years…”
They want us to forget that it has now been proven beyond doubt that the military is the world’s largest consumer of fossil fuels and largest polluter. War will continue, climate crisis be damned. Elizabeth Warren’s 2019 policy statement and the bipartisan letter sent to Trump by over 100 congress members urging Trump to make climate change a national security issue is more proof that war trumps climate. In truth, the military is caught in a crisis of its own making. As Desiree Hellegers puts it: “The US Military Poses a Significant Threat to the US Military.”[2]
While the pro-war media makes much of the military’s attempts to use alternative energy, the Pentagon failed to reach its puny 2014 goal of 5% renewable.
Similarly, Obama’s 2009 stimulus package cancelled out the effects of small green spending with an “all of the above” approach, including money for “clean coal,” record oil production and increased energy use. This pattern of “greenwashing” — minor green efforts masking major investments in fossil fuels is identical to the corporate approach.
The oil companies and big banks that make crazy money from fossil fuels also hide the truth by posing the problem as a question of proper management. Sharon Kelly reports the banker’s view of a new “business opportunity”:
“Scientific research finds that an increasing concentration of greenhouse gases…is warming the planet, posing significant risks to prosperity and growth of the global economy,” JPMorgan Chase Bank, Bank of America Corp., Wells Fargo, Citibank, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley wrote in a 2015 statement. “As major financial institutions…we have the business opportunity to build a more sustainable, low-carbon economy and the ability to help manage and mitigate these climate-related risks.”
So how is it that the bankrollers of climate chaos, investing $1.9 trillion in fossil fuels just since the Paris Accords, also claim to “manage and mitigate these climate-related risks?”
According to the bankers, the problem with climate change is that it’s “posing significant risks to the prosperity and growth of the global economy.” What they will not say is that the global economy — which demands enormous fossil fuel production and consumption — is posing significant risks to the climate. The global shipping and aviation on which peak profit-making depends is, like the military, exempt from the Paris Accords. The bankers, generals, and politicians are protecting the sources of their power.
From the Gold Standard to the Oil Standard
What the bankers will not say is that billions of the dollars they trade in are “petrodollars” — as explained in this informative documentary video. A 40-year back-room deal with the Saudis secretly recycled oil money back to the US. This deal essentially shifted the US dollar from the “gold standard” to the “oil standard.” According to Bloomberg:
The basic framework was strikingly simple. The U.S. would buy oil from Saudi Arabia and provide the kingdom military aid and equipment. In return, the Saudis would plow billions of their petrodollar revenue back into Treasuries and finance America’s spending.
Buying oil in dollars is a form of imperial tribute other countries pay to the US — which is why the US insists all oil trading be in US currency. Iraq and Lybia once traded oil in other currencies. Venezuela, Syria, Iran, Russia and China still do. See?
Since oil props up the US Dollar, bankers have a direct interest in wars that prop up the fossil-fuel regime. It is highly unlikely that the US Dollar, the Military-Industrial-Complex or the global corporate economy can live without its addiction to oil — whatever green capitalists imagine in their wildest dreams. Some contradictions simply cannot be overcome.
Representative Democracy is Dying. Long live Direct Democracy!
It’s “power to the people” or nothing. There is no middle ground. But we will be swamped along with the middle ground if we do not have real leverage and real power. The military, the oil companies and the big banks have plans and power both. The Green Party’s Real Green New Deal is a solid plan, as are the guiding principles offered by DSA Ecosocialists, or Tulsi Gabbard’s OFF Act.
But, the straightest line to the power we need is not just good policy, more manifestos, analytical precision or electoral politics (although those things might be helpful) — it’s the sloppy, contradictory, demanding work of organizing and direct democracy. The many efforts to protect water and confront infrastructure projects are leading the way. The Red Nation is a new voice telling classic political truths. Listen carefully. The “Red Deal” platform states:
This…will encompass the entirety of Indigenous America, which includes our non-Indigenous comrades and relatives who live here….We cannot expect politicians to do what only mass movements can do…..A mass mobilization, one like we’ve never seen before in history, is required to save this planet. Indigenous movements have always been at the forefront of environmental justice struggles…The Red Deal is not a “deal” or “bargain” with the elite and powerful. It’s a deal with the humble people of the earth; a pact that we shall strive for peace and justice and that movements for justice must come from below and to the left.
“We cannot expect politicians to do what only mass movements can do…from below and to the left.” Truth. But how?
Whether you are base-building with workers or tenants, movement-building with the peace and environmental movements or running electoral campaigns, the under-appreciated work of talking with, and listening to, everyday people is the fast track to fundamental change. Talking with everyday people is a revolutionary act. Acting with others is better yet.
A massive Harvard study tells us what we already suspect: we have the most dysfunctional, least democratic electoral system of any so-called “western democracy.” The collapse of real representation is a leading cause of crisis. To think that such a broken system can repair itself and then take on massive problems of its own making without an equally massive and equally disruptive popular movement is more than just wishful thinking — it is a profound disregard for history. Show me some evidence. How was the original New Deal created? The failure to allow moderate and popular reforms like universal health care does not bode well for government’s ability to act on climate and war — issues that strike right at the heart of the existing social order.
We have good blueprints. It’s vitally important to put demilitarization at the center of our efforts not just because the US empire is the world’s largest consumer of fossil fuels or because the same military is the enforcer of the global fossil fuel regime but because understanding the connections between war and climate changes clears the way for fusion and synergy between the environmental and peace movements and movements for economic justice.
But the real question — the unanswered question — is HOW? How do we move on the climate crisis? Can we build it from the bottom up? It sure isn’t coming from the top down. Can the Green New Deal become a revolutionary reform? Ask people what they think about the Green New Deal. Where it leads is up to us.
1/ The best single source is a very well researched collection of essays The Secure and the Dispossessed: How the Military and Corporations are Shaping a Climate-Changed World edited by Nick Buxton and Ben Hayes. Find the quote on p 234.
2/ You can see much more of this misdirection by looking at this document: “Military and National Security Leaders Urge Robust New Course on Climate Change.” Or see Elizabeth Warren’s new plan for a green military.
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Filipov appointed Manitex CEO
By Crane & Hoist Canada
Manitex International announced the appointment of Steve Filipov as the company's CEO and director.
August 26, 2019 – Manitex International announced the appointment of Steve Filipov as the company’s CEO and director.
Filipov comes to Manitex with an exceptional track record and well-documented results within the industrial equipment industry as a senior management executive at Terex Corporation. Filipov began his career at Terex in 1993 as the youngest international manager in the Terex organization, and since then has held numerous senior management and executive roles, most recently as the President of Terex Cranes, from 2016 until the sale of Demag Mobile Cranes at the end of July, 2019.
Langevin will remain with the company as executive chairman, and as such, will continue to be involved on a full-time basis with the business, specifically in the Company’s strategic planning efforts, corporate finance, and key relationships with our strategic and investment partners.
“I have had the privilege to lead our company since 2003, and since then we’ve established Manitex as a market share leader in straight-mast boom trucks here in North America,” said Langevin. “Our 2015 acquisition of PM articulating cranes created a great opportunity to become an international player in a market many times the size of our North American market. We are most fortunate to be able to attract Steve to our Company and we believe that Steve’s significant international crane experience will stimulate the PM business to much higher performance in this substantial market. Our entire board and strategic partners are all excited to have Steve join us, and we look forward to planning and executing our future growth strategy under his stewardship.”
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Arguing and Justifying: Assessing the Convention Refugees' Choice of Moment, Motive and Host Country
Robert F. Barsky
Series: Research in Migration and Ethnic Relations Series
July 5, 2017 by Routledge
This is the first book of its kind to address the crucial issue of why people choose to make Convention refugee claims. It represents a substantial and original contribution primarily to the field of refugee studies but also applicable for a broader readership of political science, international studies, sociology, law, history and women’s studies. Furthermore, it theorizes the problems that face refugees by discussing the perception of the possible host countries. The conclusions of the book bear directly upon contemporary issues in refugee studies that suggest refugees move on the basis of (generally) extreme levels of persecution.
Contents: Introduction; Interpreting refugee discourse: from discourse analysis to inter-cultural communication; Claimants from the former Soviet Union: from European standards to the American dream; Claimants from Israel: a threat to the Jewish Identity?; Claimants from Peru: persecution in America and flight to Canada; Claimants from Pakistan: the constraints of state intervention; Conclusion: theorizing the obstacles to female claims; Bibliography; Appendices; Index.
Robert F Barsky
Professor, Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Robert F. Barsky, Professor, Program in Comparative Literature, Department of French & Italian, Vanderbilt University, USA
’This is a most original piece of work, impossible to pigeonhole by genre. It is everywhere touched by passion and a kind of ethical anger that can make even the most difficult research data seductive...Informing Barsky’s argument throughout is his wide reading in social, linguistic and literary theory. He draws on Marc Angenot, Chomsky and Bakhtin, especially, to make a powerful argument for the role of narrative construction in the hearings he describes. He articulates a discourse theory that will be of interest not only to those directly involved with refugee issues, but to those pursuing literary theory, sociolinguistics, postcolonial studies, as well as those working in law and literature.’ Michael Holquist, Yale University, USA ’...identifies some key and quite disturbing policy concerns in the field of refugee studies.’ Ethnic and Racial Studies 'Barksy's approach in general is refreshingly eclectic. He blends legal thought, literary criticism and discourse analysis, with a powerful moral outrage...The book will be of interest to a wide range of scholars and professionals working with asylum issues...' Journal of Refugee Studies 'Barsky's book offers radical and efficient critique of the legal structures which lock refugees into a state of vulnerability and powerlessness...Breaking inter-disciplinary barriers, Barsky opens the way to new and profitable research directions...the refugees' narratives...are lively and informative. An extensive bibliography by topics, as well as a list of refugee organizations and documentation centers around the world bring added value to an already interesting work.' Asian and Pacific Migration Journal
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READ: Lauryn Hill Breaks Silence, Addresses Critics in 3,000-Plus Word Statement
“People can sometimes confuse kindness for weakness, and silence for weakness as well. When this happens, I have to speak up.”
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She rocked it.
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FedEx doubles down on purple and orange
Memphis carrier will adopt the 43-year-old Federal Express combination of purple and orange as its unified color scheme throughout operating units including FedEx Ground, FedEx Freight and FedEx Office.
FedEx doubles down on purple and orange Memphis carrier will adopt the 43-year-old Federal Express combination of purple and orange as its unified color scheme throughout operating units including FedEx Ground, FedEx Freight and FedEx Office. Check out this story on commercialappeal.com: https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/money/industries/logistics/2016/08/24/fedex-doubles-down-on-purple-and-orange/90580226/
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FedEx is adopting the purple and orange colors of its FedEx Express unit for all operating units.(Photo: FedEx Corp.)
FedEx Corp. is making purple and orange the official colors of its farflung network of planes, trucks and people.
Chairman Frederick W. Smith announced to employees Wednesday that the company would adopt the 43-year-old FedEx combination of purple and orange as its unified color scheme.
Over the next five years or so the company will scrap other colors -- red, green, blue, platinum -- that have been paired with purple to differentiate operating units including FedEx Ground, FedEx Freight and FedEx Office.
The simplified palette won't alter separation of Express, Ground and Freight into different operating units, although company officials acknowledged the public doesn't always distinguish among the units.
'We are certainly one brand to the world, and we're aware of that and proud of the fact that our brand is recognized as one of the most powerful brands in the world,' said Patrick Fitzgerald, senior vice president, marketing and communications.
Purple has always been the Memphis-based company's primary color and is firmly imbedded in corporate culture. The company mission, dubbed the Purple Promise, is that employees will make every FedEx experience outstanding.
FedEx began using secondary colors other than orange in the late 1990s after it diversified beyond the express business into trucking-only offerings.
Domestic parcel delivery company FedEx Ground's logo is purple and green, for example, while less-than-truckload company FedEx Freight is purple and red.
FedEx's research finds strong consumer awareness globally of its purple and orange logo, Fitzgerald said.
'It became more and more clear to us that there would be strength in going to the simplified visual identity,' he said.
'It's clear when you look at the iconic FedEx Express packaging, the white box with purple and orange logo, it's 43 years of establishment, across the drop boxes and vehicles and aircraft. It's been built up over time, and it makes sense,' Fitzgerald said.
Fitzgerald said the timing is right because this year's acquisition of Europe's TNT Express 'provided us an opportunity to create a simpler global brand.'
No immediate change is planned in the TNT Express brand, although Fitzgerald noted TNT's official color is FedEx orange.
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Italy's 'Protest Candidates' Deal Blow to Austerity in Local Elections
Anti-austerity victory that 'reflects Italians' desire for change'
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A man casts his ballot at a polling station in Cvitavecchia, 70 km (43 miles) north of Rome May 6, 2012. (Photo: Reuters/Giampiero Sposito)
Italian anti-austerity 'protest candidates' largely dominated in local elections today, delivering a blow to 'traditional parties' who are in favor of Prime Minister Mario Monti's extreme austerity program.
In a high-profile example, comedian Beppe Grillo’s Five-Star Movement party won the mayor’s office in the city of Parma, over candidates representing the austerity friendly 'political class'.
Today was the second round of voting in a contest to choose city mayors involving nearly 120 local administrations. Despite a generally low turnout, voters were still able to reflect widespread distaste for mainstream politics amid recession.
The political landscape continues to shift in Italy ahead of next year's general elections, as voters continue to challenge austerity regimes across Europe.
Agence France-Presse: Italian upstart party does well in local polls
Local run-off elections in Italy delivered a surprise victory Monday in northern Parma for the candidate of the upstart populist Five Star Movement.
The party headed by comedian Beppe Grillo, which notched up a strong performance in the first round, scored another success, taking Parma with 60 percent of the vote, according to initial estimates.
Provisional results showed that the centre-left candidate for mayor in Parma, Vincenzo Bernazzoli, lost to Federico Pizzarotti, the Five Star candidate, who scored 60 percent.
The second round saw a low turnout of 54 percent, 13 percentage points lower than for the first round two weeks ago, according to preliminary estimates.
Pizzarotti vowed shortly before the polls closed that he would "act in the name of transparency ... through a common agreement with the citizens."
Four millions voters were eligible to cast ballots in the polls, which were expected to reflect widespread disaffection with mainstream politics amid recession.
In the Sicilian capital Palermo, Leoluca Orlando, spokesman of the left-wing Italy of Values party and a strong opponent of the Mafia, swept to victory over the centre-left Democratic Party candidate with more than 70 percent of the vote.
The port city of Genoa also swung leftward, with centre-left candidate Marco beating the centrist Enrico Musso.
Reuters: Protest movement gains, parties hurt in Italy vote
Grillo's 39-year-old candidate Federico Pizzarotti, a political newcomer, defeated Vincenzo Bernazzoli, a seasoned politician supported by a coalition of centre-left parties, according to final official results.
"My victory reflects Italians' desire for change," Pizzarotti said.
The two main parties in the right-left coalition that supports Prime Minister Mario Monti - architect of Italy's tough austerity programme - did not fare well in the local elections on Sunday and Monday.
By putting the parties that support the technocrat prime minister in parliament on the defensive, they could make it more difficult for Monti to push through highly unpopular measures aimed at avoiding a Greek-style debt crisis.
Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's People of Liberty (PDL) party took a walloping in the first round two weeks ago, and lost to the centre left in Piacenza on Monday.
The left-wing Democratic Party (PD) was part of a coalition that won in the port city of Genoa, but was defeated in Palermo as well as Parma.
"The Parma victory is extraordinary. It shows a very clear rejection of the traditional parties," said James Walston, Professor of International Relations at the American University in Rome.
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The Future Faces of CSR Activism
Civil society organizations are becoming key actors and partners in promoting CSR
Submitted by: Dr. Wayne Visser
Posted: Dec 01, 2011 – 11:30 PM EST
Series: Quest for CSR 2.0
Tags: corporate responsibility, csr, ngo, transparency, volunteerism, business
By Wayne Visser
As part of the Quest for CSR 2.0 series
The third principle of Transformative CSR, or CSR 2.0, is responsiveness. (We explored creativity and scalability in the last two posts). Some of the most important players in the responsiveness game – especially through cross-sector partnerships – are civil society organizations (CSOs, which I prefer rather than the term NGOs). Reflecting on how this sector is changing in the face of increased calls for responsiveness, I have distinguished 10 ‘Paths to the Future’ for CSR activism. I believe that CSOs acting in the CSR space will increasingly be:
Platforms for transparency – Undertaking investigative exposes & hosting disclosure forums;
Brokers of volunteerism – Providing project opportunities for employee volunteers;
Champions of CSR – Raising awareness and increasing public pressure for CSR;
Advisors of business – Offering consulting services to business on responsibility;
Agents of government – Working with or on behalf of regulatory authorities;
Reformers of policy – Pressuring for government policy reforms to incentivise CSR;
Makers of standards – Developing voluntary standards & inviting business compliance;
Channels for taxes – Receiving and deploying specially earmarked tax revenues;
Partners in solutions – Partnering with business/government to tackle specific issues; and
Catalysts for creativity – Creating social enterprises & supporting social entrepreneurs.
Let’s explore these ‘future faces’ of CSR activism in a little more detail below, drawing on examples from around the world of CSOs emerging roles.
Platforms for transparency – The role of CSOs as agitators for, and agents of, greater transparency seems set to continue. For example, in Senegal, Benin, and Guinea, CSO intervention has been critical in the development of a free press. And in India, Karmayog allows citizens to report specific instances of bribery and corruption on a live, public website.
Brokers of volunteerism – As companies increasingly see the benefits of volunteerism (greater job satisfaction, productivity, commitment and loyalty), CSOs are increasingly becoming people-brokers, as sources of projects for employee volunteers. For example, the Voluntary Workcamps Association of Ghana (VOLU) coordinates volunteers to help with the construction of schools, reforestation and AIDS campaigning.
Champions of CSR – While some CSOs remain sceptical about CSR, in many countries they are the main agents for promoting CSR. For example, in Iran, a group of CSOs have joined forces with the UNDP to promote CSR through targeted training for managers under the umbrella of the UN MDGs. And in Senegal, CSR awareness has grown mainly due to a CSO called La Lumière in Kédougou.
Advisors of business – A combination of genuine expertise, valuable perspectives and a crunch on funding means that many CSOs are turning to consultancy, working with and advising companies not only on specific social and environmental issues, but also more generally on sustainability and responsibility. For example, in Hungary, as opposed to the traditional role of watchdog, many CSOs engage in consultancy on CSR.
Agents of government – The phenomena of GONGOs (government organised NGOs), GINGOs (government-inspired NGOs), GRINGOs (government regulated/run and initiated NGOs) and PANGOs (party-affiliated NGOs) are becoming more widespread, no longer just seen in China. Even where governments are not setting up or running the CSOs, they are supporting them as key catalysts. For example, Belgian CSOs receive €3 government funding for every €1 they raised themselves.
