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FILE – In this June 8, 2017 file photo, Steve Martin, left, and Martin Short appear at the 45th AFI Life Achievement Award Tribute to Diane Keaton in Los Angeles. Longtime friends Steve Martin and Martin Short are hitting the road again in 2019 with a new show called “Now You See Them, Soon You Won’t.” (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File) AddThis Sharing ButtonsShare to TwitterTwitterShare to FacebookFacebookShare to RedditRedditShare to 電子郵件Email LOS ANGELES — Steve Martin and Martin Short are back on the road again for their new tour “Now You See Them, Soon You Won’t .”The two comedy legends spoke to The Associated Press recently about the tour, which kicks off its 2019 leg on Jan. 12 in Atlanta, their friendship and when they knew that roasting each other was OK.Remarks have been edited for clarity and brevity.AP: Is “Now You See Them, Soon You Won’t” mostly new material?Martin: A lot of it is. It’s very hard for us to judge what is new because a lot of it is new but it’s in the same framework. What we tried to do is salvage or keep what we suspected the audience wanted to see again, but we try to replace lines and do it a little different. But if somebody saw the show, they’d say ‘that’s mostly a new show!’AP: What is your process for determining what to cut and add?Martin: It’s really tri…well, I should let Marty talk.Short: Go ahead, Steve, I’m just doing something else.Martin: OK. It’s trial and error. We work with writers, we work on our own and we put things in, we take things out, and every night after the show we walk off stage and we go, ‘What should we do, how should we fix that, should we move that line up to the front?’AP: Do you allow for spontaneous moments?Short: You absolutely allow. What a set show gives you is the confidence to go out because you know you’re prepared, and you have lots of great material, but then you go out there and you’re so loose that other things happen and sometimes they’re the most delightful.Martin: You are fantastic. I’m going to let you speak all the time now because you just nailed that beautifully.Short: I did. And remember that the difference between my voice and yours is that with one voice you have this kind of groan.AP: I do always worry that somehow the voices will blend when you go to transcribe.Short: They won’t. One won’t even come out.Martin: Well, let’s put it this way, you’ll be able to tell which mine is because I speak grammatically.Short: But, for some odd reason, you’ll find yourself dozing off for no reason and you’ll realize the connection.AP: Do you use one another as a test audience?Martin: Well, I think each other is our first test audience. And then I tend to just try out material on my wife and on my dog and on the band. And finally on the audience, who, of course, has the ultimate say. When I first started out people would say, ‘You have a great sense of humour.’ And I would say, really, the audience has the great sense of humour.AP: When did you figure it was OK to roast each other like this?Martin: Day one.Short: It’s very natural for people in comedy to do it. I think it’s very natural for friends, close friends to do it. And we probably started doing it playing scrabble in the trailer while making ‘Three Amigos.’Martin: The first day we met, Marty zinged me. He came to my house to pick up the script to ‘Three Amigos’ and he saw all of the paintings and he said, ‘How did you get this rich? I’ve seen the work.’Short: And I was looking for the script for ‘Three Amigos’ and Steve handed it to me and said, ‘Can you give this to Martin Short, please?’AP: You said the previous tour was not a nostalgia tour. Is that still true and why was that important to specify?Short: Well, because it wasn’t a nostalgia tour. A nostalgia tour would be if I came out as Ed Grimley and we did the ‘Wheel of Fortune’ sketch and hope that that would get some nostalgia applause. If a singer comes out and sings all old hits, then that is a nostalgia tour and there’s nothing wrong with that and that’s great and that’s what I’d rather see.Martin: I think a nostalgia tour implies that you’ll come out and say, ‘You know, ladies and gentlemen, when I first started, I did a little movie called “The Jerk.’” And then you stand there and wait for applause.Short: And I’d love that show.AP: Will there still be singing and banjo playing in this go-around?Martin: Absolutely. We describe the show as a lot of comedy and a little bit of music.AP: It is incredible that singing and the banjo are ‘side talents’ for you two.Martin: You know, Marty would never do this, but he could make a serious album and I would listen to it all the time. I find his voice so beautiful. Pitch perfect. Beautiful tone. He sings ‘Send in the Clowns’ in the show and it’s just gorgeous.Short: Well, thank you. And I of course have all Steve’s albums and I one day plan to listen to them.AP: Was there a moment when you realized this was more than a showbiz friendship?Martin: Yeah, I would say very early on. We persevered. When you finish doing a movie, mostly everyone drifts away from each other. We just went and had dinners and saw each other.Short: I think you make that choice. You have to be conscientious and say, you know what? I don’t want to lose that person.Martin: We also ended up vacationing together with our families. Two weeks on an island, you’ll know if you like that person or not, you know? I’m talking about our wives.AP: Is there anything else you want people to know about the show?Martin: Our goal, and sometimes we achieve it, I think, maybe I’m a little arrogant, but we want it to be one of the best shows the audience ever saw. We want to give the audience their money’s worth and really make them laugh and make them really have a good time and leave that theatre feeling better than they did when they came in.Short: Totally agree. And you don’t always achieve it, but it’s awfully fun to have a goal.Martin: How could I possibly achieve it with you next to me?___Follow AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr on Twitter: www.twitter.com/ldbahrLindsey Bahr, The Associated Press by Lindsey Bahr, The Associated Press Posted Nov 20, 2018 9:58 am PDT Q&A: Steve Martin, Martin Short on friendship and a new tour
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Used Cars Are About To Get Much Cheaper – Business Insider
Posted: Monday, April 28, 2014
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Want a nice used car? You might want to wait a little longer.
According to statistics from used-car auction giant Manheim, about 1.7 million vehicles came to the end of their leases and entered the used-car market last year.
That’s a low number, and short supplies have kept used-car prices high. But that number has already started rising — and that means used-car prices could be coming down soon.
How new-car leasing affects used-car prices
Why do leases matter to the used-car market? If you go shopping for a typical “nice” used car — one that’s two or three years old, and has maybe 30,000 miles on it — odds are that you’ll be looking at a lot of cars that just came off-lease.
About a quarter of new vehicles were leased last year. Most of those will hit the used-car market when their leases are up, making their way through an auction network, like Manheim, to dealers around the country.
But back in 2010 and 2011, fewer new cars were sold at all, because many consumers were still recovering from the recession. And a smaller percentage of the cars that were sold were leased, because lenders were still being stingy in the wake of the banking crisis. Leases made up just 19% of retail new-vehicle sales in 2010, and 20% in 2011.
These are the cars that have been coming on to the market during the last year or so. It’s why supplies have been tight, and used-car prices have been high.
But as the economy improved, more new cars were sold. New-vehicle sales in the U.S. were up 13% in 2012 and up another 7.6% last year. That means more used cars are coming. Manheim expects 2.1 million off-lease cars to hit the market this year, and says that could rise to 3 million or more by 2016.
This is good news for used-car shoppers — but it’s not so good for the automakers.
Why automakers are worried about the surge of used cars
Strong used-car prices have probably helped new-car sales during the last couple of years. After all, if a used model costs almost as much as a new one, you might as well buy the new one, right?
They’ve also helped in a less obvious way, by making leases on new cars cheaper. Lease prices are set using “residual values,” which is an estimate of what the new car will be worth at the end of its lease. If used-car prices are strong, residual values will tend to be high — and automakers can offer lower lease payments.
That’s a big deal, especially in market segments where leasing is very popular, like luxury sedans. General Motors has made a big effort to improve its residual values to help make its lease offers more competitive in part, by limiting discounts on its new cars. That will also benefit the owners of those cars, of course.
Improving quality also helps. Ford’s residual values have risen as its models have improved, something that will benefit GM as it follows the same path.
But residual values will take a hit as more used cars flood the market — and new-car sales could be hurt, as well, as low-mileage used cars start to look like greater bargains.
How automakers and consumers can benefit
Of course, the automakers are already thinking about ways to turn this trend to their advantage — or at least to limit the disadvantage.
One way: certified used cars. Expect to see automakers find ways for their dealers to buy up more of the best used cars, so that they can be offered as “certified” with an extended warranty.
That will help cushion the blow for the automakers (dealers pay automakers to participate in the certification programs), while helping to keep used-car prices somewhat strong. And these certification programs can give buyers who are nervous about used-car shopping some piece of mind.
But there will still be plenty of bargains out there — for those who are willing to be patient for a little while longer.
This post originally appeared at The Motley Fool. Copyright 2014. Follow The Motley Fool on Twitter.
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2013 Nike Hoop Summit World Select Team: Practices Three and Four
2013 Nike Hoop Summit World Select Team Practices 3 & 4
With two more practices in the books, we check in once again on the World Select Team at the Nike Hoop Summit in Portland Oregon.
2013 Nike Hoop Summit Coverage
-World Select Team Coaches Interview
-World Select Team Early Storylines
-World Select Team Measurements
-World Select Team Roster Preview Podcast
-World Select Team Roster Preview
2013 Nike Hoop Summit World Select Team Practice Recap
Practicing in front of a growing number of NBA decision-makers on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, the World Select Team seemed to settle into a groove over its middle two sessions in Portland.
Head Coach Roy Rana and Assistant Coach Marin Sedlacek have kept the format of their practices fairly consistent, getting their players acclimated with what they want to see from them on both ends of the floor in the game on Sunday, letting them get plenty of shots up to find a rhythm, and ending every session with extensive competitive action, much to the delight of the legion of NBA scouts in attendance.
Playing four 10 minute quarters on Tuesday night in addition to getting up and down for much of the second hour of practice on Wednesday, the quality of play was once again very high relative to previous years. This was especially clear for stretches of today's action when the chemistry and ball movement of the competitive action was astounding for a group that has only been playing together for a few days.
The catalyst for much of that ball movement was German point guard Dennis Schroeder, who took over stretches of the action on Wednesday with his ability to get into the lane and make the right play. Possessing terrific speed and quickness, Schroeder did an excellent job turning the corner on the pick and roll and exploiting mismatches. Consistently able to freeze his defender with a hesitation move before exploding past him to the rim, Schroeder has been a handful for the other guards in attendance. The constant threat of his dribble drive put considerable pressure on the defense, especially in pick and roll settings, and he capitalized in a variety of ways, be it with a scoop or floater when he was given space in the lane, finding a cutter with a drop pass or creating an easy look for one of his big men with a lob when the defense tried to string him out.
Playing pesky, full-court defense, knocking down a number of jump shots, and looking great in the open floor as well, Schroeder is leaving a lasting impression with his play here in Portland. With Marcus Smart returning to school and a notable void after the top tier of point guard prospects in the 2013 draft at the moment, Schroeder could look to fill that gap with a strong performance in the actual game on Saturday. It will be worth watching a potential matchup with Andrew Harrison, who should present a unique challenge for Schroeder with his size.
Karl Towns has also made a very strong first impression on NBA scouts here. Standing nearly 7 feet tall with a 7-3 wingspan, Towns has excellent size for a prospect who stated in an interview with us that he sees himself as a player versatile enough to play some 3, 4, or 5. He is not a freak athlete, but has a very promising frame and good mobility for a player his size. What sets him apart from the average high school junior is his high skill level and feel for the game to go along with his physical tools. Capable of shooting the ball from the perimeter, making plays with his size in the lane, and recently working to develop a back to the basket game, Towns has quickly developed deft touch on his hook shot. An excellent student with a 4.3 grade point average, Towns is a young, charismatic talent worth watching closely in the coming years.
Editor's Addition, 2015:
A then-17 year old Karl Towns talks to us about his goals for the Hoop Summit, what it's like playing in front of a horde of NBA scouts, the type of player he was at that point ("a 3/4/5"), his international background, and more.
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Livio Jean-Charles has also made a consistent impact in competitive action. A 6'9 tweener small forward/power forward, Jean-Charles doesn't have a polished perimeter skill set, but his athleticism and hustle allows him to make plays in transition and on the offensive glass. He made a couple of very impressive passes today, hit a few midrange shots, and was the target of a number of lobs. He also played solid defense, using his 7'2 wingspan and athleticism to keep his man out of the lane and protect the rim in help defense. Currently a starter for ASVEL in France, he appears to have plenty of role-player potential, even if he remains a bit limited as a shooter and ball-handler. Adding range to his jumper will be key for him as he continues his transition to playing out on the perimeter full time.
Andrew Wiggins had a few highlight plays, but appears to be somewhat fatigued, something he admitted was an issue (more off the court than on it) after traveling extensively the past few weeks between the McDonald's All-American game and the Jordan Brand Classic. It hasn't had a major impact on his play, but it is clear that the travel of All-Star season has him a bit gassed, while the weight of his upcoming decision regarding where to attend school next season surely can't be helping matters much. Nevertheless, Wiggins' talent really shined through in the competitive three on three session in particular, where his athleticism was a major factor with the added spacing he enjoyed. He was able to create his own shot at will with a strong series of jukes and hesitation moves, knock down jumpers with his feet set or off the dribble, and finish plays above the rim with terrific creativity.
Joel Embiid tweaked his back and does not appear be 100%. He flashes potential as a shot blocker and even made a few jump shots. A legit 7-footer with a 7-5 wingspan, he'll be a player to keep an eye on next year given Kansas's reputation for developing big men.
With two more practices on the schedule, it will be interesting to see if this group can maintain the momentum they gained today all the way through game day.
Dennis Schroeder PG
Marcus Smart PG
Andrew Harrison PG
Karl Towns PF/C
Livio Jean-Charles SF/PF
Andrew Wiggins SF
Joel Embiid C
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Month / December 2013
December 17, 2013 February 8, 2014 by bernadette
NCA GLBTQ Communication Studies Division CFP
GLBTQ Communication Studies, NCA
General Call for GLBTQ Communication Studies Division
The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Communication Studies Division invites submissions for NCA’s 100th Annual Convention. The theme for the convention is “the Presence of our Past(s)” which we can be read as a call to be reflexive about the past, present, and future of the GLBTQ Studies Division and its role within the National Communication Association. Although many of our submissions are centered in the communicative practices and/or representations of sexual and gender minorities, we are particularly interested in papers, performances, sessions, and panels that take an intersectional approach to GLBTQ studies, including those addressing the experiences of queer people of color, queerness and disability studies, and transgender identities.
As part of the 100th anniversary we are also interested in panels that take stock of our history and scholarship that has advanced the discipline. Some question or themes these panels might explore are: What role have people of color and qpoc scholarship played in the GLBTQ Communication Studies Division? What scholarship produced by members of our Division greatly advanced academic research and conversations? How has scholarship produced by and about queer, bisexual, transgender, and lesbian women helped to transform the face of the GLBTQ Communication Studies Division? Submissions that take stock of our history or scholarship may take the form of panels dedicated to specific research articles or issues. Additionally, the division welcomes all methodological and theoretical perspectives as well as papers, performances, and panels conversant across the other units of our organization. Please note: Applicants can submit one and only one paper or performance in which they are the primary author of the work.
The deadline for submissions is March 26th 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time at the NCA Submission Central Website.
Competitive Submissions Guidelines
Individual paper submissions should:
include a title and a description of no more than 300 words;
identify all authors(s);
list three keywords;
upload a copy of the paper, not to exceed 30 pages (12 point font), including notes, references, figures, and/or tables;
not identify the author(s) anywhere in the description or the uploaded essay (student papers should be designated as “student authored” in the electronic submission process); and,
indicate whether or not the author(s) would be willing to present in the Scholar to Scholar (S2S) sessions by checking the appropriate agreement box.
Paper session proposals should:
provide a title for the session;
craft a session description for the convention program (less than 75 words);
enter a session chair (required) and respondent (optional);
include the title, description (less than 500 words), and author(s) for each paper presentation;
list three keywords; and,
provide a rationale for the session (less than 1000 words).
Panel discussion proposals or performance centered panels should:
provide a title for the panel discussion;
enter a list of discussants and a session chair (required); and,
provide a rationale for the panel or performance, including each discussant’s qualifications to address the proposed topics (less than 1000 words).
Performance session proposals should:
include the title, description (less than 500 words), and performer(s) for each performance; and,
ALL AV (audio/visual) requests must be made at the time of submission.
All submitters are encouraged to review the Professional Standards for Convention Participants prior to submission. Helpful resources, including live and recorded step-by-step instructions on how to submit, are available in the Convention Library
Each submission should be made to one unit only.
If you have any questions about the submission process, please contact the unit planner, Bernadette Marie Calafell at bcalafel@du.edu.
New Publications and Upcoming Presentations
Calafell, Bernadette Marie. “A Love Affair That Began in Stauffer Hall.” Text and Performance Quarterly 33 (2013): 431-433.
Calafell, Bernadette Marie. “Performance: Keeping Rhetoric Honest.” Text and Performance Quarterly 34 (2014): 115-117.
New reviews of my edited book:
Mercado Thornton, Rebecca. “Latina/o Discourse in Vernacular Spaces: Somos de Una Voz?” Quarterly Journal of Speech 99 (2013): 514-518.
Cisneros, J. David. “Latina/o Discourse in Vernacular Spaces: Somos de Una Voz?” Latino Studies 11 (2013): 615-617.
Upcoming Presentations:
Colloquium Speaker, “Challenges for Faculty of Color in the Academy.” Department of Communication and Journalism, University of New Mexico, January 2014.
Panelist, “Transferring Intersectional and Performative Responses to Mediated Representations of Sexuality: The cases of Cyrus, Tubman, and Chapman.” Intercultural Communication Interest Group, Western States Communication Association, Anaheim, CA, February 2014.
Presenter, “Did it Happen Because of Your Race or Sex?: University Sexual Harassment Policies and the Move Against Intersectionality.” Organization for Research on Women and Communication, Western States Communication Association, Anaheim, CA, February 2014. Top Paper Panel
Respondent, “Moral Spect-actorship: Problematizing Performance After the Shooting of Trayvon Martin and the Trial of George Zimmerman.” Performance Studies Interest Group, Western States Communication Association, Anaheim, CA 2014.
Chair, “Transferring Cultural Anxieties: Representations of Monstrous Others in Popular Culture.” Media Studies Interest Group, Western States Communication Association, Anaheim, CA, 2014.
Co-Presenter, “Performances of Grotesque and Abject Whiteness in The Comedy. ” With Thomas K. Nakayama, Rheoric Society of America, San Antonio, TX, May 2014.
Presenter, “Queering Consent.” Rhetoric Society of America, San Antonio, TX, May 2014.
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Measure would ban food trucks in most of city's 11th District
A ham and Swiss panini from the Simmer Truck shown shown during Food Truck last May along W. Cherry St. near Schlitz Park. Such trucks would be banned from much of the 11th Aldermanic District on the south side, under a measure backed by a city panel Thursday. Credit: Mark Hoffman
By Crocker Stephenson of the Journal Sentinel
Food trucks would be banned from virtually every major thoroughfare and intersection in the 11th Aldermanic District, under a measure approved Thursday by the Common Council's Public Safety Committee.
The ban was proposed by Ald. Joe Dudzik, who represents the south side district. The district includes western portions of Oklahoma, Morgan and Forest Home avenues and southern portions of 27th, 35th, 61st and 92nd streets.
Portions of Howard Ave. would be exempt from the ban.
The measure requires final approval by the Common Council.
The ban would include not only food trucks and other businesses that sell from parked vehicles, but also food carts and other vendors selling from sidewalks.
Dudzik said the issue is one of safety. In the wrong spot, he said, food vendors pose a risk to pedestrians and to traffic.
"In the right place," he said, "they are a great asset. Cathedral Square is different from Oklahoma Avenue."
Steve Perlstein, co-owner of Simmer Milwaukee, called the measure "an unnecessary infringement on small business."
Simmer has a traditional cafe in the 700 block of N. Water St. as well as a food truck.
"Food trucks are overwhelmingly popular with the public," he said.
Dudzik said he would be willing to intercede in behalf of a food truck or sidewalk vendor wanting to set up shop in a banned area. He said he would first need to meet with owner, then survey residents and businesses in the desired neighborhood to see if they would support making an exception.
About Crocker Stephenson
Crocker Stephenson covers public health. He has won many regional and national awards for his stories concerning infant mortality, child welfare, poverty, urban life and welfare reform.
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This collection contains papers of the Williams and Fell family members, Pennsylvania Hicksite Quakers. These papers include student papers of E. Lawrence Fell, family correspondence (1819-1885), pictures, and miscellaneous deeds and memorabilia.
Fell family (Family)
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Repositories. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to the individual Meeting or its successor. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Repositories as the holder(s) of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by reader.
Joseph Fell (1804-1887), the son of Dr. David and Phebe Schofield Fell, was a Pennsylvania Quaker teacher and farmer. In 1835 he married Harriet William, the daughter of Samuel and Sarah Watson Williams of Buckingham, Pa. He served in the State legislature in 1837-38 and as superintendent of the county schools.
Joseph and Harriet Fell had five children: William W. (1836-1874), Emily Catherine who married William Seal in 1863; David Newlin (1840-1919) who married Martha Trego; Edward Watson (1843-1901) who married Elizabeth Matlack Kenderdine in 1867; and Lucy W. Fell, born 1847.
Edward Watson and Elizabeth Kenderdine Fell had four children. The eldest was Edward Lawrence Fell (1867-1943) who married Esther May Willets. Both were Swarthmore College graduates, Class of 1888, and members of Green Street Monthly Meeting.
Joseph Fell (1804-1887), the son of Dr. David and Phebe Schofield Fell, was a Pennsylvania Quaker teacher and farmer. In 1835 he married Harriet Williams, the daughter of Samuel and Sarah Watson Williams of Buckingham, Pa. Joseph and Harriet Fell had five children: William W. (1836-1874), Emily Catherine who married William Seal in 1863; David Newlin (1840-1919) who married Martha Trego; Edward Watson (1843-1901) who married Elizabeth Matlack Kenderdine in 1867; and Lucy W. Fell, born 1847. Edward Watson and Elizabeth Kenderdine Fell had four children. The eldest was Edward Lawrence Fell (1867-1943) who married Esther May Willets. Both were Swarthmore College graduates, Class of 1888, and members of Green Street Monthly Meeting. This collection contains papers of the Williams and Fell family members, Pennsylvania Hicksite Quakers. These papers include student papers of E. Lawrence Fell, family correspondence (1819-1885), pictures, and miscellaneous deeds and memorabilia.
For current information on the location of materials, please consult the Libraries' online catalog: http://tripod.brynmawr.edu
Deposited by Nancy Gideon Clark, 2000.
See RG5/203: Taylor-Thomson Family Papers, Series 3, Miscellaneous for photo of Clothier Family posed in front of the Great Pyramids, same era.
Photographs removed to FHL Picture Collection, PA 114: Fell Family Pictures:
Buckingham Friend School with Joseph Fell on steps, stereographic photo; Fell homestead in Buckingham, stereographic photo; Willets, John ( 2 photos); Willets, “Grandmother” ( 2 photos); Seaman, “Aunt Mary and Lizzie”; Fell, Elizabeth M. (Kenderdine); Fell, Elizabeth M. and Emily (daughter?); Fell, Emily {?}; Jackson-Fell wedding, June 28, 1900; Fell, “Father Fell with mother and sisters”; Four women, identified only as Aunt Cordelia, SusanAnn, Nancy, [Grandmother?]; 4 X 6 medium photos, family and friends, 9 identified, five may be classmates of Esther May Willets and E. Lawrence Fell; Seaman, William H.; Laurie, Margaret J. (Mrs. Wm. Seaman, both S.C. 1888); Haydock, Clara Noyes (S.C. 1888); Ainley, Gertrude; Ainley, May Agnes (Kenderdine); Fell, Mr. and Mrs. E. Lawrence in Egypt, posed in front of pyramids; Suffragists, with sashes, identified as Jeanette Fell [Gillam], Marjorie Fell [Siebert], Grandmother Fell [Mrs. E. Lawrence], Kathryn Fell [Gideon], and Alex Rogers; Two 4 x 6 of girls pictured above, Jeanette and Marjorie Fell?; Snapshots of May Day, Swarthmore, 1900.
Three volumes of books by Thaddeus Kenderdine removed to book collection: A California Tramp (1888), California Revisited (1898), The Kenderdines of America (1901).
Portrait dolls, circa 1900, of Benjamin Franklin and E. Lawrence Fell removed to Relics.
This collection contains papers from two sources. A group of papers with no accession history were described previous to 1967. These included the Fell and Williams family letters, 1819-1885, primarily to Harriet Williams before and after her marriage in 1835 to Joseph Fell, and a small amount of family memorabilia and pictures. In 2000, a second group of papers were given to Friends Historical Library concerning the same family. These papers were found in the lap desk of Edward Lawrence Fell (1867-1943), a Swarthmore College graduate, class of 1888 and grandson of Joseph and Harriet Fell. These papers include student papers of E. Lawrence Fell, family correspondence (1840-1877) primarily between the children of Joseph and Harriet Fell, and miscellaneous deeds and memorabilia. In 2002, the two collections were united as Fell Family Papers, RG 5/039.
From the 2000 accession, three books by Thaddeus Kenderdine were transferred to FHL books, the two portrait dolls transferred to FHL Relics, and the pictures were removed to PA 114. A list of the pictures is included under “Related Material.”
Fell family
Fell, E. Lawrence, 1867-1943
Fell, Joseph, 1804-1887
Kenderdine family
Quakers -- Pennsylvania
Quakers -- Social life and customs
Fell, E. Lawrence, 1867-1943 (Contributor, Person)
Fell Family Papers, 1753-1923
Language of description note
Fell Family Papers, SFHL-RG5-039. Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. http://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/repositories/7/resources/2043 Accessed January 21, 2020.
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Policy Paper: The 'Personhood' Movement Is Anti-Life
From www.seculargovernment.us/a62.shtml:
The Coalition for Secular Government is pleased to announce the release of its policy paper on the "personhood" movement by Ari Armstrong and Diana Hsieh (Ph.D): The 'Personhood' Movement Is Anti-Life: Why It Matters that Rights Begin at Birth, Not Conception (PDF or HTML).
The 'Personhood' Movement Is Anti-Life
Why It Matters that Rights Begin at Birth, Not Conception
by Ari Armstrong and Diana Hsieh, Ph.D.
A policy paper written for the Coalition for Secular Government (www.SecularGovernment.us)
Formats: HTML or PDF
The 'Personhood' Movement
"Personhood" and the Abortion Debate
Colorado Campaigns
Campaigns in Other States
The Destructive Effects of 'Personhood'
A Legal Quagmire
Harsh Legal Penalties
Bans of Elective Abortions
Abortions to Protect a Woman's Health
Abortions for Rape, Incest, and Fetal Deformity
Bans of Common Birth Control Methods
Bans of Common Fertility Treatments
Bans of Embryonic Stem-Cell Research
Amendment 62 Is Anti-Life
Individual Rights and Abortion
The Compromise of Roe v. Wade
Today's "Pro-Choice" Rhetoric
The Core Arguments for "Personhood" Laws
Rights in Pregnancy
The Morality of Abortion
'Personhood' and the Separation of Church and State
Amendment 62 Is Not a 'Message'
From the Introduction
Amendment 62, set to appear on Colorado's 2010 ballot, seeks to legally establish personhood from the moment of conception, granting a fertilized egg (or zygote) full legal rights in the state's constitution. Following in the footsteps of 2008's Amendment 48, Amendment 62 is the spearhead of a national campaign to outlaw abortion and other practices that could harm a zygote, embryo, or fetus.
If fully implemented, Amendment 62 would profoundly and adversely impact the lives of sexually-active couples, couples seeking children, pregnant women and their partners, doctors, and medical researchers. It would subject them to severe legal restrictions, police controls, and in many cases protracted court battles and criminal punishments.
Amendment 62 would outlaw abortion, even in cases of rape, incest, terminally deformed fetuses, and danger to the woman's health. It would prohibit doctors from performing abortions except perhaps in some cases to save the life of the woman, thereby endangering the lives and health of many women. In conjunction with existing statutes, Amendment 62 would subject women and their doctors to first-degree murder charges for willfully terminating a pregnancy, with the required punishment of life in prison or the death penalty.
The impact of Amendment 62 would extend far beyond abortion into the personal corners of every couple's reproductive life. It would outlaw many forms of birth control, including the pill, IUD, and "morning after" drugs. It would require criminal investigation of any miscarriages deemed suspicious. It would ban potentially life-saving embryonic stem-cell research and common fertility treatments.
Amendment 62 rests on the absurd premise that a newly fertilized zygote is a full human person with an absolute right to biological life-support from a woman--regardless of her wishes and whatever the cost to her. The biological facts of pregnancy, in conjunction with an objective theory of rights, support a different view, namely that personhood and rights begin at birth. Colorado law should reflect those facts, not the Bible verses so often quoted (and creatively interpreted) by advocates of Amendment 62 and other "personhood" measures.
Ari Armstrong publishes Free Colorado and co-authors a column for Western Colorado's Grand Junction Free Press. He is the author of Values of Harry Potter: Lessons for Muggles, a book exploring the heroic fight for life-promoting values in the Potter novels.
Diana Hsieh founded the Coalition for Secular Government in 2008. She earned her doctorate in philosophy from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is currently working on a book on Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged, based on her series of podcasts at ExploreAtlasShrugged.com. More of her work can be found at DianaHsieh.com.
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News: Two composers selected for DAR 2017
Sound and Music in partnership with The Lithuanian Composers' Union & AIR KREMS
Meet the DAR 2017 composers!
We are delighted to announce that Jobina Tinnemans and Andrew Crossley have been selected for DAR 2017 - a residency and commission opportunity designed by The Lithuanian Composers’ Union and AIR KREMS.
The selected composers will each develop a new work for Contemporary Music Ensemble Synaesthesis and will participate in an international residency programme in Druskininkai, Lithuania in the summer of 2017.
The new work created by each composer will be premiered in Vilnius, Lithuania on 14 August 2017 following a two week residency period.
Andrew Crossley
Andrew Crossley studied composition at the Royal College of Music, and is currently undertaking an MA in Cultural and Critical Studies at the University of Westminster. His current research and work concern the philosophy of the Kyoto School, with a particular focus on how their understanding of absolute nothingness as the Buddhist concept of emptiness can be mobilized as the basis of a radical artistic praxis. He lives and works in London.
"I am extremely humbled to have been selected for this wonderful opportunity at DAR. I can’t wait to share ideas with and learn from my fellow musicians and artists in such a beautiful setting, and I’m particularly excited to work with the fantastic Contemporary Music Ensemble Synaesthesis on a new piece. I am confident it will be a great chance to experiment and grow as an artist!"
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Jobina Tinnemans
Jobina Tinnemans is a contemporary composer working in crossover disciplines of electronics, classical music and contemporary art. She integrates analogue and digital, lo-fi and high end processes, as well as musique concrète or performers from non-contextual communities. All possible technical ways to emotionally express sounds she hears in natural soundscapes, such as microtonal textures by rustling grasses or the dramatic sounds of the elements. Jobina Tinnemans is internationally recognised for her works such as ‘Shakespeare and Hedgeshear’ for table tennis players and people trimming hedges which represented the UK at the ISCM World Music Days ’14; her MATA New York commission ‘Killing Time’ for prepared knitting needles and chamber ensemble; Sound And Music ‘Embedded’ commission for the Apartment House ensemble titled ’Turner Piece’ for strings and page turners; Moving Classics’ commission in collaboration with South Iceland Chamber Choir ‘Reflections over Verisimilitude’ for voice and electronics and her latest commission for the Icebreaker ensemble. www.jobinatinnemans.com
Jobina said:
"Thank you very much for the opportunity to work with the ensemble Synaesthesis during the DAR residency in Lithuania. I’m very pleased, as it enables me to continue on developing my concept writing page turners! Natural environments are a major influence to my work, I’m looking forward what Druskininkai is going to evoke."
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About Lithuanian Composers’ Union
Aiming to encourage international cultural exchange and cooperation between artists from different genres and countries, the Lithuanian Composers' Union initiated the International A.I.R. (Artist-In-Residence) Programme in 2011 with the financial support from the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture. In 2012 this programme adopted a new name DAR (Druskininkai Artists' Residence).
For more information of the DAR residency programme
About A.I.R KREMS
It is a multi-disciplinary program for architects, visual artists, musicians and writers. In order to promote international exchange, the federal state of Lower Austria has initiated an artist-in-residence program, for which it has set up five studio apartments and a large common room on the top floor of the former carpet factory within the Art Mile in Krems (Kunstmeile Krems). In order to ensure diversity and a vibrant atmosphere among the studios, the program will award its scholarships to artists from the fields of visual arts, literature, architecture and music. These studio apartments, which have housed artists from many different countries since 2000, serve as temporary living and working spaces and provide the opportunity for both international and interdisciplinary exchange.
Find out more about previous composers who have partipcated in the DAR Residency Scheme here>>
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SoundCast 55: 2012 Cue Award Nominees Show
Episode 55: 2012 Cue Award Nominees
2012 CUE AWARD NOMINATION SHOW. New Tracksounds reviewer, Thomas Midena joins Christoper, Marius, Richard and Edmund to proudly announce the official Cue Award Nominees for 2012. Every nominee from all 12 award categories is revealed.
00:38 Welcome back to the Cue Awards
04:23 Surprise of the Year Nominees
14:36 Most Memorable Theme Nominees
30:36 Breakout Composer of the Year Nominees
38:48 Best Dramatic Score Nominees
54:41 Best Action Score Nominees
69:17 Best Animated Score
74:52 Best Score for TV Nominees
79:32 Best Score for Video Game Nominees
93:12 Best Record Label Nominees
96:06 Composer of the Year Nominees
102:31 Best Cue Nominees
108:20 Best Overall Score Nominees
112:15 Special Awards: The Marius, The Monkey King
115:06 What's next?
Music Selections:
00:00 "Cue the Orchestra" (Theme of the Cue Awards) by Marius Masalar
05:00 "Requiem" (Halo 4) by Neil Davidge and
07:54 "The Treehouse" (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island) by Andrew Lockington
09:01 "Main Titles" (There Be Dragons) by Robert Folk
09:34 "Main Title" (Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning) by Grant Kirkhope
11:44 "A Forest Adventure"(Metsän Tarina) by Panu Aaltio
15:50 "Main Title - Young Peter" (The Amazing Spider-Man) by James Horner
18:20 "Cloud Atlas Finale" (Cloud Atlas) by Tykwer, Klimek, Heil
23:15 "The Right of Challenge" (John Carter) by Michael Giacchino
26:32 "Misty Mountains" (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey) by Howard Shore
39:24 "Entre La Luz Y El Pecado" (For Greater Glory) by James Horner
42:35 "Overture" (Anna Karenina) by Dario Marianelli
44:26 "The Impossible Main Title" (The Impossible) by Fernando Velasquez
46:42 "The People's House" (Lincoln) by John Williams
50:55 "Pi's Lullaby" (Life of Pi) by Mychael Danna
54:35 "Battle for Madrid"(There Be Dragons) by Robert Folk
55:09 "Rise" (The Dark Knight Rises) by Hans Zimmer
60:05 "Barcelona"(Haywire) by David Holmes
62:26 "Lizard Chase" (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island) by Andrew Lockington
66:40 "The Fight for Helium" (John Carter) by Michael Giacchino
67:59 "Going In" (Prometheus) by Marc Streitenfeld, Harry Gregson-Williams
70:29 "Ted, Audrey And The Trees" (The Lorax) by John Powell
71:49 "Main Titles" (Frankenweenie) by Danny Elfman
72:25 "Wreck-It Ralph" (Wreck-It Ralph) by Henry Jackman
73:43 "In Her Heart" (Brave) by Patrick Doyle
80:15 "Homeworld (Starhawk) by Christopher Lennertz
81:23 "Heart of Pandaria"(WOW: Mists of Panderia) by Brower, Acree, Soule, Cardon, Guidotti
82:19 "Journey Theme" (Journey) by Austin Wintory
87:56 "I Will Watch Over The Ones Who Live On" (Mass Effect 3) by Dikiciyan, Velasco, Hulick, Lennertz, Mansell
91:01 "Cider Time" (Fastfall-Dustforce) by Lifeformed
91:59 "The Makers Theme" (Darksiders II) by Jesper Kyd
104:45 "Out of the Frying Pan" (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey) by Howard Shore
105:54 "Portrait Mr. Boogie" (Sinister) by Christopher Young
106:01 "Cue the Orchestra" (Theme of the Cue Awards) by Marius Masalar
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Review: Under the Jeweled Sky - Alison McQueen
London 1957. In a bid to erase her past and build the family she yearns for, Sophie Schofield accepts a wedding proposal from ambitious British diplomat, Lucien Grainger. When he is posted to New Delhi, into the glittering circle of ex-pat high society, old wounds begin to break open as she is confronted with the memory of her first, forbidden love and its devastating consequences.
The suffocating conformity of diplomatic life soon closes in on her. This is not the India she fell in love with ten years before when her father was a maharaja’s physician, the India of tigers and scorpions and palaces afloat on shimmering lakes; the India that ripped out her heart as Partition tore the country in two, separating her from her one true love. The past haunts her still, the guilt of her actions, the destruction it wreaked upon her fragile parents, and the boy with the tourmaline eyes.
Sophie had never meant to come back, yet the moment she stepped onto India’s burning soil as a newlywed wife, she realised her return was inevitable. And so begins the unravelling of an ill-fated marriage, setting in motion a devastating chain of events that will bring her face to face with a past she tried so desperately to forget, and a future she must fight for.
This book takes place in 1947 and 1957. Sophie first comes with her mother and father to India as her father becomes a doctor for a maharajah. It's a small world, her mother suffocates her, but she finds a friend and her life is changed. India becomes a country and fast forward to 1957. This time Sophie comes to India with her new husband, it's a different country from what she remembers. Still again she feels suffocated.
What to say about this book, what will I remember from it. Well, it made me cry. I can't even remember when a book last made me cry, maybe it happens once a year. It's a good thing, this book truly made me feel. And It's a bad thing, omg it made me cry, it was sad! Why!? It broke my heart.
But before that happened a lot of other things happened. Sophie was kind of quiet, first she followed her parents and then her husband. First in the end she followed herself. This was her journey and I am glad she found courage in the end. True courage.
Some things happen that I wont get into too, spoilers. But now (-57) and then (-47) comes together.
Just as it is Sophie's story it is also a story about India. We see how India is formed, and broken apart. Hindu and Muslim countries, there is kidnappings, rape, murder, families torn apart. It was not a pretty break.
Published January 21st 2014 by Sourcebooks Landmark (first published April 25th 2013)
Labels: alison mcqueen, fiction, under the jeweled sky
Carol 4 February 2014 at 18:15
It's definitely a no for me, I avoid books that make me cry.
Linda 4 February 2014 at 22:18
Well only that once..at the end
bermudaonion 4 February 2014 at 18:22
I agree that the cover isn't great but you've made the book sound terrific - full of heart and emotion.
It was and oh the emotion, very good and sad
Chris 4 February 2014 at 20:39
Agree about that cover.
Very meh indeed
Melliane 4 February 2014 at 21:30
wow it made you cry. I love intense books like that from time to time. I don't cry a lot but sometimes. And love the fact it is in India, I've never read a book like that.
Like I said, I do not cry a lot but it came to a point here where I could not hold the tears anymore
Kimberly @ Caffeinated Reviewer 4 February 2014 at 21:48
I love books that make you FEEL. I need to be in the mood for these types of tears, but I added it to my list
Most books I like, or really like but to really make me feel like this..that is different
It sounds like a beautiful story.
Maja (The Nocturnal Library) 4 February 2014 at 22:23
Like you, I can't remember the last time a book made me cry... much... but it's certainly a point in its favor. Plus, the cover is eye-catching!
It has been a while...nope, I just can't remember, I know Briggs made me cry but that was long ago
Heidi@Rainy Day Ramblings 4 February 2014 at 23:04
kidnapping rape and murder.. not exactly uplifting material, but I am glad it had a good impact on you.
That was all in the background, war is war
Melissa (Books and Things) 4 February 2014 at 23:16
This sounds so good but cry? I hate to cry. Still, darn you, you make me want to read it.
I know, I hate that too, but well yes I can't say anything more
Elysium 4 February 2014 at 23:28
I haven't read many books set in India so this sounds good just for that reason. And since it made you cry I'm tempted to try it to see if I will cry ;)
<Lol, do it and tell me ;)
Karen 5 February 2014 at 00:49
I really like the cover. I'm not sure the book is for me. I tend to get bored with history. I know that's bad but I glaze over. lol But this does sound very moving.
It was not like history was all in my face, it was there, in the background
The Bookworm 5 February 2014 at 01:37
It sounds intense if it made you cry. I'll be reading this one as well.
Keertana 5 February 2014 at 05:02
Ooh, I love novels that incorporate a lot of history into them as well, so I'll have to check this out for sure. Thanks for putting this on my radar!
You are welcome :)
Mary (Bookfan) 5 February 2014 at 05:52
Wow, sounds like an emotional read!
It sure was, more than once
Jenny N. 5 February 2014 at 05:59
Definitely not a book for me since I'm such a easy crier. I pretty much cry reading every book even when the scene isnt even that sad LOL
Then you would def cry more than once ;)
Wow, any book that made you cry has my attention immediately. It's not that I love to make myself cry, I just love reading books that can completely capture my emotions. This sounds wonderful! Lovely review :-)
Lol, yes I get it, who wants to sob all over a book. But I do love that it truly makes me feel something big
Darlene 5 February 2014 at 17:46
I'll be reading this one soon too. I like books that make me cry sometimes. You've made me curious about why though.
You will see, you might think you are there but you will see ;)
Carole Rae 5 February 2014 at 18:26
Meh...the cover is ugly. lol. But I haven't read a book in a long time that has made me cry.
To feel is good :)
Melissa (My World...in words and pages) 6 February 2014 at 03:39
Oh wow, you cried. That's an awesome job on the authors behalf. Great.
It sure doesn't happen a lot
Anna (herding cats-burning soup) 6 February 2014 at 09:06
Wow. That sounds...intense! Not quite the type of read I pick up but glad it struck you so much and you enjoyed it!
Certain parts sure were
Anna 6 February 2014 at 18:23
Now I'm kicking myself for turning down a review copy. ;)
Aurian 6 February 2014 at 21:50
The cover does not invite me to read it at all, but your review makes me put it on my wishlist. I do love books about India in the past.
Me too :D
Teddyree 8 February 2014 at 04:40
love books that make me cry, thanks B, this one's going straight on my wishlist :)
Oh now I remember the last book that made me cry, though only almost made me cry. This one truly made me cry
Book of Secrets 9 February 2014 at 06:10
I love books that make me cry too, and that's not easy to do! I remember reading Wildflower Hill...cried my eyes out.
Not easy at all, they truly have to move me
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Mean Things
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Big-ups to the new Super-Mayor: Len Brown’s mayoral campaign provides a text-book example of "the politics of connection".
HAD THE EARTH not moved on 4 September, it’s highly likely New Zealanders would have woken up on 10 October to find four new mayors in the four main centres.
The devastating earthquake which struck Canterbury, and Mayor Bob Parker’s response to the crisis it created, dramatically changed the electoral equation in Christchurch City.
In Mr Parker’s own words: "During the earthquake enough people saw something in me that they thought was worthy of their support. The community had a chance to see me experiencing all of the same trauma and getting on with the job, just like they had to, and I’m sure that did me no harm."
Few would dispute that assessment, and in a curious way Mr Parker’s explanation of why Cantabrians flocked to the incumbent’s mayoral banner also explains why in Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin so many voters deserted theirs.
Right across the country there is a growing sense of disconnection between ordinary citizens and the people who govern them.
For democracy to work, voters need to feel that their communities and their country are being run by people committed to serving their interests. More importantly, they strongly believe that big changes – the sort that have a real impact on their day-to-day lives – should never be made without their prior consent.
Before the earthquake, most Cantabrians were of the view that Mayor Parker had shown insufficient deference to the wishes of Christchurch voters, and that too many important Council obligations were being undertaken (or set aside) behind closed doors.
Mr Parker’s challenger, Jim Anderton, tapped into this vein of popular discontent with considerable success: the one big poll conducted prior to the earthquake placed him well ahead of his opponent.
It was only when Christchurch voters were able to see with their own eyes that their Mayor was experiencing the same intense emotions as themselves; that he, too, was worried about his family, his home, his neighbours and his city; only when their shared suffering had transformed him into one of them could Mr Parker be reconnected to the democratic power-grid.
And the moment that reconnection was made, Mr Anderton’s cause was lost.
In Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin, however, there was no natural disaster to reconnect the rulers with the ruled. In these cities (and many others besides) the voters’ growing disaffection with unaccountable politicians and bureaucrats was given dramatic political expression.
In Auckland, particularly, Len Brown’s mayoral campaign provides a text-book example of "the politics of connection".
From the get-go he aligned himself with the majority of Aucklanders who were either opposed to or uneasy about the way the amalgamation of Auckland’s eight local authorities into a single "super-city" was being managed.
Many people feared the new entity would become a political vehicle for the sort of far-right economic policies associated with the Act Party leader (and Minister for Local Government) Rodney Hide. They were angry that the new structures of local governance were being imposed on them without a clear democratic mandate.
Mr Brown became their champion. He promised to make the new super-city work for everyone – not just a wealthy few.
It would be futile to deny that there was a left-wing flavour to Mr Brown’s rhetoric, but what mattered much more was the strong connection which existed between the Manukau Mayor and Manukau’s voters.
In many ways Mr Brown is the antithesis of a modern-day leftist. He is a devout Christian who evinces what the Americans like to call "traditional family values", and he’s old-fashioned enough to use expressions like "for the love of the people" when explaining his political motivation.
Mr Brown’s traditional values are, however, the reason why so many Pasifika and Maori voters living in South Auckland look upon him as one of their own. It’s why so many Samoan ministers and Tongan pastors stood up in their churches and urged their congregations to go home and vote for the Palangi lawyer who – more than any other Mayoral candidate – makes a genuine connection with their people.
Some commentators are characterising the victories of Len Brown, Dunedin’s Dave Cull and (possibly) Wellington’s Celia Wade-Brown as harbingers of a 2011 Labour victory.
I’ve yet to be convinced.
The question that must be answered before predicting a change of government in 2011 is whether or not Labour, and its leader, Phil Goff, are making the sort of vital connections with their electoral base that swept Mr Parker and Mr Brown to victory.
The pollsters suggest that Labour’s not there yet. More importantly, they’re saying that the Prime Minister, John Key, still is.
Unless and until Labour and Phil Goff (or some fresher face) can bring about a seismic shift equal in magnitude to the real one of 4 September, any connection between the voting behaviour of 2010 and 2011 must remain moot.
This essay was originally published in The Press of Tuesday, 12 October 2010.
Labels: Auckland Mayoral Politics, Auckland Supercity, Christchurch Mayoralty, Local Government
peterpeasant said...
It was nice that Banks lost.
It was nice that Banks lost comprehensively.
To extrapolate from that to to national politics is extremely foolish.
given MMP the next government is still an open question.
There will be a new (and very important) bargaining chip, the Auckland City Council.
The next election looks to be exceedingly interesting.
Despite very healthy polling results National has to face the fact it is unlikely to get an outright majority at the next election.
It is going to have cut deals with other parties.
All parties will be looking to Auckland.
I am reminded of the Chinese comment..
"May you live in interesting times".
I was involved in the Anderton/2021 campaign and it was heart-breaking to knock on people's doors in the poorest deciles to have them tell us they were either not interested or voting for Parker.
Nine years of Labour government and they're still in the same shitty position they were when Labour started with no hope of upward mobility or improving their lot, just a cold house, the inability to read and an insufficient benefit.
The sort of personality that Len so admirably displays is quintessentially non-Wellington, non-Beltway and non-Beehive.
And it's this personality that has so attracted voters of all ethnicities and quite a range of income groups.
Unfortunately, the senior Labour parliamentarian who most resembles Len is the party's current leader and he has been declared unelectable by the Tory media.
So don't expect much to change at national level.
Steven Cowan said...
Undeniably the earthquake saved Sideshow Bob's mayoralty but I'm not sure if you can say that he 'reconnected' with the people of Christchurch. After all, over 50,000 people voted against him.
Bob won because he was all over the media and he he turned the election into a sideshow because he refused to participate in it.
On the rare occasion he emerged from the Palace, he stipulated he would only talk about quake issues and he wouldn't debate with Anderton.
So he denied people the opportunity to question him on his dismal behaviour over the past three years.
As for Parker's 'outstanding' performance in the immediate aftermath of the quake - what the hell did he do other than front up to the media?
The civil defence action ran entirely independent of Bob - but it provided him with loads of photo opportunities. Bob with John Key, Bob with Richie McCaw, etc etc.
Bob milked it for all its worth - him and his bloody orange safety jacket.
Voting for me is like sexing chickens. All I see is smiley faces of people who want to "serve the community". I make an assumption that the business community gets people on for the inside running.
I live in an older part of town with rentals around me and I'm assured that neighbors "can't possibly" go higher than "x" as it is residential 1. I think however that a zone change would do the trick.
While progressive fight for peoples rights in our urban areas they ignore the reasons behind population growth and very large projections are made. John Banks calls this a "great opportunity", but for whom? In my experience many Japanese who live here want to run a mile from the type of density they experience and love our back yards and sunshine.
markus said...
Nothing wrong with being a Wellingtonian, Victor !
I'd agree with Steve Cowan that Anderton's 51,000 was surprisingly high given the almost impossible circumstances.
Is Dave Cull of the Centre-Left ? I thought he might be a little Right-leaning given some of the things I've heard/read.
Bruce Thorpe said...
I think the council elections demonstrated that people want representatives they can relate to, and when the opportunity offers they will vote for somebody who they have identified over time as working for their welfare.
It is not a question of traditional political ideology, and despite the best efforts of the media it is not about "presidential" campaigning.
Helen Clark had worn out her welcome with a great number of Kiwi votes by the time Don Brash made his notorious Orewa speech, but Brash was too distant a figure to quite bring about the electoral win. John Key was much more successful three years later, but the worry for the national Party is that there seem very few of their allies actually participating in the communities, developing the relationships that win the support of current voters.
The message of local government elections 2010 is people will vote for those they can relate to, and those people tend to be local residents who are part of their community.
Perhaps Phil Goff will survive bad polling figures and show the way, as he did in the Mt Roskill by election with sleeves rolled up,putting up hoardings and knocking on doors.
Of course there's nothing wrong with being a Wellingtonian. Some of my best friends are etc. etc.
But there is a certain kind of Beltway personality that's different to the rest of us (including many Wellingtonians).
Len isn't like that. He really does come across as one of us provincial or suburban types. That's one of his strengths.
"Is Dave Cull of the Centre-Left ? I thought he might be a little Right-leaning given some of the things I've heard/read".
Len Brown's campaign tapped squarely into popular resentment with the "Mayor of ALL of Auckland" slogan by implication telling the story that John Banks only represented some kind of self-serving social elite. Anybody who places themselves beneath another race, class or geographic region was going to vote for Brown by default. The Banks campaign concentrated on dry unemotive subjects few voters cared about or understood.
The economic situation would have influenced the local election results too. The politics of "aspiration" fall flat when the economy is stagnant and the government is presenting no plan to change that. If there's no hope the pie will grow bigger the popular mindset will shift towards the politics of taking pieces off someone else. While the national mood may have shifted leftward, that hasn't translated to increased support for Labour because National is showing few neo-liberalist instincts and Labour as a party is still so unelectable.
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Eleven Music
The Palais - Melbourne, Australia
By GREG
Photo by ANONYMOUS
What a night...
It all started with Daniel alone on the piano playing after all these years his voice was magic..then chris and ben came out and they started belting out world upon your shoulders after that..daniel put on the acoustic and played tuna in the brine it was so beautiful then followed other experimental tunes from diorama...when petrol and chlorine played out it sounded so crisp and ana's song was a bit different but still a very good song. The 1st set ended with steam will rise with a bit of ben's own little drum solo really kicked off the 1st with a band..
The 2nd set started off with long version of emotion sickness with a good solo from ben and daniel..The highlight for me had to be slave it got the crowd pumping and then when the door came on everyone started to stand up and dance along near the end of the door daniel started playing the guitar with his teeth and doen his little dance and wiggling his bum...Everyone was yelling "play freak" then the 3 screens at the back lit up with the neon sign from the start of the freak video clip and the crowd started screaming it was so loud and daniel yelled out "fuck intamacy mode lets fucking rock"...Everyone jumped up and started moshing...Anthem was next with the crowd pumped and a very interesting war on iraq theme from the 3 screens...Set 2 ended with one way mule and at the end daniel ripped open his shirt and started feelin himself..Once that was over the band left the stage and the piano came back on...Daniel came back on not long after and played Asylum it brought a tear to my eye his voice just echo'd through my head it was magical...After that the band came back on and played the lever and at the end of the lever was about a 5 minute instrumental which sounded great and got daniel pumping stroking his guitar, humping the amps and rolling around on the ground...daniel put his guitar on the ground and the band left the stage with the sound of the guitar still ringing for about 30 seconds everyone cheer "Silverchair Silverchair Silverchair"
It was a night i will never forget!
By ANDREW
Photos by LIZ
To say there was a collective buzz floating around Vodophone Arena last night is a definite understatement. We walked into the arena just as silverchair were coming out. After a mad rush to seats (which we later found out wern't ours), we were settled and ready.
Daniel came out and belted out 'After All These Years' which enormous gusto. This was followed by 'World Upon Your Shoulders'. Following this came 'Tuna in the Brine', a song most would have been anxious to hear. After a brief pause, with acoustic in hand, Daniel began. The song hit new peaks, with Daniel absolutely straining every vocal chord, yet still seeming effortless in pitch perfect notes. 'Luv your Life' proved to big hugely popular with the crowd, especially the 'do do do do do do do' chorus. Next came 'Petrol and Chlorine.' I personally think that this was one of the best songs from Freak Show and was a sign of things to come with Daniels writing. The live version sounded very big with guitar splashed with sitar effects from the keyboard. Other songs in set 1 included 'Paint Pastel Princess', 'Ana's Song', 'Miss you Love' and 'Steam Will Rise.' 'Across the Night' proved to be the highlight of the set, perhaps even the night. Halfway through the next, pre- "So let us get married...", Daniel ditch the guitar. His moved ranged from crooning, to outlandish gestures, to traditional two hand on mic rock stance Bernard Fanning style. Overall, a killer set 1.
This set was the heavier of the two, which extend the Johns vocal talents further. This was clearly evident in 'Emotion Sicknes', 'Greatest View' and 'Freak.' Other songs include 'Without You', 'Slave', 'Black Tangled Heart', 'Do you Feel the Same?', 'The Door', 'Anthem', and closed with One Way Mule. Daniel gave glimpses of animal roars and falsetto in Freak to great effect.
Asylum. This song is so powerful. It was my highlight of the gig and had people talking outside afterwards. If nothing else, it showed the appeal of a harpsicord outside a silent movie. They ended with The Lever with a funky ending, no doubt through the badgering of Ben's obsession with James Brown. The boys pulled of a 2 and half hour onslaught of huge sounding music. Probably the best gig I have seen. God bless 'em.
I was so excited to be finally seeing silverchair, I saw Daniel come out on stage as soon as he started to play "After all these years" The tears started rolling .. i quickly stopped myself so my vision would no longer be blurred. He was so fantastic and his voice was so perfect. Then Ben and Chris came out on stage it was all so exciting. Next came "world upon your shoulders" and "tuna in the brine" i was so happy i totally love that song. "petrol and chlorine" well what can i say they know how to get a show rocking :) " ana's song" and to end Act 1, "steam will rise" ben's solo was unreal! 'Paint Pastel Princess', 'Miss you Love' and 'Across the Night' were also spectacular.
Act 2. Started with an extended version of emotion sickness , im not sure what order the songs came but "Slave" and "the door" totally got the crowd pumping every one was starting to stand up and either moshing or just dancing, Even Daniel got his Bum wiggling :) that was fantastic. But what got the crowd fully excited was when the 3 screens in the background started to glow like in the "freak " video clip, everyone went insane, everyone was singing , The war theme on the screens with Anthem' was really interesting. other songs played were "Greatest View", "Without You", "Slave", "Black Tangled Heart","Do you Feel the Same?" and closed with "One Way Mule" then everything went dark and the piano was bought back on stage and Daniel started to Play "Asylum" it was magical. although there was a few people around me looking at each other asking "whats this song?" then the other guys came back on stage and played "the lever" and it had a pretty cool extended long ending, but after the totally amazing 2 and a half hour show i still wanted more :).
Last night was the third and final night that the ‘chair would be playing in Melbourne. I went to their first Melbourne show on the Saturday night at the Palais and I would have to say the atmosphere at the Palais was a lot better, it was a beautiful setting and perfect for the new album, but last night was just as good with or without any fancy ceilings.
We got to our seats just as the lights were dimmed and the thousands and thousands of people already seated started screaming. The red velvet curtains were pulled apart to reveal Daniel sitting alone in the spotlight at a piano. The set started with ‘After All These Years’, and Daniel played the song alone, and at the end Ben, Chris and the 2 extra keyboardists took to the stage and got straight into ‘World Upon Your Shoulders’. As soon as that song was over Daniel grabbed his acoustic guitar and played the beautiful ‘Tuna in the Brine’. The stage set-up was much the same as all their other shows, with each amp painted a different colour, the same circles covered with lights from their Falls Festival show, and thin strips of multi-coloured lights standing upright at the back of the stage, which were lit up a few songs into the set and sent the crowd wild. The 2 keyboardists were seated at the right of Ben, on their own little platform and they played samples of the orchestra from the album. There was incense burning on the stage and smoke machines running all night giving the stage its own special atmosphere.
Next was ‘Luv Your Life’, the 3 video screens behind the band were showing colours and patterns and created a great back drop on the stage. There was very little witty banter from Daniel for the first few songs; he chose to go straight from song to song stopping only to change his guitars. Most of the songs were introduced with extended intros, and Daniel displayed his amazing guitar playing skills by playing mini solos before most of the songs. After ‘Paint Pastel Princess’, the next song, also introduced with an extended intro, was ‘Petrol and Chlorine’. I'm not sure if the band have played this song on other tours but it is a gem of a song from Freakshow that hasn’t gotten enough recognition until now. This song was my personal favourite from both shows, it sounded amazing with Daniel playing the sitar parts from the record on his guitar.
The song that was received with the most enthusiasm was the current single ‘Across The Night’. The film clip was played across the 3 screens in the background, and the song sounded incredible live, the clip playing behind the band made the song even more fun to listen to, because you could watch the clip while they played. When ‘Act 2’ was displayed across the screen in the clip Daniel got rid of his guitar and just stood at the mic singing the song without playing.
3 more songs from Neon Ballroom followed, ‘Ana’s Song’, ‘Miss You Love’, and the first set ended with ‘Steam Will Rise’. At the end of the song the band walked off stage with one keyboardist remaining, playing the sounds from the end of the song while the lights dimmed and the curtains closed. During the break there were a few James Brown songs played, including ‘Sex Machine’, no doubt this music was Ben’s choice!
The intermission lasted for about 10 minutes, when the band returned to the stage and belted out ‘Emotion Sickness’. Daniel said a few words between songs, and they passed around a mysterious glass bottle that looked like vodka. He introduced the extra band members as his ‘new best friends’ and continued to rip through the set by playing a lot of oldies, ‘Without You’ and ‘Greatest View’ being the only songs played from Diorama in the second set. During the intermission the band had changed the amps, Ben’s drum kit was different, and a piano had been brought onto the stage so that one of the extra members could play that during the songs while the second extra member stayed at his keyboard. Ben had taken off his hat along with his shirt, and was wearing what looked like footy shorts only tighter and smaller…
Daniel instructed us to ‘get the fuck up’ during ‘The Door’, but by this time everyone was already standing. ‘Freak’ was next up but everyone knew that song was next when the heater coils from the film clip was displayed on the screens. During songs Daniel asked for the lights to be turned on the crowd so he could see us, and told all the people right up the back to stand so he could see them as well. Daniel got the crowd to sing the first verse of ‘Anthem’ and during the song there were some political messages and visuals playing on the screens. I'm not sure which song it was but I remember Daniel getting a bit excited and ripping open his shirt, rubbing his chest and tugging at what looked like a nipple ring… Highly entertaining.
The second set or ‘Act 2’ ended with a gutsy version of ‘One Way Mule’, and the band all walked off the stage. The same piano from the start of the show was wheeled out and it only took a few minutes of screaming and cheering before the boys re-appeared to play an encore.
Daniel came out and sat at the piano once again, with the spotlight on him and he played ‘Asylum’. This was probably the most beautiful song of the set apart from ‘Petrol and Chlorine’. After this song, they ended the show with ‘The Lever’. It was an extended version of the song, the band rocked out during the solo and at the end they jammed for several minutes, Daniel attempted to jump on the speaker stack, hit Ben’s cymbals with his guitar then after a big rock ending, the boys bowed and curtseyed and left the stage. The last time I saw them was in 1999, and it was great to see Daniel smiling his way through the whole show. An amazing show and sadly, it might have been the last we’ll ever see.
After listening to about half an hour of the Sleepy Jacksons, the stadium just wanted them to get off the stage. They finally left, and after the stage was set up for the boys, Daniel walked on. It was the loudest thing I've ever heard, everyone was just screaming nonstop, and this was the quiet half!!! Daniel played 'After All These Years' and to the entire stadium singing along was just amazing. Then Chris and Ben came out, FINALLY! They played 'World Upon Your Shoulders' which was pretty good. Chris and Ben looked so good! Then they played 'Tuna in the Brine' which was a powerful performance. Chris and Daniel got new guitars, and they continued with 'Luv Your Life'. Then they finally played 'Petrol and Chlorine' which was fantastic! The sitar sounded really good live. 'Paint Pastel Princess' was pretty good, but 'Ana's Song' wasn't as good as I'd expected it to be. After that they played 'Miss You Love' which was great. The forst set finished with 'Steam Will Rise' during which Ben did an awesome drum solo. Daniel was also good in this song, ditching the guitar to simply sing. They then left the stage to prepare for the next act.
When the bpys came back on, the first thing I noticed was that Ben had taken his shirt off- hotness! This set opened with 'Emotion Sickness' which sounded a hell of a lot better live! Then Daniel yelled out that he wanted everyone up the back to stand up, which we were only too happy to do! They then launched into 'The Greatest View' and the entire crowd sang along. Then the stage went black, and on the three screens up the back the heaters in the 'Freak' video came on, and the stadium just went CRAZY! Everyone was screaming and jumping for the whole song, and then they switched into 'Anthem for the Year 2000' with some cool images of the war on Iraq on the screens. Those two songs were definitely the highlight of the night for meAfter that they played 'Without You', 'Slave' (which was mad!) 'Black Tangled Heart' 'Do You Feel the Same?' and 'The Door'. The set ended in 'One Way Mule' which was great, especially when Daniel ripped his shirt open!
The encore was Daniel on his piano again playing 'Asylum'. his voice was absolutely amazing in this song, and then they launched into 'The Lever', which ended in some very heavy rums and guitar riffs. Over all, this was the BEST show I've ever been to, it was AWESOME! ROCK ON BOYS!
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Kasia Kaczmarek
Born in Poland and raised in Western Australia, Kasia studied acting at the VCA before moving to New York to study Meisner at the William Esper Studio.
Most recently, she played Petra (recurring) in Screentime/Channel Ten’s Playing for Keeps and was the lead in short film The Visitor, from director Justin Olstein.
Previous theatre credits include Big Heart (Theatre Works); We Get it (MTC Neon); NSFW (Red Stitch); You took the Stars (Melbourne Fringe); This is What it Feels Like (La Mama); The Joy of Text (La Mama); The Cherry Orchard (Winterfall); The Seagull (VCA); The Taming of the Shrew (VCA); A Season at Sarsaparilla (VCA); Speed the Plow (HST); Serenade (Melbourne International Comedy Festival); and Fatherland, a creative development for Tom Holloway in collaboration with Company B Belvoir.
Kasia has worked in television on The Warriors, City Homicide, Rush, The Dr Blake Mysteries, Mystery of a Hanson Cab, Jack Irish: Bad Debts, Wentworth and Hunters, for the SyFy Network.
She made her feature debut in The Moon and the Sun for Paramount Studios.
In 2010, Kasia devised and directed Bring A Nice Dress, a show about brothel workers, for the Perth Artrage Festival, and assisted Brendan Cowell on the direction of Ruben Guthrie at Red Stitch.
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06 November 2019 09:40:40 AM
South Korean Ambassador to the Philippines His Excellency Han Dong-man on Tuesday paid a courtesy call on Speaker Alan Peter "Compañero" Cayetano. The leaders agreed to discuss initiatives mutually beneficial to South Korea and the Philippines especially in the areas of tourism and sports, among others. They also agreed for a Philippine congressional delegation to visit South Korea during a session break in 2020. Also present during the courtesy call were Deputy Speakers Rose Marie "Baby" Arenas, Dan Fernandez and Roberto Puno, Committee on Interparliamentary Relations and Diplomacy Chairperson Rep. Divina Grace Yu (1st District, Zamboanga del Sur), Committee on Accounts Chairman Rep. Abraham "Bambol" Tolentino (8th District, Cavite), Special Committee on West Philippine Sea Chairperson Rep. Manuel Sagarbarria (2nd District, Negros Oriental), Committee on Higher and Technical Education Chairman Rep. Mark Go (Lone District, Baguio City), Committee on Agriculture and Food Chairman Rep. Antonio "Tonypet" Albano (1st District, Isabela), Deputy Majority Leader Cristal Bagatsing (6th District, Manila), and Assistant Majority Leader Claudine Diana Bautista (Party-list, DUMPER PTDA).
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In this chapter we have, I. Christ's declining for some time to appear publicly in Judea, John 7:1. II. His design to go up to Jerusalem at the feast of tabernacles, and his discourse with his kindred in Galilee concerning his going up to this feast, John 7:2-13. III. His preaching publicly in the temple at that feast. 1. In the midst of the feast, John 7:14,15. We have his discourse with the Jews, (1.) Concerning his doctrine, John 7:16-18. (2.) Concerning the crime of sabbath-breaking laid to his charge, John 7:19-24. (3.) Concerning himself, both whence he came and whither he was going, John 7:25-36. 2. On the last day of he feast. (1.) His gracious invitation to poor souls to come to him, John 7:37-39. (2.) The reception that it met with. [1.] Many of the people disputed about it, John 7:40-44. [2.] The chief priests would have brought him into trouble for it, but were first disappointed by their officers (John 7:45-49) and then silenced by one of their own court, John 7:50-53.
Christ's Discourse with His Brethren; The Rumours Respecting Christ.
1 After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him. 2 Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand. 3 His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into Judæa, that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest. 4 For there is no man that doeth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, show thyself to the world. 5 For neither did his brethren believe in him. 6 Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready. 7 The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil. 8 Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; for my time is not yet full come. 9 When he had said these words unto them, he abode still in Galilee. 10 But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret. 11 Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he? 12 And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him: for some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay; but he deceiveth the people. 13 Howbeit no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews.
We have here, I. The reason given why Christ spent more of his time in Galilee than in Judea (John 7:1): because the Jews, the people in Judea and Jerusalem, sought to kill him, for curing the impotent man on the sabbath day, John 5:16. They thought to be the death of him, either by a popular tumult or by a legal prosecution, in consideration of which he kept at a distance in another part of the country, very much out of the lines of Jerusalem's communication. It is not said, He durst not, but, He would not, walk in Jewry; it was not through fear and cowardice that he declined it, but in prudence, because his hour was not yet come. Note, 1. Gospel light is justly taken away from those that endeavour to extinguish it. Christ will withdraw from those that drive him from them, will hide his face from those that spit in it, and justly shut up his bowels from those who spurn at them. 2. In times of imminent peril it is not only allowable, but advisable, to withdraw and abscond for our own safety and preservation, and to choose the service of those places which are least perilous, Matthew 10:23. Then, and not till then, we are called to expose and lay down our lives, when we cannot save them without sin. 3. If the providence of God casts persons of merit into places of obscurity and little note, it must not be thought strange; it was the lot of our Master himself. He who was fit to have sat in the highest of Moses's seats willingly walked in Galilee among the ordinary sort of people. Observe, He did not sit still in Galilee, nor bury himself alive there, but walked; he went about doing good. When we cannot do what and where we would, we must do what and where we can.
II. The approach of the feast of tabernacles (John 7:2), one of the three solemnities which called for the personal attendance of all the males at Jerusalem; see the institution of it, Leviticus 23:34, &c., and the revival of it after a long disuse, Nehemiah 8:14. It was intended to be both a memorial of the tabernacle state of Israel in the wilderness, and a figure of the tabernacle state of God's spiritual Israel in this world. This feast, which was instituted so many hundred years before, was still religiously observed. Note, Divine institutions are never antiquated, nor go out of date, by length of time: nor must wilderness mercies ever be forgotten. But it is called the Jews' feast, because it was now shortly to be abolished, as a mere Jewish thing, and left to them that served the tabernacle.
III. Christ's discourse with his brethren, some of his kindred, whether by his mother or his supposed father is not certain; but they were such as pretended to have an interest in him, and therefore interposed to advise him in his conduct. And observe,
1. Their ambition and vain-glory in urging him to make a more public appearance than he did: "Depart hence," said they, "and go into Judea (John 7:3), where thou wilt make a better figure than thou canst here."
(1.) They give two reasons for this advice: [1.] That it would be an encouragement to those in and about Jerusalem who had a respect for him; for, expecting his temporal kingdom, the royal seat of which they concluded must be at Jerusalem, they would have had the disciples there particularly countenanced, and thought the time he spent among his Galilean disciples wasted and thrown away, and his miracles turning to no account unless those at Jerusalem saw them. Or, "That thy disciples, all of them in general, who will be gathered at Jerusalem to keep the feast, may see thy works, and not, as here, a few at one time and a few at another." [2.] That it would be for the advancement of his name and honour: There is no man that does any thing in secret if he himself seeks to be known openly. They took it for granted that Christ sought to make himself known, and therefore thought it absurd for him to conceal his miracles: "If thou do these things, if thou be so well able to gain the applause of the people and the approbation of the rulers by thy miracles, venture abroad, and show thyself to the world. Supported with these credentials, thou canst not fail of acceptance, and therefore it is high time to set up for an interest, and to think of being great."
(2.) One would not think there was any harm in this advice, and yet the evangelist noted it is an evidence of their infidelity: For neither did his brethren believe in him (John 7:5), if they had, they would not have said this. Observe, [1.] It was an honour to be of the kindred of Christ, but no saving honour; they that hear his word and keep it are the kindred he values. Surely grace runs in no blood in the world, when not in that of Christ's family. [2.] It was a sign that Christ did not aim at any secular interest, for then his kindred would have struck in with him, and he would have secured them first. [3.] There were those who were akin to Christ according to the flesh who did believe in him (three of the twelve were his brethren), and yet others, as nearly allied to him as they, did not believe in him. Many that have the same external privileges and advantages do not make the same use of them. But,
(3.) What was there amiss in the advice which they gave him? I answer, [1.] It was a piece of presumption for them to prescribe to Christ, and to teach him what measures to take; it was a sign that they did not believe him able to guide them, when they did not think him sufficient to guide himself. [2.] They discovered a great carelessness about his safety, when they would have him go to Judea, where they knew the Jews sought to kill him. Those that believed in him, and loved him, dissuaded him from Judea, John 11:8. [3.] Some think they hoped that if his miracles were wrought at Jerusalem the Pharisees and rulers would try them, and discover some cheat in them, which would justify their unbelief. So. Dr. Whitby. [4.] Perhaps they were weary of his company in Galilee (for are not all these that speak Galileans?) and this was, in effect, a desire that he would depart out of their coasts. [5.] They causelessly insinuate that he neglected his disciples, and denied them such a sight of his works as was necessary to the support of their faith. [6.] They tacitly reproach him as mean-spirited, that he durst not enter the lists with the great men, nor trust himself upon the stage of public action, which, if he had any courage and greatness of soul, he would do, and not sneak thus and skulk in a corner; thus Christ's humility, and his humiliation, and the small figure which his religion has usually made in the world, have been often turned to the reproach of both him and it. [7.] They seem to question the truth of the miracles he wrought, in saying, "If thou do these things, if they will bear the test of a public scrutiny in the courts above, produce them there." [8.] They think Christ altogether such a one as themselves, as subject as they to worldly policy, and as desirous as they to make a fair show in the flesh; whereas he sought not honour from men. [9.] Self was at the bottom of all; they hoped, if he would make himself as great as he might, they, being his kinsmen, should share in his honour, and have respect paid them for his sake. Note, First, Many carnal people go to public ordinances, to worship at the feast, only to show themselves, and all their care is to make a good appearance, to present themselves handsomely to the world. Secondly, Many that seem to seek Christ's honour do really therein seek their own, and make it serve a turn for themselves.
2. The prudence and humility of our Lord Jesus, which appeared in his answer to the advice his brethren gave him, John 7:6-8. Though there were so many base insinuations in it, he answered them mildly. Note, Even that which is said without reason should be answered without passion; we should learn of our Master to reply with meekness even to that which is most impertinent and imperious, and, where it is easy to find much amiss, to seem not to see it, and wink at the affront. They expected Christ's company with them to the feast, perhaps hoping he would bear their charges: but here,
(1.) He shows the difference between himself and them, in two things:-- [1.] His time was set, so was not theirs: My time is not yet come, but your time is always ready. Understand it of the time of his going up to the feast. It was an indifferent thing to them when they went, for they had nothing of moment to do either where they were, to detain them there, or where they were going, to hasten them thither; but every minute of Christ's time was precious, and had its own particular business allotted to it. He had some work yet to do in Galilee before he left the country: in the harmony of the gospels betwixt this motion made by his kindred and his going up to this feast comes in the story of his sending forth the seventy disciples (Luke 10:1, &c.), which was an affair of very great consequence; his time is not yet, for that must be done first. Those who live useless lives have their time always ready; they can go and come when they please. But those whose time is filled up with duty will often find themselves straitened, and they have not yet time for that which others can do at any time. Those who are made the servants of God, as all men are, and who have made themselves the servants of all, as all useful men have, must not expect not covet to be masters of their own time. The confinement of business is a thousand times better than the liberty of idleness. Or, it may be meant of the time of his appearing publicly at Jerusalem; Christ, who knows all men and all things, knew that the best and most proper time for it would be about the middle of the feast. We, who are ignorant and short-sighted, are apt to prescribe to him, and to think he should deliver his people, and so show himself now. The present time is our time, but he is fittest to judge, and, it may be, his time is not yet come; his people are not yet ready for deliverance, nor his enemies ripe for ruin; let us therefore wait with patience for his time, for all he does will be most glorious in its season. [2.] His life was sought, so was not theirs, John 7:7. They, in showing themselves to the world, did not expose themselves: "The world cannot hate you, for you are of the world, its children, its servants, and in with its interests; and no doubt the world will love its own;" see John 15:19. Unholy souls, whom the holy God cannot love, the world that lies in wickedness cannot hate; but Christ, in showing himself to the world, laid himself open to the greatest danger; for me it hateth. Christ was not only slighted, as inconsiderable in the world (the world knew him not), but hated, as if he had been hurtful to the world; thus ill was he requited for his love to the world: reigning sin is a rooted antipathy and enmity to Christ. But why did the world hate Christ? What evil had he done to it? Had he, like Alexander, under colour of conquering it, laid it waste? "No, but because" (saith he) "I testify of it, that the works of it are evil." Note, First, The works of an evil world are evil works; as the tree is, so are the fruits: it is a dark world, and an apostate world, and its works are works of darkness and rebellion. Secondly, Our Lord Jesus, both by himself and by his ministers, did and will both discover and testify against the evil works of this wicked world. Thirdly, It is a great uneasiness and provocation to the world to be convicted of the evil of its works. It is for the honour of virtue and piety that those who are impious and vicious do not care for hearing of it, for their own consciences make them ashamed of the turpitude there is in sin and afraid of the punishment that follows after sin. Fourthly, Whatever is pretended, the real cause of the world's enmity to the gospel is the testimony it bears against sin and sinners. Christ's witnesses by their doctrine and conversation torment those that dwell on the earth, and therefore are treated so barbarously, Revelation 11:10. But it is better to incur the world's hatred, by testifying against its wickedness, than gain its good-will by going down the stream with it.
(2.) He dismisses them, with a design to stay behind for some time in Galilee (John 7:8): Go you up to this feast, I go not up yet. [1.] He allows their going to the feast, though they were carnal and hypocritical in it. Note, Even those who go not to holy ordinances with right affections and sincere intentions must not be hindered nor discouraged from going; who knows but they may be wrought upon there? [2.] He denies them his company when they went to the feast, because they were carnal and hypocritical. Those who go to ordinances for ostentation, or to serve some secular purpose, go without Christ, and will speed accordingly. How sad is the condition of that man, though he reckon himself akin to Christ, to whom he saith, "Go up to such an ordinance, Go pray, Go hear the word, Go receive the sacrament, but I go not up with thee? Go thou and appear before God, but I will not appear for thee," as Exodus 33:1-3. But, if the presence of Christ go not with us, to what purpose should we go up? Go you up, I go not up. When we are going to, or coming from, solemn ordinances, it becomes us to be careful what company we have and choose, and to avoid that which is vain and carnal, lest the coal of good affections be quenched by corrupt communication. I go not up yet to this feast; he does not say, I will not go up at all, but not yet. There may be reasons for deferring a particular duty, which yet must not be wholly omitted or laid aside; see Numbers 9:6-11. The reason he gives is, My time is not yet fully come. Note, Our Lord Jesus is very exact and punctual in knowing and keeping his time, and, as it was the time fixed, so it was the best time.
3. Christ's continuance in Galilee till his full time was come, John 7:9. He, saying these things to them (tauta de eipon) abode still in Galilee; because of this discourse he continued there; for, (1.) He would not be influenced by those who advised him to seek honour from men, nor go along with those who put him upon making a figure; he would not seem to countenance the temptation. (2.) He would not depart from his own purpose. He had said, upon a clear foresight and mature deliberation, that he would not go up yet to this feast, and therefore he abode still in Galilee. It becomes the followers of Christ thus to be steady, and not to use lightness.
4. His going up to the feast when his time was come. Observe, (1.) When he went: When his brethren were gone up. He would not go up with them, lest they should make a noise and disturbance, under pretence of showing him to the world; whereas it agreed both with the prediction and with his spirit not to strive nor cry, nor let his voice be heard in the streets, Isaiah 42:2. But he went up after them. We may lawfully join in the same religious worship with those with whom we should yet decline an intimate acquaintance and converse; for the blessing of ordinances depends upon the grace of God, and not upon the grace of our fellow-worshippers. His carnal brethren went up first, and then he went. Note, In the external performances of religion it is possible that formal hypocrites may get the start of those that are sincere. Many come first to the temple who are brought thither by vain-glory, and go thence unjustified, as he, Luke 18:11. It is not, Who comes first? that will be the question, but, Who comes fittest? If we bring our hearts with us, it is no matter who gets before us. (2.) How he went, os en krypto--a s if he were hiding himself: not openly, but as it were in secret, rather for fear of giving offence than of receiving injury. He went up to the feast, because it was an opportunity of honouring God and doing good; but he went up as it were in secret, because he would not provoke the government. Note, Provided the work of God be done effectually, it is best done when done with least noise. The kingdom of God need not come with observation, Luke 17:20. We may do the work of God privately, and yet not do it deceitfully.
5. The great expectation that there was of him among the Jews at Jerusalem, John 7:11-14. Having formerly come up to the feasts, and signalized himself by the miracles he wrought, he had made himself the subject of much discourse and observation.
(1.) They could not but think of him (John 7:11): The Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he? [1.] The common people longed to see him there, that they might have their curiosity gratified with the sight of his person and miracles. They did not think it worth while to go to him into Galilee, though if they had they would not have lost their labour, but they hoped the feast would bring him to Jerusalem, and then they should see him. If an opportunity of acquaintance with Christ come to their door, they can like it well enough. They sought him at the feast. When we attend upon God in his holy ordinances, we should seek Christ in them, seek him at the gospel feasts. Those who would see Christ at a feast must seek him there. Or, [2.] Perhaps it was his enemies that were thus waiting an opportunity to seize him, and, if possible, to put an effectual stop to his progress. They said, Where is he? pou esin ekeinos--where is that fellow? Thus scornfully and contemptibly do they speak of him. When they should have welcomed the feast as an opportunity of serving God, they were glad of it as an opportunity of persecuting Christ. Thus Saul hoped to slay David at the new moon, 1 Samuel 20:27. Those who seek opportunity to sin in solemn assemblies for religious worship profane God's ordinances to the last degree, and defy him upon his own ground; it is like striking within the verge of the court.
(2.) The people differed much in their sentiments concerning him (John 7:12): There was much murmuring, or muttering rather, among the people concerning him. The enmity of the rulers against Christ, and their enquiries after him, caused him to be so much the more talked of and observed among the people. This ground the gospel of Christ has got by the opposition made to it, that it has been the more enquired into, and, by being every where spoken against, it has come to be every where spoken of, and by this means has been spread the further, and the merits of his cause have been the more searched into. This murmuring was not against Christ, but concerning him; some murmured at the rulers, because they did not countenance and encourage him: others murmured at them, because they did not silence and restrain him. Some murmured that he had so great an interest in Galilee; others, that he had so little interest in Jerusalem. Note, Christ and his religion have been, and will be, the subject of much controversy and debate, Luke 12:51,52. If all would agree to entertain Christ as they ought, there would be perfect peace; but, when some receive the light and others resolve against it, there will be murmuring. The bones in the valley, while they were dead and dry, lay quiet; but when it was said unto them, Live, there was a noise and a shaking, Ezekiel 37:7. But the noise and rencounter of liberty and business are preferable, surely, to the silence and agreement of a prison. Now what were the sentiments of the people concerning him? [1.] Some said, he is a good man. This was a truth, but it was far short of being the whole truth. He was not only a good man, but more than a man, he was the Son of God. Many who have no ill thoughts of Christ have yet low thoughts of him, and scarcely honour him, even when they speak well of him, because they do not say enough; yet indeed it was his honour, and the reproach of those who persecuted him, that even those who would not believe him to be the Messiah could not but own he was a good man. [2.] Others said, Nay, but he deceiveth the people; if this had been true, he had been a very bad man. The doctrine he preached was sound, and could not be contested; his miracles were real, and could not be disproved; his conversation was manifestly holy and good; and yet it must be taken for granted, notwithstanding, that there was some undiscovered cheat at the bottom, because it was the interest of the chief priests to oppose him and run him down. Such murmuring as there was among the Jews concerning Christ there is still among us: the Socinians say, He is a good man, and further they say not; the deists will not allow this, but say, He deceived the people. Thus some depreciate him, others abuse him, but great is the truth. [3.] They were frightened by their superiors from speaking much of him (John 7:13): No man spoke openly of him, for fear of the Jews. Either, First, They durst not openly speak well of him. While any one was at liberty to censure and reproach him, none durst vindicate him. Or, Secondly, They durst not speak at all of him openly. Because nothing could justly be said against him, they would not suffer any thing to be said of him. It was a crime to name him. Thus many have aimed to suppress truth, under colour of silencing disputes about it, and would have all talk of religion hushed, in hopes thereby to bury in oblivion religion itself.
Christ at the Feast of Tabernacles.
14 Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught. 15 And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned? 16 Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. 17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. 18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. 19 Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me? 20 The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee? 21 Jesus answered and said unto them, I have done one work, and ye all marvel. 22 Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man. 23 If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day? 24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment. 25 Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill? 26 But, lo, he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing unto him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ? 27 Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence he is. 28 Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not. 29 But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me. 30 Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come. 31 And many of the people believed on him, and said, When Christ cometh, will he do more miracles than these which this man hath done? 32 The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him. 33 Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto him that sent me. 34 Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come. 35 Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles? 36 What manner of saying is this that he said, Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come?
Here is, I. Christ's public preaching in the temple (John 7:14): He went up into the temple, and taught, according to his custom when he was at Jerusalem. His business was to preach the gospel of the kingdom, and he did it in every place of concourse. His sermon is not recorded, because, probably, it was to the same purport with the sermons he had preached in Galilee, which were recorded by the other evangelists. For the gospel is the same to the plain and to the polite. But that which is observable here is that it was about the midst of the feast; the fourth or fifth day of the eight. Whether he did not come up to Jerusalem till the middle of the feast, or whether he came up at the beginning, but kept private till now, is not certain. But, Query, Why did he not go to the temple sooner, to preach? Answer, 1. Because the people would have more leisure to hear him, and, it might be hoped, would be better disposed to hear him, when they had spent some days in their booths, as they did at the feast of tabernacles. 2. Because he would choose to appear when both his friends and his enemies had done looking for him; and so give a specimen of the method he would observe in his appearances, which is to come at midnight, Matthew 25:6. But why did he appear thus publicly now? Surely it was to shame his persecutors, the chief priests and elders. (1.) By showing that, though they were very bitter against him, yet he did not fear them, nor their power. See Isaiah 50:7,8. (2.) By taking their work out of their hands. Their office was to teach the people in the temple, and particularly at the feast of tabernacles, Nehemiah 8:17,18. But they either did not teach them at all or taught for doctrines the commandments of men, and therefore he goes up to the temple and teaches the people. When the shepherds of Israel made a prey of the flock it was time for the chief Shepherd to appear, as was promised. Ezekiel 34:22,23,Mal+3:1.
II. His discourse with the Jews hereupon; and the conference is reducible to four heads:
1. Concerning his doctrine. See here,
(1.) How the Jews admired it (John 7:15): They marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned? Observe here, [1.] That our Lord Jesus was not educated in the schools of the prophets, or at the feet of the rabbin; not only did not travel for learning, as the philosophers did, but did not make any use of the schools and academies in his own country. Moses was taught the learning of the Egyptians, but Christ was not taught so much as the learning of the Jews; having received the Spirit without measure, he needed not receive any knowledge from man, or by man. At the time of Christ's appearing, learning flourished both in the Roman empire and in the Jewish church more than in any age before or since, and in such a time of enquiry Christ chose to establish his religion, not in an illiterate age, lest it should look like a design to impose upon the world; yet he himself studied not the learning then in vogue. [2.] That Christ had letters, though he had never learned them; was mighty in the scriptures, though he never had any doctor of the law for his tutor. It is necessary that Christ's ministers should have learning, as he had; and since they cannot expect to have it as he had it, by inspiration, they must take pains to get it in an ordinary way. [3.] That Christ's having learning, though he had not been taught it, made him truly great and wonderful; the Jews speak of it here with wonder. First, Some, it is likely, took notice of it to his honour: He that had no human learning, and yet so far excelled all that had, certainly must be endued with a divine knowledge. Secondly, Others, probably, mentioned it in disparagement and contempt of him: Whatever he seems to have, he cannot really have any true learning, for he was never at the university, nor took his degree. Thirdly, Some perhaps suggested that he had got his learning by magic arts, or some unlawful means or other. Since they know not how he could be a scholar, they will think him a conjurer.
(2.) What he asserted concerning it; three things:--
[1.] That his doctrine is divine (John 7:16): My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. They were offended because he undertook to teach though he had never learned, in answer to which he tells them that his doctrine was such as was not to be learned, for it was not the product of human thought and natural powers enlarged and elevated by reading and conversation, but it was a divine revelation. As God, equal with the Father, he might truly have said, My doctrine is mine, and his that sent me; but being now in his estate of humiliation, and being, as Mediator, God's servant, it was more congruous to say, "My doctrine is not mine, not mine only, nor mine originally, as man and mediator, but his that sent me; it does not centre in myself, nor lead ultimately to myself, but to him that sent me." God had promised concerning the great prophet that he would put his words into his mouth (Deuteronomy 18:18), to which Christ seems here to refer. Note, It is the comfort of those who embrace Christ's doctrine, and the condemnation of those who reject it, that it is a divine doctrine: it is of God and not of man.
[2.] That the most competent judges of the truth and divine authority of Christ's doctrine are those that with a sincere and upright heart desire and endeavour to do the will of God (John 7:17): If any man be willing to do the will of God, have his will melted into the will of God, he shall know of the doctrine whether it be of God or whether I speak of myself. Observe here, First, What the question is, concerning the doctrine of Christ, whether it be of God or no; whether the gospel be a divine revelation or an imposture. Christ himself was willing to have his doctrine enquired into, whether it were of God or no, much more should his ministers; and we are concerned to examine what grounds we go upon, for, if we be deceived, we are miserably deceived. Secondly, Who are likely to succeed in this search: those that do the will of God, at least are desirous to do it. Now see, 1. Who they are that will do the will of God. They are such as are impartial in their enquiries concerning the will of God, and are not biassed by any lust or interest, and such as are resolved by the grace of God, when they find out what the will of God is, to conform to it. They are such as have an honest principle of regard to God, and are truly desirous to glorify and please him. 2. Whence it is that such a one shall know of the truth of Christ's doctrine. (1.) Christ has promised to give knowledge to such; he hath said, He shall know, and he can give an understanding. Those who improve the light they have, and carefully live up to it, shall be secured by divine grace from destructive mistakes. (2.) They are disposed and prepared to receive that knowledge. He that is inclined to submit to the rules of the divine law is disposed to admit the rays of divine light. To him that has shall be given; those have a good understanding that do his commandments, Psalms 111:10. Those who resemble God are most likely to understand him.
[3.] That hereby it appeared that Christ, as a teacher, did not speak of himself, because he did not seek himself, John 7:18. First, See here the character of a deceiver: he seeketh his own glory, which is a sign that he speaks of himself, as the false Christs and false prophets did. Here is the description of the cheat: they speak of themselves, and have no commission nor instructions from God; no warrant but their own will, no inspiration but their own imagination, their own policy and artifice. Ambassadors speak not of themselves; those ministers disclaim that character who glory in this that they speak of themselves. But see the discovery of the cheat; by this their pretensions are disproved, they consult purely their own glory; self-seekers are self-speakers. Those who speak from God will speak for God, and for his glory; those who aim at their own preferment and interest make it to appear that they had no commission form God. Secondly, See the contrary character Christ gives of himself and his doctrine: He that seeks his glory that sent him, as I do, makes it to appear that he is true. 1. He was sent of God. Those teachers, and those only, who are sent of God, are to be received and entertained by us. Those who bring a divine message must prove a divine mission, either by special revelation or by regular institution. 2. He sought the glory of God. It was both the tendency of his doctrine and the tenour of his whole conversation to glorify God. 3. This was a proof that he was true, and there was no unrighteousness in him. False teachers are most unrighteous; they are unjust to God whose name they abuse, and unjust to the souls of men whom they impose upon. There cannot be a greater piece of unrighteousness than this. But Christ made it appear that he was true, that he was really what he said he was, that there was no unrighteousness in him, no falsehood in his doctrine, no fallacy nor fraud in his dealings with us.
2. They discourse concerning the crime that was laid to his charge for curing the impotent man, and bidding him carry his bed on the sabbath day, for which they had formerly prosecuted him, and which was still the pretence of their enmity to him.
(1.) He argues against them by way of recrimination, convicting them of far worse practices, John 7:19. How could they for shame censure him for a breach of the law of Moses, when they themselves were such notorious breakers of it? Did not Moses give you the law? And it was their privilege that they had the law, no nation had such a law; but it was their wickedness that none of them kept the law, that they rebelled against it, and lived contrary to it. Many that have the law given them, when they have it do not keep it. Their neglect of the law was universal: None of you keepeth it: neither those of them that were in posts of honour, who should have been most knowing, nor those who were in posts of subjection, who should have been most obedient. They boasted of the law, and pretended a zeal for it, and were enraged at Christ for seeming to transgress it, and yet none of them kept it; like those who say that they are for the church, and yet never go to church. It was an aggravation of their wickedness, in persecuting Christ for breaking the law, that they themselves did not keep it: "None of you keepeth the law, why then go ye about to kill me for not keeping it?" Note, Those are commonly most censorious of others who are most faulty themselves. Thus hypocrites, who are forward to pull a mote out of their brother's eye, are not aware of a beam in their own. Why go ye about to kill me? Some take this as the evidence of their not keeping the law: "You keep not the law; if you did, you would understand yourselves better than to go about to kill me for doing a good work." Those that support themselves and their interest by persecution and violence, whatever they pretend (though they may call themselves custodes utriusque tabulæ--the guardians of both tables), are not keepers of the law of God. Chemnitius understands this as a reason why it was time to supersede the law of Moses by the gospel, because the law was found insufficient to restrain sin: "Moses gave you the law, but you do not keep it, nor are kept by it from the greatest wickedness; there is therefore need of a clearer light and better law to be brought in; why then do you aim to kill me for introducing it?"
Here the people rudely interrupted him in his discourse, and contradicted what he said (John 7:20): Thou has a devil; who goes about to kill thee? This intimates, [1.] The good opinion they had of their rulers, who, they think, would never attempt so atrocious a thing as to kill him; no, such a veneration they had for their elders and chief priests that they would swear for them they would do no harm to an innocent man. Probably the rulers had their little emissaries among the people who suggested this to them; many deny that wickedness which at the same time they are contriving. [2.] The ill opinion they had of our Lord Jesus: "Thou hast a devil, thou art possessed with a lying spirit, and art a bad man for saying so;" so some: or rather, "Thou art melancholy, and art a weak man; thou frightenest thyself with causeless fears, as hypochondriacal people are apt to do." Not only open frenzies, but silent melancholies, were then commonly imputed to the power of Satan. "Thou art crazed, has a distempered brain." Let us not think it strange if the best of men are put under the worst of characters. To this vile calumny our Saviour returns no direct answer, but seems as if he took no notice of it. Note, Those who would be like Christ must put up with affronts, and pass by the indignities and injuries done them; must not regard them, much less resent them, and least of all revenge them. I, as a deaf man, heard not. When Christ was reviled, he reviled not again,
(2.) He argues by way of appeal and vindication.
[1.] He appeals to their own sentiments of this miracle: "I have done one work, and you all marvel, John 7:21. You cannot choose but marvel at it as truly great, and altogether supernatural; you must all own it to be marvellous." Or, "Though I have done but one work that you have any colour to find fault with, yet you marvel, you are offended and displeased as if I had been guilty of some heinous or enormous crime."
[2.] He appeals to their own practice in other instances: "I have done one work on the sabbath, and it was done easily, with a word's speaking, and you all marvel, you make a mighty strange thing of it, that a religious man should dare do such a thing, whereas you yourselves many a time do that which is a much more servile work on the sabbath day, in the case of circumcision; if it be lawful for you, nay, and your duty, to circumcise a child on the sabbath day, when it happens to be the eighth day, as no doubt it is, much more was it lawful and good for me to heal a diseased man on that day." Observe,
First, The rise and origin of circumcision: Moses gave you circumcision, gave you the law concerning it. Here, 1. Circumcision is said to be given, and (John 7:23) they are said to receive it; it was not imposed upon them as a yoke, but conferred upon them as a favour. Note, The ordinances of God, and particularly those which are seals of the covenant, are gifts given to men, and are to be received as such. 2. Moses is said to give it, because it was a part of that law which was given by Moses; yet, as Christ said of the manna (John 6:32), Moses did not give it them, but God; nay, and it was not of Moses first, but of the fathers, John 7:22. Though it was incorporated into the Mosaic institution, yet it was ordained long before, for it was a seal of the righteousness of faith, and therefore commenced with the promise four hundred and thirty years before, Galatians 3:17. The church membership of believers and their seed was not of Moses or his law, and therefore did not fall with it; but was of the fathers, belonged to the patriarchal church, and was part of that blessing of Abraham which was to come upon the Gentiles, Galatians 3:14.
Secondly, The respect paid to the law of circumcision above that of the sabbath, in the constant practice of the Jewish church. The Jewish casuists frequently take notice of it, Circumcisio et ejus sanatio pellit sabbbatum--Circumcision and its cure drive away the sabbath; so that if a child was born one sabbath day it was without fail circumcised the next. If then, when the sabbath rest was more strictly insisted on, yet those works were allowed which were in ordine ad spiritualia--for the keeping up of religion, much more are they allowed now under the gospel, when the stress is laid more upon the sabbath work.
Thirdly, The inference Christ draws hence in justification of himself, and of what he had done (John 7:23): A man-child on the sabbath day receives circumcision, that the law of circumcision might not be broken; or, as the margin reads it, without breaking the law, namely, of the sabbath. Divine commands must be construed so as to agree with each other. "Now, if this be allowed by yourselves, how unreasonable are you, who are angry with me because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day!" emoi cholate. The word is used only here, from choge--fel, gall. They were angry at him with the greatest indignation; it was a spiteful anger, anger with gall in it. Note, It is very absurd and unreasonable for us to condemn others for that in which we justify ourselves. Observe the comparison Christ here makes between their circumcising a child and his healing a man on the sabbath day. 1. Circumcision was but a ceremonial institution; it was of the fathers indeed, but not from the beginning; but what Christ did was a good work by the law of nature, a more excellent law than that which made circumcision a good work. 2. Circumcision was a bloody ordinance, and made sore; but what Christ did was healing, and made whole. The law works pain, and, if that work may be done on the sabbath day, much more a gospel work, which produces peace. 3. Especially considering that whereas, when they had circumcised a child, their care was only to heal up that part which was circumcised, which might be done and yet the child remain under other illnesses, Christ had made this man every whit whole, holon anthropon hygie--I have made the whole man healthful and sound. The whole body was healed, for the disease affected the whole body; and it was a perfect cure, such as left no relics of the disease behind; nay, Christ not only healed his body, but his soul too, by that admonition, Go, and sin no more, and so indeed made the whole man sound, for the soul is the man. Circumcision indeed was intended for the good of the soul, and to make the whole man as it should be; but they had perverted it, and turned it into a mere carnal ordinance; but Christ accompanied his outward cures with inward grace, and so made them sacramental, and healed the whole man.
He concludes this argument with that rule (John 7:24): Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment. This may be applied, either, First, In particular, to this work which they quarrelled with as a violation of the law. Be not partial in your judgment; judge not, kat opsin--with respect of persons; knowing faces, as the Hebrew phrase is, Deuteronomy 1:17. It is contrary to the law of justice, as well as charity, to censure those who differ in opinion from us as transgressors, in taking that liberty which yet in those of our own party, and way, and opinion, we allow of; as it is also to commend that in some as necessary strictness and severity which in others we condemn as imposition and persecution. Or, Secondly, In general, to Christ's person and preaching, which they were offended at and prejudiced against. Those things that are false, and designed to impose upon men, commonly appear best when they are judged of according to the outward appearance, they appear most plausible prima facie--at the first glance. It was this that gained the Pharisees such an interest and reputation, that they appeared right unto men (Matthew 23:27,28), and men judged of them by that appearance, and so were sadly mistaken in them. "But," saith Christ, "be not too confident that all are real saints who are seeming ones." With reference to himself, his outward appearance was far short of his real dignity and excellency, for he took upon him the form of a servant (Philippians 2:7), was in the likeness of sinful flesh (Romans 8:3), had no form nor comeliness, Isaiah 53:2. So that those who undertook to judge whether he was the Son of God or no by his outward appearance were not likely to judge righteous judgment. The Jews expected the outward appearance of the Messiah to be pompous and magnificent, and attended with all the ceremonies of secular grandeur; and, judging of Christ by that rule, their judgment was from first to last a continual mistake, for the kingdom of Christ was not to be of this world, nor to come with observation. If a divine power accompanied him, and God bore him witness, and the scriptures were fulfilled in him, though his appearance was ever so mean, they ought to receive him, and to judge by faith, and not by the sight of the eye. See Isaiah 11:3,1Sa+16:7. Christ and his doctrine and doings desire nothing but righteous judgment; if truth and justice may but pass the sentence, Christ and his cause will carry the day. We must not judge concerning any by their outward appearance, not by their titles, the figure they make in the world, and their fluttering show, but by their intrinsic worth, and the gifts and graces of God's Spirit in them.
3. Christ discourses with them here concerning himself, whence he came, and whither he was going, John 7:25-36.
(1.) Whence he came, John 7:25-31. In the account of this observe,
[1.] The objection concerning this stated by some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, who seem to have been of all others most prejudiced against him, John 7:25. One would think that those who lived at the fountain-head of knowledge and religion should have been most ready to receive the Messiah: but it proved quite contrary. Those that have plenty of the means of knowledge and grace, if they are not made better by them, are commonly made worse; and our Lord Jesus has often met with the least welcome from those that one would expect the best from. But it was not without some just cause that it came into a proverb, The nearer the church the further from God. These people of Jerusalem showed their ill-will to Christ,
First, By their reflecting on the rulers, because they let him alone: Is not this he whom they seek to kill? The multitude of the people that came up out of the country to the feast did not suspect there was any design on foot against him, and therefore they said, Who goes about to kill thee? John 7:20. But those of Jerusalem knew the plot, and irritated their rulers to put it into execution: "Is not this he whom they seek to kill? Why do they not do it then? Who hinders them? They say that they have a mind to get him out of the way, and yet, lo, he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing to him; do the rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ?" John 7:26. Here they slyly and maliciously insinuate two things, to exasperate the rulers against Christ, when indeed they needed to spur. 1. That by conniving at his preaching they brought their authority into contempt. "Must a man that is condemned by the sanhedrim as a deceiver be permitted to speak boldly, without any check or contradiction? This makes their sentence to be but brutem fulmen--a vain menace; if our rulers will suffer themselves to be thus trampled upon, they may thank themselves if none stand in awe of them and their laws." Note, The worst of persecutions have often been carried on under colour of the necessary support of authority and government. 2. That hereby they brought their judgment into suspicion. Do they know that this is the Christ? It is spoken ironically, "How came they to change their mind? What new discovery have they lighted on? They give people occasion to think that they believe him to be the Christ, and it behoves them to act vigorously against him to clear themselves from the suspicion." Thus the rulers, who had made the people enemies to Christ, made them seven times more the children of hell than themselves, Matthew 23:15. When religion and the profession of Christ's name are out of fashion, and consequently out of repute, many are strongly tempted to persecute and oppose them, only that they may not be thought to favour them and incline to them. And for this reason apostates, and the degenerate offspring of good parents, have been sometimes worse than others, as it were to wipe off the stain of their profession. It was strange that the rulers, thus irritated, did not seize Christ; but his hour was not yet come; and God can tie men's hands to admiration, though he should not turn their hearts.
Secondly, By their exception against his being the Christ, in which appeared more malice than matter, John 7:27. "If the rulers think him to be the Christ, we neither can nor will believe him to be so, for we have this argument against it, that we know this man, whence he is; but when Christ comes no man knows whence he is." Here is a fallacy in the argument, for the propositions are not body ad idem--adapted to the same view of the subject. 1. If they speak of his divine nature, it is true that when Christ comes no man knows whence he is, for he is a priest after the order of Melchizedek, who was without descent, and his goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting, Micah 5:2. But then it is not true that as for this man they knew whence he was, for they knew not his divine nature, nor how the Word was made flesh. 2. If they speak of his human nature, it is true that they knew whence he was, who was his mother, and where he was bred up; but then it is false that ever it was said of the Messiah that none should know whence he was, for it was known before where he should be born, Matthew 2:4,5. Observe, (1.) How they despised him, because they knew whence he was. Familiarity breeds contempt, and we are apt to disdain the use of those whom we know the rise of. Christ's own received him not, because he was their own, for which very reason they should the rather have loved him, and been thankful that their nation and their age were honoured with his appearance. (2.) How they endeavoured unjustly to fasten the ground of their prejudice upon the scriptures, as if they countenanced them, when there was no such thing. Therefore people err concerning Christ, because they know not the scripture.
[2.] Christ's answer to this objection, John 7:28,29.
First, He spoke freely and boldly, he cried in the temple, as he taught, he spoke this louder than the rest of his discourse, 1. To express his earnestness, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts. There may be a vehemency in contending for the truth where yet there is no intemperate heat nor passion. We may instruct gainsayers with warmth, and yet with meekness. 2. The priests and those that were prejudiced against him, did not come near enough to hear his preaching, and therefore he must speak louder than ordinary what he will have them to hear. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear this.
Secondly, His answer to their cavil is, 1. By way of concession, granting that they did or might know his origin as to the flesh: "You both know me, and you know whence I am. You know I am of your own nation, and one of yourselves." It is no disparagement to the doctrine of Christ that there is that in it which is level to the capacities of the meanest, plain truths, discovered even by nature's light, of which we may say, We know whence they are. "You know me, you think you know me; but you are mistaken; you take me to be the carpenter's son, and born at Nazareth, but it is not so." 2. By way of negation, denying that that which they did see in him, and know of him, was all that was to be known; and therefore, if they looked no further, they judged by the outward appearance only. They knew whence he came perhaps, and where he had his birth, but he will tell them what they knew not, from whom he came. (1.) That he did not come of himself; that he did not run without sending, nor come as a private person, but with a public character. (2.) That he was sent of his Father; this is twice mentioned: He hath sent me. And again, "He hath sent me, to say what I say, and do what I do." This he was himself well assured of, and therefore knew that his Father would bear him out; and it is well for us that we are assured of it too, that we may with holy confidence go to God by him. (3.) That he was from his Father, par autou eimi--I am from him; not only sent from him as a servant from his master, but from him by eternal generation, as a son from his father, by essential emanation, as the beams from the sun. (4.) That the Father who sent him is true; he had promised to give the Messiah, and, though the Jews had forfeited the promise, yet he that made the promise is true, and has performed it. He had promised that the Messiah should see his seed, and be successful in his undertaking; and, though the generality of the Jews reject him and his gospel, yet he is true, and will fulfil the promise in the calling of the Gentiles. (5.) That these unbelieving Jews did not know the Father: He that sent me, whom you know not. There is much ignorance of God even with many that have a form of knowledge; and the true reason why people reject Christ is because they do not know God; for there is such a harmony of the divine attributes in the work of redemption, and such an admirable agreement between natural and revealed religion, that the right knowledge of the former would not only admit, but introduce, the latter. (6.) Our Lord Jesus was intimately acquainted with the Father that sent him: but I know him. He knew him so well that he was not at all in doubt concerning his mission from him, but perfectly assured of it; nor at all in the dark concerning the work he had to do, but perfectly apprized of it, Matthew 11:27.
[3.] The provocation which this gave to his enemies, who hated him because he told them the truth, John 7:30. They sought therefore to take him, to lay violent hands on him, not only to do him a mischief, but some way or other to be the death of him; but by the restraint of an invisible power it was prevented; nobody touched him, because his hour was not yet come; this was not their reason why they did it not, but God's reason why he hindered them from doing it. Note, First, The faithful preachers of the truths of God, though they behave themselves with ever so much prudence and meekness, must expect to be hated and persecuted by those who think themselves tormented by their testimony, Revelation 11:10. Secondly, God has wicked men in a chain, and, whatever mischief they would do, they can do no more than God will suffer them to do. The malice of persecutors is impotent even when it is most impetuous, and, when Satan fills their hearts, yet God ties their hands. Thirdly, God's servants are sometimes wonderfully protected by indiscernible unaccountable means. Their enemies do not do the mischief they designed, and yet neither they themselves nor any one else can tell why they do not. Fourthly, Christ had his hour set, which was to put a period to his day and work on earth; so have all his people and all his ministers, and, till that hour comes, the attempts of their enemies against them are ineffectual, and their day shall be lengthened as long as their Master has any work for them to do; nor can all the powers of hell and earth prevail against them, until they have finished their testimony.
[4.] The good effect which Christ's discourse had, notwithstanding this, upon some of his hearers (John 7:31): Many of the people believed on him. As he was set for the fall of some, so for the rising again of others. Even where the gospel meets with opposition there may yet be a great deal of good done, 1 Thessalonians 2:2. Observe here, First, Who they were that believed; not a few, but many, more than one would have expected when the stream ran so strongly the other way. But these many were of the people, ek tou ochlou--of the multitude, the crowd, the inferior sort, the mob, the rabble, some would have called them. We must not measure the prosperity of the gospel by its success among the great ones; nor much ministers say that they labour in vain, though none but the poor, and those of no figure, receive the gospel, 1 Corinthians 1:26. Secondly, What induced them to believe: the miracles which he did, which were not only the accomplishment of the Old-Testament prophecies (Isaiah 35:5,6), but an argument of a divine power. He that had an ability to do that which none but God can do, to control and overrule the powers of nature, no doubt had authority to enact that which none but God can enact, a law that shall bind conscience, and a covenant that shall give life. Thirdly, How weak their faith was: they do not positively assert, as the Samaritans did, This is indeed the Christ, but they only argue, When Christ comes will he do more miracles than these? They take it for granted that Christ will come, and, when he comes, will do many miracles. "Is not this he then? In him we see, though not all the worldly pomp we have fancied, yet all the divine power we have believed the Messiah should appear in; and therefore why may not this be he?" They believe it, but have not courage to own it. Note, Even weak faith may be true faith, and so accounted, so accepted, by the Lord Jesus, who despises not the day of small things.
(2.) Whither he was going, John 7:32-36. Here observe,
[1.] The design of the Pharisees and chief priests against him, John 7:32. First, The provocation given them was that they had information brought them by their spies, who insinuated themselves into the conversation of the people, and gathered stories to carry to their jealous masters, that the people murmured such things concerning him, that there were many who had a respect and value for him, notwithstanding all they had done to render him odious. Though the people did but whisper these things, and had not courage to speak out, yet the Pharisees were enraged at it. The equity of that government is justly suspected by others which is so suspicious of itself as to take notice of, or be influenced by, the secret, various, uncertain mutterings of the common people. The Pharisees valued themselves very much upon the respect of the people, and were sensible that if Christ did thus increase they must decrease. Secondly, The project they laid hereupon was to seize Jesus, and take him into custody: They sent officers to take him, not to take up those who murmured concerning him and frighten them; no, the most effectual way to disperse the flock is to smite the shepherd. The Pharisees seem to have been the ringleaders in this prosecution, but they, as such, had no power, and therefore they god the chief priests, the judges of the ecclesiastical court, to join with them, who were ready enough to do so. The Pharisees were the great pretenders to learning, and the chief priests to sanctify. As the world by wisdom knew not God, but the greatest philosophers were guilty of the greatest blunders in natural religion, so the Jewish church by their wisdom knew not Christ, but their greatest rabbin were the greatest fools concerning him, nay, they were the most inveterate enemies to him. Those wicked rulers had their officers, officers of their court, church-officers, whom they employed to take Christ, and who were ready to go on their errand, though it was an ill errand. If Saul's footmen will not turn and fall upon the priests of the Lord, he has a herdsman that will, 1 Samuel 22:17,18.
[2.] The discourse of our Lord Jesus hereupon (John 7:33,34): Yet a little while I am with you, and then I go to him that sent me; you shall seek me, and shall not find me; and where I am, thither you cannot come. These words, like the pillar of cloud and fire, have a bright side and a dark side.
First, They have a bright side towards our Lord Jesus himself, and speak abundance of comfort to him and all his faithful followers that are exposed to difficulties and dangers for his sake. Three things Christ here comforted himself with:-- 1. That he had but a little time to continue here in this troublesome world. He sees that he is never likely to have a quiet day among them; but the best of it is his warfare will shortly be accomplished, and then he shall be no more in this world, John 17:11. Whomsoever we are with in this world, friends or foes, it is but a little while that we shall be with them; and it is a matter of comfort to those who are in the world, but not of it, and therefore are hated by it and sick of it, that they shall not be in it always, they shall not be in it long. We must be awhile with those that are pricking briars and grieving thorns; but thanks be to God, it is but a little while, and we shall be out of their reach. Our days being evil, it is well they are few. 2. That, when he should quit this troublesome world, he should go to him that sent him; I go. Not, "I am driven away by force," but, "I voluntarily go; having finished my embassy, I return to him on whose errand I came. When I have done my work with you, then, and not till then, I go to him that sent me, and will receive me, will prefer me, as ambassadors are preferred when they return." Their rage against him would not only not hinder him from, but would hasten him to the glory and joy that were set before him. Let those who suffer for Christ comfort themselves with this, that they have a God to go to, and are going to him, going apace, to be for ever with him. 3. That, though they persecuted him here, wherever he went, yet none of their persecutions could follow him to heaven: You shall seek me, and shall not find me. It appears, by their enmity to his followers when he was gone, that if they could have reached him they would have persecuted him: "But you cannot enter into that temple as you do into this." Where I am, that is, where I then shall be; but he expressed it thus because, even when he was on earth, by his divine nature and divine affections he was in heaven, John 3:13. Or it denotes that he should be so soon there that he was as good as there already. Note, It adds to the happiness of glorified saints that they are out of the reach of the devil and all his wicked instruments.
Secondly, These words have a black and dark side towards those wicked Jews that hated and persecuted Christ. They now longed to be rid of him, Away with him from the earth; but let them know, 1. That according to their choice so shall their doom be. They were industrious to drive him from them, and their sin shall be their punishment; he will not trouble them long, yet a little while and he will depart from them. It is just with God to forsake those that think his presence a burden. They that are weary of Christ need no more to make them miserable than to have their wish. 2. That they would certainly repent their choice when it was too late. (1.) They should in vain seek the presence of the Messiah: "You shall seek me, and shall not find me. You shall expect the Christ to come, but your eyes shall fail with looking for him, and you shall never find him." Those who rejected the true Messiah when he did come were justly abandoned to a miserable and endless expectation of one that should never come. Or, it may refer to the final rejection of sinners from the favours and grace of Christ at the great day: those who now seek Christ shall find him, but the day is coming when those who now refuse him shall seek him, and shall not find him. See Proverbs 1:28. They will in vain cry, Lord, Lord, open to us. Or, perhaps, these words might be fulfilled in the despair of some of the Jews, who possibly might be convinced and not converted, who would wish in vain to see Christ, and to hear him preach again; but the day of grace is over (Luke 17:22); yet this is not all. (2.) They should in vain expect a place in heaven: Where I am, and where all believers shall be with me, thither ye cannot come. Not only because they are excluded by the just and irreversible sentence of the judge, and the sword of the angel at every gate of the new Jerusalem, to keep the way of the tree of life against those who have no right to enter, but because they are disabled by their own iniquity and infidelity: You cannot come, because you will not. Those who hate to be where Christ is, in his word and ordinances on earth, are very unfit to be where he is in his glory in heaven; for indeed heaven would be no heaven to them, such are the antipathies of an unsanctified soul to the felicities of that state.
The Gospel Invitation.
37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. 38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. 39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.) 40 Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet. 41 Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee? 42 Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was? 43 So there was a division among the people because of him. 44 And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.
In these verses we have,
I. Christ's discourse, with the explication of it, John 7:37-39. It is probable that these are only short hints of what he enlarged upon, but they have in them the substance of the whole gospel; here is a gospel invitation to come to Christ, and a gospel promise of comfort and happiness in him. Now observe,
1. When he gave this invitation: On the last day of the feast of tabernacles, that great day. The eighth day, which concluded that solemnity, was to be a holy convocation, Leviticus 23:36. Now on this day Christ published this gospel-call, because (1.) Much people were gathered together, and, if the invitation were given to many, it might be hoped that some would accept of it, Proverbs 1:20. Numerous assemblies give opportunity of doing the more good. (2.) The people were now returning to their homes, and he would give them this to carry away with them as his parting word. When a great congregation is to be dismissed, and is about to scatter, as here, it is affecting to think that in all probability they will never come all together again in this world, and therefore, if we can say or do any thing to help them to heaven, that must be the time. It is good to be lively at the close of an ordinance. Christ made this offer on the last day of the feast. [1.] To those who had turned a deaf ear to his preaching on the foregoing days of this sacred week; he will try them once more, and, if they will yet hear his voice, they shall live. [2.] To those who perhaps might never have such another offer made them, and therefore were concerned to accept of this; it would be half a year before there would be another feast, and in that time they would many of them be in their graves. Behold now is the accepted time.
2. How he gave this invitation: Jesus stood and cried, which denotes, (1.) His great earnestness and importunity. His heart was upon it, to bring poor souls in to himself. The erection of his body and the elevation of his voice were indications of the intenseness of his mind. Love to souls will make preachers lively. (2.) His desire that all might take notice, and take hold of this invitation. He stood, and cried, that he might the better be heard; for this is what every one that hath ears is concerned to hear. Gospel truth seeks no corners, because it fears no trials. The heathen oracles were delivered privately by them that peeped and muttered; but the oracles of the gospel were proclaimed by one that stood, and cried. How sad is the case of man, that he must be importuned to be happy, and how wonderful the grace of Christ, that he will importune him! Ho, every one, Isaiah 55:1.
3. The invitation itself is very general: If any man thirst, whoever he be, he is invited to Christ, be he high or low, rich or poor, young or old, bond or free, Jew or Gentile. It is also very gracious: "If any man thirst, let him come to me and drink. If any man desires to be truly and eternally happy, let him apply himself to me, and be ruled by me, and I will undertake to make him so."
(1.) The persons invited are such as thirst, which may be understood, either, [1.] Of the indigence of their cases; either as to their outward condition (if any man be destitute of the comforts of this life, or fatigued with the crosses of it, let his poverty and afflictions draw him to Christ for that peace which the world can neither give nor take away), or as to their inward state: "If any man want spiritual blessings, he may be supplied by me." Or, [2.] Of the inclination of their souls and their desires towards a spiritual happiness. If any man hunger and thirst after righteousness, that is, truly desire the good will of God towards him, and the good work of God in him.
(2.) The invitation itself: Let him come to me. Let him not go to the ceremonial law, which would neither pacify the conscience nor purify it, and therefore could not make the comers thereunto perfect, Hebrews 10:1. Nor let him go to the heathen philosophy, which does but beguile men, lead them into a wood, and leave them there; but let him go to Christ, admit his doctrine, submit to his discipline, believe in him; come to him as the fountain of living waters, the giver of all comfort.
(3.) The satisfaction promised: "Let him come and drink, he shall have what he comes for, and abundantly more, shall have that which will not only refresh, but replenish, a soul that desires to be happy."
4. A gracious promise annexed to this gracious call (John 7:38): He that believeth on me, out of his belly shall flow-- (1.) See here what it is to come to Christ: It is to believe on him, as the scripture hath said; it is to receive and entertain him as he is offered to us in the gospel. We must not frame a Christ according to our fancy, but believe in a Christ according to the scripture. (2.) See how thirsty souls, that come to Christ, shall be made to drink. Israel, that believed Moses, drank of the rock that followed them, the streams followed; but believers drink of a rock in them, Christ in them; he is in them a well of living water, John 4:14. Provision is made not only for their present satisfaction, but for their continual perpetual comfort. Here is, [1.] Living water, running water, which the Hebrew language calls living, because still in motion. The graces and comforts of the Spirit are compared to living (meaning running) water, because they are the active quickening principles of spiritual life, and the earnests and beginnings of eternal life. See Jeremiah 2:13. [2.] Rivers of living water, denoting both plenty and constancy. The comfort flows in both plentifully and constantly as a river; strong as a stream to bear down the oppositions of doubts and fears. There is a fulness in Christ of grace for grace. [3.] These flow out of his belly, that is, out of his heart or soul, which is the subject of the Spirit's working and the seat of his government. There gracious principles are planted; and out of the heart, in which the Spirit dwells, flow the issues of life, Proverbs 4:23. There divine comforts are lodged, and the joy that a stranger doth not intermeddle with. He that believes has the witness in himself, 1 John 5:10. Sat lucis intus--Light abounds within. Observe, further, where there are springs of grace and comfort in the soul that will send forth streams: Out of his belly shall flow rivers. First, Grace and comfort will produce good actions, and a holy heart will be seen in a holy life; the tree is known by its fruits, and the fountain by its streams. Secondly, They will communicate themselves for the benefit of others; a good man is a common good. His mouth is a well of life, Proverbs 10:11. It is not enough that we drink waters out of our own cistern, that we ourselves take the comfort of the grace given us, but we must let our fountains be dispersed abroad, Proverbs 5:15,16.
Those words, as the scripture hath said, seem to refer to some promise in the Old Testament to this purport, and there are many; as that God would pour out his Spirit, which is a metaphor borrowed from waters Joel ii. 28; Isa. xliv. 3; Zech. xii. 10); that the dry land should become springs of water (Isaiah 41:18); that there should be rivers in the desert (Isaiah 43:19); that gracious souls should be like a spring of water (Isaiah 58:11); and the church a well of living water, Song of Solomon 4:15. And here may be an allusion to the waters issuing out of Ezekiel's temple, Ezekiel 47:1. Compare Revelation 22:1, and see Zechariah 14:8. Dr. Lightfoot and others tell us it was a custom of the Jews, which they received by tradition, the last day of the feast of tabernacles to have a solemnity, which they called Libatio aquæ--The pouring out of water. They fetched a golden vessel of water from the pool of Siloam, brought it into the temple with sound of trumpet and other ceremonies, and, upon the ascent to the altar, poured it out before the Lord with all possible expressions of joy. Some of their writers make the water to signify the law, and refer to Isaiah 12:3,55:1. Others, the Holy Spirit. And it is thought that our Saviour might here allude to this custom. Believers shall have the comfort, not of a vessel of water fetched from a pool, but of a river flowing from themselves. The joy of the law, and the pouring out of the water, which signified this, are not to be compared with the joy of the gospel in the wells of salvation.
5. Here is the evangelist's exposition of this promise (John 7:39): This spoke he of the Spirit: not of any outward advantages accruing to believers (as perhaps some misunderstood him), but of the gifts, graces, and comforts of the Spirit. See how scripture is the best interpreter of scripture. Observe,
(1.) It is promised to all that believe on Christ that they shall receive the Holy Ghost. Some received his miraculous gifts (Mark 16:17,18); all receive his sanctifying graces. The gift of the Holy Ghost is one of the great blessings promised in the new covenant (Acts 2:39), and, if promised, no doubt performed to all that have an interest in that covenant.
(2.) The Spirit dwelling and working in believers is as a fountain of living running water, out of which plentiful streams flow, cooling and cleansing as water, mollifying and moistening as water, making them fruitful, and others joyful; see John 3:5. When the apostles spoke so fluently of the things of God, as the Spirit gave them utterance (Acts 2:4), and afterwards preached and wrote the gospel of Christ with such a flood of divine eloquence, then this was fulfilled, Out of his belly shall flow rivers.
(3.) This plentiful effusion of the Spirit was yet the matter of a promise; for the Holy Ghost was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. See here [1.] That Jesus was not yet glorified. It was certain that he should be glorified, and he was ever worthy of all honour; but he was as yet in a state of humiliation and contempt. He had never forfeited the glory he had before all worlds, nay, he had merited a further glory, and, besides his hereditary honours, might claim the achievement of a mediatorial crown; and yet all this is in reversion. Jesus is now upheld (Isaiah 42:1), is now satisfied (Isaiah 53:11), is now justified (1 Timothy 3:16), but he is not yet glorified. And, if Christ must wait for his glory, let not us think it much to wait for ours. [2.] That the Holy Ghost was not yet given. oupo gar hen pneuma--for the Holy Ghost was not yet. The Spirit of God was from eternity, for in the beginning he moved upon the face of the waters. He was in the Old-Testament prophets and saints, and Zacharias and Elisabeth were both filled with the Holy Ghost. This therefore must be understood of the eminent, plentiful, and general effusion of the Spirit which was promised, Joel 2:28, and accomplished, Acts 2:1, &c. The Holy Ghost was not yet given in that visible manner that was intended. If we compare the clear knowledge and strong grace of the disciples of Christ themselves, after the day of Pentecost, with their darkness and weakness before, we shall understand in what sense the Holy Ghost was not yet given; the earnests and first-fruits of the Spirit were given, but the full harvest was not yet come. That which is most properly called the dispensation of the Spirit did not yet commence. The Holy Ghost was not yet given in such rivers of living water as should issue forth to water the whole earth, even the Gentile world, not in the gifts of tongues, to which perhaps this promise principally refers. [3.] That the reason why the Holy Ghost was not given was because Jesus was not yet glorified. First, The death of Christ is sometimes called his glorification (John 13:31); for in his cross he conquered and triumphed. Now the gift of the Holy Ghost was purchased by the blood of Christ: this was the valuable consideration upon which the grant was grounded, and therefore till this price was paid (though many other gifts were bestowed upon its being secured to be paid) the Holy Ghost was not given. Secondly, There was not so much need of the Spirit, while Christ himself was here upon earth, as there was when he was gone, to supply the want of him. Thirdly, The giving of the Holy Ghost was to be both an answer to Christ's intercession (John 14:16), and an act of his dominion; and therefore till he is glorified, and enters upon both these, the Holy Ghost is not given. Fourthly, The conversion of the Gentiles was the glorifying of Jesus. When certain Greeks began to enquire after Christ, he said, Now is the Son of man glorified, John 12:23. Now the time when the gospel should be propagated in the nations was not yet come, and therefore there was as yet no occasion for the gift of tongues, that river of living water. But observe, though the Holy Ghost was not yet given, yet he was promised; it was now the great promise of the Father, Acts 1:4. Though the gifts of Christ's grace are long deferred, yet they are well secured: and, while we are waiting for the good promise, we have the promise to live upon, which shall speak and shall not lie.
II. The consequents of this discourse, what entertainment it met with; in general, it occasioned differences: There was a division among the people because of him, John 7:43. There was a schism, so the word is; there were diversities of opinions, and those managed with heat and contention; various sentiments, and those such as set them at variance. Think we that Christ came to send peace, that all would unanimously embrace his gospel? No, the effect of the preaching of his gospel would be division, for, while some are gathered to it, others will be gathered against it; and this will put things into a ferment, as here; but this is no more the fault of the gospel than it is the fault of a wholesome medicine that it stirs up the peccant humours in the body, in order to the discharge of them. Observe what the debate was:--
1. Some were taken with him, and well affected to him: Many of the people, when they heard this saying, heard him with such compassion and kindness invite poor sinners to him, and with such authority engage to make them happy, that they could not but think highly of him. (1.) Some of them said, O, a truth this is the prophet, that prophet whom Moses spoke of to the fathers, who should be like unto him; or, This is the prophet who, according to the received notions of the Jewish church, is to be the harbinger and forerunner of the Messiah; or, This is truly a prophet, one divinely inspired and sent of God. (2.) Others went further, and said, This is the Christ (John 7:41), not the prophet of the Messiah, but the Messiah himself. The Jews had at this time a more than ordinary expectation of the Messiah, which made them ready to say upon every occasion, Lo, here is Christ, or Lo, he is there; and this seems to be only the effect of some such confused and floating notions which caught at the first appearance, for we do not find that these people became his disciples and followers; a good opinion of Christ is far short of a lively faith in Christ; many give Christ a good word that give him no more. These here said, This is the prophet, and this is the Christ, but could not persuade themselves to leave all and follow him; and so this their testimony to Christ was but a testimony against themselves.
2. Others were prejudiced against him. No sooner was this great truth started, that Jesus is the Christ, than immediately it was contradicted and argued against: and this one thing, that his rise and origin were (as they took it for granted) out of Galilee, was thought enough to answer all the arguments for his being the Christ. For, shall Christ come out of Galilee? Has not the scripture said that Christ comes of the seed of David? See here, (1.) A laudable knowledge of the scripture. They were so far in the right, that the Messiah was to be a rod out of the stem of Jesse (Isaiah 11:1), that out of Bethlehem should arise the Governor, Micah 5:2. This even the common people knew by the traditional expositions which their scribes gave them. Perhaps the people who had these scriptures so ready to object against Christ were not alike knowing in other parts of holy writ, but had had these put into their mouths by their leaders, to fortify their prejudices against Christ. Many that espouse some corrupt notions, and spend their zeal in defence of them, seem to be very ready in the scriptures, when indeed they know little more than those scriptures which they have been taught to pervert. (2.) A culpable ignorance of our Lord Jesus. They speak of it as certain and past dispute that Jesus was of Galilee, whereas by enquiring of himself, or his mother, or his disciples, or by consulting the genealogies of the family of David, or the register at Bethlehem, they might have known that he was the Son of David, and a native of Bethlehem; but this they willingly are ignorant of. Thus gross falsehoods in matters of fact, concerning persons and things, are often taken up by prejudiced and partial men, and great resolves founded upon them, even in the same place and the same age wherein the persons live and the things are done, while the truth might easily be found out.
3. Others were enraged against him, and they would have taken him, John 7:44. Though what he said was most sweet and gracious, yet they were exasperated against him for it. Thus did our Master suffer ill for saying and doing well. They would have taken him; they hoped somebody or other would seize him, and, if they had thought no one else would, they would have done it themselves. They would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him, being restrained by an invisible power, because his hour was not come. As the malice of Christ's enemies is always unreasonable, so sometimes the suspension of it is unaccountable.
The Officers' Testimony of Christ.
45 Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him? 46 The officers answered, Never man spake like this man. 47 Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived? 48 Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him? 49 But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed. 50 Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,) 51 Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth? 52 They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet. 53 And every man went unto his own house.
The chief priests and Pharisees are here in a close cabal, contriving how to suppress Christ; though this was the great day of the feast, they attended not the religious services of the day, but left them to the vulgar, to whom it was common for those great ecclesiastics to consign and turn over the business of devotion, while they thought themselves better employed in the affairs of church-policy. They sat in the council-chamber, expecting Christ to be brought a prisoner to them, as they had issued out warrants for apprehending him, John 7:32. Now here we are told,
I. What passed between them and their own officers, who returned without him, re infecta--having done nothing. Observe,
1. The reproof they gave the officers for not executing the warrant they gave them: Why have you not brought him? He appeared publicly; the people were many of them disgusted, and would have assisted them in taking him; this was the last day of the feast, and they would not have such another opportunity; "why then did you neglect your duty?" It vexed them that those who were their own creatures, who depended on them, and on whom they depended, into whose minds they had instilled prejudices against Christ, should thus disappoint them. Note, Mischievous men fret that they cannot do the mischief they would, Psalms 112:10,Ne+6:16.
2. The reason which the officers gave for the non-execution of their warrant: Never man spoke like this man, John 7:46. Now, (1.) This was a very great truth, that never any man spoke with that wisdom, and power, and grace, that convincing clearness, and that charming sweetness, wherewith Christ spoke; none of the prophets, no, not Moses himself. (2.) The very officers that were sent to take him were taken with him, and acknowledged this. Though they were probably men who had no quick sense of reason or eloquence, and certainly had no inclination to think well of Jesus, yet so much self-evidence was there in what Christ said that they could not but prefer him before all those that sat in Moses's seat. Thus Christ was preserved by the power God has upon the consciences even of bad men. (3.) They said this to their lords and masters, who could not endure to hear any thing that tended to the honour of Christ and yet could not avoid hearing this. Providence ordered it so that this should be said to them, that it might be a vexation in their sin and an aggravation of their sin. Their own officers, who could not be suspected to be biassed in favour of Christ, are witnesses against them. This testimony of theirs should have made them reflect upon themselves, with this thought, "Do we know what we are doing, when we are hating and persecuting one that speaks so admirably well?"
3. The Pharisees endeavour to secure their officers to their interest, and to beget in them prejudices against Christ, to whom they saw them begin to be well affected. They suggest two things:--
(1.) That if they embrace the gospel of Christ they will deceive themselves (John 7:47): Are you also deceived? Christianity has, from its first rise, been represented to the world as a great cheat upon it, and they that embraced it as men deceived, then when they began to be undeceived. Those that looked for a Messiah in external pomp thought those deceived who believed in a Messiah that appeared in poverty and disgrace; but the event declares that none were ever more shamefully deceived, nor put a greater cheat upon themselves, than those who promised themselves worldly wealth and secular dominion with the Messiah. Observe what a compliment the Pharisees paid to these officers: "Are you also deceived? What! men of your sense, and thought, and figure; men that know better than to be imposed upon by every pretender and upstart teacher?" They endeavour to prejudice them against Christ by persuading them to think well of themselves.
(2.) That they will disparage themselves. Most men, even in their religion, are willing to be governed by the example of those of the first rank; these officers therefore, whose preferments, such as they were, gave them a sense of honour, are desired to consider,
[1.] That, if they become disciples of Christ, they go contrary to those who were persons of quality and reputation: "Have any of the rulers, or of the Pharisees, believed on him? You know they have not, and you ought to be bound up by their judgment, and to believe and do in religion according to the will of your superiors; will you be wiser than they?" Some of the rulers did embrace Christ (Matthew 9:18,Joh+4:53), and more believed in him, but wanted courage to confess him (John 12:42); but, when the interest of Christ runs low in the world, it is common for its adversaries to represent it as lower than really it is. But it was too true that few, very few, of them did. Note, First, The cause of Christ has seldom had rulers and Pharisees on its side. It needs not secular supports, nor proposes secular advantages, and therefore neither courts nor is courted by the great men of this world. Self-denial and the cross are hard lessons to rulers and Pharisees. Secondly, This has confirmed many in their prejudices against Christ and his gospel, that the rulers and Pharisees have been no friends to them. Shall secular men pretend to be more concerned about spiritual things than spiritual men themselves, or to see further into religion than those who make its study their profession? If rulers and Pharisees do not believe in Christ, they that do believe in him will be the most singular, unfashionable, ungenteel people in the world, and quite out of the way of preferment; thus are people foolishly swayed by external motives in matters of eternal moment, are willing to be damned for fashion-sake, and to go to hell in compliment to the rulers and Pharisees.
[2.] That they will link themselves with the despicable vulgar sort of people (John 7:43): But this people, who know not the law, are cursed, meaning especially those that were well-affected to the doctrine of Christ. Observe, First, How scornfully and disdainfully they speak of them: This people. It is not laos, this lay-people, distinguished from them that were the clergy, but ochlos outos, this rabble-people, this pitiful, scandalous, scoundrel people, whom they disdained to set with the dogs of their flock though God had set them with the lambs of his. If they meant the commonalty of the Jewish nation, they were the seed of Abraham, and in covenant with God, and not to be spoken of with such contempt. The church's common interests are betrayed when any one part of it studies to render the other mean and despicable. If they meant the followers of Christ, though they were generally persons of small figure and fortune, yet by owning Christ they discovered such a sagacity, integrity, and interest in the favours of Heaven, as made them truly great and considerable. Note, As the wisdom of God has often chosen base things, and things which are despised, so the folly of men has commonly debased and despised those whom God has chosen. Secondly, How unjustly they reproach them as ignorant of the word of God: They know not the law; as if none knew the law but those that knew it from them, and no scripture-knowledge were current but what came out of their mint; and as if none knew the law but such as were observant of their canons and traditions. Perhaps many of those whom they thus despised knew the law, and the prophets too, better than they did. Many a plain, honest, unlearned disciple of Christ, by meditation, experience, prayers, and especially obedience, attains to a more clear, sound, and useful knowledge of the word of God, than some great scholars with all their wit and learning. Thus David came to understand more than the ancients and all his teachers, Psalms 119:99,100. If the common people did not know the law, yet the chief priests and Pharisees, of all men, should not have upbraided them with this; for whose fault was it but theirs, who should have taught them better, but, instead of that, took away the key of knowledge? Luke 11:52. Thirdly, How magisterially they pronounce sentence upon them: they are cursed, hateful to God, and all wise men; epikatartoi--an execrable people. It is well that their saying they were cursed did not make them so, for the curse causeless shall not come. It is a usurpation of God's prerogative, as well as great uncharitableness, to say of any particular persons, much more of any body of people, that they are reprobates. We are unable to try, and therefore unfit to condemn, and our rule is, Bless, and curse not. Some think they meant no more than that the people were apt to be deceived and made fools of; but they use this odious word, They are cursed, to express their own indignation, and to frighten their officers from having any thing to do with them; thus the language of hell, in our profane age, calls every thing that is displeasing cursed, and damned, and confounded. Now, for aught that appears, these officers had their convictions baffled and stifled by these suggestions, and they never enquire further after Christ; one word from a ruler or Pharisee will sway more with many than the true reason of things, and the great interests of their souls.
II. What passed between them and Nicodemus, a member of their own body, John 7:50, &c. Observe,
1. The just and rational objection which Nicodemus made against their proceedings. Even in their corrupt and wicked sanhedrim God left not himself quite without witness against their enmity; nor was the vote against Christ carried nemine contradicente--unanimously.Observe,
(1.) Who it was that appeared against them; it was Nicodemus, he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them, John 7:50. Observe, concerning him, [1.] That, though he had been with Jesus, and taken him for his teacher, yet he retained his place in the council, and his vote among them. Some impute this to his weakness and cowardice, and think it was his fault that he did not quit his place, but Christ had never said to him, Follow me, else he would have done as others that left all to follow him; therefore it seems rather to have been his wisdom not immediately to throw up his place, because there he might have opportunity of serving Christ and his interest, and stemming the tide of the Jewish rage, which perhaps he did more than we are aware of. He might there be as Hushai among Absalom's counsellors, instrumental to turn their counsels into foolishness. Though we must in no case deny our Master, yet we may wait for an opportunity of confessing him to the best advantage. God has his remnant among all sorts, and many times finds, or puts, or makes, some good in the worst places and societies. There was Daniel in Nebuchadnezzar's court, and Nehemiah in Artaxerxes's. [2.] That though at first he came to Jesus by night, for fear of being known, and still continued in his post; yet, when there was occasion, he boldly appeared in defence of Christ, and opposed the whole council that were set against him. Thus many believers who at first were timorous, and ready to flee at the shaking of a leaf, have at length, by divine grace, grown courageous, and able to laugh at the shaking of a spear. Let none justify the disguising of their faith by the example of Nicodemus, unless, like him, they be ready upon the first occasion openly to appear in the cause of Christ, though they stand alone in it; for so Nicodemus did here, and John 19:39.
(2.) What he alleged against their proceedings (John 7:51): Doth our law judge any man before it hear him (akouse par autou--hear from himself) and know what he doeth? By no means, nor doth the law of any civilized nation allow it. Observe, [1.] He prudently argues from the principles of their own law, and an incontestable rule of justice, that no man is to be condemned unheard. Had he urged the excellency of Christ's doctrine or the evidence of his miracles, or repeated to them his divine discourse with him (John 3:1-21), it had been but to cast pearls before swine, who would trample them under their feet, and would turn again and rend him; therefore he waives them. [2.] Whereas they had reproached the people, especially the followers of Christ, as ignorant of the law, he here tacitly retorts the charge upon themselves, and shows how ignorant they were of some of the first principles of the law, so unfit were they to give law to others. [3.] The law is here said to judge, and hear, and know, when magistrates that govern and are governed by it judge, and hear, and know; for they are the mouth of the law, and whatsoever they bind and loose according to the law is justly said to be bound and loosed by the law. [4.] It is highly fit that none should come under the sentence of the law, till they have first by a fair trial undergone the scrutiny of it. Judges, when they receive the complaints of the accuser, must always reserve in their minds room for the defence of the accused, for they have two ears, to remind them to hear both sides; this is said to be the manner of the Romans, Acts 25:18. The method of our law is Oyer and Terminer, first to hear and then to determine. [5.] Persons are to be judged, not by what is said of them, but by what they do. Our law will not ask what men's opinions are of them, or out-cries against them, but, What have they done? What overt-acts can they be convicted of? Sentence must be given, secundum allegata et probata--according to what is alleged and proved. Facts, and not faces, must be known in judgment; and the scale of justice must be used before the sword of justice.
Now we may suppose that the motion Nicodemus made in the house upon this was, That Jesus should be desired to come and give them an account of himself and his doctrine, and that they should favour him with an impartial and unprejudiced hearing; but, though none of them could gainsay his maxim, none of them would second his motion.
2. What was said to this objection. Here is no direct reply given to it; but, when they could not resist the force of his argument, they fell foul upon him, and what was to seek in reason they made up in railing and reproach. Note, It is a sign of a bad cause when men cannot bear to hear reason, and take it as an affront to be reminded of its maxims. Whoever are against reason give cause to suspect that reason is against them. See how they taunt him: Art thou also of Galilee? John 7:52. Some think he was well enough served for continuing among those whom he knew to be enemies to Christ, and for his speaking no more on the behalf of Christ than what he might have said on behalf of the greatest criminal-that he should not be condemned unheard. Had he said, "As for this Jesus, I have heard him myself, and know he is a teacher come from God, and you in opposing him fight against God," as he ought to have said, he could not have been more abused than he was for this feeble effort of his tenderness for Christ. As to what they said to Nicodemus, we may observe,
(1.) How false the grounds of their arguing were, for, [1.] They suppose that Christ was of Galilee, and this was false, and if they would have been at the pains of an impartial enquiry they would have found it so. [2.] They suppose that because most of his disciples were Galileans they were all such, whereas he had abundance of disciples in Judea. [3.] They suppose that out of Galilee no prophet had risen, and for this appeal to Nicodemus's search; yet this was false too: Jonah was of Gath-hepher, Nahum an Elkoshite, both of Galilee. Thus do they make lies their refuge.
(2.) How absurd their arguings were upon these grounds, such as were a shame to rulers and Pharisees. [1.] Is any man of worth and virtue ever the worse for the poverty and obscurity of his country? The Galileans were the seed of Abraham; barbarians and Scythians are the seed of Adam; and have we not all one Father? [2.] Supposing no prophet had risen out of Galilee, yet it is not impossible that any should arise thence. If Elijah was the first prophet of Gilead (as perhaps he was), and if the Gileadites were called fugitives, must it therefore be questioned whether he was a prophet or no?
3. The hasty adjournment of the court hereupon. They broke up the assembly in confusion, and with precipitation, and every man went to his own house. They met to take counsel together against the Lord and his Anointed, but they imagined a vain think; and not only he that sits in heaven laughed at them, but we may sit on earth and laugh at them too, to see all the policy of the close cabal broken to pieces with one plain honest word. They were not willing to hear Nicodemus, because they could not answer him. As soon as they perceived they had one such among them, they saw it was to no purpose to go on with their design, and therefore put off the debate to a more convenient season, when he was absent. Thus the counsel of the Lord is made to stand, in spite of the devices in the hearts of men.
Henry, Matthew. "Complete Commentary on John 7". "Matthew Henry Complete Commentary
on the Whole Bible". <http://classic.studylight.org/com/mhc-com/view.cgi?book=joh&chapter=007>. 1706.
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Byzantine Greek
Medieval Latin
Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
Producing books of original medieval and Byzantine texts with facing-page translations.
February 28, 2016 by jes5970
On the Liturgy, Volume I: Books 1–2, Amalar of Metz
Knibbs, Eric
Volume | 35
Publication | October 2014
Amalar of Metz’s On the Liturgy (the Liber officialis, or De ecclesiastico officio) was one of the most widely read and circulated texts of the Carolingian era. The fruit of lifelong reflection and study in the wake of liturgical reform in the early ninth century, Amalar’s commentary inaugurated the Western medieval tradition of allegorical liturgical exegesis and has bequeathed a wealth of information about the contents and conduct of the early medieval Mass and Office. In 158 chapters divided into four books, On the Liturgy addresses the entire phenomenon of Christian worship, from liturgical prayers to clerical vestments to the bodily gestures of the celebrants. For Amalar, this liturgical diversity aimed, above all, to commemorate the life of Christ, to provide the Christian faithful with moral instruction, and to recall Old Testament precursors of Christian rites. To uncover these layers of meaning, Amalar employed interpretive techniques and ideas that he had inherited from the patristic tradition of biblical exegesis—a novel approach that proved both deeply popular and, among his contemporaries, highly controversial.
This volume adapts the text of Jean-Michel Hanssens’s monumental 1948 edition of Amalar’s treatise and provides the first complete translation into a modern language.
On the Liturgy, Volume II: Books 3–4, by Amalar of Metz
Filed Under: Medieval Latin
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Violin Concerto
Violin Concerto (2014)
for solo violin and orchestra
part I 8’42
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Janine Jansen – violin
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Van der Aa confronts his audience with Escher-like distortions of perspective in the acoustic reality. The distinctions between the real and the synthetic blur into an aural maze, precise but beyond comprehension, in which the ear, seduced by virtuosity, is left hunting for the other and the self. The dramatic aspect of this interchange forms a thematic idée fixe, permeating his works for the musical theatre and also the ‘concertos’, of which the Violin Concerto (2014) may possibly be the first that can be referred to without using quotation marks. Van de Aa composed the work, on a joint commission by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, more than literally for the soloist Janine Jansen; it was deliberately written to suit her. Van der Aa describes her unreservedly as ‘the protagonist’ of the work, which may be described as a playful analysis of her ‘musical anatomy’. Her concerts and YouTube videos persuaded the composer that it was the ‘theatrical quality’ of her execution, even more than her self-evident virtuosity, that ought to be the point of departure for the piece.
The work turns on those facets of her playing that transcend mere technical mastery. He investigates what he describes as her ‘musical DNA’, primarily the energy that players of her calibre transmit to their musical partners as a matter of course. This starting point sets the tone for the concertante repartee between the soloist and the orchestra. Rapid tonal figures from the violin are taken over first of all by the musicians sitting closest to the soloist. The principal cellist and the orchestra’s leader both play pivotal roles in this transfer, forming a ‘mini trio’ with the soloist, physically in the midst of the orchestra, in the central movement. ‘I do this partly to keep the music transparent where I want to feature Janine specifically and partly to give the listeners a theatrical experience of the energy flow among the players.’
Janine, according to Van der Aa, ‘can do things you don’t get so readily from other players. It has to do with strength – power in those passages where she has to use her entire body to enhance lyricism with a sort of percussive edge. Those notes – something extra happens at these most difficult moments that wouldn’t with someone else, something theatrical that transmits straight to the audience. She does this out of a sort of physical-biological compulsion that I recognise, since that’s also what composition means to me.’
In Hysteresis (2013) for clarinet, ensemble and soundtrack, premiered in London in April 2014 by clarinettist Mark van der Wiel and the London Sinfonietta, the concertante element also serves as backdrop to an investigation of sounds at the interface between analogue and digital, of sounding reality and processed memories that subsume the material within themselves, like the carrier of a musical gestation.
It opens, symbolically, like a clash between two worlds. The clarinet sets out like a fairy-tale figure stepping out from a painting, amidst an aura of clicking and rustling sounds on soundtrack and a percussionist stroking his hand in circles over a table strewn with sand, emulating the sound of an old gramophone. But this does not release the soloist from the sound-annex memory module. The hysteresis is born from the confrontation between the live instrument and digital clarinet residues that take on their own lives over the course of the work, just as the clicking of the turntable is transformed into a digital rhythm. ‘Distant clarinet echoes’, ‘distant clarinets’, ‘A-Bb echo’, ‘turntable scratching’, ‘parallel chords’, ‘distant orchestra, slowing down’ – the soundtrack behaves like a wellspring that gives and takes, like an eavesdropper, a digital crossroads for incoming and outgoing signals, all set against the backbone of the modular analogue synthesizer that Van der Aa uses for the first time in this piece.
The clarinet, for Van der Aa a very special instrument due to the ease with which it can move between diverse stylistic poles and produce tones that are almost as pure as sine waves, is perpetually at the focal point of events thanks to the compact accompanying ensemble. And how! The orderliness of the concept is diametrically at odds with the completely spontaneous, exhilarating nature of the music, which excels in a jazz-rock kind of synthesis of improvisational agility and the physical drive of a rhythmic base line that inclines towards dance. The thing that connects the two pieces on this CD is the trans-cultural generosity of spirit that enmeshes the popular and the extremely complex with each other, in a language that has managed to liberate itself from the eternal friction between ‘high’ and ‘low’ cultures. One might argue that the composers of Van der Aa’s generation, rooted in pop culture, have moulded a new, cosmopolitan meta-language from an incongruous mix of the stylistic modes so feared by puritan modernists such as Boulez. And thus what is an inherently conformist genre can be heard here striding out along new pathways.
— Bas van Putten (excerpt from liner notes)
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Another 5-star review for our DQM05 Violin Concerto and Hysteresis CD on klassik.com “Janine Jansen überzeugt in dieser 2014 im Amsterdamer Concertgebouw mit dem Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra unter Leitung von Vladimir Jurowski aufgezeichneten Live-Aufnahme durch phänomenale Präsenz und plastische Gestaltung des quer durch die Violinregister schießenden Soloparts, der sich recht bald als virtuose Tour de […]
Violin Concerto – Hysteresis reviews
Out latest release with Michel van der Aa’s Violin Concerto and Hysteresis is getting rave reviews in The Netherlands: “[…]a superb performance of the violin concerto he wrote in 2014 for Janine Jansen and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra […] Balancing the soloist and orchestra to perfection, the works eschews hollow virtuosity entirely, and its orchestration […]
“Michel van der Aa (46) has done so much in the way of multimedia that you might almost forget he is first and foremost a first-rate composer. His latest CD, a superb performance of the violin concerto he wrote in 2014 for Janine Jansen and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, underlines this fact. Although the work turns a lot upside down and transcends many boundaries, it is nevertheless couched in the tradition of the classical violin concerto. Balancing the soloist and orchestra to perfection, the works eschews hollow virtuosity entirely, and its orchestration is full but transparent.
The second work presented on the CD, Hysteresis, a clarinet concerto for chamber orchestra and soundtrack, is equally refined, but with its electronic doublings it sounds much more experimental. Here again, Van der Aa proves to be an eminent sound director.”()
— De Volkskrant, Frits van der Waa
“The Violin Concerto proves to be a fantastic work brimming with moments of beauty and consolation. All you need to do is take in the story that Van der Aa tells. What makes the piece impressive is the carefully constructed fluctuation between the lyrical and the energetic, which in our view includes the brief moments featuring pop beats. You simply have to be prepared for the speed with which the composer switches from one mood to another. Once you’ve got your bearings, a captivating and exhilarating discourse unfolds. Van der Aa tailor-made it for Janine Janssen, who gives a cracking performance.
Although Hysteresis is the triumph of the clarinet virtuoso Kari Kriikku, the work’s first movement, which is shot through with hysterical rhythmic impulses, does not leave the listener with much. Intriguing elements of the sound track are its ‘damaged’ sounds and the oscillating figures in the analogue synthesizer. With its start and stop beats, the second movement is more fascinating and the end is quite simply comic: as though the piece gets stuck when a feather jumps out of the machine.
— Het Parool, Erik Voermans
“Violin Concerto […] a searing clash between expansive sounds evocative of a lamentation and fierce passagework […] Brimming with new sound combinations and yet poetic […] sizzlingly exciting.
Hysteresis […] At the end of the second movement the sounds on the soundtrack practically seize the clarinettist by the throat. An intriguing element is how the music continually finds itself in a twilight zone between mechanical and acoustic beeps. Soundtrack and instrument open up new perspectives. Brilliant. ”()
— De Gelderlander, Maarten-Jan Dongelmans
“Concerto shows van der Aa in top form…Bluegrass, jazz and a wink at Tchaikovsky: Composer Michel van der Aa has rarely been so eclectic as in his new violin concerto premiered by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Written specially for Janine Jansen, the music embraced her podium charisma and vibrant body language as the only theatrical elements of the piece. This was interesting because much of van der Aa’s recent work has incorporated multi-media aspects.
Do you recognize van der Aa if he’s composing unplugged? Straight away! Sharp cutting sounds interrupt the brittle cantilena presented by the soloist accompanied by harp and winds. There ‘s a built in nervousness. Van der Aa’s enthousiastic reception by the young audience afterwards belied the serious, dark side of his writing- recurring lamento passages for Jansen’s violin in the middle movement, culled from earlier operatic works.
The third movement brings relief from the tumult and is a virtuoso showpiece for Jansen and the percussion section, an area where van der Aa’s writing excels. “Individuality” is not usually a characteristic of a good concert but it gives you goosebumps to hear how van der Aa ‘s contemporary idiom so convincingly relates to an “old fashioned“ genre. His concerto places the solistic qualities of Janine Jansen at the centre of the work and Vladimir Jurowski conducted the superb Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in an ideal mix of clarity and theatricality.”
— NRC, Mischa Spel
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Nadia Lee Cohen's "The Pageant".
Combining the ideals of an amplified reality with the signature surrealist style consistent throughout her work, Nadia Lee Cohen breathes a new fascination into the typical American Dream with her latest work for Issue 12 of Hunger Magazine, "The Pageant".
We caught up with her this week to discuss the inspirations behind her recent work.
"The idea of Beauty Pageants has always fascinated me, I am attracted to the stigma the surrounds them; whether from the controversy of child pageant stars, the awkward answers given to questions, or the mistakes made when presenting awards. I wanted to create a shoot inspired by the aforementioned controversial elements while maintaining the melodramatic and exaggerated glamour of beauty pageants."- Nadia Lee Cohen.
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Alan Linde’s research focuses on the use of highly sensitive deformation data from borehole strainmeters as a tool to understand tectonic activity associated with earthquakes and volcanic activity. These data led to the discovery of events referred to as slow earthquakes that are similar to regular earthquakes except that the fault motions take place over (much) longer time scales. These were first detected in south-east Japan and have since been seen in a number of different environments including the San Andreas Fault in California and in the subduction zone off Hokkaido. They are also triggered by typhoons in Taiwan.
Strain changes, generated by magma movement at a number of volcanoes, have enabled characterizing previously unknown aspects of eruptive activity. Strainmeters installed close to Hekla (Iceland), Soufriere Hills (Montserrat), Stromboli and Etna (Italy) have all provided data leading to new insights into the various volcanoes. This research allowed a short term prediction of the eruption of Hekla in 2000 and resulted in diverting aircraft around the hazardous ash plume. Data from strainmeters installed by the Japanese Meteorological Agency in the vicinity of Miharayama (Izu-Oshima) show rapid recharging of a shallow magma reservoir during the course of an eruption. The research based on the strain data has led to the discovery that great earthquakes can trigger volcanic activity at large distances from the earthquake and to the concept that, in some areas, large subduction earthquakes may be preceded by slow slip on the subduction interface at depths greater than the seismogenic zone.
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OpenCam: My review for This Week In Texas.
While chat rooms might feel like familiar territory for many gay men, thrillers aren’t familiar territory for many gay movies. In fact, thrillers often feature gay villains and gay stereotypes. OpenCam might include a gay villain—considering that the entire cast seems gay—but it also rises above stereotypes.
After giving up on a lasting relationship, Manny (Andreau Thomas) spends much of his time trolling a chat room for gay men in Washington, D.C. That distraction often keeps him from his artwork, and from his best friend, Maurice (Ben Green). Maurice obviously wants their friendship to go further, and his emotional openness sometimes gets a bit scary.
An attempted robbery causes Manny and Maurice to cross paths with Hamilton (Amir Darvish), a detective who later asks Manny to help him solve a series of murders. The murders not only involve the chat room Manny cruises but also involve people he knows. As it turns out, several of Manny’s acquaintances seem suspicious.
Amir Darvish creates an intriguing hero—seductive, dangerous, and concerned. However, Andreau Thomas is the star, giving Manny enough faults to make at least one of his acquaintances want to kill him but enough charm to make audience care what happens to him.
Writer/director Robert Gaston keeps taunting viewers by making certain characters seem like the obvious culprit but then planting doubts about the killer’s true identity. Gaston moderates the pacing by focusing on the relationships between the characters, while interspersing scenes of danger. He also makes good use of shadows and light, especially in scenes where a character on the Web cam obviously receives an unexpected guest.
Sex and nudity play an important role in the film, but the emotional conflicts and the growing sense of danger make it even more engaging. A little bit of humor even sneaks in now and then, usually from sarcasm, but also from some playfully romantic scenes between Hamilton and Manny. The soundtrack features an enjoyable mixture of dance music and alternative rock, with artists such as Warren Cuccurullo (a lead guitarist for Frank Zappa, Missing Persons, and Duran Duran) and 2005 Outmusic Award Nominees Keyth Lawrence and the Purple Circle.
Without giving away any of the ending, something apparently happens between two of the characters that doesn’t quite show up in the film’s concluding scenes. Maybe it’s implied and I just didn’t catch it, but it seemed distractingly missing. That is my only complaint about the entire movie, though. OpenCam is sexy and suspenseful.
Read more about this movie at OpenCamMovie.Com.
--DuaneSimolke.Com, author of The Acorn Stories, Degranon: A Science Fiction Adventure, Holding Me Together, and New Readings of Winesburg, Ohio.
This is entry #250 for this blog! Thanks for reading!
It looks like some great book-to-movie adaptations are coming to theaters, like Running With Scissors , Flags of Our Fathers , Eragon , The Prestige , and James Bond: 007: Casino Royale .
I’ve recently updated the following pages: The Return of Innocence: A Fantasy Adventure and DuaneSimolke.Com: Canada.
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema: My review for This Week In Texas.
Vito Russo's 1981 book The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies explored how movies portray gays and lesbians. That book led to the documentary The Celluloid Closet, from directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. While both incarnations of The Celluloid Closet remain ground-breaking and essential, Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema focuses mostly on gay films, made from a gay or gay-friendly perspective.
Of course, only a few such films were widely available when Russo wrote his work. Now gay movies line the walls of video stores and the shelves of many gay homes. We just needed some kind of map to help us navigate those movies.
Directors Lisa Ades and Lesli Klainberg provide that map with this exciting new DVD. Though their 82-minute feature sometimes feels a little too brief and rushed, Ades and Klainberg carry the readers through important events in gay history and how those events impacted gay cinema. They also look at how changing attitudes, the popularity of film festivals, the advent of affordable DVDs, and many other changes made gay films a much larger market. If Ades and Klainberg create a sequel to this documentary—and they should—they might also examine the impact of gay TV networks and gay-owned film companies; of course, it might take a few more years to see that impact.
The entire film relies on a high-speed mixture of interviews and film excerpts. The resulting documentary is relentlessly informative and often amusing. Comments from Gus Van Sant, John Waters, Wilson Cruz, Guinevere Turner, Peter Paige, Alan Cumming, and many others in the film industry not only show why these films matter so much to gay viewers but also help trace the evolution of gay cinema. From obscure films to Brokeback Mountain, Ades and Klainberg help viewers see the importance of gay-themed movies. The DVD’s extras include even more interview footage, grouped thematically; my favorite of those features is “First Gay Movie Memories,” with the interviewees telling how particular gay scenes affected them.
Fabulous! succeeds as a gay cultural study, as a reference to help viewers decide which movies to buy and rent, and as an entertaining look at film-making. Even the negative portrayals this film examines will help inform film-lovers. Ades and Klainberg prove that queer cinema is as amazingly diverse as the queer community that supports it.
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Outsourcing Unemployment - America to China...
Good documentary regarding China, our mutual economies, and workers. Well worth the time, about a half-hour long. Sorry, but Youtube has figured out how to have commercials that you can't skip past (ht Backwardsevolution):
Think things are better here in America? Try the worst ever Job outlook report! (ht comradewannabe)
Job outlook hits worst-ever level
Employers' hiring plans at lowest point in Manpower survey's history
By Andrea Coombes, MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Employers' hiring plans for the upcoming fourth quarter dropped to their lowest level in the history of Manpower's Employment Outlook Survey, which started in 1962.
A net -3% of employers said they'll hire in the fourth quarter, down from -2% in the third quarter, on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to the Milwaukee-based firm's survey of more than 28,000 employers. Before this year, the survey's previous low point was a net 1% hiring outlook for the third quarter of 1982.
A year ago, a seasonally adjusted net 9% of firms said they would hire in the fourth quarter. The Manpower survey measures the percentage of firms planning to hire minus those intending layoffs. Manpower doesn't measure the number of jobs. The survey's margin of error is +/- 0.49%.
There was one positive sign in the survey: 69% of employers said they planned no change in their hiring plans, up from 67% in the third quarter and 59% in the fourth quarter a year ago (those figures are not seasonally adjusted).
That's "a very high number for our outlook survey," said Jonas Prising, president of the Americas for Manpower. That figure generally hovers at 55% or 56% in a strong economy, he said, noting that the higher figure currently signifies a high degree of stability, and "that is a precursor to growth, he said.
"Employers really want to hold onto the work forces that they have if at all possible," Prising said. Still, "there will clearly be challenges for job seekers and employers into the fourth quarter."
Separately, the U.S. Labor Department said the economy lost 216,000 jobs in August, the 20th consecutive monthly decline. The unemployment rate jumped to a 26-year high of 9.7%. Since the recession began in December 2007, unemployment has increased by 7.4 million to a total of 14.9 million.
Looked at by industry, eight sectors showed a negative hiring outlook for the fourth quarter. In January, Manpower changed its industry classifications; because of that change, it currently can't provide seasonally adjusted figures by industry.
Only one of the 13 industry categories surveyed showed an improvement from the third quarter: A net 2% of employers in the education and health-services category planned to hire, up from -4% in the previous quarter. Firms in the wholesale and retail trade category were the most optimistic, with a net 7% planning to hire. Still, that was a decline from a 9% outlook for that sector in the third quarter.
And hiring plans for all of the industries are at much lower levels than are normal in a strong economy. "For any of these sectors in a good economy a net employment outlook would be around the low 20s," Prising said.
For each industry, here are the figures for the net employment outlook for the fourth quarter, not seasonally adjusted, in order of most negative outlook first.
Construction, -10%, down from 2% for the third quarter
Mining, -9%, flat from -9%
Transportation and utilities, -9%, down from -3%
Government, -8%, down from -4%
Manufacturing, durable goods, -8%, down from -6%
Information, -5%, down from -4%
Manufacturing, nondurable goods, -3%, down from 0%
Other services, -1%, down from 0%
Financial activities, 1%, down from 2%
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Ravassa, S., Kuznetsova, T., Varo, N., Thijs, L., Delles, C. , Dominiczak, A. , Díez, J. and Staessen, J. A. (2015) Biomarkers of cardiomyocyte injury and stress identify left atrial and left ventricular remodelling and dysfunction: a population-based study. International Journal of Cardiology, 185, pp. 177-185. (doi:10.1016/j.ijcard.2015.03.046) (PMID:25796005)
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Terraza 7, a home away from home for immigrants from all over the world
by adminespitia | Oct 11, 2016 |
Terraza 7, a cultural hub for immigrants from all over the world Click on slide show to see full pictures and captions Colombian immigrant Freddy Castiblanco opened Terraza 7 in 2002 with the purpose to bring unity to the many different international communities that...
Colombians in New York, polarized by the peace agreement
by adminespitia | Oct 5, 2016 |
Colombians in New York, polarized by the peace agreement with the FARC Click on slide show to see full pictures and captions Like Colombians at home, those living in New York have also experienced the deep political polarization caused by the peace agreement between...
The Monkey King: A Chinese Epic Figure that comes to life at Union Square
by adminespitia | May 25, 2016 |
The Monkey King, a Chinese Epic Figure that comes to life at Union Square Click on gallery to see captions and full pictures Since his arrival to New York City five years ago, Taiwanese immigrant Jung Chin has made a living by performing as the epic Chinese figure...
Colombians in New York support strike at home
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COLOMBIANS IN NEW YORK CITY SUPPORT STRIKE AT HOME NEW YORK- Representatives of the Polo Democratico Alternativo, a Colombian left-wing political party, organized an event in Jackson Heights, Queens, on March 17, 2016 to support the strike that was taking place that...