Reformers of policy – Realizing that the ‘rules of the game’ need to change, CSOs are increasingly getting involved in legal reform. For example, in Indonesia, it was largely due to rising pressure from CSOs that the Law No. 40/2007 concerning Limited Liability Companies was introduced to make CSR mandatory.
Makers of standards – In an effort to raise the bar on voluntary action by companies, many CSOs are developing their own social and environmental codes and standards, then inviting business to comply with them. For example, in Israel, the Public Trust Organisation established The Public Trust Code, covering advertising, transparency, disclosure, service and product guarantees, honesty in contracts and privacy of information.
Channels for taxes – In some countries, the effectiveness of CSOs has earned them the ability to source tax dollars directly. For example, in Mexico, the FECHAC (Federation of the Chihuahuan Industry) is a CSO, set up after devastating floods in 1990, that is funded through a special annual tax on more than 38,000 industries. And in Romania, the 2% Law (in terms of the Fiscal Code) allows citizens to redirect 2% of personal income tax to a CSO.
Partners in solutions – Not only are CSOs collaborating with business more and more, but also with governments and multilateral agencies. For example, in South Korea, ‘Cross Sector Alliance’ is one of 5 approaches to CSR being promoted, while in Africa the New Nigeria Foundation provides a platform for mobilizing non-traditional resources through public-private partnerships. In Turkey, TUSEV promotes linkages between domestic and international CSOs and encourages CSR by putting foreign and domestic firms in contact with appropriate CSOs.
Catalysts for creativity – CSOs are increasingly expected to provide solutions, not just point out the problems, especially by launching or supporting social enterprises. For example, in Bangladesh, BRAC (formerly Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee) has been crucial in the microcredit movement, and in Singapore, the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) has 12 social enterprises and 4 related organisations that are owned by more than 500,000 workers.
However the future unfolds, it is clear that CSOs will be a significant player in the new landscape of responsible governance and accountability, both as a counter-balancing force and a partner to governments and business. In fact, I believe CSOs will be the responsive glue that holds society together in the turbulent years ahead.
About Wayne Visser
Dr. Visser is Founder and Director of the think-tank CSR International and the author of twelve books. In addition, Dr. Visser is Senior Associate at the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership and Visiting Professor of Sustainability at Magna Carta College, Oxford. Before getting his PhD in CSR, Dr. Visser was Director of Sustainability Services for KPMG and Strategy Analyst for Cap Gemini in South Africa. In 2011, he was listed as one of the Top 100 Thought Leaders in Europe & the Middle East. Dr. Visser lives in London, UK, and enjoys art, writing poetry, spending time outdoors and travelling. A full biography and much of his writing and art is on www.waynevisser.com.
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Justin Bieber launches new fashion line
Relaxnews Published Wednesday, January 30, 2019 9:21AM EST
Justin Bieber performing on stage at the AccorHotels Arena in Paris. © CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT / AFP
Justin Bieber is making his first solo foray into the fashion industry with the launch of his debut clothing line.
The popstar has unveiled Drew House, a unisex series that references his middle name, Fashionista reports. The skater-inspired line comprises oversized t-shirts, sweatshirts, pants, shorts and separates in cool neutrals, spanning a price range of US$48 through to $148.
It also features a pair of "cheap ol' regular drew house slippers," which Bieber snapped himself wearing over the holiday period.
Bieber is the latest in a long line of megastars to step into the fashion arena lately, following in the footsteps of fellow musicians J Balvin, who recently launched a collaboration with Guess, and Rita Ora, whose Giuseppe Zanotti footwear collection launched earlier this month.
Ex-girlfriend Selena Gomez has major ongoing fashion design partnerships with Puma and Coach, while his new wife Hailey Baldwin has also dabbled in the business side of clothing, thanks to a role as the ‘Style Creator' for sportswear giant Adidas Originals and JD, and fashion collaboration with the Australian label The Daily Edited that saw her put her name to a capsule collection.
In terms of stars launching their own fashion labels, some of the biggest heavy hitters include Drake, who has seen major success with his OVO label, Khloe Kardashian, who co-founded the popular Good American denim brand, and Reese Witherspoon, whose Draper James lifestyle company has gone from strength to strength since its launch in 2015.
Superstar Rihanna is also rumoured to be in talks with the luxury conglomerate LVMH on the creation of her own brand.
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1 dead in crash on John R, north of Big Beaver, in Troy
The crash occurred just before rush hour Tuesday in Troy
1 dead in crash on John R, north of Big Beaver, in Troy The crash occurred just before rush hour Tuesday in Troy Check out this story on detroitnews.com: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2020/01/14/multi-vehicle-crash-closes-john-r-north-big-beaver/4470175002/
Sarah Rahal, The Detroit News Published 5:17 p.m. ET Jan. 14, 2020 | Updated 8:13 p.m. ET Jan. 15, 2020
Troy — A 27-year-old Warren woman was killed in a multi-vehicle crash during rush hour Tuesday near Interstate 75 and Big Beaver, police said.
Officials said it does not appear alcohol nor drugs were factors at this time.
Authorities said a Warren woman, 28, died in a crash on John R. near Big Beaver during rush hour Tuesday. (Photo: Troy Fire Department)
The crash happened at about 4:16 p.m. on John R, north of Big Beaver, according to authorities. Police closed John R for about four hours.
A preliminary investigation found that a silver 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee was traveling south on John R when it swerved into the northbound lanes and crashed into a gray 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee that was heading north, they said. The silver Jeep rolled and the gray SUV was struck by another vehicle. A fourth vehicle rear-ended the third car, police said.
The Warren woman was a front-seat passenger in the silver Jeep, police said. The Jeep's driver, a 28-year-old Eastpointe woman, had serious injuries and was taken to a hospital. Troy firefighters had to extricate them from the vehicle.
Police said the driver of the gray Jeep also was taken to a hospital for serious injuries.
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Anyone with information about the crash should call the Troy Police Traffic Safety Unit at (248) 524-3477.
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Bottom of the class
Irfan HusainUpdated September 23, 2017
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IT would take a person without a soul to be blind to the beauty of the images sent back from Saturn by the Cassini mission.
The planet’s rings, first discovered by Galileo in 1610, have fascinated mankind ever since. Huygens, a Dutch astronomer, made more detailed observations in 1655, but it was Cassini who, in 1675, determined that Saturn’s main ring was actually made of three rings that were composed of small pieces of ice.
After a journey of two billion miles that took seven years, the Nasa spacecraft Cassini spent 13 years circling the planet and many of its 62 moons. The European probe Huygens that it released over Titan has sent amazing photographs of an orange moon where rivers of methane have sculpted the inhospitable surface. But it was Enceladus that provided the biggest surprise with its plumes of water shooting into space. Together with the molecules of carbon-based substances detected by Cassini, the moon would appear to have the components for life, no matter how basic.
As I have watched the unfolding of this amazing mission and its end, I have been struck by the absence of contribution from Muslim states in the exploration of our solar system, or, indeed, in any serious study of the cosmos. Many Muslim scientists have been part of this effort to enhance our understanding of the universe, but they have done so in the West.
Some Muslim countries like Pakistan have missile programmes, but these have specifically military goals. True, the Russian and American initiatives to break gravity’s shackles originated in the Cold War, and both owe a debt of gratitude to the German development of V2 military rockets. But both spend billions on pure research where the object is to satisfy human curiosity.
The big questions of how and why are not addressed.
And here’s an odd thing: Saudi Arabia and Russia both have large GDPs. And yet all the kingdom seems to spend its cash — apart from catering to the whims of its thousands of freeloading princelings — is on buying weapons that it uses to devastate a dirt poor country like Yemen.
Russia, on the other hand, is a major player in scientific research across a wide range of disciplines. From psychology to particle physics, its scientists are constantly pushing the frontiers of knowledge. India has launched space missions to the moon and to Mars. China has sent astronauts into space, apart from landing a rover on the moon. It is now planning a mission to Mars.
True, most Muslim countries are too poor to undertake ground-breaking research. Even the rich ones would rather squander their natural resources in gambling casinos and on luxury jets than on science. So while they happily consume products of foreign technology, they contribute nothing to the sum total of human knowledge.
But money aside, why don’t our schools instil a sense of curiosity and wonder into our students? Turkey has just removed the teaching of Darwinian evolution from the school curriculum. Thus, at a stroke, Erdogan has condemned a generation of young Turks to ignorance about how life evolved on our planet. But here, he’s in good company: Imran Khan once dismissed Darwin’s theory as ‘half-baked’.
When our leaders display such ignorance about scientific evidence, how can we expect our children to excel in science? In several columns here, Pervez Hoodbhoy has alerted us to the dangers of issuing degrees at the highest academic level to postgraduate students who have not earned them by professors and institutions who seek to boost numbers rather than quality. These same undeserving PhDs then go on to teach others. This vision of growing mediocrity is depressing beyond measure.
Small wonder, then, that the combined output of scientific papers produced by Muslim countries is a tiny fraction of Israel’s. We are proud of the achievements of Muslim scientists who made a huge contribution in the mediaeval era. Since then, however, the torch of scientific inquiry has passed to the West.
So why have we lagged so far behind? The fact that our sole Nobel Prize winner in physics, Prof Abdus Salam, had to live and work abroad speaks volumes for the hospitality of our soil to scientists. He wasn’t even allowed to speak at Islamabad’s Quaid-i-Azam University by Jamiat thugs.
Also, when children are taught that the universe and all it contains are the creations of an omnipotent deity, then there is little motivation to explore and experiment. The big questions of how and why are not addressed as it would be close to blasphemy to probe into the way matter was formed, and life evolved.
But finally, as Pervez Hoodbhoy has argued, there is no ‘Muslim science’ or ‘Western science’; there is only scientific truth arrived at through informed theorising and rigorous experimentation. Until we grasp and internalise this, we will stay at the bottom of the class.
Published in Dawn, September 23rd, 2017
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R S Chakravarti
I don't agree that to be a scientist, one must be an atheist as the writer seems to suggest near the end. But we shouldn't believe that the omnipotent deity is against scientific enquiry. Science and religion may ultimately converge but we don't know how. So we shouldn't put any restrictions on scientific thought.
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Extra point for bringing IK into it. Well done!
Sir syed knew what needed to be done and so did Iqbal. But we did not do it. What an irony!
The big questions of how and why are not addressed because Islamic religious scholars don't want the big questions of how and why explained. They don't intend to put themselves out of a job. Perhaps Ibrahim al Buleihi can answer Mister Husain's question for us. _ _ _ _ “When we review the names of Muslim philosophers and scholars whose contribution to the West is pointed out by Western writers, such as Ibn Rushd, Ibn Al-Haitham, Ibn Sina, Al-Farbi, Al-Razi, Al-Khwarizmi, and their like, we find that all of them were disciples of the Greek culture. They were individuals who were outside the Islamic mainstream. They were and continue to be unrecognized in our culture. We even burned their books, harassed them, and warned against them. We continue to look at them with suspicion and aversion."
Komal s
The reality is there are more fighting amongst Muslims and more deaths to Muslims due to infighting. The so called Muslim brotherhood is a sham. At an individual level, I am pretty sure an average Pakistani hates the Saudis and the way they get treated. But politically they would never dare to say that. Meanwhile millions of their people enjoy freedom to faith and equality in Western countries but at the drop of a hat, they would raise issue on intolerance and their governments would have no hesitation in talking about it at the slightest of provocation. Given where Turkey is heading, and given that lots of Muslim countries see it as a role model, things are only going to get worse.
Excellent analysis. In our country, there is no bar to conduct research in any field. Our students are brilliant. They need to be properly supervised. The issues are lack of scientific equipment, small budgets and lack of government encouragement and support.
s.khan
Science can't develop where religion has a strong hold on peoples mind. Religion is faith based which demands acceptance of truth without question. Science requires critical observation and analysis and the conclusions can be revised if proved wrong by experiments. Religion can't be changed. Galileo was punished by the church in Rome when he proposed earth revolving around the sun which contradicted church's teaching of earth being centre of the universe. Charles Darwin, who proposed theory of evolulion, had concluded his theory but was frightened to publish for fear of offending the church. Even after publishing he never defended it in public. It was Aldous Huxely who debated with the church father. Science can progress only when there is freedom of speech and a good system to support it. Also it requires individuals who are dedicated and hard working. In Muslim countries you can reap rewards without hard work It is not what you know rather who do you know particulaly in Pakistan.
The author seems oblivious of the emergence and success of science as epistemology. The scientific mindset forms and is nurtured in a valueless society where due to rapid obsolescence and change there is deculturation, rapid obsolescence and change is rooted in a capitalist economy- where capitalism has evolved more, science and scientific knowledge is more developed. GDP has nothing to do with it, the political economy of capitalism does. Capitalism does not only come with science, it comes with carnage and wars, inequality and hunger and a general loss of values so that people sink to the lowest common denominator, the organic, or as Marx stated, what is human becomes animal. Empathy, social and environmental consciousness rooted in the unchanging or the slowly changing is a better, more superior form of knowledge acquisition than science and that has been the case through most of human history.
Generally agree with the sentiment of this piece. However, it is not the belief in an omnipotent creator that's held us back. This would be a gross over-simplification (and patently unfair to God himself). Einstein too had similar ideas about a divine being. In addition, medieval Muslims, while staying true to their belief in a creator, displayed amazing intellectual curiosity and achieved great academic/scientific success laying the foundation of many branches of science. They were obviously not held back by their beliefs. Our current state of decline has been hundreds of years in the making. Unfortunately, there is no quick or simple fix. We will have to put our "dhoti" on as everyone else - one leg at a time.
Well said sir. Brilliant as usual, but who listen's as usual sir.
A good write up.
Secularist
Bottom of the class? Some of these countries are not even enrolled.
SHAUKAT NATALKAR
Too late .....and now impossible looking at the present situation !!
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Everyday there is a scientist born in Pakistan. Pakistani schools, colleges and universities have to learn and collaborate with International academics. Good news is that they are all in your neighborhood. Singapore, China, Iran, Australia.
Cricket-One
Don't you worry mate. We are in stellar company. Barring a few countries, which are predominantly Christian (and can be counted on the fingers of a single hand), all other countries fall in the same class as regards to scientific breakthrough as us, including the majority of Christian countries.
FARRUKH
Sad state of affairs, we seem more interested in fighting each other than fighting ignorance.
Suren Sahni
Eye opener.
Khanm
It basic and elementary...when survival becomes an issue for the vast majority of muslims.. where being scared and fearful are the norms..where there is no say so ..no freedom of expression ..lack of education ...where degrees are purchased...what do we expect ....miracles...There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
Both Newton and Einstein were genius scientists who revolutionised mankind's knowledge. Yet both of them deeply believed that the universe and all it contains were the creation of an omnipotent deity. This in fact spurred them on to explore and invent, rather than deter as Mr Irfan would have us believe.
Mashm
Your observations of current state of affairs with regards to scientific research in the Islamic world is 100% correct. The great scientific achievements which once were at a time Islamic society hallmark has now shifted to the west. Point to ponder.
Syed F. Hussaini
Being insane is bad. Being ruled by insane is worse.
R Sultan
The telling moment is the quote from Prof Hoodbhoy.. Muslims follow a faith and are multi ethnic. There is no reason at all to lump people of a faith together as if they represent something else than part of humanity. Yes the faith has many fissures and we should be grown up enough to address these and reform. In 2017, living in a globalised rock do we really need a collective faith?
MJ Khan
Illogical premise. Africa is christian and they haven't done anything in science either. If Saudi sends rockets to Mars will it make you proud then? By your logic, you should be happy that Saudi is so rich inspite of our Pakistan being among the poorest country in the world because some of our "muslim brothers" are doing well. This concept of 'Muslim Ummah' is the main reason for our backwardness. Let our far away "muslim brother" do something so that we can claim his achievements and feel good about our loser lives.
The rich muslim countries are doing their part by contributing financially and diplomatically to the growth of their religion around the world.. The people in poor muslim countries are either too busy in their livelihood.. or they become pawns of these rich countries to growth of religion.. The contribution to Science can be expected from Moderate and relatively developed countries like Malaysia or from those migrants who have moved to western countries.. Down the years, you can also see contribution to Science coming from Indonesia and Bangladesh...
Science is not taught to be understood but rather to be cramed, science is taught in schools as if its a belief, paying not heed to scientific method, reasoning and demonstration. So even those who read evolution or big bang or rock cycles never really find any fascination for they fail to grasp the spirit of it. This ill methodology of education and craming culture supresses the reasoning and imagination of students and restricts their freedom of thought.
The answer is in the question.
It is about ones purpose of and about ones life. But when competition among individuals set up an an environment of competition of 'purposes' in life among individuals, wonders take place, both good and bad. In some communities, corruption is a competitive game for excelling and out doing others. In others, people compete to outdo each other in widening and deepening horizons of human intellect, science and technology. Both these examples bring about material wealth; one for few destroying well being of many around them while other brings forth prosperity for many beyond his/her own locale. It is all about purpose in life. It is as simple as that.
Asif A Shah
London Kundon
KSA is offering scholarships to Pakistani students for higher education, God help them.
pucca hyderabadi
very nice article. thought provoking for any person.
Siva d
@s.khan Indeed. If generations of children are schooled in the greatness and inviolability of their faith AND schooling in faith is one of the most consistent things you deliver to young children, then of course science will take a back seat. Science is a methodology of questioning and testing assumptions. Something not possible or done with religious beliefs. By indoctrination, you are downplaying and ultimately scuttling empiricism, the very basis for science.
@basit You are wrong! To teach a concept or theory ; it doesnt have to bring results first because the order is hypothesis -theory -proofs&results. In short ;connecting fossil studies, carbon dating, molecular &genomic studies etc are enough to prove evolution. You can't replicate evolutions happened billions of years ago here on earth at a large scale as practical experiments for school children. But whatever available regarding scientific knowledge are published after numerous debates &evidence based results .Only thing school teachers can do is to use computer graphics ,pictures etc &replicate the evolution, theories etc and thereby add colours to students' imagination. 3D images should be there to assist usual textbooks, notes &blackboards. But students, teachers, social circumstances &government have to work as a unit to make this happen.
Meelu
Pragmatic Pakistani
Thank you for writing such a nice piece.
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@Tuk Sir Syed did it but Iqbal did not.
Irtiza Shafaat Bokharee
Great bold stuff, Irfan Hussain sahab. You've been a true inspiration. Regressive attitudes in our urban intelligentsia are a orimary reason for leading uncritical young boys and girls onto the path of religious obscurantism.
excellent article. Its not religion but interpertation of religion by narrow minded religious maulvis, which are predominant in our society that undermine scientific inquisition. If one looks back in history all the great islamic scientists had a tough time of the then muslim population who were great opponent of their work. They could not have achieved what they did without protection from state and kings of the time. Present situation is just worst of all times. It requires pradigm change.....