The “Dance as Art” project takes on the streets of New York
by adminespitia | Dec 10, 2015 |
The “Dance as Art” project takes on the streets of New York DANCE AS ART PROJECT from Monica Espitia on...
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Gramps49 Shipmate
The LDS language school is one of the best out there. Not only do they teach the languages, but then they send their young adults into the countries which speak the languages for two years. They do come back as very competent translators prized by people doing business overseas.
Just yesterday NPR announced that the State Department did hire a director for the Russian department that could speak Russian. He is the only one that does, though.
The Globe and Mail has this to say about amateur economics re steel tariffs. How trumpy is poised to harm his country economically, how he and his group need a crash course of Econ 101. It is noted that "United States exports US$2-billion annually more steel to Canada than the other way around". Which means he doesn't even have any facts.
Ohher Shipmate
Gramps49 wrote: »
I've been wondering how this works in countries which severely restrict missionary activities connected to non-majority religions in those countries. Is there a point to teaching these countries' languages to LDS missionaries when attempting to proselytize there is likely to result in jail time or worse?
This is from the LDS Global Mission Website
Despite its reputation for vigorous missionary activity in other areas of the world, the Church has observed religious restrictions in the Middle East by making nonproselyting commitments to government leaders and by issuing strict instructions for members to honor these commitments. In the 1990s the Church adopted a formal policy of not proselyting, teaching, or baptizing Muslims who either live in or plan to return to the Middle East. This step was taken to accommodate Islamic laws that stipulate legal and social sanctions for Muslims who convert to other faiths.
Does this mean LDS organization does not send missionaries to Middle Eastern countries?
Barnabas62 Purgatory Host, Epiphanies Host
The surprise meeting between Trump and Kim. Apparently Trump went against serious advice that he should decline the offer, this being some kind of poisoned chalice. Harking back to our OP. Is this another Oops? Or is it a bold move?
The argument appears to be that North Korea's development of a nuclear capability is stalling because of lack of funds (because of sanctions) and so Kim is looking for a 'promise to be a good boy' deal in order to get sanctions lifted. A promise he is likely to go back on.
So is Trump willing to go for some kind of Iran-type deal with N Korea? Or is this another grabbing the news cycle game you him? Is he being stupid, crafty or (for once in his life) seriously sincere?
Eutychus Admin
I think Kim has read Trump like a book and seized his opportunity, but I have to confess I'm rapidly thinking of abandoning all attempts at rational analysis of current affairs and retreating under my duvet for good.
Tough, isn't it? Both in the US and over Brexit (as that
thread demonstrates) rational argument seems to have lost its power.
Bread and Circuses? You get the feeling that Circus is predominating far too often. Let's put on a good show.
Boogie Shipmate
Barnabas62 wrote: »
A possible meeting between those two makes my blood run cold. Neither are to be trusted with a chain saw, never mind the nuclear future of the planet.
alienfromzog Shipmate
Crœsos wrote: »
For certain voters like windsofchange it only mattered that Trump "professes at least a modicum of support for pro-life issues". Sincere belief in using the criminal justice system to punish abortion is not required, nor is effectiveness in actually doing so. Performative virtue signaling on this one issue is both necessary and sufficient for a candidate to receive the votes of this constituency.
I know this was a couple of pages ago, but I'm a bit late to the party. I also, do not wish to incur the wrath of the (just and wonderful) hosts for straying into DH territory here but I do think there's something important and wider to discuss here.
I completely agree with the analysis that the GOP does not have any intention of doing anything about abortion. They have a constituency that will vote for them if they simply state they are 'pro-life.' There is plenty of evidence of what actually reduces the number of abortions and they refuse to follow such policies - or to care for poorer children once they are born. And it has been a winning strategy for 20 years - virtue signalling and complete inaction.
In many ways Trump is the epitome of this strategy. He has hit plenty of hot-buttons and on the basis of that won an election. And will do nothing about any of them.
There is a parallel in UK politics. The Conservative party cannot lose on immigration. They have since the early 2000s ramped up the rhetoric on immigration. In government since 2010, they keep doing nothing to reduce immigration. There are some very good reasons for this (the economic cost would be very significant). The added bonus is that it kept the issue alive for the 2015 and 2017 elections. Labour cannot win because we are a long way from a position where the pro-immigration case can be heard and Labour cannot out-Tory the Tories on this issue successfully. Hence the more the Tories talk about immigration and do nothing about it, the more it becomes an electoral plus for them.
As the GOP have discovered, if you dance with the devil, you will pay a price. They have courted the racists and so when someone came along who ramped up that rhetoric, he stole the GOP base. They have played to multiple prejudices and so left themselves wide open to someone who simply played that same card more effectively. I have no sympathy for the Republican Party. I know there are good republicans; I know some but he party, no; no sympathy at all.
In the UK, the parallel is Brexit. The Conservatives' austerity is responsible for the destruction of public services and communities. However by scape-goating the EU and specifically immigration and 'benefits scroungers' they won elections. And so when the Leave campaign takes that argument to its logical conclusion, Cameron lost the Brexit referendum.
I am deeply troubled by the kind of cynicism that stokes prejudice and signals being against certain things with to intention to do anything about it; in order to win elections. If you dance with the devil... Brexit and Trump are the logical conclusion of years of propaganda.
Pangolin Guerre Shipmate
Re: Summit. The US State Dept is much depopulated of sherpas. Kim has probably surmised that this is as opportune a moment as he will ever get. I wonder what the doves in Seoul are thinking. (Probably something like "Oh... Really?.... Now?" attended by shocked and worried glances.) Former POTUSes have done a very good job of staying on the sidelines, but this might be a time when that's more honoured in the breach than the observance. Not likely, though, since it seems that not even Tillerson was consulted. God save us, all.
This xkcd has never felt so close to reality.
cliffdweller Shipmate
Ohher wrote: »
It might mean that, but I would take it to mean they don't do proselyting. Not all LDS missionaries are evangelistic, some do humanitarian work. My LDS SIL spent his mission doing disaster relief
cliffdweller wrote: »
Not all LDS missionaries are evangelistic, some do humanitarian work. My LDS SIL spent his mission doing disaster relief
Thanks -- I wasn't aware. My thought was that no evangelizing = no missions = no language training for certain regions, and hence not much of a pool for the government trawling for translators / interpreters. However, this is now a tangent; ignore & carry on.
Og King of Bashan Shipmate
I have no clue what to make of the North Korea news. I have no doubt that Trump would be mocking Clinton for being weak if she had won and made the same announcement. But I'll also admit that there is no way to know if Clinton would have gotten a similar offer.
This is definitely one of those news stories where you can read whatever you want, depending on your bias. Trump's pressure worked! Trump's getting played! (And plenty of people are going to great lengths to figure out how this is all part of Putin's game to keep Trump in power, which seems a step too far, if you ask me.) The reality probably lies somewhere in the middle.
I doubt that this will all lead to lasting stability and an end to brinkmanship in Korea, but if it does, good for Trump for whatever part he had in it. I'm still not voting for him in 2020.
It puts Kim on an equal footing with the rest of the world, and it meets a request of NK not granted for the past 20 years: bilateral talks with the US in preference to the multilateral talks preferred by previous administrations.
Crœsos Shipmate
Eutychus wrote: »
Jeffrey Lewis makes this point on Twitter.
North Korea has been seeking a summit with an American president for more than twenty years. It has literally been a top foreign policy goal of Pyongyang since Kim Jong Il invited Bill Clinton. I wonder if Trump's "aides" have explained that to him. Or, if in their toddler-handling, they have led him to believe that this offer is something unusual. Or perhaps he imagines that only he can go Pyongyang. This is literally how the North Korean film "The Country I Saw" ends. An American President visits Pyongyang, compelled by North Korea's nuclear and missile programs to treat a Kim as an equal.
PS: To be clear -- we need to talk to North Korea. But Kim is not inviting Trump so that he can surrender North Korea's weapons. Kim is inviting Trump to demonstrate that his investment in nuclear and missile capabilities has forced the United States to treat him as an equal.
Two other points I've seen made elsewhere. First, the offer was made in a highly unusual way; a verbal offer transmitted by a third party, a South Korean diplomat. Such offers are typically made in writing to avoid playing the "telephone game" with international diplomacy. This is doubly true of North Korea, which likes everything to be in written form. With nothing in writing there's no real commitment about the parameters of what would be discussed at such a meeting.
Second, summit meetings between heads of state usually occur after the various levels of the diplomatic corps have met and worked out the broad parameters of any agreement to be formalized at the summit. That obviously has not happened here. The plan seems to be to have the summit first and work out details later. This leads me to believe, as Mr. Lewis argued in his postscript, that from the North Korean perspective the summit is the desired outcome and it seems unlikely any agreement of substance will result.
It has also been perfectly timed.
It's quite a world where NK's administration has a discernible plan and can be seen to working to fulfil it, while the US administration looks very much like how NK's was formerly portrayed, purges and all.
Well, you can only have the respective diplomatic corps work things out in advance if both sides have actual diplomatic corps. While I know nothing about NK's, ours is in pretty dire shape.
I miss the :notworthy at this point. This is painfully true. And will be demonstrated to be so.
I'm leaving further judgement on North Korea for about this time next year.
What has interested me, and I have two draft attempts at threads in my box but can't get the question right, is the obvious difference in the reaction to Kim's threats last year and Putin's threats concerning his super-weapon his year. Trump didn't tweet about the size of his weapons, the media didn't go into panic-mode and (consequently?) very little has been said here and in social media about how our lives and property are threatened. What gives? I can't seem to put my finger on it. Are Trump's tweets truly setting the agenda for public discourse, so that if the media doesn't run scary stories we are all OK with further potential for nuclear war? It does look to me as though Trump does exercise a modicum of control, and I mean that tentatively.
Golden Key Shipmate
Perhaps whoever carries the "nuclear football" briefcase for T should stay away from the meeting? Just to keep it from falling into the wrong hands, you understand...whichever wrong hands those might be.
Well, what a surprise - not!
So that was what Pence really meant.
So now we know. So much clearer
Golden Key wrote: »
This is probably a good protocol for the interim, regardless of the circumstances.
fun and games at that border shed where they meet are legion. Also, John Safran the Australian 'naughty boy' comic once kicked a footy over the wall in Jerusalem (as it then was) and then behaved like a 12 year old when the guards wouldn't let him climb over and get it.
I've just watched the video again and my memory is wrong. He kicks the ball over the border fence between Israel and Lebanon at the 3:00 minute mark. Video contains nudity. Why don't they make reality TV like this anymore?
Not sure about Israel, but it does mean they do not send missionaries to countries which forbid them which would mean most of the Middle Eastern countries. As pointed out above not all LDS missionaries are proselyting but I think even their humanitarian work in those countries are limited.
Not sure about Israel, but it does mean they do not send missionaries to countries which forbid them which would mean most of the Middle Eastern countries.
No, it means they wouldn't send evangelistic missionaries to countries that don't allow proselyting. They might send humanitarian missionaries to those countries that will welcome such assistance.
I don't think you saw my edited comments.
I do see the Mormons have made contributions to famine relief in the Middle East and Africa ($11 mil) and have sent $4 mil for Refugee assistance. But these are really drops in a bucket.
Are Trump's tweets truly setting the agenda for public discourse
I don't know about the rest of your thoughts, but the answer to that is obviously yes.
The really scary thing about this day and age to me is the concept of "controlling the narrative".
I think Steve Bannon (the surprise guest tonight at the Front National party conference here in France), say, understands this and has sought to exploit it to the maximum. It's pure 1984.
I'm not sure Trump's mind works that way, but my take is that like much else, he has stumbled into being able to control the narrative to an amazing extent and is intuitively (rather than calculatedly) milking it for all it's worth, right down to the Two Minutes' Hate. Even the media opposed to him spend disordinate amounts of time responding to his Tweets, they just can't seem to help themselves.
Sometimes it feels as if Trump and the media are locked in a kind of death struggle in which each needs the other to survive and yet each is desperately trying to kill the other.
Bernie Sanders, being interviewed by Anderson Cooper recently, said something like this. "This county is facing enormous challenges. Gun control, health care, our trading and political relationships around the world, the struggles with terrorism. Why the hell is the news dominated by Trump and a porn star?"
Bishops Finger Shipmate
There used to be (perhaps still is) a saying in Ukland that The Sun (a tabloid 'newspaper' of the worst type IMHO) didn't give a sh*t who ran the country, as long as she had big t*ts.
Bread, circuses, and s*x.
chrisstiles Shipmate
Bishops Finger wrote: »
Is that not originally from Yes, Minister? https://youtu.be/DGscoaUWW2M?t=55s
Martin54 Shipmate
Rossweisse wrote: »
But Mr. Trump was not anti-abortion until quite recently, and who knows if he really is now? He is not the most consistent thinker in the world.
I don't think that matters. For certain voters like windsofchange it only mattered that Trump "professes at least a modicum of support for pro-life issues". Sincere belief in using the criminal justice system to punish abortion is not required, nor is effectiveness in actually doing so. Performative virtue signaling on this one issue is both necessary and sufficient for a candidate to receive the votes of this constituency. Consider the example of Roy Moore, a credibly accused pedophile who was nonetheless considered a better potential Senator than Doug Jones by many Alabamians largely because Moore wanted to use the criminal justice system to punish abortion while Jones used the criminal justice system to prosecute domestic terrorists. As long as a candidate "professes" the right position on this one issue, nothing else really matters.
There's a similar dynamic with Second Amendment voters, except they usually expect results, not just professing support.
Excellent. Though he's high end hebe, low end ephebo and older, not pedo.
It pre-dates that. At least I heard it before 'Yes Minister'. But I can't remember the source!
I'm not sure of the source, either! Bernard, in Yes, Minister, was quoting something that was already well in circulation...
Meanwhile, it's hard to see from this side of the pond quite what POTUS and Mr. Kim are up to. If points are to be scored, ultimately I fear that they'll be scored by Mr. Kim.
I suspect he is nobody's fool, whereas POTUS....
If points are to be scored, ultimately I fear that they'll be scored by Mr. Kim.
If NK is in serious difficulties, America could cash some "points" it's already got.
But I don't think there's easy gains for America, unless they've been won already.
If both sides are happy to settle with "We could totally hit you, probably"/"They probably can't quite hit us" as being an acceptable state for NK's missile program. Then there possibly is a more relaxed position, where they can both claim to have got the others 'respect' but nothing immediately changes (but they've spoken, and SK can be released).
If WW3 goes out, NK will be gone, SK will be gone whereas America would merely be bankrupt. I'm sure Kim wouldn't like it, and that gives Donald a chance to talk tough.
But as our ministers say "Nukes depend on you being willing to use them". And he can't risk letting that go.
Was he serious? Because this is a stupid question. He knows the answer, or he should.
Let's assume he knew the answer, and further let us propose he was making a point by asking a rhetorical question.
Dave W Shipmate
And what might that point be, do you think?
We're letting the press divert our attention from what's important. Why, what do you think it might be?
Dave W wrote: »
I won't say what point Sanders was trying to make, but for me the main take-away from the Stormy Daniels saga is that the American president* has demonstrated that he's amenable to being blackmailed. That seems at least moderately important.
But he won't pay much money0--at least, not in this case.
But he won't pay much money--at least, not in this case.
Depends on what you mean by "much". US$130,000 is a little over two times the annual income of the median American household. There's also the open question as to where that money ultimately came from and whether, as some have suggested, it came from a source that violates campaign finance laws. (You can't use campaign funds to pay an ex-mistress hush money.) We know Trump is fairly tight-fisted with his own money and typically plays fast-and-loose with other people's resources. (See any of his past bankruptcies for a case study of this.) This also seems pretty relevant for someone who has access to a lot of public resources, like intelligence or the ability to award government contracts or pardons.
To Trump, $130k is chump change. It matters not how it compares to the median income.
What mt said.
It just continues to boggle me that a billionaire would pay that little in hush money. I'm not sure if Ms. Daniels asked for the money, or T and company thought it would be wise. But I would think that giving too little hush money to anyone might backfire..
mousethief wrote: »
That he was trying to make a point was your contention, not mine. I was asking you in the hope that you might have found something more than trite finger-wagging in Sanders' statement.
As for the amount - well, just because he's rich doesn't mean he's eager to overpay, does it? $130,000 doesn't have to be a lot of money to him, it just has to be a lot of money to Ms. Clifford; since she signed the agreement, apparently it is (or was.)
mousethief is right. That was Bernie's point. They may be less fascinating, but there were more important issues than Trump's womanising past.
Dave W is also right. The Stormy Daniels story does reveal quite a lot about Trump's character and methods of exerting control. Nobody is buying 'I did it on my own initiative with my own money' from the lawyer as the full story, regardless of technical truth tests.
So it's a story. Bernie's argument is about proportionality. How much time does it deserve in comparison to these other things? What sort of media editorial control is going on?
Eutychus' point relates. Not directly by Trump in this particular case, but control and manipulation of the news cycle is based on the editorial attraction of the 'shiny and new' and gossipy eye-catching. It gets viewing figures and the editors can't avoid it if other outlets are responding. People can use that to divert attention.
HarryCH Shipmate
A quick web search indicates that Ms. Daniels has a net worth of roughly $4 million. She is outstandingly successful in her field. No, $130,000 is not an amount that would necessarily impress her.
His whole administration is liars aren't they?
Reality check: No, the U.S. doesn’t have a $17B trade deficit with Canada, the USA has a surplus of $25 billion.
Meanwhile we're talking of the Mad Men Summit. Can the porn star go too?
On This Week today, there were questions about where this meeting would take place -- DC or NK. I think Trump should hold out for NK. Played right, perhaps Kim the Current might be persuaded to keep 42.2 there.
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“Millions of books written on every conceivable subject by all these great minds, and in the end none of them knows anything more about the big questions of life than I do.”
An accountant (Michael Caine) married to an actress (Mia Farrow) falls for his wife’s sister (Barbara Hershey), who’s involved with an older artist (Max von Sydow). Meanwhile, Farrow’s other sister (Dianne Wiest) struggles to find both romantic and personal happiness, and Farrow’s ex-husband (Woody Allen) — a successful television producer — suffers an existential crisis when he learns he may have a brain tumor.
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Peary notes that while Hannah and Her Sisters (“Woody Allen’s most acclaimed film”) remains a “sweet” movie in many ways, it’s nonetheless “startling how mean [many of] his characters can be to one another”, given that “they say vicious things” and “betray each other’s trust”, and they “are insensitive, they lie, [and] they are accusatory”. He points out that “every character is deeply wounded at some point, finds himself or herself on shaky ground, and fears the future”. However, given Allen’s structuring of the film to cover three consecutive Thanksgivings in the lives of Hannah and her family, we also see that “within brief periods of time… lives can change to a miraculous degree, people can mature…, [and] sad people can find the happiness that one year before seemed out of reach”. (Note: As in his review for The Purple Rose of Cairo, Peary’s overview of HAHS oddly contains quite a few spoilers, so I’ll refrain from quoting more specifics here about the narrative arc.)
Peary points out that “Wiest, Farrow, and von Sydow stand out in the wonderful cast” (I agree); however, he notes that he wishes “all the characters were a bit more developed” — though it’s difficult to see how this might even be possible, given the limitations of such an abundantly cast, intricately overlapping script. Indeed, there are so many narrative threads interwoven across HAHS that one wonders at first how Allen will balance it all — yet everything eventually comes together, with all the characters’ lives intersecting in decidedly “incestuous” ways (perhaps no great surprise). Peary concludes his review by stating that “having Mickey [Allen] convert to Catholicism, although funny, is overdoing it a bit”, but I disagree; several of the script’s laugh-out-loud visual gags come courtesy of this narrative jaunt (which feels entirely realistic, given the character’s literal soul-searching).
Note: It’s interesting to learn how much of HAHS was apparently inspired by Farrow’s own life (the film was shot largely in her NY apartment, included several of her actual children, and cast her real-life mother — Maureen O’Sullivan — as her on-screen mother). Being involved with Woody Allen to any extent seems like a guaranteed ticket to creative “exploitation”.
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A once-must, mainly for the performances.
Its deceptively cheery film poster notwithstanding, ‘HAHS’ is not really “sweet”. It has fleeting moments of sweetness but nowhere near the number that would make the film poignant in any way. There’s simply too much angst, bitterness and bad communication running amok. Compensation is attempted via Allen’s character but his Mickey is such a relentless, one-note whiner that it can be difficult to get the joke.
It can also be hard imagining wanting to spend time with most of these people in real life. There are exceptions – at least I can get behind von Sydow in terms of Frederick’s legitimate gripes about humanity as a whole; the peripheral tv exec played by Julie Kavner is darling (you really want to hang out with her); and Hershey – if anyone – genuinely displays a lovely vulnerability.
The film opens in a warm manner with a beautifully shot holiday dinner – which sets the mood for sweetness, certainly. But such a mood thereafter slips away at just about every turn. It’s true that the screenplay is constructed in an interesting way but its specifics can wear you down. True, things end happily for all – but, geez, getting there…! (I always wished there would be a ‘three sisters’ scene in this film that really *is* like the film’s poster – in which the three are genuinely enjoying each other’s company and perhaps being witty together. But, alas, that’s kept from us.)
That said, the performances are remarkable. Whether you actually like (or relate to) these characters much, the cast is firmly committed to them, often making them achingly believable. One doesn’t often think of Allen’s films in terms of terrific acting but this is among a small number (including “Interiors” and “Crimes and Misdemeanors”) that exhibit an admirable blending of actors and material.
A major plus here is the marvelous use of NYC locations.
Fave exchange (cause it really does seem to be the case) –
Farrow: I have enormous needs!
Caine: Well, I can’t see them, and neither can Lee or Holly!
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Father* Charles Rupp1 b. 13 Jan 1857, d. Dec 1927
Mother* Mary Anne Schiffman1 b. 4 May 1858, d. 10 Oct 1931
Bill Rupp 1925
Name Variation William Edward Rupp was also known as Bill.
Name Variation William Edward Rupp was also known as Edward William.
Birth 16 October 1886 William Edward Rupp was born on 16 October 1886 at Paris, Grant, Wisconsin.1
He was the son of Charles Rupp and Mary Anne Schiffman.1
Marriage 6 October 1917 William Edward Rupp married Ruth Maria McClain, daughter of James Edward McClain and Mary Ann Byrne, on 6 October 1917 at Dubuque, Iowa, also reported as 06 Oct 1918.
Divorce 1935 William Edward Rupp and Ruth Maria McClain were divorced in 1935 Ruth (McClain) Rupp divorce filing against William Rupp.
Dubuque Telegraph Herald April 25, 1935 - Ruth (McClain) Rupp divorce filing against William Rupp
Marriage after 1935 William Edward Rupp married Julia M. Dickson after 1935.
Death 2 January 1958 William Edward Rupp died on 2 January 1958 at age 71 William Rupp, 73, obituary.
Dubuque Telegraph Herald January 2, 1958 - William Rupp, 73, obituary
20 June 1900 Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa William Edward Rupp was listed as a son in Charles Rupp's household on the 1900 Census at Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa.2
1930 Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa William Edward Rupp was listed as a son in Mary Anne Schiffman's household on the 1930 Census at Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa.3
1940 Sageville, Dubuque, Iowa William Edward Rupp was listed as a divorced brother in Clarence Frank Rupp's household on the 1940 Census at Sageville, Dubuque, Iowa.4
In 1925 at Dubuque, Iowa, The Rupp Family portrait taken on Rupp Hollow Road.
[S187] Grant WI Birth Records Birth Records, by Wisconsin, V1-2883.
[S245] U.S. Federal Census 1900 U.S. Federal Census, by Ancestry.com, ED92. Dwelling 187.
[S250] U.S. Federal Census 1930 U.S. Federal Census, by Ancestry.com, Year: 1930; Census Place: Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa; Page: 7B; Enumeration District: 0009.
[S373] U.S. Federal Census 1940 U.S. Federal Census, by Ancestry.com, Year: 1940; Census Place: Sageville, Dubuque, Iowa; Roll: m-t0627-01158; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 31-13.
John E. Kearney
M, b. 17 March 1857, d. 5 January 1908
Father* (?) Kearney
Name Variation John E. Kearney was also known as John O.
Name Variation John E. Kearney was also known as Kerney.
Birth 17 March 1857 John E. Kearney was born on 17 March 1857 at West Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa, also reported as 17 Mar 1855 and 1859.
He was the son of (?) Kearney.
Marriage 23 November 1882 John E. Kearney married Mary G. Rupp, daughter of John Rupp Jr. and Elizabeth Winter, on 23 November 1882 at West Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa, also reported as Tennyson, Wisconsin.
Death 5 January 1908 John E. Kearney died on 5 January 1908 at age 50 John E Kearney obituary.
Dubuque Times Journal January 7, 1908 - John E Kearney obituary
1885 Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa John E. Kearney appeared on the census of 1885 at Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa.
1900 Julien, Dubuque, Iowa He was listed as the head of a family on the 1900 Census at Julien, Dubuque, Iowa.1
[S245] U.S. Federal Census 1900 U.S. Federal Census, by Ancestry.com, Year: 1900; Census Place: Julien, Dubuque, Iowa; Page: 4; Enumeration District: 0112.
Jacob J. Schiffman
M, b. 22 February 1862, d. 31 August 1903
Father* Peter Joseph Schiffman b. 7 Aug 1818, d. c 1897
Mother* Gertrude Schwab b. 12 Jun 1830, d. 6 Nov 1919
Birth 22 February 1862 Jacob J. Schiffman was born on 22 February 1862 at Wisconsin.
He was the son of Peter Joseph Schiffman and Gertrude Schwab.
Marriage 15 December 1881 Jacob J. Schiffman married Margaret Mila Rupp, daughter of John Rupp Jr. and Elizabeth Winter, on 15 December 1881 at Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin.1
Death 31 August 1903 Jacob J. Schiffman died on 31 August 1903 at age 41.
20 July 1870 Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin Jacob J. Schiffman was listed in Peter Joseph Schiffman's household on the 1870 Census at Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin; also included is William Walters (nephew), age 1.2
1880 Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin Jacob J. Schiffman was listed as a son in Peter Joseph Schiffman's household on the 1880 Census at Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin; also included is nephew William Walters, age 12.3
18 June 1900 Mount Vernon, Cerro Gordo, Iowa Jacob J. Schiffman was listed as the head of a family on the 1900 Census at Mount Vernon, Cerro Gordo, Iowa.4
Children of Jacob J. Schiffman and Margaret Mila Rupp
Ida Schiffman b. Jul 1883, d. Nov 1956
Clara Schiffman b. 22 Nov 1884, d. Mar 1975
Nora A. Schiffman+ b. 8 Jul 1885, d. Jul 1971
Earl J. Schiffman+ b. 9 Mar 1896, d. 26 Mar 1968
(?) Schiffman b. c 1898, d. b Jun 1900
Ralph C. Schiffman+ b. Mar 1900, d. 1 Feb 1960
[S5] Wisconsin, Wisconsin Marriages, 1835-1900.
[S247] U.S. Federal Census 1870 U.S. Federal Census, by Ancestry.com, Page 67. Dwelling 488.
Valentine John Meier
M, b. circa 1818, d. circa 1851
Name Variation Valentine John Meier was also known as John Valentine.
Name Variation Valentine John Meier was also known as Myers.
Birth circa 1818 Valentine John Meier was born circa 1818 at Prussia.
Marriage 13 June 1848 He married Elizabeth Winter on 13 June 1848 at Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin.
Death circa 1851 Valentine John Meier died circa 1851 at in a mining accident, Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin.
7 September 1850 District Number 24, Grant, Wisconsin Valentine John Meier was listed as the head of a family on the 1850 Census at District Number 24, Grant, Wisconsin.1
Children of Valentine John Meier and Elizabeth Winter
Elizabeth Meier+ b. 4 Apr 1849, d. 31 Jan 1933
John Meier+ b. 17 Jul 1851, d. 10 Feb 1902
[S249] U.S. Federal Census 1850 U.S. Federal Census, by Ancestry.com, page 119. Stamp 60. Dwelling 856.
Elizabeth Meier
F, b. 4 April 1849, d. 31 January 1933
Father* Valentine John Meier b. c 1818, d. c 1851
Mother* Elizabeth Winter b. 1 Apr 1819, d. 7 Mar 1874
Name Variation Elizabeth Meier was also known as Lizzie.
Name Variation Elizabeth Meier was also known as Meyer.
Married Name 16 July 1867 As of 16 July 1867,her married name was Glasmacher.
Married Name 16 July 1867 As of 16 July 1867,her married name was Glassmaker.
Married Name 14 October 1884 As of 14 October 1884,her married name was Willkomm.
Married Name 14 October 1884 As of 14 October 1884,her married name was Wilcom.
Birth 4 April 1849 Elizabeth Meier was born on 4 April 1849 at Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin.
She was the daughter of Valentine John Meier and Elizabeth Winter.
Marriage 16 July 1867 Elizabeth Meier married Peter Hubert Glasmacher, son of Christian Glasmacher and Magdalena Becker, on 16 July 1867 at Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin.
Marriage 14 October 1884 Elizabeth Meier married Nickolas Willkomm on 14 October 1884 at Grant, Wisconsin, her second marriage.1
Death 31 January 1933 Elizabeth Meier died on 31 January 1933 at at home, Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin, at age 83 Mrs Nicholas Willkomm (Elizabeth Meier) obituary; also reported as 21 Jul 1933.
Dubuque Telegraph Herald February 1, 1933 - Mrs Nicholas Willkomm (Elizabeth Meier) obituary
7 September 1850 District Number 24, Grant, Wisconsin Elizabeth Meier was listed in Valentine John Meier's household on the 1850 Census at District Number 24, Grant, Wisconsin.2
12 June 1860 Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin Elizabeth Meier was listed in John Rupp Jr.'s household on the 1860 Census at Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin.3
3 June 1870 Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin Elizabeth Meier was listed in Peter Hubert Glasmacher's household on the 1870 Census at Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin.4
1880 Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin Elizabeth Meier was listed as wife in Peter Hubert Glasmacher's household on the 1880 Census at Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin.5
January 1920 Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin Elizabeth Meier was listed as wife in Nickolas Willkomm's household on the 1920 Census at Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin; living next door to Henry Willkomm.6
19 April 1930 Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin Elizabeth Meier was listed as mother in Joseph Willkomm's household on the 1930 Census at Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin; living next door to Henry Willkomm.7
Children of Elizabeth Meier and Peter Hubert Glasmacher
Anthony Glasmacher d. a 1958
Christian Glasmacher b. Mar 1870, d. bt 1933 - 1958
John Glasmacher b. 13 Oct 1873, d. 7 Mar 1880
William Glasmacher b. c 1876, d. 25 Dec 1959
Mary Glasmacher b. 1878, d. 2 Nov 1958
Children of Elizabeth Meier and Nickolas Willkomm
Matthew Willkomm d. a 1958
Anna Willkomm+ d. a 1958
Henry Willkomm+ b. c 1886, d. a 1958
Joseph Willkomm b. c 1888, d. a 1958
[S248] U.S. Federal Census 1860 U.S. Federal Census, by Ancestry.com, Page 19. Stamp 619. Dwelling 157.
[S247] U.S. Federal Census 1870 U.S. Federal Census, by Ancestry.com, Page 1. Dwelling 2.
[S246] U.S. Federal Census 1880 U.S. Federal Census, by Ancestry.com, NA Film Number T9-1426 Page Number 58C.
[S250] U.S. Federal Census 1930 U.S. Federal Census, by Ancestry.com, ED22-8. Dwelling 92.
John Meier
M, b. 17 July 1851, d. 10 February 1902
Name Variation John Meier was also known as Meyer.
Birth 17 July 1851 John Meier was born on 17 July 1851 at Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin.
He was the son of Valentine John Meier and Elizabeth Winter.
Marriage 12 January 1876 John Meier married Mary Amanda Breuer on 12 January 1876 at Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin.
Death 10 February 1902 John Meier died on 10 February 1902 at Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin, at age 50.
12 June 1860 Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin John Meier was listed in John Rupp Jr.'s household on the 1860 Census at Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin.1
1880 Waterloo, Grant, Wisconsin John Meier was listed as the head of a family on the 1880 Census at Waterloo, Grant, Wisconsin.2
30 June 1900 Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin He was listed as the head of a family on the 1900 Census at Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin.3
Children of John Meier and Mary Amanda Breuer
Joseph Meier b. c 1876
Lena Meier b. c 1878
Elizabeth Meier b. Oct 1879
William Meier b. Jun 1881
Antony Meier b. Apr 1884
Chris Meier b. Aug 1887
Susan Meier b. Apr 1892
Frances Meier b. Dec 1898
Mary Amanda Breuer
F, b. May 1855, d. after January 1920
Name Variation Mary Amanda Breuer was also known as Amanda.
Married Name 12 January 1876 As of 12 January 1876,her married name was Meier.
Married Name 12 January 1876 As of 12 January 1876,her married name was Meyer.
Birth May 1855 Mary Amanda Breuer was born in May 1855 at New York.
Marriage 12 January 1876 She married John Meier, son of Valentine John Meier and Elizabeth Winter, on 12 January 1876 at Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin.
Death after January 1920 Mary Amanda Breuer died after January 1920.
1880 Waterloo, Grant, Wisconsin Mary Amanda Breuer was listed as wife in John Meier's household on the 1880 Census at Waterloo, Grant, Wisconsin.1
30 June 1900 Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin Mary Amanda Breuer was listed as wife in John Meier's household on the 1900 Census at Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin.2
1910 Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin Mary Amanda Breuer was listed as the head of a family on the 1910 Census at Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin.3
January 1920 Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin She was listed as the head of a family on the 1920 Census at Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin.4
Mary Amanda Breuer had 9 with 8 living in 1900 children.
Children of Mary Amanda Breuer and John Meier
Peter Hubert Glasmacher
M, b. 1 November 1841, d. before 1884
Father* Christian Glasmacher b. 23 Feb 1813, d. 19 Jun 1890
Mother* Magdalena Becker b. 20 Jan 1815, d. 6 Aug 1884
Name Variation Peter Hubert Glasmacher was also known as Glassmaker.
Birth 1 November 1841 Peter Hubert Glasmacher was born on 1 November 1841 at Prussia.
He was the son of Christian Glasmacher and Magdalena Becker.
Baptism 2 November 1841 Peter Hubert Glasmacher was baptized on 2 November 1841 at Civil, Grevenbroich, Rheinland, Prussia.
Marriage 16 July 1867 He married Elizabeth Meier, daughter of Valentine John Meier and Elizabeth Winter, on 16 July 1867 at Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin.
Death before 1884 Peter Hubert Glasmacher died before 1884.
22 June 1860 Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin Peter Hubert Glasmacher was listed in Christian Glasmacher's household on the 1860 Census at Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin.1
3 June 1870 Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin Peter Hubert Glasmacher was listed as the head of a family on the 1870 Census at Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin.2
1880 Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin He was listed as the head of a family on the 1880 Census at Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin.3
Children of Peter Hubert Glasmacher and Elizabeth Meier
Nickolas Willkomm
Name Variation Nickolas Willkomm was also known as Nicholas Welcome.
Name Variation Nickolas Willkomm was also known as Nick.
Name Variation Nickolas Willkomm was also known as Wilcom.
Birth 1849 Nickolas Willkomm was born in 1849 at Germany.
Marriage 14 October 1884 He married Elizabeth Meier, daughter of Valentine John Meier and Elizabeth Winter, on 14 October 1884 at Grant, Wisconsin, her second marriage.1
Burial 1945 Nickolas Willkomm was buried in 1945 at Saint Marys Settlement Cemetery, Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin.
Death 1945 He died in 1945.
January 1920 Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin Nickolas Willkomm was listed as the head of a family on the 1920 Census at Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin, living next door to Henry Willkomm.2
19 April 1930 Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin He was listed as father in Joseph Willkomm's household on the 1930 Census at Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin; living next door to Henry Willkomm.3
Nickolas Willkomm immigrated in 1868.
Children of Nickolas Willkomm and Elizabeth Meier
Mary Bertha Schaefer
F, b. 17 July 1882, d. 24 February 1949
Father* (?) Schaefer
Married Name 6 September 1904 As of 6 September 1904,her married name was Rupp.
Birth 17 July 1882 Mary Bertha Schaefer was born on 17 July 1882 at Gittner, Nebraska.
She was the daughter of (?) Schaefer.
Marriage 6 September 1904 Mary Bertha Schaefer married Anthony George Rupp Jr., son of Anton Rupp and Elizabeth Holl, on 6 September 1904 at Grant, Wisconsin.
Death 24 February 1949 Mary Bertha Schaefer died on 24 February 1949 at South Dakota at age 66.
Burial after 24 February 1949 She was buried after 24 February 1949 at Mount Calvary Cemetery, Edgeley, LaMoure, North Dakota.
1 June 1905 Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin Mary Bertha Schaefer is listed as daughter-in-law on the census of 1 June 1905 in the household of Anton Rupp at Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin.1
17 May 1910 Wano, La Moure, North Dakota Mary Bertha Schaefer was listed as wife in Anthony George Rupp Jr.'s household on the 1910 Census at Wano, La Moure, North Dakota.2
1 April 1925 Wano, La Moure, North Dakota Mary Bertha Schaefer appeared on the census of 1 April 1925 in the household of Anthony George Rupp Jr. at Wano, La Moure, North Dakota.
14 April 1930 Wano, La Moure, North Dakota Mary Bertha Schaefer was listed as wife in Anthony George Rupp Jr.'s household on the 1930 Census at Wano, La Moure, North Dakota.3
In February 1906 Otto Schaefer visited his sister Mrs Tony Rupp (Mary Bertha Shaefer).
Dubuque Telegraph Herald February 27, 1906 - Otto Schaefer visited his sister Mrs Tony Rupp (Mary Bertha Shaefer)
Mary Bertha Schaefer had 3 with 3 living in 1910 children.
She and Gertrude C. Rupp lived in 1948 at Aberdeen, South Dakota.
Children of Mary Bertha Schaefer and Anthony George Rupp Jr.
Clarence Rupp b. 16 Apr 1905, d. 1925
Gertrude C. Rupp b. 4 Apr 1906, d. 18 Apr 1997
Clara Rupp b. 11 Aug 1908, d. 1 Apr 1950
Leona Josephine Rupp b. 27 Sep 1910, d. 17 Aug 1978
John Anthony Rupp+ b. 1 Dec 1914, d. 11 Feb 1992
Victor Rupp b. 1918, d. 1936
[S364] Wisconsin State Census Wisconsin State Censuses, 1895 and 1905, by Ancestry.com, Dwelling 43.
[S244] U.S. Federal Census 1910 U.S. Federal Census, by Ancestry.com, Year: 1910; Census Place: Wano, La Moure, North Dakota; Roll: T624_1143; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 0118; Image: 66; FHL Number: 1375156.
[S250] U.S. Federal Census 1930 U.S. Federal Census, by Ancestry.com, Year: 1930; Census Place: Wano, La Moure, North Dakota; Roll: 1736; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 39; Image: 1052.0.
Bernard Sykes
M, b. 17 March 1851, d. 21 May 1928
Father* Peter Zeng b. Jan 1805, d. May 1903
Mother* Barbara Katimji b. c 1809, d. 1886
Name Variation Bernard Sykes was also known as Bennett.
Name Variation Bernard Sykes was also known as Ben.
Name Variation Bernard Sykes was also known as Bernhard.
Name Variation Bernard Sykes was also known as Dyke.
Name Variation Bernard Sykes was also known as B.
Name Variation Bernard Sykes was also known as Zieg.
Name Variation Bernard Sykes was also known as Zenz.
Name Variation Bernard Sykes was also known as Zeng.
Name Variation Bernard Sykes was also known as Burnhard.
Birth 17 March 1851 Bernard Sykes was born on 17 March 1851 at Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin.
He was the son of Peter Zeng and Barbara Katimji.
Marriage 24 November 1882 Bernard Sykes married Catherine Rupp, daughter of Anton Rupp and Elizabeth Holl, on 24 November 1882 at Grant, Wisconsin, also reported as 1882-11-25.1
Marriage 23 February 1892 Bernard Sykes married Louisa Margaret Rupp, daughter of Anton Rupp and Elizabeth Holl, on 23 February 1892 at Grant, Wisconsin.1
Death 21 May 1928 Bernard Sykes died on 21 May 1928 at age 77 Ben Sykes obituary.
Mason City Globe Gazette May 25, 1928 - Ben Sykes obituary
Burial after 21 May 1928 He was buried after 21 May 1928 at Sacred Heart Cemetery, Rockwell, Cerro Gordo, Iowa.
18 June 1860 Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin Bernard Sykes was listed in Peter Zeng's household on the 1860 Census at Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin.2
2 July 1870 Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin Bernard Sykes was listed in Peter Zeng's household on the 1870 Census at Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin.3
1900 Pleasant Valley, Cerro Gordo, Iowa Bernard Sykes was listed as the head of a family on the 1900 Census at Pleasant Valley, Cerro Gordo, Iowa.4
1910 Swaledale, Cerro Gordo, Iowa He was listed as the head of a family on the 1910 Census at Swaledale, Cerro Gordo, Iowa, surname listed as Syks.5
1920 Pleasant Valley, Cerro Gordo, Iowa He was listed as the head of a family on the 1920 Census at Pleasant Valley, Cerro Gordo, Iowa.6
1 January 1925 Swaledale, Cerro Gordo, Iowa He appeared on the census of 1 January 1925 at Swaledale, Cerro Gordo, Iowa.
Bernard Sykes was a blacksmith in 1900.
Children of Bernard Sykes and Catherine Rupp
Hattie Barbara Sykes b. 23 Nov 1883, d. 20 Nov 1967
Odelia M. Sykes b. 15 Jul 1884, d. 10 Mar 1923
Joseph Frank Sykes b. 2 Apr 1885, d. 2 Jul 1942
Children of Bernard Sykes and Louisa Margaret Rupp
Adesta M. Sykes+ b. 8 Oct 1894, d. 5 Jul 1964
Catherine M. Sykes+ b. 2 Feb 1898, d. Nov 1984
Lincoln Anthony Sykes b. 13 Jun 1900, d. 17 Feb 1969
[S248] U.S. Federal Census 1860 U.S. Federal Census, by Ancestry.com, Page 27. Handwritten number 627. Dwelling 219.
[S245] U.S. Federal Census 1900 U.S. Federal Census, by Ancestry.com, Year: 1900; Census Place: Pleasant Valley, Cerro Gordo, Iowa; Roll: T623_423; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 27.
[S244] U.S. Federal Census 1910 U.S. Federal Census, by Ancestry.com, Year: 1910; Census Place: Swaledale, Cerro Gordo, Iowa; Roll: T624_396; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 0037; Image: 520; FHL Number: 1374409.
[S243] U.S. Federal Census 1920 U.S. Federal Census, by Ancestry.com, Year: 1920;Census Place: Pleasant Valley, Cerro Gordo, Iowa; Roll: T625_483; Page: 12B; Enumeration District: 44; Image: 565.
Henry E. Pluemer1
M, b. 3 April 1890, d. 25 May 1970
Father* Adam Pluemer1 b. Apr 1861, d. 20 May 1932
Mother* Elizabeth S. Rupp1 b. Sep 1866, d. 29 Nov 1954
Name Variation Henry E. Pluemer was also known as Harry.
Birth 3 April 1890 Henry E. Pluemer was born on 3 April 1890 at Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin.1
He was the son of Adam Pluemer and Elizabeth S. Rupp.1
Marriage 6 July 1920 Henry E. Pluemer married Clotilda Uppena, daughter of Henry B. Uppena and Katherina A. Neiner, on 6 July 1920 Harry E Pluemer and Clotilda Uppena marriage announcement.
Dubuque Telegraph Herald July 14, 1920 - Harry E Pluemer and Clotilda Uppena marriage announcement
Death 25 May 1970 Henry E. Pluemer died on 25 May 1970 at age 80.
Burial after 25 May 1970 He was buried after 25 May 1970 at Saint Andrews Cemetery, Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin.
1 June 1900 Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin Henry E. Pluemer was listed as a son in Adam Pluemer's household on the 1900 Census at Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin.2
Harry E. Pluemer was born on April 3, 1890, at British Hollow, Potosi Township in Grant County, the son of Adam Pluemer and Elizabeth Rupp. He attended Rockville School, Barber College, and the University of Minnesota, graduating from the University of Minnesota School of Embalming on March 20, 1917. He entered the U.S. Army on March 18, 1918, and was with the Army Medical Corps, stationed at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, until his discharge on November 5, 1919. He resided in Potosi, Wisconsin, from 1920-1923, in Staceyville, Iowa, from 1923-1925, Waukon, Iowa, from 1925-1942. In 1942, he was employed by the U.S. Navy and was stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, until 1944. In 1944 he transferred to Seattle, Washington, and worked at the University of Washington for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. His family joined him in Seattle in July of 1944. In 1946, they moved to Montfort, Wisconsin, and in 1962 to Marshall, Wisconsin, where he resided until his death on May 25, 1970.
In January 1916 at Tennyson, Grant, Wisconsin, Miners ready for the pits, including Adam, Harry and John Pluemer.
Dubuque Telegraph Herald April 5, 1960 - Miners ready for the pits, including Adam, Harry, and John Pluemer
On 5 June 1917 at World War I Draft Registration, Grant, Wisconsin, listed as single.
Peter Zeng
M, b. January 1805, d. May 1903
Name Variation Peter Zeng was also known as Sykes.
Name Variation Peter Zeng was also known as Zenz.
Name Variation Peter Zeng was also known as Zeug.
Name Variation Peter Zeng was also known as Zeig.
Name Variation Peter Zeng was also known as Zieg.
Birth January 1805 Peter Zeng was born in January 1805 at Prussia.
Marriage before 1831 He married Barbara Katimji before 1831.
Death May 1903 Peter Zeng died in May 1903 at Tennyson, Grant, Wisconsin, at age 98 age 102.
Oshkosh Daily Northwestern May 11, 1903 - Peter Zeng died at age 102
1842 Grant, Wisconsin Peter Zeng appeared on the census of 1842 at Grant, Wisconsin.
7 September 1850 District Number 24, Grant, Wisconsin He was listed as the head of a family on the 1850 Census at District Number 24, Grant, Wisconsin, living between John P. Rupp and Frank Blumer (Pluemer).1
18 June 1860 Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin He was listed as the head of a family on the 1860 Census at Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin.2
2 July 1870 Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin He was listed as the head of a family on the 1870 Census at Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin.3
1880 Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin He was listed as the head of a family on the 1880 Census at Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin.4
1895 Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin He appeared on the census of 1895 at Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin, living alone.
1 June 1900 Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin He was listed as grandfather (surname listed as Sykes) in Barbara Pluemer's household on the 1900 Census at Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin; living next door to Peter Rupp.5
Peter Zeng immigrated in 1830.
In 1846 at St. Andrew's Catholic Church, Tennyson, Grant, Wisconsin, 1st Church of Logs - Fr. (Rev. Andrew) Tusch celebrated mass in a log church situated near the present sisters' (Franciscan Sister of Christian Charity) home. Ten acres of land were purchased for the parish Oct. 3, 1846 by Bishop John Martin Henni. Among the first worshipers were Frank Muller, Ludwig Schwab, John Holl, John Wallenhorst, Peter Zenz, Peter Ort, Frank Pluemer, Joseph Blindert, John Siepker, John Rupp, Anton Rupp, Johannes Rupp, and Peter School.
He purchased land on 1 April 1848 at Township 2N Range 3W, Grant, Wisconsin.
He was a lead miner in 1860.
In 1901 Excerpt from biography: Miss Catharine ZEUG, a native of Potosi, Grant county, and a daughter of Peter and Barbara (CATERNINE) ZEUG. Her father was born in Germany, and on coming to this country in 1830, located in Dubuque, but the following year took up his residence in Potosi, where he now lives at the advanced age of ninety-eight years. During his active business life he followed mining and farming. His wife died in 1886. In their family were the following children: Peter, who died in San Francisco, Cal; Frank and Burnhard, both residents of Iowa; William, now in Grant river; John (2), who died young; Mrs. Barbara BLUEMER, of Potosi; Mrs. Barbara CASPARS, of Cassville; and Mrs. Catharine ORTSCHEID.
Children of Peter Zeng and Barbara Katimji
Barbary Zeng+ b. 15 Aug 1832, d. 23 Aug 1902
Peter Zeng b. c 1841, d. b 1901
Catherine Zeng+ b. 22 Apr 1843, d. 11 Jun 1923
John Zeng+ b. c 1844, d. b 1928
Francis Sykes+ b. 16 Dec 1849, d. 24 Feb 1929
Bernard Sykes+ b. 17 Mar 1851, d. 21 May 1928
Wilhelm Zeng+ b. 1854, d. b 1928
[S249] U.S. Federal Census 1850 U.S. Federal Census, by Ancestry.com, page 112. Dwelling 805.
[S246] U.S. Federal Census 1880 U.S. Federal Census, by Ancestry.com, NA Film Number T9-1427 Page Number 351B.
[S245] U.S. Federal Census 1900 U.S. Federal Census, by Ancestry.com, Year: 1900; Census Place: Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin; Roll: T623_ 1790; Page: 11A; Enumeration District: 51.
Barbara Katimji
F, b. circa 1809, d. 1886
Name Variation Barbara Katimji was also known as Caternine.
Name Variation Barbara Katimji was also known as Kotunia.
Name Variation Barbara Katimji was also known as Cotunia.
Married Name before 1831 As of before 1831,her married name was Zeng.
Married Name before 1831 As of before 1831,her married name was Zeug.
Birth circa 1809 Barbara Katimji was born circa 1809 at Prussia.
Marriage before 1831 She married Peter Zeng before 1831.
Death 1886 Barbara Katimji died in 1886.
7 September 1850 District Number 24, Grant, Wisconsin Barbara Katimji was listed in Peter Zeng's household on the 1850 Census at District Number 24, Grant, Wisconsin; living between John P. Rupp and Frank Blumer (Pluemer).1
18 June 1860 Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin Barbara Katimji was listed in Peter Zeng's household on the 1860 Census at Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin.2
2 July 1870 Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin Barbara Katimji was listed as wife in Peter Zeng's household on the 1880 Census at Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin.3
1880 Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin Barbara Katimji was listed as wife in Peter Zeng's household on the 1880 Census at Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin.4
Children of Barbara Katimji and Peter Zeng
Wilhelm Zeng
M, b. 1854, d. before 1928
Name Variation Wilhelm Zeng was also known as Zieg.
Name Variation Wilhelm Zeng was also known as Zenz.
Name Variation Wilhelm Zeng was also known as William.
Birth 1854 Wilhelm Zeng was born in 1854 at Grant, Wisconsin, also reported as Sep 1869.
Marriage 7 February 1893 Wilhelm Zeng married Anna Degenhardt, daughter of Michael Jacob Degenhardt and Elizabeth Mikesch, on 7 February 1893 at Grant, Wisconsin.1
Death before 1928 Wilhelm Zeng died before 1928.
18 June 1860 Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin Wilhelm Zeng was listed in Peter Zeng's household on the 1860 Census at Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin.2
2 July 1870 Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin Wilhelm Zeng was listed in Peter Zeng's household on the 1870 Census at Potosi, Grant, Wisconsin.3
1900 Waterloo, Grant, Wisconsin Wilhelm Zeng was listed as the head of a family on the 1900 Census at Waterloo, Grant, Wisconsin.4
Children of Wilhelm Zeng and Anna Degenhardt
Ambrose Zenz
Hilda Zenz b. Dec 1893, d. Jun 1943
Paul Cornelius Zenz b. Jun 1897, d. 19 Nov 1953
Clarence Zenz b. Jul 1899
[S245] U.S. Federal Census 1900 U.S. Federal Census, by Ancestry.com, Year: 1900; Census Place: Waterloo, Grant, Wisconsin; Roll: T623_1790; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 53.
Joseph Willkomm
Father* Nickolas Willkomm b. 1849, d. 1945
Mother* Elizabeth Meier b. 4 Apr 1849, d. 31 Jan 1933
Birth circa 1888 Joseph Willkomm was born circa 1888 at Wisconsin.
He was the son of Nickolas Willkomm and Elizabeth Meier.
Death after 1958 Joseph Willkomm died after 1958.
January 1920 Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin Joseph Willkomm was listed as a son in Nickolas Willkomm's household on the 1920 Census at Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin; living next door to Henry Willkomm.1
19 April 1930 Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin Joseph Willkomm was listed as the head of a family on the 1930 Census at Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin, living next door to Henry Willkomm.2
Henry Willkomm
Birth circa 1886 Henry Willkomm was born circa 1886 at Wisconsin.
Marriage circa 1910 Henry Willkomm married Katherine (?) circa 1910.
Death after 1958 Henry Willkomm died after 1958.
January 1920 Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin Henry Willkomm was listed as the head of a family on the 1920 Census at Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin, living next door to Nickolas Willkomm.1
19 April 1930 Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin He was listed as the head of a family on the 1930 Census at Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin, living next door to Joseph Willkomm.2
Children of Henry Willkomm and Katherine (?)
Francis Willkomm b. c 1911
Lawrence J. Willkomm b. 11 Nov 1913, d. 5 Dec 1993
Luella Willkomm b. c 1916
Bernard A. Willkomm b. 20 Aug 1921, d. 14 Apr 2003
Katherine (?)
F, b. circa 1892
Name Variation Katherine (?) was also known as Katie (?).
Married Name circa 1910 As of circa 1910,her married name was Willkomm.
Birth circa 1892 Katherine (?) was born circa 1892 at Wisconsin.
Marriage circa 1910 She married Henry Willkomm, son of Nickolas Willkomm and Elizabeth Meier, circa 1910.
January 1920 Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin Katherine (?) was listed as wife in Henry Willkomm's household on the 1920 Census at Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin; living next door to Nickolas Willkomm.1
19 April 1930 Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin Katherine (?) was listed as wife in Henry Willkomm's household on the 1930 Census at Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin; living next door to Joseph Willkomm.2
Children of Katherine (?) and Henry Willkomm
Francis Willkomm
M, b. circa 1911
Father* Henry Willkomm b. c 1886, d. a 1958
Mother* Katherine (?) b. c 1892
Birth circa 1911 Francis Willkomm was born circa 1911 at Wisconsin.
He was the son of Henry Willkomm and Katherine (?).
January 1920 Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin Francis Willkomm was listed as a son in Henry Willkomm's household on the 1920 Census at Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin; living next door to Nickolas Willkomm.1
19 April 1930 Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin Francis Willkomm was listed as a son in Henry Willkomm's household on the 1930 Census at Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin; living next door to Joseph Willkomm.2
Lawrence J. Willkomm
M, b. 11 November 1913, d. 5 December 1993
Birth 11 November 1913 Lawrence J. Willkomm was born on 11 November 1913 at Wisconsin.
Death 5 December 1993 Lawrence J. Willkomm died on 5 December 1993 at age 80.
January 1920 Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin Lawrence J. Willkomm was listed as a son in Henry Willkomm's household on the 1920 Census at Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin; living next door to Nickolas Willkomm.1
19 April 1930 Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin Lawrence J. Willkomm was listed as a son in Henry Willkomm's household on the 1930 Census at Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin; living next door to Joseph Willkomm.2
Lawrence J. Willkomm obtained US Social Security Card at Wisconsin; last residence Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin.
Luella Willkomm
Birth circa 1916 Luella Willkomm was born circa 1916 at Wisconsin.
She was the daughter of Henry Willkomm and Katherine (?).
January 1920 Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin Luella Willkomm was listed as a daughter in Henry Willkomm's household on the 1920 Census at Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin; living next door to Nickolas Willkomm.1
19 April 1930 Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin Luella Willkomm was listed as a daughter in Henry Willkomm's household on the 1930 Census at Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin; living next door to Joseph Willkomm.2
Bernard A. Willkomm
Name Variation Bernard A. Willkomm was also known as Bernhard.
Birth 20 August 1921 Bernard A. Willkomm was born on 20 August 1921 at Wisconsin.
Death 14 April 2003 Bernard A. Willkomm died on 14 April 2003 at age 81.
19 April 1930 Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin Bernard A. Willkomm was listed as a son in Henry Willkomm's household on the 1930 Census at Cassville, Grant, Wisconsin; living next door to Joseph Willkomm.1
Bernard A. Willkomm obtained US Social Security Card at Wisconsin; last residence Glen Haven, Grant, Wisconsin.
Theodor Ludwig Zick
M, b. 16 April 1840, d. 10 July 1900
Father* Christoph Zick b. 1799
Mother* Dorothe Marie Zick b. 1802
Name Variation Theodor Ludwig Zick was also known as Ludwig Theodor.
Name Variation Theodor Ludwig Zick was also known as Theodore.
Birth 16 April 1840 Theodor Ludwig Zick was born on 16 April 1840 at Pomerania, Germany.
He was the son of Christoph Zick and Dorothe Marie Zick.
Baptism 20 April 1840 Theodor Ludwig Zick was baptized on 20 April 1840 at Storkon Parish, Gramenz, Neustettin, Pomerania, Germany.
Baptism of Ludwig Theodor Zick 20 Apr 1840 Storkon parish, Gramenz, Pomerania, Germany
Marriage circa 1866 He married Friederike Schultz, daughter of (?) Schultz, circa 1866.
Death 10 July 1900 Theodor Ludwig Zick died on 10 July 1900 at 60y 3m at age 60.
Burial after 10 July 1900 He was buried after 10 July 1900 at Denzer Cemetery, Honey Creek, Sauk, Wisconsin.1
27 July 1870 Honey Creek, Sauk, Wisconsin Theodor Ludwig Zick was listed as the head of a family on the 1870 Census at Honey Creek, Sauk, Wisconsin, living two doors away from Herman Zick.2
1880 Honey Creek, Sauk, Wisconsin He was listed as the head of a family on the 1880 Census at Honey Creek, Sauk, Wisconsin, living next door to Herman Zick.3
19 June 1900 Honey Creek, Sauk, Wisconsin He was listed as the head of a family on the 1900 Census at Honey Creek, Sauk, Wisconsin, living next door to William Zick.4
Theodor Ludwig Zick immigrated in 1864.
Children of Theodor Ludwig Zick and Friederike Schultz
John F. Zick+ b. 25 Nov 1866, d. 7 Aug 1935
Amelia Dorothy Zick b. 2 Jul 1871, d. 7 Jul 1932
Robert Herman Zick b. 5 Nov 1874, d. 9 Jun 1888
Ida L. Zick+ b. May 1881, d. 23 Feb 1947
[S313] Wisconsin Sauk County Cemetery, by Wisconsin.
[S246] U.S. Federal Census 1880 U.S. Federal Census, by Ancestry.com, NA Film Number T9-1446 Page Number 132A.
[S245] U.S. Federal Census 1900 U.S. Federal Census, by Ancestry.com, Dwelling 118.
Friederike Schultz
F, b. circa February 1849, d. 7 July 1916
Father* (?) Schultz
Married Name circa 1866 As of circa 1866,her married name was Zick.
Birth circa February 1849 Friederike Schultz was born circa February 1849 at Wisconsin also reported as Jan 1851.
She was the daughter of (?) Schultz.
Marriage circa 1866 Friederike Schultz married Theodor Ludwig Zick, son of Christoph Zick and Dorothe Marie Zick, circa 1866.
Death 7 July 1916 Friederike Schultz died on 7 July 1916 at 67y 5m.
Burial after 7 July 1916 She was buried after 7 July 1916 at Denzer Cemetery, Honey Creek, Sauk, Wisconsin.1
27 July 1870 Honey Creek, Sauk, Wisconsin Friederike Schultz was listed in Theodor Ludwig Zick's household on the 1870 Census at Honey Creek, Sauk, Wisconsin; living two doors away from Herman Zick.2
1880 Honey Creek, Sauk, Wisconsin Friederike Schultz was listed as a daughter in Theodor Ludwig Zick's household on the 1880 Census at Honey Creek, Sauk, Wisconsin; living next door to Herman Zick.3
19 June 1900 Honey Creek, Sauk, Wisconsin Friederike Schultz was listed as wife in Theodor Ludwig Zick's household on the 1900 Census at Honey Creek, Sauk, Wisconsin; living next door to William Zick.4
1 June 1905 Honey Creek, Sauk, Wisconsin Friederike Schultz is listed as mother-in-law on the census of 1 June 1905 in the household of Emil C. Koenig at Honey Creek, Sauk, Wisconsin; living between Herman Zick and Edward J. Zick.5
Children of Friederike Schultz and Theodor Ludwig Zick
[S364] Wisconsin State Census Wisconsin State Censuses, 1895 and 1905, by Ancestry.com, Dwelling 144.
Doris I. M. Zick
Father* John F. Zick b. 25 Nov 1866, d. 7 Aug 1935
Mother* Minna Selma Mellenthin b. Dec 1876, d. 1914
Death 1914 Doris I. M. Zick died in 1914.
Burial 1914 She was buried in 1914 at Denzer Cemetery, Honey Creek, Sauk, Wisconsin.1
Birth 1914 She was born in 1914.
She was the daughter of John F. Zick and Minna Selma Mellenthin.
Amelia Dorothy Zick
F, b. 2 July 1871, d. 7 July 1932
Father* Theodor Ludwig Zick b. 16 Apr 1840, d. 10 Jul 1900
Mother* Friederike Schultz b. c Feb 1849, d. 7 Jul 1916
Name Variation Amelia Dorothy Zick was also known as Emelia.
Birth 2 July 1871 Amelia Dorothy Zick was born on 2 July 1871 at Wisconsin also reported as Feb 1871.
She was the daughter of Theodor Ludwig Zick and Friederike Schultz.
UNMARRIED 1930 As of 1930, Amelia Dorothy Zick was never married.
Death 7 July 1932 She died on 7 July 1932 at age 61.
1880 Honey Creek, Sauk, Wisconsin Amelia Dorothy Zick was listed as a daughter in Theodor Ludwig Zick's household on the 1880 Census at Honey Creek, Sauk, Wisconsin; living next door to Herman Zick.2
19 June 1900 Honey Creek, Sauk, Wisconsin Amelia Dorothy Zick was listed as a daughter in Theodor Ludwig Zick's household on the 1900 Census at Honey Creek, Sauk, Wisconsin; living next door to William Zick.3
1 June 1905 Honey Creek, Sauk, Wisconsin Amelia Dorothy Zick is listed as sister-in-law on the census of 1 June 1905 in the household of Emil C. Koenig at Honey Creek, Sauk, Wisconsin; living between Herman Zick and Edward J. Zick.4
2 January 1920 Reedsburg, Sauk, Wisconsin Amelia Dorothy Zick was listed as a sister-in-law in Emil C. Koenig's household on the 1930 Census at Reedsburg, Sauk, Wisconsin; living at 506 Clark Street.5
5 April 1930 Reedsburg, Sauk, Wisconsin Amelia Dorothy Zick was listed as a sister-in-law in Emil C. Koenig's household on the 1930 Census at Reedsburg, Sauk, Wisconsin; living at 506 Clark Street.6
[S243] U.S. Federal Census 1920 U.S. Federal Census, by Ancestry.com, ED174. Dwelling 129.
[S250] U.S. Federal Census 1930 U.S. Federal Census, by Ancestry.com, ED56-29. Dwelling 100.
Robert Herman Zick
M, b. 5 November 1874, d. 9 June 1888
Birth 5 November 1874 Robert Herman Zick was born on 5 November 1874 at Wisconsin.
He was the son of Theodor Ludwig Zick and Friederike Schultz.
Burial 9 June 1888 Robert Herman Zick was buried on 9 June 1888 at Denzer Cemetery, Honey Creek, Sauk, Wisconsin.1
Death 9 June 1888 He died on 9 June 1888 at 13y 7m 4d at age 13.
1880 Honey Creek, Sauk, Wisconsin Robert Herman Zick was listed as a son in Theodor Ludwig Zick's household on the 1880 Census at Honey Creek, Sauk, Wisconsin; living next door to Herman Zick.2
(?) Schultz
Children of (?) Schultz
Friederike Schultz+ b. c Feb 1849, d. 7 Jul 1916
Louise Schultz b. Apr 1857
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Exhibit Showcases Stories Of Historic Black Families In The Southwest
More often than not, when you think about African American history in this country, you probably don’t think about them here in Arizona. But there’s an exhibition showing now in Phoenix’s Heritage Square that highlights the stories of African Americans here in the Southwest.
Glendale Workers Support NASA Mission To Send First Woman To Moon
Some Honeywell employees in Glendale will play a role in the next generation of human space exploration. Lockheed Martin awarded a contract to Honeywell to support production of NASA’s Orion spacecraft fleet.
Miscalculation Left Rock 'N' Roll 1/2 Marathon Short
The Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon and half marathon took place Sunday — as anyone trying to get around town will know. Due to an error in calculating the course the half marathon came up almost 940 feet short.
FBI: Hate Crimes In Arizona Lowest In Five Years
The latest statistics on hate crimes indicate a positive direction as Arizona’s numbers, according to the FBI, are at their lowest in five years. The 2018 figures were down 39% from 2017. But there are concerns that the numbers are inaccurate since victims may be afraid of actually reporting a hate crime — or they may not view an incident that way.
Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.'s Legacy During Phoenix March
On this Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we’re celebrating the civil rights leader’s legacy and reflecting on what it means today. In Phoenix, residents can do this at the annual MLK March. That’s where we find KJZZ’s Bret Jaspers.
Meth Production, Trafficking Has Tripled Since 2017
DEA reports indicate the production and trafficking of methamphetamine has increased nearly threefold since 2017. Las Vegas-based journalist John L. Smith recently broke down the spike in meth trafficking in the region and he joined The Show to discuss the causes.
Taliesin West Takes Unique Approach To Preservation
Last summer, Taliesin West in Scottsdale and Taliesin in Wisconsin were inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. That’s led to more visitors to Frank Lloyd Wright’s properties, which officials welcome. But more visitors also means more upkeep and maintenance.
UA Researcher Working To Cut Off Citrus Disease Before It Spreads To AZ Crops
There is an outbreak that’s killing California’s citrus trees. Earlier this month, that state’s orange growers expanded a quarantine zone to cover more than 1,000 square miles. But now one researcher at the University of Arizona is working to cut off the disease at its knees — before it can spread it to the ever-valuable citrus crop here in Arizona.
BBC Look-Ahead: International Community Trying to Get A Handle On Libyan Civil War
A significant remembrance centered in Europe and the Lunar New Year in China are among the biggest international stories in the coming days. For more on that and other international stories coming up this week, The Show was joined by BBC’s Rob Hugh-Jones.
As Housing, Food Costs Increase, Are Wages Keeping Up?
The cost of a typical basket of groceries in our state has risen about 23% since last year, from around $46 to nearly $5. At the same time, a new report found that rent in Phoenix has increased by nearly 7%. But as costs increase, are wages keeping up? The Show sat down with Jayson Matthews with the Corporation for Supportive Housing to find out.
What Effect Does Unprecedented Spending For TV Ads Have On Presidential Candidates?
The former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has spent almost a quarter billion dollars on TV ads since he announced his candidacy for president. While the unprecedented spending is great for the owners of TV stations, cable and TV networks, the massive amount of ad buys makes it more expensive for other candidates and campaigns to buy airtime.
Boas: Pros And Cons Of Invest In Ed Effort
Now we’re going to check in with the Editorial Board of The Arizona Republic. The Invest in Ed effort has returned for the 2020 campaign, two years after a court ruling kept it off the 2018 ballot. The Show spoke with the paper’s Editorial Director Phil Boas about it.
Gov. Ducey Budget Proposal Includes Money for Education, Public Safety, More
Gov. Doug Ducey unveiled his budget plans on Friday. The proposed budget of about $12.3 billion lays out how he’d like to see his priorities funded — without going on a spending spree, which he has repeatedly warned legislators against. Howie Fisher of Capitol Media Services joins The Show.
Two Guys On Your Head: Amicable Dissent
Turns out it is hard to change your mind, not to mention biologically expensive. But as Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about in this edition of Two Guys on Your Head there are many reasons we should learn how to do it better and more often.
The Takeaway: Richmond Braces For Major Rally Against Gun Control
Thousands of gun rights activists are expected in Richmond, Virginia, today to rally against a series of proposed gun control laws. The rally’s organizers have called for a “peaceful event” at Capitol Square. But some fear a repeat of the 2017 Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, which led to the death of one woman.
Chandler Looking For Downtown Library Cafe Operator
Chandler is looking for someone to run a cafe at the downtown library. Administrative Librarian Abigail Nersesian said they’re asking people to pitch their own financial terms as part of the city’s request for proposals.
Q&AZ: Who Does Those Funny Highway Electronic Signs?
While making your way to work or sitting in traffic you may have noticed some quirky safety messages along Arizona’s interstates. Through our Q&AZ reporting project, one listener asked : “Who does those funny electronic signs. Is it one person or a team?”
Phoenix: 'You Build It And They’ll Come' To Laveen
Since the Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway opened, Phoenix says more developers are taking notice. Phoenix is branding the area as the South Mountain Technology Corridor and wants to focus on attracting companies in advanced manufacturing, aerospace and defense, finance and insurance, data centers and emerging technologies.
Petersen Scheduled To Be In Maricopa County Superior Court Tuesday
Paul Petersen is scheduled to be in Maricopa County Superior Court on Tuesday morning.
At Phoenix Women's March, Solidarity Leads To Optimism
This year marks the fourth year that Women's Marches have been organized across the country. Marchers today say things haven't improved for women, but the solidarity they see gives them hope.
→ Year 4: Where Does The Women's March Stand?
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Storm Brings Dust, Rain To Phoenix Area
Much of Phoenix was blanketed by a dust cloud Monday night as a storm blew through the central and western parts of the metro area. Between a quarter and three quarters of an inch of rain fell. Tempe saw downed trees and power lines.
Phoenix Protesters Demand Higher Fast Food Wages
Protesters in Phoenix Thursday joined groups in dozens of other cities calling for higher fast food wages. A mariachi band plays as protesters hold up signs demanding higher wages for fast food workers in Central Phoenix Thursday.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Office Back In Court
The two sides in the racial profiling lawsuit against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office were back in court Friday. Three months ago in May, Judge Murray Snow found the sheriff’s office under Sheriff Joe Arpaio violated the constitutional rights of Latino drivers in the county.
Maricopa County Community College District Board To Add Two New Members
The five-member Maricopa County Community College District Board will get two new members next year. A decision by the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this summer means at large members will be added to the board.
Javelinas Shot After Attack
Seven javelinas were euthanized in Tucson after the group attacked a woman. The attack was not an isolated incident. The woman received puncture wounds from unprovoked javelinas while walking her dog.
Arizona Congress Members Have Mixed Views Over Syria
Arizona’s Congress members have mixed reactions to President Obama’s call for military strikes in Syria. Flagstaff Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick said her office has been overwhelmed with phone calls and emails from constituents about the issue, but she is not ready to make a commitment.
Pinal County Sheriff Says Pinal County Board Of Supervisors Is Hiring Criminals
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu is taking on the county government for hiring criminals. Babeu claims the Pinal County Board of Supervisors is hiring friends and family, knowing they are convicted criminals, and giving them access to classified information.
Improving K-12 Education In Arizona
Arguments about improving K-12 education in Arizona usually start with spending more money, and since the state's economy sunk into recession and balancing the budget meant extreme deep cutting, those who favor significantly higher spending have a lot of catching up to do.
Measure Allows For Greater Amounts Of Campaign Funding
A new law taking effect Friday will allow political candidates to take much more money from individuals and political action committees. The measure scraps the current limit of less than $15,000 on what a legislative candidate can take from all PAC's for their races.
Small Business Loans To Help With Yarnell Fire Damage
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has rejected Arizona's request for a major disaster declaration for victims of the Yarnell Hill fire, for a second time. But the administration is offering small business loans to help homeowners and businesses that were impacted.
House Speaker Tobin Urges Swift Action On Death Benefits For Fallen Prescott Firefighters
An Arizona House committee got its first look Tuesday at proposals that would grant full state death benefits to some families of the firefighters killed in the Yarnell Hill Wildfire. Arizona House Speaker Andy Tobin testifies about death benefits for families of fallen firefighters before members of the House Public Safety, Military and Regulatory Affairs Committee.
Supreme Court Strikes Down Matching Funds: A KJZZ Special Report
Monday, the United States Supreme Court struck down the matching funds provision of Arizona's Clean Elections law--a law that was supposed to reduce the influence of special interests in state campaigns.
AZ Jobless Worry About Benefits Running Out
New numbers show the economy only created 18-thousand jobs nationwide in June. That means there are millions of Americans still out of work…and many of them are collecting unemployment benefits.
Phoenix Mayoral Candidate Jennifer Wright
Mayoral candidate, attorney Jennifer Wright, joins host Steve Goldstein to talk about her campaign and plans for Phoenix's future.
Preview: Life after Deportation
The Department of Homeland Security has been flying illegal immigrants caught in this country back to their homelands for years. In the last few years that program has been stepped up. Many of the flights go to Mexico, the number one spot illegal immigrants come from, but KJZZ’s Peter O’Dowd is just back from a flight taking immigrants to Guatemala, the country with the second-most illegal immigrants.
Sophie?s Birthday
May 16, 2009 -- KJZZ Commentator Amy Silverman talks about her role as part-time birthday party planner for her daughter, Sophie.
South Phoenix: "The Forgotten Place"
The South Phoenix area is among the oldest parts of the valley, and has a wealth of rich history...but it's a history that many people don't know about. Some call it the forgotten part of the city, and many residents and advocates think that they often have to fend for themselves rather than rely on Phoenix government.
Membership Thank You
Membership Drive Thank YouThank you to the 2,431 K-J-Z-Z listeners and especially the 1,119 new members who pledged their support during the K-J-Z-Z membership drive, helping us raise a total of 204,311 dollars including earned member matching funds in support of news, intelligent analysis and civil discourse on K-J-Z-Z.
Book Celebrate Arizona's Centennial
Lisa Schnebly Heidinger, native Arizonan and author of Arizona: 100 Years Grand, talks to host Steve Goldstein about the state's upcoming centennial and publishing the book celebrating 100 years of state history.
Planning For Arizona's Water Scarcity
Karen Smith, former deputy director of the Arizona Department of Water resources, explains the water scarcity problem in Arizona and which steps should be taken now to prevent future disaster.Karen Smith wrote the Grand Canyon Institute's report, Arizona at the Crossroads: Water Scarcity or Water Sustainability? .
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Research Shows Higher Minimum Wage May Reduce Suicide Rates
Higher minimum wages may help reduce suicide rates. That’s the finding of new research published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
Amy Silverman's 'Raising Phoenix:' Yesterday's News
Longtime Phoenix writer Amy Silverman takes us to a chilly warehouse near the state Capitol where her friend, Sativa Peterson, works as the newspaper librarian for the state of Arizona.
As Phoenix Grows Denser, Can Transportation Keep Up?
Thirty-five years in the planning stage, the Loop 202 South Mountain freeway is the latest to be built in the Valley. It creates a significant route for trucks to bypass gridlocked Interstate 10 and allows quicker access for residents to get from the East Valley to the West Valley. Now, transportation planners are busy looking at what the next three decades could look like.
Phoenix Rock Lottery Hits Shuffle On The Local Music Scene
Twenty-five local musicians get together in the morning. Names are drawn out of a hat to divide the musicians into bands. The bands then write and rehearse new songs that they perform at the evening's concert.
Arizona Storytellers: Weldon Johnson
Weldon Johnson grew up in a large family in Detroit. When he went to college, he was close enough to family that he never felt homesick or went hungry. But in his senior year, Weldon's mom passed away. Weldon did his best to be more independent, but there were still times he reached out to his dad for help.
The Takeaway: International Olympic Committee Bans Political Protesting at the Summer Games
It’s been more than 50 years since Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists in a Black Power salute at the 1968 Summer Olympics. It’s exactly this form of protest the International Olympic Committee wants to ban at this summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Tax Hike On Wealthy Proposed To Fund Education In AZ
A coalition of public school advocates filed an initiative to raise taxes on the wealthiest Arizonans as the state’s lawmakers headed back to the Capitol on Monday afternoon. The proposal, backed by the Arizona Education Association and others with Invest in Ed , would add a 3.5% surcharge to any income above $250,000 annually for individuals and above $500,000 annually for couples who file taxes jointly.
Phoenix Finishes Converting 100,000 Street Lights To LED
The city of Phoenix has finished converting 100,000 street lights to LED lights. It took two years and $29.4 million, a cost the city expects to recoup with savings on its energy and maintenance bills. Phoenix finished pretty much on schedule.
Arizona Senate Delays Hearing On Sex Ed Ban Before 7th Grade
An Arizona Senate committee has delayed consideration of a contentious proposal from a conservative Republican lawmaker that would bar any sexual education instruction for students before 7th grade.
Ducey Touts Economy, Slams Bureaucracy In State Of The State
It was opening day at the Arizona Legislature on Monday, which meant it was time for Gov. Doug Ducey to deliver his annual State of the State address amid what’s likely to be a tense election year. Just outside the House chambers, state Democrats were getting fired up by their own leaders.
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Governor Announces Closing Of State Prison In Florence
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey announced the closure of a state prison in his State of the State address on Monday. The Governor’s Office says the state prison in Florence will shut down by the end of the yea
Q&AZ: Why Do APS And SRP Advertise?
When it comes to setting up utilities in a new home, Arizonans don't have much choice because electrical services are determined based on where people live. That led a listener to ask: “Why do APS and SRP need to advertise?”
Arizona Gender Pay Gap Narrows
Women in Arizona earn 83.7% of what men earn in the state and that's actually progress for full-time female workers.
Online Homebuying Program Comes To Tucson
Tucson can now add its name to a growing list of cities that offer homebuying and selling via a completely online process.
AMLO Visits Family Of Massacre Victims, Promises Justice
On Sunday, Mexico’s president visited the Sonoran municipality where nine people were murdered in November in an ambush by suspected drug cartel members. But family members of the victims are asking him to do more to fight violence and insecurity across Mexico.
Trial Over Treatment Of Migrants In Border Patrol Custody Begins
The U.S. government went on trial Monday in Tucson after a five-year lawsuit that alleges the Border Patrol mistreats immigrants in its Arizona detention facilities.
Lucha Libre Fighter La Parka Dies In Native Hermosillo
The Mexican professional wrestling world is mourning the death of Lucha Libre fighter La Parka, who was injured in October and passed away in his native Hermosillo this weekend. Jesús Alfonso Escoboza Huerta suffered a serious injury in October.
As Senate Trial Looms, Arizona Representatives Discuss Impeachment
The U.S. House is likely to pass along articles of impeachment against President Trump to the Senate this week. Arizona’s congressional delegation is showing no signs of breaking partisan ranks.
Insys Manager Gets 33 Months For Opioid-Fraud Role
A former Insys Therapeutics Inc. vice president was sentenced to 33 months in prison for a fraud and bribery plot, the first of seven company executives — including founder John Kapoor — to face punishment for their roles in fueling the U.S. opioid epidemic.
Presidential Candidates Take Stage In Iowa And Las Vegas
As six presidential candidates face off in Iowa Tuesday, six will participate in a Native American Presidential Forum in Las Vegas the same day.
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Messages Vs Message+ Galaxy S8
So if iMessage doesn't hop ship to Android, then I probably won't either. 0 One UI Stock Firmware; Download Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus SM-G955F Pie 9. Allow FoneDog to Scan Your Samsung Galaxy Note 8 -- Step4. Samsung emphasized the feature during the Galaxy Note 8’s Unpacked event, but with a little bit of exploring, you can now get Live Message to work on the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus. Tap Messages. Connect Galaxy S8 to Computer and Run Program. Scheduled messages, location, etc all that which it didn't seem that Samsung messages had. Check out my channel. and that gave the S8 enough time to shut off my WeChat messages. Here in this post, we share some of the best apps for Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ to use them in the best manner. Samsung Galaxy S8 tips and tricks: An expert's guide. This can actually hold all your contact information, your appointment or schedules for the day, your important e-mails and text messages. Tap Messages Messages icon. Touch and hold the message you wish to delete. There is an option within the settings of your phone that allows you to do this, but after we show you how to do that we also want to recommend an awesome keyboard app. Even text messages from Verizon sent to this iPhone have always end up in the Messages app rather that the Verizon Message+ app! Either the Verizon and Samsung programers are having some sort of childish spat, or one or both sets of programers need to go back to school and learn write effective applications. Launch it and connect your phone with a USB cable. The ways on how to recover deleted text messages on Galaxy S6 & Samsung S7. There is a method that allows you to manage and delete Samsung cloud data on Galaxy S8. You can draw on pictures or create animated doodles and convert them to GIFs that any phone can see. S8 New Text Messages Missing From Messaging. Backup Samsung Galaxy S8/S8 Plus Messages to Other Devices. Manage Message Conversations - Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+ User Guide. Recover Contacts & Text Messages from Galaxy S8 2017-07-26 16:01:24 / Posted by Alleny Gavin to Android Recovery Topic / Follow @ MobiKin Studio Even though people use their Samsung phones, such as the latest Samsung Galaxy S8 on a regular basis, there are some things that can easily happen to these devices during the course of a day. telling me when delivered - 191514. Several owners of the Samsung Galaxy S8 have been complaining about not receiving text messages. Samsung Messages vs Android Messages: Comparison of Features. Price Match Guarantee. The Spam Filter feature on the Galaxy S5, let you Block unwanted text messages and get rid of Spam messages without even noticing them. Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ vs. After completing each step, test to see if the issue is fixed. Here Are Some Cool Text Message Signature Apps For Your Galaxy S8; What To Do When My Samsung Galaxy S8 Won’t Charge? How To Enable Wifi Calling On The Samsung Galaxy S8; Disable/Re-Enable Voicemail Notifications. Projections. Step 1: Once the data deleted or lost, stop using your Samsung Galaxy S8 and turn on the airplane mode to prevent data overwriting and automatic updating. To configure the settings for text messages, multimedia messages, Voice mails, and Push messages. Relater Article. It's worth mentioning that Samsung's last year's Galaxy S8 flagships had the option to change font size in the built in Messages app - see here. Now, if you send and receive text messages on a daily basis then there is a high chance that you may have important text messages from your colleagues, family members, friends and other important offer messages from companies which you cannot afford to lose. 89 VIEW ON AMAZON. Let's fix the issue by these simple tricks. Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus vs Apple iPhone 7 Plus Full Comparison That said, however, the Samsung S8 Plus does not compromise on power. 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Kit Guide: Samsung Galaxy S8 - using it By Stewart Muir 27 Sep 2017 Now you've done the Setup, let's get to grips with some of the basics like making calls, sending texts, and setting alarms. Announced Mar 2017. How to Use the Driving Mode on Your Samsung Galaxy Phone. The Galaxy S8 is the first phone with Bluetooth 5. From the home screen, tap Messages. (This function isn't supported on iOS. Link your phone number to the Verizon Messages app on your tablet or compatible smart watch and make and receive calls wherever they want on any network (cellular or Wi-Fi). How to Recover Deleted Text Messages from Samsung Galaxy S8. Galaxy S8 and S8+ By Michael Irving. That’s it! With TunesGo Android Manager by Wondershare, you can backup Samsung Galaxy S8 messages, photos, contacts and other files in two different ways. During setup you can specify options like sending read receipts. Galaxy S6 Not Receiving Text Messages: Quite a few users have complained that Samsung Galaxy S6 is not receiving text messages. Although Android Messages also supports gestures, you can only. Announced Mar 2017. Link your phone number to the Verizon Messages app on your tablet or compatible smart watch and make and receive calls wherever they want on any network (cellular or Wi-Fi). 09 VIEW ON AMAZON. Compare the LG K30 and Samsung Galaxy S8+ below. Depending on your carrier and the texting app that you use, sending long SMS messages from an Android phone often results in the recipient being hit with a barrage of fragmented, out of order texts. It provides an easy three click process that will lead you to a fullproof recovery of all lost data, including contacts, text messages, photos, videos, music, call history, documents and so forth from Samsung Galaxy S8/S8 Plus and other types of Samsung phones, including Samsung Galaxy S7/S6/S5/S4, Note 7/6/5/4/3, A9/A8/A7/A6 and so on. I had one message chain that was especially long in relation to all the other chains in my inbox. Below you can see step by step guide to add signature to text message on galaxy Note 8 device. Step 2) Type out your text message using the app. We will show you ways to fix Galaxy S8 autocorrect issues by ever. I had the same issue when switching to the S8. You can learn and try the methods to recover the SMS to your Galaxy whether with backups or not. In that case, the best suggestion for you is to block them. I have written for Wired, The Next Web, TrustedReviews, The Guardian and. Text and multimedia messages that are sent to and received from a contact (or a number) are grouped into conversations or message threads in the Messages screen. Samsung Galaxy S8 vs Galaxy S7: Samsung has shown its hand for 2017, and we're already impressed. Although Galaxy S8 themes can change the look of your Galaxy S8 and S8+, third-party apps will NOT be changed. The One-Click Data Transfer tool works for both Android & iOS devices. How to block numbers from texting on a Samsung Galaxy S8. How to Recover Deleted SMS/Text Messages on Android for Free “ I accidentally deleted some important text messages from my Samsung Galaxy S8 yesterday, how can I get them back quickly? I need them urgently, please help me out !” A question asked by James Wood in an Android forum. I don't see where to. The frame is sturdier, with greater drop protection and a thicker gorilla glass screen, which makes the phone slightly thicker and heavier than the S8. How to block SMS from a contact, a specific number or unknown numbers on Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus. The Samsung Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ broke pre-order records in South Korea, with more than 720,000 units booked in one week, a notable increase from the 100,000 units of the Galaxy S7 and 200,000 units of the Note 7. What do those colors mean and does it even matter? Messages with green bubbles are normal SMS text messages. Here, there are two options: Mobile Transfer and Android Data. Galaxy S7 is one of the most sophisticated smartphones produced by Samsung. Video Gadgets Journal (VGJFelix) 1,040,691 views. Therefore, when you get a new Samsung Galaxy S8, the first thing for you is to learn how to backup Galaxy S8 data to computer by yourself, that's also why we write this article today. If you can't send and receive text messages, there may be several causes of the problem. Samsung Galaxy S8 autocorrect issues mean you'll simply type messages that individuals won't perceive. 8″ Super AMOLED display, Exynos 8895 chipset, 12 MP primary camera, 8 MP front camera, 3000 mAh battery, 64 GB storage, 4 GB. Step 5) To make sure the Recall function worked, look for a green icon next to your message. Sometimes the Samsung messages App will send mms but an hour later it won't. 0, other Galaxy S8 are having a lot of troubles with Android Pie update. Let's get started. it seems that something is amiss with the otherwise commendable Galaxy S8 and S8+. You will know it is selected by a check in the selection box. At last, all you have to do is tap on “Done”. You can find apps, contacts, sms, music photos, videos and files in there. Your name and picture will also be shared if you have set your messages to do so. How to Use the Dual Messenger Feature on Your Galaxy S8, S8 Plus Running Oreo. One of the pretty cool feature is Live Message, which is exclusively available for Note 8, since it has stylus to draw live messages with very cool visual effects. It comes with Message+ which I would like to keep using. You can ask help from Android data recovery. Compare 48+ Samsung Galaxy S8 cell phone plans from 39 carriers. Find the best Samsung plans and deals starting from $0! Messages. This can actually hold all your contact information, your appointment or schedules for the day, your important e-mails and text messages. Recover Contacts & Text Messages from Galaxy S8 2017-07-26 16:01:24 / Posted by Alleny Gavin to Android Recovery Topic / Follow @ MobiKin Studio Even though people use their Samsung phones, such as the latest Samsung Galaxy S8 on a regular basis, there are some things that can easily happen to these devices during the course of a day. How to Block Text Messages on Galaxy S8 / S8 Plus Method 1 - Using Settings. Part 1:Easy Way to Recover Samsung Galaxy S7 Text Messages. Android Messages vs Textra: Comparison of SMS Giants. Multimedia Messages (MMS): The Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) lets you send and receive multimedia messages (such as picture, video, and audio messages) to and from other phones or email addresses. How to copy text SMS messages from Samsung to new Galaxy S8? "I bought a new Samsung Galaxy S8 to my wife, but she needs text messages transferred over from the old Samsung Galaxy S4. In this informative post, we will teach you how to recover deleted text messages on Galaxy S7. It may be a few days before it starts sending mms again for a few hours then stops. There is an option within the settings of your phone that allows you to do this, but after we show you how to do that we also want to recommend an awesome keyboard app. For text messages, you need to navigate to Information tab and click "SMS" icon and it will display all the messages on your phone. Samsung is a technology conglomerate based out of South Korea that makes some of the world's most popular smartphones such as the Galaxy S8/S8+ and Galaxy Note 8. Other features: Schedule messages to be delivered at a specific date/time, even if your phone is turned off. Viewer Request asking to show the stock message app settings and customisation. Search in Samsung Galaxy S8. You may have this issue if your phone is unable to: Send or receive multimedia messages (messages with pictures, video or audio) These steps help identify and resolve the underlying cause. We already learned that the digital home button isn't a stationary image. Download and install the program on your computer. Galaxy S8 handsets are failing to receive 'one in five' SMS messages Reports suggest other Samsung handsets could be affected. Samsung Galaxy S8 problems and solutions. The problem appears to be random. Update: Several users have tried downloading the My Knox app on the Galaxy S8 only to receive the message that the app isn't compatible with their phone. The Samsung Galaxy S8 offers users several effective mechanisms to better protect data. 5mm headphone jack, possibly slowing down USB-C's chances of being a replacement — though that isn't really a bad thing. How to Hide Text Messages on Samsung Galaxy. Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ owners will now notice that the handset's native Messages app is capable of displaying web link previews. After all the lost text messages have been scanned out, you can preview and tick off the files you want to get back. Samsung Galaxy Note 8 is equipped with pretty advanced features which are not yet available on Samsung Galaxy S7 / S7 Edge, S8 / S8 Plus smartphones. Don't forget to subscribe! - My Website - Twitter - Facebook - G+ - My 2nd Channel - My equipment. Samsung Messages is a message application that allows you to exchange messages with any users with phone numbers, without needing to sign up for a separate messaging feature. Samsung Galaxy S8 (Android 7. Samsung Galaxy S8 Android smartphone. A handful of Galaxy S8 users have takento Reddit to complain that not all the messages people send them are actually delivered. Grab your Samsung Galaxy S8 / S8 Plus using Dual SIM and unlock it. On this page: Send a group message Send a new picture or video in a message Send a saved. The SOS Message setting can send a notice of the user’s approximate location, including visual/auditory surroundings to up to four preselected mobile phones. We pit the LG K30 vs Samsung Galaxy S8+ so that you can see which device matches your needs. Samsung Galaxy S8 tips and tricks: 22 ways to become a smartphone pro. Step 2 Select Messages to be Exported on Samsung Galaxy S8/S7/S6/Note 5. Personalize one with an adorable photo of your golden retriever puppy or a picture taken during the first anniversary with a partner. First, select the Message + icon. 5mm headphone jack, possibly slowing down USB-C's chances of being a replacement — though that isn't really a bad thing. Retrieving old text message s8 is not that easy, but not that difficult yet. Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ owners will now notice that the handset's native Messages app is capable of displaying web link previews. Samsung is allowing Galaxy S8 users to customize all notifications to your specific needs. HD Voice and Video calling – Eligibility rules apply. I had one message chain that was especially long in relation to all the other chains in my inbox. From the home screen, tap Messages. However, loss data of SMS are still recoverable if you've ever backed up and saved them somewhere. Easy as pie, as long as the phone on the receiving end can recognize the attachment. And even now, almost two years on, it's still stunning. Announced Mar 2017. Here, there are two options: Mobile Transfer and Android Data. Learn more. Firstly, when you receive a text message it will take more than 30 seconds to show up. Unlimited nationwide Minutes; Unlimited nationwide Messages; Unlimited data: First 3GB at High Speeds† then slowed to. It looks like some Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus owners are having fresh troubles with regard to receiving text messages. Live Message is a neat new feature on the Samsung Galaxy Note 8. com: Samsung Galaxy S9+ Factory Unlocked Smartphone 64GB - Midnight Black - US Warranty [SM-G965UZKAXAA]. The primary executable is named message+. The catch? You just have to know how to find it. How to Transfer WhatsApp Messages from iPhone to Samsung S8/S8+ By Selena Komez Updated on September 04, 2019 [Summary]: Finding a way to transfer WhatsApp messages from old iPhone to Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus?Follow this two different and easy guide to move WhatsApp chat history to new Samsung Galaxy S8 or S8 Plus by Cloud Server or iPhone to Android WhatsApp Transfer. Since the WhatsApp messages could be backed up and iPhone’s WhatsApp chat history could be synced in iCloud, we can try to extract the data from iCloud backup file and transfer to Android device by a WhatsApp Transfer, Backup& Restore. How to Set up Voicemail On Galaxy S8 / S8+ - Learn here un Galaxy S8 Manual Tutorial to setup, acces, reset, troubleshooting guide voicemail on Galaxy S8. Tap the Type a message field and then type your reply message. How to Print Text Messages from Samsung to Computer. So how do you block someone from texting you if you have a Galaxy S8 or S8+? A Step-by-Step Guide to Blocking Text Messages with the Messages App. How to Recover Deleted Contacts from Samsung Galaxy. Save on your mobile contract with the cheap Samsung guide from MoneySavingExpert. Whenever someone sends you a URL in a text message and you’re using the native app, you’ll see a preview of the web link in the message thread itself. The Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ will launch with Android 8. The frame is sturdier, with greater drop protection and a thicker gorilla glass screen, which makes the phone slightly thicker and heavier than the S8. One can always try a couple of apps and see which one is more enjoyable. Owners of the Samsung Galaxy S8 took to a thread on Reddit about how they haven't been receiving some of their messages, or how there's a delay in receiving them. Tap the Type a message field and then type your reply message. When your Samsung Galaxy S8 or Galaxy S8 Plus can't receive texts, it may be due to the other person using an iPhone to send those texts. Now, if you send and receive text messages on a daily basis then there is a high chance that you may have important text messages from your colleagues, family members, friends and other important offer messages from companies which you cannot afford to lose. 0, which comes with a pretty cool trick. This is why we have covered most common S8 issues and how to fix them. Hi, I'm a Sprint employee and Product Ambassador for the Galaxy S8/S8+ -- I've not personally experienced issues using MMS (pic text or group text). This solution is only feasible provided that you have synced text messages on your galaxy s5 with kies 3, otherwise, that makes no sense. At this time, the Samsung Galaxy S8 is currently not on our list of supported devices. In other way, it can recover data just you don't think, but not it can't do. Backup Samsung Galaxy S8/S8 Plus Messages to Other Devices. Don’t think the factory reset will wipe your Samsung Galaxy phone before recovery, it's not far enough and still be recoverable. How to Transfer Text Messages from Samsung Galaxy S8/S7/S6 to Computer. This guide will quickly show owners how to change the Galaxy S8 text message app. The same is also true for last years’ Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus. Link your phone number to the Verizon Messages app on your tablet or compatible smart watch and make and receive calls wherever they want on any network (cellular or Wi-Fi). The Samsung Galaxy S8 was something quite special when it launched. How to disable app notifications on the Samsung Galaxy S8 Here's a real-world look at the. Link your phone number to the Verizon Messages app on your tablet or compatible smart watch and make and receive calls wherever they want on any network (cellular or Wi-Fi). Play Music, messages, reminder, calendar and a whole lot more. Aside from all. 0 on the Galaxy S8 (AKA TouchWiz Oreo), we know the upcoming Galaxy S9 is going to enjoy some of the new keyboard changes coming to Samsung's iteration of Android 8. Samsung Galaxy S8 had attracted much concern before its entry to the market. Unfortunatley I've seen many posts across the net from people experiencing the edge lighting working or not working problems. Verizon Messages (Message+) is a texting app that lets you sync your texting conversations across all your compatible devices. Hey everyone -- I just merged some duplicate threads asking about compatibility with the Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+ into this thread. How to block SMS from a contact, a specific number or unknown numbers on Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus. How to manage your Inbox in your Galaxy S8. Samsung is a technology conglomerate based out of South Korea that makes some of the world's most popular smartphones such as the Galaxy S8/S8+ and Galaxy Note 8. It *should* work as soon as DATA is provisioned for your S8. Lately I've been texting and I will send a message and lock my phone, set it down and come back an hour later and I received no notification but I got a response and it was marked as open and read. from any of your Samsung Galaxy devices, of course including the latest Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+. Got the one plus 5. In this way, you can manage contacts on S9 or S8 without any hassle. I have the Samsung Galaxy S8 !! Please help! We have received quite a lot of complaints from Android users about “messages app keeps crashing” issue on Android, among which the user of Samsung Galaxy S8 is the most topical one, just like the user we mentioned above. They do however allow the pre-installed default message apps to send mms through their wifi calling network. Pleased with the change. You have to go into the app settings and select which apps are allowed to send out notification. We assume that there are large number of text messages stored on your old phone, if you've just got a new iPhone device device or upgraded to new version, you'll be very excited to run it, but one of the most frustrated things is that you can't simply transfer messages from iPhone to Samsung Galaxy S9 or vice versa due to iOS is a closed system. By Luke Johnson, triple pressing the phone’s power button at any time will automatically send a message to your SOS. Retrieving old text message s8 is not that easy, but not that difficult yet. Galaxy S7 edge was the most popular handset from South Korean's 2016 lineup. Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ vs. Three apps are preloaded on your phone that allow you to send messages. How to Recover Deleted Contacts from Samsung Galaxy. This solution is only feasible provided that you have synced text messages on your galaxy s5 with kies 3, otherwise, that makes no sense. Link your phone number to the Verizon Messages app on your tablet or compatible smart watch and make and receive calls wherever they want on any network (cellular or Wi-Fi). The Galaxy S8, left, and the Galaxy S9. ) You'll always know which type of message will be sent (text, picture message or chat) before you send it. From a Home screen, swipe up to access Apps. Going by user reports posted across Samsung‘s official help forum and other social media platforms, Galaxy S8/S8+ users on Xfinity Mobile have been complaining of not being able to send or receive MMS (or text message with picture) or group text from stock Message app after installing Pie. Got the one plus 5. How to block numbers from texting on a Samsung Galaxy S8. The app Android Messages has RCS messaging, which allows for read receipts. Select a conversation from a number you wish to block. May 05, 2017 · The Galaxy S8 is a gorgeous device but breaks your push notifications like Chinese devices. HD Voice and Video calling - Eligibility rules apply. [2019 Update] This article covers 4 easy ways on how to retrieve deleted texts on Samsung S10/S9/S8/J7/J6/Note 9/Note 8, etc. One of the pretty cool feature is Live Message, which is exclusively available for Note 8, since it has stylus to draw live messages with very cool visual effects. 6 ways to make Samsung's Galaxy S8 work with Windows 10 The Galaxy S8 has plenty of Microsoft support built right in by way of preloaded apps and the Continuum-like DeX system. Then connect your Samsung S8 or S8 Edge to computer via USB cable. Messages+ VS messages VS whatever else? Discussion Seems to me messages+ from Verizon is, surprisingly, superior to the Samsung app. Samsung Messages is a message application that allows you to exchange messages with any users with phone numbers, without needing to sign up for a separate messaging feature. From a Home screen, swipe up to access Apps. Samsung Galaxy and iMessage- What are other Alternatives that you can have? September 4, 2019 September 5, 2019 Native Pro When it comes to smartphones, the Samsung Galaxy series of the phone is a great choice. That section has screen shots of each device carrier's Android OS notifications screen. This application is the fairly best and among the most used back up application for the Samsung series. There is an option within the settings of your phone that allows you to do this, but after we show you how to do that we also want to recommend an awesome keyboard app. Step 2) Type out your text message using the app. I have a galaxy S8 and I use message+. But, for some reason, you may want to install a third-party Messaging app in your phone, for instance when the stock Messaging app doesn't have a feature you're looking for. Verizon Samsung Galaxy S8. Although not a Motorola issue or problem I'm wondering if anyone else who is using the Verizon Message+ app has noticed this very reproducible problem. Depending on your carrier and the texting app that you use, sending long SMS messages from an Android phone often results in the recipient being hit with a barrage of fragmented, out of order texts. The iPhone 6s had around 60 million shipments, whereas the Galaxy S7 edge and other phones from Samsung garnered around 25 million shipments. It's an easy, effective, and fun way to get the message across. Due to intelligent design, you do not need to take off the custom Samsung Galaxy S8 case to use most chargers. We may earn a commission for purchases using our links. The Galaxy J3, which is regarded as an entry-level device, found its place in the 6th most popular phone for 2016. Back in the day, MMS messages cost more to send and receive than SMS messages did. The ways on how to recover deleted text messages on Galaxy S6 & Samsung S7. Draw your own animated GIFs or emojis with the S Pen and share right away with your friends or on social media. 1 and history version for Android developed by Strong Edge -. Text and multimedia messages that are sent to and received from a contact (or a number) are grouped into conversations or message threads in the Messages screen. com senior writer, Sarah White, finds a lot to love about the device besides it's stunning design and. The frame is sturdier, with greater drop protection and a thicker gorilla glass screen, which makes the phone slightly thicker and heavier than the S8. During setup you can specify options like sending read receipts. You can block a text message on Galaxy S8 or S8 Plus using two different methods. Samsung Galaxy Note 8 vs. The Galaxy J3, which is regarded as an entry-level device, found its place in the 6th most popular phone for 2016. And there's no option to turn it on or off-- it just prompts me to make add a new message. Enjoy texting your family and friends. Download, install and uninstall Samsung apps. The same is also true for last years’ Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus. Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ owners will now notice that the handset’s native Messages app is capable of displaying web link previews. I have a Samsung Galaxy S7. Being launched online on the 19th of April,2017 on Flipkart, these smartphones have been upgraded on various levels from its predecessor, the Samsung Galaxy S7. Related Article. Although Galaxy S8 themes can change the look of your Galaxy S8 and S8+, third-party apps will NOT be changed. Once you do that click font sizes and from in here you can adjust the text message font size on your galaxy s6. It's the same when the users try to type any text message. Due to intelligent design, you do not need to take off the custom Samsung Galaxy S8 case to use most chargers. Confused about where the option is to forward a text message from your Samsung Galaxy S9 smartphone? We have you covered with some very detailed steps on how it's done. Note: As you know, this program has both Windows and Mac versions, and this guide will show you some screen shots of Windows version, if you are a Mac user, you can follow the similar steps to control Samsung Galaxy S9 on Mac. How to Use the Driving Mode on Your Samsung Galaxy Phone. Draw your messages How to use Live message on the Galaxy Note 8 You can add some flair and personality to your messages by. Change messages font size on galaxy S8 and galaxy S8 plus: Messages app > Menu symbol > Settings. It is definitely puzzling since this is one feature that most Galaxy S8. By mid-April, the number had increased to one million pre-orders. Multimedia Messages (MMS): The Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) lets you send and receive multimedia messages (such as picture, video, and audio messages) to and from other phones or email addresses. Whenever someone sends you a URL in a text message and you're using the native app, you'll see a preview of the web link in the message thread itself. Compare the LG K30 and Samsung Galaxy S8+ below. Text messages, or SMS, are carried over a "voice channel;" i. I went into my dialer settings, but I don't have an option for Call Rejection or Rejection Messages. Samsung has brought tremendous changes with two smartphones. We ran the Antutu Benchmark, where it scored 1,55,264 points and on Geekbench it scored 2,009 points (single core), 6,351 points (multi core) and 8,509 points in the computing test. They don't receive a notification sound when a message or email arrives. Retrieving old text message s8 is not that easy, but not that difficult yet. Don't forget to subscribe! - My Website - Twitter - Facebook - G+ - My 2nd Channel - My equipment. The rollout for Samsung Galaxy S8 Android Pie update started in February and has been reaching all over the world. We pit the LG K30 vs Samsung Galaxy S8+ so that you can see which device matches your needs. Messages sent or received in one app will also appear in the other app. Luckily your Galaxy S8 can send an SOS Message with your location. Duel de smartphones : Samsung Galaxy S8 vs. All the data that can be backed up is shown on menu bar. Search in Samsung Galaxy S8. Samsung Galaxy S8 / S8+ - Message App Customisation & Settings Want me to review your product ? - contact. The primary executable is named message+. Some are getting a message. Mark the message you want to restore and hit "Recovery" button to save them on your computer. From a Home screen, swipe up to access Apps. Firstly, when you receive a text message it will take more than 30 seconds to show up. How to remove ads on your Samsung Galaxy S8 We will see in this tutorial how to remove ads from your Samsung Galaxy S8. The same is also true for last years’ Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus. But still, I have that old phone number with me. Personally for me, the first method to block text messages or spam is from Settings which is the fastest one. This article teaches you how to use Samsung data recovery software to recover deleted and lost contacts, text messages from Samsung Galaxy S8, you can also follow this guide to restore other Android devices. Online shopping for Samsung Galaxy S 8 & S 8 Plus from a great selection at Cell Phones & Accessories Store. Re: My Samsung Galaxy S8 won't send text photos Pls excuse my lack of knowledge, but when I open message+ app, I searched and found no where to give it permissions Message 8 of 14. I know that this is probably the last thing that you have in mind for the moment, but the truth is that your phone could save your life one day, so you should better be prepared. How do I disable Message+? You can delete the Message + app from your device. The Samsung Experience version on the handsets is similar to what we have already seen on the Galaxy Note 8 with some improvements thrown in. and that gave the S8 enough time to shut off my WeChat messages. You just to choose "Text Messages"and click on "Start Transfer". Although Android Messages also supports gestures, you can only. Video Gadgets Journal (VGJFelix) 1,040,691 views. For reference, this article introduces you two methods to retrieve deleted text messages from Samsung Galaxy S5. We are able to call. To use this feature, you may need to subscribe to your service provider’s multimedia message service. Back in the day, MMS messages cost more to send and receive than SMS messages did. One can always try a couple of apps and see which one is more enjoyable. Once you do that click font sizes and from in here you can adjust the text message font size on your galaxy s6. On some devices, it doesn't replace the native texting app.
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The chicken, the myth, the legend
Full Name Radioactivechicken Alpha
Status Alive
Born Radioactivechicken Alpha
May 24, 1986 (1986-05-24) (age 33)
Greglandia
Species Chicken
Race Radioactive
Residence Yoenah
Citizenship Antarctican
Ethnicity Chicken
Nationality United States of Antarctica
Occupation Bureau of Fiction worker
Employer The Bureau of Fiction
Salary 45,000 fish
Radioactivechicken is a chicken from another universe. He serves as a member of the Bureau of Fiction and formerly the Club Penguin Wiki. He is also a country leader in his own universe.
1.1 Discovery of The Fanon Universe
1.2 Starting Some Projects
1.3 Life Changes and More
1.4 More Conflict
1.5 Not Long Before Now
1.6 Currently
3 Involvement
4 Potential Scandals
4.1 The Polaris Theory
For Radioactivechicken's life before he came to this universe click here.
Discovery of The Fanon Universe[edit]
In late 2016, when trying to find something out about puffles, Radioactivechicken came across a portal. Not knowing where it went to, Chicken jumped down it to see where he will go. He ended up outside the Club Penguin Wiki. After applying for a job there he started work. And got frequently got into arguments with other workers. This lead him to leave the Wiki in May of 2017. After looking around the fanon universe for a new job, Chicken discovered something in the Wikia Dumpster. It was a ripoff of the Bureau of Fiction. After working there, another worker told him about the real Bureau of Fiction. So in September of 2017, Radioactivechicken moved over there.
Starting Some Projects[edit]
Radioactivechicken decided to start with the areas that he is good at: The EPF and business. He helped penguins like Henry Gadget and Icespice get noticed in the universe. He also decided to get out more and failed. This was what began to shape the Radioactivechicken that we all know today. He was also very ambitious at this time and he wanted to be a notable member of the Bureau of Fiction. It was also around this time when he visited Writing for the first time, and met Diskaiz Willson-East. The two would eventually become close friends.
Life Changes and More[edit]
In the summer of 2018, Radioactivechicken started to get more secretive about certain topics about his life. He was beginning to get confused and the anger issues that he was once known for in his home universe began to come back. As time went on he did begin to calm down again but he still knew he was different, but he never disclosed anything publicly, though some may argue that he had never changed at all. Still, it was strange for someone to suddenly know stuff like that. In September things did calm down even more but Chicken felt different. By the end of the month it was just accepted that he had changed. But was he really? No. Was Radioactivechicken any different to how he was before? No. It just felt like that to some people because it was such a big shock to those he disclosed it to.
More Conflict[edit]
In late September Chicken visited Wizzint in Moon Island, Shops Island and became aware of the Penstubal Post. After seeing that Chill and Penstubal dislike each other, and that Radioactivechicken has similar beliefs to Chill but didn't hate Penstubal, Radioactivechicken had no idea on who to side with. He became confused and scared. In the end Chicken chose to neutral in their arguments but he still voiced his opinions if they affect him. It should be noted, however, the Radioactivechicken would get more involved in the Scrub VS Melonhead debates later on, and he would eventually identify as a melonhead.
Not Long Before Now[edit]
Radioactivechicken's activity at the Bureau of Fiction decrease and an argument with Chill almost happened. Radioactivechicken has now decided stay in the bureau. He then went on a mission to track down a gang of stalkers who are somehow able to appear out of nowhere when you least expect them to. Because of this, Chicken considered the idea of a vigilante group but quickly decided not and instead hid in the dark corners of Polaris City. In the December of 2018 Radioactivechicken was kidnapped by these stalkers but managed to escape. In January of 2019, Chicken started looking towards the future and tried to predict what tomorrow will bring. His political beliefs started to change in this time as he switched from liberal to conservative. Nobody is sure why this happened but the most accepted theory is that he began to find the left wing toxic and annoying. Of course this meant that it was a good idea for him to leave Polaris so in early Feburary he moved to yoenah.
Currently[edit]
Radioactivechicken is thought to be getting involved in nuclear weapons this current time so they clearly don't call him Radioactivechicken for nothing. He also wants to see a big search for uranium which is getting very concerning for some penguins even though he does insist that he only wants it to build nuclear power plants. For some time, he also wanted the production of heavy artificial elements to get the greenlight as well which was even more concerning even though he still insisted that it was just for nuclear fuel. Radioactivechicken heavily lobbied the South Pole Council to legalise the production of heavy artificial elements that are even heavier than Squarium, but he eventually gave up. Radioactivechicken has now been involved in trying to find out the secrets that make the universe the way it is but currently has found nothing of interest. He has also been seen in Duck Island for unknown reasons but most of the time he just sits in his house or is working on his regular Bureau of Fiction career.
Personality[edit]
Radioactivechicken is always trying to be the best at everything, even if he is the worst. He also has a distaste for most, if not all, trends that are going on and randomly start disliking/a rivalry with anybody including you. Despite all of this, Chicken is normally a strange but friendly character. He has also been noted to behave like a certain dictator at times and it sometimes gets to the point where this happens. He was, at a time, also considered to be very conservative, even for Yoenah's standards, which, if course, is why he left Polaris City, and used to spend his time making fun of the place, but he has now calmed down more politically.
Involvement[edit]
Radioactivechicken is a worker at the Bureau of Fiction, this means that he is involved in controlling the universe. He also brings strange goods over from his home universe that amaze other creatures. He gets involved in business a lot and plans to work on more projects. He is also a minor character in politics.
Potential Scandals[edit]
How is Radioactivechicken able to travel from one universe to another? This is a trait thought to only be found in Penguins. Some conspiracy theorists believe that Chicken is not a chicken but a Khanz Penguin in disguise. This theory is mostly scoffed at, however. Also not even other Bureau of Fiction employees seem to trust him as they have their own theories. Apparently he was given these powers by us which is sort of true.
The Polaris Theory[edit]
In March 2019, a few penguins started to wonder about Radioactivechicken's sudden departure from Polaris. He claimed to leave due to political reasons but others think that maybe it is because there might be a hidden political landscape in the country that is hidden and someone put a price on Chicken's head. The theory states that Polaris has secretly changed after Sancho Monte Captio stepped down and the land turned into a political warzone. Radioactivechicken denies this like many Polarian politicians also do but the theorists aren't that convinced. They claim that one hidden party decided to take out Radioactivechicken but failed so they put a price on his head forcing him to leave. Everyone else regards this theory as nonsense.
Radioactivechicken used to have strong opinions on the Wikia Dumpster but now he is impartial to its existence.
Radioactivechicken once tried to create his own language, but it was a failure. He now feels that he should not have even attempted it in the first place.
Chicken loves Snowtendo.
Radioactivechicken can take things very literally sometimes.
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By Canes-Fan-In-Montreal, May 27, 2009 in Hurricanes Talk
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I dunno why everyones looking at Whitney, our issue is Brindy. Thats a metric ton of money invested in a 4th line center who wasnt performing the the tasks he used to be dominant at. He can work out all he wants this offseason but he cant reverse the knee injury.
We have to acquire someone on the wing who can play with Staal. Not sure how, but we need someone on the wing to make room for Staal. He needs to be able to enter the zone and he cant do that with his current wingers. Ruutu can be on his wing but we need someone on the other wing that can make room. Cole was that when he was excited and motivated but after that once teams broke out and dusted off the old how to stop Erik Cole books he stunk. He's not dynamic, he does the same things everytime he enters the zone. He's a keep the puck away from you with his reach and plow to the net player who reasonably doesnt like doing that anymore...with very good reason. But his reasons, dont win us hockey games and he hasnt found a new role that puts up 60 points a season and justifies his salary. He wants to stay he better take a hit and I think theres teams with moneybags willing to pay him to bring him on board so I think he's gone.
If kabs goes to the KHL, Cole leaves... Brindy retires we got some moolah to bring in a real winger. I wish Brindy would retire, I think Sutter could take that spot and I think Staal would be the more motivated captain of this team. Theres no questioning when this team was on Staals shoulders when Brindy was out this team took off and you gotta think it had something to do with Staals leadership and right now he's in Brindy's shadow in terms of leading and I dont think Brindy was doing a very good job of that prior to Lavi's firing and at different points under Mo.
I also don't think Mo is the answer, I think the guys got motivated under him and it did alot for them. We've seen what Mo's done ...for us...and for the Leafs. His record is terrible overall and I just dont think if we keep him we'll have a good season next year. Let's face it alot of the sweep versus the Pens was being outcoached and Mo taking to long to make the right calls on the roster. We almost lost versus Boston because Mo gave Babchuk to much of a leash.
I also dont think Ron's the answer, I don't think his hearts in it and I also dont think he did much for our special teams. PP would work one minute and be broke the next and honestly our PK never sucks ever... I cant think of a time in the last 10 years our PK has stunk. We need someone who can make the PP work and in 10 years minus 1... our PP has sucked. Stale and stagnent at times. If we get JR's big body winger he claims of we can do alot more to annony goaltenders and I think our PP numbers will shoot up even if O'Neill was coaching the PP
wallym
I don't think the possibility of Brindy coming back next year healthy and significantly better at hockey than he was this year is out of the question or even unlikely. He never really got the chance to fully recover. I think he will this summer. Now if he sucks again next year, then we are in trouble.
LaRoseFTW
Unfortunately, Legend, Brind'amour has already announced he is sticking around and despite never saying it directly it has been made pretty clear that Mo will be staying as well along with Francis if he wants to. Cole and Kaberle leaving need to both happen though in my opinion, because you are right: Staal desperately needs some help.
We can all agree that Staal needs help, but he's not going to get it. Atleast not this year. Maybe next year when the majority of our roster has expiring contracts.
Say JR let's Cole walk. You aren't going to get a guy for $4M to be Staal's wingman. We just don't have the money to offer what other teams are going to offer. As most don't want to hear, Cole will be back next year. Whether he was traded at the deadline or not, his family was coming back to Raleigh regardless. His wife loves it here and they want to raise the children here. He'll take a discount to stay and JR will jump on it.
I really don't see much changing with the offense except Bayda not being re-signed. Atleast not this year. Boychuk, Bowman, and Sutter could all use a full year in the AHL. Boychuk seems closer than the 3 so he could steal a spot come training camp, but I wouldn't expect these guys on the roster this year.
I think one minor change will be done in defense. I don't expect Seidenberg to be back. I think JR goes after a guy in free agency. If that doesn't work Carson/Rodney fight it out in training camp. If Babchuk and or Kaberle leave for Russia, Carson and or Rodney will get their spot.
Those looking for big changes this year will be disappointed. Our big changes won't happen till next year when we have guys like Cullen, Walker, Whitney, etc coming off the books.
Root Administrators
As most don't want to hear, Cole will be back next year.
I dont know, sounds like most around here are fine with re-signing Cole as long as its at a reasonable price. And I agree, based on the exit interview Paul posted, it sounds like he'll be willing to work out some kind of compromise with the money. Maybe some $ incentives would be added to any new contract.
My understanding from what Ive read here, is that many just dont want to compromise the potential for signing players like Ruutu and LaRose because too much money is tied up in re-signing Cole.
I do agree that the changes wont be huge, but noticable on the blueline.
canefan248
My understanding from what Ive read here, is that many just dont want to compromise the potential for signing players like Ruutu and LaRose because too much money is tied up in re-signing Cole
You hit it right on the head TSA. Given the others that need signing let's not get all sentimental about Cole. He is not the same player as he was before the Orpik hit.
I tell ya the type of winger we need for Staal is someone like Corey Perry of Anaheim...6'3, 210 size, 70 point guy (30 G, 40 A) can be a playmaker or shooter, and has great speed. He's like the perfect combination for an NHL winger these days.
However the Ducks won't give him up, so it's a dream scenario. CLF may be right that we're stuck with what we have...are we all sure Cole can't recover to be the player we need?
canesfan93420
What I would do is:
Resign Ruutu 3-4 years @ 3 million per year
Resign LaRose 2-3 years @ 2-2.5 million per year
Resign Cole 2 years max @ 2.5-3 million per year and on top of that have incentives as others have said
Jokinen is a toss up for me I am not sure what to do with him I might sign him to a 1 year deal just because he is such a versatile player
TRADE KABS
Resign Seidenberg 2 year @ 1.5 million per year
Resign Babchuk 1 year @ 1 million per year
I think what the Canes really need to do is get a winger for Staal we have Matt Cullen who can play 2nd line Center. Someday Boychuk or Bowman can play with Staal, but they need time to develop and get a feel for the NHL 1 or 2 seasons will probably be good. My 1st priority would be trying to get Staal a star winger to play with most likely will have to be through a trade unless we can get a free agent for under 4.5 million because I don't think carolina is going to spend more than that on a free agent if they even do. My 2nd priority would be getting another Defense I think Mike Komisarek is going to be a Restricted free agent he is a pretty good possibility and he is getting paid around 1.8 million right now.
There are a lot of what if's, but I will keep faith in Jim Rutherford and I think he will make good choices for this team like he has done in years past. Honestly I dont want the Canes to go out and WASTE money on some 7 million dollar a year player like a Gaborik or Hossa that is a waste of money. If the Canes do decide to go to the free agent market and not make trades I am sure Jim Rutherford will sign quality players for a reasonable amount of $$ and not break the bank.
Corey Perry would be awesome who knows anything could happen from watching him on TV he hustles on every play and he knows how to throw a check or 2.
MarkyMarkNC
Agreed. Holy Cow, there actually seems to be a consensus building on the forum regarding Cole!!! If we can get him for 2 - 2.5 mil. yr. he would be a better option than most other available FA's in that price range. If he's looking for another 4 mil yr. - sorry Cole, love ya, but....bye bye. In his exit interview, this is about what you could read between the lines on JR's opinion of Cole as well.
I think to a degree, Carolina is the type of franchise where some players are willing to give up dollars to stay here. The organization is fairly loyal and treats players with respect. The Raleigh area is a great place to raise a family. We're no Detroit, but have still managed to field contending teams on a semi-regular basis.
It sure will be interesting to see how this plays out. As a low budget team, we certainly need any little advantage we can get.
TarheelMike
Thinking outside the box.... could we move Staal to the wing and have Cullen center the top line? Re-signing LaRose, Ruutu, and Cole, that could leave the lines as follows with no FA acquisitons.
Cullen/Staal/Whitney
Jokinen/Samsonov/Ruutu
Brind'Amour/LaRose/Cole
Sutter/Eaves/Walker
I'm no hockey strategist... just throwing out ideas. I don't think the Juice is a 2nd line center, but if Brindy comes back healthy with new life, you could swap them out. Bringing those three back, I have no idea how much that would leave us for picking up someone else for the blue line presuming Seidenberg signs elsewhere. If Carson, Rodney, or Borer are ready though, perhaps it's a moot point. I keep seeing Carson and Rodney's names tossed around, but Borer REALLY impressed me two years ago. I don't know how he's recovered from the injuries though.
eggy21
Apparently, talks between Zanon and Nashville have stalled. There's the defensive defenseman we need. Quietly does his business, blocks shots, physical, and best of all, flying under the radar.
He would be ideal, but we have to see what the contract he wants is.
Well, the rumor is anywhere from 2-2.5. Nashville may just sign him and dangle him as trade bait as well.
Sutter16
With Kaberle potentially leaving for the KHL, if he isn't re-signed by Nashville that could be a great deal.
carcanes67
Depending on the price, how about Johnny Oduya? Exceptional defenseman that can hit and fight. Also, Steve Montador is a UFA this year, while not nearly the caliber of Oduya, he is still a great defenseman that would come at a lesser price.
As far as a winger for Staal, there arnt many options for the amount of money we have to spend. I was looking around and found a player no one has mentioned yet, Stephen Weiss. Yes, he is a center, but like most NHLers I am sure he could play wing. His 47 assist and +18 rating show his offensive skill. Since Florida is losing Bouwmeester (most likely) they will be losing quite a bit of defensive scoring ability. Since Weiss is still under contract, we would have to trade for him, thus my idea of trading Joe Corvo for Stephen Weiss comes about. We would add about $475,000 to the salary, so not too much.
Just a few ideas.
Oduya is a good idea...forgot about him. Smallish, but has skill and is tough. Montador has already been discussed and shot down. Mark Stuart however would be a solid guy to go after from Boston; most of you probably don't know about him but he's tough and still young.
In fact Stuart is a great idea...have no idea though about his contract situation. Boston probably wouldn't part with him anyways. Weiss is an interesting case...he does have playmaking skills, and is one of those players who could use a different environment. However I don't see SE division teams trading between each other...yuck.
SuckaPunchd
Don’t be a Faulking Aho
So your plan is to replace 65 goals of scoring with one guy who could get 40-50 and some players straight up from juniors? That is not a recipe for making the playoffs.
I love the fact we actually have some prospects to be excited about but they still need to develop in the AHL with the exception of Rodney and maybe Sutter. He's got enough AHL seasoning and it is to the point he needs to make the jump or we give up, but the rest of them could really benefit from a year in Albany.
Actually, most of our prospects has played in the AHL. And Boychuk nearly nailed a spot this past season.
Who are you to say the rookies won't be able to score a collective 65 goals this coming year? Boychuk has a lot of potential as a pure goalscorer. Bowman also has put up great numbers in Spokane. You don't know how they'll turn out. I want us to keep LaRose, Jokinen, and Ruutu, but that's probably not possible if we don't want to overpay. A smart idea is replace those we don't resign (whether we can't agree on a contract salary or they get a better offer elsewhere) with players we have in Albany, then with the salary we have freed up now, go after someone that can keep some pressure off Staal.
EDIT: We have enough defensemen in Albany who are NHL ready. Rodney has basically been assured a spot this coming season, Carson, Borer, and Conboy all have seen some NHL games. We have plenty of defensemen who will make the NHL roster. We don't need anyone else on D.
rollinsox007
Borer really impressed me a few years back as well and Rodney and Carson seemed to impress a lot this past year, but I think we could be a legitimate contender next year if we simply can find another big time shut down d-man. I would love to see a defense next year of Gleason, Corvo, Pitkanen, Wallin, (FA), and one of the 3 guys in the minors. Our offense does need someone to help Staal, whether or not Cole could be that guy again I don't know, but we probably will only be able to address that next offseason with Walker/Whitney/Cullen becoming FA's and then getting some of our young guys in there like Boychuk, Bowman and Sutter. The offense needs a bit of help, but I think as long as our other guys like Rutuu, Cole ,etc. score then we'll be fine. I think our offense would've given Staal the help he needed if Rutuu, Corvo and Cole had produced close to the level they can in the playoffs.
If we cannot address the offense this offseason though then I wouldn't mind sliding in one of our top minor leaguers into our line up if they're performing well in the AHL.
I have always loved Cole, but lets just tell it like it is...The guy put up 19 assists and 2 goals in 35 games and was a -2. He had 8 of those assists in two blowout wins against Tampa and the Islanders. That means he had 11 assists and 2 goals in the other 33 games he played here. He had no points in the NJD series, and 2 in the BOS series. As the 'Canes went down the stretch, Cole got worse. In our final 27 games, Cole had a whopping 10 assists and 0 goals, 4 of those assists coming in the Islanders rout. The guy is awesome and I have always been a fan (I have a Cole jersey for goodness sake) but if we are going to be honest with ourselves those numbers are substantially worse than a guy like Brind'Amour (24 points after Cole's arrival, including 9 goals) who was playing at best 3rd line minutes. I don't see how you can take a guy who put up those kind of numbers while playing for a contract and expect him to be a top line player, or even a second line player. We all love Cole, and I know everyone is going to argue with "but he hits people and takes up space in front of the net and etc. etc." but in reality the money would clearly be better spent elsewhere so that Staal can get some help from someone who will actually produce.
Based on his comment, I think he's coming back. I agree though, that we'd be better off spending his salary somewhere else on a better player, but I think he'll have a big rebound year this coming season. He had a horrible coach in Edmonton, and he was on a young team with players they leaned on to lead the scoring who were just in their second year in the NHL.
Depending on the price, how about Johnny Oduya?
As far as a winger for Staal, there arnt many options for the amount of money we have to spend.
I think Nj would be nuts to give up Oduya but if we can grab him I say do it.
I think everybody is looking at the wrong wing for Staal. I think Cole stays and it is
the wing Ruutu/Whitney skated that will be replaced on that line. I agree options
might be limited.
I think we have to keep Ruutu but slip him down to a samsonov/Jokinen line
It would be awesome to see Havlat play on that line, but he's been making $6 Million a year, but for cheaper players there is also Gionta (4m) and Afinogenov (3.5m). Also Sykora who had a horrible season (2.5m) but he can rebound on a new team.
lewberts
We should keep in mind that, based on what is being said currently in the hockey media, the salary cap will likely not be increasing for the next two years and may even decrease a little. It will certainly be interesting to see what happens with teams who spent to the limit this year and have RFA's and UFA's to try and re-sign this summer.
I think Gionta would be interesting but JR says he wants the team to get bigger. Still a 20 goal scorer
and doesn't mind dishing the puck off. Not sure about Afinogenov and think Sykora is to big of a risk.
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My Girlfriend is the President
(+)Pros: - Comical story with funny characters, - Lovable characters and funny music, - Voice acting is pretty good, - 4 girls, 4 routes, - Great H-scenes!
(-)Cons: - Emotional moments are not really well done as compared to other eroge, - No bad ends, - Not particularly very memorable.
Gameplay time:About 30 hours
When life gives you eroge, you play them, there is no debating on that. I haven't been on any eroges for awhile now (I haven't played any eroge for about 3 months), and this was my latest venture in the world of visual novels. It seemed like "Hoshizora No Memoria" spoilt me, because I didn't really enjoy myself as much with "My Girlfriend is the President". It has different take and goes for a more comedic feel, and while that is good, "Hoshizora No Memoria" has that and more importantly, it also had great emotional impact. "My Girlfriend is the President"? Not as much. Still, its not a bad eroge and can still be enjoyed by the general otaku.
In my very honest opinion, all eroge should have good stories, because generally speaking, eroge's are just love stories with hentai scenes and voice acting. The story in "My Girlfriend is the President" isn't particularly great, but its funny. As I said earlier it goes the more the comedic feel. You star as Junichirou, a pervertic high school student who has a president for a long time childhood friend. Ever since a UFO crash landed on Earth and wiped out japan's presidential housing, an alien by the name of Qoo took the nearest human being and made her the president, and that is Junichirou's friend, who is named Yukino. Now she brainwashes the entire Earth to think that she is the President, and that the entire presidential cabinet are her class of friends, which includes Junichirou. Now begins his new life in the presidential house.
My word...THIS MAN IS RIGHT!
The best part about "My Girlfriend is the President" is probably its funny take on things. Its a funny game throughout, with a ton of parodies about presidents...as well as many others. In a world where a japanese high school girl is a president and tries to rule the world with moe, nothing can go wrong! In that exact same world, when the cabinet minister is a geeky nerd that plays eroges all day and has an incredibly fit body AND tries to show it off by stripping...you cannot go wrong with that as well. The setting for the game is ridiculous, and sometimes you can't help but laugh or play along with its sheer ridiculousness. Brainwashing citizens to think that a high school girl is a president? Damn!
Of course a good funny story cannot be complete without the characters. We have loli aliens that break the fourth wall and ask you to buy the game if you replied that you borrowed the game from a friend. We have someone in the presidential house that is only interested in the world of 2D. We have a priest that detests everything to do with relationships and speaks in a stupid accent. Lastly, we have a F**KING PANDA THAT IS BAD ASS AS F**K. There are a good deal of funny moments and with the appropriate music playing at the right time.
Forth wall breaking at its best.
Voice acting is pretty good in this one. While its not as exaggerated as in "Hoshizora No Memoria", its still quality voice acting. There are four main heroines in this game, that means four available routes. The four girls are Yukino, the president of Japan. Irina, the president of Russia that came over to Japan. Ell, a spaceship (yes, a spaceship, you heard right). Finally, Ran, a waitress at the local eating house, also a member of the presidential cabinet. In my opinion they could have easily allowed us for more routes considering the other girls in this game, but oh well.
In a way these four girls are rather different from each other in personality (this is as expected in eroge), though its obvious that they aren't AS diverse as girls from other eroges (from the ones I've played). The H-scenes are pretty good, just like in "Hoshizora No Memoria", though I'd prefer the art style in the other game more than in this one. At least these do a good job of you know, MAKING US HIGH...if you know what I mean. Other than that the usual to visual novels apply, get 100% collection...clear all the routes and see all the endings...yaaayy.
Hell no! You totally should!
I have no idea how or why, but while the comical writing is great, the dialogue during emotional scenes is admittedly not so good. Even "Katawa Shoujo" felt more emotional even without the voice acting! I just thought it was...not well done. There are also no bad ends in this one, but then again, I have no problems with that, its just worth pointing out. And since I said the girls...aren't really that special, I have a tough time finding memorable moments in this. Other than the Yukino route (come on, that was the best one), the others aren't as good (even then there are some parts of her route that I cannot remember well).
As you can see I had a hard time trying to find pros in this one. "My Girlfriend is the President" isn't particularly a bad eroge, its just nothing special. Sure it has a funny theme, but its not really that unique compared to "Katawa Shoujo"'s theme with the disabled, or "Hoshizora no Memoria"'s theme with shooting stars. Its a decent eroge...or as I said, maybe I just got spoiled after playing such an amazing eroge.
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Pubg xbox one test server sign up. PUBG Test server coming 4/24 : PUBGXboxOne 2019-03-28
Pubg xbox one test server sign up Rating: 6,7/10 705 reviews
PUBG DOWN
This decision is reportedly to ensure that matchmaking remains as seamless as possible. Xbox One X Enhanced: Enhanced features for Xbox One X subject to release of a content update. I've made an answering some of the commonly asked questions, as well as some rules and guidelines. If playing in a team, you won't be able to spectate other players until all of your teammates are killed. During the test period and beyond, we will be actively listening to player feedback and using it to improve the build, so please be sure and share your comments, questions, and concerns in the thread below! No lag looking around or latency in movement weapon management etc. The test server client should now be available for download.
Miramar Map Coming to Xbox Test Server April 24
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PUBG Xbox One X Test Server Gameplay vom 18 05 2018
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Nádia Farage
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CECULT – IFCH – UNICAMP
Special Focus: História dos Índios no Brasil Dossiê
December 31, 2018 / Marta Amoroso, Manuela Carneiro da Cunha, Leandro Mahalem de Lima, Rosanna Dent, Camila Loureiro Dias, Nádia Farage, Joziléia Daniza Kaingang, Paulo Santilli and Luísa Valentini
This dossier features seven of the forty papers presented at the colloquium 25 anos de História dos Índios no Brasil: balanços e perspectivas da história indígena. The event was held between December 11 and 13, 2017 in the Guita and José Mindlin Brasiliana Library at Universidade de São Paulo (USP) and organized by the Centro de Estudos Ameríndios (USP) and the Centro de Pesquisa em Etnologia Indígena of the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). For the twenty-fifth anniversary of the landmark edited volume, Historia dos Índios no Brasil, assembled by anthropologist Manuela Carneiro da Cunha, researchers and Indigenous people came together to reflect on the state of the field of Indigenous history in Brazil.
Click here to read the full focus section
Indigenous History and Land Rights in the Rio Branco Valley, Northern Brazil: An Assessment
December 31, 2018 / Nádia Farage and Paulo Santilli
The volume História dos Índios no Brasil (da Cunha 1992) is the hallmark of a theoretical and methodological renewal in the historiography of Indigenous peoples in Brazil, a momentum which we are glad to be part of as authors and contributors. It is also iconic of Brazilian scholars’ commitment to the official acknowledgment of the political and land rights of Indigenous peoples. In circumstances very similar to the birth of ethnohistory in the United States during the 1940s (see Trigger 1982), the academic field of Indigenous history in Brazil consolidated in the 1980s as an answer to the political challenge of proving the historical basis for Indigenous land rights.[1] In those years, the military dictatorship took steps towards a restricted and controversial land demarcation process, which aimed to liberate lands for economic exploration, notably in opening areas of Amazonia. This meant a potential blow to Indigenous land rights claims. In reaction, Indigenous peoples established political organizations and activist movements in the 1980s. Many land demarcation cases were then taken to court, and historical evidence was crucial to guarantee constitutional Indigenous land rights (for a detailed account, see da Cunha and Barbosa 2018). Continue reading
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FLASH: HERE'S A PHOTO OF THE LINE OF PANICKED SAVERS OUTSIDE INDYMAC. THIS SCENE WILL BE REPEATED AT WAMU IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS. DON'T LET THIS BE YOU
And then Northern Rock came to America. In waves.
In my personal first-amendment protected opinion, WaMu will fail in the next few days. I have no financial interest in WaMu. I just want to make sure my readers, and their friends and family, know what's coming.
Do your own research. Come to your own conclusions.
The bank failures are here. Starting with the toxic lenders who fell in love with mortgage fraud and liar's loans.
The bank failures are here.
IndyMac depositors line up for cash after seizure
PASADENA, California (Reuters) - Hundreds of worried IndyMac Bancorp Inc customers descended on the company's branches on Monday to withdraw their money, after regulators seized what was once one of the largest mortgage lenders in the United States.
Washington Mutual says its capital position is strong
SEATTLE (AP) -- Responding to a sharp plunge in its share price and investor worry about continued problems in the mortgage market, Washington Mutual says it has enough spare cash and strong capital ratios to handle the downturn.
Labels: indymac bankruptcy, the banks will fail, they called them liar's loans for a reason, wamu is enron, wamu will go bankrupt
View the full Associated Press slideshow on the desperation outside IndyMac here
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/IndyMac-seized-federal-regulators-Pasadena2C-California/ss/events/bs/071308indymac/s:/nm/20080714/wl_canada_nm/canada_indymac_col
Folks, it's here.
It's here.
Stocks that were hit the hardest Monday included First Horizon National Corp., which operates in the Southern United States; Zions Bancorp, located in Utah and Idaho; and Washington Mutual Inc., the nation's largest savings and loan. Stocks of bigger banks such as Wachovia Corp., Citigroup Inc., Bank of America Corp., and Wells Fargo & Co., also tumbled.
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080714/banks_earnings_preview.html
Come on people, it's only money,
(well, only Your Money)
"I have $360,000 in this bank, and I was misled by this bank," said Robert Clark, a Glendale resident. "I gave the names of my mother, my sister and my brother on the account so I thought I would be insured. I don't know what to do. I really don't know what to do."
If I could talk to Robert Clark, I would give him some advice on what to do.
I would tell him to kick his own ass for being such a clueless prune. He decided to rely on the people at IndyMac, who couldn't care less whether his money is insured or not, rather than call the FDIC and get the facts. How in the world do people like this manage to accumulate any money in the first place?
Do you think Ken Lewis and BofA now understand that they paid a couple of billion for Countrywide, who was worth $0. Actually worth probably around negative $30 billion or so?
Idiots.
Watch what happens to BofA now too. They're waking up in the morning realizing what they did last night.
WaMu shares now cheaper than a Starbucks coffee
This does not look anything remotely close to the Great Depression. I don't see the similarities at all.
Fractional reserve banking is now on trial, and the prosecution's case looks to be pretty strong.
I'm not a WAMU fan but they aren't bankrupt. They just built a 5 story building in my old neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. It's pretty expensive land, not right downtown but in a heavy commercial center. Bankrupt comapanies don't build companies like this.
Watch for one of the dirtiest companies out there - Option ARM king First Fed Financial - to go under in the next few days too
It's amazing to me that companies like that took the shortfall that people didn't pay on their mortgages to immediate profit - and the accountants and auditors were cool with that.
Rome burned, and Chris Dodd and Barney Frank fiddled.
The show is just starting. They are introducing the actors, relax, sit back and enjoy the show.
That comment about WaMu building an expensive building as a reason why they won't go belly up is easily the dumbest comment in the history of this blog
Ever see the Astros play at ENRON field?
Think, people, think. And dig through a balance sheet every now and then.
Keith, where is a statement from the NAR? Since financing is going to be a serious problem shouldn't they come out with a statement to inform and educate their realtors who can then inform and educate the buyers and sellers?
Or is the NAR just the marketing arm of the real estate complex that doesn't get involved with the finance department?
*Reminds of something one of my mentors told (proved) to me years and 2 recessions ago:
'Some people just deserve to be poor'.
See comment below for validation. What an asshole. Anonymous said...
LOL - You're Killing Me! Go have aother order (make it a double)of Fried Dough in your SUV! Nascar this week, Jane!
Fuck you Clark. You're a stupid dipshit (NOT a viiictiiim)
who deserves to be poor!
"This does not look anything remotely close to the Great Depression. I don't see the similarities at all."
No, those photos were in black and white.
Duuuuh.... Just put a monochrome filter over the images and then it will look like the Great Depression.
But seriously dummies, do you think anybody saw the Great Depression coming? It's not until your ass is out on the street and you're begging for change that you'll realize you're in the Greater Depression.
Hey Clark, why not call Waldo (Bushco)at the White House? Don't be surprised if you get a busy signal though. There are many others like you who were called and chosen today...
Try and get an audience with your leaders, Bushco and Cheneyburton. It won't be easy to do, as after they will never make another public personal appearance the rest of their terms.
Look for another bogus and wholly made-up for public consumption 'attack' 'war', 'disaster' 'WMD' 'yellow-cake' 'mushroom cloud' (check one or more)soon to take your mind off the $260K you just shit down a rathole due to your gross financial incompetence and frankly, stupidity.
Maybe your mother/sister/brother can put you up for awhile....
Don't give up on George and Dick, after all, they want a strong dollar for America....
How can any human being with a pulse and a bank account not know that you are only insured up to $100,000 per account, 10 separate accounts 10x100,000 it is on every door, window, as you enter a bank, sorry.
Casey Serin said...
Hey Keith, don't forget the "casey serin destroyed the world financial system" label for this kind of stuff.
It makes my day! ;-)
Best quote in the article-
"John Bovenzi, an FDIC official working as IndyMac Federal's chief executive, talked with customers as they waited for the doors to open, assuring one that "THIS BANK IS AS SAFE AND AS SOUND AS ANY BANK IN THE COUNTRY RIGHT NOW."
ROTFLMAO
Do you think any of the sheeple waiting outside INDYmac were able to understand the horrible trith in that statement? If Robert Clark is any indicator I'm thinking probably not.
The truth is in what is said, not what you want to hear and Mr.Bovenzi of the FDIC just went on record stating that every bank in the country is as f*cked as INDYmac.
wamu says their financial position is strong. hmmm, isn't that what bear stearns said about a week before they were taken over?
The start of new building projects often marks the top; it's all down hill after that for the organization that put the project together.
It's interesting, well not really, how the MSM doesn't show the footage of an old fashionded bank run.
Yea, where are the carts of apples for a nickel!
"I'm not a WAMU fan but they aren't bankrupt. They just built a 5 story building in my old neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. It's pretty expensive land, not right downtown but in a heavy commercial center. Bankrupt comapanies don't build companies like this."
LOL! Hey, are you related to DOPES?
No, I think by the time it's over it's going to look worse.
Let's see, you saw the Great Depression so that means you must be at least 90 years old? Read history books man instead of comic books and glamour magazines. Bank failures in the 1930s took place over several years not all in a single week. These economic downturns can take decades to work through.
Folks! This is no joke! We are going through a momentous catastrophe. And it's just the beginning.
Watch out for the last 3months of Bush's tenure (or is it failure?). The 1990 Reform Act gives the SEC authority to suspend trading on Wall Street for up to 90 days. And that could happen as soon as the anticipated cascade of banks going belly up hits the trading floor.
That's how I see the last 90 days of Bush’s failure...But I still hope I am wrong!
I'd love to know the names of the banks on the FDIC watch list
You're a blithering idiot. Did Enron build the field? Give me a friggin break. I didn't say it was a reason they won't go bankrupt, I said it was evidence they aren't bankrupt. You need to take a break and stop obsessing with the housing market. And to add to my comment about them building a 5 story building in Portland, I also work right next to a branch (literally across the street). No bank runs, no panic, it's business as usual. They also acquired a branch in San Mateo on El Camino close to where I live in the last couple of months (bought a building and moved in). Bankrupt companies just don't do this.
And go ahead, dig into their balance sheet. I am not going to waste my time because I already know what the answer is. You'll never do this, the blog is all hype and hysteria (and yes some of it is actually reasonable).
I just emailed my sister-in-law who lives in Vancouver Washington to get the hell out of WAMU. I am worried that because they have less than $100,000 in their account they won't do anything. Tried to tell her that FDIC's 53 Billion reserve is going to go fast and not to take chances. They are really good people and I hope they listen to me.
Anyone know anything about Regions Bank?
and the flight to gold begins...
http://tinyurl.com/6esdg5
It's called sarcasm. I'm pretty sure the anonymous author was being sarcastic, guys.
And yes, some people did see the Great Depression coming. Just as many of us saw this thing coming. Although, while many images of this event will look similar to those of GDI, I don't think GDII will be an exact replica. History doesn't repeat, it rhymes.
I knew I could count on the brainstems to blame the victims of Indymac's failure.
That's one of the defining characteristics of the typical brainstem conservative: blaming the victim and relishing their suffering.
HOUSE2008 said...
Doesn't LOOK like the great Depression?
LISTEN!!! Damn. Didn't you hear from the FEDERAL RESERVE top dog himself & his lackeys that there will be MORE bank failures this year. YOU can gamble that WAMU won't but you've been warned from Ben Bernake & Henery Paulson themselves telling YOU in CODE & take it however you like it that YOUR bank WILL fail this year. Look do you think they have inside knowledge? Hmm. Yup. THEY are trying to warn you!! helloo mcfly.
Mark in San Diego said...
ANON: "This does not look anything remotely close to the Great Depression. I don't see the similarities at all."
You are RIGHT!!!. . .the pictures in 1929 were in black and white, and now we get color, and Youtube videos. . .much better don't you think??
you need a better poll:
how about..
GOT AMMO?
what a dumbass, thinking that simply adding family members to the account increased the amount insured. Did he bother to get such an important detail in writing?
how in the world did he manage to accumulate 360k?
It would be funny if he was a former mortgage broker, loan officer, etc.
In the immortal words of Jim Sinclair:
THIS IS IT. IT IS NOW! HAVE YOU TAKEN THE STEPS? THE FORMULA IS AT WORK!
JSMineSet.Com
I think it is a truism that when a company builds a new headquarters, they are already on the way to bankruptcy. Positive overspending sign.
Does anyone have a complete list of suspected bank failures to be?
Poor Jose Six Paco, he trekked across the barren lands of the John McSame state for a chance at the Americano dream. He spent months in the sun that scorched the orange man to leather, building vinyl and stucco crap boxes, only to give-up his cash-back, mortgage fraud wealth, in exchange for an Indy Mac subprime toastero oven and the chance of amnesty from the Messiah Obama. Like so many others, he has been burned by Wall Street, in the land of the realtywhore fleece, the politician fiddle, and the FED roasted lender.
Poor Juanita zinfidel, she endlessly circles the block in Paco's eFFr 350 dualie at $5 per gallon, unable to park the giant beast, as Paco stands in the blazing midday sun, waiting his turn for an FDIC handout. Paulson works the crowd, offering .50 cents on the Amero for the uninsured Indy Mac accounts, In the street, Juanita dodges workers removing the old sign and hoisting the new one into place with a crane. Unable to read or speak English, she asks her anchor baby brats to translate. Mama, it says " Bernanke Savings and Loan," they tell her.
"Our capital position is strong." is code talk for: "We're going under soon". Everyone knows it.
Alan Static said...
Yay! Bank failures! Bring em on! Better then any disaster movie.
Some say WWII got us out of the Great Depression. This time, we're already at war. So, what do we do now? Escalate, I guess. Anyone out there want to piss us off? Oh God, yes.
"I have $360,000 in this bank, and I was misled by this bank," said Robert Clark, a Glendale resident. "I gave the names of my mother, my sister and my brother on the account so I thought I would be insured."
According to FDIC rules, he is covered for $300k under that scenario. Of the $100k uninsured, he will get back $30k right away (50% dividend issued in this case). So, he has $30k in jeopardy, which he could get a portion of back when they liquidate the assets. Could have been worse. But $30k is still a lot of money to lose over simple ignorance and/or stupidity.
Use this FDIC insurance calculator to determine how much you are insured for:
http://www.fdic.gov/edie/
Alexander Fulks said...
The thing I love about Housing Panic is that its all class in the comments.
The Mexican...
Good lookin out Keith...I took most of my money from my business and personal wamu accounts and transfered them to a different bank.
so. 401k with fidelity that i cant withdraw or rollover without penalties. In mutual fund. What do you think i should do.
I definitely give that comment a top three ranking!
Watch out for WAMU runs, reports of abnormal withdrawals throughout parts of west coast.
Its going to get ugly pretty quick here.
My Weiner got stuck in the ATM at INDY MAC on Friday.
Hang Seng, 21,311.69, 11:16PM ET, DOWN 702.77 (3.19%)
SUZANNE!!!
ANON!!!
SWAN!!!
That was about the size of it during the Great Depression according to my folks and grandparents. Even after the stock market crash it wasn't readily apparent, but when YOUR bank on the corner had a crazy mob pounding on its doors, then it got serious real quick.
Our family at the time did not trust banks, all owned their own homes outright (not financial geniuses, just lucky,) didn’t lose a penny in the crash and got along quite well compared to most. And they were not rich; they just had some money while most had none.
My one uncle once remarked that even with 25% out of work, if you had a job, there was no Depression. Your dollar went so much farther. It was just the tremendous drag that the 25% put on the other 75%.
You didn't follow your own guidelines on posting with tinyurl links. Your first post link didn't work..... at least for me.
MBI is technically insolvent!
WaMu is a $2 stock waiting to happen. Said it back at $36...
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Listen all of you fucking idiots and listen good: Our economy and banking system is the greatest in the world. All of you negative pessimists need to move to India, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, etc.... if you think America is not the greatest.
Our nation is too big to fail. The entire world depends upon the genius and creativity of Americans. Without us, the rest of the world economy would falter and come to a halt. Thus, we have NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT. This is just a TEMPORARY GLITCH.
Geez, anon. was being sarcastic.
I'm a just a bus, but even I can see that!
The folks had absolutely no clue huh? And I bet their accounts have more money in them than mine!
In 9 months you people will literally be at each other's throats.
Senator Iraq Hussein Osama (bin Carlylye)
if you have money in Bank of America, I would take it out asap. Bank of America had training sessions for their managers a year ago in case of a bank run.
I think it is a truism that when a company builds a new headquarters, they are already on the way to bankruptcy.
That's why I like my Credit Union. Little offices in POS buildings, old beat-up desks, no marble, ugly Website, no strip-dancer tellers, no attitude, no frills...but gives me a checking account with a 6% APY.
This does not look anything remotely close to the Great Depression.
The lines are a lot longer. And there are complimentary water and sandwiches.
Your $360,000 will be insured if your account is labeled as a POD (payable on death) account. If you have Your Mother, Sister & Brother as payable on your death your account will be insured at $300,000. And the FDIC has already said customers will receive %50 of their uninsured amount. So it looks as if you are out $30,000 as a maximum. But you may get that back if they sell the bank at decent price. Good Luck.
I am the original poster of the Great Depression comment. It has been funny to see how many fucking idiots don't get sarcasm.
I have ammo, water, canned food, fuel reserves and hard cash on hand. I suggest the rest of you do the same. Most indymac customers are not going to be able to pull funds until the coming Monday. Think people. And I am not being sarcastic now. Think of what you can do from here on out to just make sure that you have some supplies and protection you need. We are possibly (and what I mean by possibly is that it could happen so get prepared just in case) goinng to see a security meltdown that would make the LA riots look like a couple little girls playing house.
"That comment about WaMu building an expensive building as a reason why they won't go belly up is easily the dumbest comment in the history of this blog
Think, people, think. And dig through a balance sheet every now and then."
Agreed Keith, in fact that is exactly WHY Washington Mutual should be shorted and it is going to fail. They continue to whistle past the graveyard, they just don't seem to realize that their grave is being prepared.
Stupid. If you are already in a deep hole - quit digging.
" Lost Cause said...
July 15, 2008 9:48 AM"
Priceless. Hat tip to Lost Cause for brightening up my day!
"A fool and their money are soon parted"
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Washington Mutual Inc. said late Monday that it significantly exceeds all required capital levels for "well capitalized" banks. The lender also said it has more than $40 billion of "excess liquidity," which usually refers to assets that can be sold for cash quickly without affecting prices much. WaMu raised $7.2 billion in capital earlier this year and noted on Monday that its tangible equity to total tangible assets ratio was 7.8% at the end of June. The company plans to report on its capital position and liquidity in more detail, as well as steps it's taking to work through the current environment, on a July 22 earnings conference call.
petes2cents said...
Now that IndyMac is the first of many banks to fail, I think we're going to see a lot more banks, not only close for the weekend, but close for good and go bankrupt. Rumors talk about 90+ banks, I think that's a little exaggerated, but very well possible. I would guesstimate around 30+ banks will close shop.
I'm an investor in the stock market and have started to build a position in Bank of America. One of the few 500 lb. gorillas left in the room. Every dip, I pick up more shares. I don't think there going anywhere, but you never know. Investments are all risky.
I never thought I would see this happen here in the USA, but here we are....let's all cross our fingers.
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If the penalty isnt much, say 1% or less, I would transfer funds to the lowest risk fund within the group in Fidelity.
It's better than losing 1/3 of it.
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Women, Polygamy and Islaam.
It has been misunderstood for years that Islaam does not give equal rights to men and women, and that it considers women only as subjects of comfort for males. This opinion has been delivered time and time again by renowned women activists, although their basis of arguments are only alleged facts. Their main argument is against the permission given for polygamy in Islaam.
Islaam's approach to polygamy is most balanced and rational and is based on the moral, psychological and physiological demands of men and women. It should be remembered that taking more than one wife is only permissible, not ordained and binding by the Qur'aan - as some 'progressive' activist would like to believe.
The Qur'anic verse that allows polygamy should be read in the context it was revealed. The verse says, {And if you fear that you cannot act equitably towards orphans, then marry such women as seem good to you, two, three and four, but if you fear that you may not do justice to them, then (marry) only one.} (4: 3).
This verse was revealed after the battle of Uhud. In that battle, many Muslim men died and as such a great social problem for the protection of widows and orphans arose, necessitating institutionalized polygamy for a convenient solution of the problem.
Some of the eminent Western scholars who actually studied Islaam, quite blatantly criticized the Western and other writers for venting their opinion as facts. In her book 'The Life and Teachings of Muhammed', Dr. Annie Besant, the renowned English leader of Theosophical Movement, says,
"There is pretended monogamy in the West, but in reality, there is polygamy without responsibility; the mistress is cast off when the man is weary of her ... the first lover has no responsibility for her future, and she is a hundred times worst off then the sheltered wife in a polygamous home. When we see thousands of miserable women who crowd the streets of Western towns during the night, we must surely feel that it does not lie in the Western mouth to reproach Islaam for polygamy. It is better for woman, happier for woman, more respectable for woman to live in polygamy, united to one man only, with a legitimate child in her arms and surrounded with respect, than to be seduced and then cast out into the streets perhaps with illegitimate child outside the rule of law, uncared, unsheltered, to become victim to any passer-by, night after night, rendered incapable of motherhood despised by all."
Annie Besant continues,
"You can find others stating that the religion of Islaam is evil because it sanctions a limited polygamy. But you do not hear the criticism that monogamy, with a blended mass of prostitution was a hypocrisy and more degrading than a limited polygamy.... it must be remembered that the law of Islaam in relation to women was until lately, when parts of it was imitated initiated in England, the most just law, as far as women are concerned, to be found in the world.
Dealing with property, ...rights of succession,... cases of divorce, it was far beyond the law of the West, in the respect which was paid to the rights of women. These things are forgotten while people are hypnotized by the words monogamy and polygamy and do not look at what lies behind it in the West - the frightful degradation of women..."
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Philip Treacy is one of the most extraordinary hat designers of our time. His handmade creations are a feat of craftsmanship, displaying an imagination so fervent that seemingly impossible dreams are realised through his designs. As well as being awarded the prestigious title of British Accessory Designer of the year five times, in 2007 Treacy received an OBE for his services to the British fashion industry. AnOther Magazine caught up with him to talk about the things in life that make his heart beat a little faster.
You have said that you dislike the term “milliner.” Why is that?
Because its not a true reflection of what I do. It’s an 18th- century term when a milliner was someone who decorated dresses a la Marie Antoinette. I believe that I am a hat designer, not a milliner.
Could you describe for us how the hats are made?
I start with a drawing, I then make a mock-up of the shape in 3D in the material, and then I send the shape to a block maker in Paris and he carves it in wood and then we make the hat on that. Everything’s made by hand, and so it’s couture manufacturing; someone using their brain to make that hat flow or come to life rather than stamping it out. What is the quality that makes the hat come to life?
The personality of the wearer and the hat makes the hat. I always design the hat with the wearer in mind, otherwise it’s an inanimate object. A lady who works in my shop was referring to the customers and what they were looking for, and she said to me, “You sell dreams.” It’s a hat, but a hat’s a dream. It’s an accessory of rebellion in a way.
Why do you think that hats are a form of rebellion?
Well at one time a hat was a conformist accessory, and today it’s a form of rebellion, so the hat hasn’t changed, but the meaning of wearing a hat has. In the 60’s hair became hats, so it became trendy at that moment to not wear a hat, but the hat, I believe, could be the future. It is an expression of individuality and we’re becoming more confident and adventurous. Wearing a hat is fun; people have a good time when they’re wearing a hat.
Who do you work with?
There is a small team of us and work experience kids, there are people who I’ve trained up and people that I will have just met this morning. I have a team of people who are passionate about making beautiful things with their hands.
There was a rumour of Lady Gaga doing work experience with you…
She has expressed an interest, so we’re going to check out her sewing skills and if she’s good enough, you never know! [Laughs.] She’s a great character, she loves hats and she is a very exciting customer because she is the hat wearer du jour, no?
You’ve collaborated with so many different and fascinating individuals. Could you tell us a little about some of those relationships and how they came about?
My relationship with Isabella Blow was more than just a collaboration, it was a kind of romance; a love affair about hats, not sex. And my collaboration with Grace Jones is about a happy coincidence of a hat lover and a hat maker and somebody who looks like a dream in a hat. And most of those relationships come about through friendships, really. It’s a passion for the kinds of things in life that make the heart beat a little bit faster.
And you have also worked very closely with some of the greatest designers…
I love working with fashion designers; I studied fashion design, which helps me to work with designers because I have a certain understanding of that side. I’ve worked with many designers but Alexander McQueen was the greatest of all of them. He was a really inspiring person to work with. He made you do things you never thought you’d do, creatively, and his expectation of you made you do your best. You didn’t want to disappoint him. Isabella was the same. People always say to me, “Did Isabella tell you what kind of hats she wanted?” Never, ever, ever, she wouldn’t dream of that, but she could drive you so crazy about the hat without saying what she wanted. She would be so in love with the idea of this hat you were making for her that you didn’t want to let her down. Isabella’s job description for a hat was one that nobody had ever seen or that had never been invented before – that’s what she expected from me when I made her hat, and that’s not easy!
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SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND SEXUAL MISCONDUCT POLICY
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1 SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND SEXUAL MISCONDUCT POLICY Student Policies and Procedures Curry College Sexual Harassment and Sexual Misconduct Policies and Procedures reflect the College s commitment to our students safety and wellbeing. Sex discrimination is prohibited by Title IX and other federal and state laws and will not be tolerated by the College in any form. Prohibited sex discrimination includes sexual harassment, sexual violence and other forms of sexual misconduct. These actions violate the College s Notice of Non- Discrimination, which can be found on the Curry College website at Students are requested to read this Notice of Non- Discrimination as it contains important information related to this Policy. Sexual Harassment Curry College strictly forbids sexual harassment. Sexual Harassment is unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature, including unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal, nonverbal, or physical conduct of a sexual nature. Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other physical or verbal conduct of a sexual nature constitute sexual harassment for a Curry student when: (a) submission to such advances, requests or conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of the individual s academic advancement, participation in College programs or activities, or is used as a basis for academic decisions affecting the individual; (b) rejection of such advances, requests or conduct affects a term or condition of the individual s academic advancement, participation in College programs or activities, or is used as a basis for academic decisions affecting the individual; or (c) such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with the individual s academic performance, education, or participation in College programs or activities, or of creating an intimidating or hostile work or academic environment. Examples of sexual harassment may include, but are not limited to: Repeated offensive sexual flirtations, advances or propositions which are offensive; Verbal abuse or innuendo of a sexual nature which is continued or repeated; Physical contact such as touching, hugging, patting or pinching which is uninvited and unwanted by the other person; Offensive verbal comments of a sexual nature about an individual s body or sexual terms used to describe an individual; An open display of sexually suggestive objects or pictures if people find them offensive; Jokes or remarks of a sexual nature if people find them offensive; Unwanted prolonged and apparent staring or leering at a person;
2 Sexual Misconduct Curry College strictly forbids sexual violence and all other forms of sexual misconduct. Sexual Misconduct is defined by the College as any sexual contact or activity that occurs without the effective consent of any individual involved. It is the obligation of every person to obtain effective consent from the other person prior to sexual contact. Consent cannot be given by minors, those who are incapacitated as a result of alcohol or other drug consumption, or those who are unconscious, unaware or otherwise physically helpless. The College defines incapacitation as a state where an individual cannot make rational, reasonable decisions because the individual lacks the capacity to giving knowing consent and/or as a state where one cannot make a rational, reasonable decision because they lack the ability to understand the who, what, when, where, why or how of their sexual interaction. Incapacitation may also result from mental disability, sleep, involuntary physical restraint, or from alcohol and other drugs. Consent as a result of coercion, intimidation, threat of force or force is not effective consent. A person who knows or should reasonably have known that another person is incapacitated may not engage in sexual activity with that person. Examples of sexual misconduct include, but are not limited to: Touching another s genitals/breasts without consent; Having sexual contact with someone who is incapacitated (e.g. from alcohol or drug usage) such that their decision making ability is compromised so that they are unable to consent; Continuing sexual activity after either party has made it clear, either verbally or by conduct, that they do not wish to continue physical contact; Obscene or indecent behavior, including exposure of one's sexual organs or the display of offensive sexual behavior; Deliberate observation of others for sexual purposes without their consent; Taking or posting of photographs/images of a sexual nature without consent; Possession or distribution of illegal pornography. Effective Consent Effective consent is informed, knowing and voluntary. The College defines effective consent as mutually understandable words or actions which indicate willingness to participate in mutually agreedupon sexual activity. Effective Consent may never be given by minors (in Massachusetts, those not yet sixteen (16) years of age), individuals who have a mental disability that results in their being unable to provide informed, knowing and voluntary consent, those who are incapacitated as a result of alcohol or other drug consumption (voluntary or involuntary) or those who are unconscious, unaware or otherwise physically helpless. Consent obtained as a result of physical force, threats, intimidating behavior, duress or coercion is not effective consent. A person who knows or should reasonably have known that another
3 person is incapacitated may not engage in sexual activity with that person. The College defines incapacitation as a state where an individual cannot make rational, reasonable decisions because the individual lacks the capacity to giving knowing consent and/or as a state where one cannot make a rational, reasonable decision because they lack the ability to understand the who, what, when, where, why or how of their sexual interaction. In addition, consent to one form of sexual activity does not imply consent to other forms. Consent may be given for specific sexual activities and not for others. Consent at one time, including prior intimate partner or physical relationships does not imply future consent. Silence does not constitute consent and may indicate that something is wrong and the potential for sexual misconduct exists. The use of alcohol or other drugs does not constitute a defense for the failure of a person who initiates sexual activity to obtain effective consent. Intimate Partner Violence Physical violence, coercion, threats, intimidation, isolation, stalking, or other forms of emotional, sexual or economic abuse is prohibited, including but not limited to those directed towards a partner. Such violence can be a single act or a pattern of behavior. Intimate partner relationships are defined as short or long-term relationships (current or former) between persons intended to provide some emotional and/or romantic physical intimacy. Domestic violence and dating violence may also constitute forms of Intimate Partner Abuse. Dating violence includes violence by a person who has been in a social relationship of a romantic or intimate nature with the complaining party. The existence of such relationship is determined by its length, its type, and frequency of interaction of persons involved in the relationship. Domestic violence includes violent misdemeanor and felony offenses committed by the complaining party's current or former spouse, cohabitant, or a person with whom he or she shares a child (as well as a person similarly protected under the applicable domestic or family violence laws). Unlawful Retaliation The College takes steps to prevent retaliation and the recurrence of any harassment. As such, retaliation against any individual for making a complaint of conduct prohibited by the Sexual Harassment and Sexual Misconduct Policy, or for assisting in the investigation of such a complaint, is prohibited by Title IX and other federal and state laws and will not be tolerated. Engaging in retaliatory acts (directly or through a third party) is a violation of this policy and will result in disciplinary action. Disciplinary Action and Sanctions When an individual is found to have violated the Sexual Harassment and Sexual Misconduct Policy, appropriate disciplinary action and sanctions will be imposed, including but not limited to, probation, loss of privileges, mandatory training, removal from classes, buildings, activities, programs, and/or campus locations, suspension, and/or expulsion. Immediate Actions to Take if You Experience Sexual Misconduct If you experience sexual violence or other forms of sexual misconduct, here are some very important
4 steps to follow: Get to a safe place as quickly as possible To contact a confidential resource, call Counseling Services at or A New Day (24 Hour Live Hotline) To page the counselor on-call after hours, call Public Safety at (617) Contact Emergency Services as quickly as possible: Dial 911 for police assistance or ambulance assistance Do not bathe, shower, or douche Do not change or clean your clothing Get medical attention as quickly as possible: Dial 911 for ambulance assistance Contact Milton Hospital: (617) Reedsdale Road, Milton, MA Contact Student Health Services ext Smith House, 940 Brush Hill Road Contact Student Counseling Services ext Smith House, 940 Brush Hill Road Contact a private physician Call Curry s Public Safety Office (617) , or Milton Police (617) or the Norfolk County District Attorney s Sexual Assault Hot-Line (781) Contact Outside Support Services for sexual violence or intimate partner violence A New Day (508) Contact Curry s Office of Residence Life & Housing at ext Other Resources Additional support following sexual violence or other forms of sexual misconduct can be found oncampus through: Student Health Services ext Student Counseling Services ext Spiritual Life ext. 3532
5 Confidential Off-Campus Resources A New Day Emergency Hotline (508) Norfolk County Sexual Assault Hot Line (781) National Sexual Assault Hotline HOPE To receive residential or academic accommodations to help you feel comfortable and safe on campus, you can contact: Maryellen Kiley, Dean of Students, ext Erik Muurisepp, Director of Residence Life & Housing, ext Lynn Zlotkowski, Academic Success Coordinator, ext Public Safety, ext Where to Bring a Complaint under this Policy and Who to Contact with Questions Students are encouraged to report any incident of sexual harassment, sexual misconduct, or sexual violence immediately by bringing them to the attention of the College s Dean of Students Office (Dean of Students, Maryellen Kiley at ext. 2289) or the College s Title IX Coordinator, Rachel King, at ext. 3516, or the College s Office of Public Safety, ext In addition, incidents can be reported to the Curry College Public Safety Department, located in the Mayflower Parking Lot, phone: ext Students also have the right to pursue a criminal complaint for acts of sexual misconduct with the local police. Police and emergency authorities can be reached by dialing 911. The Town of Milton Police Department (phone ) is located at 40 Highland Street, Milton, MA. The College s Public Safety Department can also assist individuals with contacting the local police. In addition, any Curry student who has a question about this Policy or about bringing a complaint for violations of unlawful conduct prohibited under this Policy should feel free to contact the College s Dean of Students Office (Dean of Students, Maryellen Kiley at ext. 2289) or the College s Title IX Coordinator, Rachel King, at ext In cases of alleged sexual harassment, sexual violence or other forms of sexual misconduct, students under the influence of alcohol or other drugs in violation of law will not be subject to student conduct charges for being under the influence of alcohol or other drugs. Any student who has a question about, or wants to report a violation of, any other any Student Conduct policies (including but not limited to the Hazing and Harassment Policies), please immediately notify the College s Dean of Students Office (Dean of Students, Maryellen Kiley at ext. 2289). Confidentiality The College recognizes that a student who files a complaint (hereinafter the Complainant ) alleging a violation of the Sexual Harassment and Sexual Misconduct Policy, or who is identified as someone who experienced a violation of this policy, may desire confidentiality and may request that the College not investigate or pursue resolution of a report. In such cases the Complainant is asked to put his or her request in writing and the College will maintain confidentiality to the extent permitted by law and other safety
6 considerations. However, the College may determine that it must investigate and pursue resolution of a report, and take whatever measures it deems necessary in response to a report of violations of this Policy in order to protect the rights, interests and personal safety of the College community. Investigation and Grievance Procedures The College will investigate allegations of violations of unlawful conduct prohibited under this Policy in a prompt, equitable, and impartial manner. Depending upon the facts and circumstances known to it, the College, in its discretion and judgment, may determine that the allegations of alleged violations of the Sexual Harassment and Sexual Misconduct Policy will be investigated and resolved outside of the procedures described in this Policy, and may take interim action as it deems appropriate to address the safety and protection of the College. If the determination is that the case will go through the student conduct process, both the Complainant and the individual(s) alleged to have violations this policy (hereinafter the Respondent ) will be notified by a student conduct officer and a student conduct meeting will be scheduled. Student Conduct Meeting for Sexual Harassment and Sexual Misconduct Curry utilizes the student conduct meeting process as a means to investigate alleged violations of the Sexual Harassment and Sexual Misconduct Policy. Both the Complainant and the Respondent have the opportunity to inform the College, verbally or through a written statement, of any facts that he/she believes should be considered in the College s investigation of the reported violation of the Sexual Harassment and Sexual Misconduct Policy. As part of its investigation, the College, through its Director of Student Conduct or Dean of Students designee charged with investigating the complaint, will speak with the Complainant and the Respondent (separately), as well as other individuals, and will review written documents, materials, or property, as it deems appropriate, to conduct a prompt, fair and impartial investigation. Students are asked to provide names of witnesses to the alleged violation and identify any documents or items that are relevant to the investigation. The College may impose limits upon the number of witnesses and the amount of information that may be introduced where proffered information is cumulative, redundant or immaterial. The facts will be reviewed, and decisions will be made, based upon a preponderance of evidence. Students are expected to be truthful, and to participate as requested. Students are to attend the Student Conduct Meeting by themselves. If the College requests that a student attend a Student Conduct Meeting and the student does not do so, the College will still move forward with the process. If a party or law enforcement agency requests that the College delay its investigation because the conduct at issue is moving forward a civil or criminal case, the College will review the request, but it retains the right to address the complaint before, after, or during the same time as the civil or criminal case, and to implement appropriate action (such as, No Contact Orders, removal from campus, residence facilities, and/or classes, interim removals, or suspensions or interim suspensions) to maintain the safety of the campus.