@kerala Evolution is an ongoing process. You may not be able to recreate the past but there is a continuous diversification of species and evolution of new species. We humans are still also evolving from our forefathers.
Amar Badami
As the writer correctly points out, to propagate science one should keep an open mind and not be dictated by religious dogma. Perhaps this answers the writers question.
M Mirza
We dont have to be an atheist to understand science. We can be muslim and believe in our deities and still do some research and think and prosper. The key is hard work.
Resham singh Patiala
I do not agree. Some of my best science students are Muslim girls many of whom who wear the Hijab. Their curiosity to understand stuff like quantum physics or applied calculus always leaves me smiling.
The societies in which science flourished did not initially accept the scientific outcomes which questioned the religious dogmas.The overwhelming evidences gathered by the scientists eventually compelled the religious leaders and the society to accept the scientific truths paving way co existence of science with religion. Science can flourish only when society encourages it.
Hamid hasni
Majority of our students start thinking what will be their future, would we be able to get a job or not ? so how we can expect a breakthrough initiative in the field of science . i think that the main purpose of education is to get satisfication, serving the humanity through an achievemnt rather only just have a job, or to earn money.
Adil Jadoon
@Asad dont completely agree with you, science and humanity are not mtually exclusive!
Hamza Saeed
The theory of evolution leaves many questions unanswered, so questioning it doesn't automatically make one an enemy of science. +Believing the universe to be the work of an omnipotent deity is motivation in itself to experiment and explore the secrets of nature.
Jalaluddin S. Hussain
Thankfully, Islam also encourages exploration and probing of nature. We should know better.
India has a huge annual output of engineers and doctors and PhD's but the standards of science are not yet competitive with the West except in specific and narrow domains. That needs to change and I hope strong leadership and returning NRIs will see a shift in investment and the culture to support homegrown talent and interest. Our universities are largely in poor shape and mediocrity and patronage rules the roost.
@schali Based on current evidence, perhaps we are regressing rather than evolving
Bottom line is science is nothing to do with religion ,specially sematic religions , defending Darwin on evolution is just showing ignorance about pioneer in evolution science Ibne -Muskivia 's theory of creative evolution , and also ignorance about real thoughts of Iqbal on Western science.
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Stockholm Fashion Week S/S12: Johanna Pihl
Part of a national competition, the London-trained winner impressed with piping and surgical cut-outs in her leather pieces
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As part of the YFI (Young Fashion Industry) awards at Stockholm Fashion Week, several up-and-coming native designers showed a handful of their designs on Tuesday evening. Plenty of talent - like the London-based Emma Lundgren - impressed but there could only be one winner in this competition. Johanna Pihl, a disicple of both Sweden's Ann-Sofie Back and House of Dagmar, impressed with an extensive use of leather, crafted in refined and intricate ways through piping and cut outs.
Having studied for her Bachelor degree at London Collge of Fashion, before moving back to Sweden, Pihl managed to mix the harsh urbane London style with the more serene and simple aesthetic of life up north. Light colours (beige, white, blue and off-white) dominated in a collection that was almost architectural in its build and machine like in its technical details. Last year's YFI winner is now on the Stockholm Fashion Week official schedule, and no doubt that will be the case with Pihl when we return next season...
Dazed Digital: What was the starting point for your collection?
Johanna Pihl: I started looking at plastic surgery... I read a few articles and some friends spoke about it... and that led me to think about human bodies and our anatomy. I wanted to show that the body is designed to work in a certain way and the surgery can't change that. So I compared that to machines and perfect they work, how everything is so thought out and works well. That can also be applied on my patterns and how I construct clothes. I wanted to put all that on the outside of my clothes
DD: Tell me about the colours of the collection?
Johanna Pihl: The black and white represents the X-rays screening, the light pink is the colour of our skin and the blue is there to capture the metal shades...
DD: How has London affected you and your designs?
Johanna Pihl: In a great way... it's just generally good to go and travel, see the world, but London in particular is such a multicultural place that influences you but also teaches you about people and how they work across the world...
DD: Any favourite pieces in the collection?
Johanna Pihl: This light grey leather jacket with piping and cut-out holes. The holes represent the pieces cut out during plastic surgery. The piping is more about the machines and the pipers used to make them work.
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Did you eat beef biryani and sleep? Owaisi slams PM Modi over Pulwama attack
Published Mar 24, 2019, 2:55 pm IST
Updated Mar 24, 2019, 2:55 pm IST
AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi said that there is no difference between the ruling BJP and Congress party.
Owaisi, who will contest from Hyderabad in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, said his fight is against those who are trying to end secularism in the country while observing that there is no difference between BJP and Congress. (Photo: File)
Hyderabad: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi launched a scathing attack at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Pulwama terror attack and questioned whether he "ate beef biryani and slept" while the attack was taking place.
“Indian Air Force dropped bombs in Balakot. On this issue, Amit Shah said 250 dead and Rajnath Singh said NTRO tapped 300 cell phones in Balakot. You can see that 300 cell phones were there in Balakot, but you could not see how 50 kg RDX was moved to Pulwama under your nose,” Owaisi said while addressing a public meeting on Saturday.
“I want to ask Prime Minister Modi and Rajnath Singh whether they ate beef biryani and slept,” he added.
Owaisi, who will contest from Hyderabad in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, said his fight is against those who are trying to end secularism in the country while observing that there is no difference between BJP and Congress.
“If anyone says that there are two national parties in India, I will say no to them because one national party is BJP and the other is ‘1.5 BJP’. There is no difference between BJP and Congress party,” he said. “My fight is against the forces who are trying to end secularism and brotherhood in the country,” Owaisi added.
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Polish MoD: Bridge Solution Possible in the Rosomak BMS Programme
Rafał Lesiecki
Polish Armament Group
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“Some kind of” bridge decision cannot be ruled out, with regards to the future of the Rosomak BMS battle management suite, as the head of the Polish Ministry of Defence, Antoni Macierewicz, stated. According to the Polish official, one cannot wait endlessly for the design, process and procedural problems to be solved. Meanwhile, the product proposed by the PGZ Group has passed, with a positive result, the second test phase.
Antoni Macierewicz, during his meeting with journalists on Monday, admitted that the said programme “faces a very serious problem” indeed, while the decision is going to be made on the basis of a review conducted by a “special group” that recently left to visit the Siemianowice Śląskie-based Rosomak factory. Macierewicz did not rule out a “gap-bridging solution” though.
We, of course, are going to conduct further development of this battlefield management system, however it cannot be ruled out that I could be forced to make some kind of bridge solution, meaning that waiting for completion of implementation of the said system, a limited function would be initiated, with a communications system operated between the vehicles, thus we cannot wait forever. The Army needs those vehicles. We must make them available to the Army, and I cannot let myself wait forever until a variety of design, technological or procedural - as such issues exist too - problems are resolved.
Antoni Macierewicz, Head of the Polish MoD
When asked whether the gap-filler solution is being offered by the PGZ Group, the Minister suggested that it is available within the “family of the Polish manufacturers”. After follow-up questions were added, Macierewicz admitted that it would remain permissible to utilize WB Electronics’ or Teldat’s solutions.
The Minister admitted that the procedure has lasted too long now, and “thus the decision would be taken this year”. Meanwhile, the product proposed by the PGZ Group has passed, with a positive result, the second test phase. It came to an end on 27th October 2017. The test protocol that confirms the fact that the product, similarly as during the first phase, meets all of the requirements, was signed on 30th October.
The first procurement procedure concerning the “Rosomak BMS” Battalion-Level Battle Management Suite was initiated by the Polish Ministry of Defence back in July 2015, with four entities submitting their offers. The requests to have their offers included in the procedure were submitted by: consortium formed by PGZ, PIT-RADWAR and WB Electronics; KenBIT company; consortium formed by Comarch and Air Force Institute of Technology; and consortium led by Asseco Poland also involving the following entities: TELDAT, Siltec, Enigma, CMGI and Military University of Technology.
In July 2016, the Polish Ministry of Defence cancelled the procedure. The relevant decision was made after state security interest presence was reassessed. Then, it was decided to invite solely the entities that remain under the control of the Treasury, to participate in the procurement process.
Read more: Rosomak BMS Tender Cancelled.
Another procedure managed by the Armament Inspectorate and on the basis of the Inspectorate’s schedule began in September 2016. According to the announcements made at the time, invitation letter was sent solely to the Treasury-controlled companies. Meanwhile, in July 2017, the Polish Ministry of Defence informed that the Agreement is expected to be signed before the end of 2017. Polish Armaments Group informed Defence24 that it still remains ready to sign a relevant contract and meet the aforesaid deadline, considering the positive results of the recent tests.
According to the information Defence24 received from the Polish Ministry of Defence, the Rosomak BMS system is placed among the priority tasks of the Technical Modernization Plan, with the agreements planned to be signed next year.
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Half of state lawmakers got their start in suburbs
State Rep. Peter Breen puts up campaign signs outside Capone's restaurant in Lombard last year. He was mayor before moving on to the legislature. Mark Black | Staff Photographer
Peter Breen is sworn in as Lombard mayor, a job he held before being elected to the legislature.
Anna Moeller of Elgin, silhouetted in the foreground, joins in Elgin's bike-to-work week in 2012, when she was an Elgin councilwoman. Brian Hill | Staff Photographer
Lt. Gov Evelyn Sanguinetti of Wheaton takes the oath of office in January. She previously was on the Wheaton City Council. Associated Press
Circuit Court Judge John G. Dolton swears in Anna Moeller as a member of the state legislature last year. Daniel White | Staff Photographer
Mike Riopell
Erin Hegarty
Posted4/2/2015 5:30 AM
Here's one more thing to consider when you go to the polls on Tuesday: The local officials selected next week in the suburbs could someday move up to a seat at the Illinois Capitol 200 miles away.
A Daily Herald review of 50 suburban lawmakers shows that more than half held local government positions before moving on to Springfield.
They say the local experience was essential, and many get legislation ideas from what happens back home.
"I don't know how folks come down here without having served first on a local government because you learn a lot of lessons," said state Rep. Peter Breen, a Republican freshman and former mayor from Lombard. Those local ties no doubt will color legislative debates this spring on issues from Gov. Bruce Rauner's plan to freeze property taxes to proposals to cut into towns' and counties' shares of income taxes.
Voters on Tuesday will pick mayors, local trustees or council members, and representatives on other boards like parks and libraries.
Here's how some who previously held those offices climbed to elected positions at the state Capitol.
State Rep. Peter Breen
As a local official, Breen traveled to Springfield to lobby lawmakers over a proposal by then-Gov. Pat Quinn to reduce or freeze towns' shares of income taxes.
Now, Breen is on the other side of that situation as Gov. Bruce Rauner, a fellow Republican, is proposing far deeper cuts to the local share after income tax rates dropped Jan. 1.
"Now I have to weigh the interests of the people of the state of Illinois and weigh the interests of my district," Breen said. "You certainly don't want to lose that source of funding, but having the income tax go down was a great benefit to the people of my district."
Breen ran for Illinois House in 2009, but backed out before the campaign got too far along. He says that's how voters knew him when a Lombard trustee seat came open, which he won.
After a stint as trustee and mayor, he ran for Illinois House again last year and won.
The local experience "puts you in a position to then show the people of your area whether you're able to properly govern. You learn how to act when you're in the minority. You learn how to cobble together a governing coalition. It helped me to understand better what folks in my area were concerned about."
State Rep. Anna Moeller
Moeller, an Elgin Democrat, served on the Elgin City Council after a successful 2011 campaign before taking state office in 2014.
Prior to serving as a council member, Moeller also worked for the City of Skokie and was executive director of the McHenry County Council of Governments.
Working in local government "is a good place to learn and understand how to be accessible and accountable to your constituents," Moeller said. "And it teaches you how to make difficult decisions on a daily basis."
Moeller worked her way into local government after interning for a congressman and deciding she wanted more contact with the average person.
"In D.C., you get a sense you are working in a vast system in the federal government," Moeller said.
Lt. Gov. Evelyn Sanguinetti
Sanguinetti was a member of the Wheaton City Council when Rauner picked her to be his running mate for the 2014 campaign.
She was first elected to the council on the same slate of candidates as Republican state Rep. Jeanne Ives in 2011.
Now, she's been named by Rauner to head a project that some local officials might dread. She leads a committee to consolidate local governments, and while the group doesn't have any legal power to do so, its suggestions could carry weight.
"I often times, as I travel the state, tell everyone to close their eyes and imagine what it would be like if the state of Illinois could be Triple-A bond rated," Sanguinetti told the Daily Herald early in her term. "Well, we did it in DuPage County. We did it in Wheaton, and I hope to bring that to the state of Illinois."
Sanguinetti is the second straight lieutenant governor to be plucked from a local government post. Democrat Sheila Simon was a local official in Carbondale before former Gov. Pat Quinn put her on his ticket.
State Rep. Grant Wehrli
Wehrli, a businessman and former corporate pilot, was on the Naperville City Council before taking his seat in the General Assembly in January.
The Republican said the state faces more challenges than Naperville, which was part of the appeal of running for higher office.
"Naperville is a very well-run unit of government," he said on the Illinois House floor. "This is where the problems are. I want to be a collaborative problem-solver to turn our state around. This is the epicenter."
Wehrli said his local government experience helps him know how Rauner's plans will hit back home. If the governor wants to reduce the local share of income taxes, for example, local officials will best handle it if they're not surprised.
"If that is going to happen, they need time to be able to adapt to that new environment," he said.
State Rep. Marty Moylan
Before state Rep. Marty Moylan became a Des Plaines alderman, he was fighting to keep pornography off local library computers.
"You could be there with your children, and the person next to you could watch pornography," Moylan said.
He says he won that battle and stayed plugged in to local issues.
Moylan eventually became mayor, an office that propelled him to a seat in the Illinois House.
The Democrat says his experience shows why Rauner will have to work hard to convince lawmakers that taking away local income taxes is a good idea.
"He's going to cost cities in my district a huge increase in their tax bills to make up the money," Moylan said.
Rauner won't say if suburbs, schools will take hit in budget fix
Suburban mayors protest Rauner cuts, learn they might lose funding sooner
Judge: 'Impending sense of doom' could force state budget fix
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That's hot! Paris Hilton exposes intimates in sheer top and racy cut-out trousers
PARIS Hilton is the original queen of reality TV.
Jack HardwickSenior Showbiz Correspondent
Long before Kim Kardashian was romping with Ray J and launching her business empire, the blonde beauty was dominating magazines around the world.
But while she may have slipped down the pecking order in the world of celebrity hierarchy, Paris isn't over yet.
The 37-year-old turned the pavement into a catwalk as she arrived at Jeremy Scott's SS19 fashion show in New York city.
Over the past few years Jeremy has won himself a host of celebrity supporters, thanks to him landing the role of Moschino's Creative Director in 2011.
Dressing to impress, Paris slipped into a typically provocative outfit which left almost nothing to the imagination.
Rocking a sheer crop-top, the American beauty exposed her naked assets as she pouted up a storm.
Keen to leave something to the imagination, Paris covered her nipples with black tape in the shape of an X.
Not stopping there, the multimillionaire completed her look with X-rated chaps.
(Image: SPLASH)
Exposing as much flesh as possible, the provocative garment barely skimmed Paris' privates.
She completed her look with matching black gloves and a giant engagement ring.
Paris is set to marry fiancé Chris Zylka in November 11, 2018.
Previously chatting to Daily Star Online about the big day, Paris said: "Chris is definitely perfect for me, he has such a kind heart and soul.
"I have never met anyone like him and I trust him implicitly, which is priceless to me.
"I don’t think my parents would want me to have the in Ibiza, but it would be fun for a honeymoon."
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Jackets rusty in OT loss to Canucks
Mar 3, 2010 at 12:01 AM Mar 3, 2010 at 10:12 AM
After a 16-day Olympic break, the NHL returned to Nationwide Arena tonight. The Columbus Blue Jackets built a two-goal, first-period lead but committed too many mistakes in a 4-3 overtime loss to the Vancouver Canucks.
After a 16-day Olympic break, the NHL returned to Nationwide Arena tonight.
Nothing operated smoothly. Several synchronized skaters, performing during the first intermission, stumbled and fell to the ice. The IGS Energy Blimp, which floats through the arena distributing prizes, gently landed among the spectators after the second period.
As for the Blue Jackets, they had kinks to work out, as well
They built a two-goal, first-period lead but committed too many mistakes in a 4-3 overtime loss to the Vancouver Canucks.
The Canucks tied it with 5:19 remaining as defenseman Grant Clitsome, making his NHL debut, turned over a puck that led to a Kyle Wellwood tap-in goal. Vancouver won it at 1:33 of overtime when defenseman Christian Ehrhoff retrieved a puck off the endboards and stuffed it past goaltender Steve Mason.
"We looked rusty in some areas," Jackets interim coach Claude Noel said. "It looked like we hadn't played in two weeks. I saw it being a real adjustment period for our players and their players, too."
The Jackets looked especially out of synch on the power play, where they failed to convert on all six opportunities. They also were missing several regulars, a trend likely to continue after Wednesday's trade deadline.
Center Derick Brassard sat out because of an upper body injury, the same one that apparently troubled him in the Feb.14 game against Chicago. Defenseman Milan Jurcina, subject of trade rumors, also didn't dress.
Still, the Jackets managed to take a 2-0 lead on goals by Andrew Murray and Antoine Vermette. Clitsome, recalled from minor-league Syracuse, assisted on both goals.
"I was nervous and excited all night," Clitsome said. "It was a dream come true."
But the two-goal lead came against the run of play as Jackets were out-shot and out-chanced in the first period. Strangely, they turned it around in the second period, taking the game to Vancouver, only to see the Canucks tie it on goals from Alex Burrows and Pavol Demitra.
The Canucks also rallied from a two-goal, two-period deficit on their last trip to Nationwide, a 4-3 win on Feb.12.
"When you get that much time off, you are going to have some sloppy play," Derek Dorsett said. "There was no flow or rhythm to the game. It wasn't that great."
Elevated to the second line in the absence of Brassard, Dorsett played center between Raffi Torres and Jake Voracek. The forwards combined to put the Jackets back in front 3-2 with 4:39 left in the second period. Torres and Dorsett entered the Canucks' zone on a 2-on-1. Torres froze goaltender Andrew Raycroft with a fake shot before slipping the puck to Dorsett for a tap-in.
"It was just an unbelievable pass," Dorsett said.
But the Jackets could not extend the lead despite several great chances by Rick Nash and Sammy Pahlsson. The Canucks tied again when Mason Raymond picked off Clitsome's backhand clearing attempt and fed a wide-open Wellwood.
"I should be going up the wall on my backhand," said Clitsome, who otherwise played a strong game. "I've got to make a stronger play."