7 Notification of Determination The College will inform both the Complainant and the Respondent in writing about whether the violation was found to have occurred. Both parties will typically be notified of the outcome of the conduct process within 60 days of the commencement of the investigation, although circumstances may result in a longer period. In certain situations where the complaint involved a crime of violence or a forcible or non- forcible sex offence, the information about all of the sanctions imposed against the Respondent by the College may be provided to the Complainant. In all other cases, the Complainant shall be informed of sanctions imposed against the Respondent where the sanction directly relates to the Complainant (for example, sanctions that require the Respondent to have no contact with the Complainant, and/or removal from the same residence hall or class). Appeal Process for Sexual Harassment and Sexual Misconduct Policy (The following applies to appeals for cases under this policy. For appeals for cases under all other policies, please see the appeals process on page 75). Both the Complainant and the Respondent may appeal the sanction on one of the following grounds only: New and relevant information: significant information that was not available at the time of the student conduct meeting that has been revealed or discovered which alters the facts of the matter and may alter the outcome, including its specific relevance and credibility. It is not information that the Complainant or the Respondent had at the time but did not share with the conduct officer at the original student conduct meeting. Procedural error: A claim of error in the student conduct procedure that substantially affected the decision. The severity of the sanction imposed was not appropriate based on the nature of the violation or the circumstances. Appeals must be submitted in writing by the student to Dean of Students Office within three business days of learning of the determination. The appeal must be submitted directly to the Dean of Students. The appeal letter must identify on which of the above three reasons the appeal is based. If appealing on grounds of new evidence, the letter must include the new information that supports his/her position. If appealing on a procedural error, the letter must state what the specific error was and how it substantially affected the outcome of the student conduct meeting. If appealing due to the belief that the severity of the sanction imposed was not appropriate based on the nature of the violation or the circumstances, the letter must include reasons why the student thinks this outcome was not appropriate and state what discipline (if any) the student believes to be appropriate and why. The Dean of Students (or designee) will then review the appeal letter. The result of the appeal may be a change of the determination in whole or in part. The College will inform both the Complainant and the Respondent of the result of the appeal. The appeal decision is final.
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A new study says a warming globe will be bad news for barley, an essential ingredient in the world’s most popular alcoholic beverage.
If horrific hurricanes and a new, scarier-than-ever United Nations report don’t change attitudes on climate change, perhaps a new report on barley will.
A small international team of scientists considered what the effect of climate change would be for this crop in the next 80 years, and they are raising an alarm they hope will pierce the din of political posturing.
They are predicting a beer shortage.
In a report in Nature Plants, researchers in China, Britain and the United States say that by the end of the century, drought and heat could hurt barley crops enough to cause intense pain to beer drinkers. Imagine a worst case of a 20 percent drop in supply in the United States, or a doubling of prices per bottle in Ireland. That’s no abstract end of civilization talk; that’s an empty display case at the Stop ’N Go.
Of course it may seem odd, almost irreverent, to concentrate on a cold, foamy recreational beverage, given the damage, real and potential, of climate-influenced natural disasters. Christopher Field, faculty director of the Stanford Woods Institute, who was not involved in the study, said that the report was based on a “solid analysis.” But he wrote in an email, given what is going on in terms of climate change, “It feels a tad trivial to talk about beer.”
One can only ask: to whom?
From Ireland to England, China to the Czech Republic, the love, or “like” of beer has made it the most popular alcoholic beverage on the planet. That is by volume consumed, and what other criterion would you use?
One of the authors, Dabo Guan, of Tsinghua University in Beijing and the University of East Anglia, Norwich, said the report was directed at the richer countries of the world, like the United States, to suggest that climate change will hit everyone, not just the poor, who could suffer dire food shortages.
“We will suffer less,” he said, but we will still suffer. Climate change “may not affect our bread,” he said, “but it will affect our beer.”
The idea for the study came up at — where else? — a bar, Dr. Guan said. It was after a day at a scientific meeting in China, and a few participants had gotten together, including climate scientists, a crop modeler and himself, an economist. His own work, he said, is on international trade. The group had a lot in common, he said: “We all love beer.”
“We started talking about the agricultural impact of climate change, about food and then beer,” he said.
They decided to put together mathematical models of the impact of climate change on barley crops with models of international trade. Seventeen percent of barley is used for beer, he said, while the rest goes mostly to animal feed.
Barley harvesting near the Siberian village of Talniki in Russia.CreditIlya Naymushin/Reuters
The group even came up with a term for beer and some of the other commodities they may study in the future like coffee and chocolate: luxury essentials. You don’t need them to survive, but if you are rich enough to be living in the developed world, you do need them.
Dr. Guan also said that the focus should not be on the study’s precise numbers, because the models assume today’s economy. Many things can change. But, he said, the effects are clear.
With particularly bad droughts, for example, the price of a bottle of beer in Ireland might double. In the Czech Republic, it could be six or seven times as expensive.
China and the United States drink the most beer, because of their populations. “Under the worst scenario,” he said, China would lose 10 percent of its beer supply and the United States 15 to 20 percent.
That won’t happen if Anheuser-Busch has anything to say about it, however. Jess Newman, the company’s director of agronomy in the United States, said, “We take climate uncertainty very seriously.”
To that end, she and her staff keep an eye on climate predictions, breed new strains of barley, and collect data on their own farms and those of suppliers in Montana, Idaho and North Dakota, to determine best practices. “The barley nerds are on the case,” she said.
In terms of how the public should take the news, Dr. Guan was adamant on one point: “Our aim is not to encourage people to drink more beer now.” A good caution, since that might well be the policy solution favored by beer drinkers faced with a possible shortage 80 years in the future.
No, he said, sounding a bit like a preacher in a pub: “Climate change mitigation is the only way. Everybody in the world needs to fight.”
James Gorman is a science writer at large and the host and writer of the video series “ScienceTake.” He joined The Times in 1993 and is the author of several books, including “How to Build a Dinosaur,” written with the paleontologist Jack Horner.
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Rudd Australia Report Card #2. Climate Criminal Australia and Climate Genocide
A new Australian Government under PM Rudd was sworn in on Monday 3 December, 2007 – Day 1 of Rudd Australia. PM Kevin Rudd has made it clear that he favors “measurement-based policy†and “evidence-based policy†and has further asked his colleagues to give him Report Cards on progress.
I applaud this approach as a senior scientist committed to rational risk management that successively involves (a) accurate data, ( scientific analysis and © systemic change to minimize risk (for a detailed, expert exposition see Professor James Reason, “Human error: models and managementâ€, British Medical Journal, vol. 320, 768-770, 2000: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/320/7237/768 ). Indeed as a responsible pubIic service I have committed a lot of time and effort to informing governments, media and fellow citizens about important matters, of which Australia’s involvement in the ongoing Aboriginal Genocide, Iraqi Genocide, Afghan Genocide and Climate Genocide are the most critically important.
Dated 4 December 2007, Day #2 and week #1 of the Rudd Government, Rudd Australia Report Card #1 is the first of a series of carefully researched and edited “Rudd Australia Report Cards†that I will be sending to the Rudd Government and to media and fellow citizens. “Rudd Australia Report Card #1. Continued Australian and US Coalition war crimes in Occupied Iraq†has been published on Crosswire: http://open.newmatilda.com/crosswire/?p=142 .
BELOW is “Rudd Australia Report Card #2. Climate Criminal Australia and Climate Genocideâ€
I am very happy for anyone to re-publish these “Rudd Australia Report Cards†with attribution in the interests of Australia and Humanity.
The world is facing a potential catastrophe due successively to industrial profligacy, greenhouse gas pollution, global warming and declining per capita sustainable resources. This potential problem of environmental pollution and impacts on biological sustainability has been familiar to scientists since the 19th century research of John Tyndall; was addressed by the Club of Rome in circa 1970; and which was further addressed by successive Assessment Reports of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change since 1990 (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Climate_Change ).
As a chemistry-based scientist for 4 decades, I was aware of the finiteness of the atmosphere, the oceans, arable land and fossil fuel reserves from the start of my career. I was made aware of the mounting atmospheric problems back in 1972 as a Queen Elizabeth II Fellow in the department of one of Australia’s top hydrologists and biophysicists who later went on to be Chief Scientist of Australia.
In 1998 I published a book entitled “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History. Colonial rapacity, holocaust denial and the crisis in biological sustainability†(see: http://janeaustenand.blogspot.com/ ). In short, I argued that history ignored yields history repeated, holocaust ignored yields holocaust repeated and that the ignoring of successive Bengali Holocausts under the British - the 1769-1770 Bengal Famine (10 million deaths) and the 1943-1944 Bengal Famine (4 million deaths) - will permit a horrendous disaster in the 21st century due to industrial profligacy, man-made global warming and destructive inundation of mega-deltaic Bengal. My predictions of holocaust ignoring and irresponsible industrial profligacy are already being realized – recently formerly densely populated Bengali islands permanently disappeared under the waves, and the last major Bay of Bengal hurricane was the worst for several decades.
Climate change is already contributing to the 16 million avoidable deaths (about 9.6 million of under-5 year old infants) that occur each year on Spaceship Earth with the profligate First World in charge of the flight deck (see “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950â€, G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2007: http://janeaustenand.blogspot.com/ ). Worse is yet to come due to decline in agricultural sustainability, potable water, fisheries, and even safe living space for mega-delta communities subject to sea level rise, storm surges and salinization.
A must-read document for policy makers is the 2007 “Summary for Policymakers of the Synthesis Report of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4)†(for a Summary of the Summary see:
Green-Blog.org/2007/11/21/summary-of-the/.../. Sir Nicholas Stern his authoritative Stern report on the economics of climate change states that it will be cheaper to act now rather than later. In a recent lecture Sir Nicholas Stern “For $10-15bn (£4.8-7.2bn) per year, a programme could be constructed that could stop up to half the deforestation†(which contributes 10-15% of greenhouse pollution) and after describing climate change as the world’s worst market failure, he says that there must be an 80% reduction in rich nations’ greenhouse gas pollution by 2050 if the world is to avoid “destructive†consequences of global warming (see: Guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/nov/30/.../ ).
Indeed the draft recommendation at the December 2007 Bali Conference is for a developed country 25-40% reduction on 1990 levels of greenhouse gas pollution by 2020 – a position opposed by climate criminal countries the US, Canada, Japan and Rudd Australia (see:
TheAustralian.news.com.au/story/.../ ).
Unfortunately Rudd Labor, while having secured an urgently needed victory in the elections over the greenhouse sceptic and greenhouse unresponsive Bush-ite Coalition, is simply not green enough (see: link ). While Rudd Labor has ratified Kyoto, it is using the sensible need for “evidence before policy change†as an EXCUSE not to commit to short-term greenhouse reduction targets until the final form of the Garnaut Report in late 2008. With due respect to Professor Garnaut and his Report-in-Progress we ALREADY have the Stern Report (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern_Review ) and the 2007 IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (see: http://www.ipcc.ch ).
PM Rudd has stated that before making a decision on short term targets his Government needs to have the “factsâ€. Well, the World has had the “facts†for a dozen years and what follows is a scientist’s assessment of the “facts†drawn from authoritative American and European technical sources. Unfortunately in the Australian Murdochracy, the politically correct racist (PC racist) Land of Lies and Flies, Australia’s world #1 coal exports that contribute over 50% of Australia’s total annual greenhouse gas pollution are not even a matter for public discussion (except for the ethical and responsible Australian Greens) (for how a mature society regards the matter see George Monbiot’s “The real answer to climate change is to leave fossil fuels in the groundâ€: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/.../ ).
Indeed any specifically “economic impact†research by the Garnaut Report (aka “Rudd’s Excuse for Inactionâ€) will be instantly trashed if the Rest of the World (i.e. other than the US-Australia-Canada-Japan quartet opposing 25-40% reduction by 2020) decide officially or unofficially to impose Sanctions, Boycotts, Green Tariffs or Reparations Demands on the goods and services of climate criminal countries such as Australia.
Here are some “facts†from authoritative sources that are apparent NOW – they do not need a further year of “research†for discovery.
1. Committed Rudd Labor Policy is effective Climate Racism from a per capita CO2 pollution standpoint
In the recent election campaign Rudd Labor committed to “20% renewables by 2020â€, “â€60% reduction on 2000 greenhouse gas pollution by 2050†and no constraint on fossil fuel extraction for export. What this ACTUALLY means (based on US Energy Information Administration data, assuming current constant coal, gas and CO2 pollution growth rates, constant population and including Australia’s fossil fuel EXPORTS) is the following pattern of “total annual per capita fossil fuel-derived CO2 emission in tonnes per person per year†(i.e. “Total Annual Per Capita Pollution†or TAPCP) of 43 (2007), 56 (2020) and 65 (2050).
If Australia agrees to “25% reduction on 1990 domestic levels by 2020†this will mean a TAPCP of 44 (2020); a 40% reduction would mean 42. These values are about 10 times greater than the “Annual Per Capita Pollution†(APCP) value (2004) for the World (4.2) and China (3.6), about 40 times greater than for India (1) and 160 times greater than for Bangladesh (0.25).
Australia’s TAPCP is already 10 times that of China’s 2004 APCP value and Rudd Labor’s “do nothing, set up a committee†approach means a startling continuation in 2008 of Labor’s 2007 5-fold greater version of the racist Labor Immigration Minister Arthur Calwell’s notorious 1947 declaration: “Two Wongs do not make a White†(see: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/17999/42/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Calwell ) – indeed on the above figures, assuming that China keeps its 2050 APCP to something like 2004 figure, Rudd Labor, for all its ostensible Philosinensis (indeed Arthur Calwell had Chinese friends and spoke Mandarin) is heading for a 2050 TAPCP (65.2) 18 times that of China’s 2004 APCP value (3.6).
2. Professor Garnaut’s “all men are created equal†position (December 2007)
Professor Garnaut (ABC, Lateline, 10 December 2007) stated: (from my notes): “Australia will be pulling its full weightâ€. “Pulling its full weight†means (if one accepts “all men are created equal†) that Australia achieves APCP parity with the rest of the world – something that Rudd Labor absolutely refuses to do (see #1). One hopes that the finalized Garnaut Report in late 2008 is able to convince Rudd Labor to eschew the Climate Racism of APCP non-parity.
3. Australian Greens policy consonant with non-Bush-ite “Rest of the World†consensus
The Australian Greens policy is to rapidly phase out fossil fuel extraction and to have an “80% reduction of greenhouse gas pollution by 2050â€. This yields an APCP of 2.4 in 2050 and consonant both with the IPCC and Stern 2007 demands for “80% reduction on 1990 levels by 2050â€, “Pulling its full weight†(Professor Garnaut, 2007) and “all men are created equal†(Thomas Jefferson, American Declaration of Independence, 1776).
4. US Energy Information Administration data and the climate criminal Bush-ite Coalition legacy
The US Energy Information Administration (EIA; see: http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/country/index.cfm ) provides very detailed information about energy usage by all countries of the world for the last 10 years. Back in 1997 the decent world was so concerned about mounting evidence for anthropogenic, greenhouse gas-driven, climate change that it signed on to the Kyoto Protocol. Not only did climate criminal Australia (together with climate criminal US) NOT sign the Kyoto Protocol, but Australia’s “annual coal exportsâ€, “annual natural gas extractionâ€, “annual domestic fossil fuel-derived CO2 production†and “annual total fossil fuel-derived CO2 production†plotted versus time yield beautiful straight lines UPWARDS.
Indeed this beautiful linearity gives greater confidence for extrapolation at either end of these graphs. For the convenience of the reader with some graph paper the estimates of “DOMESTIC annual fossil fuel-derived CO2 production†(millions of tonnes) versus time (with per capita estimates of tonnes per person per year in parenthesis, assuming post-2007 population stasis at 21 million) are: 256 (12.2, 1990), 348 (18.2, 2000), 424 (20.2, 2007), 554 (26.3, 2020) and 853 (40.6, 2050); using the same assumptions the “TOTAL annual fossil fuel-derived CO2 production†(with per capita estimates of tonnes per person per year and year in parentheses) is 435 (25.7, 1990), 698 (36.5, 2000), 910 (43.3, 2007), 1,277 (60.8, 2020) and 2,122 (101.0, 2050).
In relation to the above estimates, the Bush-ite Coalition policy of BAU (business as usual) and no constraint on fossil fuel exports would, on the above assumptions, lead to a “total annual per capita fossil fuel-derived CO2 pollution, TAPCP†of 101 tonnes per person per year in 2050, 27 times China’s 2004 value and 2.5 times Australia’s present value.
5. Major international comparisons – Australia is the world’s worst big country per capita greenhouse polluter
Despite the rhetoric, rational approaches to save the Planet are being resolutely opposed by racist, greedy Bush America (the world’s worst greenhouse gas polluter and stand-out Kyoto non-signatory) and previously Bush-ite and presently neo-Bush-ite Australia (the world’s developed country with the worst annual per capita greenhouse gas pollution and the world’s biggest coal exporter).
Thus 2004 data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA; see: http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/country/index.cfm ) reveal that “annual per capita fossil fuel-derived CO2 pollution, APCP†in tonnes CO2/person is 19.2 (for Australia; 40 if you include Australia’s coal exports), 19.7 (the US), 18.4 (Canada), 9.9 (Japan), 4.2 (the World), 3.6 (China), 1.0 ( India) and 0.25 (for Bangladesh). Neither Bush America nor Bush-ite Australia will sign Kyoto nor cut greenhouse gas pollution – the countries facing devastation from global warming are the mega-delta, below-World-average polluting countries of China, India and Bangladesh.
Australia is the world’s big country with the highest annual per capita greenhouse polluter and is currently playing “dog in the manger†(together with the US, Canada and Japan) in opposing short-term greenhouse gas pollution reduction targets at the December 2007 Bali Conference.
6. Germanwatch index places Australia #54 in the list of the worst CO2 polluters (#56 being worst)
Of course “annual per capita fossil fuel-derived CO2 pollution†is but one – albeit a very important – indicator of climate criminality. The Germanwatch Climate Change Index 2008, a comparison of the 56 top CO2 emitting nations (see: http://www.germanwatch.org/ccpi.htm ), takes other parameters into account in ranking. In this ranking of 56 top CO2 emitting nations, Sweden and Germany are #1 and #2 for greenhouse responsibility, while shale-oil-rich Canada (a US satrap), coal-rich Australia (a US satrap), the USA and oil-rich Saudi Arabia (a puppet of anti-Arab anti-Semitic, Islamophobic Bush US ) rank #53, #54, #55 and #56, respectively (see: http://www.germanwatch.org/ccpi.htm ) .
7. Annual per capita greenhouse gas pollution for the world and Australia with and without land use change (2000)
The US Energy Information Administration gives a year-by-year summary of fossil fuel-derived CO2 pollution for every country in the world (see: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/iea/carbon.html ). However greenhouse gas pollution (methane, CH4, nitrous oxide, N2O, and carbon dioxide, CO2) comes not just from burning hydrocarbons and coal but also from land use – specifically, agriculture, vegetative decomposition and animal husbandry. A 2000 list of countries by greenhouse gas emissions per capita provides data with and without this land use component (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.../ ). Land use contributes about 20% of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Out of 185 countries Australia ranked 9th worst (with land use change) and 5th (without land use change). The tonnes of “CO2 equivalent†per person per year were 25.9 (with) and 25.6 (without land use change) for Australia, indicating the preponderant importance of fossil fuel burning to Australia’s “scoreâ€.
8. Annual per capita GDP is directly proportional to annual per capita CO2 emission
If you plot “annual per capita fossil fuel-derived CO2†(2004) versus “annual per capita GDP†(2003) the data from most countries fall on a straight line (not quite going through zero on the “CO2†axis) and with a slope of about 0.3 kilograms/US dollar of GDP or 300 grams per US dollar (300 g/US$). However many countries fall ABOVE this line, most notably the oil-rich Gulf States (2.5 kg/US$), world’s #1 coal exporter Australia (1.9 kg/US$), Kyoto-violator Canada (0.8 kg/US$) and Kyoto non-signatory US (0.5 kg/US$).
This analysis shows that GDP is currently directly proportional to CO2 emission and the consequence is that to cut emissions it is necessary to (a) cut GDP and/or ( cut CO2-polluting energy generation for GDP generation i.e. urgently promote renewables or suffer a declining GDP.
9. IPCC summary
The Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change has delivered 4 Assessment reports since 1990, the latest being the 2007 Fourth Assessment Report. The prognosis of the latest IPCC Report is very bleak but the situation is actually even worse than they state because of (a) the cut off in scientific papers considered and ( obfuscatory inputs by climate criminal countries such as the US. For a Summary of the Summary of the 2007 IPCC Synthesis Report of the Fourth Assessment Report see: http://green-blog.org/2007/11/21/summary-of-the-summary-of/.../ .
The IPCC (2000) has defined various possible scenarios which are summarised in New Scientist, with the worst case scenario being the fast economic growth and globalization, fossil fuel-intensive A1F1 scenario in which global population peaks in mid-century and declines thereafter, and involving the rapid introduction of new and more efficient technologies (see: http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn11090). Of various scenarios discussed in the latest IPCC Synthesis Report (see: http://www.ipcc.ch/ ) “Category IV†seems the most favoured in public discussion (e.g. in report by Sir Nicholas Stern) and involves stabilization at 485-570 ppm CO2 , 3.2-4.0 degrees centigrade temperature rise above pre-industrial temperature (2-3 degrees above today’s) and 0.6-2.4 metres sea level above the pre-industrial sea level or 0.4 – 2.2 metres above today’s). However Professor Lovelock (“The Revenge of Gaiaâ€) thinks that 500ppm CO2 would cause disastrous phytoplankton and Greenland ice losses with irreversible loss of major global temperature controls.
Recent data from 2 independent sources (see: “Recent CO2 rises exceed worst case scenariosâ€, New Scientist) reveal that ACTUAL rates of CO2 emission are the same or worse than in the worst case scenario A1F1 that, according to the 2007 IPCC Summary, will lead to catastrophic, long-term stabilization at (upper estimates) 790 ppm CO2, and a 6 degree centigrade higher temperature and 3.7 meter sea level rise relative to pre-industrial levels i.e. CO2 catastrophically at twice today’s level of 379 ppm , temperatures 4-5 degree centigrade above today’s and sea level 0.8-3.5 metres above today’s.
Thanks to climate criminal, climate genocidal countries, notably Bush America (the world’s #1 GHG polluter) and Bush-ite Australia (the world’s #1 coal exporter) – noting that neither of these will constrain GHG (greenhouse gas) pollution - the world is on track to deliver this predicted catastrophe or even WORSE to our children and grand
10. The Rudd Labor “Garnaut Report excuse†gambit contradicts the expert, IPCC-endorsed Stern injunction to “Act Nowâ€
Both the IPCC Fourth Assessment report and the Stern Report say “act NOWâ€. However, stripped of mellifluous rhetoric (e.g. “there is no plan Bâ€) the Rudd Labor position involves a 1 year delay on any concrete action to constrain greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution. After nearly 12 years of sustained upward growth of CO2 pollution under the climate criminal Bush-ite Coalition this is simply not good enough. If indeed “there is no plan B†why won’t Rudd Australia sign up to the “Plan A†endorsed by every country in the world except for the US and its satraps Australia, Canada and Japan i.e. “25-40% reduction by 2020â€?
According to Stern as quoted by the Guardian (2007): “The average emissions a head must fall from seven tonnes to two to three tonnes of carbon dioxide a year by 2050, he says. US emissions a head are more than 20 tonnes each year, with European citizens producing 10-15 tonnes each. In China it is about five tonnes, in India about one, and in Africa less than one tonne each†(see: Guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/nov/30/climatechange.carbonemissions).
Australia is currently producing 43 tonnes each per annum (including fossil fuel exports) and according to the public committed Rudd Labor scenario projects 65 tonnes each per annum by 2050.
11. Rudd Australia greenhouse pollution scenarios
As indicated above (#1) the “solidâ€, “committed†Rudd Labor Policy indicates “total annual fossil fuel-derived CO2 pollution (million tonnes per year )†of 910 (2007), 1,277 (2020) and 2,122 (2050).
However it is salutary to consider the scenario if Rudd Labor accepted â€25% reduction on 1990 levels by 2050 - “total annual fossil fuel-derived CO2 pollution (million tonnes per year )†would be 910 (2007), 915 (2020) and 1,371 (2050).
If Rudd Labor acceptedâ€40% reduction on 1990 levels by 2050 - “total annual fossil fuel-derived CO2 pollution (million tonnes per year )†would be 910 (2007), 877 (2020) and 1,371 (2050).
Even under Rudd Labor’s “20% renewable by 2020†and “â€60% on 2000 levels by 2050â€, the “domestic annual fossil fuel-derived CO2 pollution (million tonnes per year )†would be 345 (2000), 424 (2007), 443 (2020) and 138 (2050).
12. Rudd Australia greenhouse pollution scenarios - per capita projections
As indicated above (#1) the “solid†Rudd Labor Policy indicates “total annual per capita pollution (TAPCP, tonnes per person per year)†of 43 (2007), 56 (2020) and 65 (2050);
If Rudd Labor accepted â€25% reduction on 1990 levels by 2050â€, “total annual per capita pollution (TAPCP, tonnes per person per year)†would be 43 (2007), 44 (2020) and 65 (2050).
If Rudd Labor accepted “40% on 1990 levels by 2020†the “total annual per capita pollution (TAPCP, tonnes per person per year)†would be 43 (2007), 42 (2020) and 65 (2050).
Even under Rudd Labor’s CURRENTLY PROPOSED “20% renewable by 2020†and "60% reduction on 2000 levels by 2050" the “DOMESTIC annual per capita pollution (DAPCP, tonnes per person per year)†would be 18 (2000), 21 (2007) and 6.6 (2050) (still nearly twice that of China in 2004).
13. Who pays? Australia benefits from CO2 pollution, the World suffers
One of the world’s leading bioethicists Professor Peter Singer (Princeton University and University of Melbourne) is unequivocal in his expert judgment that “We are responsible not only for what we do but also for what we could have prevented… We should consider the consequences both of what we do and what we decide not to do.†(Singer, P. (2000), “Writings on an Ethical Lifeâ€, Ecco Press, New York; ppxv-xvi).
Unfortunately there is a major bipartisan agreement in Australia to ignore the global cost of Australia’s world #1 coal exports. The Australian Green proposal in the recent federal election campaign to rapidly phase out this highly irresponsible and planet-threatening industry was howled down by both the Bush-ite Coalition and the neo-Bush-ite Labor Party.
At the next elections the Bush-ite Coalition will still have the support of about half the voters yet the former Coalition PM described as “crazy†the Rudd Labor proposal to cut emissions in 2050 to 60% of the 2000 value (a proposal that, as shown in #11 and #12 above, falls so far short of what is needed that Rudd Labor might just as well have not bothered except for the purpose of garnering the votes of the gullible).
According to the 2007 IPCC Synthesis report, unaddressed CO2 pollution and global warming will have a devastating effect on global malnutrition and poverty (see: http://green-blog.org/2007/11/21/summary-of-the-summary-of-the/.../ ). According the Professor David Pimentel (2004), global malnutrition and poverty will be an “unimaginable†problem by 2054 (see: http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Feb04/AAAS.pimentel.hrs.html ), already pollution of the soil, water and air kills about 40% of the world’s population and 57% of the world’s population of 6.5 billion is already malnourished (see: http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Aug07/moreDiseases.sl.html ).
Already 16 million people due avoidably each year (9.6 million being under-5 year old infants) on a Spaceship Earth dominated by a profligate and unresponsive First World (see “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950â€, G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2007: http://janeaustenand.blogspot.com/ ) – and Australia on a per capita basis is one of the world’s worst offenders.
14. Who pays? The true environmental and human cost of coal-based electricity can be over 4 times the present market cost
According to a Ministry of Energy Report from Ontario, Canada, coal plants kill 668 people per year in Ontario (population 12.7 million), and cause 1,100 emergency room visits, and more than 300,000 minor illnesses per year. These and previous findings by the Ontario Medical Association were behind bi-partisan will to close Ontario’s coal-fired electricity plants. This Report estimated that a “market†cost of about 4 cents/kWh increases to a “true cost†of about 16 cents/kWh (see: http://www.evworld.com/news.cfm?newsid=8836 ): “The study estimated that the total net present value of coal-fired generation is costing Ontario $0.164 CAD/kWh. Environmental and health costs accounted for 77% to total generation costsâ€.
15. “True cost†of fossil fuels versus bearable cost, corporate/government-determined cost and A$10 billion per annum subsidies for Australian fossil fuel burning
While the “true cost†of coal-based electricity can be over 4 times the “market†cost, this will be ignored in corporate, government and diplomatic “horse-trading†to set carbon price – just as society in practice ignores the “annual death rate†due to cigarette smoking (about 1,000 per million) or due to cars (about 100 per million) in assessing the “true cost†of tobacco or cars. Extrapolating from Ontario, the annual death rate from coal-fired power generation is about 50 per million.
If the true environmental and human cost of fossil fuel-derived power were taken into account then (a) economics would dictate “keep fossil fuels in the ground†(as advocated by the Australian Greens and by George Monbiot: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/.../ ), ( subsidies would be immediately removed and © compensation ordered by the courts for the victims of this technological perversion (as has happened already in relation to victims of industrial use of asbestos).
16. Renewables are the way – keep fossil fuels in the ground
Here are some estimates of the cost in Australian cents per kilowatt-hour (Ac/kWh) of various sources of electricity (for a detailed discussion see “Renewables: how the numbers stack up†in New Matilda: http://www.newmatilda.com/home/.../ ):
3-4 — coal, Australia;
18 — the real cost of coal, taking into account the environmental and health impact; according to a conservative Canadian Ontario Ministry of Energy Report (CAN$0.164);
15 — nuclear via the UK’s newest Sizewell B plant;
7.5-8.5 — wind power, Australia;
15 — concentrated solar power or CSP;
25-45 — standard silicon-based photovoltaics (PVs).
However recent advances means we must add the following to the list:
4 – the price of solar PV is set to fall dramatically to compete directly with the current “market price†of coal due to balloon, sliver and non-silicon PV technology advances. The non-silicon organic thin film technology developed by US Nobel Laureate Alan Heeger and his South Korean colleagues will reduce the cost of installing photovoltaic (PV) capacity by a factor of 20; the Swiss ETH CIGS non-silicon thin film system may be competitive with coal within 5 years; Australian sliver silicon PV technology will drop silicon solar panel costs threefold. In particular, the Californian balloon solar capture technology is predicted to make PV solar competitive with “market price†coal by 2010 (see “Solar energy & the end of war. US balloon technology to slash solar energy cost 90% by 2010â€: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/18667/42/ ).
4 – Australian geothermal. According to Professor John Veevers (“The Innamincka hot fractured rock project†in “Lies, Deep Fries & Statisticsâ€, editor Robyn Williams, ABC Books, Sydney, 2007; also see energy cost-related related chapters by Dr Gideon Polya “Australian complicity in Iraq mass mortalityâ€, Dr Mark Diesendorf “A sustainable energy future for Australiaâ€, and Martin Mahy “Hydrogen Minibusesâ€): “Modelled costs are 4 cents per kilowatt hour, plus half to 1 cent for transmission to grid. This compares with 3.5 cents for black coal, 4 cents for brown coal, 4.2 cents for gas, but all with uncosted emissions. Clean coal, the futuristic technology of coal gasification combined with CO2 sequestration or burial, yet to be demonstrated, comes in at 6.5 cents, and solar and wind power at 8 cents.â€
Further, wave, tidal, biomass and biofuel energy technologies are renewable technologies competitive with the “true cost†of fossil fuels. Australia’s huge reserves of economic geothermal power are expertly assessed to have the capacity to provide most of Australia’s energy needs for the best part of a millennium and Australia is blessed with huge solar, tidal, wave and wind resources.
The UK Government has recently announced that all British homes will be energized from wind farms by 2020.
17. Nuclear is not an option
The Bush-ite Coalition had an unerring knack of being resolutely incorrect or in denial about so many crucial matters – anthropogenic climate change, the reasons for war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the terrorist threat to Australia, and the cost of meeting the climate change crisis. They are also incorrect in relation to the nuclear option. As summarized in #16 above the nuclear option is more expensive than current renewable wind and geothermal technologies and as expensive as current concentrated solar technology. Further, the FULL nuclear cycle (from uranium mining and processing to waste disposal and plant de-commissioning) can be as expensive in terms of CO2 emissions as a gas-fired power station – and we still have the intractable security and waste disposal problems.
18. Mandated efficient energy provision as well as usage
Australia has mandated replacement of incandescent globes with high efficiency electric lights over the next year or so. If Australia can legislatively mandate efficient energy USAGE it should also mandate the highest efficiency, lowest REAL cost energy PROVISION - currently geothermal, followed by wind with both of these set to be shortly supplanted by exciting low-cost solar technologies.
Failure of Australia to mandate minimum price energy provision simply reflects entrenched dishonesty and corruption in our society. This is briefly discussed further below in relation to the Australian and global impact of fossil fuel burning.
19. Oil, strategic hegemony and 5-8 million post-invasion excess deaths in the Bush Wars in the Occupied Iraqi and Afghan Territories
The strategic importance of the Middle East in terms of oil and global hegemony is the core reason for the Bush Asian Wars that have so far been associated with 5-8 million post-invasion excess deaths in the Occupied Iraqi and Afghan Territories. This explanation has been argued cogently by outstanding anti-war humanitarian Professor Noam Chomsky (from 63-Nobel- Laureate Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT) in an article entitled “Imminent Crises: Threats and Opportunities †in which he says of the Middle East : “the huge energy resources of the region were recognized by Washington sixty years ago as a “stupendous source of strategic power,†the “strategically most important area of the world,†and “one of the greatest material prizes in world history.â€[reference] 1 Control over this stupendous prize has been a primary goal of U.S. policy ever since, and threats to it have naturally aroused enormous concern.â€
Total post-invasion excess deaths in the Occupied Iraqi and Afghan Territories now stand at about 5-8 million. There has been a horrendous human cost of the ongoing Palestinian Genocide, Iraqi Genocide and Afghan Genocide (post-invasion excess deaths 0.3 million, 1.5-2 million and 3-6 million, respectively; post-invasion under-5 infant deaths total 0.2 million, 0.6 million and 2.2 million, respectively; and refugees total 7 million, 4.5 million and 4 million, respectively) (updated figures from MWC News).
However there is a further huge cost in the US$2.5 trillion accrual cost of the Bush wars (according to 2001 Economics Nobel Laureate Professor Joseph Stiglitz) that has recently been updated to $3.5 trillion by a Congressional Report (see: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/13099/26/) ; the $2.6 trillion post-1956 accrual cost of US aid for Zionist colonization of Palestine, Lebanon and Syria (see: http://mwcnews.net/content/.../); the huge human cost of the US-expanded opiate trade – 0.6 million post-2001 global opiate drug-related deaths (about 2,000 in Australia) due to US Alliance restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry from about 5% of world market share in 2001 to 93% in 2007; and huge diversion of financial support from alleviation of global warming-exacerbated poverty (the “War on Terror†has cost Australia alone about $20 billion in corporate and government domestic security measures and billions more in overseas military deployments).
20. Huge environmental cost and environmental economic cost of fossil fuel burning and deforestation for Australia and the World
It has been estimated by Balmford et al in the prestigious scientific journal Science (see “Economic reasons for preserving wild natureâ€: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/.../) that for a variety of “biomes†(ecological systems) the total economic value (TEV) is about 50% greater when the resource is used sustainably as opposed to destructive conversion. Further, these scientists have found that the economic benefit from preserving what is left of wild nature is OVER 100 TIMES greater than the cost of preservation.
However these estimates are IGNORED by Lib-Lab Australian Governments in the interests of “jobs†and corporations as we see in the ongoing deforestation of Victoria and Tasmania. The true economic value of State-owned assets are not being considered – these citizen-owned public resources are effectively being given away to private corporations.
These ugly realities of dishonesty and environmental vandalism reach a pinnacle in relation to greenhouse gas pollution. The polluters are not being charged the full cost of what they are destroying. Indeed quite the reverse is happening – fossil fuel burning is actually SUBSIDIZED to the tune of about $10 billion annually in Australia (see: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/.../).
A further concrete Australian example is the threat to the Great Barrier Reef from global warming as spelled out in the latest 2007 IPCC Synthesis Report (see: http://www.ipcc.ch) – this is of course a major tourist asset in an economic sense as well as a national and global icon.
21. Biofuels represent a perversion with 57% malnourished, grain production falling and grain price rising
As outlined in #13, According to the 2007 IPCC Synthesis report, unaddressed CO2 pollution and global warming will have a devastating effect on global malnutrition and poverty (see: http://www.ipcc.ch). According the Professor David Pimentel (2004) of Cornell University, New York, global malnutrition and poverty will be an “unimaginable†problem by 2054 (see: http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Feb04/.../ ), already pollution of the soil, water and air kills about 40% of the world’s population and 57% of the world’s population of 6.5 billion is already malnourished (see: http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Aug07/.../ ).
Biofuels are formally CO2 neutral and renewable – however in the context of horrendous global poverty, a major decline in grain production, huge increases in grain price and increasing diversion of grain for biofuel generation (see: http://www.fas.usda.gov/grain/circular/2006/05-06/graintoc.htm ) this is a perversion and a crime against humanity, the more so when alternative cheap, efficient renewable energy options are technically already available (see #16).
22. Oil is the feedstock for sophisticated organic chemical industry – it should not be burned
Forty years ago my organic chemistry lecturer told us that we are actually BURNING the feedstock for sophisticated chemical industry, the material used to make pharmaceuticals and plastics that dominate modern life. Today this wanton destruction of an immensely valuable resource is continuing. The “real cost†and the “real value†are ignored because of the political might of fossil fuel burning corporations.
I am acutely aware of this travesty as the author of a huge pharmacological reference text (Gideon Polya, “Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds. A pharmacological reference guide to sites of action and biological effects†CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, New York & London, 2003:
http://www.amazon.com/Biochemical-Targets-Plant-Bioactive-Compounds/.../).
23. Deforestation can be halved by investing US$15 billion per annum
Further to the points made in relation to environmental impacts of global warming, deforestation contributes about 15-20% to increased net global greenhouse gas production annually. Yet according to Sir Nicholas Stern: “For $10-15bn (£4.8-7.2bn) per year, a programme could be constructed that could stop up to half the deforestation†(see: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/nov/30/.../).
In addition to playing a vital role in global temperature homeostasis, forest ecosystems are sources for invaluable pharmaceutical resources (see my recent huge reference book: Gideon Polya, “Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds. A pharmacological reference guide to sites of action and biological effectsâ€, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, New York & London, 2003: http://www.amazon.com/Biochemical-Targets-Plant-Bioactive-Compounds/.../).
24. Climate criminal countries such as Australia face Sanctions, Boycotts, Green Tariffs and Reparations Demands
The science and technology has been well reviewed internationally (see the 2007 IPCC Reports: http://www.ipcc.ch and a recent review of renewable scenarios: http://www.martinot.info/Martinot_et_al_AR32_prepub.pdf) as indeed has the economic of climate change via the Stern Report (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern_Review).
The Rudd Government intransigence in not supporting the draft Bali proposal of “25-40% reduction by 2020†is ostensibly because of the economic review by Professor Garnaut due in first draft in mid-2008 and presumably finalized by late 2008.
Yet one boundary condition of Professor Garnaut’s report is already clear – in his own words (December 2007) “Australia will be pulling its full weight†which means (if one accepts “all men are created equal†) that Australia achieves “annual per capita greenhouse gas pollution†parity with the rest of the world. However the other boundary condition (perceived “affordability†in the light of Australia-specific economic analysis) is completely UNCERTAIN for the simple reason that the World may decide to take action against climate criminal countries such as Australia and the US through imposition of Sanctions, Boycotts, Green Tariffs and Reparations Demands.
Indeed a SOLUTION to greedy, climate criminal US, Canada, Japan and Australian intransigence would be international Sanctions and Boycotts or, more precisely, “Green Tariffs†and Reparations Demands that recognize the REAL environmental and human cost of goods produced by these irresponsible and intrinsically RACIST climate criminal countries.
It is notable that these 4 countries have ANOTHER intrinsically racist and genocidal activity in common - various participation in the genocidal Bush Asian Wars - post-invasion excess deaths in the Iraqi Genocide and Afghan Genocide now total 1.5-2 million and 3-6 million, respectively; post-invasion under-5 infant deaths total 0.6 million and 2.2 million, respectively; and refugees total 4.5 million and about 4 million, respectively) (see: “Solar energy & the end of warâ€: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/18667/42/ ).
What Australia and the US are doing is far more serious and intrinsically racist than the crimes of Apartheid South Africa, a system that was eventually disposed of through international Sanctions and Boycotts. Sanctions, Boycotts, Green Tariffs and Reparations Deamnds may well be applied to Australia, the US and like climate criminal countries that are threatening the Planet with climate genocide. Indeed a model for this comes from outstanding American academic, writer, editor and economist, Father of Reaganomics Dr Paul Craig Roberts who explicitly demands that the world should stop the “Iraqi genocide†by “dumping the dollar†(see: http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts02122007.html ). The World is evidently doing just that – and may well act similarly towards an intransigent Australia, on a per capita basis the world’s worst developed country greenhouse gas polluter.
On a per capita basis and including our fossil fuel exports, Australia is the developed country with the highest greenhouse gas pollution. Thus 2004 data from the US Energy Information Administration reveal that “annual per capita fossil fuel-derived CO2 pollution†in tonnes CO2/person is 19.2 (for Australia; 40 if you include Australia’s coal exports), 19.7 (the US), 18.4 (Canada), 9.9 (Japan), 4.2 (the World), 3.6 (China), 1.0 ( India) and 0.25 (for Bangladesh).
The Rudd Labor commitment to “20% renewables by 2020â€, “â€60% reduction on 2000 greenhouse gas pollution by 2050†and no constraint on fossil fuel extraction for export ACTUALLY means (based on US Energy Information Administration data, assuming current constant coal, gas and CO2 pollution growth rates, constant population and including Australia’s fossil fuel EXPORTS) “annual per capita fossil fuel-derived CO2 emission in tonnes per person per year†of 43 (2007), 56 (2020) and 65 (2050).
If Australia continues to refuse to act on both domestic and exported greenhouse gas pollution it will very likely face international action through Sanctions, Boycotts, Green Tariffs and Reparations Demands. The Rudd “Garnaut Report†excuse for inaction at Bali is contradicted by Professor Garnaut’s recent clear declaration that ““Australia will be pulling its full weight†which, given the equality of all Men, surely means massive reduction of CO2 pollution to per capita parity with countries such as India and China.
This has been written in the public interest.
By Dr Gideon Polya
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9th NYC Independent Film Festival is May 7-13
(released Friday, April 13, 2018)
By Kimberly Burke
(Editor's note: updated May 7, 2018)
The 9th annual NYC Independent Film Festival will be held May 7-13, 2018 with over 250 films from over 30 countries. The mission of the festival is to elevate independent film spanning feature, documentary, short, super short, music, art, animation, and VR.
Attendees can expect to network and participate in educational panels on topics including film distribution, music licensing, film finance, and women in film. There will be a virtual reality showcase for a second year that is free and open to the public.
And being the festival that it is, there are plenty of films about the city of New York and produced in New York. Here is a list of the New York City centric films including the date and time to see them. To purchase tickets to the festival and to learn more, visit their website www.nycindieff.com.
All She Wrote (1 hour 37 min)
Directed by: Niki Iliev
Cast: Gary Dourdan, Sanya Borisova, Orlin Pavlov, Bashar Rahal, Diana Lubenova, James Tumminia When Aaron, an ex-fighter, turns to music after years of being knocked around and left with permanent mental disabilities, falls for Jana, an off-centered Bulgarian immigrant living in New York. While he recognizes that she is as crazy as him, Jana does not share the same opinion. But her brother, Bobby, an upcoming wannabe fighter, decides to convince her she is that crazy, in order to get Aaron in the ring against him.
Screening: Saturday, May 12 at 6:45pm | Producers Club
All Types of Kinds - Colorblind (5 min)
All Types of Kinds (or ATOK) is a NYC-band playing a wide variety of music ranging from rock, pop, folk, punk, funk, hip-hop, blues, jazz, and country, and sometimes all at once. The members come from diverse backgrounds that make for an amalgamation of musical textures and vibes. Their EP, "Love Songs (or songs for your ex)" debuted on Valentine's Day 2017 and they are currently gearing for dates all over the country. Ray Rubio, Billy Conahan, Berk O, and Rocco Stroker are All Types of Kinds.
Screening: Thursday, May 10 at 9:30pm | Producers Club
Alt Space (1 hour 20 min)
Directed by: Cody Kussoy
Cast: Alex Boniello, Shanley Caswell, Micah Parker
Alt Space is a psychological thriller that tells a contemporary story of what it's like to have a dissolving sense of reality. The story is told through the eyes of Julian and Liv, a young couple living in New York City. Julian uses virtual reality as a therapy device to escape his fears. He relies heavily on medication, which inevitably perpetuates his condition. Julian eventually discovers that his girlfriend, Liv, is stealing and selling his meds as a means to fulfill her gambling obsession. The plot thickens when Liv’s buyer-turned-enemy, Hunter, becomes so infatuated with Liv that he wedges himself in the middle of their relationship, causing a complex and tortured love triangle. As the story develops, we experience a synthesis of the real and virtual worlds conjoining, creating an untethered reality of lost dreams and self-vindication.
A Table for All (32 min)
Directed by: Thea Piltzecker, Liz Scherffius
For many refugees and asylees, resettlement in the United States is just the beginning of the story. Finding common ground in a Brooklyn kitchen, Adwa (from Saudi Arabia) and Boubacar (from Guinea) work towards a future in the culinary industry.
Back to Natural: A Documentary Film (1 hour 9 min)
Directed by: Gillian Scott-Ward
Back to Natural is a 69-minute documentary film that reveals the emotional and shocking truth about hair, politics, and racial identity in black communities and beyond. Directed by New York City based Clinical Psychologist Gillian Scott-Ward, this film is a powerful call for healing that takes a grassroots approach to exploring the globalized policing of natural Black hair. Filmed in New York City, Philadelphia, Paris, And Cape Town, this documentary explores universal aspects of the Black experience and the "New" Natural Hair movement. Join us on this journey of discovery and enlightenment while celebrating our history and natural styles that are taking the world by storm. Screening: Wednesday, May 9 at 9:00pm | Producers Club
Beastly Things (5 min)
Directed by: Zev Chevat
Beastly Things is a traditionally animated short horror film, made during the director's graduate residency at CalArts. Comprised of over 3500 hand-inked, digitally painted drawings, the film is an experiment in style that uses the optical conventions of animation to make each brutal narrative moment more visceral to viewers.
Cyclone: 90 Years of History on Wheels (14 min)
Directed by: Frank Posillico
The famed Cyclone, Coney Island's historic roller coaster, celebrates it's 90th birthday this year. In our short documentary, we look at the popular Luna Park ride and its long history, as told through the eyes of the people who have helped operate her, and the frenzied fanatics who ride her day after day.
Screening: Wednesday, May 9 at 9:00pm | Producers Club
Dear Mom (16 min)
Directed by: Troy Alan
'Dear Mom' is a documentary/video tour of my life in New York City made especially for my mother in Canon City, CO. Traveling to NYC would be extremely difficult for her as she is disabled and has troubles getting around. So, I decided to make this video postcard for her so she can see the places I go, the people I know, and the things I do. I hope that she finds comfort in knowing that I'm doing what I love and have good people around me. After watching the interviews with my friends in the short, I'm not sure the latter is so true.
Screening: Friday, May 11 at 2:15pm | Producers Club
Dreamland (28 min)
Directed by: Dakota Lane
Cast: Jennifer Maidman
A fast-paced and heartwarming portrait of multiple gold record winner Jennifer Maidman, and the making of her album at Dreamland recording studio in Woodstock, Upstate New York. Shot on location in the Woodstock area, Dakota Lane's film takes an in-depth and sometimes dreamy look into Jennifer's early life as a female born in a male form, and how this shaped her destiny as musician and human. Also featuring Jennifer's partner and collaborator Annie Whitehead, and legendary Woodstock musicians David Torn and Jerry Marotta, as well as an international cast of others.
Screening: Sunday, May 13 at 2:15pm | Producers Club
Earn Your Salt (8 min)
Directed by: Clint Braadt
Written by: George Braadt, Dominic Ventolora
Cast: Heather Matarazzo (Welcome to the Dollhouse, Saved!, The Princess Diaries), Amir Talai Dominic Ventolora is a probationary firefighter in Staten Island just six months into his career at engine 154. As the newest member of the team, Dom shares his experience with the FDNY so far. George Braadt is a three decade veteran of the house now the acting chauffeur. He gives us insight into the work behind the engine, and sharing his stories before he became a firefighter First Grade. Screening: Saturday, May 12 at 1:45pm | Producers Club
Final Traces of the Abstract Expressionists (45 min)
Directed by: Caro Jost
Cast: Alex Katz, Irving Sandler, Jonathan Cramer, Rita Reinhardt, Karole Vail
Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Peggy Guggenheim et.al.,: what is left of their former studios, galleries, bars, meetings places in New York City today? Filmmaker Caro Jost (a famous artist herself) follows in the footsteps of these artists of an era. In a mixture of walk and detective hunt, she shows what has now become of these once important places, where art history was made and the Abstract Expressionism arised after WW II in NYC. The film is a juxtaposition of the past and the present, annotated with historical footage, interviews of living eye witnesses, like famous artist Alex Katz. It is not a typical documentary; it is more an investigative art film. Music by Morton Feldman.Rudy Burckhardt, John Cohen, Nina Leen, et.al.
Getting Naked: A Burlesque Story (1 hour 26 min)
Directed by: James Lester
Cast: Hazel Honeysuckle, Gal Friday, Minnie Tonka, Darlinda Just Darlinda, Perle Noire, Jezebel Express, Julie Atlas Muz, James Habacker
Getting Naked: A Burlesque Story peels back the curtain to reveal the sexy subculture of the neo- burlesque scene in New York City. This verite documentary intimately follows four performers, each of whom has discovered a newfound identity and belonging in a world of bawdy comedy and striptease. However, they find all that glitters is not necessarily gold, as this liberating community does not insulate from the harsh realities of sexism, illness, and existential crisis. "Getting Naked" explores what it means to be an artist, an entertainer, and a woman in the toughest city on Earth. Screening: Friday, May 11 at 9:00pm | Producers Club
Giving Up (30 min)
Directed by: Kris Lefcoe
Cast: Zandy Hartig, Ben Kronberg, Dave Hill, Linas Phillips, Kyle Dunnigan, Myq Kaplan
From A New York couple faces their own deadline to either "make it" or give up their dreams. Screening: Saturday, May 12 at 4:30pm | Producers Club
Have No Fear (18 min)
Directed by: Beata Calinska & Sarah Jacobson in collaboration with Adia Tamar Whitaker Choreographer and activist Adia Whitaker is a mother of two. Too many sons and daughters from her community have been harmed by police brutality. Frustrated by the fleeting media coverage and public attention, Adia creates a performance piece designed to engage people, using her lyrics to teach children how to stay safe during encounters with the police. Rehearsals slowly become a call to action, a form of resistance, and a way to connect with the community.
Screening: Tuesday, May 8 at 6:00pm | Producers Club
I Am Gary (35 min)
Directed by: Edgardo Mamol
Gary was bullied as a kid in the Bronx, but he trained with the Jewish Defense League to always fight back, by whatever means necessary. Now a Karate and Judo black belt, he’s strong-willed and passionate - which often gets him into unnecessary problems at work and at home. He is an ex-cop and a former rabbi, and now teaches martial arts therapy to empower disabled kids and adults. Gary's current dilemma is his divorce from his wife Raquel; they are battling in court for custody of their three children, including a daughter with cerebral palsy. Will he ever admit he could have done things differently?
Kingsley (11 min)
Directed by: Ingie Enan
At the age of 18, Kingsley accidentally took the life of his friend with his brother's handgun. After being sentenced 8-20 years in prison, he thought his life was over. But while serving his years, he read 400 books, graduated with honors from his prison education program and, after his release, earned Bachelor's & Master's degrees at NYU, where he now works as a re-entry coordinator. He helps facilitate life after prison for individuals going through their own prison experiences. Kingsley's story touches on the effects of gun violence and life after prison, but more importantly, on the common humanity we all share beneath our labels.
Screening: Monday, May 7 at 4:30pm | Producers Club
Like Her (9 min)
Directed by: Eliza Laytner
Cast: Ellyn Heald, Cameron Kalajian
After years of separation, Olivia and Harley are reunited. Brought back together by an unspeakable loss, their attempts to reconnect fall short. Unsure of what to do with their grief, they journey into a wintery forest. Where they end up and what Olivia finds isn't what she expects.
Literally (2 min)
Directed by: Mary Rogers McMaster
Cast: Mary Rogers McMaster, Wesley Tunison
Tony and Karen are literally fed up with existing. In this social commentary, the two hyperbolic protagonists exercise their critical tongues in an unforgiving disparaging of the world around them. The irony of course, lies within the fact that they are well off enough to sit leisurely in New York City mid-day equipped with warm coats, iphones and vente coffees. Their biting observations of the world around them constantly point to the fact that the very world they tear apart is one they are actively participating in. This quick tear through millennial culture will leave you warmed to the brim with sarcasm, condescension and perhaps the desire to go get a job.
Longing (11 min)
Directed by: Christian Mushenko
A disconnected, wealthy businessman has everything in life, except the one thing that matters most. Finding a letter from his dead father, he reads of his fathers regrets, and hopes for his son's life. Through the letter, and a series of coincidences, a shared moment with a stranger reveals an unexpected connection that illuminates each of their emptiness.
Screening: Sunday, May 13 at 12:00pm | Producers Club
Love, Mommy (35 min)
Directed by: Yeong-Ung Yang
'Love, Mommy' is an intimate portrait of a formerly incarcerated woman who is attempting to put her troubled past aside and reunite with one of her daughters. When Kilzy Gonzalez, 37, was convicted of attempted sale of heroin four years ago, she asked her old friend, Roxanne Hunter, to care for her three-month-old daughter, Halena. It was supposed to be a temporary agreement. But two years after her release from prison, Kilzy is still fighting to get Halena back and to overcome a past that includes trauma, sexual violence and substance abuse. Will she get a second chance? Screening: Saturday, May 12 at 1:45pm | Producers Club
New York Graffiti Experience (16 min)
Directed by: Fenton Lawless
Written by: Justine Diianni
The New York Graffiti Experience was a collaboration initiated by Fenton Lawless and Justine Diianni in the mid 70's as an art education project. It evolved from a slide show presentation with music to what was called "the first real look at street and subway graffiti" by Mass Appeal Magazine. The concept was to present the earliest manifestations of what became a worldwide phenomenon. We were fortunate to secure the help and art of Cliff, a graffiti pioneer. The film includes a rare interview with him and footage shot on location in the streets and school yards of NYC.
Norman Pinski Come Home (15 min)
Directed by: Aaron Rudelson
Cast: Elaine Bromka, Ray Iannicelli, Mark Gessner, Lee Tergesen
When a lightning bolt tragically cuts short the life a Jewish plumber's son, all appears lost for the Pinski family. But luckily for them, Dr. Vanderwal, a celebrated local baldness doctor is secretly a modern day Dr. Frankenstein. Once resurrected in the form of a classic horror film monster, Norman has another chance at finding himself … if his overbearing Jewish parents don't get in the way.
Nothing Changes: Art for Hank's Sake (1 hour 20 min)
Directed by: Matthew Kaplowitz
How far would you go to pursue your passion? At 87 years old, Hank Virgona commutes to his Union Square studio six days a week and makes art. Despite poor health, cancer, lack of revenue and obscurity as an artist, Hank is unrelenting in his quest to understand how life and art are the same. Screening: Thursday, May 10 at 2:30pm | Producers Club
One Eye Small (9 min)
Directed by: Jane Stiles
One Eye Small follows Eleanore and Irene, two women in the midst of personal crises, who are brought together by fate and decide to keep each other company during a night out in the city. In a way that is characteristic of a night in NYC, they encounter a slew of hilarious psychos, throughout their journey, who poke and prod them. As brave, eccentric Eleanore takes the reigns and lures Irene, the victimized crab, out of her shell, the lines of attraction and friendship blur. Just like the characters themselves, the film walks a fine line between reality and the absurd.
Poba (3 min)
Directed by: Mary Rozzi
Cast: Shawn Theagene
A dancer relives his troubled past with a pulsating car park-set performance In a new film by image maker Mary Rozzi, Brooklyn dancer Poba, aka Shawn Theagene, delivers a captivating display of movement, soundtracked by his testimony of gang life and salvation through dance.
Racing Against BRCA (11 min)
Directed by: Trevor Banks
Cast: Caroline Plank
Racing Against BRCA (BRA-KAH) is a short documentary about a 28 year old amateur long distance runner named Caroline Plank, who possesses a rare genetic mutation that all but guarantees the chances she will develop cancer within her lifetime. In an effort to avoid the imminent fate of cancer, Caroline makes the decision to undergo a surgical bilateral mastectomy, a procedure that may jeopardize her future as a competitive runner. Through an honest, informative and enlightening testimonial, viewers get to follow Plank's journey before and after surgery as she strives to overcome the odds and race in the 2017 New York City Marathon. A true story of perseverance and self-determination, Racing Against BRCA is a must-watch for anybody who has been affected by cancer or hoping to learn more about the BRCA mutation.
Rau´l de Nieves Is an American Artist (7 min)
Directed by: Ian Forster
From his basement studio in Ridgewood, Queens, acclaimed artist Rau´l de Nieves creates an epic stained glass mural for the 2017 Whitney Biennial. Born in Mexico, de Nieves immigrated to San Diego at the age of nine and has been living in New York since 2008. "Growing up in Mexico was really magical because I got to see a lot of forms of celebration," says the artist. "I got to experience death as a really young child. That's what my work is about: it's like seeing the facets of happiness and sadness all in one place." His commission from the Whitney Museum of American Art gave de Nieves the opportunity to experiment with the tradition of stained glass, and combine this new light-infused installation with existing figurative sculptures. With gaffers tape, paper, and color gels, de Nieves created a narrative that begins with personal struggle and self-doubt, but ends with a celebration of life. In reflecting upon his father's early death and his mother's courageous decision to move their family to the United States, de Nieves sees the installation both as a form of remembrance and evidence of the achievement of an American community whose very identity is under threat.
Rooftop Refuge (5 min)
Directed by: Andrew Leibman
A short documentary about Brooklyn local, Dave Malone, and how his passion for flying pigeons shaped his life.
Spell Claire (8 min)
Directed by: Greg Emetaz
Claire purchases an antique educational toy that reignites fond memories from childhood and lays bare the sorry state her life is now in.
The Boneyard (12 min)
Directed by: James Verdi
Hidden along the Arthur Kill, the Staten Island Ship Graveyard is home to nameless ships, decaying with each passing tide. Underneath the hulls of these ships, a museum of stories comes alive. Screening: Friday, May 11 at 12:00pm | Producers Club
The Musician Under New York (9 min)
Directed by: Joy Le Li
"The Musician Under New York" gives an intimate view of the story of a Chinese immigrant in New York City. Zongli Lu is formally authorized by the MTA to play music in the subways--a rare accomplishment for a recent immigrant. Even more unique, Lu had no formal musical training. In China, being a musician is considered a luxury, so many parents, including Lu's, discourage their children. After moving to the US, Lu quickly found that the skills that Chinese society encouraged were not useful to him anymore. So after spending all the money he brought from China, Lu had no choice but to use the lost passion he had when he was a child. To his family's surprise, Lu not only survived on the skills they had deemed useless, but he also rediscovered his love for music. Screening: Monday, May 7 at 9:00pm | Producers Club
The Nature of Mass Demonstrations (7 min)
Directed by: Nathaniel A Lavey
Written by: John Berger
A visual treatment of John Berger's classic 1967 essay, "The Nature of Mass Demonstrations," this film explores how demonstrations are always rehearsals for political revolution. At a time when millions are in the streets, this re-interrogation of the notion of protest, political violence, and rebellion is a necessary addition to our political imaginary.
The World Is So Difficult to Give Up (3 min)
Directed by: Garry Waller
As This short iPhone video is a personal tribute to New York City, a homage to the amazing metropolis and in the people who call it home as they go about their rituals and routines. The video captures the quiet and stoic moments that often go unnoticed but nevertheless breathe life and color into this amazing city. The footage is accompanied by the words of the poet David Ignitor, 'The World Is So Difficult To Give Up' which is an appropriate tribute to the fleeting gestures and movements of New York's inhabitants.
TOMAT,O (17 min)
Directed by: Milo Wang
Cast: Aaron Zinder, Dalai Sholeh
A conversation between a man and a woman. "Do you like tomatoes?" "Yes." Screening: Thursday, May 10 at 9:15pm | Producers Club
V-Card: The Film (1 hour 21 min)
Directed by: Jamaal Green
Being a virgin today can be... hard and for one virgin it was a real problem. Dillon is 23 years old, and he has never had sex (not for lack of trying). He sets out on a journey to talk to sex therapists, porn stars, and every day people about what virginity means in a modern time. Dillon wants to know why sex is so important, and how to finally make sense of why he has been so unlucky in love. Is there really only a first time for everything or is there more than one cherry to be popped? Dillon is more than willing to find out.
White Mamba (8 min)
Directed by: Sean Conrad
As One of my first days living in New York I got F'd by the F train (that's why they call it the F train) and missed a show I was trying to see, so I decided to go into the city and eat some pizza instead. I got off at the West 4th Street Station and there was a pick-up basketball game going on so I settled in to watch. The players were mostly older guys who were ripped, black, and incredibly skilled. And then there was this one white kid, maybe ten-years-old, in a Kobe jersey swishing threes and talking shit like you can't believe. "What's that kid's name?" I asked someone standing next to me. Without hesitation the kid shouted back, "they call me White Mamba!" and then dribbled gleefully down the court. A first-generation immigrant from Italy, Brayan "White Mamba" Leka is a 7th grader who has earned a spot on the West 4th Street courts. Not anyone can play. But his charisma, determination, and genuine love for the game and the West 4th Street Family has ensured him not only playtime, but also respect from the other players. When I asked him if I could make a documentary about him he said, "Yeah, but only if you help me with my math homework first."
Screening: Friday, May 11 at 12:00pm | Producers Club
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Helminth parasites of the southern sea otter Enhydra lutris nereis in central California,
From October 1997 to May 2001, the gastrointestinal tracts from 162 beach-cast southern sea otters Enhydra lutris nereis were examined for helminth parasites and associated lesions. Carcasses were collected opportunistically in central California between Pt. San Pedro and Pt. Arguello. The primary goals of this study were to examine spatial and temporal variability in mortality due to parasite infection, identify factors associated with increased risk of infection, and illustrate the process of intestinal perforation by Profilicollis spp. Two genera and 4 species of acanthocephalans (Profilicollis altmani, P. kenti, P. major, Corynosoma enhydri) were found in 46.3% (Profilicollis spp.) and 94.4% (C. enhydri) of the carcasses examined. Three species of Digenea (Microphallus pirum, M. nicolli, Plenosoma minimum) were found in 47% of carcasses, at times in massive numbers (>3000 per cm2). This is the first report of the latter 2 species from the sea otter. Mortality resulting from infection by Profilicollis spp. occurred in 13.0% (n = 21) of sampled carcasses, either directly, due to perforation of the intestinal wall and peritonitis (9.9%, n = 16), or indirectly, due to inhibition of host nutrient uptake or depletion of host energy reserves to fight chronic infections (3.1%, n = 5). The most massive infections (<8760 parasites), and all cases of intestinal perforation occurred in carcasses infected by P. altmani and/or P. kenti. Mortality due to infection by Profilicollis spp. occurred more frequently among juvenile and old-adult females (χ2 = 17.479, df = 9, p = 0.045) from sand and mixed habitats in Monterey and Santa Cruz in the north of the sea otter range (χ2 = 9.84, df = 4, p = 0.045). Spatial differences in sea otter mortality coincided with the relative distributions of Profilicollis altmani, P. kenti, and P. major, and may reflect differences in sea otter diet, or differences in intensity of infection in intermediate hosts. Mortality rate due to infection by Profilicollis spp. decreased between 1998 and 2001, though differences were not significant (χ2 = 3.983, df = 3, p = 0.40), and may vary on multi-year cycles due to environmental factors such as density of definitive hosts (e.g. the surf scoter Melanitta perspicillata), or El Niño. Corynosoma enhydri did not cause significant damage to the intestine of the host, even when present in great numbers., Cited By (since 1996):9, CODEN: DAORE, , , Downloaded from: www.int-res.com/articles/dao2003/53/d053p077.pdf (9 June 2014).,
Mayer, Dailey, Miller
Taxonomic revision of the agaraceae with a description of Neoagarum gen. nov. and reinstatement of Thalassiophyllum
We confirmed the monophyly of the Agaraceae based on phylogenetic analyses of 6 mitochondrial and 6 chloroplast gene sequences from Agarum, Costaria, Dictyoneurum and Thalassiophyllum species as well as representative species from other laminarialean families. However, the genus Agarum was paraphyletic, comprising two independent clades, A. clathratum/A. turneri and A. fimbriatum/A. oharaense. The latter clade was genetically most closely related to Dictyoneurum spp., and morphologically the species shared a flattened stipe bearing fimbriae (potential secondary haptera) in the mid to upper portion. The phylogenetic position of Thalassiophyllum differed between the two datasets: in the chloroplast gene phylogeny Thalassiophyllum was included in the A. clathratum/A. turneri clade, but in the mitochondrial gene phylogeny, it formed an independent clade at the base of the Agaraceae, the same position it took in the phylogeny when the data from both genomes were combined despite a larger number of bp being contributed by the chloroplast gene sequences. Considering the remarkable morphological differences between Thalassiophyllum and other Agaraceae, and the molecular support, we conclude that Thalassiophyllum should be reinstated as an independent genus. Dictyoneurum reticulatum was morphologically distinguishable from D. californicum due to its midrib, but because of their close genetic relationship, further investigations are needed to clarify species level taxonomy. In summary, we propose the establishment of a new genus Neoagarum to accommodate A. fimbriatum and A. oharanese and the reinstatement of the genus Thalassiophyllum.
Kawai, Hanyuda, Xu, Terauchi, Miyata, Lindstrom, Klochkova, Miller
Pelodera strongyloides infection in Pacific Harbor seals (Phoca Vitulina Richardii) from California
Marine Mammals, Birds & Turtles
McHuron, Miller, Gardiner, Batac, Harvey
Using the molecular toolbox to compare harmful algal blooms in upwelling systems,
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) are now generally recognized as occurring over a wide range of habitats from oligotrophic to hypernutrified, and appear to be expanding globally. Unlike many other ecosystems impacted by HABs, upwelling systems worldwide share a common set of physical parameters and are likely to respond similarly, regardless of locale. The Core Research Project on HABs in Upwelling Systems, a component of the scientific programme on the Global Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms (GEOHAB), promotes a comparative approach to identify the similarities and differences in the manifestation of HAB events in these systems. As applied to the goals of this programme, molecular techniques are a powerful suite of tools for HAB species identification, for determining genetic similarity within morphologically indistinguishable species, and ultimately, for assessing spatial and temporal patterns in ecophysiological responses in these upwelling systems. Knowledge of HAB organisms will be enhanced by comparing and contrasting the responses of these organisms in similar upwelling regions. Here, we provide an update on the availability of molecular and genetic tools for comparative HAB programmes in upwelling systems, focusing on four broad applications: cell enumeration and identification, molecular phylogenetics, functional/comparative genomics, and applications of high throughput sequencing methods. We highlight the rapid evolution, the promise, and the potential pitfalls, of the molecular toolbox, focusing on specific examples of how scientists and resource managers currently apply these methods. Specific examples are developed using relevant case studies from the California, Benguela and Iberian systems. We summarise by providing a synthesis of future research directions and goals that would be particularly relevant to advancing the comparative method for HAB genetics with an emphasis on upwelling systems. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved., Cited By (since 1996):6, CODEN: POCNA, , , Oceanography
Kudela, Howard, Jenkins, Miller, Smith
Transoceanic dispersal of the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis on Japanese tsunami marine debris: An approach for evaluating rafting of a coastal species at sea
Biofouled debris from the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami has landed in the Northeast Pacific and along the Hawaiian Islands since 2012. As of 2017,> 630 biofouled debris items with> 320 living species of algae, invertebrates, and fish have been examined. The invasive mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis was present on> 50% of those items. Size, reproduction, and growth of this filter-feeding species were examined to better understand long-distance rafting of a coastal species. The majority of mussels (79%) had developing or mature gametes, and growth rates averaged 0.075 ± 0.018 SE mm/day. Structural and elemental (barium/calcium) analysis of mussel shells generated estimates of growth in coastal waters (mean = 1.3 to 25 mm total length), which provides an indication of residence times in waters along North America and the Hawaiian Islands prior to landing. Detailed studies of individual species contribute to our understanding of debris as a transport vector and aid efforts to evaluate potential risks associated with marine debris., Article in Press
Miller, Carlton, Chapman, Geller, Ruiz
Hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from Japanese tsunami marine debris washing ashore in the northwestern United States
Fourteen species of hydroids, including two anthoathecates and 12 leptothecates, are reported from the west coast of North America on debris from the tsunami that struck Japan on 11 March 2011. Six species were found on a dock that stranded at Agate Beach, Newport, Oregon, five from a boat at Gleneden Beach, Oregon, four from a dock in Olympic National Park, Washington, and two from a boat in Grays Harbor, Washington. Obelia griffini Calkins, 1899, the most frequently encountered species, was collected on three of the four derelict substrates. Eight of the species are known to be amphi-Pacific in distribution. Of the rest, at least five (S tylactaria s p . ; Eutima japonica Uchida, 1925; Orthopyxis platycarpa Bale, 1914; Sertularella sp.; Plumularia sp.) are not previously known from the west coast of North America. Hydroids of E. japonica occurred as commensals in the mantle cavity of the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819. Obelia griffini, O. gracilis Calkins, 1899 (not its secondary homonym Laomedea gracilis Dana, 1846) and O. surcularis Calkins, 1899 are taken to be conspecific. Of the three simultaneous synonyms, precedence is assigned to the name O. griffini under the Principle of the First Reviser in zoological nomenclature. The species is sometimes regarded as identical with O. dichotoma (Linnaeus, 1758).
Calder, Choong, Carlton, Chapman, Miller, Geller
Coccidal infection of the adrenal glands of leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea)
Ferguson, Wellehan, Frasca, Innis, Harris, Miller, Weber, Walden, Greiner, Merigo, Stacy
Changes in size composition and relative abundance of fishes in Central California after a decade of spatial fishing closures
Rockfish Conservation Areas (RCAs) were implemented in 2000 to 2003 along the West Coast of the United States to reduce fishing mortality on rockfish (Sebastes spp.) and other groundfish species that had recently been declared overfished. In 2012, we initiated a study to compare recent catch rates, species compositions and length frequencies of fishes inside and outside the RCAs with data collected in central California between 1995 and 1998. At all sites surveyed, total catch rates from the new surveys (2012–14) were significantly higher than catch rates from before RCA implementation (1995–98). The majority of the differences were due to the increased relative abundance of yellowtail rockfish (Sebastes flavidus), although other species, including the overfished canary rockfish (Sebastes pinniger), also increased. Differences in the size composition of species between the two time periods reflected both the increased survival of older fishes and higher recruitment success in the past decade. © 2015, Scripps Institution of Oceanography. All rights reserved., published
Marks, Fields, Starr, Field, Miller, Beyer, Sogard, Wilson-Vandenberg, Howard
Mass stranding of marine birds caused by a surfactant-producing red tide,
In November-December 2007 a widespread seabird mortality event occurred in Monterey Bay, California, USA, coincident with a massive red tide caused by the dinoflagellate Akashiwo sanguinea. Affected birds had a slimy yellow-green material on their feathers, which were saturated with water, and they were severely hypothermic. We determined that foam containing surfactant-like proteins, derived from organic matter of the red tide, coated their feathers and neutralized natural water repellency and insulation. No evidence of exposure to petroleum or other oils or biotoxins were found. This is the first documented case of its kind, but previous similar events may have gone undetected. The frequency and amplitude of red tides have increased in Monterey Bay since 2004, suggesting that impacts on wintering marine birds may continue or increase., Cited By (since 1996):21, Art. No.: e4550, ,
Jessup, Miller, Ryan, Nevins, Kerkering, Mekebri, Crane, Johnson, Kudela
Seabird bycatch in Alaska demersal longline fishery trials: A demographic summary,
The seasonal and spatial demographics are summarized for seabirds killed incidentally during gear modification trials for a demersal longline fishery in the Bering Sea. We examined 417 carcasses, including Northern Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis (n = 205), Glaucous-winged Gull Larus glaucescens (n = 103), Short-tailed Shearwater Puffinus tenuirostris (n = 48), Glaucous Gull Larus hyperboreus (n = 23), Slaty-backed Gull Larus schistisagus (n = 4), Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla (n = 1), Laysan Albatross Diomedea immutabilis (n = 1), and unidentified gull species Larus spp. (n = 32). There was a significant male bias in the sex ratio of fulmars but not of gulls or shearwaters. For the top three species killed, the age composition of resident species was dominated numerically by adults (Northern Fulmar-86%; Glaucous-winged Gull-63%), whereas migrant species were primarily immature birds (Short-tailed Shearwater-71%). The majority of migratory Short-tailed Shearwaters (88%) were caught in July and August, whereas 70% of resident fulmars and gulls were caught in October and November. Age-class frequencies did not differ by month of capture, indicating that adult mortality is substantial. Eighty percent of the fulmars caught during July and August were within 200 km of two colonies in the Bering Sea, whereas only 7% of fulmars were caught in the same area during September to November. This is one of the first demographic summaries of seabird bycatch in Alaska longline fisheries. Additional studies of the species, age and sex of seabirds subject to fisheries-related mortality will provide data necessary to evaluate population-level impacts., Cited By (since 1996):1, ,
Phillips, Nevins, Hatch, Ramey, Miller, Harvey
Porifera (Sponges) from Japanese Tsunami Marine Debris arriving in the Hawaiian Islands and on the Pacific coast of North America
Twelve species of sponges (Calcarea and Demospongiae) were found on Japanese Tsunami Marine Debris (JTMD) that washed ashore in Oregon, Washington, and Hawai‘i. All taxa but one determined to species level are amphi-Pacific, with three having type localities in California (Leucosolenia eleanor Urban, 1906, Hymeniacidon sinapium de Laubenfels, 1930, and Mycale macginitei de Laubenfels, 1930). Haliclona xena de Weerdt, 1986, known previously only from western Europe (and where it is regarded as introduced from an unknown region) is here newly reported from the Tohoku coast of Honshu, as is Halisarca “dujardini Johnston, 1842”. Five species (Mycale macginitei, Hymeniacidon sinapium, Ute sp., Haliclona xena and Halisarca “dujardini”) were observed only once. Multiple lines of evidence (including lack of colonization by uniquely Eastern Pacific sponge species, the arrival in Hawai‘i of some of the same species whose only possible origin was Japan, and the low probability of coastal sponge larvae colonizing JTMD in the open ocean) indicate that the sponges on JTMD originate from the Western Pacific. Several species of sponges may have completed multiple generations on these long-distance rafts.
Elvin, Carlton, Geller, Chapman, Miller
A Random Ladder Game: Permutations, Eigenvalues, and Convergence
Lange, Miller
Sentinel Animals in a One Health Approach to Harmful Cyanobacterial and Algal Blooms
Backer, Miller
Peripheral communities of the Eastern Lau Spreading Center and Valu Fa Ridge: community composition, temporal change and comparison to near-vent communities
Western Pacific hydrothermal vents will soon be subjected to deep-sea mining and peripheral sites are considered the most practical targets. The limited information on community dynamics and temporal change in these communities makes it difficult to anticipate the impact of mining activities and recovery trajectories. We studied community composition of peripheral communities along a cline in hydrothermal chemistry on the Eastern Lau Spreading Center and Valu Fa Ridge (ELSC-VFR) and also studied patterns of temporal change. Peripheral communities located in the northern vent fields of the ELSC-VFR are significantly different from those in the southern vent fields. Higher abundances of zoanthids and anemones were found in northern peripheral sites and the symbiont-containing mussel Bathymodiolus brevior, brisingid seastars and polynoids were only present in the northern peripheral sites. By contrast, certain faunal groups were seen only in the southern peripheral sites, such as lollipop sponges, pycnogonids and ophiuroids. Taxonomic richness of the peripheral communities was similar to that of active vent communities, due to the presence of non-vent endemic species that balanced the absence of species found in areas of active venting. The communities present at waning active sites resemble those of peripheral sites, indicating that peripheral species can colonize previously active vent sites in addition to settling in the periphery of areas of venting. Growth and mortality were observed in a number of the normally slow-growing cladorhizid stick sponges, indicating that these animals may exhibit life history strategies in the vicinity of vents that differ from those previously recorded. A novel facultative association between polynoids and anemones is proposed based on their correlated distributions., Accepted
Sen, Kim, Miller, Hovey, Hourdez, Luther, Fisher
Rapid enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for detection of the algal toxin domoic acid,
Domoic acid (DA) is a potent toxin produced by bloom-forming phytoplankton in the genus Pseudo-nitzschia, which is responsible for causing amnesic shellfish poisoning (ASP) in humans. ASP symptoms include vomiting, diarrhea, and in more severe cases confusion, loss of memory, disorientation, and even coma or death. This paper describes the development and validation of a rapid, sensitive, enzyme linked immunosorbent assay test kit for detecting DA using a monoclonal antibody. The assay gives equivalent results to those obtained using standard high performance liquid chromatography, fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl high performance liquid chromatography, or liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry methods. It has a linear range from 0.1-3 ppb and was used successfully to measure DA in razor clams, mussels, scallops, and phytoplankton. The assay requires approximately 1.5 h to complete and has a standard 96-well format where each strip of eight wells is removable and can be stored at 4°C until needed. The first two wells of each strip serve as an internal control eliminating the need to run a standard curve. This allows as few as 3 or as many as 36 duplicate samples to be run at a time enabling real-time sample processing and limiting degradation of DA, which can occur during storage. There was minimal cross-reactivity in this assay with glutamine, glutamic acid, kainic acid, epi- or iso-DA. This accurate, rapid, cost-effective, assay offers environmental managers and public health officials an effective tool for monitoring DA concentrations in environment samples., Cited By (since 1996):7, CODEN: JSHRD, ,
Litaker, Stewart, Eberhart, Wekell, Trainer, Kudela, Miller, Roberts, Hertz, Johnson, Frankfurter, Smith, Schnetzer, Schumacker, Bastian, Odell, Gentien, Le Gal, Hardison, Tester
Lesions and behavior associated with forced copulation of juvenile Pacific harbor seals (Phoca vitulina richardsi) by southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis),
Nineteen occurrences of interspecific sexual behavior between male southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis) and juvenile Pacific harbor seals (Phoca vitulina richardsi) were reported in Monterey Bay, California, between 2000 and 2002. At least three different male sea otters were observed harassing, dragging, guarding, and copulating with harbor seals for up to 7 d postmortem. Carcasses of 15 juvenile harbor seals were recovered, and seven were necropsied in detail by a veterinary pathologist. Necropsy findings from two female sea otters that were recovered dead from male sea otters exhibiting similar behavior are also presented to facilitate a comparison of lesions. The most frequent lesions included superficial skin lacerations; hemorrhage around the nose, eyes, flippers, and perineum; and traumatic corneal erosions or ulcers. The harbor seals sustained severe genital trauma, ranging from vaginal perforation to vagino-cervical transection, and colorectal perforations as a result of penile penetration. One harbor seal developed severe pneumoperitoneum subsequent to vaginal perforation, which was also observed in both female sea otters and has been reported as a postcoital lesion in humans. This study represents the first description of lesions resulting from forced copulation of harbor seals by sea otters and is also the first report of pneumoperitoneum secondary to forced copulation in a nonhuman animal. Possible explanations for this behavior are discussed in the context of sea otter biology and population demographics., Marine Mammals, Birds & Turtles, ,
Harris, Oates, Staedler, Tinker, Jessup, Harvey, Miller
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Nigeria’s House of Representatives unveils website on Public Accounts
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To ensure more transparency and ease of working on the report of the Auditor-General of the Federation, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the House of Representatives has unveiled its ICT hub and website.
The PAC said it is leveraging technology to ensure a more open approach to accountability and ensuring a broader scrutinizing of government spends public funds.
The PAC is one of the standing committees of the green chamber of the apex parliament. It oversees how public funds are expended by public officials in ministries departments and agencies (MDAs). The PAC has oversight responsibility over the Auditor-General of the Federation.
“We are committed to using technology for more effectiveness in doing this job,” said Chairman of the House Committee Hon Kingsley Chinda (Rivers, PDP) who led other members of the committee to unveil the ICT hub and website.
Chinda said the committee has representatives from all the 36 states of the federation including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
He said the new ICT tools affirmed the committee’s commitment from the onset to raise the standard of its work from paper publication to digital means in order to achieve speed, more effectiveness and greater sense of scrutiny of public funds.
Not surprisingly, Chinda said the committee had cleared all the queries raised from the report of the Auditor-General of the Federation to it from 2010-2014.
To further improve the capacity of the committee to deliver, the PAC’s chairman said it was embarking on ICT capacity building skills for staff of the House.
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Substrates for Advanced PCB Technologies: What Will the Future Hold?
November 6, 2018 | Pete Starkey, I-Connect007
The UK chapter of the global IMAPS community of electronics and microelectronic packaging engineers shared a wealth of knowledge and wisdom about PCB substrate technology trends, developments, and future requirements in a webinar on the first of November. The webinar was introduced on behalf of IMAPS-UK by National Physical Laboratory’s electronics interconnection expert Martin Wickham and featured presentations by Piers Tremlett and Jim Francey.
“Who knows which future substrate will be successful?” Aware of a need to exercise caution when attempting predictions, Piers Tremlett, engineering specialist at Microsemi, quoted an example from ancient Greece: “The Oracle at Delphi knew how to error-proof her future predictions. Everyone else gets it wrong; it’s just a question of by how much.” Nevertheless, his presentation painted a very clear picture of the future for printed circuit substrates, even exploring the possibilities for “substrateless” circuits.
Driven by a need to satisfy the desires of users, substrate technology aimed to improve performance and eliminate waste whilst minimising cost. Tremlett discussed the fluidity of future circuit structures, the potential growth of flexible substrates, the rise in substrates for handling power and heat, and trends from two-dimensional to three-dimensional circuit assemblies. He focused on four relevant topics: miniaturisation for mobile products, heat and power, printed electronics, and substrateless circuits.
Mobile products, especially smartphones, and the cost savings of using less material were the primary drivers for miniaturisation. As an example, Tremlett showed a cross-section of an iPhone 7 with a coreless 10-layer 500-micron substrate and sub-20-micron tracks densely populated with components and a lot of interconnect in a very small space. The interconnect was realised by semi-additive processing, pattern plating on a very thin base copper, and flash etching. As laser direct imaging capability improved and track widths trended towards 10 microns, it was preferred to embed them into the substrate surface to improve reliability, as demonstrated by the Daisho Denshi ultra-narrow pitch flush pad interposer. In his iPhone 7 example, the memory chip was mounted on a very thin three-layer PCB, underneath which was the processor chip with no substrate as such—all the tracks were laid on the packaging material itself and had produced significant performance improvements. He commented that fan-out wafer-level packaging was moving from silicon wafer technology to PCB technology with more than one component inside the mould compound, which could be seen as a paradigm shift away from FR-4 and surface mount.
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Printed electronics was Tremlett’s third focus—fully additive technologies as opposed to the subtractive etching processes associated with conventional PCB manufacturing. Conductors, components and transistors could be created, generally on thin flexible substrates, although even the substrate itself could be created by additive processes. The AMOLED (active-matrix organic LED) display was a good example of what could be achieved by printed electronics techniques—a glass substrate with a thin-film transistor array and functional cathode, organic and anode layers applied as liquid solutions, and metallic nanopastes using classical print media processes at low temperatures. 3D printers were now available, capable of rapid prototyping of multilayer PCBs and nonplanar electronics; however, only silver inks were available currently, and the rough and porous sintered structure of conductors was not ideal for power and RF applications.
Developments in ultra-thin flexible integrated circuits were opening up opportunities for introducing intelligence and interactivity into everyday items, enabling smart packaging, labels, and objects. The proprietary PragmatIC technology utilised thin-film metal oxides on a polymer substrate with a total thickness of fewer than 10 microns at a fraction of the cost of equivalent silicon devices, and the capital cost of the manufacturing plant was far less than that for silicon semiconductors. Fujikora’s WABE hybrid die technology could mass-produce multilayer polyimide PCBs embedded with background ICs and low-profile passive components through a roll-to-roll process. The thin flexible body of the WABE package favoured applications in medical and wearable electronics.
Tremlett concluded his presentation with a brief overview of “substrateless” circuits and moulded interconnect devices with automotive application examples where the circuit was created directly on an existing substrate, and in wearable applications where the circuit was deposited directly on to a piece of fabric.
Martin Wickham then introduced Jim Francey, sales manager Northern Europe for Optiprint and well-known for his expert knowledge on low-loss materials for microwave and RF applications, to discuss organic substrates for PCBs and the factors influencing substrate development and user selection criteria.
Francey began with a broad overview of the available classes of organic substrate: paper, polyester films, FR-4 epoxy, high-Tg epoxy, polyimide, and PTFE. Although paper-phenolic laminates had been used since the early 1960s, there was growing interest in the use of paper coated with biodegradable polyimide as a low-cost PCB substrate. Polyesters such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polyethylene naphthenate (PEN) were well-established flexible-circuit substrates, especially in high-volume reel-to-reel applications, and were being used as substrates for emerging near-field communication (NFC) smart labels with printed memory and printed sensors.
FR-4 woven-glass-reinforced thermoset epoxy resin laminates and prepregs were the established substrates of choice for multilayer PCBs, and blends with resins such as bismaleimide triazine, cyanate ester, and polypropylene ethers had given improved electrical and mechanical properties. Lead-free assembly requirements had driven a transition from di-functional to multifunctional epoxy for improved temperature capability. The addition of thermally conductive inorganic fillers conferred thermal dissipation properties.
Woven-glass-reinforced thermoset polyimide laminates and prepregs had become the industry standard for applications where operating temperatures exceeded the capability of multifunctional epoxy. For many military and aerospace applications, non-reinforced polyimide film was used as the basis of flexible and rigid-flex circuits. Further, adhesiveless materials were increasingly used where reduced thickness, increased thermal robustness, and improved high-frequency electrical properties were required.
Woven-glass-reinforced and non-reinforced PTFE substrates were used predominantly in RF and microwave designs and increasingly in millimetre-wave applications. These materials combined a low dissipation factor with a stable dielectric constant through a wide frequency range. Volume markets were cellular base-station power amplifiers, base-station antennae, and increasingly in automotive radar antennae. Inorganic fillers could be used to modify dielectric constant and thermal conductivity. Woven-glass-reinforced laminates based on thermoset hydrocarbon resins with inorganic fillers were being widely used in microwave and high-speed digital applications, and new hydrocarbons were seen as cost-effective replacements for PTFE in the automotive safety electronics market. Non-reinforced liquid crystal polymer (LCP)—a thermoplastic with negligible water absorption—was increasing in popularity as a substrate in microwave and millimetre-wave applications. Cyclic olefin copolymer was a crystal-clear plastic frequently used in medical applications and in conjunction with additive technology.
Moving on from this comprehensive survey of established and emerging substrate materials, Francey discussed the topic of satisfying PCB transmission requirements in some depth, beginning with some comments on miniaturisation. Thin-core dielectrics gave the opportunity to reduce plated via diameter and increase packaging density. Adhesiveless polyimide flex substrates available in thicknesses down to 12.5 microns, and an ultra-light-weight glass fabric style—1017, only 15 microns—enabled the manufacture of 30-micron laminates and prepregs. Francey showed an example of a 6-layer sequentially laminated rigid-flex with 12-micron single-sided polyimide cores and 12-micron bond plies, and 50-micron stacked vias laser-drilled and copper-filled. Thin-core rigid organic substrates with low-expansion woven glass and copper-filled vias were increasingly being used as alternatives to ceramic substrates in semiconductor packaging.
Francey considered basic requirements for maintaining high-speed signal integrity: low-loss polymers with stable dielectric constant through a range of frequencies, low-profile copper foil, and spread-glass fabrics to minimise the effect of glass-weave skew. He also demonstrated the importance of good layer-to-layer registration in minimising signal losses.
Frequencies between 30 GHz and 300 Ghz were classed as millimetre-wave, and it became increasingly critical to use low-loss materials with stable dielectric constant in applications such as 77-GHz automotive radar and V-band and E-band telecommunications—which could use PCB technology on PTFE and LCP substrates although the choice and thickness of substrates and positional accuracy of PCB features would be critical considerations. Microstrip, stripline, and coplanar waveguide transmission line technologies were all employed in millimetre-wave PCB design, and substrate-integrated waveguide principles were becoming popular for power dividers, signal couplers, filters, and antennae with the benefits of low-radiation leakage and low interference compared with microstrip and coplanar waveguides.
Francey used the example of a beam-switching Rotman Lens antenna to illustrate typical millimetre-wave PCB structures and discussed the defining features and critical tolerances that had to be satisfied within the PCB manufacturing technology. To summarise, he quoted the words of a microwave engineer: “When the frequency increases, everything has got to shrink. Manufacturing tolerances start to become a problem at about 20-30 GHz. Below that, you can pretty much design anything you want; the production will not fail. Above that, it is no exaggeration to say that everything is about manufacturing tolerances and producibility. Being a microwave designer is a completely different job at 77 GHz compared to one GHz.”
In his concluding comments, Francey observed that the laminate industry was meeting the needs for system miniaturisation, signal integrity, assembly, and reliability with thinner cores and engineered polymer composites to satisfy dielectric and thermomechanical requirements. Moreover, the PCB industry was reacting to the needs for higher packaging densities, signal integrity, and the use of PCB technology in IC packaging. However, he stressed that the convergence of future needs for circuit miniaturisation, feature tolerances, and feature-to-feature positional could only be achieved with additive technology, which would require a step change in PCB manufacturing capability and know-how.
I found this webinar enlightening and extremely interesting. I learned a lot from it, and I am grateful to IMAPS-UK for giving me the opportunity to attend. Piers Tremlett and Jim Francey should be congratulated for the quality and content of their presentations and thanked for generously sharing their knowledge and experience. Thanks also to Martin Wickham for acting as the anchorman, and to the ubiquitous Bob Willis for his professional management of the event.
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This course is co-taught by [Chris Barker](http://homepages.nyu.edu/~cb125/) and [Jim Pryor](http://www.jimpryor.net/). Linguistics calls it "LING-GA 3340" and Philosophy calls it "PHIL-GA 2296".
-The seminar meets in spring 2015 on Thursdays from 4 until a bit before 7 (with a short break in the middle), in
the Linguistics building at 10 Washington Place, in room 103 (front of the first floor).
+One student session to discuss homeworks will be held every Wednesday from 5-6, in Linguistics room 104 (back of the first floor).
+## [[Index of Main Content|content]] (lecture notes and more) ##
+## [[Offsite Readings|readings]] ##
+## Announcements ##
-One student session will be held every Wednesday from 3-4 on the
-fourth floor at 10 Washington Place.
+* The student session has been scheduled for Wednesdays from 5-6, in Linguistics room 104 (back of the first floor).
-## Announcements ##
+ Those of you interested in additional Q&A but who can't make that time, let us know.
+ You should see these student sessions as opportunities to clear up lingering
+we'll be doing the next week. It's expected you'll have made at least a serious start on that
+week's homework (due the following day) before the session.
+* Here is information about [[How to get the programming languages running on your computer|installing]]. If those instructions seem overwhelming, note that it should be possible to do a lot of this course using only demonstration versions of these languages [[that run in your web browser|browser]].
-This wiki will be undergoing lots of changes throughout the semester, and particularly in these first few days as we get it set up, migrate over some of the content from the previous time
-we taught this course, and iron out various technical wrinkles. Please be patient.
-If you've eager to learn, though, you don't have to wait on us to be ready to serve you. You can go look at the [archived first version](http://lambda1.jimpryor.net) of this course. Just keep in mind that
-the text and links there haven't been updated. And/or get started on installing the software and ordering some of the books.
-As we mentioned in class, if you're following the course and would like to be emailed occasionally, send an email to <mailto:jim.pryor@nyu.edu>, saying "lambda" in the subject line. Most often, we will just post announcements to this website, rather than emailing you. But occasionally an email might be more appropriate.
-As we mentioned in class, we're also going to schedule a session to discuss the weekly homeworks. If you'd like to participate in this, please complete [this Doodle poll](http://doodle.com/7xrf4w8xq4i9e5za). It asks when you are available on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
-Here is information about [[How to get the programming languages running on your computer]].
+(**Intermezzo**)
+> The [[differences between our made-up language and Scheme, OCaml, and Haskell|rosetta]];
+Help on [[learning Scheme]], [[OCaml|learning OCaml]], and [[Haskell|learning Haskell]];
+[[What do words like "interpreter" and "compiler" mean?|ecosystem]]
@@ -34,7 +99,6 @@ theoretical computer science and show how they can provide insight
This is not a seminar about any particular technology or software.
Rather, it's about a variety of conceptual/logical ideas that have been
developed in computer science and that linguists and philosophers ought to
know, or may already be unknowingly trying to reinvent.
@@ -72,7 +136,10 @@ course is to enable you to make these tools your own; to have enough
-[[More about the topics and larger themes of the course]]
+"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." -- [E. W. Dijkstra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra) <small>(or Hal Abelson, or Michael Fellows; the quote's <a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Computer_science">origins are murky</a>)</small>
@@ -113,24 +179,30 @@ meant by "functional" is somewhat fuzzy and even its various precisifications ta
time to explain. We'll get clearer on this during the course. Another term used roughly the same as "functional"
is "declarative." At a first pass, "functional" or "declarative" programming is primarily focused on complex
expressions that get computationally evaluated to some (usually simpler) result. In class I gave the examples
-of `1+2` (which gets evaluated in arithmetic to 3), `1+2 < 5` (which gets evaluated in arithmetic to 'true), and `1`
-(which gets evaluated in arithmetic to 1). Also Google search strings, which get evaluated by Google servers to a
list of links.
The dominant contrasting class of programming languages (the great majority of what's used
-in industry) are called "imperatival" languages, meaning they have more to do with following a sequence of commands (what we
called in class "side-effects", though sometimes what they're *alongside* is not that interesting, and all the focus is instead
-on the effect). Programming languages like C and Python and JavaScript and so on are all of this sort.
-In fact, nothing that gets marketed as a "programming language" is really completely 100% functional/declarative, and even the
-imperatival languages will have purely functional fragments (they evaluate `1+2` to 3, also). So these labels are really
-more about *styles* or *idioms* of programming, and languages like Scheme and OCaml and especially Haskell get called "functional languages" because
-of the extent to which they emphasize, and are designed around those idioms. Even languages like Python and JavaScript are sometimes
-described as "more functional" than some other languages. The language C is about as non-functional as you can get.
@@ -138,55 +210,63 @@ the operating system differently. One major implementation is called Racket,
and that is what we recommend you use. If you're already using or comfortable with
another Scheme implementation, though, there's no compelling reason to switch.
- (Wikipedia on [Lisp](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_%28programming_language%29),
[Scheme](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheme_%28programming_language%29),
-and [Racket](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racket_%28programming_language%29).)
+ (Help on [[Learning Scheme]])
family of programming languages. Caml has only one active "implementation",
OCaml, developed by the INRIA academic group in France. Sometimes we may refer to Caml or ML
more generally; but you can assume that what we're talking about always works more
specifically in OCaml.
- (Wikipedia on [ML](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML_%28programming_language%29),
-[Caml](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caml),
-and [OCaml](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCaml).)
+ (Help on [[Learning OCaml]])
- (Wikipedia on [Haskell](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_%28programming_language%29).)
-<a name=installing></a>
+ (Help on [[Learning Haskell]])
-[[Translating between OCaml Scheme and Haskell]]
+[Helium](https://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell/2003-January/011071.html) is a simplified Haskell for teaching (no typeclasses)
-## What is Functional Programming? ##
-Here's a [survey conducted at Microsoft](http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=141506) asking programmers what they understand "functional programming" to be. Don't take their responses to be authoritative... this is a just a "man in the street" (seat?) poll.
-Read more about the [uptake of Haskell](http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2010/12/haskell-researchers-announce-discovery.html) among programmers in the street.
## Recommended Books ##
It's not *mandatory* to purchase these for the class. But they are good ways to get a more thorough and solid understanding of some of the more basic conceptual tools we'll be using. We especially recommend the first three of them.
Hankin, currently $18 paperback on
[Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0954300653).
-* *The Seasoned Schemer*, also by Daniel P. Friedman and Matthias Felleisen, currently $29 paperback
on [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/Seasoned-Schemer-Daniel-P-Friedman/dp/026256100X). This is a sequel to The Little Schemer, and it focuses on mutation and continuations in Scheme. We will be covering those topics in the second half of the course.
-* *The Little MLer*, by Matthias Felleisen and Daniel P. Friedman, currently $31 paperback / $29 kindle
This covers much of the same introductory ground as The Little Schemer, but
this time in a dialect of ML. It doesn't use OCaml, the dialect we'll be working with, but instead another dialect of ML called SML. The syntactic differences between these languages is slight.
([Here's a translation manual between them](http://www.mpi-sws.org/~rossberg/sml-vs-ocaml.html).)
-Still, that does add an extra layer of interpretation, and you might as well just use The Little Schemer instead. Those of you who are already more comfortable with OCaml (or with Haskell) than with Scheme might consider working through this book instead of The Little Schemer; for the rest of you, or those of you who *want* practice with Scheme, go with The Little Schemer.
+* *The Haskell Road to Logic, Math and Programming*, by Kees Doets and Jan van Eijck, currently $22 on [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0954300696) is a textbook teaching the parts of math and logic we cover in the first few weeks of Logic for Philosophers. (Notions like validity, proof theory for predicate logic, sets, sequences, relations, functions, inductive proofs and recursive definitions, and so on.) The math here should be accessible and familiar to all of you. What is novel about this book is that it integrates the exposition of these notions with a training in (part of) Haskell. It only covers the rudiments of Haskell's type system, and doesn't cover monads; but if you wanted to review this material and become comfortable with core pieces of Haskell in the process, this could be a good read.
+(The book also seems to be available online [here](http://fldit-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/~peter/PS07/HR.pdf).)
-* Another good book covering the same ground as the Hankin book, but
more thoroughly, and in a more mathematical style, is *Lambda-Calculus and Combinators:
an Introduction*, by J. Roger Hindley and Jonathan P. Seldin, currently $74 hardback / $65 kindle on [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0521898854).
-This book is substantial and though it doesn't presuppose any specific mathematical background knowledge, it will be a good choice only if you're already comfortable reading advanced math textbooks.
If you choose to read both the Hankin book and this book, you'll notice the authors made some different
terminological/notational choices. At first, this makes comprehension slightly slower,
but in the long run it's helpful because it makes the arbitrariness of those choices more salient.
-* Another good book, covering some of the same ground as the Hankin, and the Hindley & Seldin, but delving deeper into typed lambda calculi, is *Types and Programming Languages*, by Benjamin Pierce, currently $77 hardback / $68 kindle on [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0262162091). This book has many examples in OCaml.
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The shooter, 29-year-old citizen Omar Mateen, reportedly called 911 about 20 minutes into his massacre to pledge his support for ISIS. (Among the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims, there are only about 31,500 members of ISIS, according to a White House estimate in February.)
Echoing Trump’s Twitter habit of retweeting unverified information for the sake of a low-blow political attack, Goertz, who is now a senior adviser for the Trump campaign, also retweeted a tweet from right-wing actress Stacey Dash claiming that Mateen was a registered Democrat who voted for President Obama (claiming gunmen are registered Democrats in the aftermath of mass shootings is a common, and often untrue, practice of conservatives on social media):
Goertz also used the massacre as an opportunity to criticize Obama’s response to it. One tweet was a reply to Trump’s demand that the president “immediately resign in disgrace” if his speech didn’t include the words “radical Islamic terrorism,” despite that the investigation into the gunman’s motives has only just begun and initial media reports after mass shootings usually include contradictory and incomplete information:
Another retweet, from the conservative filmmaker who directed a conspiratorial documentary alleging that Obama is trying to fundamentally reshape America, touched on a similar theme:
Maybe Trump should hold a press conference of his own to show Obama how it’s done, Goertz concluded:
Gavin Aronsen is an editor and reporter for and founding member of the Iowa Informer. He previously worked as a city reporter for the Ames Tribune, research assistant to investigative journalist Wayne Barrett at the Village Voice, and in various roles at Mother Jones, where his work contributed to a National Magazine Award nomination for the magazine's digital media coverage of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Email: garonsen [at] iowainformer [dot] com.
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Optional form for quarterly and transition reports of small business issuers
10QSB
Form 10-QSB
[X] QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 or 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934.
For the quarterly period ended March 31, 2000
[ ] TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15 (d) OF THE
For the transition period from _______ to ______
Commission file number 000-24223
FRONTLINE COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION
(Exact name of Small Business issuer as specified in its Charter)
Delaware 13-3950283
(State or other jurisdiction (I.R.S Employer
Of incorporation or organization) Identification number)
One Blue Hill Plaza, P.O. Box 1548, Pearl River, New York 10965
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
(Issuer's Telephone Number, including Area Code)
Indicate by a check mark whether the issuer: (1) has filed all reports required
to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during
the preceding twelve months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was
required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing
requirements for the last 90 days.
Yes X No___
As of May 8, 2000 there were outstanding 5,645,302 shares of the issuer's Common
Stock, $ .01 par value.
Part I Financial Information
Item 1 Financial Statements (Unaudited)
Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets 1
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations 2
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows 3
Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements 4
Item 2 Management's Discussion and Analysis or Plan
Of Operations 6
Part II Other information 9
Signatures 10
March 31, December 31,
2000 1999 (1)
-------------- ----------------
Cash and cash equivalents $13,350,865 $615,190
Accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts 272,946 288,337
Prepaid expenses and other 134,635 122,308
Total current assets 13,758,446 1,025,835
Property and equipment, net 2,820,401 2,944,948
Intangibles, net 3,665,756 4,146,107
Other 101,595 297,742
$20,346,198 $8,414,632
============== ================
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
Accounts payable and accrued expenses $1,344,691 $1,548,043
Deferred revenue 717,110 684,219
Current portion of capitalized lease obligation 441,784 433,917
Total current liabilities 2,503,585 2,666,179
Capitalized lease obligations and notes payable- net of current portion 1,008,631 1,458,583
Total liabilities 3,512,216 4,124,762
Stockholders' equity:
Preferred stock, $.01 par value, 2,000,000 authorized, issued and
outstanding 878,400 and none, respectively.
Aggregate liquidation preference $13,176,000. 8,784
Common Stock, $.01 par value, 25,000,000 authorized, 5,436,111 and
4,484,060 issued, respectively, 5,204,591 and 4,252,540 outstanding,
respectively 54,362 44,841
Additional paid-in capital 35,411,169 15,147,547
Accumulated deficit (18,338,720) (10,600,905)
Note receivable (37,500) (37,500)
Treasury stock, at cost, 231,520 shares (264,113) (264,113)
Total stockholders' equity 16,833,982 4,289,870
(1) The balance sheet at December 31, 1999 is derived from audited financial
statements at that date. See notes to condensed consolidated financial
statements.
For the three months ended
March 31, March 31,
2000 1999
------------------ ---------------
Revenues $934,654 $656,857
Cost of revenues 592,527 398,734
Selling, general and administrative 1,553,918 940,356
Depreciation and amortization 661,463 339,436
2,807,908 1,678,526
Loss from operations (1,873,254) (1,021,669)
Other income (expense):
Interest income 93,299 19,778
Interest expense (38,616) (10,004)
Net loss (1,818,571) (1,011,895)
Dividends related to beneficial conversion
feature of preferred stock 5,856,497
Preferred dividends 62,747
Net loss applicable to common shares ($7,737,815) ($1,011,895)
================== ===============
Loss per common share-basic and diluted ($1.73) ($0.31)
Weighted average number of common shares
outstanding- basic and diluted 4,462,909 3,220,990
See notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.
March 31, March 31,
2000 1999
-------------- --------------
Cash flow from operating activities:
Net loss ($1,818,571) ($1,011,895)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in
operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization 661,463 339,436
Noncash compensation charge 21,845
Changes in assets and liabilities
Accounts receivable 15,391 (4,010)
Prepaid expenses and other (12,327) 14,656
Other assets (4,505) (25,698)
Accounts payable and accrued expenses (266,099) 207,500
Deferred revenue 32,891 30,724
Net cash (used) by operating activities (1,369,912) (449,287)
Acquisition of property and equipment (49,891) (129,684)
Acquisition of businesses (311,495)
Net cash used in investing activities (49,891) (441,179)
Proceeds from sale of common stock, net 1,770,000
Proceeds from exercise of stock options 210,000
Principal payments on capitalized lease obligations and debt (442,085) (24,310)
Proceeds from sale of preferred stock, net 14,597,563
Net cash provided by financing activities 14,155,478 1,955,690
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents 12,735,675 1,065,224
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period 615,190 1,994,711
Cash and cash equivalents, end of period $13,350,865 $3,059,935
============== ==============
Supplemental information:
Approximate interest paid during the period $10,000 $14,000
The Company entered into capital lease obligations in the aggregate amount of
approximately $180,000 during the three months ended March 31, 1999.
NOTE A- BASIS OF PRESENTATION
The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements have been
prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles for interim
financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-QSB and Item 310 (b)
of Regulation S-B. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and
footnotes required by generally accepted accounting principles for complete
financial statements. In the opinion of the management, all adjustments
(consisting of normal recurring accruals) considered necessary for fair
presentation have been included. The results for the interim periods are not
necessarily indicative of the results that may be attained for an entire year or
any future periods. For further information, refer to the Financial Statements
and footnotes thereto in the Company's annual report on Form 10-KSB for the
fiscal year ended December 31, 1999.
The condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of
the Company and its subsidiaries. All significant intercompany accounts and
transactions have been eliminated.
NOTE B- LOSS PER SHARE
The Company follows SFAS No. 128, "Earning per Share", which provides
for calculation of "basic" and "diluted" earning per share. Basic earnings per
share includes no dilution and is computed by weighted average number of common
shares outstanding for the period. Diluted earnings per share reflect, in
periods in which they have dilutive effect, the effect of common shares issuable
upon exercise of stock options and warrants. Diluted earnings per share amounts
have not been reported because the Company has a net loss and the impact of the
assumed conversion of preferred stock and exercise of stock options and warrants
would be anti-dilutive.
NOTE C-CAPITAL STOCK
In January 2000, the Company's shareholders approved an amendment to
the Certificate of Incorporation of the Company increasing the number of
authorized shares of preferred stock to 2,000,000.
In February and March 2000, the Company sold in a public offering
1,137,300 shares of Series B Convertible Redeemable preferred stock at $15 per
share and realized net proceeds of approximately $14,404,000. Approximately
$194,000 of the offering costs were incurred in 1999. The preferred stock can be
converted into common stock at the rate of 3.4 shares of common stock for each
share of preferred stock. Preferred stockholders are entitled to receive
cumulative annual dividends of $.60 per share payable semi-annually either in
cash or shares of the Company's common stock at the sole discretion of the
Company. Further, preferred stockholders are entitled to receive a liquidation
preference of $15 per share, plus accrued dividends. The Company has the option
to redeem the preferred stock under certain circumstances.
In connection with the offering, the Company sold to the underwriter,
for nominal consideration, warrants to purchase an aggregate of 100,000 shares
of Series B convertible redeemable preferred stock. The warrants will be
exercisable for a four-year period commencing one year after the date of the
consummation of the offering at an exercise price of $24.75 per share.
During the three months ended March 31, 2000, additional dividends
(noncash) related to beneficial conversion feature of the preferred stock of
approximately $5,856,000 were recorded as a result of the conversion price of
the preferred stock being less than the market price of the common stock at the
time of the offering.
During the three months ended March 31, 2000 the Company issued: (i)
880,260 shares of common upon conversion of 258,900 shares of Series B
Convertible Redeemable preferred stock, (ii) issued 5,830 shares of common stock
for services rendered and upon exercise of stock options and (iii) issued 65,961
shares of common stock pursuant to repricing rights.
NOTE D- SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
In 1999, the Company sold through private placements 499,889 shares of
its common to two investors for an aggregate price of $4,250,000. The Company
had granted the investors repricing and redemption rights based on the future
market price of its common shares. The Company may have to issue up to 141,110
additional shares of its common stock pursuant to the repricing rights. If the
Company were required to satisfy the redemption rights, the estimated costs to
satisfy the redemption rights is between $601,000 (based on the Company's common
stock price on May 12, 2000) and $1,284,000.
In April 2000, the Company's board of directors authorized the Company
to purchase upto $1,000,000 worth of its common stock from time to time, as the
Company deems appropriate, through open market purchases or in privately
negotiated transactions.
In accordance with the foregoing, as of May 8, 2000 the Company had
acquired 105,526 shares of common stock including 16,312 shares related to 1999
private placement for an aggregate consideration of $ 431,000.
In April 2000, the Company acquired substantially all of the assets of
The PressRoom Online Services, a provider of dial-up, DSL, Webhosting and
leased-line access to businesses and individuals in Virginia. The purchase price
consisted of $456,000 in cash, $60,000 in non-interest bearing promissory note
and 21,227 shares of the Company's common stock valued at $100,000.
MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OR PLAN OF OPERATIONS
Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995:
The statements contained herein which are not historical facts are
"forward looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
These "forward looking statements" are subject to risks and uncertainties,
including but not limited to, risks associated with the Company's future growth
and operating results, the ability of the Company to successfully integrate
newly acquired subscribers, business entities and personnel into its operations,
changes in consumer preference and demographics, technological change,
competitive factors, unfavorable general economic conditions, and other factors
described herein. The Company assumes no obligation to update the
forward-looking information. Actual results may vary significantly from the
results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.
During 1999 and 2000 significant part of the Company's revenues were
derived from providing Internet access services to individual and businesses.
These revenues are comprised principally of recurring revenues from the
Company's customer base, leased line connections and from various ancillary
services. The Company charges subscription fees, which are billed monthly or
quarterly, in advance, typically pursuant to pre-authorized credit card
accounts. The balance of the Company's revenues were derived from Web
development and hosting services. The Company's business strategy is to increase
the percentage of revenues it derives from Web development and hosting services.
Monthly subscription service revenue for Internet access is recognized
over the period in which services are provided. Fee revenue for website
development and Internet website presence services are recognized as services
are performed. Deferred revenue represents prepaid access fees by customers,
Acquisitions have historically been and will continue to be an
important aspect of the Company's growth strategy. In 1999, the Company
completed the following acquisitions; Webprime, Inc. website design, web
development and software development firm; Channel iShop.com (now
iShopNetworks.com) a company with marketing concept targeting retail businesses;
assets relating to the dial-up internet access customer base and web design and
hosting capabilities of United Computer Specialist, Inc; a customer base of DSL
customers of Lingua Systems, inc. d/b/a Fullwave Networks; a customer base of
additional dial-up customers of Skyhigh information Technologies and Fronthost
LLC, a company in the business of providing web hosting and design services. All
of the acquisitions were accounted for using the purchase method of accounting
with the results of each acquisition included in the consolidated financial
statements from the respective acquisition date. No acquisitions were completed
in the three months ended March 31, 2000 or 1999.
Comparison of the three months ended March 31, 2000 and 1999
Revenues: Revenues increased for the three months ended March 31, 2000 by
$277,797 or 42.3% over the same period of prior. The increase was attributable
to an expanded customer base and increased activities in Web development and
hosting services. The increase in customer base was principally due to 1999
acquisitions.
Cost of Revenues: For the three months ended March 31, 2000 cost of revenues
increased by $193,793 to $592,527. Cost of revenues as a percentage of revenues
for 2000 was 63.4% compared to 60.7% for 1999. The increase in cost of revenues
was due to increased communication and technical personnel expenses incurred to
support the increased customer base and in anticipation of future growth. The
Company expects these costs to increase in absolute dollars as additional
customers and services are added.
Selling, General and Administrative: For the three months ended March 31, 2000,
selling general and administrative expenses increased by $613,562. As a
percentage of revenues, selling, general and administrative expenses increased
from 143.2% in 1999 to 166.3% in 2000. The increase in selling, general and
administrative expenses was attributable to higher payroll and related costs in
2000 to support the increased revenue base and in anticipation of future growth.
In March 2000, the Company had 70 employees compared to 46 in March 1999.
Management anticipates future increases in operating expenses related to
advertising, promotion, payroll, and professional fees.
Depreciation and Amortization: For the three months ended March 31, 2000,
depreciation and amortization increased by $322,027 to $661,463. The increase
was due to amortization arising from 1999 acquisitions and depreciation arising
from additional equipment acquired in the later part of 1999.
Interest Income: Interest income net of interest expense for 2000 was $54,683
compared to net interest income of $9,774 for 1999. The increase in interest
income was due to investment of unutilized proceeds of the Company's public
offering of Series B Convertible Redeemable preferred stock.
Net Loss and net loss applicable to common shares: The Company has incurred
significant losses and anticipates that it will continue to incur losses until
sufficient revenues are generated to offset the substantial up-front
expenditures and operating costs associated with attracting and retaining
additional customers. For the three months ended March 31, 2000 and 1999, the
Company incurred net losses of $1,818,571 and $1,011,895, respectively. There
can be no assurance that the Company will be able to attract and retain a
sufficient number of customers to significantly increase its revenues or ever
achieve profitable operations.
time of the offering. Net loss after adjusting the additional dividends and
normal dividends for preferred stock resulted in a loss of $7,737,815 applicable
to common shares.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
The Company's working capital at March 31, 2000 was $11,254,861
compared to a deficiency of $1,640,344 at December 31, 1999. The increase in
working capital was due to receipt of the proceeds from the public sale of the
Company's Series B Convertible Redeemable preferred stock in February and March
In February and March 2000, the Company sold in a public
offering 1,137,300 shares of Series B Convertible Redeemable preferred stock at
$15 per share and realized net proceeds of approximately $14,404,000. The
preferred stock can be converted into common stock at the rate of 3.4 shares of
common stock for each share of preferred stock. Preferred stockholders are
entitled to receive cumulative annual dividends of $.60 per share payable
semi-annually either in cash or shares of the Company's common stock at the sole
discretion of the Company. Further, preferred stockholders are entitled to
receive a liquidation preference of $15 per share, plus accrued dividends. The
Company has the option to redeem the preferred stock under certain
The Company's primary capital requirements are to fund acquisition of
customer bases and related Internet businesses, install network equipment, and
working capital. To date, the Company has financed its capital requirements
primarily through issuance of debt and equity securities. The Company currently
does not have any lines of credit. The availability of capital resources is
dependent upon prevailing market conditions, interest rates, and financial
condition of the Company.
The Company's capital expenditures for 2000 are expected to range
between $240,000 to $300,000. Based on the Company's current plans and
assumptions relating to its strategy, the management anticipates that the cash
on hand, and expected revenues will satisfy the company's capital requirements
through at least the end of 2000.
Item 2. Changes in Securities and Use of Proceeds
Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities
During the three months ended March 31, 2000, the Company
issued (i) 2,500 shares of its common stock upon exercise of
options granted under the Company's 1997 Stock Option Plan
(ii) 3,330 shares of common stock for services rendered and
(iii) 65,961 shares of common stock pursuant to repricing
rights. The foregoing securities were issued in private
offerings pursuant to an exemption from registration offered
by section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933.
Item 4. Submission of Matters to Vote of Security holders.
The Company held a special meeting of Stockholders on January
6, 2000 at which an Amendment to the Company's Certificate of
Incorporation to increase the number of authorized shares of
Preferred Stock of the Company from 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 was
voted with the following result.
FOR AGAINST ABSTAIN
2,082,286 46,400 56,675
Item 6. Exhibits and Reports on Form 8-K
(a) Exhibits-- Exhibit 27 Financial Data Schedule
Exhibit 3.1 Certificate of Designation with
respect to Series B Convertible Redeemable
preferred stock.
(b) Reports on Form 8-K--None
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
By: /s/ Stephen J. Cole-Hatchard
Stephen J. Cole-Hatchard
Chief Executive Officer and President
By: /s/ Vasan Thatham
Vasan Thatham
Principal Financial Officer and Vice President
CERTIFICATE OF DESIGNATION
SERIES B CUMULATIVE CONVERTIBLE
REDEEMABLE PREFERRED STOCK
(Pursuant to Section 151 of the Delaware General
Corporation Law)
The undersigned, the authorized officer of Frontline
Communications Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Corporation"), in
accordance with the provisions of Section 103 of the Delaware General
Corporation Law (the "DGCL") does hereby certify that, in accordance with
Section 141 of the DGCL, the following resolution was duly adopted by the Board
of Directors of the Corporation on February 7, 2000:
RESOLVED, that a series of Preferred Stock of the Corporation
is hereby created and the designation, number of shares, powers, preferences,
rights, qualifications, limitations and restrictions thereof (in addition to any
provisions set forth in the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation
which are applicable to the preferred stock of all classes and series) are as
Section 1. Designation and Amount; Stated Capital. The shares
of such series shall be designated as "Series B Cumulative Convertible
Redeemable Preferred Stock" (the "Series B Convertible Preferred Stock"), the
par value thereof shall be $.01 per share and the number of shares constituting
the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock shall be 1,250,000. The amount to be
represented in stated capital at all times for each share of Series B
Convertible Preferred Stock shall be $.01.
Section 2. Rank. With respect to dividend rights and rights on
liquidation, winding-up and dissolution, the Series B Convertible Preferred
Stock will rank: (i) senior to: (A) the common stock, par value $.01 per share
(the "Common Stock"); (B) all other classes of common stock and (C) each other
class or series of preferred stock of the Corporation now or hereafter
established by the Board of Directors (the "Board of Directors" or the "Board")
of the Corporation, the terms of which do not expressly provide that it ranks
senior to, or on a parity with, the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock as to
dividend and redemption rights and rights on liquidation, winding-up and
dissolution of the Corporation (collectively referred to as "Junior Stock");
(ii) on a parity with each other class or series of preferred stock of the
Corporation established hereafter by the Board of Directors, the terms of which
expressly provide that such class or series will rank on a parity with the
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock as to dividend and redemption rights and
rights on liquidation, winding-up and dissolution (collectively referred to as
"Parity Stock"); and (iii) junior to each class or series of preferred stock of
the Corporation established hereafter by the Board, the terms of which class or
series expressly provide that such class or series will rank senior to the
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock as to dividend and redemption rights or
rights on liquidation, winding-up and dissolution of the Corporation
(collectively referred to as "Senior Stock").
Section 3. Dividends and Distributions.
(a) The holders of shares of Series B Convertible Preferred
Stock shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of
Directors out of funds legally available for such purpose, cumulative dividends
at the rate of $.60 per share of the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock per
annum, and no more. The dividend on each share of Series B Convertible Preferred
Stock shall accrue from the date of its original issuance. The dividend shall be
payable on the last business day of June and December of each year, commencing
on June 30, 2000, to the holders of record as they appear on the stock books of
the Corporation on such record dates, not more than 60 nor less than 10 days
preceding the payment dates for such dividends, as shall be fixed by the Board.
The amount of dividends payable per share of Series B Convertible Preferred
Stock for each semi-annual dividend period shall be computed by dividing the
annual dividend amount by two. The amount of dividends payable for the initial
dividend period and any period shorter than a full semi-annual dividend period
shall be computed on the basis of a 365-day year and the actual days elapsed.
(b) Any dividends on the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock
payable pursuant to this Section 3 may be paid, at the Corporation's option,
either in cash or by the issuance of shares of Common Stock having an average
daily Closing Price (as hereinafter defined), on the five consecutive trading
days immediately preceding the day prior to the record date for the
stockholders entitled to receive such dividend, equal to the amount of such
dividends; provided, however, that cash will be paid in lieu of the issuance of
fractional shares of Common Stock; and provided, further, that accrued and
unpaid dividends payable pursuant to Section 4 or 5 will be paid in cash.
(c) As used herein, the "Closing Price" for each day for any
security shall be the last reported sales price regular way or, in case no sale
takes place on such day, the average of the closing bid and asked prices regular
way on such day, in either case as reported on the principal national securities
exchange on which such security is listed or quoted (including, for this
purpose, the Nasdaq Stock Market), or, if not so listed or quoted, the average
of the high bid and low asked prices on such day as recorded by the Nasdaq Stock
Market, or, if the Nasdaq Stock Market shall not have reported any bid and asked
prices for such security on such day, the average of the bid and asked prices
for such day as furnished by any New York Stock Exchange member firm selected
from time to time by the Corporation for such purpose, or, if no such bid and
asked prices can be obtained from any such firm, the fair market value of such
security on such day as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors. Such
determination by the Board of Directors shall be conclusive.
(d) No dividends or other distributions, other than dividends
payable solely in shares of Junior Stock, shall be paid or set apart for payment
on, and no purchase, redemption or other acquisition shall be made by the
Corporation of, any shares of Junior Stock unless and until all accrued and
unpaid dividends due on the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock (whether or not
declared) shall have been paid or declared and set apart for payment; provided,
however, that the conversion, exercise or exchange of a security for Junior
Stock shall not be deemed a purchase, redemption or acquisition of the security
so converted or exercised for purposes of this Section 3(d).
(e) If at any time any dividend on any Senior Stock shall be
in default, in whole or in part, no dividend shall be paid or declared and set
apart for payment on the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock unless and until
all accrued and unpaid dividends with respect to the Senior Stock shall have
been paid or declared and set apart for payment, without interest.
(f) No full dividends shall be paid or declared and set apart
for payment on any Parity Stock for any period unless all accrued but unpaid
dividends (whether or not declared) have been, or contemporaneously are, paid or
declared and set apart for such payment on the Series B Convertible Preferred
Stock. No full dividends shall be paid or declared and set apart for payment on
the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock for any period unless all accrued but
unpaid dividends (whether or not declared) have been, or contemporaneously are,
paid or declared and set apart for payment on the Parity Stock for all dividend
periods terminating on or prior to the date of payment of such full dividends.
When dividends are not paid in full upon the Series B Convertible Preferred
Stock and the Parity Stock, all dividends paid or declared and set apart for
payment upon shares of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock and the Parity Stock
shall be paid or declared and set apart for payment pro rata, so that the amount
of dividends paid or declared and set apart for payment per share on the Series
B Convertible Preferred Stock and the Parity Stock shall in all cases bear to
each other the same ratio that accrued and unpaid dividends per share on the
shares of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock and the Parity Stock bear to each
other. Any reference to "distribution" contained in this Section 3 shall not be
deemed to include any distribution made in connection with any liquidation,
dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, whether voluntary or involuntary.
Section 4. Liquidation Preference. In the event of a
liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, whether voluntary or
involuntary, the holders of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock shall be
entitled to receive out of the assets of the Corporation, whether such assets
constitute stated capital or surplus of any nature, a sum in cash equal to
$15.00 per share (the "Liquidation Preference"), together with an amount equal
to the dividends accrued and unpaid thereon (whether or not declared) to the
date of final distribution to such holders, without interest, and no more,
before any payment shall be made or any assets distributed to the holders of any
Junior Stock; provided, however, that such rights shall accrue to the holders of
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock only if the Corporation's payments with
respect to the liquidation preference of the holders of Senior Stock are fully
met. After the liquidation preferences of the Senior Stock are fully met, the
entire assets of the Corporation available for distribution shall be distributed
ratably among the holders of the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock and any
Parity Stock in proportion to the respective preferential amounts to which each
is entitled (but only to the extent of such preferential amounts). After payment
in full of the accrued and unpaid dividends and the Liquidation Preference of
the shares of the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock as provided in this
Section 4, the holders of such shares shall not be entitled to any further
participation in any distribution of assets by the Corporation. Neither a
consolidation or merger of the Corporation with another corporation nor a sale
or transfer of all or part of the Corporation's assets for cash, securities or
property will be considered a liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the
Section 5. Optional Redemption.
(a) If at any time after February 11, 2000 (the "Issue Date"),
the Closing Price of the Common Stock shall be $8.80 or more per share for any
15 consecutive trading days, the Corporation, at its option, may at any time
(until the date that is five days after the last trading day used in determining
the Closing Price for such 15 consecutive trading day period) give notice in
accordance with Section 5(c) that it will redeem all, but not less than all, of
the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock (an "Optional Price-Based Redemption")
at a sum in cash equal to the Liquidation Preference per share, together with an
amount equal to the dividends accrued and unpaid thereon (whether or not
declared), pro rata to the date fixed for redemption.
(b) At any time after the date that is 180 days after the
Issue Date, the Corporation, at its option, may redeem (an "Optional Time-Based
Redemption") all, but not less than all, of the Series B Convertible Preferred
Stock on any date set by the Board of Directors, at the price per share set
forth below (the "Principal Price"), plus, in each case, an amount in cash per
share equal to the dividends accrued and unpaid thereon (whether or not
declared), pro rata to the date fixed for redemption. The Principal Price for an
Optional Time-Based Redemption shall be as follows:
If the date of the Optional Time-Based
Redemption is: The Principal Price Shall Be:
more than 180 days after the Issue
Date and less than 12 months after
the Issue Date................................150% of the Liquidation Preference
12 months or more after the Issue
Date and at any time thereafter...............110% of the Liquidation Preference
(c) Not more than 60 nor less than 15 days prior to any
redemption date, notice by first class mail, postage prepaid, shall be given to
the holders of record of the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock, addressed to
such stockholders at their last addresses as shown on the books of the
Corporation. Each such notice of redemption shall specify the date fixed for
redemption, the redemption price, the place or places of payment, the then
effective Conversion Rate (as hereinafter defined), that the right of holders of
shares of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock being redeemed to exercise their
conversion right shall terminate as to such shares at the close of business on
the day that immediately precedes the date that is fixed for redemption
(provided that no default by the Corporation in the payment of the applicable
redemption price shall have occurred and be continuing), that payment will be
made upon presentation and surrender of the shares of Series B Convertible
Preferred Stock, that accrued but unpaid dividends to the date fixed for
redemption (whether or not declared) will be paid on the date fixed for
redemption, and that on and after the redemption date, dividends will cease to
accrue on such shares.
(d) Any notice which is mailed as herein provided shall be
conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the holder of the
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock receives such notice; and failure to give
such notice by mail, or any defect in such notice, to the holders of any shares
designated for redemption shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for
the redemption of any other shares of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock. On
or after the date fixed for redemption as stated in such notice, each holder of
the shares shall surrender the certificate (or certificates) evidencing such
shares to the Corporation at the place designated in such notice and shall
thereupon be entitled to receive payment of the applicable redemption price. If,
on the date fixed for redemption, funds necessary for the redemption shall be
available therefor and shall have been irrevocably deposited or set aside, then,
notwithstanding that the certificates evidencing any shares so called for
redemption shall not have been surrendered, the dividends with respect to the
shares so called shall cease to accrue after the date fixed for redemption, the
shares shall no longer be deemed outstanding, the holders thereof shall cease to
be stockholders, and all rights whatsoever with respect to the shares so called
for redemption (except the right of the holders to receive the applicable
redemption price, without interest, upon surrender of their certificates
therefor) shall terminate. Any monies deposited by the Corporation pursuant to
the foregoing provision and unclaimed at the end of one year from the date fixed
for redemption shall, to the extent permitted by law, be returned to the
Corporation, after which the holders of shares of Series B Convertible Preferred
Stock so called for redemption shall look only to the Corporation for the
payment thereof.
Section 6. No Sinking Fund.
The shares of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock shall not
be subject to the operation of a purchase, retirement or sinking fund.
Section 7. Conversion.
(a) At any time after the Issue Date but not later than the
close of business on the day preceding the date fixed for the redemption of the
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock in any notice of redemption given pursuant
to the provisions of Section 5 hereof if there is no default in payment of the
applicable redemption price, the holders of the Series B Convertible Preferred
Stock may, upon surrender of the certificates therefor, convert any or all of
their shares of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock into fully paid and
nonassessable shares of Common Stock and such other securities and property as
hereinafter provided. Each share of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock shall
be convertible at the office of any transfer agent for the Series B Convertible
Preferred Stock, and at such other office or offices, if any, as the Board of
Directors may designate, into that number of fully paid and nonassessable shares
of Common Stock (calculated as to each conversion to the nearest 1/100th of a
share) as shall be equal to the Conversion Rate, determined as hereinafter
provided, in effect at the time of conversion. Shares of Series B Convertible
Preferred Stock may initially be converted into full shares of Common Stock at
the rate of 3.4 shares of Common Stock for each share of Series B Convertible
Preferred Stock subject to adjustment as hereinafter provided (the "Conversion
Rate"). Notwithstanding anything in this Section 7 to the contrary, no change in
the Conversion Rate shall actually be made until the cumulative effect of the
adjustments called for by this Section 7 since the date of the last change in
the Conversion Rate would change the Conversion Rate by more than 1%. However,
once the cumulative effect would result in such a change, the Conversion Rate
shall actually be changed to reflect all adjustments called for by this Section
7 and not previously made.
(b) The right of the holders of Series B Convertible Preferred
Stock to convert their shares shall be exercised by surrendering for such
purpose to the Corporation or its agent, as provided above, certificates
representing shares to be converted, duly endorsed in blank or accompanied by
proper instruments of transfer and a notice of conversion. The Corporation shall
not, however, be required to pay any tax which may be payable in respect of any
transfer involved in the issue and delivery upon conversion of shares of Common
Stock or other securities or property in a name other than that of the holder of
the shares of the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock being converted, and the
Corporation shall not be required to issue or deliver any such shares or other
securities or property unless and until the person or persons requesting the
issuance thereof shall have paid to the Corporation the
amount of any such tax or shall have established to the satisfaction of the
Corporation that such tax has been paid.
(c) The Corporation (and any successor corporation) shall take
all action necessary so that a number of shares of the authorized but unissued
Common Stock (or common stock in the case of any successor corporation)
sufficient to provide for the conversion of the Series B Convertible Preferred
Stock outstanding upon the basis hereinbefore provided are at all times reserved
by the Corporation (or any successor corporation), free from preemptive rights,
for such conversion, subject to the provisions of Section 7(d). If the
Corporation shall issue any securities or make any change in its capital
structure which would change the number of shares of Common Stock into which
each share of the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock shall be convertible as
herein provided, the Corporation shall at the same time also make proper
provision so that thereafter there shall be a sufficient number of shares of
Common Stock authorized and reserved, free from preemptive rights, for
conversion of the outstanding Series B Convertible Preferred Stock on the new
(d) In case of any consolidation or merger of the Corporation
with any other corporation or in case of any sale or transfer of all or
substantially all of the assets of the Corporation, or in the case of any share
exchange, in each case pursuant to which all of the outstanding shares of Common
Stock are converted into other securities, cash or other property, the
Corporation shall make appropriate provision or cause appropriate provision to
be made so that each holder of shares of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock
then outstanding shall have the right thereafter (in lieu of the right to
convert into Common Stock, which right shall cease) to convert such shares of
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock into the kind and amount of securities,
cash or other property receivable upon such consolidation, merger, sale,
transfer or share exchange by a holder of the number of shares of Common Stock
into which such shares of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock could have been
converted immediately prior to the effective date of such consolidation, merger,
sale, transfer or share exchange. If, in connection with any such consolidation,
merger, sale, transfer or share exchange, each holder of shares of Common Stock
is entitled to elect to receive either securities, cash or other property upon
completion of such transaction, the Corporation shall provide or cause to be
provided to each holder of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock the right to
elect the securities, cash (other than by the exercise of appraisal rights) or
other property into which the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock held by such
holder shall be convertible after completion of any such transaction on the same
terms and subject to the same conditions applicable to holders of the Common
Stock (including, without limitation, notice of the right to elect, limitations
on the period in which such election shall be made and the effect of failing to
exercise the election). The Corporation shall not effect any such transaction
unless the provisions of this Section 7(d) have been complied with. The above
provisions shall
similarly apply to successive consolidations, mergers, sales, transfers or share
exchanges.
(e) Upon the surrender of certificates representing shares of
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock, the person converting shall be deemed to
be the holder of record of the Common Stock issuable upon such conversion, and
all rights with respect to the shares surrendered shall forthwith terminate
except the right to receive the Common Stock or other securities, cash or other
property as herein provided.
(f) No fractional shares of Common Stock shall be issued upon
conversion of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock but, in lieu of any fraction
of a share of Common Stock which would otherwise be issuable in respect of the
aggregate number of such shares surrendered for conversion at one time by the
same holder, the Corporation shall pay in cash an amount equal to the product of
(i) the Closing Price of a share of Common Stock on the last trading day before
the conversion date and (ii) such fraction of a share.
(g) The Conversion Rate shall be adjusted from time to time
under certain circumstances, subject to the provisions of the last two sentences
of Section 7(a), as follows:
(i) In case the Corporation shall (A) pay a dividend or make a
distribution on its Common Stock in shares of its capital stock, (B)
subdivide its outstanding Common Stock into a greater number of shares,
(C) combine the shares of its outstanding Common Stock into a smaller
number of shares, or (D) issue by reclassification of its Common Stock
any shares of its capital stock, then in each such case the Conversion
Rate in effect immediately prior thereto shall be proportionately
adjusted so that the holder of any Series B Convertible Preferred Stock
thereafter surrendered for conversion shall be entitled to receive, to
the extent permitted by applicable law, the number and kind of shares
of capital stock of the Corporation which it would have owned or have
been entitled to receive after the happening of such event had such
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock been converted immediately prior
to the record date for such event (or if no record date has been
established in connection with such event, the effective date for such
action). An adjustment pursuant to this Section 7(g)(i) shall become
effective immediately after the record date in the case of a stock
dividend or distribution and shall become effective immediately after
the effective date in the case of a subdivision, combination, or
reclassification.
(ii) In case the Corporation shall issue rights or warrants to
all holders of the Common Stock entitling such holders to subscribe for
or purchase Common Stock on the record date referred to below at a
share less than the average daily Closing Prices of the Common Stock on
the 30 consecutive trading days commencing 45 business days before such
record date (the "Current Market Price"), then in each such case the
Conversion Rate in effect on such record date shall be adjusted in
accordance with the formula
c1 = C x O + N
O + N x P
c1 = the adjusted Conversion Rate.
C = the current Conversion Rate (immediately preceding the issuance of
such rights or warrrants).
O = the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding on the record
N = the number of additional shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant
to the exercise of such rights or warrants.
P = the exercise price per share of such rights or warrants.
M = the Current Market Price per share of Common Stock on such record
Such adjustment shall become effective immediately after the record date for the
determination of stockholders entitled to receive such rights or warrants. If
any or all of such rights or warrants are not so issued or expire or terminate
before being exercised, the Conversion Rate then in effect shall be readjusted
appropriately.
(iii) In case the Corporation shall, by dividend or otherwise,
distribute to all holders of its Junior Stock or Parity Stock evidences
of its indebtedness or assets (including cash or securities, but
excluding any warrants or subscription rights referred to in Section
7(g)(ii) above, any ordinary dividend paid in cash out of the retained
earnings of the Corporation and any dividend
or distribution referred to in Section 7(g)(i) above), then in each such case
the Conversion Rate then in affect shall be adjusted in accordance with the
c1 = C x M
C = the current Conversion Rate (immediately preceding such
distribution).
M = the Current Market Price per share of Common Stock with respect to
the record date mentioned below.
F = the aggregate amount of such cash dividend and/or the fair market
value on such record date of the assets or securities to be
distributed, divided by the number of shares of Common Stock
outstanding on the record date. In the case of securities, the fair
market value shall be the average of the daily Closing Price for
the 30 trading days preceding such record date (or such fewer
number of days for which there shall be a recognized trading
market); provided, however, that if there shall not be any
recognized trading market for such securities until after such
record date, the fair market value shall be the average of the
daily Closing Price for the 10 trading days following such record
date. In all other cases, the Board of Directors shall determine
such fair market value, which determination shall be conclusive.
determination of stockholders entitled to receive such dividend or distribution.
(iv) All calculations hereunder shall be made to the nearest
cent or to the nearest 1/100 of a share, as the case may be.
(v) If at any time as a result of an adjustment made pursuant
to Section 7(g)(i), the holder of any Series B Convertible Preferred
Stock thereafter surrendered for conversion shall become entitled to
receive securities, cash, or assets other than Common Stock, the number
or amount of such securities or property so receivable upon conversion
shall be subject to adjustment from time to time in a manner and on
terms as nearly equivalent as practicable to the provisions with
respect to the Common Stock contained in Section 7(g)(i) to (iv),
inclusive, above.
(h) Except as otherwise provided above in this Section 7, no
adjustment in the Conversion Rate shall be made in respect of any conversion for
share distributions or dividends theretofore declared and paid or payable on the
Common Stock.
(i) Whenever the Conversion Rate is adjusted as herein
provided, the Corporation shall send to each transfer agent for the Series B
Convertible Preferred Stock and the Common Stock, and to the principal
securities exchange, if any, on which the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock
and the Common Stock is traded, or the Nasdaq Stock Market if the Series B
Convertible Preferred Stock or Common Stock is admitted for quotation thereon, a
statement signed by the Chairman of the Board, the President, or any Vice
President of the Corporation and by its Treasurer or its Secretary or Assistant
Secretary stating the adjusted Conversion Rate determined as provided in this
Section 7, and any adjustment so evidenced, given in good faith, shall be
binding upon all stockholders and upon the Corporation. Whenever the Conversion
Rate is adjusted, the Corporation will give notice by mail to the holders of
record of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock, which notice shall be made
within 45 days after the effective date of such adjustment and shall state the
adjustment and the Conversion Rate. Notwithstanding the foregoing notice
provisions, failure by the Corporation to give such notice or a defect in such
notice shall not affect the binding nature of such corporate action of the
(j) Whenever the Corporation shall propose to take any of the
actions specified in Section 7(d) or in Section 7(g)(i), (ii) or (iii) which
would result in any adjustment in the Conversion Rate under this Section 7, the
Corporation shall use its best efforts to cause a notice to be mailed at least
20 days prior to the date on which the books of the Corporation will close or on
which a record will be taken for such action, to the holders of record of the
outstanding Series B Convertible Preferred Stock on the date of such notice.
Such notice shall specify the action proposed to be taken by the Corporation and
the date as of which holders of record of the Common Stock shall participate in
any such actions or be entitled to exchange their Common Stock for securities or
other property, as the case may be. Failure by the Corporation to mail the
notice or any defect in such notice shall not affect the validity of the
(k) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 7, no
adjustment in the Conversion Rate need be made (i) for a transaction referred to
in Section 7(g)(i), (ii) or (iii) if holders of Series B Convertible Preferred
Stock are to participate in the transaction or distribution on a basis and with
notice that the Board of Directors reasonably determines such transaction to be
fair to the holders of the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock and appropriate
in light of the basis on which holders of Common Stock or, in the case of a
transaction referred to in Section 7(g)(iii), holders of Junior Stock
participate in the transaction; (ii) for sales
of Common Stock pursuant to a plan for reinvestment of dividends and interest,
provided that the purchase price in any such sale is at least equal to 90% of
the fair market value of the Common Stock at the time of such purchase, or
pursuant to any plan adopted by the Corporation for the benefit of its
employees, directors or consultants; (iii) for a change in par value of the
Common Stock not involving a subdivision or combination described in Section
7(g)(i)(B) or 7(g)(i)(C); or (iv) after the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock
becomes convertible solely into cash by reason of an adjustment pursuant to
Section 7(d) hereof.
Section 8. Voting Rights.
(a) The holders of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock will
not have any voting rights except as set forth in this Section 8 or as otherwise
from time to time required by law.
(b) The affirmative vote or consent of the holders of at least
a majority of the outstanding shares of the Series B Convertible Preferred
Stock, voting separately as a class, will be required for (i) the issuance of
any Senior Stock or Parity Stock or (ii) any amendment, alteration or repeal of
this Certificate of Designation if such amendment, alteration or repeal
materially and adversely affects the powers, preferences or special rights of
the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock. The creation, authorization or
issuance of any shares of any Junior Stock or the increase or decrease in the
amount of authorized capital stock of any class, including preferred stock,
shall not require the consent of holders of the Series B Convertible Preferred
Stock and shall not be deemed to affect adversely the rights, preferences,
privileges or voting rights of shares of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock.
Such right of the holders of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock to vote as
hereinabove provided may be exercised at any annual meeting or at any special
meeting called for such purpose as hereinafter provided or at any adjournment
thereof.
(c) If dividends on the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock
are in arrears and unpaid for six or more dividend periods (whether or not
consecutive) (a "Dividend Default"), then the number of directors constituting
the Board of Directors of the Corporation will be increased by two and the
holders of the then outstanding shares of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock
(together with the holders of Parity Stock upon which like rights have been
conferred and are exercisable), voting separately and as a class, shall have the
right and power to elect such two additional directors. The occurrence of a
Dividend Default is a "Voting Rights Triggering Event." A Voting Rights
Triggering Event shall not be deemed to have occurred if at the time of such
event there are less than 25,000 shares of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock
then outstanding.
(d) The voting rights set forth in Section 8(c) will continue
until such time as (x) in the case of a default in the payment of dividends, all
in arrears on the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock are paid in full or (y)
there are fewer than 25,000 shares of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock
outstanding, at which time the term of any directors elected pursuant to the
provisions of Section 8(c) shall terminate and the number of directors
constituting the Board of Directors shall be decreased by two (until the
occurrence of any subsequent Voting Rights Triggering Event). At any time after
voting power to elect directors shall have become vested and be continuing in
the holders of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock pursuant to Section 8(c), or
if vacancies shall exist in the offices of directors elected by such holders, a
proper officer of the Corporation may, and upon the written request of the
holders of record of at least 25% of the shares of Series B Convertible
Preferred Stock then outstanding addressed to the Secretary of the Corporation
shall, call a special meeting of the holders of Series B Convertible Preferred
Stock; provided, however, that no such special meeting shall be called if the
next annual meeting of stockholders of the Corporation is to be held within 60
days after the voting power to elect directors shall have become vested, in
which case such meeting shall be deemed to have been called for such next annual
meeting. If such meeting shall not be called by a proper officer of the
Corporation within 20 days after personal service to the Secretary of the
Corporation at its principal executive offices, then the holders of record of at
least 25% of the outstanding shares of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock may
designate in writing one of their members to call such meeting at the expense of
the Corporation, and such meeting may be called by the person so designated upon
the notice required for the annual meetings of stockholders of the Corporation
and shall be held at the place for holding the annual meetings of stockholders.
Any holder of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock so designated shall have, and
the Corporation shall provide, access to the lists of holders of Series B
Convertible Preferred Stock to be called pursuant to the provisions hereof. If
no special meeting of the holders of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock is
called as provided in this Section 8(d), then such meeting shall be deemed to
have been called for the next annual meeting of stockholders of the Corporation
or special meeting of the holders of any other capital stock of the Corporation.
(e) At any meeting held for the purposes of electing directors
at which the holders of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock (together with the
holders of Parity Stock upon which like rights have been conferred and are
exercisable) shall have the right, voting together as a separate class, to elect
directors as aforesaid, the presence in person or by proxy of the holders of at
least a majority in voting power of the outstanding shares of Series B
Convertible Preferred Stock (and such Parity stock) shall be required to
constitute a quorum thereof.
(f) Any vacancy occurring in the office of a director elected
by the holders of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock (and such Parity Stock)
may be filled by the remaining director elected by the holders of Series B
Convertible Preferred Stock (and such Parity Stock) unless and until such
vacancy shall be filled by the holders of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock
(and such Parity Stock).
(g) In any case in which the holders of Series B Convertible
Preferred Stock shall be entitled to vote pursuant to this Section 8 or pursuant
to Delaware law, each holder of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock entitled to
vote with respect to such matters shall be entitled to one vote for each share
of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock held.
Section 9. Outstanding Shares. All shares of Series B
Convertible Preferred Stock shall be deemed outstanding except: (i) from the
date fixed for redemption pursuant to Section 5 hereof, all shares of Series B
Convertible Preferred Stock which have been so called for redemption under
Section 5, if funds necessary for such redemption of such shares are available;
(ii) from the date of surrender of certificates representing shares of Series B
Convertible Preferred Stock for conversion into Common Stock, all shares of
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock converted into Common Stock; and (iii) from
the date of registration of transfer, all shares of Series B Convertible
Preferred Stock held of record by the Corporation or any subsidiary of the
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Frontline Communications Corporation has caused
this certificate to be signed by Stephen J. Cole-Hatchard, its Chief Executive
Officer this 10th day of February, 2000.
By /s/ Stephen J. Cole-Hatchard
(a) Any vacancy occurring in the office of a director elected
(b) In any case in which the holders of Series B Convertible
Section 10. Outstanding Shares. All shares of Series B
By /s Stephen J. Cole-Hatchard
The schedule contains summary financial information extracted from the
Company's financial statements included in Form 10-QSB and is qualified in its
entirety by reference to such financial statements.
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MBC Releases Cheerful Candid Filming Stills as Gu Family Book Heads Towards Finale
Posted on June 24, 2013 by ockoala
To say my feelings towards Gu Family Book is like an odd little duck might be the best way to describe it. Clearly I was disappointed it failed to live up to my hopes, but then that really never bothered me too much other than a shrug and a wish for better next time around for Lee Seung Gi. Whereas I took Jang Ok Jung, Live in Love‘s descent into Le Terrible really personally, because it was so freaking awesome initially that the insanity later on felt like a stark betrayal. Normally when I don’t love a drama the weeks when it airs feels interminable because I’m just waiting for it to end quickly so the next better thing can come along. Oddly I really enjoyed following along with GFB, sometimes watching scenes that seemed interesting, other times just enjoying the camaraderie on the set as MBC released fun BTS stills. The leading couple of Lee Seung Gi and Suzy had chemistry in my eyes – of the playful sibling variety. There wasn’t a lick of romance there and that’s a shame though it doesn’t tank the drama’s central love story since Yeol Wool seemed rather like a block of wood and Kang Chi took so long to come around that he was falling for her. My gut tells me Suzy is just so young, and so much younger than Seung Gi, that real life age difference and life experience probably just immediately placed them into oppa-dongsaeng vibe. Who’s with me that they would have been awesome playing onscreen siblings in a weekend drama where they bicker all the time but support each other with their own OTPs. GFB would have been leaps and bounds better in the hands of a genuinely talented scriptwriter, so in the end of the day the poor directorial choices, the acting misses here and there, that is all secondary to the main reason this drama failed to be as good as its interesting concept warranted. But in terms of ratings its a definite winner and for that the cast and crew has every reason to smile and enjoy the experience. Check out the cute and sweet BTS stills from the drama as released by MBC. Poor Sung Joon may have been the biggest waste of his talent in this drama but at least he seemed to have developed a real life bromance with Seung Gi. That’s worth something to me, those two cutie pies.
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MBC Releases Cheerful Candid Filming Stills as Gu Family Book Heads Towards Finale — 38 Comments
Jenina on June 24, 2013 at 6:52 AM said:
Love the stills they’re so adorable! They look like brother and sister with these bts photos. It’s nice to see all of them having so much fun while filming. I especially like Seung Gi and Sung Joon’s bromance shots haha. :))
Off topic! Ms. Koala I was wondering if you’ll still recap our beloved MONSTAR? Hihi hope you’d reply! Thanks! 🙂
snow_white on June 24, 2013 at 6:55 AM said:
I think Lee Seung Gi himself looks so young and Suzy is a good match as far as age is concerned.
I liked him with Ha Ji Won, but still, he looked younger than her. Shin Min Ah was really cute with him and Han Hyo Joo was perfect for him.
OneVoice on June 24, 2013 at 1:22 PM said:
she is too young
Ash on June 24, 2013 at 3:13 PM said:
Early ’87 to late ’94 and early ’87 to mid ’78 are almost the same freaking gap – about 8 years and about 9 years, respectively. Dude might look younger than 26, but he sure doesn’t look 18.
who is talking about looks? She is to young for him both age and maturity wise. And to young, and to poor of an actress to have been cast in this lead role. Period.
snow_white on June 24, 2013 at 8:26 PM said:
well…..I’m not exactly talking about ‘age’….at least not going by numbers….Just the way they look…..They both look young and of similar age…..that’s all I’m saying 🙂
thay on June 24, 2013 at 7:40 AM said:
For me it seems I don’t have the same opinion with you Ms.Koala..hehehe..I really enjoy their chemistry.and this is the second time I really enjoy Seung Gi and his co-star chemistry.Before GFB,I enjoy Seung Gi-Han Hyo Joo chemistry.I also like his other co-stars like Ha Ji Won and Shin Min Ah,but two that I enjoy the most are when he was with Hyoo Joo and now with Suzy.I feel the same excitement for seeing Seung Gi-Suzy scene as what I have experienced with Seung Gi-Hyo Joo.And I don’t get any feeling of dongsaeng-oppa at all from Seung Gi and Suzy..LOL.
skelly on June 24, 2013 at 11:53 AM said:
I agree with koala. Suzy is just as cute as a basketful of kittens, and LSG is just as adorable as a puppy that’s just ‘fessed-up’ to chewing on your slipper, but there is so little sexual chemistry there they could very well have played brother and sister with just a tweak of the words and a few less clinches.
To me, chemistry is more than just the impression that a couple actually enjoys each other’s company – I need to get the feeling that the only thing keeping them from jumping into bed is the interference of the plot and the necessity for saying some words. So from that criteria, LSG had much better “chemistry” with Ha Ji won, and as for Suzy – she’s never had it, yet.
he and chung jo actress have it too, they would have made it enjoyable and believable. I started FF her scenes, cant watch her
Ivoire on June 24, 2013 at 2:00 PM said:
I agree, if LSG had continued with LYB (as a lead for example, leading to more scenes in general and more romantic scenes with her), they would have been really good. They had really good chemistry.
Emil on June 24, 2013 at 10:13 AM said:
Omg this is a first lmao. I very much respect the opinion but so totally think the complete opposite. These two have so so much chemistry it’s ridiculous. Their emotional scenes just get you at the heart. But anyway, that’s what I think.
Adore the first pic and how comfortable they are with one another. Even rehearsing while hugging is cute. Seung gi has bromance (or rather chemistry in general) with pretty much everyone. I love his relationship with the cast and I hope these guys remain in contact for a long time 🙂
lol, Seung gi awesome actor, but the chemistry is not romantic or sexual its big brother all the way.
Emil on June 25, 2013 at 2:58 AM said:
Like I said. Personal opinion differs 🙂
pogo on June 24, 2013 at 10:31 AM said:
You’re right on the money – they have no romantic chemistry, in fact they have more spark with Sung Joon than they do with each other.
And I don’t even think it is the age gap, since IU is just a year older than Suzy and has a THIRTEEN-year age gap with Jo Jong-suk on You’re The Best Lee Soon-shin, and still had chemistry with him (I say had, because the makjang of that drama made me give up). It’s just not there between LSG and Suzy, which is a shame.
You’re also right about Sung Joon being sadly wasted in here – he’s enjoyable when he’s on, but his character is so pointless.
ilikemangos on June 24, 2013 at 11:02 AM said:
Yeah, age is nothing but a number when it comes to romantic chemistry. On the other hand, age can be used to your advantage or it can turn against you. That’s why we praise so many child actors these days because they exceed our expectations and are able to captivate us at such a young age with their keen understanding of the acting world. And then we shake our heads at someone like the beautiful but lacking song seung hun.
Suzy is staring in a show that requires her to be more mature than her age, so she needs to give a stronger, better performance than she did in dream high(where there weren’t as much critics on her acting then because she suit the role she was given). The backlash is mostly apparent now in GFB for suzy because it was more obvious that she is not as strong of an actress to take on the role of yeo wool. I did love her more for her performance in dream high, and that’s because i wasn’t screaming at her behind the screen to emote more. I do however appreciate the fact that she is trying harder and is evidently improving in some scenes so anyone who’s working hard on their weaknesses gets a plus in my book.
Also, i noticed my icon color is always a light purple. Are we all assigned the same color on this blog? That’s king of cool.
pogo on June 25, 2013 at 3:56 PM said:
Ilikemangos – she’s trying, and the effort shows when it actually shouldn’t – she just does not have a knack for acting, or playing characters really, and I don’t excuse it in Hand Towel so I really don’t see any reason to accept the million excuses her fans put out for her (the writing, the directing, the costars, her age, everyone else sucks, blah blah blah). She has a cute personality though, she’d make a better variety host than an actress tbh.
Anon on June 25, 2013 at 4:57 AM said:
My opinion is that IU and JJS have totally no chemistry, I can’t feel or see them as a real couple at all. For the Kangdam couple, I just feel that they are a match made in heaven. Love watching them together !!
Jenny on June 24, 2013 at 10:58 AM said:
I think they should just have kept the story with Lee Yeon Hee and hot gumiho daddy.
You’re right, from the start I’ve felt to real connection or attraction between the main characters.
They seem more like friends then lovers, they’d make a cute sibling pair with Seung Gi and protective oppa but that’s about it.
Suzy isn’t leading lady quality (not yet at least) and Sung Joon was such a wasted talent in this.
Yoo Bi on the other hand, hopefully she’ll get some good parts after this and continue to develop because she is good. I know she’s been critiqued for riding on her mothers coattails but she proved that she has talent.
Who is Yoo Bi’s mom? I thought she was an up-and-coming actress, her work here very promising, and I have no idea who her mother is.
If idols can get into a show with nothing but a wink and a wave to their credit, I don’t see why actors/actresses progeny should be criticized. In Japan, it is an honored tradition to have sons and daughters continue in the trade, and they have a lot more going for them then a set of abs or a winsome personality. Really, fans don’t have a leg to stand on in criticizing Yoo Bi.
Jenny on June 24, 2013 at 12:32 PM said:
Yup, I agree. In Japan you have plenty of performers who’s parents also are in the industry and aren’t critiqued for it.
Lee Yoo Bi’s mother is the actress Kyun Mi Ri (currently in wonderful mama). Yoo Bi proved that she can act and is someone to reckon with. She steals every scene with Suzy. I hope she can continue getting good parts.
I agree with all you said, especially about Lee Yoo Bi. She was the really unexpected gem of this drama when her character had stuff to do, and i hope she gets a lead role in a good project too – famous mother or not, the girl is really good and I find it amazing, how much she’s improved with each project she does.
BuddhaCat on June 24, 2013 at 11:56 AM said:
Suzy looks like a lovely bunny in the last picture 🙂
Thank you for posting these stills…
madqueen on June 24, 2013 at 5:25 PM said:
As a fangirl of LSG, I didn’t enjoy reading some of your opinions on his acting (and Suzy’s for that mattet) or the drama, which in my opinion, are overly harsh. But despite that I had to agree with you on several points.
LSG’s chemistry with Suzy is mostly just cute and not romantic. I enjoy the cute moments but their romance did not touch my heart at all and I wasn’t even expecting anything deep or heartrending in the first place.
Writing and directing were uneven, and these, more than the acting, were the letdown of GFB. Like you, I find GFB enjoyable on a very surface level, and though there are scenes which will raise my heartbeat or make my eyes tear (which are only the scenes between KC and LSS), in the end this is a drama which I will not re-watch.
ck on June 24, 2013 at 6:58 PM said:
for me i agreed that both of them have more of oppa and dongsaeng chemistry but for suzy..as the show goes ,i m more convinced with her acting ability.esp on the last few episodes.for those who don’t watch the show because can’t stand of suzy’s acting,i recommend u to watch few last episodes.if u compare her to some of the senior actresses(ex : eugene in hundred years inheritance,i like her too but her acting is terrible in this drama)suzy is much more better now.
I have watched, she has not done the role justice, and
she is still horrible. I am honestly glad this show is over after one more episode, so that I never have to watch her again. I thought that if anyone could warm me to her it would be LSG but no luck. And I feel bad for all the negative he has had to endure because of her poor acting, and the show being written to accommodate her poor skills.
madqueen on June 24, 2013 at 11:40 PM said:
Actually, I get that you have your opinion of Suzy’s acting. I too think that she has a long way to go in terms of acting ability.
But all your comments about her are so vociferous that you come across as anti-Suzy and seemed rather biased in your obvious dislike of her.