He was hardly the only one making bad plays tonight. Defenseman Anton Stralman lost a puck battle in the Jackets' zone, leading to the winning goal. Ryan Kesler tipped a shot wide of the net, but Ehrhoff calmly corralled the carom to the left of Mason and stuffed the puck into the net.
treed@dispatch.com
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Taylor v. C6 Disposal Systems, Inc.
Western District of Texas, txwd-5:2019-cv-00347
****DOCUMENT DEFICIENT, NOTICE'S OF SUBPOENA'S ARE NOT FILED WITH THE COURT ***CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE by C6 DISPOSAL SYSTEMS, INC. Subpoena to ACT Disposal, LLC Modified on 6/14/2019
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AO 88B (Rev. 06/09) Subpoena to Produce Documents, Information, or Objects or to Permit Inspection of Premises in a Civil Action UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT for the Western District of Texas CHARLES TAYLOR Plaintiff v. Civil Action No. 5:19-CV-00347-ESC C6 DISPOSAL SYSTEMS, INC. (If the action is pending in another district, state where: Defendant SUBPOENA TO PRODUCE DOCUMENTS, INFORMATION, OR OBJECTS OR TO PERMIT INSPECTION OF PREMISES IN A CIVIL ACTION To: ACT Disposal, LLC, 5231 FM 482, New Braunfels, TX 78132, (830) 626-6825 Production: YOU ARE COMMANDED to produce at the time, date, and place set forth below the following documents, electronically stored information, or objects, and permit their inspection, copying, testing, or sampling of the material: See attached, Ex. A Place: Riley & Riley, Attorneys at Law 320 Lexington Ave. San Antonio, TX 78215 Date and Time: 07/17/2019 12:00 pm Inspection of Premises: YOU ARE COMMANDED to permit entry onto the designated premises, land, or other property possessed or controlled by you at the time, date, and location set forth below, so that the requesting party may inspect, measure, survey, photograph, test, or sample the property or any designated object or operation on it. Place: Date and Time: The provisions of Fed. R. Civ. P. 45(c), relating to your protection as a person subject to a subpoena, and Rule 45 (d) and (e), relating to your duty to respond to this subpoena and the potential consequences of not doing so, are attached Date: 06/13/2019 CLERK OF COURT OR Signature of Clerk or Deputy Clerk Attorney's signature The name, address, e-mail, and telephone number of the attorney representing (name of party) C6 Disposal Systems, Inc., who issues or requests this subpoena, are: Charles Riley, 320 Lexington Ave., San Antonio TX 78215, charlesriley@rileylawfirm.com, (210) 225-7236 AO 88B (Rev. 06/09) Subpoena to Produce Documents, Information, or Objects or to Permit Inspection of Premises in a Civil Action (Page 2) Civil Action No. 5:19-CV-00347-ESC PROOF OF SERVICE (This section should not be filed with the court unless required by Fed. R. Civ. P. 45.) This subpoena for (name of individual and title, if any) was received by me on (date) June 13, 2014 Ace Disposal LLC I served the subpoena by delivering a copy to the named person as follows: Marc Olveda at - 5231 FM 482, New Braunfels, TX 78132 _on (date) June 13, 2019; or I returned the subpoena unexecuted because: Unless the subpoena was issued on behalf of the United States, or one of its officers or agents, I have also tendered to the witness fees for one day's attendance, and the mileage allowed by law, in the amount of My fees are $ for travel and $ for services, for a total of $ 0.00 I declare under penalty of perjury that this information is true. Date: June 13, 2019_ Server's signature Jennifer Stombridge Printed name and title 9939 Misty Plans De San Antonio, TX 78245 Server's address Additional information regarding attempted service, etc: AO 88B (Rev. 06/09) Subpoena to Produce Documents, Information, or Objects or to Permit Inspection of Premises in a Civil Action(Page 3) Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 45 (c), (d), and (e) (Effective 12/1/07) (c) Protecting a Person Subject to a Subpoena.' (d) Duties in Responding to a Subpoena. (1) Avoiding Undue Burden or Expense; Sanctions. A party or (1) Producing Documents or Electronically Stored Information. attorney responsible for issuing and serving a subpoena must take These procedures apply to producing documents or electronically reasonable steps to avoid imposing undue burden or expense on a stored information: person subject to the subpoena. The issuing court must enforce this (A) Documents. A person responding to a subpoena to produce duty and impose an appropriate sanction which may include lost documents must produce them as they are kept in the ordinary earnings and reasonable attorney's fees -- on a party or attorney course of business or must organize and label them to correspond to who fails to comply. the categories in the demand. (2) Command to Produce Materials or Permit Inspection. (B) Form for Producing Electronically Stored Information Not (A) Appearance Not Required. A person commanded to produce Specified. If a subpoena does not specify a form for producing documents, electronically stored information, or tangible things, or electronically stored information, the person responding must to permit the inspection of premises, need not appear in person at the produce it in a form or forms in which it is ordinarily maintained or place of production or inspection unless also commanded to appear in a reasonably usable form or forms. for a deposition, hearing, or trial. (C) Electronically Stored Information Produced in Only One (B) Objections. A person commanded to produce documents or Form. The person responding need not produce the same tangible things or to permit inspection may serve on the party or electronically stored information in more than one form. attorney designated in the subpoena a written objection to (D) Inaccessible Electronically Stored Information. The person inspecting, copying, testing or sampling any or all of the materials or responding need not provide discovery of electronically stored to inspecting the premises â or to producing electronically stored information from sources that the person identifies as not reasonably information in the form or forms requested. The objection must be accessible because of undue burden or cost. On motion to compel served before the earlier of the time specified for compliance or 14 discovery or for a protective order, the person responding must show days after the subpoena is served. If an objection is made, the that the information is not reasonably accessible because of undue following rules apply: burden or cost. If that showing is made, the court may nonetheless (i) At any time, on notice to the commanded person, the serving order discovery from such sources if the requesting party shows party may move the issuing court for an order compelling production good cause, considering the limitations of Rule 26(b)(2)(C). The or inspection. court may specify conditions for the discovery. (ii) These acts may be required only as directed in the order, and (2) Claiming Privilege or Protection. the order must protect a person who is neither a party nor a party's (A) Information Withheld. A person withholding subpoenaed officer from significant expense resulting from compliance. information under a claim that it is privileged or subject to (3) Quashing or Modifying a Subpoena. protection as trial-preparation material must: (A) When Required. On timely motion, the issuing court must (i) expressly make the claim; and quash or modify a subpoena that: (ii) describe the nature of the withheld documents, (i) fails to allow a reasonable time to comply; communications, or tangible things in a manner that, without (ii) requires a person who is neither a party nor a party's officer revealing information itself privileged or protected, will enable the to travel more than 100 miles from where that person resides, is parties to assess the claim. employed, or regularly transacts business in person - except that, (B) Information Produced. If information produced in response to a subject to Rule 45(C)(3)(B)(iii), the person may be commanded to subpoena is subject to a claim of privilege or of protection as trial- attend a trial by traveling from any such place within the state where preparation material, the person making the claim may notify any the trial is held; party that received the information of the claim and the basis for it. (iii) requires disclosure of privileged or other protected matter, if After being notified, a party must promptly return, sequester, or no exception or waiver applies; or destroy the specified information and any copies it has; must not use (iv) subjects a person to undue burden. or disclose the information until the claim is resolved; must take (B) When Permitted. To protect a person subject to or affected by reasonable steps to retrieve the information if the party disclosed it a subpoena, the issuing court may, on motion, quash or modify the before being notified; and may promptly present the information to subpoena if it requires: the court under seal for a determination of the claim. The person (i) disclosing a trade secret or other confidential research, who produced the information must preserve the information until development, or commercial information; the claim is resolved. (ii) disclosing an unretained expert's opinion or information that does not describe specific occurrences in dispute and results from (e) Contempt. The issuing court may hold in contempt a person the expert's study that was not requested by a party; or who, having been served, fails without adequate excuse to obey the (iii) a person who is neither a party nor a party's officer to incur subpoena. A nonparty's failure to obey must be excused if the substantial expense to travel more than 100 miles to attend trial. subpoena purports to require the nonparty to attend or produce at a (C) Specifying Conditions as an Alternative. In the circumstances place outside the limits of Rule 45(c)(3)(A)(ii). described in Rule 45(c)(3)(B), the court may, instead of quashing or modifying a subpoena, order appearance or production under specified conditions if the serving party: (i) shows a substantial need for the testimony or material that cannot be otherwise met without undue hardship; and (ii) ensures that the subpoenaed person will be reasonably compensated. EXHIBIT "A" INSTRUCTIONS AND DEFINITIONS 1. As used herein, the terms, "you" and "your" shall refer to ACT Disposal, LLC, its attorneys, agents, and all other natural persons or business or legal entities acting or purporting to act for or on behalf of ACT Disposal, LLC, whether authorized to do so or not. 2. The document requests seek the production of the original documents, as well as all identical and all non-identical copies of the requested documents. 3. objection. If you object to a Request, state the factual and/or legal basis for your 4. Designate each Request to which the documents produced are responsive. 5. No Request shall be construed as limiting any other Request or the general language in the same Request. 6. If you claim that any requested document is privileged or otherwise protected from discovery, state the following with regard to each document in a Privilege Log: its author; its date; its addressees; its general nature and subject matter, and the basis upon which you claim it is privileged or otherwise protected from discovery vodovo 7. These Requests shall be continuing. 8. The conjunctions "and" and "or" shall be interpreted to include "and/or" and shall not be interpreted to exclude any requested document. 9. Any and all data or information which is in electronic or magnetic form should be produced in a reasonable manner. 10. As used herein, the term "documents" shall mean all writings of every kind, source and authorship, both originals and all non-identical copies thereof, in your possession, custody, or control, or known by you to exist, irrespective of whether the writing is one intended for or transmitted internally by you, or intended for or transmitted to any other person or entity, including without limitation any government agency, department, administrative, or private entity or person. The term shall include handwritten, typewritten, email, printed, photocopied, photographic, or recorded matter. It shall include communications in words, symbols, pictures, sound recordings, films, tapes, and information stored in, or accessible through, computer or other information storage or retrieval systems, together with the codes and/or programming instructions and other materials necessary to understand and use such systems. For purposes of illustration and not limitation, the term shall include: affidavits; agendas; agreements; analyses; announcements; bills, statements, and other records of obligations and expenditures; books; brochures; bulletins; calendars; canceled checks, vouchers, receipts and other records of payments; charts or drawings; check registers; checkbooks; circulars; collateral files and contents; contracts; corporate bylaws; corporate charters; correspondence; credit files and contents; deeds of trust; deposit slips; diaries or drafts; files; guaranty agreements; instructions; invoices; ledgers, journals, balance sheets, profit and loss statements, and other sources of financial data; letters; logs, notes, or memoranda of telephonic or face-to-face conversations; manuals; memoranda of all kinds, to and from any persons, agencies, or entities; minutes; minute books; notes; notices; parts lists; papers; press releases; printed matter (including books, articles, speeches, and newspaper clippings); purchase orders; records; records of administrative, technical, and financial actions taken or recommended; reports; safety deposit boxes and contents and records of entry; schedules; security agreements; specifications; statements of bank accounts; statements or interviews; stock transfer ledgers; technical and engineering reports, evaluations, advice, recommendations, commentaries, conclusions, studies, test plans, manuals, procedures, data, reports, results, and conclusions; summaries, notes, and other records and recordings of any conferences, meetings, visits, statements, interviews or telephone conversations; telegrams; teletypes and other communications sent or received; transcripts of testimony; UCC instruments; work papers; and all other writings, the contents of which relate to, discuss, consider, or otherwise refer to the subject matter of the particular discovery requested. 11. "Person" or "persons" means any natural persons, firms, partnerships, associations, joint ventures, corporations and any other form of business organization or arrangement, as well as governmental or quasi-governmental agencies. If other than a natural person, include all natural persons associated with such entity. 12. All electronic data responsive to these requests should be produced in a reasonable format via CD-ROM. 13. You are directed that each request seeks documents for the period of time from October 31, 2017 up to and including the present date. USE OF DEFINITIONS The use of any particular gender in the plural or singular number of the words defined under paragraph "1", "Definitions" is intended to include the appropriate gender or number as the text of any particular request for production of documents may require. DOCUMENTS TO BE PRODUCED 1. All documents that describe, refer to, support, reflect, memorialize, or substantiate your policies and procedures for lunch breaks or other breaks during the workday which pertain to your employee Charles Taylor (DOB: 07/02/1958; Last 4 Digits of SSN: 4166), including without limitation any policies and procedures relating to automatic deductions for time spent on such breaks and/or the calculation of an employee's compensation relating to such breaks. 2. All documents that describe, refer to, support, reflect, memorialize, or substantiate Charles Taylor's acknowledgement of and/or agreement to your policies and procedures for lunch breaks or other breaks during the workday while employed by you, including without limitation any policies and procedures relating to automatic deductions for time spent on such breaks and/or the calculation of an employee's compensation relating to such breaks. 3. All documents that describe, refer to, support, reflect, memorialize, or substantiate timesheets and/or records of time worked by Charles Taylor. 4. All documents that describe, refer to, support, reflect, memorialize, or substantiate representations made to you by Charles Taylor regarding lunch breaks or other breaks during the workday while employed by you. 5. All documents that describe, refer to, support, reflect, memorialize, or substantiate any claim made by Charles Taylor that he is or is not taking lunch breaks or other breaks during the workday while employed by you. 6. All documents that describe, refer to, support, reflect, memorialize, or substantiate any claim made by Charles Taylor that he is not being properly paid by you in connection with his taking or not taking lunch breaks or other breaks during the workday while employed by you.
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Home » Anti-Aging » Yucca Root: Health Benefits and Precautions
Yucca Root: Health Benefits and Precautions
By Jon Yaneff, CNP - October 9, 2018
Credit:OlafSpeier
What Is Yucca?
Yucca root (Manihot esculenta) is a starchy, sweet, and nutty-flavored root vegetable. It is also spelled yuca, and goes by other names such as cassava root, Brazilian arrowroot, and mandioca. Yucca root is native to South America, but is also found in South Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean.
From a health perspective, some research suggests yucca root benefits the immune system and skin health, inhibits oxidative stress, and treats those with arthritis and diabetes.
In this article, we’ll discuss yucca root nutrition facts, health benefits, and the risks and precautions associated with this root vegetable.
Read on to also learn more about how to use the veggie with some tasty yucca root recipes.
Yucca Root Nutrition Facts
The wide array of yucca root health benefits can be attributed its impressive nutrient content. For instance, yucca root is particularly high in carbohydrates. After maize and corn, yucca root is considered the third largest carbohydrate source in the tropics.
Yucca root is also an excellent source of protein, fiber, vitamin C, manganese, potassium, magnesium, folate, and vitamin B1. Yucca root also contains minerals such as iron, copper, calcium, phosphorus, selenium, and zinc.
From a vitamin perspective, you will also find vitamin B2, vitamin B3, vitamin B6, vitamin A, vitamin E, vitamin K, choline, and betaine in the root.
The following is a comprehensive yucca root nutrition chart with information for one cup, or 206 grams, of the raw vegetable.
Calories 330 16.00%
Carbohydrates 78.4 g 26.00%
Fiber 3.7 g 15.00%
Protein 2.8 g 6.00%
Total Fat 0.6 g 1.00%
Iron 0.6 mg 3.00%
Manganese 0.8 mg 40.00%
Copper 0.2 mg 10.00%
Calcium 33.0 mg 3.00%
Magnesium 43.3 mg 11.00%
Phosphorus 55.6 mg 6.00%
Potassium 558 mg 16.00%
Selenium 1.4 mcg 2.00%
Zinc 0.7 mg 5.00%
Folate 55.6 mcg 14.00%
Vitamin B1 0.2 mg 12.00%
Vitamin B2 0.1 mg 6.00%
Vitamin A 26.8 IU 1.00%
Vitamin C 42.4 mg 71.00%
Vitamin E 0.4 mg 2.00%
Vitamin K 3.9 mcg 5.00%
Choline 48.8 mg N/A
Betaine 0.8 mg N/A
* N/A—Not Applicable
Health Benefits of Yucca Root
There are a number of potential health benefits of yucca root. It’s been used to treat migraine headaches, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, digestive disorders like colitis, poor circulation, gallbladder and liver disorders, and bleeding.
In this section, we cover five yucca root benefits, including its impact on the immune system, skin health, and oxidative stress, as well as how it treats diabetes and arthritis.
1. Boosts Immunity
Yucca root is loaded with antioxidants, especially vitamin C. Vitamin C is able to stimulate the activity and production of white blood cells, which can help the body fight and protect itself against illness and infection.
In one study published in the journal Annals of Nutrition & Metabolism in 2006, researchers found that getting enough vitamin C could help decrease symptoms and shorten the duration of infections like the common cold, the flu, and pneumonia.
2. Inhibits Oxidative Stress
The antioxidants in yucca root can also help fight free radicals and protect against oxidative stress to prevent damage to immune cells. Research suggests that antioxidants may protect against various chronic conditions, such as heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and cancer.
Research published in the journal Toxicology and Industrial Health in 2013 found that yucca supplements significantly reduced damage from oxidative stress in mice. The researchers also discovered that yucca root had a protective effect against the degeneration of multiple organ tissues, such as kidney, liver, brain, and heart tissue.
3. Aids in Diabetes Treatment
Although yucca root is a high-carbohydrate food, it is still beneficial for blood sugar control and diabetes. This is because yucca root has a low glycemic index (GI) of 46. Foods with a glycemic index of 55 or less will raise blood sugar levels slowly.
In comparison, foods with a high GI of 70 and above will increase blood sugar levels rapidly. For instance, boiled potatoes have a GI of 78 and white rice has a GI of 73.
One 2013 study published in the African Journal of Biochemistry Research in 2013 found that yucca regulated metabolic disturbances and moderately reduced blood sugar levels in diabetic rats.
4. Eases Arthritis Pain
Native Americans have long used yucca root to relieve osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis symptoms. The anti-inflammatory properties in yucca root are able to soothe pain. Yucca also contains specific nutrients that may help reduce arthritis symptoms. Specifically, the manganese, saponins, and antioxidants in yucca root could reduce your risk of arthritis.
Research shows that people with rheumatoid arthritis had significantly lower antioxidant concentrations than people without arthritis. A study published in the Journal of Inflammation in 2006 suggested that yucca root can prevent arthritis in people with the condition.
5. Benefits Skin Health
Yucca root benefits skin health, and has been shown to protect against sun damage better than some commercial sunscreens. You will also find yucca extract in soaps, shampoos, and lotions, where it has been used to treat various skin conditions, such as sprains, dandruff, sores and cuts, baldness, and skin infections and diseases.
Yucca also contains a variety of nutrients that benefit skin health. For instance, the high amount of vitamin C in yucca root can help with the production of the main skin protein called collagen. The folate in yucca root is also able to improve eye health and the skin overall.
Yucca Root Precautions and Risks
Although yucca root has many health benefits, there are also a number of precautions and risks to consider. Yucca is generally considered safe; however, some people may be allergic to it.