Whoopsie on June 24, 2013 at 9:43 PM said:
I’m actually fine with Suzy and like their chemistry. What I am not fine with is the director and the writer. They completely under cook what could have been a very heartwarming story.
reglest on June 25, 2013 at 5:37 AM said:
seconding this, the repeato mode over and over forced me to skip scenes. And more over, the way he let suzy just stand ther is a meh, Suzy is yes, not very experienced, but there’s no reason to let viewer know it. Im not a fan nor anti here, I just see that the biggest fault comes from the writing and directing
yoeda on June 24, 2013 at 9:52 PM said:
age is nothing. the importance is the chemistry. to bring it the actor has to work well together. sorry to mention here, instead the BIG age difference IU and JJS really have a great chemistry in YTBLSS. they both really look good together. for me age is nothing when the actor can bring it in their action and pull out the chemistry well.
Fuzzy on June 25, 2013 at 5:08 AM said:
I really have to disagree that IU and JJS have great chemistry together, really they are more like Uncle and niece to me, not even siblings. I can’t for the life of me, picture them as a romantic couple. LSg and Suzy on the other hand, are my idea of an ideal couple, I watched GFB because I root for them and hope they have a happy ending !
yoeda on June 25, 2013 at 7:25 AM said:
maybe you dont watch the drama yet so you said something like that. hmmm its ok for me its just my opinion and other people who really ship for IU-JJS pairing in that drama.
Larkspur on June 25, 2013 at 12:33 AM said:
Oh, so cute photos. Love ’em!
jiki on June 25, 2013 at 7:11 AM said:
Ratings were solid but nothing to brag about. They still didn`t pass that famous 20% mark and i doubt they will. And with two IT stars like Lee Seunggi and Suzy i think they were expecting a National drama. Yes they were No1 drama in it`s time slot but lets be honest- they had weak competition!
Compare it to Yawang in same time slot who had better rating but had HUGE competition from the Horse Doctor.
Tbh i would say in terms of rating the drama didn`t disappoint but it wasn`t precisely a hit drama!
The two IT stars were great, esp LSG unfortunately the plot leaves much to be desired. Frankly if I were not such an ardent fan of LSG or if Kang Chi was acted by some other actor, I would have not watched till the end.
jasmine on July 20, 2013 at 3:43 PM said:
i hope lee seung gi and yoon eun hye will work together. it will be the best!
tulip on July 20, 2013 at 3:46 PM said:
i hope lee seung gi and yoon eun hye will work in drama together. i really love both of them. i hope it will happen before he will enlist in the army. plsssss…….
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what you wish you didn’t have to know about FRACKING
For every link I’ve supplied, there are a dozen more I could have included.
I encourage you to just read through the article, and if you have a longing for proof, go back to the explorations. Then keep digging – it’s endless.
In Alberta, Ronalie and Shawn Campbell’s previously excellent well water is now saturated with methane, ethane, propane, butane and isobutane. The trees flanking their well – which is surrounded by over 50 energy wells within a one mile radius – have died. Jessica Ernst is heavy-lifting a $33 million lawsuit against Encana /Alberta Environment / and the Energy Resources Conservation Board. Her skin burns and develops rash when she showers. Not that she can do that anymore. But she can light her water on fire. Bruce Jack’s water well actually exploded. He was hospitalized for a month with 3rd degree burns.
Flocks of canaries in our fracking mines.
Asthma. Hair loss. Burning eyes. Burning skin. Tremors. Mouth ulcers. Heart palpitations. Stomach cramps. Headaches. Nosebleeds. Vomiting. Projectile diarrhea. Lesions. Loss of balance. Slurred speech. Spitting blood. Abscessed teeth. Sick horses. Dead goats. Dead dogs, dead chickens, dead cats. Dead cows.
Symptoms of fracking contamination. Because the chemicals that oil and gas companies use in their operations are called “proprietary”, grasping the implications of such symptoms has been the stuff of detective novels.
Fracking blasts methodically poisoned freshwater and slickwater at mad volumes of pressure deep into the earth, cracking open fissures to release crude oil and natural gas. Fracturing technology isn’t new to the petroleum industry. But this new generation of fracking – which mines over a mile deep and then makes an elbow turn to mine over a mile horizontally – hideously pollutes water sources, destroys the land it pummels, emits a giddy amount of methane and sucks up unconscionable quantities of fresh water. And it’s infecting our world like a pox.
The chemicals used in the fracking process have been kept secret by the industry for years. However, like a scientific sleuth, the Endocrine Disruption Exchange has deliberately, systematically been uncovering the boiling pot and analyzing its contents with focused concern.
Benzene, ethylbenzene, xylene, naphthalene, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, methanol, formaldehyde, ethylene glycol, glycol ethers … I could go on. Which are hazardous if inhaled, ingested, or touch the skin. They’re caustic, carcinogenic, mutagenic, and teratogenic. Neat words with explosive meaning. The Endocrine Disruption Exchange, although disabled from discovering all of the chemicals that are flavouring the soup, reports that 93% of the ones they can confirm affect health, and 43% are endocrine disruptors. Endocrine disruptors are man-made chemicals that mimic, or block, hormones. Mess up the body’s normal function. Linked to infertility, ADHD, autism, diabetes and thyroid disorders. Fetal exposure can lead to childhood and adult cancers.
And that’s just the soil and water pollution. Which occurs in a variety of ways, including the contamination of wells through groundwater seepage – at issue in the poisoning of the Campbell’s, Jessica Ernst and Bruce Jack water. The oil and gas barons – and our government for that matter – trumpet that there’s no documented proof of fracking causing this pollution. Jessica Ernst, with 30 years of petroleum industry experience, is one of many scientists and public health officials here and abroad who begs to differ. In fact, her $33 million lawsuit sets out to prove that EnCana is a lawbreaker and Alberta Environment and the Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) are complicit in the contamination of her well water and Rosebud, Alberta’s groundwater supply.
The beguilement began in 2005. To date, the court has ruled that the Alberta government granted complete immunity to the ERCB, absolving the regulatory board from its duty to protect landowners from the harmful effects of fracking. To be precise, the ERCB had total immunity for “not only negligence, but gross negligence, bad faith and even deliberate acts.” Ms. Ernst – whom the Energy Resources Conservation Board labelled an ecoterrorist – was ordered to pay the ERCB’s costs.
Countless of the aggrieved have been silenced. Award winning Journalist Andrew Nikiforuk states: “As somebody who has reported for 20 years on this industry in [Alberta], I can tell you I’ve met hundreds of people in this province who have signed confidentiality agreements once their water was blown, once their livestock was killed, once a member of their family were injured, once they lost most of their grass or their trees as a result of fouling events, contamination events, air pollution, you name it. It is common practice in this province to buy people out, and then buy their silence … so there is no record of how this industry quite often performs badly.”
The air pollution is equally shocking.
Gas drilling air pollution is released during all phases of operations – including Venting, which releases gas during well, pipeline and tank maintenance; and Flaring, which burns gas that’s a safety hazard. Flares explode into the sky with the noise of a jet engine, deliriously emitting chemicals of as yet unknown quantity. They run night and day. Next to the klieg lights. Sweet dreams.
Alberta sports 5,300 flare sites (a conservative figure I’ve drawn from Alberta Research Council’s 2000 research doc prepared for Alberta Environment – a very difficult figure to track down. See below). The air borne toxic compounds found in fracking communities include toluene, benzene and formaldehyde. Moderate exposure to toluene can cause excessive sleepiness, confusion, hearing loss and brain damage. Long-term exposure to benzene can affect the immune system and cause cancer – notably leukaemia. Formaldehyde causes severe central nervous system impairment. Chromosomal damage. And cancer. Anything else these toxins are famous for? Neurological, pulmonary, gastroenterological, dermatological, immunological, hematological, endocrinological, ophthalmological, reproductive, and genetic illnesses and abnormalities. And, perhaps needless to say, death. Likely a very painful and egregious one.
Further, researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration report alarmingly high rates of methane leakage from natural gas fields. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency calculates emissions of 5.6 billion pounds per year. Methane is 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. Making coal the winner over “natural” gas in the greenhouse gas emission stakes. NOAA scientists found the Weld County, Colorado gas well emissions to be equal to the carbon emissions of one to three million cars.
Which brings us to the truck traffic. 80,000 pound 18-wheelers in convoys of up to 100 tankers, kicking up the contaminated dust and spewing diesel fume. 1,800 to 2,600 truck drive-bys per well. In an 8 well pad site, that’s …. oh, up to roughly 21,000 18-wheeler drive-bys to that particular pad. And there can be up to 28 wells on one pad. So long coffee chats on the front porch! That’s if you can make it home through the traffic congestion. And wear a mask if you’re pregnant – diesel fumes will deliver you a low birth-weight baby with lifelong health and learning issues. Not to mention asthma. Ozone levels around the drilling sites can be higher than the worst smog days in Los Angeles. Kills the trees, too. Not to mention your property value. Oh, everything in this story kills your property value.
The degradation isn’t limited to what’s going into our land, air, water and food systems. Fracking sucks the life out of our fresh water supplies. As Halliburton, the sperm of the industry, positions it on their website: “So how does this process actually work? Well, it starts with a good bit of water and a lot of sand.” A good bit of water. Indeed. According to a recently filed lawsuit in the B.C. Supreme Court, in three years EnCana has drawn 880 Olympic-sized swimming pools’ worth of water from the Kiskatinaw River … Dawson Creek’s drinking water. That’s only one of the 540 rivers, lakes and streams the industry is guzzling in that province. And they’re only getting started. Thousands more drill sites are slated for the area over the next few decades.
One frack uses 1 million to 5 million gallons of water … as much fresh ground water that services up to 55,000 Canadian households a day. A new report by the US Environment American Research and Policy Centre found that the fracking of 82,000 wells had used enough water to sustain three billion people using 65 gallons of water a day.
What becomes of our fresh water after it’s been mixed with sand and chemicals and fiercely drummed into the earth with seismic force? 60% – 40% of what is now industrial waste lurks somewhere deep in the earth, presumably becoming absorbed into the shale. 40% – 60% of what is now industrial waste makes it back to the surface. Each well produces millions of gallons of this wastewater – often left in open toxic ponds, evaporating. Otherwise it’s transported out the way it came in. Cue the 80,000 pound 18-wheelers again, trucking the contaminated flowback out of the site. Destroying roads, spreading toxic dust, bullying traffic, pounding the air with diesel fumes and raucous din and causing accidents.
And where do they drive it to? An oil CEO’s swimming pool perhaps? These guys insist their frack water is drinkable after all – ceremoniously sipping it at press conferences. Ha ha! Convinced me! (Well, no. I’ve researched the horrifying illnesses that befall the wastewater truck drivers.) They’re driving it to disposal wells. Where they re-inject it into the ground. Are there concerns that wastewater pits and disposal wells can fail? Yes there are. In British Columbia for example, surface spills and improper disposal are considered “highly feasible” due to the vast amount of toxic waste fluid (4.2 billion litres in 2009) that’s being transported and disposed of. Oil Company Vintage Production in California was recently charged with illegally dumping fracking fluid into an open pit for 12 days. A neighbour happened to think it looked odd. In 2011, the 18 wheeler convoys motored their diesel ass’s from Pennsylvania to Ohio, carrying over 100 million gallons of Fracksylvania’s finest because they’d run out of room to store it in the Penn. Share the wealth, boys!
And the discussion about earthquakes can slip in here. They’ve increased dramatically over the past few years. Central and eastern United States have gone from 21 quakes a year from 1967-2000, to more than 300 earthquakes during 2010-2012. Studies of injection sites in Oklahoma, Texas and Colorado recorded hundreds of earthquakes in a year where they would have expected a dozen. Geophysicists conclude that the cause of this trend is the disposal of the waste, more so than the fracking itself. Permanently injecting the waste into the ground saturates the fault lines, making them less stable. Then distant seismic pulses squeeze these fault lines, resulting in the quakes. The U.S. Geological Survey reports that micro-earthquakes are routinely produced as part of the hydraulic fracturing process, yet, wastewater disposal by injection into deep wells induces larger earthquakes. The largest of these was a magnitude 5.6 in central Oklahoma that destroyed 14 homes and injured two people.
And yet. And yet – the fracking industry is Booming. Booming because our governments are granting oil and gas companies permit after permit in province after province, state after state. Without regulation. Even while millions of citizens across the continent are losing their health, their water, their land, their livestock, their equanimity, and their homes, our governments are selling us out at an unholy pace. More than 3,000 projects have been approved in Canada without any federal environmental review. According to Canada’s auditor general, more than 800 chemicals have been used to frack open more than 200,000 oil and gas wells. Also according to that same auditor general’s report, over the next decade, the industry will increase by more than 50 percent – and almost double over the next 20 years. Yet, both Environment Canada and Health Canada admit that “a complete list of substances used in Canada is not known.” Remember the 425 page C-38 omnibus bill Prime Minister Harper rammed through Parliament in 2012? One of the myriad laws, buried in what was called the Budget Bill, exempted such projects from environmental assessment. You will note in Part II, section 5.85 of the above report “The Minister of the Environment has discretion regarding industry reporting requirements … oil and gas exploration and drilling activities are exempt from reporting to the NPRI (National Pollutant Release Inventory).” Say what?
The industry – together with our governments – spend millions convincing us that “natural” gas is green. And yet, as Andrew Nikiforuk informs us, their use of energy has skyrocketed since 2002, from 2 million horsepower to 10 million. He equates that to a pumping ability equal to eleven 740 megawatt nuclear stations. Yes. We’re using the power equivalent of 11 nuclear reactors to frack North America. And here’s another bitter morsel – 55.7% of the gas produced in BC in 2012 went to Alberta to generate the tar sands industry. We’re paying for the oil & gas industry to operate the oil & gas industry. Voraciously consuming fossil fuel to extract fossil fuel. Maybe the people who fight wind farms being built on their horizon should be the first to have a well pond glinting in their morning sunrise – its radioactive mist beckoning the family pets to a hideous death.
Fracking is operating with impunity in British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta. It’s being shoved down the throats of the citizens of New Brunswick, where our Elsipogtog First Nations are putting their bodies in front of the RCMP cars that are protecting SWN Resources (the fifth largest producer of natural gas in the United States). The first two wells in the N.W.T just got green-lighted. Quebec is currently maintaining a shaky moratorium, but the 5,000 square kilometres of Utica shale running along and under the St. Lawrence River from Montreal to Quebec City is gobbled up by shale gas permits granted to energy companies between 2006 – 2010. The government of Labrador and Newfoundland recently put applications for fracking on hold. Nova Scotia has ramped up its precautionary measures by banning the importation of fracking water. Nexen and IGBC hold approximately 300,000 acres of shale gas resource within the Liard, Horn River and Cordova Basins in northeast B.C. – that’s Dene and Cree territory. Scientists with Global Forest Watch Canada analyzed 40 years of satellite images of the Peace Region of British Columbia to track the clear cuts, oil wells and fracking operations: If laid end to end, the roads, pipelines and seismic lines in that 56,000-square-kilometre region would wrap around the planet four and a half times. And in Ontario, oil and gas companies have surreptitiously leased huge tracts of land over the Ordovician shale formation, which covers all of Southern Ontario. Including Toronto. The Ontario Geological Survey – an administrative Branch of the Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines – has already drilled in 11 locations, compromising the Great Lakes, Georgian Bay and local watersheds. Swim and ski landmarks, Blue Mountain and Collingwood, have been fingered as the most appealing sites.
And for what? David Hughes, a geoscientist who’s studied the energy resources of Canada for nearly four decades, including 32 years with the Geological Survey of Canada as a scientist and research manager, informs us that conventional gas wells typically decline by 25% – 40% in their first year of production, but fractured shale gas wells typically decline by 63% – 85%. I’m sorry, but even those of us with limited math abilities can deduce that this is an equation that ends badly.
I wish I could report that I’ve actually been revealing a Margaret Atwood dystopia. But no. This is the reality of towns across North America where people raising a family in tranquility wake up one day and find a well across the street. Literally. Or in their next door neighbour’s back yard. Within days entire blocks of their neighbourhoods are ravaged. They can’t sleep because the booming is relentless even throughout the night. Convoys are barreling through school zones. Children are passing out in the shower. People are developing tumors. Animals die. Tap water lights on fire. A house in Bainbridge Ohio actually got lifted right off its very self and was destroyed – while Richard and Thelma Payne were in it. That was the end of their home of 51 years. Calvin Tillman, the mayor of Dish, Texas abandoned his mayorship along with the home and property he and his wife had painstakingly built for their family and fled to protect their children’s lives – after the severe nosebleeds his sons were suffering began to resemble the scene of a bloody murder. His description. Gary Gless bought his dream home in the sublime neighbourhood of Windsor Hills, Los Angeles in 2002, anticipating his elite view of the first tee and clubhouse of the projected 18 hole golf course. Today, he leans over his balcony into the noise and toxic, rotten egg odour of the 1,000-acre Inglewood Oil Field that has reduced his property value by 80% and turned him into an activist for a fracking ban in California.
There is no moral compass within the map of this industry’s invasion. In Pennsylvania, more than 3,000 fracking wells were identified within two miles of 320 day care centres, 67 schools and nine hospitals. In Texas, breast cancer rates are spiking among women living in the six counties with the most drilling, while breast cancer rates declined in the rest of Texas. Women’s cancers found in areas of intense activity include breast, cervix, colon, ovary, rectum, uterus, and vagina. I’d never even heard of vagina cancer till now. Had you? Men living in the same region are in the highest bracket for deaths from cancer of the bladder, prostate, rectum, stomach, and thyroid (based on National Cancer Institute cancer mortality maps and graphs 2011).
Alberta Premier Alison Redford appointed a new head to The Alberta Energy Regulator last year. His name is Gerald Protti. Gerald Protti is the founding president of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers. You heard that right. The industry’s main lobby group. He was also vice president of EnCana. Under Gerald Protti’s fresh thumbprint, Shawn and Ronalie Campbell’s 8 year fight for help addressing the contamination of their water and their land has come to a sudden end. The Regulator declared their case “closed”. Neither has Bruce Jack’s burned body solicited answers or compensation.
Alberta also has a brand new Responsible Energy Development Act which introduced what’s become known as the “Ernst Clause” after Jessica Ernst. The one suing the Alberta government and EnCana for $33 mill for destroying her water. The new clause – the “Ernst Clause” – prevents landowners and citizens from suing the regulator for wrongdoing and negligence.
According to Ms. Ernst, she was used as a test tube. As was her community. But the ERCB’s labeling her an ecoterrorist? Dust under her boots. This respected biologist spends a lot of money digging up the hidden proof of culpability. She educates and inspires communities who are suffering as she has. Eight years into it, she’s still before the courts. She’s appealing the dismissal of her suit against ERCB and her suit against Alberta Environment and EnCana is awaiting trial. She was awarded the 2011 Woman of Courage Award by UNANIMA International. She’s a hero across the the continent and across the ocean.
The United States is suffering on a grand scale from Fracking. We can learn from their hard-won lessons before it’s beyond redemption in our own country. Will we?
And on a parallel track, perhaps we should redirect the money raised for cancer research and put it toward lobbying for sustainable energy.
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p.s. When I read an article that disdains the voices against fracking, I investigate the writer.
Guess what his background turns out to be …
FRACKING ACROSS CANADA!!!!!!!!
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flaring seen from space
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Fracking 101 (chemicals explained)
10 of the scariest chemicals used in fracking
U.S. reveals fracking chemicals
Personal stories of Albertans losing health and homes
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Cost to human health from flaring
Endocrine Disruption Study
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Science Lags as Health Problems Emerge
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Fracking moves into a U.S. neighbourhood
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LEAD PEOPLE Lisa Mills, Ph.D., Subject Matter Expert, Integrated Employment
Lisa Mills is currently working as a consultant to 13 states on various strategies for expanding integrated, competitive employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities. In addition to acting as a subject matter expert (SME) for the LEAD Center, she is also a SME for the ODEP-funded Employment First State Leadership Mentoring Program (EFSLMP). Mills has worked in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities for 25 years. Her work on integrated employment spans the last 12 years, beginning with grassroots efforts as part of her role supporting the People First self-advocacy movement. Over the past nine years, she has worked extensively with state Medicaid and vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies on a broad range of systems change strategies to support the expansion of integrated competitive employment for youth and adults with disabilities.
In 2002, Mills developed one of the first truly self-directed career planning processes for individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities. In 2006, Mills authored a widely read report, entitled Revitalizing Integrated Employment, which documented nationwide best and emerging practices to support increased participation by people with intellectual/developmental disabilities in integrated employment. From 2007-2008, she was lead staff to one state Medicaid agency’s broad-based taskforce on integrated employment, which led her to managing more than $1 million in systems change funding to implement a variety of innovative best practices that included a community rehabilitation program (CRP) organizational change initiative; an employment outcomes data system; a performance-based supported employment reimbursement model; and the first national example of successfully embedding Customized Employment services in the state VR and Medicaid long-term care systems. From 2009-2010, Mills was primary author of one state’s rewrite of its home and community-based services (HCBS) waiver employment service definitions. Her development of a revised definition of prevocational services informed the changes made by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in its information bulletin on employment released in September 2011.
Currently, Mills is a Ruderman Fellow and Senior Technical Advisor to the Coalition to Promote Self-Determination. She is also a board member and public policy chair for TASH. Mills believes passionately in respecting individuals with disabilities by having high expectations of the contributions they can make to our society. In the words of Nelson Mandela she quotes, “there is no passion in playing small…in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
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Reporter’s Notebook: Swat after the Army
February 3, 2013 By madiha in Field Notes No Comments Tags: army, operation, swat, war
Some time in 2008, I met Lalaji (Khan Sahib) and his nephew, refugees from Swat who had fled to Brooklyn. Reading the Amnesty International report on the abuses of the Pakistan Army, their stories come back to me now, along with others I heard when I finally went to Swat in 2009 shortly after a Pakistani Army operation. So, I dug up my old notebooks and harddrives on Swat. What follows are fragments of notes and video, stories and lives.
A large version of this video, here.
By 2009, the Pakistan Army had decided on Operation Rah-e-Rast (Righteous Path), a move heralded by Pakistani liberals and the US. Both camps had been unsettled by the irenic tone of the secular, provincial Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government as it struck a peace deal in February with the militant turned questionable peacemaker, TNSM leader Sufi Muhammad. The deal quickly soured, and a feverish clamor for an army offensive took over.
Militants had been attacking civilians as early as 2003. Local ANP politicians were killed with impunity and their mutilated bodies left in public to serve as a warning. On several occasions, ill-trained policemen surrendered to the Taliban rather than defend their towns. By 2007, the TTP already controlled sections of Malakand division, the larger district of which Swat is a part.
Rah-e-Rast was to be purgative, clarifying. Approximately 20,000 regular Army troops were deployed to Swat to fight an estimated 5,000 to 7,000 militants. In mid-October finally, Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik declared, “Operation Rah-e-Rast in Swat was successful.”
It takes us over five hours to get to Swat from Islamabad.
After the war—if it can be called a war—Swat also has the startling runic quality of a Dali painting. Shots of fuschia flowers peek furtively throw a window in a crumbling lone brick wall standing mysteriously at the edge of a field. A few miles on, a soldier peers out of a sand sack fort by the side of a dappled road. Directly across him, a staircase plateaus to the open air like an unfinished thought. Driving through Swat is like that now, a series of questions, punctuated by the Army.
Checkpoints dot the road with increasing frequency as we near the capital, Mingora. The soldiers are by turns surprisingly hospitable and gruff. At one checkpoint, we’re offered tea. At another, a soldier speaks roughly to my guide and demands to see the medicines in my bag: allergy pills.
The security is simultaneously high and thoroughly penetrable. At still another checkpoint, the soldier on guard dismisses our government issued ID cards demanding instead to see a business card for verification. The latter can be easily printed for less than a penny.
First Britain, now Pakistan: the army is here again.
Interview fragments
Zainab—not her real name—has three kids and a detached indifference to the aftermath the military’s offensive. The death of her husband by an army explosion as he was making his way home from Friday prayers has unutterably altered her life. She searches for words to explain the economic hardships she’s now handling. She relies on her extended family for material support.
We’re sitting on the carpeted floor of a bedroom in Matta, a town about 30 kilometres north of Swat’s capital, Mingora. Nearly twenty women around us. News that we were coming had somehow spread, and neighborhood women kept gathering till the room became overstuffed with women and stories. They’re actually gracious that we’ve made it out this far. Not many journalists pass through here, they say. I feel silly being thanked simply for showing up.
Matta had been a militant stronghold, intermittently, since 2003 when the Taliban set up its own courts. Criminals terrorized the local residents here, butchering those that defied—or seemed to defy—the militants’ law. They were barbarous, pitiless and unrepentantly bloodthirsty.
Begum Iqbal is unreservedly glad the army came. She’s chatty, decisive in her opinions and the wife of an Urdu language professor. “It was good for us,” she tells me. “If the army weren’t here, the Taliban would be.” Her opinion is in the sheer minority in the room.
Eighteen year old Shabano—not her real name—cuts her off saying, “I don’t agree.” I turn towards her, and she looks surprised at herself for having expressed her opinion so boldly, and that too, over an elder.
“All the poor people stayed. The rich left.” She speaks nervously, her voice slightly high-pitched. “My married brothers left, but the rest of us were here. There was no food. The rations ran out. My school was destroyed.” She pauses.
“You don’t know what we went through. I don’t like talking about it.” She stops.
The casual attacks, the “collateral damage,”coupled with the merciless beatings and the torture of suspects I hear about do not look like an army trying to protect its citizenry. It looks like collective punishment. For Swatis, that has often meant that neither the government nor the army have provided support. In fact, they speak of collusion.
“There would be a soldier here and a Talib here,” says Mehnaz putting her forefingers next to each other, “but the soldier would do nothing.” She hails from a small village in Swat. I initially met her in a Pashtun neighbourhood in Karachi where she had fled after the army offensive began along with her two young children and extended family. “The Talib would leave the area, and then they would begin bombing.”
In one notable incident in 2008, the openly pro-Taliban commissioner of Malakand, Mohammad Syed Javed reprimanded and disarmed residents of Buner who had organized themselves into a militia against Taliban incursions into their town. The commissioner forced the Buneris to apologize to the militants during a meeting at his house.
“What can I say? The government doesn’t ask us anything,” said Asfand Ali when I prodded him about his opinion on the recent operation. His brother and father were killed when a mortar fell on their house.
“Whatever they do is just fine. They killed a lot of innocent people.” A ghost of a smile flickers across his face. “They can do whatever they want. It’s the government.”
Originally published at Tanqeed
July 16, 2012 By madiha in Print No Comments Tags: the new inquiry, victims, war
Reporting war
April 7, 2011 By madiha in Narratives, Press the issue, War on Terror Tags: fata, journalism, press, reporting, tribal areas, war
A conference of journalists working in the tribal areas came to some interesting conclusions:
Growing anarchy has made access to information dependent on the will of the military and the militants. Both have shown little tolerance in allowing reporters to work independently. In threatening circumstances, journalists feel little hesitation in toeing the line, which has made journalism subservient to military strategies. More importantly, it has provided journalists with an excuse to justify anything in the name of insecurity, making professional dishonesty the norm in war reporting.
Ethically, any defensive measure is justified if it helps reporters keep safe. In the local context, however, this provisional compromise is of little help in ensuring their security. Meanwhile, it has killed in them the spirit of initiative. There is a growing realisation that journalism in a hostile situation is mainly about serving the combatants. This has caused complacency in war reporters. They take pride in their relationship with militants, who often invite them to cover terror at the source.
This should give pause to think tanks which regularly use this reporting to build arguments for or against drones and more generally, the ‘war on terror.’
April 2, 2011 By madiha in War on Terror No Comments Tags: america, drone, pakistan, US, war
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One day I noticed that “Paki’s Out” had just been painted in giant letters along the side of Dagenham Swimming Pool. I decided to go and paint it out that evening. About midnight I was happily painting over it when I noticed a man with an Alsatian and a woman out of the corner of my eye. Better safe than sorry, I thought, so I decided to walk round the block and finish the painting afterwards. I turned into Morris Road, then THUD!, I received a massive punch on the back of the head which sent me sprawling forwards onto the pavement. I jumped up and got into a furious fight with the man who had seen me painting. We were knocking each other all over the place; through privet hedges, onto car bonnets, into the road. We were quite evenly matched I suppose, although he had the element of surprise initially. After what seemed like an age, although probably just a few minutes, we both reached complete exhaustion and stalemate. We looked at each other, then staggered off in different directions. Personally, I was totally shattered mentally and physically and I presume he was too.
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Another Friday and Josh Wolf still sits in federal prison
(Josh Wolf is a freelance journalist and anarchist. He has been jailed for refusing to turn over videotapes of a protest being investigated by federal authorities. Lots has been written about his case. Last Friday I ran a reminder of his incarceration. I’ll do it every Friday until he is freed. If you are a media blogger consider doing the same. Josh is alone. But he needs to know that he is not forgotten. Tom Abate, San Leandro, California; aka MiniMediaGuy.)
There was a benefit for Josh last night in San Francisco and he wrote a statement for the occasion explaining his reasons for defying a court order to turn over his cameras, tapes and other unpublished materials. In one excerpt he says:
“Does a democracy allow me to be a journalist? . . . By engaging in such pursuits should I become indebted to the government and forced to act as a de facto agent for the FBI? Is this the cost of committing journalism in a democratic country? I certainly hope not.”
Political people — especially those on the left — don’t always generate a lot of sympathy. But anyone who puts a value on liberty should pay attention to Josh. There is a vermin loose in Washington, D.C., that has been nibbling away at our rights. Not just the rights of anarchists, but my rights and yours. Sound extreme? Well, did you know that, if you have a cell phone, the FBI can listen in on you life – even when you think the phone is off.
When my oldest son showed me the story at first I didn’t believe it: the FBI can activate the microphone inside cell phones and use these devices listen in on conversations. Here are excerpts from a story by CNet reporters Declan McCullagh and Anne Broache, who specialize in writing about technology and civil liberties:
“The FBI appears to have begun using a novel form of electronic surveillance in criminal investigations: remotely activating a mobile phone’s microphone and using it to eavesdrop on nearby conversations . . . the eavesdropping technique ‘function(s) whether the phone was powered on or off.’ Some handsets can’t be fully powered down without removing the battery.”
The article explains that the technique was used in an organized crime investigation and pursuant to some form of court order. So I suppose if you don’t hang out with Mafioso you’re in no danger of being eavesdropped.
Because everybody seems to be a federal suspect these days. We have secret courts and surveillances that get run even without that fig leaf of authorization. Now we learn that Uncle Sam can use our cell phones to eavesdrop on our lives.
Had you ever heard of this before? Do you even believe it?
This entry was posted in Rants & Raves on December 8, 2006 by Tom Abate.
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Today, Acting Minister of Justice of the Republic of Armenia Artak Zeynalyan received the delegation led by OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Désir.
During the meeting, the Acting Minister and the OSCE Representative discussed the state of freedom of speech in Armenia, as well as a number of issues related to the strengthening of guarantees defined for the right of freedom of expression and the right to information.
Harlem Désir noted that the changes having taken place in Armenia create new opportunities for strengthening of freedom of the media and for implementing necessary reforms in the law for that purpose.
Artak Zeynalyan informed that he had been engaged in law-defence activities and had submitted many cases to the European Court of Human Rights for protecting freedom of the media before being appointed to the office of Minister of Justice. According to the Acting Minister, even though there are certain legislative gaps, nevertheless, the legal framework and the law-enforcement practice in Armenia are among the best in the world in terms of accessibility of information.
Touching upon the issue of protection of sources of information, the Acting Minister noted that Armenia has a decision on the Constitutional Court, by which the case-law of the European Court has been introduced in the legal system of Armenia.
During the meeting, the parties also discussed the opportunities for implementing legislative reforms targeted at protection of the rights of journalists, as well as for conducting a training course for journalists.
At the end of the meeting, an agreement was reached to receive an expert opinion and consultation from the OSCE for making reforms in the field of freedom of information.
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With thousands of breathtaking options on offer, deciding where to holiday in Indonesia can be hard work. That’s why we’ve come up with 10 simple questions to steer you towards your perfect island partner.
Best for: beaches
The beaches of Indonesia are the stuff of castaway fantasies. There are literally thousands to choose from, but the place that best combines extraordinary beauty with the convenience of easy transport links is Lombok – you can fly direct, or nip over on a fast boat from Bali.
There are beaches on the island for every occasion, but the standout for many visitors is Mawun. It goes without saying that Mawun has white sand and stunning, turquoise water, but the bonus here is the seclusion of an enclosed bay. The beach is rarely busy, and at “off-peak” times there’s a very real chance of having it all to yourself.
Another winner is Senggigi Beach, where can sit on the sand and watch the surfers do their stuff (or, if you’re so inclined, borrow a board and join in).
Jimbaran or Nusa Dua, Bali
Best for: children and teenagers
Older kids will love Jimbaran in Bali for its range of watersports. Close your eyes and try not to worry as you send them off parasailing, jet skiing, water skiing or bouncing along on a banana boat.
If you want to take it down a notch, there’s snorkeling and learning about turtle conservation.
If you’ve got younger kids, you might want to stay at a family-friendly resort to make use of the various kids clubs. (It’s your break, too, and it’s easier to relax by the pool knowing that your child is being professionally entertained in a purpose-built playroom.)
If you’re trying to cater for more than one age group, you might want to take a look at The Westin Resort in Nusa Dua, Bali. They have a “teen zone” packed with PlayStations and dedicated clubs for both toddlers and younger kids.
Best for: wellness
If your holiday packing is pretty much sun cream and yoga pants, and you like to come back from time away cleansed and invigorated, Ubud is for you.
Ubud is Bali’s center for healing, and in fact the name of the area comes from Ubad, which means medicine. This is the place to head for the full menu of luxury spas, Ayurvedic treatments, acupuncture or panchakarma programs.
Ubud is also Bali’s cultural nexus, and you can easily fill your days with temples and art galleries, ceremonies and dancing, and great cuisine.
After all that, enjoy a hedonistic four-handed massage before settling into bed to re-read Eat, Pray, Love.
Kuta, Bali
Best for: partying
With a reputation for good times, busy, crowded Kuta in Bali draws a young, energetic crowd ready to party.
Days are spent swimming, shopping, sunbathing or just chilling. Nightlife ranges from places where you buy beer by the bucket to the kind of upscale establishments where the barman takes care not to bruise the gin in your martini.
It’s not the prettiest of places on the island, or the most authentically Balinese, but it has an appealingly brash, good-humored vibe all of its own.
If hardcore partying isn’t your thing, you’ll also find a few quieter, less high-octane places for watching sunset turn into sunrise.
Yogyakarta, Java
Best for: cultural experiences
As it’s the history, culture and ceremonies of a new place that thrill you, you’ll probably find Yogyakarta the perfect destination.
This is the city where Java began, a place that was a powerhouse in the 8th and 9th centuries, and an opportunity for modern visitors to enjoy fascinating Javanese arts and traditions at every turn.
Beyond the urban sprawl are two of Indonesia’s most astounding archaeological sites: Borobudur and Prambanan. The Mahayana Buddhist temple at Borobudur boasts nine stacked platforms, six square and three circular, topped by a central dome, while the UNESCO World Heritage-listed temple compounds at Prambanan makes for a stunning spectacle in the style of Cambodia’s Angkor Wat.
Thanks to Yogyakarta’s surprisingly mild climate, a bit of exploring won’t leave you exhausted. That’s good news as there’s still the Sultan’s Palace to see, local silversmiths to admire in action at Kotagede, and endless pavement stalls selling the must-try local specialty gudeg: a stew of jackfruits simmered in coconut cream and served with chicken, egg or tofu.
Jakarta, Java
Best for: urban buzz
Beaches are OK, but who wants to spend a couple of weeks just lying in the sun? If you find lazing around a recipe for boredom, then your best bet is Jakarta.
From the aromatic, old-fashioned streets of Chinatown to the crazy nightlife in North Jakarta, you really can have any experience you like in this city of 10 million people.
You’ll find haute couture in Plaza Indonesia and the Grand Indonesia shopping town, but bargain hunters will be in heaven in the wholesale textile malls of Tanah Abang.
For a Jakartan market with edge, head to Pasar Santa on Jalan Wolter Monginsidi. This was a conservative indoor market until 2014, when it was transformed by a group of young entrepreneurs who wanted to use it to showcase their start-up companies. Now Pasar Santa has a unique mix of style-conscious places to eat, vinyl record stores, vintage clothing shops and cool coffee lounges. We promise you’ll go for the shopping and stay for the people watching.
Lombok’s Gili islands
Best for: diving
The Gili islands off the northwestern coast of Lombok are famed for their fantastic diving. The conditions are rarely difficult, the current is near non-existent, and you’ll pretty much always have at least 20m of visibility for spotting the first-class marine life.
Advanced divers will enjoy the deeper reefs, which have vast areas of pristine coral, swathes of hard corals and brightly colored fans.
A speedboat from Lombok’s main beach resort of Senggigi gets you to the trio of islands in around 20 minutes.
Trawangan (which everyone refers to as Gili T) is the funkiest of the three with chic bars and cool restaurants. Gili Air is more traditional and Meno is the least developed.
In recent times the waters surrounding Lombok have been intently watched by conservationists, so turtles are a common sight once again. You may also come face-to-face with a manta ray, reef sharks or even the rare Mola mola – the heaviest bony fish in the world, capable of weighing more than 950kg.
Not desperate to swim rapidly away from a fish that weighs much the same as your car? Fear not: there are endless colorful, pleasingly small fish pottering about in the shallows, too.
Lampung, Sumatra
Best for: wildlife
Lampung is an easy hop from Jakarta—take a 40-minute flight, or a seven-hour bus trip, your call—and you’ll soon be surrounded by what the World Wildlife Fund has called ‘one of the planet’s most biologically outstanding habitats.’
Elephants inhabit the rainforest of the Way Kambas National Park, while Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park is home to Sumatran rhinos and tigers. The park is also famous for the many bird species that prefer foothill climates, as well as for several species of sea turtle that nest along its coastal zone.
While you’re in Sumatra it would be remiss not to give a few coins to help orangutans. There are now less than 700 in the wild, making them critically endangered. It feels unimaginable that orangutans share 97 percent of our DNA and yet could be extinct in 20 years.
The one piece of nature that you don’t want to see at its most magnificent is Mount Krakatoa. Happily dormant right now, the volcano holds the record for creating the loudest sound ever heard in modern history: its 1883 eruption was audible up to 3,000 miles away.
Nusa Dua, Bali
Best for: loved-up luxe
Many resorts in Indonesia are aimed at honeymooners, but the neatly groomed enclave of Nusa Dua in Bali turns the sense of seclusion and luxe up a notch.
Just 14km southeast of Kuta, it’s easy to get to, unlike some of Indonesia’s more remote beauty spots. (After all, nothing ruins a romantic holiday in paradise faster than three hours uncomfortably bouncing on a wooden speedboat.)
The beautifully quiet coastal stretch is home to an array of five-star resorts, fully mod-conned-up, with plenty of spas and options for candle-lit dinners on the beach.
Take a look at The St Regis, The Westin or The Laguna, which is encircled by a network of seven large, swimmable lagoons and pools.
Best for: when you can’t make your mind up
There’s a reason that Bali is the most famous island in Indonesia. It’s because it’s easily the best all-rounder, with a beautiful hinterland of volcanic mountains and rice paddies and some pretty outstanding beaches. There are so many that you can even chose your preferred sand color—soft and white in the south; exotic volcanic black in the west.
The Kuta-Legian-Seminyak strip is an 8km sweep of golden sand that’s well known as a weekend hangout for visitors who’ve hopped over from Australia. Now, however, it’s increasing in appeal to other travelers drawn to chic restaurants and designer shops.
Hardcore divers will gravitate towards Malibu Point for glimpses of sharks, tuna and manta rays, while snorkelers will enjoy Crystal Bay, where the clearest water in the region offers visibility between 30-50m.
Honeymooning couples head toward the luxury of Nusa Dua, party people take on Kuta and parents simply find one of the many child-friendly resorts and hunker down while the kids clubs do all the work.
1. Question
What is your personal paradise?
Some proper quality time with a loved one
At least five minutes where the kids aren’t hitting each other
A butler, chilled towels and your own plunge pool
Being cast away on an idyllic beach
What’s on your 90s pop mix tape?
The 90s? Mix tape?
My Heart Will Go On, Waterfalls, anything by Boyz II Men
To be honest, I was always more of a jazz fan
Baby Got Back, Everlong, Smells Like Teen Spirit
Which of these most appeals to you?
Downing beer
Down-filled duvets
Down under the sea
After a holiday, is your camera filled with shots of:
Selfies in hotlist restaurants and bars
Various degrees of sunburn after leisurely beach days
Awe-inspiring ancient temples and monuments
Wild creatures you spent hours tracking on foot
If your friends planned a surprise for you, would you like it to be:
A big night out with drink and dancing aplenty
A quiet party over a BBQ in the back garden
Front-row tickets at the ballet or opera
Complete this sentence: “The buzz of a big city makes me feel…”
Old!
Confused!
A friend tells you they’ve spent the morning aligning their chakras. Do you…
Stifle a giggle
Swap meditation techniques
Outdo them with tales of the amazing reiki treatment you had last week
Wish you didn’t have kids in the house so you could indulge in some meditation too
When you’re sitting on your suitcase trying to squash it closed, is it because you’ve tried to squeeze in:
Your phone, iPad, laptop and other gadgets, plus all their chargers
Your youngest's oversized teddy that he refuses to go anywhere without
Wetsuit, snorkels and face mask
A few extra pairs of going-out shoes, “just in case”
The great outdoors is…
Awesome. Give me wellies and binoculars and I’m happy
Tiresome. It’s the boring bit between cities
An adventure. I don’t mind roughing it to get truly into the wild
Fine, as long as I've got sand between my toes
10. Question
How do you feel about Finding Nemo?
It’s a stunning representation of life under the sea
I liked it until the kids made me watch it a thousand times
I’ve never seen it. Is it the one about a genie?
I see what you’re doing here. You want to know if I love diving. Just ask. I do!
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A Cut is Not a Cut
Posted on January 6, 2017 by Jeff Laszloffy in Blog
As President Ronald Reagan once said, “Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.” For those who enter politics, the very first rule of government is that there’s never enough money, NEVER! It’s an important lesson because the budget is the only real reason the legislature has to meet.
Here at the end of the first week of Montana’s 2017 legislative session, the budget is already front and center. With steep declines in tax revenue from coal and oil, no timber being cut and ag prices in the tank, the state is facing a serious budget shortfall. It’s part of the normal business cycle, but very few legislators currently in office have ever faced a serious economic downturn. So what will they do? Normal people like you and me would tighten our belts and cut our budgets. It seems logical. But that’s not how government thinks. While citizens in the private sector cut their budgets, government looks for ways to keep growing.
The second rule of government is that a cut is not a cut. When agencies scream that their budgets have been cut, it usually means the legislature cut the rate of increase. If a department anticipated a 3% increase and their budget only goes up by 2%, they call that a “cut.” It’s all in the definition, and there’s a big difference between the public and private sectors in the definition of a “lean budget.” This week the legislature asked agencies to cut their budgets by 20 million dollars, collectively. The agencies came back and said their budgets were already “cut to the bone,” but they could “sacrifice” 5 ½ million. Remember, that’s collectively, not individually. With our state budget being somewhere north of 6 billion dollars with a “B,” a 20-million-dollar-cut is miniscule, and a 5½-million-dollar-cut is laughable.
Montana government has exploded in size in recent decades. Now we’re facing a budget crunch, and it’s time to cut back. In 2001, I remember the House Appropriations chairman going to the director of the Department of Corrections and telling him we needed to cut his budget by 5 million dollars. The director said he understood but wanted to identify the cuts himself rather than letting the legislature do it. They agreed the director would take the weekend to analyze his budget and would report back to the chairman on Monday. When Monday rolled around, the director proposed not a 5-million-dollar-cut as requested, but a 7-million-dollar-cut, and that’s when the state budget was around 2 million dollars. Contrast that with the agency’s current collective offer of 5½ million dollars and you see how silly it is. The only problem is that it’s NOT silly, because government has something the private sector doesn’t have, and that’s the ability to raise taxes. If you and I come up short, we can’t run to our boss and demand that he pay us more money, but government can, and they WILL, because legislators and bureaucrats tend to take the path of least resistance. They never actually CUT budgets and they never lay off employees. Rather than seeing this as an opportunity to make agencies leaner and more responsive, government will circle the wagons and do everything in their power to maintain the status quo.
Which reminds me of another thing President Reagan said about how the closest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program.
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Make Change Possible e.V.: History/How it started
After completing her training in dance and movement therapy, Monika Handwerker worked for seven years as a volunteer in South Africa and Botswana at an international educational institution for intellectually disabled children. During this time, it became clear to her that there was a need to connect people, separated by language, culture and social status, in mutual understanding. Monika returned to Germany to further her training in curative education and counselling before working in a psychiatric rehabilitation center for teenagers and young adults for six years. Subsequently, she became part of the team that founded Heidelberg International School (H.I.S.) in 2000. While revisiting Africa in 2007, she came across the village of Mayana and was impressed by the open, genuine people she met there. Moved by this experience she made a mental note to “come back with more time”.
At the time H.I.S. established the IB Diploma course, she began to envision a possible connection between CAS student requirements and her love of Africa. Lawrence G, an 11th grade student at H.I.S felt a strong need to effect change in the world and, upon learning of Monika’s connection with Africa approached her. Together they made plans to explore the possibility of establishing an ongoing relationship between the village of Mayana and CAS students at H.I.S. The H.I.S. school administration voiced interest in developing such a sustainable international project. The six-week exploratory project between a student, a teacher, and an African village became the foundation of the organization now known as MCP.
Formally founded in June 2010, MCP conducted the first official CAS trip in July 2010, which involved taking two students to spend three weeks working directly with the people of Mayana.
Larissa's Internship 2019
Larissa made an internship in Mayana from June 26th to August 28th 2019. It was part of her preparation to study vetenary medicine.
Her tasks were to update and extend the chicken house including
sand and food store
chicken nesting boxes
holes for the chicken poo to be used as manure
water storage and gutter
charcoal fridge
Additionally, there are new medication to treat typical diseases of chickens and workshops were done for egg registration, food & water, monthly & weekly cleaning, checking diseases & using medication and handbook & documentation. Everything was made to assure a constant and high egg production, because of higher hygiene and a more comfortable stable for the layers. Networking and information with local companies regarding medication, marketing and growing fodder added to the sustainability of the project. The upgrade from 20 to 40 chickens leads to a harvest of at least 480 eggs per month. Of which 200 are reserved for the independent feeding scheme of the Kindergarten. The Mbamba family is taking care of the chicken house with Martha as the program leader.
Further plans are already in the making for next year.
To make an internship for 2 months in Mayana (or longer) is on the one hand helpful to get a clearer picture of Mayana and Namibia, especially because you face reality. There are huge differences to a project trip with a team. You learn so much more and you really get to know the people of Mayana. However, you also get to know yourself and learn what is important and unimportant in life. if you want to do an internship, have been there before, have a plan, know that helping means work and be ready for the adventure of your life.
Project Trip 2019
Project Trip 2019 team consisted of Christian, Franka, Johannes, Lena, Tabea, Tom, and the project leaders Katharina and Larissa. The projects were sexual education and English and computer lessons both at the Kayengona Combined School and at the Meho Center. Additionally, the team built a volleyball pitch and held volleyball lessons. At the Meho kindergarten, there were morning arts and crafts classes for the kids and the inside walls were painted with the alphabet, numbers, and colours together with the teacher. On the last day in Mayana, the team planted trees and held the annual kindergarten sports festival.
EDU Trip 2019
The 4 youngsters from Mayana, Damian, Dominga, Michael and Salome, aged between 14 and 19 years, started their journey and adventure to get to know some more about their country on the 12th August. Most of them had not travelled further than 100km in their lifes before, never seen mountains and none had ever seen the ocean.
Reaching Swakopmund after a very long drive and setting up camp, the plans for the following three days where made and the coastal weather added to the challenges.
Day 1 was dedicated to the topic of nature with visits to the beach, Dune 7, salt basins ,Krystall Gallery and the Snake Park.
Day 2 was dedicated to the topic of soccio ecconic experiences with an extended visit to Karakulia Weavery where they learnt about the work process of carpet making as well as the personal history of Moses „from a cleaner to a shop owner.“
Day 3 led us to DRC (Democratic Resettlement Community) one of over 300 informal settlements in the country. Informal settlement have no infrastructure which includes no schools. More than a third of the population of the country lives in settings like this. The visit to a Kindergarten there and to the womens project in house made of plastic bottles, added to the surprises.
After their return to Mayana they presented their experience to a small audience including some members of the Mayana Meho Foundation.
We wish them that these impressions, are motivating them in finding their own way in life and withstand the call to move to cities where they are told that the grass is greener. Just in the line of the statement one of them made "...seeing is better than believing!"
MCP Friends Trip 2018
For the Friends Trip 2018 Florentine, Larissa, Tom, Ines, Johannes (Kopernikus Gymnasium Blankenfelde) Henar (Madrid), Katha and Kathi came together to go on their journey to Mayana. Having two students and a parent that had already been to Namibia for the Harambee Challenge, as well as two teachers, created a remarkable mix of people. This year’s projects were: reading fairy tales to the kindergarten classes, crochet, knitting, making und using “Abacus”, chess, science experiments and math tutoring. The team project, which was successfully completed, was adding a climbing frame to the playground at Meho. The day before we had to leave Mayana we also organised a Kindergarten Sports Festival, including kids from Meho, Eparu and Ndango Kindergartens.
Here are some impressions from the participants:
“I’m taking with me the certainty that one cannot save the whole planet, because there is too much inequality and injustice, but also the optimism to keep helping in the future!”
“It was the second time for me, but again there was a great, warm and overwhelming welcome when we came: bright, curious children’s eyes and a delicious local dinner. “
“Highlight: appropriation of the climbing frame by the children.”
“We had a lot of fun with the kids and young people. Mostly they were first hesitant and reluctant, but then they came out of their shells.”
“Doing something actively is better than doing nothing, even if the way is not always clear and always need new orientation.”
“When I arrived everything felt like it was just a dream.”
“Unlike in Windhoek where I was a bit overwhelmed, Mayana offered me a positive impression and was at the same time stunning.”
“All in all the project and trip were fun. With me I will take the memory of the beautiful evenings.”
“When we crossed the Mururani Gate ‘border’ and the houses, the style and construction of farms changed I was impressed and shocked how people can live like that. Above all however, I was surprised and impressed by the welcoming and the food of the people in Mayana. So much joy and warmth!”
“I can now understand the people of Mayana better and got to know them even better than during the Harambee Challenge in 2017. As a result I have now learned that it is very difficult to push things forward, especially because of the government, but also the mentality is responsible for setbacks or at least only little progress.”
“I was very surprised how clumsy the people were in many things. I had imagined them to be more deft and active. In many ways it seemed like they were letting life and events drip on them like rain.“
The MCP Edu Trip is a new feature and aims to provide an opportunity for people of Mayana to get to know and experience their own country which can assist them to make informed choices about their future. They also shared their impressions with the youth of Mayana upon their return.
The team consisted of Erick, Kristantia, Markes, Monika, Silke and Tekla. We went on a 5 day trip to Swakopmund. The first day was dedicated to the topic of nature, the second to socioeconomics and arts and the last day living and learning conditions in the informal settlement called DRC (Democratic Resettlement Community).
Here some impressions of the participants;
„On this trip I have learned to know more and believe less!“
„I learned again about how they harvest salt in our sea. Our elders told that salt comes from people, like in the bible when Loths wife turned around.“
„Edu trip is good, because we learned more about our country and it is our first time and it is the first time to happen in our village. I want edu trip to continue, not for me alone but for all students or our village and to learn more about their country. I think it will be a message to the students at home when they hear about the story of their country. It will atrract them for next year. I can see we have learned lot. We can clear the story of our elders , we have to check with our own eyes, but not to tell about someone.“
„. I have seen a carpet before and I thought they are cutting it out from the cloth and now I know that it is many different steps.“
„I am so excited to see it because I never knew that I will see it in my life. In DRC I am so sorry for the life they are living. Our life is better than in DRC. We can make our own food, good houses. Not paying rent for the houses or water. We can plough and make our own food.“
„The Kindergarten in DRC, I was very angry to see that the children are drinking the water from the dustbin.“
„ And I was more happy to see the sea , birds, stones and I really felt I was somewhere else, not in Namibia anymore.“
CAS Trip 2017
Benita, Johanna, Katharina, Leah, Monika, Rasmus, and Tim made up the CAS Team 2017. The students came from both Heidelberg and Leipzig International Schools, Germany. They each undertook projects, which included: drama, English at the Kindergarten, football, individual learning support for local kids, math lessons, and survey and infrastructure work for the future. As a team, the group organised the Kindergarten Sports Festival for the children of Ndango, Eparu and Meho Kindergartens.
Here some impressions from the participants:
• “Before I came on this trip, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. I had heard lots of things and seen pictures, but no amount of words or pictures could really describe the experience here.”
• “The attitude of the kids towards learning is really heart warming and has made me realize that I definitely chose the right project. “
• “The people here have been very helpful and very happy. Especially one kid called Erik really made an impression on me. He always makes jokes and smiles. He makes sure everyone has food on their plate before he takes some. People like Erik in the village, really changed my view on the situation. I taught Erik to use the laptop and he would always have a paper with questions on. This curiosity for learning under the circumstances they have really made me happy.”
• “I quickly realized that this trip is so much more than just the projects and it’s definitely a whole lot more than a CAS activity. My project also wasn't about me but it was all about the kids.
I would leave the kindergarten everyday with a smile on my face and a sense of fulfillment.”
• “One of the main things I will bring back is that my ideas are not always the best and I have to be better at admitting when I am wrong or make a mistake.”
• “One of the more interesting things I did during my project was the discussion I had with my students on communication. This gave me an idea of what the students struggled with in terms of communication, which I thought was very important to know if I was going to help them. The most common feedback I received was the feeling a lot of them had, which is best described as a fear of being judged by their classmates, such as being laughed at for giving the wrong answer.”
• “I have loved being here and would not mind staying longer. I will take back the joy from the others and the knowledge and places they have showed me, and keep it in my head forever. I will most defiantly share what my experience was like with others, but they would really have to go for themselves if you want to really know what I am talking about.”
• “Overall I am extremely happy with how the project turned out because it really got to make a difference, not only to the kids, but to me as well.
I’ve come to realize that I didn't really consider how other people lived enough and I think I've developed a much better perspective on life in general and not to take things for granted.
I’ve been asked whether signing up for this trip was a mistake, and even though there have been difficulties, I’ll never regret taking this opportunity.”
Josephs Second Visit
Joseph arrived for his second trip to Germany from the 24th April -14th May 2017 and after landing in Frankfurt continued on straight to Leipzig. There he stayed 3 days at Leipzig International School visiting many classes. A charity run for kids was organized that where not able to participate in the Harambee Challenge on the 28th April from Leipzig to Berlin.
The weekend around Labour Day Joseph saw some parts of Berlin and reunited with team members from the Harambee Challenge in Namibia. This was followed by a visit to the Kopernikus Gymnasium, Blankenfelde where Florentine, Florian and Tom presented about their trip to Namibia to the school. And also met the MCP working group there.
Two days with an agricultural focus followed where Philippe shared his knowledge about compost production and orchards, as well as a visit to a small chicken farm from Michel and a visit to a water powered mill. A visit to Sindelfingen International School followed where he was part of the celebration of International Day.
The last week of his trip Joseph was engaged at Heidelberg International School with a full timetable. A farewell get together ended his time there. During his trip he met close to 2.000 people of all ages and answered countless questions. It was also an opportunity to meet past project trip members. He truly lived up to be an ambassador of Meho and MCP!
Enjoy some highlights and challenges from Joseph’s diary:
“ What stands/action is the community taking against these practice of corruption? This was a challenging question from some students.”
“We had quite an interesting day as I had participated a event of fund raising for the first time and I was very impressed, that was my biggest highlight of the day.”
“I put my bag to the bus knowing that after the run I stay in Berlin, we drove to the meeting station and got all the runners & cyclist were ready waiting for the announcement of the program. I could feel inside in my heart the love the care, that the people were showing to make this challenge possible for my voice/my community’s voice in order to be heard all over the world, were this message have reached across, children, teenagers, adults, teacher and parent and all for the children of the Mayana community to receive change.”
“ Kefah and I were to take the last stretch of 20km, I do not speak so much German and my friend Kefah does not speak so much English but the Harambe spirit motivated us to move on while behind us was Simon with his bicycle. He did a great job breaking my communication with us since he speaks Germany and English. This was a very remarkable day for both of us. Kefah and me since the Harambee Challenge connected us together.”
“I was given a test by Monika and Christiane to find out if I will know at which place to go and wait for the train, it was very challenging, but I have to try my best. Making me independent in the future, so I was leading to find the right place, of departure and find the right train, the train ticket indicated the departure and time of arrival and also the name and number of the train, so this information guided me to know exactly of what I was doing and I got into the right train. My way from Berlin to Mannheim made me feel confident as I was travelling alone and independently.”
“Later they introduced me to the Cinema were we watched a movie. It was so very interesting since this was my first time to be in the Cinema.”
“I was tasting all the food from table to table and I realized how exceptional all the people are in the world regardless of their color, culture, origin and religion. This was a very unique day.”
“I had a very busy week as I was going from class to class just like a teacher and had a great time with the children. I have seen, learned and carry lot back home in my mind.”
“I arrived in Mayana the same time of day as I had left from Germany, I was very tired and exhausted but yet I was very happy to be back home knowing that the mission has been completed. I salute you all and may the Spirit of Harambee live forever for our sons and daughters.”
Harambee Challenge Leipzig to Berlin 28th April 2017
After final prep meetings in Leipzig the week before the challenge the day before had finally arrived. The Yacoub family, under instruction of Kathi, now had to complete grocery shopping, getting the busses and several other minor details sorted for a smooth run of the challenge. After picking up Joseph from LIS, it was time to make sandwiches (120 in total) and goodie bags for all participants until rather late in the evening.
Friday April 28th 2017, an early wake-up call awaited us. All participants had to be at the Olympiastützpunkt in Leipzig at 7:30 to guarantee a punctual start of the run at 8:00. Those were some of the most stressful 30 minutes of the challenge, as runners had to be divided into the busses, and some bike did not fit into the busses…this also had to be organized. The challenge started on time at 8:00 with the first runner and accompanying cyclist. The route was spilt in three parts all operating more or less simultaneously .The moment one runner arrived at their finish line the next one(s) started. We were under quite some time pressure. At about 16:00 the last runners set off and busses made their way to the embassy in Berlin. It was a long day, with many phone calls and driving back and forth to ensure that runners actually meet at the exchange points and that some bikes would make their way to Berlin as well. At about 17:00, we had made it to the Embassy, where some more supporters had already arrived. After a few more minutes of waiting in front of the building we were asked to come in, where the Ambassador Andreas B.D. Guibeb met us. Joseph had the chance to explain why he came all the way from Mayana for this event. The room was completely full and the atmosphere breathtaking. After almost two hours, the Ambassador finished his talk with us and signed the petition, giving the day one last highlight.
Thank you to all runners and cyclists
Becky, Ibrahim, Sami, Lindsay, Geraldine, Jacinta, Peter, Omar, Chuck, Pana, Clara, Lisanne, Pascal, Patrick, Elijah, Hugh, Kai, Elliot, Emre, Lupia ,Mohamad, Hugo ,Eamon, Jeremy, Tom ,Sebastian, Lena , Jasmin, Florentine, Anton, Floria, Larissa, Kefah, Max, Frederic, Simon and Joseph.
Thanks to our bus drivers
Hans Joachim Krug, Erich Schulze, Frank Thenau and Kamal Yacoub
Special thanks go to our sponsors
Autohaus Lieske Eilenburg, Autohaus Rühlman Leipzig, Verein Heimvolkshochschule Dübener Heide, Orthopädische Facharzt- und Naturheilpraxis A. Yacoub without them none of this would have been possible.
Personally, I would also like to thank Doris and Georg Haslebach as well as Kamal and Anke Yacoub, who helped me organize this event and reminded me not give up!
Kathi Yacoub, Organizer
Harambe Challenge, Namibia, April 2017
17 runners cover 740 km - the distance from Mayana to Windhoek - in just 3 days!
Harambee - Let’s work together!
The team’s project was a petition run to raise awareness about the conditions in Mayana by covering the distance in a delay formation and delivering a petition to the government in Namibia’s capital. The participants were: Tom, Florentine, Florian , Anke, and Johannes (Kopernikus Gymnasium, Blankenfelde); Tom and Monika (Heidelberg International School); Sebastian (Leipzig); Lore (Swakopmund); and Joseph, Gerhard, Damian, Evalistus, Klaus, Ratio, Peter, Markes, George, Fabianus, Erick, Stanislaus, and John (Mayana).
The first step on arrival in the village was the official opening of the second classroom at Meho Kindergarten and Center.
Two days were then left for the team to train and prepare before leaving on 12th April for Day 1 of the run from Mayana to Roys Camp, where we spent the first night. Altogether we managed to cover 320 km on that day.
On Day 2, we covered 180 km and reached Otjiwarongo, where we camped again. Just after dinner, the team was complete again, when the four students who had been writing exams joined us. Day 3 started with some early morning runners and the whole team met up again in Windhoek at the weighbridge where we met the Chief Inspector of the Prime Minister’s office and the petition was finally handed over. A police escort accompanied the runners into town from where we took off to our accommodation at Windhoek International School. The goal of 740 km was exceeded.
The following day was a deserved rest day. We visited the National Museum, the State House, and the Arts and Crafts market. For 10 out of the 13 runners from Mayana, it was their first time in the capital of their country. Two days later the team was back in the village and reported to a crowd of about 200 people about the petition run and their experience. Everyone present was supportive, lots of questions were raised and answered, and we ended by dancing and singing together.
Our thanks go to:
• all participants that had prepared themselves well for the challenge.
• Allyn for providing the training plan video.
• Sebastian for filming.
• Johannes for the second car.
• Windhoek International School for food, water, energy drinks, and accommodation.
• the Frankes for the wrist bands.
• Heidelberg International School for sponsoring the caps and stickers.
• Anke and Lore for being such great camp captains.
• and all other anonymous sponsors and donors.
The Friends Trip Team 2016 set a new standard for MCP; at the age of 11 years, we had the youngest team member yet! The Friends Trip consisted of four members, Mike, Mollie, Christian, and Katherine, and one project leader, Roberto. This provided us with a highly diverse team. This year we worked on the following: the filming of Day in the Life of Julia ; crafts; games; American Football training; computer training; English; the painting the Eparu Kindergarten; and learning about the differences between state and tribal law. We also got a head start on the orchard and chicken coops. In addition, during our 12-day stay, we organized the MCP Kids Sport Festival, running American Football and brain games.
Some Impressions from this year’s participants:
"So much fun to see the smiling faces.”
“Do you think they liked your project? 'Yes, Better than my Mom's!”
“It is amazing how it did not take long for my children to connect…no boundaries for children.”
“I like the fact that I could not finish while I was there. This has kept MCP in my mind and my heart.”
The Make Change Possible CAS (Creativity, Activity, Service) Trip 2016
The MCP CAS Trip 2016 was made up of three students, two teachers, and two people from the MCP network (from Manager für Menschen and Kleine Engel).
The participants were Arthur, Christine, Elisa, Laura, Lore, Monika, and Veronik with the student contingent hailing from Leipzig and Stuttgart International School.
The projects were in the areas of art and working with the Boys and Girls Club. There was also a great focus on the Kindergarten groups of the Meho and Eparu Kindergartens. The local teachers received workshops and the grounds of Eparu were upgraded with a playground, fence, and flooring. We are very happy that the grounds of Eparu are now registered in the name of MCP and we are now preparing for the Kindergarten’s full integration with MCP.
This year’s team project was a Kindergarten Sports Festival, which saw 100 children from the three Kindergartens, Meho, Eparu, and Ndango, taking part. Much enjoyed by the children and teachers, the project provided new experiences and opportunities for working together. We hope a new tradition has been created here.
Impressions from participants on the trip:
“My first impressions of Namibia is that on average people are happier than in Germany. Its landscapes are beautifully impressive.”
“I thought my project would just focus on the playground here. I figured it also included building a whole fence around the area of the playground, which is a lot of physical work and additional dealing the sun and the hot weather it is very exhausting. However the physical work also makes you feel like you have achieved something and it makes you very proud.”
“My project and experience during the time I spent in Mayana has made me realize that people in the community are suffering yet are still prospering at the same time.”
“I changed as a person by realizing I have to think ahead more and can’t take everything so lightly as I usually do, which is difficult because I try very hard to avoid problems.”
“Overall the trip was very impressive and changed the way you look at things. The people and the lifestyle you get in the village really showed me that you need not have a lot to be happy. That definitely changed my attitude towards things.”
“I learned about community and using others for help in times of need. This really made me think about my lack of community at home. The team made us feel a part of their community from the first moment, so welcoming and joyous, letting us into their lives.”
“I was able to witness kids from different age groups put their creativity in action; seeing them opening their mind to create was something wonderful.”
“During my time in Mayana I understand that none of the people chose to be born here but some of them are working hard to make life better for the community. It made me realize that even I currently live in the last country I will ever call home, I will take example from the team to make life better on the other side.”
“As we drive away from Mayana I have the remembering song in my head. The team told us that they would always remember us in their hearts and as we drive I know they will always have a place in my heart too.”
Christine Stockmann - Manager für Menschen
First Interim Advisor in Mayana
From May until mid July 2016 Christine Stockmann spend ten weeks as an interim advisor from "Manager für Menschen" in Mayana. Christine coached the team on how to improve their programs, established new procedures for the team, created new forms for the kindergarten and activities and implemented together with the project manager Joseph a new reporting and bookkeeping system for the Meho Center.
Read about Christine's experience:
https://117daysinsouthernafricablog.wordpress.com/
MCP CAS Trip Winter 2015
The MCP CAS trip team of June/July was from three international schools: H.I.S.(Heidelberg International School, Germany), L.I.S.,(Leipzig International School, Germany) and W.I.S. (Windhoek International School, Namibia.)
The eight members of the team - Celine, Charlot, Gwen, Kathi, Leila, Monika, Natasha, Roberto, and Wendy - came from six different nations (America, Britain, China, Germany, Jamaica and Namibia) with various experience and added an international “spice” to the trip.
The projects delivered were: English, biology, maths and computer lessons, canvas bag painting at the Kindergarten, girls football training, and building a greenhouse . The team project was the 5th Midwinter Challenge that was named B&B (Body and Brain), which consisted of a volleyball and games tournament. Beyond that, the team planted trees and helped work towards the completion of the guesthouse.
Enjoy some of the personal reflection from the trip participants:
“In 3 words I can describe for my days as busy, worth it and amazing. This applies for the whole trip.”
“It made me proud when I come to the school my class either shouted out “ bingo” or my name, I felt like star for a second..”
“The trip was challenging and sometimes very tough as well as hard, but we still stayed a team and approached every task with motivation. I really appreciate the things I took and can take from this trip.”
“It has opened my eyes to many things I didn’t know about.. Examples are the education level in the government schools and the kind of mistreatment students are getting from the teachers. I have also learned that teachers aren’t serious about teaching and education. I have also learned that it is all a domino effect. The teachers aren’t serious and therefore students do not have a good enough reason to be serious in school. They mirror the teachers’ behavior and attitude towards education. Also the knowledge I gained from the community I stayed in. They were extremely supportive and I am so thankful for that.”
“ I just wanted to say thank you to everybody I met and worked with for this priceless experience even on the hard days where energy was low.”
“When I left Mayana I didn’t say goodbye but rather see you soon. I can’t wait to be back as soon as possible, meeting all of these great people again. “
“It was an incredible experience and I am already waiting for the day when I will be coming back to see how the trees have grown, how many girls will be playing football by then … Thank you to everyone for making this an incredible, unforgettable and unbelievably enjoyable experience!"
Joseph Mbamba
“The 11th April 2015 was the day of set up from Mayana to Windhoek….be reminded that this is the first time that one of Mayana travels back with the team from MCP…... 9.30 was the time of taking off and I was very, very scared for 1 hour. But later it was calm again and the ride got more interesting while in the air…”
These words are taken from the diary of Joseph Mbamba, the first participant in an MCP Project Trip from Namibia to Europe. Thanks to Joseph’s willingness, the support of MCP, and the interest of five different schools across Germany, April 2015 was a month of collaboration, education, friendship, and fun. Joseph spent 21 days in Germany. His goals were clear: to deepen the relationship between the Mayana community and the MCP supports in Germany; to educate and inform people about the real difference MCP makes; and to give Joseph, as a representative of his community, the opportunity to see what happens in and around Germany to make MCP’s progress possible.
For those students, teachers and friends who have been on a project trip it was a moment of reunion, for those going or thinking of going, it was a period of inspiration.
Joseph's first stop was Heidelberg International School, where he met students, staff and parents who had lots and lots of questions. “This was a very first, interesting and lovely day to meet amazing children that are so very independent and open to ask questions,” Joseph wrote. “One of the question from the student was do you have toilets and shower? And do you have TV in your home? My reply was no, we use the river to bath and to do our laundry but still using the bush as toilets. Mayana community does not have power or electricity so it is not so important to have a TV that will be just decoration.” It was immediately clear that Joseph was going to be open and honest, answering with patience and understanding. Thanks to this, he endeared himself to everyone in the community immediately.
It was vital that Joseph met all sections of the school communities, and, in presentations to parents, he spoke frankly about the need for money as tool, but the absolute importance that those using it know how to do so responsibly. He stressed the positive impact that the MCP project trips have on both the student participants and the community members in Namibia. He also gave a poignant reminder to us all, by sharing stories of his own family, that parents are parents wherever they are in the world and just want the best for their children.
After Heidelberg, it was off to Bonn International School where Joseph received another warm welcome. In his diary he speaks of the caring people at Bonn international school and thanks the staff for introducing us to the student to have time to interact with them and thanks for all the student that have shown interest of Make Change Possible.
During his stay at Leipzig International School, Joseph got to take part in a football game, giving him the chance to practise one of his hobbies. Again, everything he did was done with good grace and humour. “This was a very interesting and funny game on that day in Leipzig and I will not forget the team spirit we all had in the pitch. The final score was 7:5 or 8:4 and this depends to whom you are talking t o!” Vital to the success of this trip were the human connections made between Joseph and his hosts - connections that he built in the classroom, around a campfire, or, as here, on the football field!
From Leipzig, Joseph continued on Blankenfelde near Berlin, where he visited the Korpernikus Gymnasium. During that trip be continued as an ambassador for his community, meeting their whole school community and learning a thing or two himself… Joseph thanks them” for their very wonderful preparation of my visit at this school and for exposing me to their Historical place and for introducing me to a new sport of freezbe that I had enjoyed so much. During this visit, the school hosted a BBQ, giving Joseph time to socialise and connect with people further. He remarked on the opportunity for good discussion as they were very committed to get to know MCP better than before.” Discussion, sharing, and building the future remain constant pillars of this wonderful trip.
Joseph rounded off his tour of schools at the MTL school in Karlsruhe, before returning to Heidelberg; three weeks, five schools, hundreds of people met and inspired.
Joseph’s visit exemplifies the work of MCP in the amount of knowledge and improved understanding that went both ways, from Joseph to the many people he met and vice versa. Having visited, various different German cities, he was also able to benefit from new perspectives. Here is Joseph’s reflection on Berlin:” As we were sailing along I was able to see the parliament also and under the bridge I could see some tents pitched which I was told this are homes of somebody where they can sleep. I was imagining as many people at home think that having a white skin is a symbol to have everything in life, instead they are from the same mankind and they have the same challenge as black men do.”
Joseph’s diary is as full of thanks for all those that welcomed him. It reflects the success of this trip in his own words and is a powerful message to us all about the importance of the work that MCP does. And so this article ends as it begins, with Joseph’s reflection on an MCP milestone:
“Sitting around the fire was so a very good memories as I was sharing with the team the last reflections of my days based on highlights and challenges during my interactions at different schools with the students Wow this is a wonderful moment that will contribute to my days to remember as I will be back home soon. Well better to say I salute you MCP and I wish you all the best and long life MCP. Long live.”
MCP CAS Trip 2015
The team for the Easter trip included Frany, Isa, Jenny, Louise, Luana, Monika and Vicki. All students were from Bonn International School in Germany.
The Meho Guesthouse received a great push towards completion as everyone helped with the painting, building a scullery, installing the pump and planting trees. We were also able to upgrade the garden project and get the donkey cart for water transport into action.
The team was able to support urgent educational needs by providing biology, geography and book keeping classes to Klaus, Gerhard and Daniel in order to ensure that they were able to meet the next steps on their educational journey.
Besides the weather the team had to meet many challenges and one of them was the girls football training. They were keen and eager even though they had to put up with a lot of intolerance and gender based prejudice. It became clear that this is an area to be worked on in future.
The team project was the kids sports festival with about 300 participants aged from 4-16 years. Many different activities were offered from sack hopping to volleyball supported by many helping hands and rewarded by even more happy smiles.
Here some impressions and reflections from the participants:
“This trip has opened my eyes and mind. I am touched by the people here they are so precious and I have great respect for them.”
“Finally on this trip was one of the first times that I was really motivated and excited to work for something, which was, sadly, something new for me.”
“This challenged me as a person and who I have always been. The person I am or rather I was, was not organized, hardworking and could never find the purpose and motivation for anything.”
“It makes me feel so sad and uncomfortable knowing I’m not going to be here on this bench next to the fire, but on my bed or at the dinner table. I don’t like that. I much rather sit here and enjoy the food with a bunch of amazing people than sit at home, eat expensive food, not say a word at the dinner table.”
“I don’t feel like I have the right to complain about a lot of things anymore because those small issues are stupid and ridiculous compared to the actual and REAL problems here.”
“I didn’t think it would, but it did. This experience changed me…. right now, I’m somehow scared to go back as a changed person. I’ve always been frustrated about a lot of things in my environment, but this is how I will be from now on, and I know I will make a change. “
The team for this Friends Trip consisted of Abigail, Hugh, Bryn, Amelia, Katharina, Andreas, Sabine, Monika, Christiane and Jasper. This years team came from five different countries and did not only include adults, but also the youngest participant ever on a MCP trip at the age of 13 years. This provided us with a very diverse group of people who were all thrilled to start their projects. We worked on the following: photography and filming, English, crafts, games, computer training, making a goat protection fence for the garden project, finishing the guest house , making food preserves on the solar cooker, working with the center and vision team on planning, documenting and bookkeeping skills and implementing the solar water purification method of SODIS . During our stay we also organized the MCP Midwinter Challenge of 2014, a donkey race for kids. It was a great success with lots of participants and a huge crowd of spectators. Two of the national newspapers and a raidio station even published news about the event. The proceeds of this event will go to organizing a youth tournament for the local football and netball teams.
Here some impressions from the trip participants:
“I couldn’t imagine before quite how different peoples lives could be and how fortunate we are. My eyes have been opened more from this experience...”
“For all of us this was a dose of reality; observing and learning about the harsh existence of these beautiful people yet having the opportunity to help in a small way.”
“I have come away having felt that I have left behind some of me in Namibia but I will also take so much of what I have done back home with me.”
“It has been the most memorable trip I have ever been on and I wish to come back to Mayana with MCP to do it all again.”
MCP CAS Trip Mayana 2014
Becky, Emmanuel, Jess, JoAnn, Josi and Monika were the CAS team in Mayana. It included three students from three different international schools; WIS (Windhoek International School , Namibia), H.I.S. (Heidelberg International School, Germany) and LIS (Leipzig International School, Germany) as well as three teachers.
The projects included photography and filming, English and history lessons, sex education classes, computer training, sport games and a textile design workshop. Our team project was the kids sports festival with more than 300 children between 4 and 14 years. The team were the first ones to use the facilities of the Mayana Meho Guesthouse and we are very happy to have our own “home” in the village from now on.
“Before I came to Mayana under MCP, I thought it was just another CAS project to get hours and update managebac. It was a lot more than that… I experienced a communal relationship with the people of Mayana and I learned a lot from them.”
“As we ate around the fire, the team in Mayana began to sing us a song which said ‘I remember’ and then they mention the names of the people they remember. It was very heart-warming as they remember all the people that have been on the previous MCP trips. It shows that an impact its truly being made.”
“At the end of this experience I believe I have become more mature and more responsible. I still think there is so much more room for me to grow. I Plan on returning again with hopes of seeing the friends I have made a change from before in Mayana.”
“ I will miss everyone that I have met here and just being in Mayana, Namibia. The Mbamba family was very kind and really gave me a sense of having another family away from home. I have made many friends along the way and hope to keep in touch with these special people.”
“Coming into this trip I already knew I would have to come back. These people are truly amazing and I have so much respect for their way of life. This trip had opened my eyes to be fearless to new experiences and take advantage of good opportunities when they come by. I would really love to come back next year and for many more years to come. “
“My experiences during the time in Mayana were over the top and incredible. I met people who were so different in their character but still followed the same goal. They want to do something for their village. The effort and spirit they put in every step they take towards developing in so many areas is indescribable. Through my projects and through talking to so many different people and interacting with them made me feel confident about myself. Through seeing their achievements and what they see as the priorities made me also realize who I want to be and who I want to become in the future.”
MCP Friends Trip Mayana 2013
The project team was made up of Jasper, participant on the 2011 CAS Trip from the Netherlands, Sabine and Andreas from Germany, and their daughter and first time project leader Katharina.They took over from the CAS team and worked on several projects together with the local Vision Team consisting of Joseph, Moses, Engelberth, Rhoide, Daniel and John.
Jasper held a meeting with the local football and netball coaches and formed an agreement with them regarding future sponsorship of youth and adult sports in Mayana. However, Jasper's main project was the building of a playground at the newly erected kindergarten. Together, the men put lots of hard work - on everybody's side - and sweat - mainly on Jasper's side - into the building of a swing set and monkey bars. The colourfully painted area is surrounded by tires that provide both an area for practicing balance, as well as a place for lessons outside.
Plenty of material was required for this project, and Andreas soon turned out to be the perfect operator of a car packed to the rim with poles, tools, etc. - and a very frequent customer of the local hardware store. In his sparse time off from his job as a driver, Andreas taught John and Engelberth various board games, which they will pass on to others in their Girls & Boys club at the centre.
The development of the Mayana Meho Kindergarten and Centre was Katharina's main task. In a meeting with the centre team the outlines and goals for all coming programmes were developed and a schedule was set. Katharina found a big helper in Sabine, who had become unoccupied after her Garden project got held up due to material shortage - none of Namibia's hardware stores had black garden pipes in store. While Moses was working hard on setting up the basic parameters of the garden, Sabine retreated out of the burning midday sun and into the cooler centre to help Katharina with inventory work, as well as setting up a system for the library together with Daniel. In the afternoon Sabine took over the recorder class, while Katharina gave English and German lessons.
On July 22, the team's last day in Mayana, MCP celebrated the groundbreaking for the Mayana Meho Guesthouse. Once erected, the guesthouse will be accomodating future trip participants. It is located right in the middle of the Mayana village and directly neighbours Joseph Mbamba's house. After Jasper, Joseph, Moses and Katharina broke the ground, others - including the village headman and the Mbamba family - planted several trees surrounding the property. We wish to see them grow with this project, the village and its people. The ceremony - and our whole trip, really - was concluded by a fantastic performance by the Mayana Primary School's Traditional Dance group and traditional dinner around the fire under the African starlit sky.
The project participants Birgit, Carla, Emma, Laura, Monika and Taya from Heidelberg International School, Germany and Dina from the DRC Community Center Swakopmund, Daniel, Engelberth, John, Joseph, Moses and Rhoide from Mayana made up the team. And not to forget our four legged team member “Watch out”.
This trip was marked by many new experiences; a new setting by camping in the garden of Moses house as well as being the first “girls” only team and an overall project focus on arts; being it the huge mural on the east wall of the Kindergarten, the recorder lessons, writers workshop or singing as well as language and computer lessons. The solar cooker project was met with some challenges however remains a goal for the future. The group was pulled together and challenged by two big team projects the first one being the Mayana Midwinter Challenge being a canoe race across the Okavango this year with 40 participants. The second one was the official opening of the Mayana Meho Kindergarten and Centre. In the opening ceremony many project aspects contributed to the program and gave a preview of the centre’s planned activities. Both events were a big success.
Many impressions were collected by each participant from overseas as well as locals and shared around the evening fire and our daily reflection of “highlights and challenges”. Here some samples of participants:
“It is difficult, but in the same moment I have the feeling that it is the right time, that I am here. I’m ready for a change in my mind. So I leave with a lot of question marks, not knowing what these experiences have done and will do with me.
I feel richer and I feel calmer in contrast to my arrival.
I feel safer, but on the other hand less safe.
I feel happier, but also sadder.
I had the chance to see both sides of the coin of life and so, for short moments, I feel complete in a still unknown way.”
“One thing that really fascinated me and which I also didn’t expect was that all the people who live in Mayana are happy and they don’t complain about their life, we complain way too much about unnecessary things and they still look at life in an optimistic way even when times get really tough. I want to take that optimistic attitude with me to Germany because that’s a thing which always helps you to stay motivated. I will never understand fully how these people live their life and how everything worked out but I can say one thing that I have respect for them.”