Proper preparation is also key when consuming yucca root. This is because it contains a substance that can trigger production of toxins like cyanide. As a result, improper cooking of yucca root can cause stomach pain, vomiting, headaches, and dizziness.
You will also want to consume sweet yucca rather than bitter yucca. Peel yucca, cut it, and cook thoroughly. Soaking yucca for 48 to 60 hours before cooking can also help cut down on toxicity.
Moreover, yucca supplements can sometimes cause side effects, such as nausea, vomiting, upset stomach, and a bitter taste in your mouth.
There are no known drug interactions with yucca supplements. That being said, yucca can interfere with the body’s absorption of fat-soluble vitamins. You should also only take yucca supplements for three months at a time.
Yucca Recipes
There are numerous yucca root uses. For example, yucca tastes a lot like potatoes and is often ground up into powders and flours and used in baking.
You will often find yucca alongside other tubers like yams and sweet potatoes in the produce section of your local grocery store. You may find it pre-peeled and cut in the freezer section as well. Popular ingredients made from yucca include arrowroot and tapioca flour.
There are countless yucca recipes, and the roots can be used in the same way as potatoes to make chips, fritters, or fries. You can also boil and mash yucca root, or make a soup or stew.
In this section, we have provided a few yucca root recipes you can try for yourself.
Crispy Baked Yucca Fries
2 large yucca roots
1 tsp coarse sea salt
1 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil or avocado oil
Preheat the oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit. Peel yucca root with a vegetable peeler to remove its waxy skin, and chop it in half and slice it into fries. Place the sliced yucca into a large pot filled with filtered water.
Bring the water to a boil, and cook for eight to 10 minutes. Once yucca has cooked, strain it and rinse with cold water.
Place the yucca in a large bowl, and mix with oil, salt, pepper, chili powder, and oregano.
Place on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet, and bake yucca for 15 minutes. Remove from oven and flip them. Put them back in the oven, and cook for 15 more minutes. Serve yucca fries warm.
Garlic Mashed Yucca
2 lbs, or 4 cups, fresh yucca root
3-4 garlic cloves, mashed
2 tbsp organic butter or ghee
1/2 tsp white pepper
1/2 tsp coarse sea salt
1 cup coconut milk, separated
Chopped cilantro, for garnish
Peel the yucca root, and remove the skin and gray veins. Your yucca should be completely white. Cut it in half lengthwise, and then in thirds. Place the yucca in a large stockpot, and cover it with filtered water. Add the mashed garlic.
Boil the garlic and yucca root for 25 to 30 minutes, or until it is tender. Drain and return to the pot.
Add the butter, pepper, salt, and one-half cup of coconut milk, and mash the ingredients together. Add the rest of the milk if the yucca mash is too dry.
Garnish the yucca mash with cilantro. Serve warm.
Yucca and Sweet Potato Soup
1/2 white onion, diced
2 sweet potatoes, peeled and diced into half-inch cubes
2 yucca roots, peeled and diced into half-inch cubes
2 tsp extra-virgin olive oil or virgin coconut oil
1/2 tsp ground coriander
1/2 cup coconut milk
1/2 cup cilantro, chopped
Heat the oil in a large pan, and add the garlic and onion. Stir and fry until the onion is cooked for about three to five minutes.
Add the yucca root and sweet potato, and keep stir-frying for three minutes.
Add the spices and broth, and cover and cook on low heat until the sweet potato and yucca are soft. This will take at least 35 to 45 minutes.
Mash the sweet potato and yucca root to create a thicker broth, and add coconut milk to make the soup creamy.
Serve in a bowl, top with cilantro, and enjoy.
Final Thoughts on Yucca Root
Yucca root has long been a staple in the diets of people native to South America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Mesoamerica. Today, yucca root is used to make chips, fries, fritters, mashed yucca root, and soups and stews. Yucca can also be made into arrowroot and tapioca flour.
Yucca root is high in carbohydrates, and is one of the largest carb sources used in the tropics. Yucca is also high in vitamin C, potassium, magnesium, manganese, folate, vitamin B1, and fiber.
As a result, it’s thought that yucca root benefits people with diabetes, arthritis, and skin problems. Yucca may also boost immunity and inhibit oxidative stress.
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We looked at the top 8 Gopro Camera and dug through the reviews from 48 of the most popular review sites including CNET, Tech Radar, Trusted Reviews, Engadget, Wearable, Digital Trends and more. The result is a ranking of the best Gopro Camera.
Our Picks For The Top Gopro Camera
1. GoPro HERO7
3. Go Pro HERO5 12 MP
5. GoPro HERO5 Session
6. Go Pro HERO+
7. GoPro HERO 3+
8. GoPro Hero 2018
Stable Photos and VideosYour photos and videos are never shaky with this GoPro's HyperSmooth stabilization feature.
DWYM Electronics Experts plus Trusted Reviews, Tech Radar, Engadget, New York Times Wirecutter, Mashable. Along with user reviews from .
" Best in-camera video stabilisation on any camera, ever."
"While some may be disappointed to know that many of the core specs are essentially carbon copied from the Hero6 Black."
High-Quality and AffordableTop-quality photos and videos at a more affordable price.
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" The Hero 6 Black remains waterproof to 10 metres without the need for any external housing, which is a welcome feature."
"The biggest problem with GoPro's devices is that the image quality is more impressive than our phones and other devices are capable of handling at times, due to the huge file sizes."
Go Pro HERO5 12 MP
Tons of FeaturesAn excellent value camera with tons of key features, like touch display and voice activation.
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" Three shooting modes with 4K video and 12MP photos. Waterproof up to 33 ft. without buying a separate case."
"Sometimes taps at the screen aren’t registered, but more often my problem was with swiping into the screen from the edges."
Tried-and-True CameraA tried-and-true camera that allows manual control of photography settings.
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" It was the first GoPro to support 4K at 30fps, where previously this was limited to a far more jittery 15fps."
"Expensive."
We identified the majority of the gopro camera available to purchase.
In addition to our expert reviews, we also incorporate feedback and analysis of some of the most respected sources including: CNET, Tech Radar, Trusted Reviews, Engadget, Wearable.
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Our experts reviewed the top 8 Gopro Camera and also dug through the reviews from 48 of the most popular review sites including CNET, Tech Radar, Trusted Reviews, Engadget, Wearable, Digital Trends and more. The result is a ranking of the best of the best Gopro Camera.
This flagship camera boasts high-end video and photo quality, as well as the state-of-the-art HyperSmooth stabilization feature. This built-in technology keeps the images and footage of even shaky amateur photographers steady, helping to set this model above the rest. There are more shooting options than any other model, with up to 4K video and vibrant WDR photos. The camera also has waterproof capabilities, with no additional case required.
Best in-camera video stabilisation on any camera, ever.
- Trusted Reviews
And with its fresh Hero 7 Black flagship model, it provides a significant boost to the camera's video stabilization technology, arguably one of the most critical features.
- Tech Radar
October 2, 2018 | Full review
SuperPhoto makes the GoPro a more robust choice for stills, and the addition of live streaming is a plus for everyone.
- Engadget
September 20, 2018 | Full review
We’re convinced that GoPro Hero7 Black is the best action camera we’ve ever used.
The GoPro Hero 7 Black's built-in stabilization is so good it eliminates the need for expensive and clunky gimbals.
- Mashable
The Hero 7 Black sometimes freezes when you’re scrubbing through footage, and it’s a little too keen to flip into portrait mode.
While some may be disappointed to know that many of the core specs are essentially carbon copied from the Hero6 Black.
The Hero 7 might not come with a host of new shooting modes or imaging improvements.
However, high-pitched noises can sometimes sound a little too sharp, and overall the audio is still not as clear as a camera without waterproofing like the Sony FDR-X3000.
Introduced in 2016, the GoPro Hero5 still remains an excellent value camera. Newer models have upgraded video capabilities, but it boasts most of the key features of the modern action cameras at a fraction of the cost. It has user-friendly features like a convenient touch display, voice activation and ready-to-go waterproof design. It captures video in 4K and 12-megapixel images with multiple shooting modes.
Three shooting modes with 4K video and 12MP photos. Waterproof up to 33 ft. without buying a separate case.
Not needing to worry about dropping the Hero 5 Black into an accompanying waterproof case is a time-saver you don’t really appreciate until you’re constantly moving around or taking impromptu dips in the middle of a hot and sweaty Vietnam day.
Battery-smooth 4K video comes as standard with the Hero5 Black, while a touchscreen interface and voice activation makes it the most user-friendly GoPro to date.
The GoPro Hero5 Black is a true flagship camera with all the shooting options from its predecessor plus raw and wide dynamic range photo capture and linear field of view video, a touchscreen, a waterproof body, GPS, electronic image stabilization, stereo audio, voice control, the option for auto cloud uploads,...
- CNET
December 6, 2016 | Full review
Image quality has gotten much better, with far more detail, less noise, and a wider dynamic range.
- Wired
The screen provides enough space for plain-English descriptions of each function along with graphical examples, rather than the terse abbreviations you get on a non-touchscreen model
- Forbes
The Hero5 Black's redesigned body is waterproof to 33 feet without needing a protective case.
- Tom's Guide
March 29, 2018 | Full review
Two-hour battery life means you may need to buy a second battery to shoot all day.
Sometimes taps at the screen aren’t registered, but more often my problem was with swiping into the screen from the edges.
However, it doesn't feel as robust without its plastic casing, and that touchscreen can be awkward to use.
Battery life, especially with GPS, Wi-Fi and EIS on, is predictably short and the camera is not compatible with older batterie
GoPro HERO 7 Black (Electronics)
What We Liked: This flagship camera boasts high-end video and photo quality, as well as the state-of-the-art HyperSmooth stabilization feature. This built-in technology keeps the images and footage of even shaky amateur photographers steady, helping to set this model above the rest. There are more shooting options than any other model, with up to 4K video and vibrant WDR photos. The camera also has waterproof capabilities, with no additional case required.
GoPro Hero5 Black - Waterproof Digital Action Camera for Travel with Touch Screen 4K HD Video 12MP Photos (Electronics)
What We Liked: Introduced in 2016, the GoPro Hero5 still remains an excellent value camera. Newer models have upgraded video capabilities, but it boasts most of the key features of the modern action cameras at a fraction of the cost. It has user-friendly features like a convenient touch display, voice activation and ready-to-go waterproof design. It captures video in 4K and 12-megapixel images with multiple shooting modes.
What We Liked: The GoPro Hero6 Black model came in a close second to the new and improved version. Though it lacks the HyperSmooth feature, the video and photo quality is nearly identical. With this model, GoPro introduced an all-new GP1 chip optimized for GoPro capture, as well as vastly improved image quality compared to previous cameras. Plus, it offers more savings than the Hero7 Black.
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GoPro has become synonymous with adventure. No matter where your definition of adventure takes you, from the highest mountains down to the depths of the ocean and anywhere in between, GoPro is the action camera of choice to capture it all.
All GoPro models are designed to capture high-resolution photo and video in the elements and on the go. In fact, these four models all boast 12-megapixel cameras. For reference, you can enlarge 12-megapixel images to a poster-size 24-inch by 36-inch print. In addition, GoPro cameras have an extremely wide field of view. All GoPro cameras have a fixed 170-degree lens, so they capture almost everything in front of the camera on video and photo. There’s only a small slice of 10 degrees that it doesn’t capture in that frontal field of view.
They are easy to mount on a person or vehicle with a handful of accessories and add-ons. Built tough, they are rugged enough to take just about anywhere in any conditions. All models are compact and lightweight, so they are easy to carry and pack on longer trips. You might even mistake them for a child’s toy, but they hold high-tech recording power inside that’s anything but child’s play.
GoPros also feature built-in WiFi. That means you don’t have to physically touch the camera to make changes. You can direct it all via Wi-fi from your phone or tablet within a reasonable range.
It’s not too surprising that the top GoPro camera is the latest and greatest model. The GoPro Hero7 Black doesn’t get the stamp of approval just because it is shiny and new. It comes with valuable upgrades and performance that testers believe are worth the extra cost. The most notable new feature is state-of-the-art stabilization technology called HyperSmooth. This market-leading addition means footage comes out clean and stable no matter how shaky or amateur the videographer behind the camera may be.
It also records in 4K60 video, 12MP and HDR Mode. All those numbers and specs sound complicated, and yes it is high end, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t right for newbies. For example, features like scene detection and voice command make it a user-friendly choice for all experience levels.
The sophisticated standout features aside, some may be disappointed that many of the core specs are essentially identical to the Hero6 Black, which is another solid choice. As a result, the Hero6 Black ended up with the second highest score. At a lower price point, it’s a solid option for those confident they have steady camera hands and don’t need the stabilization feature.
For an even thriftier option, one model earlier is the best choice. The GoPro Hero5 12 MP impresses with convenient touch display, voice activation and ready-to-go waterproof design. It captures video in 4K and 12-megapixel images with multiple shooting modes at a fraction of the cost of newer models.
All of these top picks come with waterproof features. This is an upgrade from older GoPro models that required a separate waterproof housing or dive case to protect against moisture. These come ready-to-go waterproof for planned or spontaneous plunges or inclement weather.
If your goal is capturing great-looking action footage, these GoPros will get the job done and then some.
Nick Woodman created the company in October 2002, starting from very humble beginnings. At the time, he was sleeping in his 1971 Volkswagen Bus and selling 35mm film cameras. He tested his first makeshift models, strapping a camera to surfers, on a surf trip to Australia and Indonesia. Then, he decided to manufacture the camera, the protective housing and the strap all together.
It wasn’t an overnight success, but GoPro made Woodman a billionaire and forever changed the adventure world. During the early years of GoPro, each camera created its own advertising. Customers would share their footage online and inspire others to buy their own cameras and do the same. That spurred nearly out-of-control growth and tech innovations for each new model introduced. According to Bloomberg, Woodman was the highest-paid CEO in America in 2014. That was the height of GoPro.
When GoPro went public, it was one of the most successful tech IPOs of 2014 putting Woodman, some thought, on par with Steve Jobs. But knowing the strength of your company is important, as Woodman soon discovered.
In 2016, GoPro developed and launched a drone, the Karma, which had catastrophic problems and influenced a sharp decline in the company’s valuation. It would unexpectedly fall out of the sky, an obvious and serious hazard. As a result, GoPro quickly recalled the drone and worked on troubleshooting the issues and downsized the company back to its more streamlined roots.
“If you’re trying to be something you’re not, everybody’s going to know it, and nobody’s going to think highly of you for it,” Woodman told Inc. “And the truer that you can be to yourself, the better chance you have of fully realizing your potential.” The shift seems to be working, and the proof is in the last few years of reliable GoPro cameras.
The Gopro Camera Tips and Advice
Battery life is a consistent issue with all GoPro models. It’s a smart move to bring along extra batteries and chargers to ensure your GoPro is powered.
All GoPro models after the Hero 3+ capture photos in 12-megapixels. This is fine enough quality to produce poster-size prints from the camera snaps.
There is a wide range of accessories and attachments to connect GoPros to people, vehicles and even pets.
HyperSmooth is an exciting feature built into GoPro Hero7 Black model that allows for stable footage, even for amateur videographers.
GoPros capture a super wide-angle view in video and photos. Only a small slice (about 10 percent) of what is in front of the camera doesn’t end up on film.
Prices range from model to model, depending on the features you’re looking for. For some, a more costly camera, like the GoPro Hero7 Black, may be worth it for its up-to-date HyperSmooth technology. Others with more camera experience may not require the stabilization feature. Make sure to look closely at the specs to ensure that you’re getting exactly what you want.
Each one of these models comes with waterproof features, protecting the camera from inclement weather or dips in the water.
Jennifer Nied
Jennifer Nied is a professional writer based in New York City. She studied journalism at Northwestern University. As an experienced journalist, Jennifer relies on the latest technology to complete her reporting and writing on deadline. She researches the latest tech for personal and professional use, and always keeps an eye out for good value buys.
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Afghan Soldier Kills 3 U.S. Service Members
by: RYAN BROWNE, BARBARA STARR AND RAY SANCHEZ, CNN
Posted: Jun 12, 2017 / 04:38 PM CDT / Updated: Jun 12, 2017 / 04:38 PM CDT
Three US soldiers were killed and another wounded during a joint US-Afghan military operation Saturday in Nangarhar province, US officials told CNN.
On Monday, the Pentagon said the three soldiers were Sgt. Eric M. Houck, 25, of Baltimore; Sgt. William M. Bays, 29 of Barstow, California; and Corporal Dillon C. Baldridge, 22 of Youngsville, North Carolina.
An American official said the soldiers were shot in an apparent insider attack, also known as a “green-on-blue” incident because of the color-coding system used by NATO. During such assaults, members of the Afghan security forces are known to target US and other NATO soldiers.
The shooter in Saturday’s incident was an Afghan army commando, Nangarhar provincial spokesman Attaullah Khogyani said. He said the assailant was killed by Afghan forces.
The shootings occurred in the Achin District, where US and Afghan troops have been carrying out a monthslong offensive against a local affiliate of ISIS, officials said.
Taliban claim responsibility
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said the militants claimed responsibility for the attack.
“A Mujahid (freedom fighter) infiltrator of the Islamic Emirate who had enrolled himself in the Kabul government’s army attacked American soldiers in Lata Band area of Achin district in Nangarhar province today in the afternoon,” said a written statement in Pashto obtained by CNN. “The American invaders were there to support their Afghan slaves.”
US President Donald Trump was briefed on the shootings, a White House spokesman said, but as of Saturday evening there had been no comment from the President.
US Vice President Mike Pence addressed the attack while in Milwaukee on Saturday.
“The President and I have been briefed. Details of this attack will be forthcoming,” Pence said. “When heroes fall, Americans grieve. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of American heroes.”
A US military spokesman in Afghanistan said the military “will release more information when appropriate.”
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In Kabul, meanwhile, the US military command said an unspecified number of Afghan police were killed and wounded in a “friendly fire” incident during a joint Afghan-US operation overnight Saturday.
US Forces Afghanistan said members of the Afghan Border Police in Helmand province were killed and wounded during an operation involving US and Afghan defense and security forces.
The deaths occurred when a US aircraft fired on Afghan police, said Omar Zawak, spokesman for the governor of Helmand.
US Forces Afghanistan is investigating the incident.
Two US service member killed in April
US and coalition casualties in Afghanistan have become rarer in recent years, falling dramatically since the Afghan government assumed responsibility for combat operations in 2014.
But in late April, two US service members were killed and another wounded while conducting a joint raid in the Achin District, a Pentagon spokesman said. The operation was targeting ISIS-K, the terror group’s Afghanistan affiliate.
Achin District is the primary base of operations for ISIS in Afghanistan and has been the site of multiple joint US-Afghan counterterrorism missions. A US Army Special Forces soldier was killed fighting the terror group there in early April.
The district is also where the US dropped one of its most powerful bombs, killing close to 100 ISIS fighters, according to Afghan officials.
Beginning in 2016, Afghan security forces backed by US military advisers launched a major offensive against ISIS. Gen. John W. Nicholson, commander of US Forces Afghanistan, has said the terror group has lost about half of its fighters and been ejected from two-thirds of its territory.
The latest counter-ISIS push began in March of this year.
US officials estimate ISIS has 600 to 800 fighters in the country — mostly former members of other regional terror groups, such as the Pakistani Taliban and Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. ISIS is believed to be behind a series of terror attacks, including the recent deadly attack on a hospital in Kabul.
There are about 8,400 US troops in Afghanistan. The US counterterrorism mission is separate from the NATO-led effort to train, advise and assist the Afghan army and police force in the fight against the Taliban.
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Dragons Clinch Win Over Broncos
Fri 17 Apr 2015, 09:30 PM
By Mary Maidiotis
The St George Illawarra Dragons were triumphant 12-10 victors over the Brisbane Broncos at Jubilee Oval, Kogarah on Friday.
The Red-and-Whites scored just two tries through Eto Nabuli and Mike Cooper but it was the side’s defensive efforts which handed them their fifth consecutive win.
Head Coach Paul McGregor made minor changes to the line-up named mid-week with prop Cooper starting in the forward pack, shifting captain Ben Creagh to the interchange bench.
Fellow prop George Rose was consequently omitted from the line-up.
The homeside were on the attack early on with two consecutive grubbers 10 metres out, courtesy of halfback Benji Marshall, but they were unfortunately unable to capitalise.
The Broncos struck first in the 16th minute when Matt Gillett threw a swift cut-out pass to winger Daniel Vidot who scored in the corner.
However, the Dragons hit back in the 22nd minute when Fijian flyer Nabuli raced to the ball and grounded it before it rolled dead, with the video referee granting a try.
The hosts extended their lead five minutes later when five-eighth Gareth Widdop slotted the ball over the black dot, after being awarded a penalty for a high tackle.
The Red V looked the better attacking side for the remainder of the first forty, forcing several repeat sets, but were unable to convert their chances, maintaining a 6-4 lead at the half-time break.
Dragons second-rower Will Matthews was impressive in his first game of the season with several notable tackles in the first-half.
The Broncos won a penalty 10 minutes into the second-half, after Dragons centre Dylan Farrell was put on report for an unfortunate tackle on opposing second-rower Alex Glenn, however, Broncos lock Corey Parker failed to convert.
The visitors continued their attack and reaped the benefits minutes later when prop Sam Thaiday charged through a tackle and planted the ball under the posts.
Parker had no trouble converting the try to put the Broncos 10-6 in the lead.
The Dragons were down an interchange just shy of the hour mark when second-rower Jake Marketo was forced to leave the field with a suspected concussion.
Despite this, the hosts demonstrated their resilience 13 minutes out from full-time when prop Mike Cooper broke through several tackles and barged over the white line while carrying three opposition players.
Widdop easily converted the try to give the Dragons the lead heading into the final 10 minutes.
The away side placed plenty of pressure on the Red-and-Whites but the Dragons proved why they have the best defensive stats in the competition, holding the Broncos out until the full-time siren.
St George Illawarra Dragons 12. Tries: Nabuli, Cooper Goals: Widdop (1/2). Penalty Goals: Widdop (1/1).
Brisbane Broncos 10. Tries: Vidot, Thaiday. Goals: Parker (1/2). Penalty Goals: Parker (0/1).
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Meet our First Ever Shark and Ray Fellows
By Ignatius Hillcoat-Nalletamby on May 16, 2019 in EDGE Fellows, News, EDGE Conservation
Muhammad Ichsan and Alifa Haque are our first ever Shark & Ray Fellows who are working to protect the pelagic thresher shark in Indonesia and the largetooth sawfish in Bangladesh respectively. In this introductory blog, we asked them to tell us a little about themselves, their EDGE species and their projects.
Entering a career in conservation is a personal journey for many, each with their own reasons and motivation. In the case of our Fellows, they often have some unique stories. Ichsan for example has always found the underwater world fascinating:
“Life underwater is a beautiful world with complex systems that support each other. It was in 2010 when I started my first journey underwater, and since that day I know what I want to be – a shark conservationist!”
Segré EDGE Fellow Muhammad Ichsan
For Alifa, her journey towards conservation was slightly different:
“Working in marine conservation is a passion I found rather than what I have grown up with. I was born and brought up in an urban jungle within a conventional societal setting […] I found my passion for marine conservation when I worked with coastal communities, I learnt not to impose solutions but to learn and use a bottom up approach. I was overwhelmed by the peace it brought, just to sit beside the sea that nothing brought me in the 24 years I spent in the cities at that time.”
National Geographic Photo Ark EDGE Fellow Alifa Haque
They both however, felt very similar when they learnt they had become EDGE Fellows. Ichsan was excited to work with his EDGE species and travel to Borneo for the tools course while Alifa was so shocked that she waited for two days before telling her peers – just to be sure it was true.
Ichsan is working to protect the pelagic thresher shark which is currently ranked as number 50 on the EDGE Shark and Ray list. It has an unusual method for catching its prey: “It’s a distinctively unique species of shark with a long tail that can be as long as its body” says Ichsan, “this predator uses their tail as a weapon to stun prey – It’s like a shark with a whip that slaps their prey before they feast.”
The pelagic thresher shark is classified as Vulnerable by the IUCN and is threatened by over-exploitation both from target and by-catch fisheries. The shark is highly valuable, especially in Indonesia, where pelagic threshers are sold for their fins, meat and other body parts.
Alifa Haque’s EDGE species is the largetooth sawfish (a ray) that is not only is number 1 on the EDGE Shark list, but also has the highest-ranking score of any EDGE species. Owing to their unique appearance, Alifa appears to have high praise for her EDGE species; “the largetooth sawfish is the most charismatic aquatic species. It looks like a smiling face at all time with the most adorable eyes in the world.”
Largetooth Sawfish Pristispristis © Simon Fraser University
It is listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN and is threatened mainly by the sale of its fins for the shark fin trade, entanglement of its rostra (a beak-like projection) in gill nets and demersal trawl nets and loss of its critical mangrove and coastal native habitats.
As both of their EDGE species are threatened by current fishing practices, our Shark and Ray Fellows are hoping to tackle these issues head on to protect the future of their species. In Indonesia and Bangladesh, local communities rely heavily on fishing as a part of their livelihoods and so both Ichsan’s and Alifa’s projects will involve working closely alongside locals. Ichsan will be trying to understand the importance of the pelagic thresher shark for the livelihoods and food security in two key fishing communities in Indonesia. He will then use this information to develop a draft fisheries management plan for the fisheries in collaboration with the local community. Alifa will harness the local fishermen’s knowledge to identify critical habitats for largetooth sawfish and develop a cell phone reporting system for sawfish (CPRSS). She will pilot the reporting system in Sundarbans, Bay of Bengal and promote it to policymakers and coastal fishing villages.
© Muhammad Ichsan
Working with fisheries can be difficult, given the various scales of fishing and the dependence on this work for the livelihoods of many people. “Fisheries is a complex issue, especially in developing archipelagic countries with multi-gear and multi-species fisheries” says Ichsan. “On these islands, small-scale fisheries are highly dependent on natural resources and have less capacity to conduct sustainable practice.”
However, despite the challenges Alifa summarises the hopes they both have for their projects and Fellowship experience:
“I hope to learn to create and execute conservation projects towards real change in the world. I’m looking forward to growing professionally and increasing my skills in data analysis and use science in conservation actions. In any case, I am learning from the EDGE team and my fellow colleagues everyday. It is going to be a great learning process.”
Be sure to keep up to date with Ichsan’s and Alifa’s projects and learn more about their EDGE species, the pelagic thresher shark and the largetooth sawfish.
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Congrats on the 10-Year Anniversary YouTube, Now Please Fix Content ID
By Amul Kalia
YouTube is celebrating its 10-year anniversary. We’re glad YouTube has managed to survive the copyright wars, when so many other services did not. We hope we even helped. So, congratulations YouTube, well done. Wouldn't fixing ContentID be a great way to celebrate it?
YouTube has come to be one of the most important platforms for speech and entertainment on the Internet. It is hard to remember the days when you had to make sure to have all the right codecs to play online video. YouTube has also been an amazing platform for those who wish to express themselves creatively. ‘Going viral’ became much more of a thing once YouTube became part of the zeitgeist.
YouTube's huge popularity can be attributed to the users who create and share content on the site with the world. The Evolution of Dance created by motivational speaker and comedian Judson Laipply was the site’s first breakout hit. Users like Mr. Laipply were creating content for the site when Hollywood was actively engaged in removing as much of it as possible. The executives of media companies were regularly quoted declaring YouTube as a haven for infringement and issuing veiled threats on how they would deal with the startup. In an effort to answer that criticism, not to mention generate a new revenue source for both itself and small and large artists and copyright holders, YouTube created Content ID.
Implementation of ContentID
ContentID is supposed to help rightsholders and content creators manage and monetize their content on the site. The system works by checking every video upload against a database of audio and video "fingerprints" submitted by rightsholders. So when you upload a video, the Content ID tool can spot a song snippet used in that video, and the rightsholder gets to decide what happens when there is a match by setting "usage restrictions" — it can elect to Block, Track, or Monetize (i.e., get a portion of revenue generated from ads around the video).
When ContentID first launched, we were wary of the dangers that an automated filtering system like ContentID posed, and warned against the system’s potential to automatically censor fair uses. Unfortunately, our predictions have largely come to be true.
Fair Use Issues and How to Fix Them
At EFF, we frequently hear from users who have had their videos unfairly flagged and even monetized (by others) simply because they made fair use of copyrighted content. The problems with ContentID have always been in the news over the years, but lately have become more common, even comically so.
Here are just a few more recent examples of improper flags:
Winning the prize for “most ironic takedown,” The Daily Conversation, had to deal with multiple ContentID matches on a compilation video looking at 10 years of viral video on the site.
ContentID flagged this video because of the barely audible Rod Stewart song in the background.
English rapper and songwriter, Dan Bull recently got hit with multiple Content ID matches for a video he made in in 2010 criticizing the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), an onerous trade agreement negotiated in secret between counties that was precursor to the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). One of the ContentID matches was from an entity that itself sampled the background vocals and music, and does not hold rights to enforce them via ContentID. Unfortunately, even though YouTube supposedly prohibits asserting rights to content you don't control, this kind of abuse is far too common.
Video remix artist Jonathan McIntosh had his works flagged by ContentID despite clearly falling under fair use.
Users can appeal ContentID matches. But that process, while greatly streamlined over time, is still challenging. Here’s how it works:
The current ContentID regime on YouTube is stacked against the users. For example, rightholders’ get 30 days to decide whether or not content actually infringes on their copyright, and whether it constitutes fair use. The aforementioned earliest YouTube hit, the Evolution of Dance, alone could conceivably have had 32 ContentID matches. If its creator had gotten bogged down in Content ID appeals and challenges, it might never have emerged as a cultural phenomenon.
As a powerful global platform with millions of users, YouTube must do more to protect the users who supported the site early on as opposed to the rightsholders who wanted nothing more than to shut it down in the name of infringement. YouTube must ensure that ContentID isn’t a vehicle for semi-automated censorship.
First, any companies caught uploading fingerprints to YouTube’s database despite not holding exclusive rights to the material should be kicked out of the program. Second, YouTube should pressure its ContentID partners to take into account fair use while reviewing ContentID matches. Other possible additional steps could be to acknowledge that fair uses are sometimes incorrectly flagged and hold uploader revenues in escrow instead of blocking them, and experiment with empowering users to proactively indicate their videos make fair use of existing content.
Viacom v. YouTube
Deeplinks Blog by Elliot Harmon | November 22, 2019
Nonprofit Community Stands Together to Protect .ORG
EFF and 26 other organizations just sent a letter to the Internet Society (ISOC) urging it to stop the sale of the Public Interest Registry (PIR)—the organization that manages the .ORG top-level domain—to private equity firm Ethos Capital. Our message is clear: .ORG is extremely important to the non-governmental...
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Nickelback's Record Label Abuses Copyright to Silence Political Speech
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The news of iconic children’s television show “Sesame Street”’s new arrangement with the HBO MAX streaming service has sent ripples around the Internet. Starting this year, episodes of “Sesame Street” will debut on HBO and on the HBO MAX service, with new episodes being made available to PBS “at...
The House Votes in Favor of Disastrous Copyright Bill
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Billie Eilish debut disappoints in some respects despite flaws
Luka Turanjanin, Staff Reporter
Billie Eilish’s new album “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” is honestly just plain weird. Unlike many pop albums, this one takes melodies and musical moments and turns them into these twisted, abnormal songs.
Eilish’s popularity over the past two years has grown tremedously. With “When We All Fall Asleep” being her first full proper album, the anticipation from her fans had been very high.
Even though Eilish has some enticing songs, I feel as if some of the songs in this album are almost too bizarre. The songs tell stories in an interesting way, but the sounds on this album and song structures are almost too unconventional.
The album’s 14 songs span the whole spectrum of alternative rock. The first track is just a skit of Eilish and her brother (also the producer of the albums songs), laughing while Eilish says she took her Invisalign retainer off for the recording.
Eilish’s voice is prominent throughout the album. There’s a sinister calm to it. Her voice for most of the album sounds malevolent and gives off an energy like she’s ready to screech at a pitch higher then what dogs can hear. The demonic tone of her voice, along with the bass-driven percussion of some of her songs, gives her tracks an uneasy vibe.
The constant use of a whisper-like singing voice throughout the album seems like something that would eventually get on your nerves, but it complements the production rather well.
Lyrically, each song on the album over certain situations from Eilish’s point of view. Certain songs like, “Wish You Were Gay,” where Eilish wants to find a reason for why a guy rejected her. (She actually found out her crush was gay after writing the song). Other songs including “Bad Guy,” and “When the Party’s Over” contain more out of the ordinary lyrical approaches.
Two highlights of the album are “Xanny” and “Listen Before I Go.” “Xanny” covers Eilish’s perspective on drug use (she claims to never have abused drugs), and the song’s name references an antidepressant. That formula mixed with an alternative instrumental really adds a strong vibe to the track.
“Listen Before I Go” is the saddest song on the album. On this track, Eilish discusses a person telling his or her lover to listen quickly before they kill themself. The tone of Eilish’s voice perfectly encapsulates the last few minutes of a person’s life, almost like an ultimate goodbye. The track gives off such and atmosphere of hopelessness, and it hurts you with the sadness of what the song is.
Despite these highlights, “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” could’ve been better than what it is. The weird, confusing and abnormal sounding songs just simply feel off-putting for casual listeners.
I’m not trying to deny Eilish’s musical capabilities, and maybe the record requires multiple listens, but the vibe and mix on the album make the listener work.
Luka Turanjanin, Sectional Editor
Luka Turanjanin is a staff reporter with the Guardian.
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NYPD Brags About Weed Bust That Business Owner Says Is Just Hemp
“Precision policing and relentless follow-up” is how the New York Police Department characterized a recent marijuana bust it bragged about. But the business owner caught up in the case begs to differ, saying the cops simply have legal hemp on their hands. […]
What’s more, the packages apparently had been inspected by law enforcement authorities in Vermont before the NYPD’s seizure. A report from the Williston Police Department in that state said it was alerted by FedEx about a possible marijuana shipment.
“Both boxes contained paperwork explaining the shipper as a registered VT Cannabis Hemp grower,” said an officer’s report obtained by HuffPost. “I advised the company that this does appear to be Legal Hemp and not Marijuana and the police was not going to seize it.”
By the way, that “precision policing and relentless follow-up” is apparently getting a call from FedEx and arresting people without yet having tested the merchandise.
Since posting about the experience on Instagram and talking to media outlets, Levy said he’s received an outpouring of support and that he plans to take legal action against FedEx and the NYPD.
“They know they fucked up,” he said.
November 6th, 2019 by Pete | Permalink
22 comments to The NYPD sure is good at catching criminals
November 7, 2019 at 5:03 pm · Reply
I’ve got to admit that I’m enjoying every minute of Sen. McConnell’s humiliation. Who the heck would have predicted that it would be he who got cannabis to de facto decriminalization almost nationwide? Well, there’s only two ways to fix it and one requires shitting on Kentucky farmers after getting their hopes up. ROFLMAO thanks Mitch!
KCSO seizes 10 million marijuana plants in 11 hemp fields in Arvin
https://t.co/hLp45J1YHC?amp=1
Correction: Marijuana Plants Seized story
https://t.co/cb5lUuJduT?amp=1
Nov 2: Seizure of hemp plants in CA, AP reported erroneously that 100 million plants were seized. Authorities seized 10 million plants that were legibly grown legal hemp but THC levels of above the allowed limit.
Police: Hemp plants seized in California were pot worth $1B
https://t.co/siN20Bocfg?amp=1
Authorities in Central California have seized and destroyed about 10 million plants that were being grown as legal hemp but contained higher-than-allowed levels THC, that gives marijuana its high.
California authorities found and destroyed $1 billion
worth of marijuana plants
https://t.co/61Qve1ldnt?amp=1
Don Smith II
November 4 at 3:47 PM
HEADS UP – The USDA and WVDA have some proposed Hemp Rules – From what I’ve read and talked to people, it’s obvious none of us were consulted – Time to get our game on – We’re SO Happy with our new RULES [ not ] – Soon, you will see quick, short notice, meetings called – If you’re a Cannabis Operator, stay tuned – Growing and selling all things Cannabis is a FACTOR in the growth of WV and our Nation – Millions have already been invested – Forecasts are in the billions nationwide – We’re doing the Right Things and our Hemp Industry is taking off – When the meetings are called, the WV Hemp Farmers Cooperative, wvhemp.org, will have a lot of facts and figures on hand – Farmers, Processors, and Retailers are welcome – PM me or J Morgan Leach for additional info …
November 8, 2019 at 11:11 pm · Reply
Nothing has changed since 1906.
November 12, 2019 at 12:02 pm · Reply
More from Michael R. Sisak on hemp hysteria…
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/pot-or-not-busts-highlight-growing-confusion-over-hemp/
ThePurpleEndUK
“If I was arrested now I would not accept a caution; I would prefer to be tried by my peers in court. The law becomes redundant when it stops protecting people. Prohibition did not protect my brother. Eric wanted medicinal cannabis for his final few weeks on earth and it was my duty to get him it. I have absolutely no regrets.”
https://tinyurl.com/KOblowForprohibition
Mandatory school drug tests but this time all expenses will have to be covered by the student’s parent or guardian:
https://twitter.com/RyanMarino/status/1194673495852113920?s=20
CBD to the rescue? Binge drinking and depression are no longer linked according to a study:
November 14, 2019 — Binge drinking among U.S. adolescents precipitously declined from 1991 to 2018, according to a new study at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Depressive symptoms among U.S. adolescents have sharply increased since 2012. And for the first time in the past 40 years, binge drinking and depressive symptoms among adolescents are no longer associated. The findings are published online in the Journal of Adolescent Health.
“Comorbidity of depression and drinking is among the bedrocks of psychiatric epidemiology findings – until now. Our results suggest that we need to be re-thinking the connections between mental health and alcohol among young people,” said Katherine M. Keyes, PhD, associate professor of epidemiology at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health. […]
The results suggest that, on average, the relationship between binge drinking and depressive symptoms is dynamically changing and decoupling, according to the researchers.
“Although comorbidity between alcohol consumption and mental health is complex, the landscape of the adolescent experience is changing in ways that may affect both consumption and mental health,” observed Keyes. “The declining correlation between binge drinking and mental health is occurring during a time of unprecedented decreases in alcohol consumption among U.S. adolescents and increases in mental health problems. Therefore, the relationship between substance use and mental health may need to be reconceptualized for ongoing and future research.”
AAAS Public Release: Diverging trends: Binge drinking and depression: Study finds relationship between binge drinking and depressive symptoms declined 16 percent among high schoolers
AAAS Public Release: In test with rats, cannabidiol showed sustained effects against depression for 7 days: First results appeared 24 hours after one single dose of the marijuana component; scientists concluded that CBD activates mechanisms which repair neuronal circuitry in patients’ prefrontal cortex and hippocampus
Is that a tacit admission of being entirely clueless?
It’s an admission the researchers will be seeking more grant funding in the near future.
From the “don’t just say, yes don’t just say no. just say yo baby yo baby yo baby yo!” category:
Postal Service Unveils ‘Drug Free USA Forever’ Stamp Commemorating 1980s Anti-Drug
The United Nations philatelic contribution to drug hysteria includes an amazing array of drug war propaganda tools in the form of pictures on sticky little pieces of paper.
I own a 1918 espionage forgery stamp minted in the US and designed to target Germany. Counterfeit or fake stamps were used to sow fear in the enemy civilian population. Some included authentic looking German stamps except for a tiny skull-and-crossbones embedded in the stamp’s artwork. The idea that the enemy had infiltrated the methodical and otherwise ever-reliable German postal system was guaranteed to wear on the Germans’ sense of security.
Too little too late. It won’t work to preserve the US drug war.
November 19, 2019 at 11:39 am · Reply
DMT study reveals more about how the psychedelic drug affects the human brain:
19-NOV-2019 — DMT is a naturally occurring chemical found in miniscule amounts in the human brain but also in larger amounts in a number of plant species around the world.
Accounts from people who have taken DMT report intense visual hallucinations often accompanied by strong emotional experiences and even ‘breakthroughs’ into what users describe as an alternate reality or dimension.
But scientists are interested in using the powerful psychoactive compound for research as it produces relatively short but intense psychedelic experiences, providing a window for collecting data on brain activity when consciousness is profoundly altered.
In the latest study, the Imperial team captured EEG measures from healthy participants in a clinical setting, in a placebo-controlled design. […]
Analysis revealed that DMT significantly altered electrical activity in the brain, characterised by a marked drop off in alpha waves – the human brain’s dominant electrical rhythm when we are awake. They also found a short-lived increase in brainwaves typically associated with dreaming, namely, theta waves.
In addition to changes in the types of brainwaves, they also found that, overall, brain activity became more chaotic and less predictable – the opposite to what is seen in states of reduced consciousness, such as in deep sleep or under general anaesthesia.
“The changes in brain activity that accompany DMT are slightly different from what we see with other psychedelics, such as psilocybin or LSD, where we see mainly only reductions in brainwaves,” said lead author Christopher Timmermann, from the Centre for Psychedelic Research.
“Here we saw an emergent rhythm that was present during the most intense part of the experience, suggesting an emerging order amidst the otherwise chaotic patterns of brain activity. From the altered brainwaves and participants’ reports, it’s clear these people are completely immersed in their experience – it’s like daydreaming only far more vivid and immersive, it’s like dreaming but with your eyes open.” […]
AAAS Public Release: Ayahuasca compound changes brainwaves to vivid ‘waking-dream’ state
‘Neural correlates of the DMT experience assessed with multivariate EEG’ by Christopher Timmermann et al. is published in the journal Scientific Reports. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-51974-4 […]
As if VP Mike Pence wasn’t already clueless about tobacco and cancer related effects, now he’s upset over homogenized milk:
Washington DC – Mike Pence came out of the closet today. No, not that closet. The Vice President of the United States admitted he doesn’t drink homogenized milk because the word sounds awfully suspicious. Pence stated the idea of putting anything with that prefix – homo – up to his lips is an abomination to the LORD:
God made Adam and Eve and not Adam and Steve. In the same way, the LORD separated the heavenly waters from the earthly ones; he naturally made cream and milk separate. Forcing milk and cream to combine is like gay marriage. It’s unnatural.
Homogenization?
Homogenization is the process where milk’s fat molecules are broken down so that they stay mixed in milk. Otherwise, those fat molecules would coalesce at the top of the container, leaving a layer of cream resting on skim milk. Torrington, Connecticut was the first place to mass-produce homogenized milk in 1919. However, there are still some of us who are old enough to remember a time when the milkman delivered non-homogenized milk on doorsteps.
“It was a simpler time. A time when men were men. Women were women. And no one worried about their milk being gay,” Pence reflected.
The National Dairy Counsel (NDC) is fighting back.
Explains a lot about knuckle draggers. I never believed Pounce was human. More Mannequinish. Dress him up and stand him in the corner. Scratch Trump’s itches and nod once in a while.
Homo sapiens (Latin: “wise man”) is the scientific name for the human species. Homo is the human genus, which also includes Neanderthals and many other extinct species of hominid. H. sapiens is the only surviving species of the genus Homo.
With that noted. Pence and the Alt Christians may not be that far on the other side of reform. I know. Who’d a thunk it.
A Closer Look At Mike Pence On Marijuana
“If a child is to be born with an abnormality that makes them have incurable seizures, it doesn’t make sense to say that child must be born, but then deny that child the medicine that will allow them to live once they are born. It can’t just be about birth, it has to also be about quality of life.”
– Republicans Against Marijuana Prohibition
Trump Set To Legalize Medical Marijuana In All 50 States
http://urhealthupdate.com/2019/10/13/trump-set-to-legalize-medical-marijuana-in-all-50-states
President Trump is set to sign legislation which will make medical marijuana federally legal for terminally ill patients. The bill, known as the “Right to Try Act,” will prohibit the FDA from banning natural cures, and allow patients to try medications that have not been approved by the FDA, but are currently under clinical trial.
Great Harry's Ghost!
OT but for viewable for those on FB, the HempMeister returns:
World Hemp Festival 2020 (Harrisburg OR)
https://www.facebook.com/william.conde.10/posts/10218345481142042
Bringing the bible to Bolivia’s coca growers, one massacre at a time, according to the christofascist, newly self-elected dictator of Bolivia, Jeanine Áñez:
Few Democrats beyond a handful of progressive outliers like Bernie Sanders have had the basic human and democratic decency to denounce the vicious racist and neofascist coup that removed Bolivia’s democratically elected socialist and Indigenous president Evo Morales from power eleven days ago. Anyone with Internet access can see graphic footage of a massacre in which peaceful Indigenous protesters in Cochabamba were murdered by snipers in military helicopters defending a “transitional government” headed by an evangelical neofascist who has tweeted the following: “I dream of a Bolivia free of indigenous satanic rituals, the city is not for the Indians send them to the high plains or to the Chaco!”
True to his own racist, neofascistic, and oligarchic colors, Trump grotesquely hailed the gruesome Bolivian coup for bringing the world “one step closer to a completely free, prosperous, and democratic Western hemisphere.” […]
While the major television networks have kept millions of U.S. eyeballs glued to the House Democrats’ often compelling Biden-Burisma impeachment drama (“Insane in the Ukraine”), a U.S.- backed fascist coup regime in the Americas – in Bolivia – is massacring people in plain sight with bipartisan U.S. approval. What percentage of US-Americans know about this atrocity? (probably less than 0.3%). Like so many other hideous crimes at home and abroad, the neofascist coup and repression are not considered newsworthy on US television. The Indigenous Bolivians being shot through the skull by fascist forces in military helicopters are classic examples of what Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman called “officially unworthy victims” in U.S. mass media. They are insidiously invisible to all but a few U.S.-Americans. […]
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/11/22/washingtons-consensus-on-neofascist-coups-in-latin-america/
Regarding illegal drugs and Bolivia’s new sadomoralist leader (ibid Wiki):
Áñez has spoken out against the proliferation of drug trafficking in South America.
In 2017, her nephew was arrested in Brazil for smuggling 480 kilos of drugs. The security minister Carlos Romero criticized Áñez and said that her position in the senate was “rogue” because of the relationship; Áñez responded by saying that she is not responsible for her nephew’s actions, and criticized Romero because of his position in the government by saying that he is “responsible for the growth of drug trafficking”. It was later revealed that another Bolivian arrested with drugs at the same time was the nephew of another politician, this time belonging to the MAS ruling party. […]
Another major figure in the Bolivian coup is profiled by Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton:
Bolivian coup leader Luis Fernando Camacho is a far-right multi-millionaire who arose from fascist movements in the Santa Cruz region, where the US has encouraged separatism. He has courted support from Colombia, Brazil, and the Venezuelan opposition. […]
He is a powerful multi-millionaire named in the Panama Papers, and an ultra-conservative Christian fundamentalist groomed by a fascist paramilitary notorious for its racist violence, with a base in Bolivia’s wealthy separatist region of Santa Cruz. […]
Luis Fernando Camacho was groomed by the Unión Juvenil Cruceñista, or Santa Cruz Youth Union (UJC), a fascist paramilitary organization that has been linked to assassination plots against Morales. The group is notorious for assaulting leftists, Indigenous peasants, and journalists, all while espousing a deeply racist, homophobic ideology. […]
The UJC is the Bolivian equivalent of Spain’s Falange, India’s Hindu supremacist RSS, and Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov battalion. Its symbol is a green cross that bears strong similarities to logos of fascist movements across the West.
And its members are known to launch into Nazi-style sieg heil salutes. […]
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/11/11/bolivia-coup-fascist-foreign-support-fernando-camacho/
As I used to have to sing in Basic Training, “Heeere we go a-gain….same old shit again…
America’s Invisible Pot Addicts; More and more Americans are reporting near-constant cannabis use, as legalization forges ahead And take a guess who are touted as the ‘experts’.
December 5, 2019 at 1:34 am · Reply
I’m getting over my reticence to enjoy the schadenfreude I get from the inability of these cretins to see that they’re being ignored by the population. I know just how it feels from my 5 years with NORML. Well they had us on the ropes in the early 1990s but it turns out that George Bush the 41st made a fatal error in closing the Federal compassionate IND.
My very favorite quote from a “leading” prohibitionist:
In 1930 “Senator Morris Sheppard (D-TX), boasted proudly: “There’s as much chance of repealing the 18th Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail.”
The more things change the more they stay the same?
Elucidating the active δ-opioid receptor crystal structure:
27-NOV-2019 — Together with colleagues from Shanghai, Brussels, Canada and the USA, researchers from the University of Bonn have uncovered the binding mechanism of an important pain receptor. The results facilitate the development of new active substances. The opioids used today to treat severe pain can be addictive and sometimes have life-threatening side effects. The results are published in the renowned journal Science Advances. […]
Oxycodone binds to so-called opioid receptors in the body. There are three different types: MOP, DOP and KOP. The painkillers available to date mainly activate the MOP (also called μ-opioid receptor). However, stimulating MOP can not only be addictive, it can also have life-threatening side effects. The most serious is respiratory paralysis, which is why the most common cause of death after heroin use is respiratory arrest. […]
“Drugs that selectively bind to the DOP receptor probably do not have these dramatic side effects,” hopes Prof. Dr. Christa Müller from the Pharmaceutical Institute at the University of Bonn. The emphasis is on “selective”: The opioid receptors are so similar that many drugs activate all three forms. In order to find substances that only dock to the DOP receptor, it is therefore necessary to know exactly what happens during the binding process.
Spatial structure made visible down to the atomic level
The current study can now answer this question. “We have activated the DOP receptor with two different molecules, purified the complex and then elucidated its structure using X-rays,” […]
AAAS Public Release: Activation of opioid receptor uncovered: Study by the universities of Bonn and ShanghaiTech opens up perspectives for the development of painkillers
Original: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/11/eaax9115
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Progress possibly leading to new medical treatments for addiction:
5-DEC-2019 – In a new study published in Cell Reports, a team of scientists in Japan, led by Prof Kozo Kaibuchi and Dr Yasuhiro Funahashi from Nagoya University, has identified a novel protein function involved in the reward circuit of the brain. They based their study on the fact that dopamine, when released in the brain, activates several proteins in response, and these proteins then cause certain changes in brain activity, such as reward-related gene expression and changes in nerve transmission or plasticity. But, how these changes happen at the molecular level was not well understood. […]
In a first for the scientific community, the group showed that a protein kinase called MAPK adds a phosphate group to Npas4 (a well-known intracellular process called phosphorylation, which “activates” proteins to carry out their functions), thereby facilitating its interaction with CBP. The scientists even identified the exact sites where MAPK phosphorylates Npas4. Moreover, they found that dopamine activates Npas4 in striatal medium spiny neurons, and so promotes the expression of genes related to “neural plasticity” (changes in neural connections). Thus, the three dopamine-stimulated proteins CBP, MAPK, and Npas4 interact with each other, leading to profound neural changes–Dr Funahashi and Prof Kaibuchi had unraveled a major mechanism of how dopamine affects the brain.
To investigate the function of Npas4 in reward-related behavior, the scientists then “knocked out” or inactivated Npas4 in the reward circuit neurons of mice. These mice and normal mice learned to expect a cocaine reward in only one of two chambers, after which chamber preference was measured. Compared to normal mice, the Npas4-deficient mice showed a >50% reduction in drug-seeking behavior, indicating a significant reduction in reward memory. Importantly, the drug-seeking behavior was restored after exogenous administration of Npas4 but not by phospho-deficient mutants of Npas4. This was exciting, as it confirmed that Npas4 and its phosphorylation play an important role in reward-related behavior.
These unprecedented findings by Prof Kaibuchi and his team shed some light on the pathways involved in the reward circuit of the brain. Faulty functioning of the reward circuit is seen in various neuropsychological and cognitive disorders. By explaining in detail, the function and reward-associated mechanism of Npas4, these scientists have paved the way for new, effective therapies. Talking about the applications of the study, Prof Kaibuchi says, “Our study can help develop treatments for neuropsychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia. It can also be useful in tackling addiction to or dependence on cocaine and other stimulants.”
AAAS Public Release: New protein function could be key to treatment of drug addiction and behavioral disorders: Scientists reveal new findings about the neural circuit involved in the reward stimulus, which plays a major role in drug dependence and psychological disorders
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Fumé Blanc is at the heart and soul of our family winery. In 1972, David Stare was the first person to plant Sauvignon Blanc in the Dry Creek Valley appellation. After 46 years, we continue to produce classically styled versions of Sauvignon Blanc that respect the founding style, while also innovating for the future.
Fumé Blanc is at the heart and soul of our family winery. In 1972, David Stare was the first person to plant Sauvignon Blanc in the Dry Creek Valley appellation. For nearly 50 years, we continue to produce classically styled versions of Sauvignon Blanc that respect the founding style, while also innovating for the future.
Our inspiration for the winery’s flagship varietal can be directly attributed to the Loire Valley. Traveling through the vineyards of France, David Stare was beguiled by the classic wines of the region – refreshingly grassy and herbaceous Sancerre, subtle and evocative Pouilly Fumé, and the charming wines of Vouvray. He found a passion for Sauvignon Blanc, and his vague idea of starting a winery in California began to take shape. He vowed that his future winery’s white wines Sauvignon Blanc wines would be fashioned according to the traditional Loire Valley standard.
Fumé Blanc à la Sancerre
Dry Creek Vineyard remains synonymous with Fumé Blanc and the Sauvignon Blanc varietal. The debut of our bold and assertive Sancerre-style wine from the 1972 vintage instantly spotlighted Dry Creek Vineyard as one of California’s premier small wineries. Despite a strong track record of unerring success with Dry Chenin Blanc, Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Zinfandel, and Merlot, our flagship wine continues to be Fumé Blanc.
Dry Creek Vineyard has always celebrated the intrinsically refreshing character of the Sauvignon Blanc grape. Because our wines are modeled after the assertively herbaceous wines of Sancerre, Dry Creek Vineyard never subdues inherent varietal characteristics with extreme canopy manipulation or use of oak barrels. While other wineries produce Sauvignon Blanc in the Chardonnay model, Dry Creek Vineyard prefers to emphasize genuine varietal integrity by utilizing stainless steel tanks to preserve the natural freshness and clean acidity of the grape.
David Stare founded the Society of Blancs in 1989 to provide education and promotional support for his perennially favorite wine. Fumé Blanc offers an exceptional range of food compatibilities. Served chilled, it always satisfies, pairing well with oysters, seafood, goat cheese, smoked trout, vegetable paté, cold poached salmon with dill, or Tex-Mex grilled chicken.
Since 1972, we have produced Fumé Blanc – a Sauvignon Blanc wine at the heart and soul of our family winery. Modeled after the classic wines from the Loire Valley in France, our stainless steel fermented, no oak style Fumé Blanc is crisp, balanced and immediately drinkable. Winery founder David Stare was the first vintner to plant Sauvignon Blanc in the Dry Creek Valley, and we are proud to carry his legacy forward in producing this classic, dry, refreshing white wine.
Our Dry Creek Valley Sauvignon Blanc is yet another interpretation of this expressive variety. In crafting this wine, the second generation looked to several distinct vineyard sites in the Dry Creek Valley. The goal was to focus on the regional terroir and produce a wine that was not only true to the family’s Fumé roots but also a statement of quality and commitment going forward. Blending in small amounts of Sauvignon Gris and Sauvignon Musqué gives the wine added depth and richness. Full bodied and expressive, this delicious Sauvignon Blanc veers more toward the tropical fruit side of the flavor spectrum making it an excellent accompaniment to the racy and lean style of the Fumé Blanc.
DCV3 Sauvignon Blanc
The DCV3 vineyard was our original planting of Sauvignon Blanc and the first in Dry Creek Valley. Long a component in our Reserve program, DCV3 is also the foundation of our flagship Sonoma County bottling. The DCV3 vineyard captured our attention in 1998. We were inspired to bottle a vineyard-designated version of this wine that showcases Dry Creek Valley’s unique terroir. Harvested from our oldest estate Sauvignon Blanc vineyard, this wine is very limited in quantity. To ensure an absolute expression of varietal character, DCV3 Sauvignon Blanc is vinified without oak fermentation or aging.
Taylor’s Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc (Musqué Clone)
Taylor’s Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc (Musqué clone), named after Kim and Don Wallace’s daughter, Taylor, represents an exciting new addition to our Sauvignon Blanc program. As one of only a handful of wineries to produce a Sauvignon Musqué, we continue to set the standard for Sauvignon Blanc in California. Produced exclusively from our Taylor’s Vineyard estate in Dry Creek Valley, this single-vineyard wine is comprised of 100% Sauvignon Blanc (Musqué). This wine is also vinified without oak to preserve the unique nuances of the Musqué clone.
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Soleil is our proprietary dessert wine. Crafted in a traditional Sauternes style, it is a blend of Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon. We chose “Soleil”, French for “sun”, as a nod to the inspiration for this wine. Soleil is produced only when mother nature gives us the perfect weather conditions. Botrytis Cinerea, known as “noble rot”, is an essential part of this late harvest wine. The mold concentrates the sugar and acid in the grapes, giving us very sweet fruit. Harvesting the grapes is painstaking, and as a result, the wine is made in very limited quantities. Soleil is often referred to by its fans as “liquid honey” for its rich flavors and lingering finish. Soleil is perfect as an aperitif or with dessert.
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Prior to joining Duff & Phelps, Ekaterina served as a project manager and senior auditor at Rockwell Automation in Milwaukee. At Rockwell, Ekaterina was involved in various finance projects involving all business units, including international divisions (Europe, Latin America and Asia). Before that, she worked in Arthur Andersen’s audit practice in both Chicago and Moscow. Her audit clients included public and private companies in the telecommunications, manufacturing, consumer products and hospitality industries. She was also heavily involved in special projects, including due diligence and conversion of financial statements from/to various standards, including Russian Accounting Standards, US GAAP, IFRS and German GAAP.
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The global public cloud services market is forecast to grow a total value of $186.4 billion in 2018, according to Gartner.
This would be an increase of more than 21 per cent since 2017, when it was $153.5 billion.
Gartner’s research found that the fastest-growing segment of the market is cloud system infrastructure services, or infrastructure as a service, usually shortened to IaaS. The IaaS market is forecast to grow 35.9 percent in 2018 to reach $40.8 billion.
Gartner expects the top 10 providers – which includes Amazon, the leader, Google, Microsoft and Oracle – to account for nearly 70 per cent of the IaaS market by 2021, up from 50 per cent in 2016.
Sid Nag, research director at Gartner, says: “The increasing dominance of the hyperscale IaaS providers creates both enormous opportunities and challenges for end users and other market participants.
“While it enables efficiencies and cost benefits, organizations need to be cautious about IaaS providers potentially gaining unchecked influence over customers and the market.
“In response to multi-cloud adoption trends, organizations will increasingly demand a simpler way to move workloads, applications and data across cloud providers’ IaaS offerings without penalties.”
While IaaS has grown quickly, software as a service – or SaaS – remains the largest segment of the cloud market, says Gartner. The research company expects revenue for SaaS to grow by 22.2 per cent to reach $73.6 billion in 2018.
Furthermore, Gartner forecasts SaaS to reach 45 per cent of total application software spending by 2021.
Nag says: “In many areas, SaaS has become the preferred delivery model. Now SaaS users are increasingly demanding more purpose-built offerings engineered to deliver specific business outcomes.”
Within the platform as a service (PaaS) category, Gartner says the fastest-growing segment is database platform as a service (dbPaaS).
Gartner expects dbPaaS to reach almost $10 billion by 2021. The researcher adds that hyperscale cloud providers are increasing the range of services they offer to include dbPaaS.
Nag says: “Although these large vendors have different strengths, and customers generally feel comfortable that they will be able to meet their current and future needs, other dbPaaS offerings may be good choices for organizations looking to avoid lock-in.”
Public cloud revenue is growing more strongly than initially forecast, but Gartner says it expects growth rates to stabilise from 2018 onward.
This would reflect the “increasingly mainstream status and maturity that public cloud services will gain within a wider IT spending mix”, says the company.
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Tracy Hall Science Center at WSU's Ogden campus brings the science departments together and puts them on display
Heart of Campus Tracy Hall Science Center was divided into a series of smaller volumes to fit better within the context of the main WSU campus. Rendering courtesy of VCBO Architecture
Daylighting The science building features an extensive glass facade to provide offices and classrooms with ample natural light. Photos courtesy of VCBO Architecture
Art & Science Crews work on the three-story atrium, which will display a large sculpture by artist Michael Singer. Photos courtesy of VCBO Architecture
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Weber State University graduate Tracy Hall learned to make synthetic diamonds and built his fortune by compacting carbon under intense, prolonged pressure. But creating the next generation of scientists requires open space for the free flow of ideas across disciplines, according to designers of the new science building that will bear Hall’s name on the WSU campus in Ogden, Utah.
The 185,000-sq-ft, nearly $64-million Tracy Hall Science Center soon will be the largest building on campus and brings together all of the science disciplines taught at WSU into one location.
“The goal was to get everyone under one roof, to build a community of science and foster interdisciplinary interaction,” says Celestia Carson, an associate principal and project manager for Salt Lake-based VCBO Architecture, the project architect. “We wanted a safe building and one that would function to promote learning.”
In 2012, the Utah Legislature allocated the initial $57.4 million for the project, with the balance raised from private donors. Carson says VCBO performed the initial programing for the new building and was later awarded the design contract. Okland Construction secured the CM-GC contract and began demolition of two buildings on the site in May 2014.
One Building, Many Uses
Weber State University enrolls nearly 25,000 students each year and the college is growing. The Ogden campus lies along a sloping bench of the northern Wasatch mountains with views of downtown Ogden to the west.
The Tracy Hall Science Center at the heart of the campus is composed of two offset, masonry-clad concrete towers that anchor the building on the west side. An arching three-story, glass-and-steel section is attached to the towers on the east, or uphill, side.
According to Carson, the building was divided into a series of smaller volumes to better align within the character of the campus. “The university wanted this to be a new anchor for this active part of campus,” she says. “They wanted a flagship building that would set the standard for future buildings on campus.”
The building was also broken into sections because of its different uses. Laboratory space containing sensitive equipment and classrooms and offices required the use of concrete and steel for structural support and to reduce vibrations in the labs, says structural engineer Jeremy Achter at Ogden-based ARW Engineers.
“We had stringent vibration criteria within the lab building,” Achter says. “We went with the concrete waffle slab for the floors in the labs because it is stiffer and will reduce vibrations. There was a challenge in connecting the structures. There are no expansion joints. The concrete building has the lateral system and the steel ties into it for lateral support. We used concrete shear walls throughout the building so there are no brace frames.”
Chad Ovard, a superintendent for Okland Construction, Salt Lake City, says that early consultations with the design team led to the use of the waffle slab to reduce costs but also provide the rigid floor required for lab spaces. Ovard said the team started the project by placing concrete for the towers and floors first and tied in the steel section during a subsequent phase.
The many angles and different materials made applying the building’s air barrier a challenge, Ovard says. “The barrier lets the building breathe but not take in moisture. We used a spray on the material and it has to be a certain thickness,” he says. “It can be difficult and it took a lot of testing to make sure we had it right, but we passed all the tests.”
Ovard also notes that the mechanical systems of the building are differentiated among the labs and the office and classroom areas. “The lab space is all typical forced air, and we have mechanical penthouses on the roof, but the other areas use VRF (variable refrigerant flow) that is fed from a system below grade,” he says.
Carson says one reason for the differing systems was to meet WSU’s goals of carbon neutrality by the year 2050. “This building will be the largest energy user on campus. It not only has to be very energy efficient but also operated without the use of fossil fuels in the future,” she says.
A large heat pump and chiller for the VRF system was placed below grade and will eventually be supplied by a series of thermal reservoirs. Concurrent with the construction of the building, crews have been drilling a series of 200 thermal reservoirs, 275 ft deep, on the northeast corner of campus.
Ovard says the Tracy Hall building has been constructed to meet LEED Silver standards.
Science on Display
The building features plenty of glass to provide offices and classrooms with ample natural light. Even the labs feature glass windows opening into the hallways to allow anyone passing by to observe the experiments and classes taking place inside.
It is all part of the university’s goal of “putting science on display” and generating more interest in it, Carson says. VCBO teamed with San Diego-based Research Facilities Design (RFD) to tailor lab spaces to meet the needs of each department.
In a sense, even faculty meetings will be on display. Three conference rooms and the faculty break room feature floor-to-ceiling glass walls unobstructed by framing. One conference area at the southwest end of the building cantilevers over the plaza, providing sweeping views of the lower campus and the valley.
“That cantilevered section was one of the more challenging parts of the structural design,” says Achter.
Also on display in a lobby on the south end of the building is an 8-ton stainless-steel cube with rounded edges and threaded openings to accommodate massive bolt-like attachments. While it could easily be seen as a sculpture, it’s actually a press base formerly used to create artificial diamonds, developed by the building’s namesake. The cube was donated by Novatek, the company that Tracy Hall founded.
Joining the two towers is a three-story atrium with a full-height glass wall on the west side and balconies flanked by open study spaces and hallway entrances opposite the wall.
Carson says the atrium was not part of the original plan. But the design team wanted to create a space that could be shared and serve as the “heart” of the building. The university found room in the project budget to create the atrium space.
“That was perhaps one of the most impactful decisions we made during the design,” says Carson.
Scaling up the side of one three-story wall in the atrium is a sculpture by artist Michael Singer, who also designed an atrium garden at Denver International Airport. The vertical, trench-like sculpture in the WSU building was inspired by a geological feature known as Devil’s Slide, located in Weber Canyon, east of the university.
Ovard says that during rainstorms a system of roof drains will direct water down the feature, creating a waterfall. The block pieces forming the channel feature of the sculpture are imprinted with patterns replicated on similar blocks at the entrances to various college departments on other floors of the building.
Carson says each college and each floor feature a “relic wall” that includes material native to the area. One relic wall features copper from the Bingham Canyon mine to the southwest. Another wall has stone quarried from a nearby canyon and a third includes timber salvaged from a railroad trestle that once crossed the Great Salt Lake.
The features are all part of the larger design goals, Carson says.
“Coming out of programing, we had this idea of place and using the building itself as a learning tool,” she says. “We have the relic walls of local materials inside, and on the exterior, we’ve tried to demonstrate scientific concepts or principles.”
Carson says the brick on one of the towers replicates a DNA pattern that spells out a message when translated. Elsewhere, stripes in the brick pattern are placed according to the Fibonacci series of numbers. On the north side of the building, a diagonal slash in the brick replicates a geologic fault line.
The Tracy Hall Science center is scheduled to open in late summer in time for the 2016-2017 school year.
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There was a day in our not too distant past when we could count on elected Republicans to act in the best interest of these United States. Even when Republicans and Democrats disagreed, there was, in most cases, deference to precedent, protocol, and, above all else, the Constitution.
Somewhere along the way, We, the people, got spoiled. We took for granted that debates on the House and Senate floors were substantive and important. We took for granted, too, that we didn't necessarily have to watch each debate or even hear about every word on the nightly news. We guiltily assumed that even when there was no middle ground to be found, even when an ideological impasse was too great to overcome, both sides had a long-term goal of preserving the nation and its institutions — from the Supreme Court to the daily news.
For nearly 100 years, Democrats and Republicans have taken divergent paths toward unifying their base when there was no bipartisan consensus. Democrats tended to turn their rhetoric toward protecting the vulnerable and supporting the social programs that emerged from the Great Depression to assure Americans that such circumstances would never befall us again. Republicans reassured their audience that the nation would be free from fear of a common enemy, be they international socialists in the 1920s, fascists in the 1930s and 1940s, or Soviet brand communists in almost every decade after.
Even as recently as 2015, before launching a self-exploratory campaign to examine his own race amidst racially charged times in our country, Erie's representative in Congress, "White" Mike Kelly, stood on the floor of the U.S. House decrying France's sale of amphibious warships to Russia. "Zoos often have signs that say 'don't feed the bears,'" he said, "because it's just common sense … especially now, I'd like to say 'don't feed the Russian bear.'"
Ironically, Kelly was afraid that the sale of military arms in 2015 would allow Russia to further intimidate and encroach upon a former Soviet satellite — wait for it — Ukraine.
Since 2015, Russians have made themselves an ever-present factor in American elections. An American president got caught trying to bully the president of Ukraine into investigating his enemies in exchange for an arms deal, and the Republican Party has abandoned any attempt to defend the Constitution and preserve the future of democratic institutions in exchange for a short-term power grab by septuagenarian elitists who won't live long enough to suffer the consequences of their actions.
Now, an impeachment inquiry is underway, the president's communication with the press amounts to little more than "come at me, bro" non-sequiturs, and "White" Mike is at it again. Kelly will have to reconcile his Cold Warrior dreams of the not so distant past with his sycophantic support of the newest Russian pawn. To do that, he's brought friends.
In defense of the president's treasonous behavior, Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham have most Senate Republicans on lockdown. The actions of the president have grown indefensible, even for them. So instead, they deride the process as socialistic and un-American.
House Republicans received their marching orders as well. With a lack of power and little ground on which to stand, they cry socialism from the rooftops. Instead of evaluating the most relevant threats to the nation, they've closed ranks and point the finger only at political opposition. Mike Kelly decries the socialist Democrats. Glenn Thompson calls impeachment a socialist tactic. And all of these Cold Warriors cast their stones defending a man who crawled into bed to play water sports with Russia.
Oh, what times we live in.
If Warren Zevon was still alive there'd be a song about this. I think it would be titled, "Kremlin Kelly," and it would go something like this: "Mitch, and Linds, and Kremlin Kelly drinking Mai Tais in the sand. The deed was done, the war was over, until the Russian bear bit their hands."
Jim Wertz is a contributing editor and Chairman of the Erie County Democratic Party. He apologizes to the late Warren Zevon. He can be reached at jWertz@ErieReader.com and you can follow him on Twitter @jim_wertz.
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562.57 KB 2013 Regulatory Work Programme The 2013 Regulatory Work Programme (RWP) is based on ESMA’s 2013 Work Programme, published in October 2012, and provides a detailed breakdown of the of the individual workstreams as outlined in the 2013 Work Programme. The RWP is based on the draft proposals of the European Commission for a number of upcoming legislative texts including MiFIR, MAR etc, and the timelines and details for various work streams are subject to further revision once the European Union institutions have finalised the relevant legislation.The RWP should normally be published in conjunction with the annual Work Programme on which it is based. However, the 2013 RWP was delayed due to uncertainty over several components of the EU’s legislative programme. As this uncertainty has been prevalent over the last two years, ESMA will amend its procedures to allow it to publish the RWP in Q1 of the relevant year, rather than with its Work Programme the preceding autumn.The RWP was approved on 29 January 2013 by ESMA’s Board of Supervisors.
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Reflections on Excellence - December 2016
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an art, but a habit.” - Aristotle
At the close of a calendar year, it is customary to reflect on our successes and challenges. Reflection is a crucial habit to ensure continuous improvement. A commitment to excellence requires us to never settle for low quality, mediocrity or poor performance.
On our journey toward excellence and greatness, we should celebrate our successes; however, we must not be content until we reach our destination.
Here are a few highlights from 2016:
Seniors earned $5.8 million in scholarships in 2016 as compared to $389,000 in 2014.
The four-year graduation rate increased by 10.2% (62.8% to 73% from 2012 to 2016).
Graduated 308 out of 311 seniors in May 2016.
98% of Class of 2016 were accepted to a four or two-year college, military or trade school.
Increased Advanced Placement (AP) enrollment from 30 to 300 students from 2012 to 2016.
PARCC scores increased by 2.5%.
Lincoln Middle School went from 2.6% to 13.1% meeting targets in ELA on PARCC, as well as moving up 68 slots in the Schooldigger.com Illinois school rankings. This was the highest growth ranking of any middle school in the state.
The District has moved +19 in the rankings in comparison to all Illinois schools according to Schooldigger.com
The dropout rate has decreased from 8% in SY2014 to 5% in SY2016.
Flyers Football team won the Illinois Class 7A Football Championship title and were undefeated in the season.
Flyers Boys Track and Field team won the Illinois 3A State Championship title.
Flyers Boys Track and Field team broke three records:
4 x 200 at Kansas Relays
4 x 200 at Collinsville Invitational
4 x 400 at Holt Invitational
Flyers Girls Track and Field team medaled in three events at state track meet:
2nd place: shot put
2nd place: 4 x 400 relay
5th place: discus throw
Record set by staff for contributions to the United Way Campaign totaled $20,069.
The aforementioned accomplishments were not quick wins. They were not successes earned by pulling a single all-nighter. These were earned through deliberate, consistent, focused efforts with targeted goals for measurable outcomes.
I encourage you to take time and reflect on your accomplishments and challenges from 2016. What were your successes? Where did you excel? Celebrate these. What lessons learned from these achievements can you adapt to another area requiring more attention? Each of us has room for growth - individually, with our team, our department, and school. It is imperative to reflect on these areas. Take stock of the full landscape, both successes and areas for improvement. Following these self-reflections, take aim and set your new targets. Develop goals that include short-term and long-term progress. Visualize and track improvements. Don’t make excuses or blame others. Remember, excuses do not change existing conditions. Avoid the snare of procrastination. Start where you are, use what you have and do what you can. With the right attitude, concentration and effort, your hopes and desires can become realities. Be relentless. Persevere until success happens!
The habit of self-reflection and goal-setting should be a continuous part of your life. Our academic calendar naturally provides an opportunity, before the start of the school year and at the start of the new calendar year, to take stock and establish new targets. However, this cycle of reflection and goal-setting should not be reduced to biannual activities only. I encourage you to make this process part of a more frequent activity and habit on your path toward excellence.
In School District 189, we use the following continuous improvement process to analyze, assess and evaluate. This process can be applied for both personal and professional use.
Process for Continuous Improvement
As we embark on the new year, I encourage you individually and as a team to engage in honest reflection. Analyze your recent activities and the current realities, then aim for new targets of greatness. Consider how your attitude, opinions and expectations may also impact progress. For example, people can label others in a certain way that limits our perceptions of their abilities. We may think of a co-worker as “not being a team player” or a class of students as being “not motivated to learn” or “unable to learn”. We must be careful with such negative thoughts. Thoughts such as these limit our expectations for excellence and the opportunity for growth in others. As professionals within the education field, it is our responsibility to always support individual growth and development.
“Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thank you for an outstanding fall semester. Without your dedication, we would not be where we are. During the holiday break, I hope you will be able to rest, rejuvenate, reflect, reset and reboot. May you return with a recharged commitment to excellence in 2017. In District 189, we believe in excellence, expect excellence, know that excellence is the standard, not the goal, and that excellence and greatness are our destiny.
I encourage you to watch this video on achieving goals in life to further inspire you: Click Here.
Arthur R. Culver
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