“Before going to Africa I also didn’t appreciate as many things as I do now. Now, I know that having a warm shower, a bed and a nice family is a luxury. At the end of these two weeks, my phone almost seems like something magical. I’ve come to the realization, I don’t actually need much to be a happy person. This trip has taught me so much about myself, and that is something that no one can ever take away from me. I’ve made great friends, friends for life. I will never forget their smiles, their hard work and dedication because it has been my main inspiration to become a better person, wanting to help and take my fair bit of responsibility in this world.”
“Being part of people that don’t judge a person according to their qualifications, but are willing to learn and listen to what each and every one has to give. I am happy. Yes I am happy! Thank you MCP. Thanks to all, I have found my home, that’s MCP and a family that share the same vision than myself. Let’s hold hands!!!”
MCP CAS Trip to Swakopmund 2013
The second MCP CAS Trip to Swakopmund took place between 21st of March and 1st of April 2013. Windhoek International School was represented with Edwina, Georgia, Jan, Maggie, Nasim, Nellie, Phillipa, Rachel, Roberto, Rui, Ruth, Sanni, Sharifa and Victoria and Leipzig International School was represented by Ondrej. Monika was the project leader. Engelberth from the Mayana Community in Kavango region joined this trip as a first representative of the Namibian MCP members. The team was fortunate to use the facilities provided by the DRC Community Center for the second time round. We were organized in an indoor and an outdoor team, where the outdoor team focused on sport activities and the indoor team on art activities. The whole team project was a soccer tournament for 40 kids from DRC (Democratic Resettlement Community) at the beach front in Swakopmund. Both teams focused on their project plans and on the other hand supported and supplement each other in a great way.
Many stories could be told by each project participant as well as kids from DRC. The personal bonding, interaction and friendships that developed. For the final reflection each participant had to find one word to describe the process and experience of this trip following these questions:
“What did I come with? - What did I experience? - What do I take away from this trip?”
uncertainty – humbleness – openness
fear – happiness – inspiration
anxiety – richness – strength
confusion – adaption – gratitude
naivety – joy – appreciation
uncertainty – appreciation – inspiration
trust – calm – refreshed
nothing – happiness - respect
uncertainty – joy – and something
confusion – togetherness – motivation
apprehension – discomfort – hope
And each word tells a story!
Here are the project teams that worked on the projects in 2012. For the pioneering trip to the new project in Swakopmund, Namibia. A joint venture of students from H.I.S. (Heidelberg International School, Germany and W.I.S. (Windhoek International School, Namibia) as well as students from the Poly Technics, Windhoek, Namibia.
Exchange Trip: Mayana to Swakopmund
In November 2012 Christiane Casper travelled to Swakopmund to meet with Joseph Mbamba from Mayana, who is one of MCP's most important contact persons from the community. The aim of her project trip was to help Joseph improve his computer skills to enhance and maintain communication between Namibia and Germany throughout the whole year. Furthermore, the trip was an opportunity for Joseph to get to know his country better. Christiane and Joseph documented their experience in a diary, which you can view by clicking the image gallery on the left.
MCP Friends Trip to Mayana 2012
The team consisted of three graduate students from Heidelberg International School (Katharina and Neil) and the Nelson Mandela School, Berlin (Pauline) and three IB diploma students from Heidelberg International School. (John, Erik and Nik)
The two team projects were the “Kids Olymics” a sports festival for U 14 year olds and the “Mayana Midwinter Challenge” a sports challenge that the village community decides on. This year it was a half marathon from Mayana to Rundu with 18 participants escorted by police vehicles.
The individual projects ranged from a film production “A day in the life of Gerhard” a 12 year old boy from Mayana as well as a music CD production capturing traditional songs and lyrics. Further- more the after school program with playing games was developed further and handed in the responsibility of the grade 8 students of Kayengona Combined School. The football training for under 14 year olds was joined by boys and girls alike. The construction team completed a store room for the Mayana Pre School that now provides more space for the children in their classrooms.Computer training for a number of adults was given and we were able to supply them with lap tops, e-mail accounts and web sticks, enabling direct communication from now on. The longest standing project “sit and knit” was looked after where guests of the lodge as well as some women of the village have produced and shared out about 30 blankets in the past 3 years.Credits to Pauline Boßdorf, she provided some excellent pictures of this project trip.
Here some impression from the trip participants:
“I will be forever thankful for this trip that has taught be maybe more than a decade of school. Mayana was a life changing experience.”
“My time here has made me see so many things differently and for that, I will be forever grateful. Leaving was hard and kind of bittersweet. Bitter because I’m leaving the friends I made over the past two weeks, but sweet because I’ll get to see how much the community has changed when I come back next year.”“Going back to Germany is something that concerns me a little bit because I know everything will be different. But maybe different isn’t such a bad thing. I will forever remember Mayana and the people there in my heart, and I think it will make me a better person. I’m coming back as soon as possible, this much I know for certain.”
“Mayana was a really nice experience, but also a huge change on me. You really could see yourself, but also others change into new characters.”“Also interacting with the other people was so amazing and changed me. When I will come back to Germany, I think I will notice how different it is and how peaceful and calm Africa actually was.“
“The main thing about Mayana is that I got to find and realize the inner self of me and it is a whole new experience. I will never forget this trip. I am already looking forward to and planning things we can do for the kids. I will miss Moses, Joseph, Engelberth, Andrew, and the list goes on and on, but the one thing I will miss the most out of everything is the smiles from each and every person and I thank them so much.“
“It’s a funny feeling leaving this place so soon. I want to come back as soon as I can. I would recommend this trip to everyone. It is a wonderful working, learning, and teaching experience. You meet amazing people, do incredible things, and see some of the most beautiful things in the world. Namibia is great, and I have made some great friends while here. I will be back soon to be sure.”
Poly Technic of Namibia - Project Trip to Mayana 23rd-25th July 2012
A team of 8 students (Buffalo, Jessy, Leticia, Salmi, Kristi, Leon, Loide and Tezza) from the Pro Learning Unit for business and entrepreneurship from the Poly Technic Namibia and Akseli an exchange student from the university of Tampara, Finnland formed the team that visited Mayana in a 24 hour brainstorming session. One team focused on the short and long term perspectives and opportunities to increase the value of education in the people of Mayana. The second team worked on reproducible and sustainable small business concepts for the village. Both teams conducted interviews and held meetings with the people of the village. They reported their findings in a presentation as well as in written form.
Here some personal impressions and reflections:
“This was my first social project were I got to witness first-hand the plight of my less-advantaged fellow country persons and it was a humbling experience and it invoked some serious emotions as a future leader of my country. I am thankful to the MCP for the eye opening opportunity and to the Manyana community for making our stay here memorable. They are truly marvelous people and we shall walk this road together and affect change.”“This has been a total amazing experience. It’s scary to say that I am a Namibian yet am not aware of all the problems the people of Mayana village in the Okavango region are facing.”
“It has been a totally blessed and awesome opportunity to work with MCP on this project. People have really changed my perspective on how to deal with issues despite the constant setbacks from various people. What I will take away with me is that: we should not judge people for their intent but for what they do. We need to seriously follow our passion and not let anyone try to stop us. I feel like I have been adopted into a whole new family and I cannot wait to come back to see how projects are implemented and so we can help in that process as well. Finally, education is the key and it is not limited to a class, so it is important to constantly be willing to learn and have an open mind.”
Pioneering CAS Trip at the new project in Swakopmund, June 2012
The project is in the location of DRC (Democratic Resettlement Community) to establish an arts program that takes place in the facilities of the DRC Community Centre. Six students from H.I.S. in Germany (Heidelberg International School) and W.I.S. in Namibia (Windhoek International School) formed the team to support the local visionary and artist Ronald Kharuxab.
Firstly Neil ran a weaving workshop for kids in co-operation with Karakulia Weavers. It included making looms for future use at the DRC Community Centre. An art workshop was organized and held together with Ronald. Followed by a sand sculpture competition at the beachfront where the general public was invited to be the judges. This event was greatly supported through the presence of Elemotho, the ambassador of MCP. With the support of Dillon, Daniel, Chris, Zoe ,Maggie and Alicia we organized and held a writers workshop where the children wrote and illustrated their own stories. Another project was the art workshop for the DRC Kindergarten as well as decorating the wall of the ablution block.
A social highlight at the end of this trip was a barbeque held at W.I.S. that gave students, parents and staff the possibility to meet. This event was also the meeting ground for the MCP Friends Trip participants and future co-operation with W.I.S.
For the first time we had two project groups travelling to Namibia. In the MCP CAS Trip, with four students and two teachers, six people from five nations organized a football and netball tournament for the local teams as well as a sports festival for children. Other projects were English and computer classes for the teachers of the Mayana Pre-school, an after school activity at Kayengona Combined School that taught the children board and card games, football training for under 14-year-old children, and the construction of a shelter.
The MCP Friends Trip participants completed the shelter and established a mobile library. The Meho Kindergarten have now found their home in the shelter. Further projects were a sewing workshop for local women, a video portrait of the founding teacher of the Mayana Pre-school, and the Mayana Midwinter Challenge as a sports event.
The first H.I.S. international CAS project, comprising two students from grade 11 and two teachers, was a great success. The framework for the projects, the preparation for the participants and the involvement of the school community took shape. The project was named the Mayana Community Project. Its motto became, “Put your eyes on tomorrow and your feet on today!” (Mirjam Makeba), and the vision took organizational form under the official banner of Make Change Possible e.V.
The vision turned into action. Lawrence Gillman and Monika Handwerker approached H.I.S. with the idea of an international CAS project for the school in Mayana. On a trip of private nature, they travelled for six weeks together in Mayana and within a few days the range of possibilities to launch a CAS school project became apparent. On their return, they presented the proposed project. It was subsequently adopted by H.I.S.
An H.I.S. student, Lawrence Gillman, knowing about Monika's involvement in Africa, showed an interest in doing something useful as part of his gap year before joining the first diploma cohort of Heidelberg International School (H.I.S.). And so they agreed to pioneer an international CAS project together with one student and one teacher. And meanwhile people's life in Mayana went on…
On a private trip staying at the N’Kwazi Lodge in Mayana, Monika Handwerker, teacher at H.I.S., experienced a unique atmosphere in the region and noticed the small wooden elephants on sale to raise money for the local orphans. Her interest was aroused and she was determined to return.
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Category: Mac OS X
New Office 2016 for Mac now available for purchase
July 10th, 2015, 10:08 by Prasad 7 comments
Microsoft has released the final version of Office 2016 for Mac. The company had released a preview back in March but now you can purchase the full version from Microsoft.
Office 2016 for Mac is a complete revamp of the old Office 2011. The new app brings the new UI design seen on the Windows and mobile versions of Office while harmonizing with the new design and features of OS X. It supports features like fullscreen mode, multi-touch gestures, and also has Retina assets for all the high resolution Macs. Read more »
Mac OS X El Capitan public beta goes live
July 9th, 2015, 23:00 by Stefan 21 comments
Apple released a public beta of Mac OS X El Capitan. The desktop OS joins the iOS 9 public beta in being available to anyone who’s interested to try it out.
Just like its mobile counterpart, OS X El Capitan public beta is a more polished release than the versions that have been available to developers since WWDC. Read more »
Apple launches free replacement program for 3TB hard drive in 27-inch iMacs
June 20th, 2015, 09:00 by Ansh 31 comments
Apple has launched a replacement program for the 3TB hard drive used in 27-inch iMac systems that were sold between December 2012 and September 2013. The company said it has determined that the hard drive “may fail under certain conditions.”
The iPhone maker is in the process of contacting those who provided a valid email address during the registration of their device. However, if you haven’t been contacted yet, you can head to the support page (click Source link below), and enter your computer’s serial number in the relevant field to see if it’s part of the program. Read more »
Critical zero-day flaws in Apple’s iOS and OS X could allow hackers to steal passwords
Researchers have revealed some serious zero-day flaws in Apple’s iOS and OS X operating systems that when exploited could allow attackers to break into the company’s password-storing keychain, app sandboxes, as well as circumvent its App Store security checks, effectively letting them steal passwords from installed apps, including iCloud, Mail app, as well as Google Chrome.
“Our malicious apps successfully went through Apple’s vetting process and was published on Apple’s Mac app store and iOS app store,” said lead researcher Luyi Xing. Read more »
Apple iTunes to get a colourful makeover soon
June 17th, 2015, 11:53 by Samir 8 comments
Apple announced the iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan at the WWDC two weeks ago. Among the announced features, the iTunes makeover was surprisingly missed. Yet, the Apple Developer site carries the images of OS X El Capitan interface on MacBook with new iTunes app icon.
Not only that, even the iOS 9 developer pages has the placeholder image bearing revised Music app icon. Both iTunes app icon and the Music app icon get a colourful treatment, moving away from the single color app icon background used so far. Read more »
Google working on improving Chrome efficiency on Mac
If you used Chrome on Windows and then on Mac, you’d notice there is a sea of difference between the two. While it is arguably the best browser to use on Windows, on OS X it feels like a bloated mess that just burns through your battery at an astonishing rate for no good reason.
It seems Google is well aware of this issue, so it is working on improving the efficiency of the OS X version. In a Google+ post, Google engineer clarified on a few things the company is doing to improve battery life on Mac. Read more »
Apple is working on its own mapping database with street view
June 11th, 2015, 01:38 by Stefan 40 comments
Apple confirmed that it is hard at work on building its own mapping database with street view. The Cupertino giant is currently relying on third-party data for Apple Maps.
The Silicone Valley heavyweight has a number of camera-toting vehicles around the world that collect street view imaging data. Read more »
Apple enables ad blockers in Safari for new iOS and Mac OS versions
Your favorite ad blocker may soon land in Safari – both the iOS 9 and the Mac OS X El Capitan versions. The new functionality allows apps to give Safari rules about blocking cookies, images, other resources, pop-ups and other content.
This should enable everything from ad blocking to privacy add-ons to work natively on Apple gadgets. Read more »
Mac OS X El Capitan launches with improved performance and user experience
Apple’s first major announcement at today’s WWDC keynote is the successor of last year’s Mac OS X Yosemite. Dubbed OS X El Capitan, the new OS iteration brings improved performance and user experience to the platform.
Unlike last year’s OS X release which brought major UI redesign, El Capitan focuses on subtle UI tweaks and under-the-hood improvements. Read more »
Job listing suggests Apple planning to make Apple Maps available on other platforms as well
June 4th, 2015, 04:37 by Ansh 37 comments
Apple is planning to make its mapping service – which is currently exclusive to iOS and OS X – available on all platforms via the Web, according to a job listing posted by the company last month.
First spotted by tech analyst Benedict Evans and titled Maps JavaScript Engineer, the listing seeks a web technology expert to help make maps work seamlessly on the web. “This role requires a deep knowledge of the JavaScript language, plus a solid understanding of the performance and compatibility issues that arise when delivering a cross-platform web solution,” its description said. Read more »
Apple allegedly planning to switch to San Francisco as default font for iOS and OS X
May 21st, 2015, 09:27 by Prasad 27 comments
Apple has been working on its new font – San Francisco – for a while now and we saw it debut on the Apple Watch announced last year. But soon you might be seeing it as the default font on iOS and OS X, replacing the current Helvetica Neue.
San Francisco is a heavier typeset designed to emphasise visibility, especially on smaller displays of the Apple Watch. The font also scales well to larger displays and works quite well on iOS and OS X. In comparison, many people find the current Helvetica Neue to be quite light and hard to read, especially on iOS. The switch to San Francisco is supposedly the solution to this problem. Read more »
Apple announces 15-inch MacBook Pro with Force Touch Trackpad and cheaper iMac with Retina 5K display
May 19th, 2015, 15:12 by Prasad 74 comments
Apple has launched updated versions of the 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display. The key new feature is the Force Touch Trackpad first introduced with the new MacBook and the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display.
Along with the new trackpad you also get faster flash storage and longer battery life. It comes in two models, one with a 2.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 that Turbo Boosts up to 3.4GHz, Intel Iris Pro Graphics, 16GB RAM, and 256GB flash storage and the other with a 2.5GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 that Turbo Boosts up to 3.7GHz, Intel Iris Pro Graphics + AMD Radeon R9 M370X with 2GB GDDR5 memory, 16GB RAM, and 512GB flash storage. Read more »
Giphy for Gmail is a Chrome extension that lets you add animated GIFs into your emails
May 11th, 2015, 22:15 by Vlad 13 comments
Emails can be dull, but Giphy for Gmail is now here to change all that. In what is probably the greatest innovation to hit email since signatures were invented, Giphy for Gmail brings animated GIFs straight into your emails.
Giphy for Gmail is a Chrome extension. Once you install it, you’ll see a new rainbow button inside Gmail’s Compose screen, alongside the text formatting options. If you click it, you’ll be able to quickly search for and discover many animated GIFs just begging to be put inside your email. Read more »
This is Samsung Gear Live booting Apple Macintosh II OS like a boss
May 9th, 2015, 19:53 by Stefan 68 comments
Samsung Gear Live is a smartwatch of many talents. In addition to booting Microsoft Windows 95 with no hiccups, the Korean giant’s first Android Wear device can also run Apple Macintosh II OS straight from 1987.
Just like in the case of Redmond’s mid-90s OS marvel, the Gear Live runs Macintosh II via an emulator. Read more »
Next Apple iOS, OS X update to pack Spock’s Vulcan salute emoji
April 7th, 2015, 10:53 by Samir 36 comments
Leonard Nimoy, popularly known as Spock from the space fiction movie series Star Trek, passed away on February 27 and made the character Spock immortal. Even Apple is preparing to pay homage to Nimoy and Spock with a new Star Trek themed Spock emoji for OS X and iOS.
Often referred casually as the Spock sign but actually the Vulcan salute, it has been adapted form Jewish heritage. Read more »
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Category: Mobile computers
Lenovo’s David Hill reimagines a retro style ThinkPad with modern hardware
Remember the old-school IBM ThinkPad notebooks (or laptops as we used to call them back then)? This was before the brand was acquired by Lenovo, who still makes ThinkPads but they have now evolved with the times.
In his blog post, David Hill, Vice President, Lenovo Corporate Identity & Design, wonders about the possibilities of making a retro-style ThinkPad again, but with modern hardware. It will have all the trappings of the older models, including a blue enter key, 7 row classic keyboard, 16:10 aspect ratio screen, multi-color ThinkPad logo, dedicated volume controls, rubberized paint, exposed screws, lots of status LEDs, and more. Read more »
Lenovo unveils Z51 and Z41 high-end laptops, affordable Ideapad 100
May 27th, 2015, 12:00 by Peter 48 comments
Lenovo unveiled three new laptops at Lenovo Tech World in Beijing. Two new Z-series offer high performance and even a 3D camera, while the new Ideapad takes aim at the Chromebooks.
All three laptops will launch with Windows 8.1 and will be available in June. Read more »
Samsung patents phone-powered laptop dock with Android/Windows dual-boot
Smartphones serving as the brain of a laptop always sounded like a great idea, until someone actually makes one. Undeterred by the cold reception of the Motorola Atrix and its laptop dock and the low profile of the Asus Padfone, Samsung has patented a Galaxy Note-like device, which docks into a laptop host.
The patent does get a couple of things right that eluded the Atrix and the Padfone. Read more »
Lenovo gives the new MacBook a run for its money with the new LaVie Z and LaVie Z 360 laptops
May 4th, 2015, 10:27 by Victor 82 comments
In the ever-so-dynamic race of everyday life, mobility has become one of the key aspects of our personal tech. Ultrabooks have definitely gotten a long way in this respect but while some, like Apple are achieving ultra-portability at the expense of performance, others, like Lenovo, prove that there is really no room for compromises in today’s tech world.
The LaVie Z and LaVie Z 360 are a true testament to this. Both laptops are incredibly compact and measure 12.56″ x 0.67″ x 8.35″. They are also incredibly light – the LaVie Z weighs in at 1.87 lbs for a base model, while the more-advanced LaVie Z 360, complete with a touchscreen and flappable hinge, starts at 2.04 lbs. Read more »
The Microsoft Surface Pro 4 should be a major improvement over the Surface Pro 3, but it is still a while away
April 29th, 2015, 16:20 by Victor 45 comments
As most of you surely know, today is the first day of Microsoft’s biggest annual developer conference. Build 2014 promises to bring a lot of new information on Windows 10, as well as other exciting Microsoft projects. The keynote speech is set for 8:30 AM PDT and we will surely be covering the exciting announcements, so check back later for more info.
But the conference might bring about some interesting hardware news as well. There have been a lot of rumors floating around about the next Surface device. Seeing how the Sufrace 3 is still quite new, its successor is unlikely to come anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean that Microsoft can’t share some information about the future of the tablet line today. So here’s to hoping! Read more »
The new Apple MacBook is a nightmare to repair according to iFixit
April 15th, 2015, 23:37 by Stefan 37 comments
April has been a busy month for the folks from iFixit. After tearing down HTC One M9, Samsung Galaxy S6, and Galaxy S6 edge, the handy people picked apart the sleek new Apple Macbook with 12” Retina display.
The new addition to Apple’s notebook lineup received the rather horrific repairability score of 1 out of 10 from iFixit. Read more »
Google’s new Chromebook Pixel arrives in the UK on April 21
April 10th, 2015, 20:25 by Vlad 37 comments
Google made the new version of its Chromebook Pixel laptop official last month, but only for the US. Today though it was time for the company to announce availability for the UK.
So if you’re in the UK and have been craving a new Pixel, you can now mark April 21 in your calendar. That’s when the device will make its debut across the pond. You’ll be able to pick one up either from Google’s own online store for hardware, or through the Dixons group and its high street shops. Read more »
Samsung unveils 850 EVO mSATA and M.2 SSD drives
April 1st, 2015, 12:00 by Peter 21 comments
The Samsung 850 EVO SSDs came a while back, but they were available only in 2.5″ form-factors. Now Samsung has introduced the mSATA and M.2 versions. M.2 is the successor to mSATA and new super-thin laptops – like the ones these SSDs are targeting – are already switching to the new standard.
The SSDs are available for sale now, replacing the 840 EVO mSATAs. Read more »
Chromebit by Asus will turn your TV into a Chrome OS computer
March 31st, 2015, 23:44 by Stefan 25 comments
Google announced the smallest member of the Chrome OS gang to date. Dubbed Chromebit, the Asus-made device is a tiny HDMI dongle, which turns any compatible display in to a Chrome OS computer.
Despite its highly pocketable size, Chromebit packs respectable specs. Read more »
Google unveils new Chromebook Pixel, it’s faster, cheaper, and has better battery life
March 11th, 2015, 20:51 by Vlad 93 comments
Last month Google inadvertently confirmed that it’s working on a new Chromebook Pixel, and today that has become reality. The company unveiled its latest laptop, and it looks almost 100% like the original from 2013.
However, there are many changes under the hood, and all for the better. First off, the new Pixel is faster than its predecessor, offering you a choice between a 2.2 GHz Intel Core i5 processor or a 2.4 GHz Core i7. Read more »
Apple updates MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro with faster hardware
March 10th, 2015, 08:35 by Prasad 47 comments
Along with the spanking new MacBook, Apple also updated the hardware on the MacBook Air and the MacBook Pro with Retina display, which are now much better for the same price.
The MacBook Air gets a new fifth generation (Broadwell) Intel Core i5 5250U processor with dual core 1.6GHz CPU (Turbo Boost up to 2.7GHz) and HD 6000 on-board graphics. You can also configure it with an Intel Core i7 5650U with dual core 2.2GHz CPU (Turbo Boost up to 3.2GHz) and the same HD 6000 graphics. There is also Thunderbolt 2, with twice the bandwidth of up to 20Gbps up and down simultaneously. These changes are available are common to both the 11-inch and 13-inch, but the 13-inch model also gets 2x faster flash storage. Read more »
A $79 gadget will address the shortage of ports in the new Apple MacBook
March 9th, 2015, 23:14 by Stefan 95 comments
Apple will help you go around the shortage of ports in the new Macbook with a dedicated accessory. Priced at $79, the USB-C multipart adapter will add a trio of ports to the sleek new notebook.
The multiport adapter by Apple will be available in two different configurations – one with VGA display port and one with HDMI solution. Read more »
The new 12″ MacBook gets showcased in these official promo videos
March 9th, 2015, 22:08 by Vlad 89 comments
Earlier today, Apple finally made the oft-rumored new 12-inch MacBook official. The laptop is the thinnest the company has ever produced, having a maximum thickness of just 13.1 mm. It’s also sporting a full-metal construction.
These things, as well as many others, are talked about in the two promo videos for the MacBook that Apple has shown during its launch event. And now you can watch these right here. Read more »
Apple’s all-metal, fanless MacBook 12″ is official, packs Retina Display and a single USB-C port
March 9th, 2015, 20:21 by Vince 137 comments
Apple has just announced the new 12″ MacBook. The company has managed to make the notebook even thinner than the MacBook Air measuring just 13.1mm at its thinnest point.
The 12″ Retina display features a 2304 x 1440 pixel resolution. The new MacBook weighs just 907 grams (2lbs), is all-metal and because of its thinness has been stripped of most of its ports. There’s now just one USB-C port on the left for both charging and connectivity and a 3.5mm headphone jack on the right. Read more »
The rumored 12″ MacBook Air to offer Retina display resolution
March 5th, 2015, 15:50 by Kyle 182 comments
The 12″ MacBook Air has been in the rumorland for quite some time. As the Apple’s latest event is almost upon us, the rumors are once again ignited.
The last time we heard the 12″ MacBook Air is expected to enter mass production in the first quarter of this year and its shipping should happen through April – June. The device supposedly will be a high-end product with limited availability. Read more »
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Effect of static and dynamic stretching during a full warm-up on athletic performance in athletes
Blazevich, A. J., Gill, N. D., Kvorning, T., Kay, A. D., Go, A., Hilton, B., Drinkwater, E. and Behm, D. (2016) Effect of static and dynamic stretching during a full warm-up on athletic performance in athletes. Other presented to: 21st Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science (ECSS 2016), Vienna, Austria, 2016-07-06.
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Introduction: Significant evidence indicates that static muscle stretching can acutely reduce muscle force/power production whilst dynamic stretching may increase it. However, study designs have not been appropriate in the majority of studies to determine whether muscle stretching affects performance when it is performed within a full, sports-specific warm-up (Behm et al. 2016). We aimed to determine the effects of static and dynamic stretching during a ’sport-specific warm-up” on running, jumping, agility and flexibility performances in athletes. Methods: Twenty men competing in running-based sports completed a familiarization and four weekly testing sessions. Using a randomized, cross-over design the subjects performed 5-s static passive stretches of lower limb muscles, 3x10-s static stretches, dynamic stretches (5 reps/leg, identical body positions to static stretches) or a non-stretch control condition within a warm-up (5-min general warm-up before stretch, and test-specific, progressive warm-up including maximal efforts after stretch). Researchers were blinded to the warm-up condition, and subjects nominated which condition they believed would yield best performance before the study (subject-level bias) as well as their perception of ‘preparedness’ (1-10 scale) after each warm-up condition. Results: Eighteen of 20 subjects believed that dynamic stretching would yield best performances, however no between-condition differences (p=0.23-0.99) were detected in: (1) 5 m, 20 m or 10-20 m sprint times, (2) squat, countermovement or 3-step running jump heights, or (3) agility T-test time. Magnitude-based inference statistics showed a high likelihood of ‘trivial’ changes. Small and equal post-warm-up increases in sit-and-reach flexibility (1.9-2.4 cm, p<0.01) were achieved in the stretch conditions compared to no stretch. Subjects typically felt more prepared (>5.2/10) for testing when some stretching was performed (no stretch=3.9/10), with no differences between conditions. Discussion: No stretch-specific effect on performance was observed when a warm-up protocol that included low-intensity exercise before muscle stretching was followed by a progressive, test-specific warm-up to maximum exercise intensity in athletes. Thus, although subjects felt better prepared for exercise, short- (5 s) or moderate-duration (30 s) static stretching or dynamic stretching had no group-level effect on performance when used in a full warm-up. Subject belief (i.e. subject-level bias) also did not influence test performances. Based on current and previous data, and contradictory to (some) current recommendations, muscle stretching appears not to influence physical performance when used as part of a full ’sport-specific warm-up’ in athletes. Reference Behm D., Blazevich AJ., Kay AD., McHugh M. (2016). Appl Physiol Nutr Metab, 41, 1-11. Contact a.blazevich@ecu.edu.au
Blazevich, Anthony J, Gill, N D, Kvorning, T, Kay, Anthony D, Go, A, Hilton, B, Drinkwater, E and Behm, D
http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/11421
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alaska Mar. 23, 2015
‘F*ck It, I Quit’ Reporter’s Cannabis Club Raided by Alaska Police
By Jessica Roy
The Alaska cannabis club owned by Charlo Greene (legal name Charlene Egbe), the infamous “f*ck it, I quit” KTVA TV anchor, was raided by police, reports — ironically enough! — KTVA. The club was served a search warrant by the Anchorage Police Department on Friday during an investigation of “criminal activity.”
Marijuana is legal for recreational use in Alaska, but you’re not allowed to sell it or smoke it in public. Cops say people at Egbe’s clubhouse, “a place for card holders to come and share their own cannabis,” may have been selling weed, though no arrests were made.
Guess Egbe still has a long way to go in her fight for “freedom and fairness.”
Mediaite KTVA
‘F*ck It, I Quit’ Anchor’s Cannabis Club Raided
Should Newspaper Endorsements Exist?
By Josh Barro, Benjamin Hart, and Eric Levitz
In the wake of the Times’ big reveal of its choice, Intelligencer staffers discuss whether this tradition makes any sense.
Two Trump Lawyers Dismissed His Own Constitutional Argument
Jonathan Turley and William Barr have said a president can be impeached for abuse of power. Oops!
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5. Allston, Half-figure of a bearded man, drawing
tise with the forms of nature and the human
figure. He used all media, worked in several
styles, and drew preparatory sketches, studies of
details, and even caricatures. These are found
not only in sketchbooks but in his correspondence, student notebooks, and even in his
minutes for the Hasty Pudding Club (fig. 2).
Fortunately for Oberlin, he has left us evidence that he also drew on the endpapers of
his books. He sketched a man's profile in pencil
on the page facing the inside cover of the Villa
Aldobrandini and a half-figure of a bearded man
with outstretched arm on the inside back cover
(figs. 4 and 5). There is at least one other volume
from his library with drawings on the endpapers, that of a book of poetry now in a collection of Allston books at the Longfellow Historic
Site, Cambridge.10
The profile (fig. 4) is not unlike caricatures
executed during his Harvard years but is more
stylistically related to a chalk profile at the Fogg
Museum (fig. 6) which dates from his second
residency in England, 1811-18. Significantly,
during this period he had returned to the Royal
Academy to sharpen his skills in figural draughtsmanship. The contour of the forehead, the curve
6. Allston, Portrait of a Man's Head in Profile, c. 1811-18,
drawing, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, The
Washington Allston Trust
Photo: Barry Donahue
of the nostril, the short upper lip, the convention of the black dot in the slightly open mouth,
the shape of the ear, especially the triangular
lobe with the jaw line at its apex, identify idio-
syncracies of Allston's drawing style of this
period. The other drawing, very small and faint,
is merely a momentary capture of a pose that did
not receive second thoughts which would have
strengthened the weak line. The outstretched
arm is a gesture frequently found in Allston's
work, indeed in much of nineteenth century art,
and is one he gave attention to in more finished
studies.11
Museum Director/Acting Director Olander, William
Contributors Goldberg, Marcia, 1925-
Joll, Evelyn, 1925-
Oppenheim, Dennis, 1938-2011
Paul, Anne
Contents Turner's 'View of Venice: Ducal Palace, Dogana, with Part of San Giorgio'; Washington Allston and Barriere's Villa Aldobrandini; A Study of Two Paracas Fragments; 'And the Mind Grew Fingers'; Notes; Friends of the Museum; Oberlin Friends of Art; Staff
Artists Allston, Washington (American, 1779-1843)
Barrière, Dominique (French, 1618-1678)
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (English, 1775-1851)
List of Illustrations J. M. W. Turner, View of Venice: Ducal Palace, Dogana, with Part of San Giorgio, 1841 or earlier; Turner, View of Venice. After cleaning; Turner, The Giudecca, 1841 or earlier, Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago; J . M. W. Turner, The Campo Santo, Venice, 1842, The Toledo Museum of Art; Title page, Dominique Barriere, Villa Aldobrandini; Hasty Pudding Club Secretary's Records, I (1795-1801), p. 63; The Flaying of Marsyas; Allston, Man's head in profile; Allston, Half-figure of a bearded man; Allston, Portrait of a Man's Head in Profile; Fragment of Paracas mantle border, 400-250 B.C.; Detail of tunic border, Paracas bundle 410; Detail of tunic border, Paracas bundle 410; Detail of tunic border, Paracas bundle 157; Detail of mantle border, Parcas bundle 421; Detail of turban border, Paracas bundle 290; Ubiquitous Being, from turban border, Paracas bundle 91; Ubiquitous Being, from turban border, Paracas bundle 310; Ubiquitous Being, from turban border, Paracas bundle 190; Ubiquitous Being, from poncho border, Paracas bundle 375; Fragment of mantle border (detail); Fragment of Paracas border; Detail of Paracas border; Detail of mantle border, Paracas bundle 190; Detail of mantle border, Paracas bundle 190; Scan, 1979, installation at Kunstverein; Way Station Launching an Obsolete Power; An Operation for Mining, Elevating and Converting Underground Memories of a Fifth Season. An Around the Clock Activity; Assembly Line. (With By-Products from a Mechanical Trance), 1980; Occasion for Expansion�A Combat of Structural Projections, 1981; Launching Structure #2. An Armature for Projection; J. M. W. Turner, View of Venice: Ducal Palace, Dogana, with Part of San Giorgio, 1841 or earlier,; Turner, View of Venice. After cleaning; Turner, The Giudecca, 1841 or earlier, Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago; J . M. W. Turner, The Campo Santo, Venice, 1842, The Toledo Museum of Art
Year 1983; 1984
Transcript Pf"; j ■ 1 1 % : j 1 1 -, L: . J*~t ■■-^,. 5. Allston, Half-figure of a bearded man, drawing tise with the forms of nature and the human figure. He used all media, worked in several styles, and drew preparatory sketches, studies of details, and even caricatures. These are found not only in sketchbooks but in his correspondence, student notebooks, and even in his minutes for the Hasty Pudding Club (fig. 2). Fortunately for Oberlin, he has left us evidence that he also drew on the endpapers of his books. He sketched a man's profile in pencil on the page facing the inside cover of the Villa Aldobrandini and a half-figure of a bearded man with outstretched arm on the inside back cover (figs. 4 and 5). There is at least one other volume from his library with drawings on the endpapers, that of a book of poetry now in a collection of Allston books at the Longfellow Historic Site, Cambridge.10 The profile (fig. 4) is not unlike caricatures executed during his Harvard years but is more stylistically related to a chalk profile at the Fogg Museum (fig. 6) which dates from his second residency in England, 1811-18. Significantly, during this period he had returned to the Royal Academy to sharpen his skills in figural draughtsmanship. The contour of the forehead, the curve 6. Allston, Portrait of a Man's Head in Profile, c. 1811-18, drawing, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, The Washington Allston Trust Photo: Barry Donahue of the nostril, the short upper lip, the convention of the black dot in the slightly open mouth, the shape of the ear, especially the triangular lobe with the jaw line at its apex, identify idio- syncracies of Allston's drawing style of this period. The other drawing, very small and faint, is merely a momentary capture of a pose that did not receive second thoughts which would have strengthened the weak line. The outstretched arm is a gesture frequently found in Allston's work, indeed in much of nineteenth century art, and is one he gave attention to in more finished studies.11 84
List of Illustrations Allston, Half-figure of a bearded man; Allston, Portrait of a Man's Head in Profile,
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Turner's 'View of Venice: Ducal...
Washington Allston and Barriere's...
A Study of Two Paracas Textile...
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And the Mind Grew Fingers
Exhibitions 1983-84
Oberlin Friends of Art
Turner's 'View of Venice: Ducal Palace, Dogana, with Part of San Giorgio'
Washington Allston and Barriere's Villa Aldobrandini
A Study of Two Paracas Textile Fragments
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Health at the crossroads – private meets public on primary care
Written by Arn Sprogis
Arn Sprogis* agrees that general practice is the key to improved quality of care, but ponders what mix of public and private structures will best support it.
Ineffective policy making by successive federal governments has pushed the Australian health system into the first stages of a disruption that could be even greater than the impact of Medibank over 30 years ago.
This disruption is being driven by the need to resolve the three major health care and health financing challenges:
how to best manage chronic and complex care, and by whom?
how to best manage avoidable hospital admissions/care, and by whom?
how to finally get equity in access to care, particularly for rural and regional populations?
The many keen observers of our health system see clear signs of major change. We have an absent commonwealth government , private health insurers (PHIs) moving into general practice, corporate GP practice rapidly increasing, and an impending flood of new medical graduates.
Add to this mix another restructure of the primary care system, with Medicare Locals (MLs) soon to become Primary Health Networks (PHNs).
Read more: Health at the crossroads – private meets public on primary care
Advanced Maternal Age – An Obstetrician’s Perspective
Written by Dr David Addenbrooke
There are both challenges and advantages to parenting at older age, writes Dr David Addenbrooke.
Women are increasingly delaying pregnancy until later life. The reasons for this are many and solid arguments could be made regarding the increasing average time in education and training, modern gender equality in professional careers and the increasing economic pressure for double incomes, particularly in urban centres.
There are clear advantages to starting a family with a higher level of emotional maturity and financial stability. The biology of aging however does not discriminate and it is also clear that fertility and pregnancy can become more challenging with time. The biological clock is ruthless when it comes to reproduction.
Read more: Advanced Maternal Age – An Obstetrician’s Perspective
Does the health system ‘get’ Aboriginal dialysis?
Written by Staff
In a series of journal articles co-authored with collaborators who included the University Centre for Rural Health North Coast’s Lesley Barclay and Shawn Wilson, then-doctoral researcher Liz Rix raised important questions relating to the provision of hemodialysis services to Indigenous people.
As the title of one paper (Rural and Remote Health, 3/6/14) bluntly put it, ‘Can a white nurse get it?’
Read more: Does the health system ‘get’ Aboriginal dialysis?
Lismore in the pink for breast cancer
Written by Robin Osborne
Lismore in the pink for breast cancer.
Lismore City Council outdoor staff and others are going pink in support of Council’s Works Depot Technical Officer Carolyn Moynihan who was diagnosed with breast cancer and has undergone a bilateral mastectomy.
While the 50-year-old is now on the road to recovery, the news shocked her colleagues, including and Purchasing Officer Rod Thistleton who came up with the idea of joining the ‘Real Men Wear Pink’ fundraising campaign.
Early on the morning of 30 October, Carolyn watched as around 150 staff donned their new pink workwear and headed out in their trucks.
“I was so moved,” Carolyn said. “Rod had wanted to do something for a while and he found these pink Bisley workshirts online and I thought it was a great idea. Then it just got bigger and bigger.
Read more: Lismore in the pink for breast cancer
How e-technology helps people ‘be appy’
The launch of a Commonwealth funded training program to help Aboriginal and other health professionals better use apps and internet-based programs with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients was held in Lismore, NSW on 2 October 2014.
‘R U Appy’, the North Coast Aboriginal e-Social and Emotional Wellbeing Training Program, brings together work done by the University Centre for Rural Health (UCRH), the Menzies School of Health Research (NT) and Queensland University of Technology. Additional input was received from the Black Dog Institute, Macquarie University and the Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council
Read more: How e-technology helps people ‘be appy’
Northern Rivers pharmacist judged Australia’s best
Builder chosen for Casino Hospital ED
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Savage Lee Farming Uvhm
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Ignazio Licata et Teresa Iaria
Nr 01 . 9 janvier 2010
Visions of Oneness: Space-Time Geometry and Quantum Physics
1. Classic and Quantum, Global and Local
2. Quantum Potential and Active Information
3. Geometries of Non-Locality
4. The Quantum Foam of Implicit Order
5. Heraclitean and Parmenedian Aspects of Contemporary Physics
The two conceptual pillars of modern physics, General Relativity (GR) and Quantum Mechanics (QM), have very different structural characteristics and epistemological connotations. These differences directly influence the images and language we use for these two visions of the world, and it is from these that we wish to depart for a voyage through the most recent theoretical attempts at unification, with particular attention to the geometry of quantum potential and to pre-space structures. As Einstein wrote, “No physicist thinks with formulas,” and our intent is to gather the cognitive suggestions of contemporary art in order to propose new visions of the physical world.
General Relativity (GR) may be considered the highest achievement of classical Physics, a formidable synthesis of the notions of space and time as a theatre of coordinates, of the description of the field of gravity, and of the equations of motion. Moreover, it has furnished the modern conceptual approach to studying the large-scale structure of space-time and the processes that take place in hyperdense matter (Hawking & Ellis, 1975). The essential form of the tensorial equations of Einsteinian gravity can be written as:
With G being the Einstein tensor and T the stress-energy tensor.
The peculiarity of eqs (1) leads to an effect of non-linearity – gravity gravitates! – which makes it very difficult to apply the traditional “local” processes of quantization to Einstein’s space-time curve. Moreover, a much more radical effect of non-locality is at the center of Quantum Mechanics (QM), the theory that threw many of the certainties of the classical image into crisis and that provided the tools for the investigation of Particle Physics and condensed matter.1
In the EPR-Bell phenomena, in fact, objects separated in space and time show space-like correlations that are inexplicable with classical Physics, and that characterize the quantum statistics from which the most interesting properties of the structure of matter derive. Since the non-local correlations do not transport energy, they do not violate Relativity but nonetheless remain outside the bounds of the classical picture of the world. This situation goes under the name of “pacific coexistence” between Relativity and Quantum Physics (Shimony). The problem of reconciling the classical image of Einstein’s space-time and quantum non-locality is that of constructing a dynamic model of space-time in which the quantum processes also find a place, or that of developing a quantum geometrodynamics.
[Figure 3][Figure 4]
The most recent attempts at a geometric approach to quantum processes are owed to Wheeler2 based on Weyl’s geometry, and to Wood and Papini3 using a modification of the Weyl-Dirac theory. These theories have suggested that QM could be incorporated as a corresponding “deformation” of space-time. More recently Sidharth (Sidharth, 2002) has proposed a geometric interpretation of QM on the bases of noncommutative and non-integrable geometries. All of these attempts have an epistemological common denominator: the standard interpretation of QM. As Heisenberg observed at the dawning of quantum theory, Copenhagen’s interpretation is radically a-causal, and quantum processes cannot therefore be retraced to a space-time vision. This profoundly limits every attempt to understand Quantum Physics within the traditional Einsteinian space-time arena.
In recent years interest in D. Bohm’s realist interpretation of QM has grown. Here let’s recall that Bohm’s interpretation reproduces all the results of QM without any ambiguity regarding the role of the observer.4 In this interpretation non-locality is not an “unexpected visitor,” as in the standard interpretation, but derives directly from quantum potential Q, a necessary term for the conservation of energy in Schrödinger’s equation:
The form of potential (2) reveals some interesting properties: it depends on the amplitude R of the wave function and its action is like-space, exactly that called for in the EPR-Bell processes. Quantum potential contains global information of physical processes, defined as “active information,” or the contextual information of the system under observation and its environment, information that is not “external” to space-time but should rather be considered a type of geometric information “woven” into space-time itself. It is, further, a dynamic entity. Paraphrasing J.A.Wheeler’s famous saying about GR, we can say that the evolution of the state of a quantum system changes active global information, and this in turn influences the state of the quantum system, redesigning the non-local geometry of the universe.
The geometry subtending quantum potential has been explored by various authors.5 One very interesting result is that of Shojai & Shojai,6 who studied the behavior of particles at spin 0 in a space-time curve, demonstrating that quantum potential contributes to the curvature that is added to the classic one and that reveals profound and unexpected connections between gravity and quantum phenomena. All of this is expressed by a metric conformal such as:
Where the expression for mass is : with Q as the quantum potential.
This is a perfect image of quantum geometrodynamics that combines the gravitational and quantum aspects of matter, at least in terms of the level of macroscopic description of physical processes. In reality, once again, things are not so simple. Non-locality remains a phenomenon that rests uncomfortably with a “mechanical” vision of the universe, and it is not by chance that Bohm referred to QM and its interpretation as quantum non-mechanics, to reiterate that they could not be in any way understood as a return to the classical, but rather as the partial recovery of a “fuzzy realism.” Taking up the ideas of Heisenberg and G. Chew, the Birbeck group7 demonstrated that the entire symplectic non-commutative geometry identified by quantum potential can be derived from Weyl’s discrete algebra. In more directly physical terms, this means that there are two possible epistemological attitudes toward Eddington’s quantum sheet of geometrodynamics:
a) it is taken as primary but non-local, and therefore it is necessary to introduce additional hypotheses about its deep structure, or
b) the space-time manifold must be considered an emergence of the deepest processes situated at the level of quantum gravity.
Using the now famous image of complementarity in D. Bohm’s version, we can say that the entire connected and local structure of both space-time and the Shannon-Turing information we use to compute the events in it is the explicit order of a hidden, implicit order, which acts as a “fabric of reality” at a sub-quantum level, fundamentally discrete and non-commutative.8
The idea of a structure of relations subtending the observable forms of matter, energy and space-time was defined by J. A. Wheeler as “quantum foam,” with the precise intent of evoking the erosion of traditional notions toward the Planck scale typical of quantum gravity. Despite the ongoing lack of a strong unifying principle, the various versions of String theory have had a certain success in overcoming some of the impasses of Particle Physics, and it has been suggested that space-time manifold is the result of the interaction between p-branes, and that the acquisition of the masses in Higg’s Ocean finds its natural explanation in the mechanisms of uncurling and compactification.9 In reality, the majority of the versions of strings works, just like Quantum Field Theory, which is its closest relative, with a flat Minkowski space-time, while a correct, authentically relativistic (in the sense of GR) theory should be independent from the background, or not presuppose any metric signature. Various theories have these requirements. One is Penrose’s Twistor theory.10 To use Penrose’s own words, “a twistor is an object similar to the two-faced Janus, unitary but with one face turned toward QM and the other toward GR.” More precisely a twistor is and object without mass and charge and with spin, invariant for the conformal group, so as to find again the light-cone of Minkowski’s space-time. The famous representation by Robinson is based on a stereographic projection of Clifford’s algebra that defines the structure of twistors and allows the essential characteristics of the dynamic non-local “fragments” of space-time to be intuitively taken from it. Another very elegant theory that has the right relativistic requirements is Rovelli and Smolin’s “Loop quantum gravity”.11 The loops are closed field lines that do not depend on the coordinate system and therefore provide the basis for a relational description of space-time in the spirit of Leibniz. The theory presupposes a very particular space-time structure at the Planck scale: the operators associated with area and volume in fact have a discrete spectrum, giving birth to a complex and fascinating graph structure and thus furnishing a discrete combinatorial view of Physics.
A rapid review of the relationships between the explicate order of space-time manifold and the theories that investigate the fine structure of quantum foam invites interesting reflection, both epistemological and cognitive.
The entire history of Physics may be considered a progressive refinement of the models of space-time, from Newton’s absolute one to non-Euclidean and conformal geometries of the various classical and quantum geometrodynamics. All of these theories are characterized by the notion of “process,” understood as the evolution of a set of observables in space and in time. Quantum Physics has created an irreversible leak in the self-cohesion of such kind of view of the world, and the exploration of quantum gravity seems to propose the introduction of new geometric and algebraic structures that identify the weaving of relationships in the implicit order from which the very concepts of space, time, and evolution emerge. A unitary vision of the relationship between GR and QM will require, therefore, new conceptual terms to describe the deep complementarity between the Heraclitean and Parmenedian aspects of the physical world.
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Ignazio Licata et Teresa Iaria, « Visions of Oneness: Space-Time Geometry and Quantum Physics », [Plastik] : Être ici et là : La relativité générale et la physique quantique #01 [en ligne], mis en ligne le 9 janvier 2010, consulté le 22 janvier 2020. URL : http://plastik.univ-paris1.fr/visions-of-onenness/ ISSN 2101-0323
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See for example Hughes, 1992
Wheeler, 1990
Wood & Papini, 1995
Bohm & Hiley, 1995
see Carroll, 2006
Shojai & Shojai, 2004
Hiley & Monk, 1998; Brown, 2002
Licata, 2008
see Riotto, 2000; Sundrum & Randall, 1999
Huggett & Todd, 1994
Rovelli, 2007
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Mass Graves of Children in Canada – Documented Evidence
Issued to those few of you whose minds are still unfogged enough to understand, and whose hearts and will are still free enough to cause you to act.
A Special Report from The International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State
Mass Graves of Children in Canada:
The first documented evidence of the burial of children at a former Indian residential school
Issued by the ITCCS Central Office and Kevin D. Annett during the Ninth Annual Aboriginal Holocaust Memorial Week –
In late 2011 in Brantford, Ontario, history was made with the uncovering of forensic evidence of the burial of children at the oldest Indian residential school in Canada.
Despite subsequent attempts by the Church and Crown of England and their aboriginal agents to discredit and conceal this evidence of their crimes, this first unveiling of mass graves has prompted new disclosures of genocide across Canada.
After the first evidence of a mass grave near the Anglican-run Mohawk Institute in Brantford, Ontario was unearthed between September and November, 2011, these agencies that are responsible for the deaths of children at this, Canada’s oldest “Indian residential school”, mounted an enormous sabotage campaign to stop the dig and fog the evidence. That coverup eventually involved the Archbishop of Canterbury in London, Rowan Williams, the Anglican Primate in Canada, Fred Hiltz, and Buckingham Palace.
This sabotage temporarily halted the excavation of the Mohawk Institute graves – the first independent dig ever undertaken at Canadian residential schools. But the evidence uncovered confirmed that children are indeed buried there.
This report is a recapitulation of what was discovered at the Mohawk school, and reminds the world that forensic evidence has now substantiated that the Crown of England, the Vatican and the Canadian government and churches are responsible for the death of more than 50,000 children across Canada.
This report includes original field notes from the Mohawk Institute excavations, video recordings of the dig, and evidence of the bones and bits of school uniforms that were uncovered on the former school grounds, along with other corroborating material.
In April, 2011, ten traditional elders of the Grand River Mohawk Nation issued a written invitation to Kevin Annett and the ITCCS to conduct an inquiry on their land into children who went missing at the nearby “Mush Hole”: their name for the Mohawk Institute, founded in 1832 by the Crown and Church of England, where records indicate that on average 40% of the children died until it closed in 1970. (see Exhibit No. 1, in Appendix, below)
The Mohawk invitation authorized Kevin and his team to work with specialists to survey the old residential school grounds and search for the remains of children whom eyewitnesses claim were buried east of the Mohawk Institute building, which is still intact.
The survey and excavation work on the grounds of the former school began on September 29, 2011, and continued in its first phase for two weeks, until October 11. The second phase, which included intensive excavations that yielded the aforementioned bones and clothing, spanned four days between November 21 and 24, inclusive.
The project’s core team included Kevin Annett and Lori O’Rorke with the ITCCS, four members of the Mohawk nation including two authorizing Mohawk elders, Cheryl and Bill Squire, a Ground Penetrating Radar technician, Clynt King, two consulting forensic and archaeological specialists, Kris Nahrgang of Trent University and Greg Olson with the Ontario Provincial Coroners’ Office, and a senior forensic pathologist, Dr. Donald Ortner of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC.
A third and final phase of this initial project occurred during January, 2012, involving interviews with key eyewitnesses who had access to Anglican church archives.
Previous Discovery of Children’s Bones at the Mohawk Institute
Our project was initiated in part because of the discovery of children’s bones near the former Mohawk Institute / “Mush Hole” school building in 2008, and previously, in 1982.
Tara Froman, curator of the Woodland Center – a museum adjacent to the still-standing former Mohawk Institute building – reported to Kevin Annett in April, 2011 that during the reconstruction of the floor of the Woodland Center, sometime in 2008, an employee named Tom Hill found what turned out to be the forearm of an adolescent female.
This bone was analyzed by the Provincial Coroners’ Office and then “locked away” by Barb Harris, an employee of the state-funded Six Nations Confederacy.
A similar incident had occurred during the actual construction of the Woodland Center in the spring of 1982, according to Tara Froman. That construction was stopped because the complete skeleton of a small child was found immediately west of the former Mohawk Institute building.
Froman says that she was sworn to silence about that discovery, and the remains were “taken away” by the Ontario Provincial Police, possibly into “deep storage” at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.
The Mush Hole Dig: Phase One (September 29-October 11, 2011)
Phase One of the project involved interviews with Mush Hole survivors and the commencing of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) surveys on the grounds of the former school. The GPR operation was overseen by Clynt King, a technician employed by the local Six Nations Confederacy, a non-traditional state-funded organization.
A group of six survivors of the Mush Hole were gathered and interviewed for clues to the location of possible graves of children at or near the school building. Based on this information, the GPR survey began on the grounds immediately east of the building, on hilly and uneven terrain where school survivor Geronimo Henry reported seeing children buried in in the early 1950′s.
Sure enough, the GPR surveys immediately detected what GPR technician Clynt King referred to as “massive soil dislocation and abnormal disturbances” in the area east of and adjacent to the Mush Hole building. (see Exhibits No. 2 and No.3)
According to King, on the second day of the GPR survey, (September 30, 2011),
“It appears from the radar that at least ten to fifteen feet of soil has been displaced and covered over the original terrain east and southeast of the school building. This is definitely a subsurface anomaly, meaning it’s earth that was dumped there.”
Survivor Geronimo Henry (b. 1936) corroborated on the same day,
“None of that mound was there when I was in the Mush Hole (note: 1944-1953). It was all flat then. This has all been piled up, right where I saw them digging one night and burying a small kid.”
Significantly, in the same general area, Geronimo Henry also claims he saw fellow Mush Hole students being placed in an underground cistern as punishment. Henry states,
“Some of those kids went down in there and never came out again. I remember that happened to a girl who was only nine or ten.”
The cement cistern referred to by Geronimo Henry is about ten feet by sixteen feet in size, and stands immediately south of the main school building’s east (girls’) wing. The cistern’s concrete lid seal is broken, making the underground chamber accessible.
Members of the ITCCS team explored the underground cistern chamber on October 5, 2011 and discovered small, apparently animal bones that were scattered throughout the muddy floor of the concrete interior, along with chairs and other garbage. The team returned that night with a driller and bored into the underground wall facing the school building, finding much loose and displaced soil and a drainage pipe running from the school.
Random children’s graffiti was also detected on the walls, confirming that children had been in the cistern.
On the outside of the school building, opposite from the cistern on the north wall of the school, the top of an archway was also discovered. This archway was almost entirely covered by uneven, compacted soil which survivors Geronimo Henry and Roberta Hill claim had not been there in the 1950′s. It appears that the archway is the top of a buried doorway leading from a lower sub-basement area that has been concealed by soil deposits.
The existence of this sub-basement area is significant, in that other school survivors describe being taken as children for punishment to a chamber “under the basement”. This sub-basement chamber contained rings and shackles on the walls where one survivor who desires anonymity states that she saw children being confined in the year 1959 or 1960.
A cousin of Mohawk elder Yvonne Hill stated on October 6, 2011 that a sealed underground tunnel runs from the same sub-basement chamber through the school’s furnace room to a former Greenhouse on the grounds of the Woodland Cultural Center, and “that’s where they buried the kids who died”.
(Note: the same spot at the Woodland Center is where skeletal remains of children were unearthed and then concealed in 1982 and 2008, see above).
The furnace room’s connection to the alleged underground tunnel may be related to the common practice in Indian residential schools of incinerating the bodies of children and newborns who had died or been killed on the premises.
The GPR survey of the Mush Hole grounds encompassed in total four grid areas to the north and northeast of the building. The total size of the surveyed grids was 400 square meters.
On Day 6 of the GPR survey (October 4), Dale Bomberry, head of Operations for the non-traditional, government-funded Six Nations Confederacy, suddenly denied further use of the GPR equipment to the ITCCS team. Clynt King was ordered by Bomberry to cease his activities and all of the data from the GPR survey was seized by Bomberry.
On Day 8 (October 6), Six Nations Confederacy chief Bill Montour was called to Ottawa for “consultations” with the government.
The same day, threats of physical violence were issued against Kevin Annett by three employees of the Confederacy – Tom Powless, Sean Toulouse and a cousin of Dale Bomberry. That evening, the underground cistern was opened and explored by unknown persons.
On Day 9 (October 7), members of the Men’s Fire, a Mohawk security force working closely with the ITCCS team, discovered many boxes of residential school files in the basement immediately above the apparent sub-basement chamber described above. Within minutes, the Men’s Fire members were stopped by Confederacy staff and photographed on video camera.
The same day, Chief Montour announced that no further support for the Mush Hole inquiry would be offered by the Confederacy, despite Montour having endorsed the survey and dig two days earlier (see Exhibit No. 4, Tekawennake Newspaper October 5, 2011, p. 2).
Consequently, this first phase of the inquiry was suspended on October 11 to allow the sponsoring Mohawk elders and the ITCCS team the chance to assess events and plan how to continue in the face of growing sabotage and resistance by government-funded “chief and council”.
The Mush Hole Dig: Interregnum (October 11-November 21, 2011)
After a series of consultations between the ITCCS team and the sponsoring Mohawk elders, as well as the Men’s Fire Group, it was unanimously decided to continue with the Mush Hole inquiry and excavations, based on what had been discovered until then.
Numerous attempts to contact GPR technician Clynt King and obtain the GPR survey data from the Mush Hole grounds were unsuccessful. King was reportedly “on extended vacation” and the Six Nations Confederacy refused to release the GPR survey data.
Accordingly, it was decided to proceed directly with a test excavation in the area most likely to contain burial sites, based on the GPR survey and eyewitness accounts.
An excavation team consisting of seven people was established, with the Men’s Fire providing site security. The dig team was Kevin Annett (a trained student of archaeology), Cheryl Squire (representing the sponsoring elders), Nicole and Warren Squire, John Henhawk, Frank Miller (videographer) and Yvonne Fantin.
The need for security around the excavation was heightened by continual efforts to sabotage the inquiry on the part of government-paid aboriginal operatives led by Jan Longboat, a local resident. Longboat began approaching the sponsoring Mohawk elders with smears about Kevin Annett and even offers of money.
Consequently, and to build as much international and public support as possible, the excavation team was given absolute authority and permission by the sponsoring Mohawk elders to not simply recover remains on the Mush Hole grounds but to make the findings public, including by sharing them with the media.
This crucial authorization was openly declared and recognized to be part of the ITCCS team’s mandate.
The excavations near the Mohawk Institute building commenced on November 21, 2011.
The Mush Hole Dig: Phase Two – November 21-24, 2011
The excavation team laid out a 30 by 30 foot excavation grid about fifty yards due east of the old school building, on lightly forested ground where witnesses Geronimo Henry and Roberta Hill had seen children buried. The grid was marked in 3 ft. increments and was located and aligned with a GPS locator.
On Day One of the dig, the first grid in the upper left corner of the site, designated Grid A1, was cleared of all underbrush and topsoil, and excavated to a depth of one foot.
Within this first top layer, Level One, two sizable bone fragments were discovered almost immediately, in association with many pieces of glass, coal and bricks. The bones were between two and three inches in length and one of them appeared to be part of a spine, either of animal or human origin. The other, longer bone had clearly been cut or chopped up. (See Exhibit 5)
On Day Two (November 22), new and significant evidence was obtained as a second level was opened between a depth of 12 and 24 inches. This evidence involved many small white and brown buttons made of bone and wood rather than plastic: clearly of a pre-1950 vintage.
These buttons were later positively identified by Mush Hole survivors Geronimo Henry, Roberta Hill and Lorna McNaughton as coming from the uniforms of girls at the school during the 1940′s.
The same style of buttons were continually found in association with more bone fragments, some as large as four inches in length, and several teeth. These bones and teeth, along with considerably more bits of brick and charcoal, proliferated the deeper the team dug, to a final depth of 22 inches. One of the bones had an apparent burn mark, and several other bones bore the signs of having been cut up.
In addition, other articles of clothing were unearthed at this Level Two, including the sole from an early-vintage shoe and pieces of a green-colored woolen blanket that survivor Roberta Hill verified as the kind used in the Mush Hole dormitories. One larger piece of blanket several square feet in size was discolored with a rust-colored stain.
Days Three and Four (November 23-24) unearthed even more significant evidence as the excavation extended to the base of Level Two to a depth of 22 inches; and to a length of 8 ft. 6 inches outside the first Grid A1 into Grid A2.
This evidence consisted of more bone and school button fragments entangled in the roots of a small tree that was uprooted in Grids A1-A2. The significance of finding school buttons tangled in the tree roots is indicated in the statement of Mush Hole survivor Roberta Hill:
“Whenever children died on our dorm they were buried east of the school, and a tree was planted on top of their grave. The staff used to talk about doing that among themselves.”
A sample of these significant button artifacts excavated at the A1-A2 site is found in Exhibit 6.
After Day 4 of the dig, it was decided to temporarily halt the excavation to allow specialists the chance to analyze and identify the artifacts, and to issue a public statement about what we had unearthed.
Post-Excavation Analysis and Response: The Inquiry is Derailed
On December 1, 2011, a meeting of the dig team, the sponsoring Mohawk elders and two forensic specialists was held at the nearby Kanata Center, a half mile from the Mush Hole building and dig site. The Center, operated by traditional, non-government Mohawk elders at odds with the Six Nations Confederacy, served as the operations post for the inquiry.
The two forensic specialists, archaeologist Kris Nahrgang of Trent University and Greg Olson of the Provincial Coroner’s Office, carefully examined the excavated bones from the A1-A2 site and came to the following conclusions about the bones:
1. Olson and Nahrgang both agreed that one of the unearthed bones was part of a small knee socket from “what is probably a small child four or five years old” (Olson). (see Exhibit 7) Olson said, “Personally, I am 95% sure that this is a human bone and I’d stake my reputation on it”.
2. Both men agreed that the dig site should be excavated more to unearth additional evidence, and they recommended that “it is imperative” for a full-scale professional excavation to be launched at the Mush Hole grounds by the spring, after the ground had thawed.
3. Greg Olson recommended that a Provincial Coroner’s Warrant be sought in the light of this probable discovery of human remains, in order to thoroughly search all Anglican church records and buildings for corroborating evidence. Olson pledged his willingness to publicly endorse and participate in such action.
However, less than one week later, on December 6, Greg Olson informed Kevin Annett by phone that he had been reprimanded by his “employer” – presumably the Provincial Coroner’s Office – for partaking in the Mush Hole inquiry, and he was ordered not to do so again, “even during off-work hours”. After that, neither he nor Kris Nahrgang – who refused to answer phone and email messages – continued their involvement with the dig or the ITCCS inquiry. (See Exhibit No. 8 for copies of original Field Notes from the Mush Hole survey and dig).
In response, and following the instructions of the sponsoring Mohawk elders, on December 8, 2011, Kevin Annett mailed thirteen bone samples, including the knee socket identified by Greg Olson and Kris Nahrgang as “probably human”, to Dr. Donald Ortner, the senior Forensic Pathologist at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC.
Additional samples were sent to Dr. Ortner on January 10, 2012.
Dr. Ortner communicated by phone to Kevin on January 30 and said that “I tend to lean towards seeing the samples as animal remains”, although he then qualified his statement with the remark,
“Some of them could easily be human, but they’re too small to tell. I’d need to conduct more expensive tests to know for sure”.
Dr. Ortner made it clear that he had only superficially glanced at the samples, but he promised to study them more thoroughly, and he agreed to work with the ITCCS team at the Mush Hole dig in the future.
On April 29, 2012, Dr. Don Ortner died suddenly of an apparent heart attack; he was 73 years old and in excellent health. Just prior to his death, Ortner had spoken to Kevin Annett on the phone and agreed to become involved in the next phase of the Mush Hole dig, by speaking to the Mohawk elders during early May.
Dr. Donald Ortner was a leading world specialist in the identification of diseases in human remains – such as the tuberculosis that the Mush Hole children were deliberately exposed to, and which killed off thousands of residential school students.
During the same period leading up to Dr. Ortner’s death and the sabotage of the Mush Hole dig, between January and May, 2012, a continual campaign of fear and disinformation was launched on the internet and in the Mohawk community against the ITCCS inquiry and Kevin Annett.
This sabotage campaign was led by government operative Jan Longboat, Six Nations Confederacy chief Bill Montour and others in the pay of Longboat, including former dig team member Frank Miller, whom Longboat had, by her own admission, recruited with money payments. This campaign effectively halted the Mush Hole dig and inquiry.
Nevertheless, three Anglican church insiders approached the ITCCS team during the same period with vital information about this silencing and coverup campaign, as well as more evidence of crimes at the Mush Hole.
Leona Moses
On December 2, 2011, Kevin Annett and elder Cheryl Squire were invited by Mohawk resident and former Anglican Church researcher Leona Moses to her home in Oshweken. Moses had contacted Cheryl Squire the day before on her own initiative. She stated to both Kevin and Cheryl as they entered her home,
“I want the truth to get out to the world. The church has been sitting on it for way too long”.
These facts were shared by Leona Moses with Kevin and Cheryl over the next several hours:
1. While employed during 1998 by the Huron Diocese of the Anglican Church of Canada to examine their archives and records from that church’s Mohawk Institute “Mush Hole” school in Brantford, Leona Moses (LM) found documents that showed that children were dying continually at the school over many years, and the church and government knew of these deaths and did nothing to stop or even investigate them.
2. These records were part of a designated “G 12 collection” held in the Huron College archives in London, Ontario under the authority of then-Huron Diocese Bishop Bruce Howe. The records have now been sealed from public access under present Bishop Bob Bennett.
3. LM personally read documents describing the regular practice of denying food and medical aid to children in the Mush Hole, of keeping parents ignorant of their sickened condition, and of temporarily improving food at the school only during official visits by government medical inspectors. These documents had been copied and sent to the Indian Affairs department in Ottawa.
4. After inquiring with Indian Affairs in Ottawa in 1998, LM was told by a department lawyer, “G 12 is closed to the public and can never be discussed”. LM then asked her co-researcher Wendy Fletcher (WF / recently retired head of the Vancouver Shool of Theology) to help her access the records, and was told by WF,
“There are over 30,000 documents in the Diocese archives that are sealed, and lots of them could bring down the church”.
5. LM saw one “particularly damning document” in the archives that she called “a smoking gun”: an “official looking thing, signed and sealed” (LM) dated from the year 1870. It was a formal agreement between the New England Company that established the Mush Hole, the Crown of England/Anglican Church, and non-Mohawk chiefs of the state-run Six Nations Confederacy. The agreement transferred authority over the Mush Hole school to the Confederacy, providing that the school targeted Mohawks for incarceration and extermination. The Confederacy chiefs agreed to cooperate in this plan.
6. LM saw this genocidal document only once, ” and then it went missing, Wendy says into the G 12 collection”. The regular Diocese archivist was then fired. LM was told after that, that to continue working, she would have to agree to being placed under a voluntary gag order or what then-Bishop Bruce Howe called an “oath of silence” for ten years. LM refused and resigned. WF agreed to be gagged by such an order, and served as the Diocese’s “official researcher” after that.
7. Bishop Bruce Howe extended this “oath of silence” to all Diocese employees and clergy. Some clergy resigned or transferred out of the Diocese. WF told LM a few months after the latter had resigned that she, WF, had been threatened with a lawsuit if she disclosed anything in the G 12 collection. LM recalled,
“Wendy Fletcher feared for her life … I offered her sanctuary, especially after one of her secretaries died suddenly after helping Wendy dig deeper into the Mush Hole history in church archives when they were in London, England” (LM, 2 December 2011)
8. Before she resigned from the Diocese research committee, LM saw letters describing how Mush Hole Principal John Zimmerman (served 1936-1948) regularly took girls from the school to private homes of wealthy Brantford residents to rape and traffic them. LM met at least one local woman, a homeless Mohawk in Brantford, who was such a victim.
9. LM also saw documents describing that children in the Mush Hole were deliberately not given warm clothing or pajamas “as a matter of course”, and that sickness and death from the cold was common. These deaths and conditions were regularly reported to the church by Mohawk parents, without any response or amelioration.
10. After his silencing of Diocese staff, Bishop Howe retired and was replaced by present Bishop Bob Bennett, who continued the policy of coverup and silencing. Bennett also ordered the destruction of school records showing the records of students and staff members.
11. Soon after the start of the ITCCS Mush Hole dig in late November, 2011, Bishop Bennett met with LM at her home and demanded to know what she had uncovered in the Diocese archives concerning staff and student records. Bennett confirmed to LM that the church was aware of all the crimes and the deaths of children but for that reason denied any public access to the evidence.
Bennett also described to LM a meeting held in 2006 at the Five Oaks United Church center at which a Member of Parliament, United Church clergy and “some doctors” described killings at the Mush Hole, including the murder of newborn children there and at the local Catholic residential schools.
12. Bishop Bennett also disclosed to LM that the Anglican, Catholic and United churches had made an agreement with the Canadian government whereby the latter (ie, taxpayers) would assume all of the financial liability for the residential school crimes, in return for which the churches would promise to disclose all of their evidence. But (to quote Bennett),
“We agreed among ourselves that we could never release certain kinds of information, even if it meant reneging on our promise”
13. After Bishop Bennett’s remarks that indicated the Anglican church had committed deliberate fraud on the Canadian people, LM went to Canadian Anglican Primate Fred Hiltz and asked him to order Bennett to open the G 12 archive. Hiltz refused to do so, claiming, untruthfully, “I have no authority over the Bishops”.
14. LM learned that the Mush Hole’s founding agency, the New England Company based in London, England, still funds “Anglican Mohawks” and that the Queen’s chaplain, Bishop John Wayne, has played a direct role in ordering the permanent sealing of the G 12 collection.
15. LM gave many of these facts to the Canadian media early in the year 2008, but only one newspaper, the Tekawennake in Brantford, printed some of her remarks. Teka editor Jim Windle did not explain why he edited LM’s story and refused to share the story with the world media, as LM had requested.
Leona Moses reiterated again to Kevin and Cheryl before they left her home,
“The church must be brought to justice … please get this story out. I’ve been threatened by Bob Bennett if I keep speaking to you”.
Two Anglican Church sources: Spring 2012
After news of the shut down of the Mush Hole dig circulated throughout the internet, two other Anglican church insiders approached Kevin Annett with information.
One of these insiders still worked in the Toronto Diocese office of the Anglican church, and another was an employee of the church in a liaison capacity with the Archbishop of Canterbury’s office until the fall of 2009.
The present employee told Kevin that in mid January, 2012, Primate Fred Hiltz had been issued a direct order by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams to “permanently bury or destroy” any evidence that might implicate the church or “Her Majesty” in the death of children at the Brantford Mush Hole school. Hiltz commented on the request to his secretary, who passed in on to the employee.
The second, former church employee told Kevin that before he resigned from his position liaising with London, he had been told of a “serious leak” in the church archival system that implicated unnamed members of the Royal family with “mishaps” at an Indian school in Canada.
The former employee did not know whether this referred to the allegation from eyewitness William Combes that Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip had been seen taking ten aboriginal children from the Kamloops Catholic residential school in October, 1964 during a verified state visit, after which none of the children were ever seen again. But the employee said,
“It was serious enough for the Archbishop to intervene personally and order a clean sweep of the archives in Canada and London”.
Summary and Conclusion
In the light of these events and discoveries, the ITCCS Central Office has concluded the following:
1. The remains of children are interred on the grounds of the former Anglican Mohawk Institute Indian residential school in Brantford, Ontario.
2. These remains and other artifacts that have been unearthed on these grounds verify eyewitness accounts of how children who died at the Mohawk Institute were buried.
3. These children who died were the victims of a deliberate genocidal plan devised and implemented in 1870 by the Church and Crown of England and their accomplices in the Six Nations Confederacy and government of Canada.
4. The evidence of these deaths and burials has been deliberately concealed and destroyed by members of the Anglican Church and the Church and Crown of England, aided by members of the Six Nations Confederacy. This concealment amounts to a deliberate and ongoing Criminal Conspiracy and obstruction of justice.
5. The first independent inquiry into these deaths and burials was overtly sabotaged by these church and government bodies. Accordingly, the ITCCS and groups outside of Canada must intervene to continue the excavation of these buried remains at the Mohawk Institute in order to a) provide a proper burial for these remains, b) determine the cause of death and other facts surrounding these children, and c) use this evidence to bring further criminal charges against those persons and institutions responsible.
In early April, 2013, the ITCCS Central Office received a new invitation and endorsement by elders of the traditional Mohawk Nation to continue the Mush Hole excavation with their permission on the grounds of the former Mohawk Institute in Brantford.
In the light of the Common Law Court indictment and sentencing of the Crown of England, Canada and its churches for Crimes against Humanity on February 25, 2013 – a verdict based partly on the evidence acquired at the Mush Hole excavations in 2011 – Canada, the Crown and its police forces have lost any authority to prevent such a continued excavation on the grounds of the Mohawk Institute in Brantford.
Those indicted persons who have actively subverted the Mush Hole dig, including the Prime Minister of Canada, the Queen of England, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Anglican Bishops Fred Hiltz, Bruce Howe and Bob Bennett, in fact face immediate arrest under outstanding Citizen Arrest Warrants for their complicity in obstructing justice.
Considering these developments, a new ITCCS forensic team equipped with professional specialists will be dispatched to Mohawk territory to proceed with this inquiry.
This team will be accompanied and protected by International Common Law Court officers who will provide security at the new Mush Hole excavations in conjunction with traditional Mohawk peace keepers. The Brantford excavation site and other locations are presently under close observation and lock-down by Mohawk traditional elders and Common Law Court officers.
These same Common Law Court officers will be armed with the power to arrest and detain not only the aforementioned church and crown officials and those who assist them, but anyone who disturbs or interferes with the excavation on the Mush Hole grounds.
We acknowledge and thank the traditional Mohawk people who are standing by this historic campaign and helping win justice for the missing children. We ask for the active support of all people of conscience.
Issued by Kevin D. Annett in conjunction with ITCCS Central Office, Brussels
Appendix containing Exhibit references and links
Exhibit 1: Invitation and authorization from Mohawk traditional elders to Kevin Annett and the ITCCS – April, 2011
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Exhibits 2 and 3: Ground Penentrating Radar (GPR) survey, Mush Hole grounds – September/October, 2011 –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0_j5cp-LbI
Exhibit 4: Tekawennake Newspaper – October 5, 2011, p. 2
Exhibit 5: Bone samples, Mush Hole Dig – November, 2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hNVyUiUNtc (Preview)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjM-cm-VIHQ
Exhibit 6: Button samples, Mush Hole Dig – November, 2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G04DuSJhBhw (Preview)
Exhibit 7: Probable human bone, Mush Hole Dig – November, 2011
Exhibit 8: Original field notes, Mush Hole Survey and Dig – September-November, 2011 (More to come)
Exhibit 9: Sole Canadian media coverage of Mush Hole dig and discoveries – Tekawennake newspaper (see photos below)
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October 28, 2015 - Labor & Employment News: Facebook: Second Circuit "Likes" Employee Rights Under the NLRA
Employers should continue to proceed with caution before disciplining employees for their Facebook activity. In Three D, LLC d/b/a Triple Play Sports Bar and Grille v. NLRB, the Federal Appeals Court for Connecticut, New York and Vermont recently upheld a National Labor Relations Board decision that found that one employee’s "liking" another employee’s comments about the terms and conditions of their employment deserved protection under the National Labor Relations Act. The Court upheld the Board’s decision that terminating those employees was illegal.
In Three D, LLC, the employees of a sports bar had a discussion on Facebook about their employer’s alleged mishandling of their tax withholding. The exchange included both negative comments about their workplace and profanity. One of the employees joined into the conversation by writing a response, while another simply "liked" a co-worker’s statements. The employees happened to be Facebook friends with the bar’s owner’s sister, who told the owner about the post. The owner fired the employees, some of whom were interrogated about the posting and threatened with legal action before their termination. The Board found that this was illegal, and the Employer appealed to the Second Circuit.
In recent years the NLRB has been very open about focusing its efforts on the non-unionized workforce. Many employers assume that because they do not have a union, they do not have to worry about the National Labor Relations Act. However, the Act protects the rights of all employees-unionized or not-to engage in concerted activities for their mutual aid or protection. This includes talking together about their working conditions, wages, and even criticizing management. Interfering with that right may be considered an unfair labor practice.
Before the decision in Three D, LLC, the Board had held that the Act protected Facebook posts/conversations about working conditions. The Board did not make clear whether or not simply "liking" a post constituted enough employee participation to count as protected activity. Three D, LLC made clear that at least in Connecticut, Vermont and New York, such activity merits NLRA protection.
An Employer naturally wants to act when its employees post negative or obscene comments about their workplace or their supervisor on Facebook. It is a public forum that the Employer cannot control, and interesting messages can go viral. Three D, LLC does not change the law that Employers have an interest in preventing negative comments about their products or services and protecting their business reputation. An employee’s public communications may lose protection of the Act if sufficiently disloyal or defamatory. This can happen if the statements are not connected with an ongoing labor dispute or are made maliciously and with knowledge of their falsity. However Employers must tread carefully before disciplining employees for their social media use to air workplace grievances.
All in all, Employers should continue to take a close look at their actions in response to employee Facebook posts, even if they do not "like" it.
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Museum of Apiculture
This museum belongs to a group of special museums. Since its opening in 1959 it has been taking care of Slovenian beekeeping heritage, keeping records of it, collecting, storing, documenting, representing and popularizing it. Its quarters are in the baroque manor house in the old part of the town.
The collection represents three key themes that mark Slovenian beekeeping: autochthonous race of bees, world renowned beekeepers and painted frontal boards of beehives.
In the introduction, the visitor is acquainted with the history of beekeeping in Slovenia. First room represents beekeeping from their beginnings, when hollow tree trunks were utilized, until the middle of 19th century, and renowned beekeeping teachers, writers and beekeepers: Anton Janša and Peter Pavel Glavar.
Anton Janša (1734–1773) was appointed a teacher of beekeeping at the beekeeping school in Wienna by the decree of Empress Maria Theresa. His two books show his own manner of beekeeping that was successfully implemented by him at the Wienna school and a few important findings pertaining to the biology of bees.
Priest Peter Pavel Glavar (1721–1884) was a successful farm and beekeeping manager, writer of suggestions for improvement of beekeeping and introduction of beekeeping schools, author of first Slovenian beekeeping text (translation and amendment of Janša's "Razprava o rojenju čebel" (A treatise on bees-swarming).
The material in the second room covers time from the middle of 19th century to middle of 20th century. Besides perfected beekeeping tools and various types of beehives one can also see: World renowned Jan Strgar (breeder of queen bees and a merchant) and Mihael Ambrožic (merchant with live bees), the constructor of a modern bee hive, Anton Žnideršič, prominent writers on the subject of beekeeping and beekeeping literature.
The central part of museum is intended for painted frontal boards of bee hives – panjske končnice.
In the middle of 18th century, painting decorations began to appear on frontal sides of popular bee hives, kranjiči.
Templates for motifs were representations of sacral art, illustrated bible, icons, glass paintings and graphic sheets. Today, all known motifs include over 600 various motifs. More numerous and older are the motifs with sacral content (mostly representing saints). Among the most common are Mary as the universal protector, also painted on the oldest known painted frontal board (dating back to 1758) and St. Florian. The group of secular motifs is composed of imaginary scenes (e.g. animals in human roles, scoffing at craftsmen, human faults), hunting scenes, historic themes (military scenes, historic persons) and scenes from everyday life.
Beehive painting, which was most prolific between 1820 and 1880, started to die away with transition into 20th century. Painting on the frontal panels of bee hives is a particularity of Slovenian Alpine region and is an indispensable part of Slovenian folk art.
The biological room serves to acquaint the visitor with the biology of authothonous Slovenian race of kranjska cebela (Carniolan bee) or kranjska sivka (Grey bee of Carniola). Close-up photographs of bees, introduction of main bee pastures, sounds from bee hive, live bees in an observation bee hive (from spring to autum) and shots of bee pastures vividly show the life and labour of bees. The main theme is rounded by introduction of symbolism that is expressed by the image of a bee (e.g. medals, money...).
Modern day beekeeping is represented with a part of bee house type of Gorenjska region in its natural size and with modern day beekeeping framework. The space is simultaneously also intended for video representations and computer applications that deal with bees and beekeeping on Slovenian territory.
The path through the museum ends in the room for occasional and casual exhibitions that pertain to beekeeping (e.g. exhibition of carved models for "mali kruhek" ( honey pastry), representation of maker of koncnica copies, products of kindergarten and elementary school children...).
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These items are no longer available as they were donated to Star Brows, Grover Beach, CA. for a silent auction event benefiting an Ethiopian orphanage. If you like any particular item shown below, please let us know and we will be more than happy to get a quote from Kenya for your purchase. Please use the Contact form. Thank you!
These items are made by orphaned children and widows in Kisumu, Kenya. They're amazingly beautiful and quite inexpensive.
Bamboo is collected from the Kakamega Rainforest which is about an hour north of Kisumu.
The carvings are made from wood collected in the forest which is allowed to dry and then carved into the shapes you see here.
The handbags are made from sisal grass which is allowed to dry for 7 days. It takes two days to complete each bag. Two days for $8.00 a day....wait! Shipping the item from Kenya to Minnesota is included so it's even less!
If you'd like to purchase any of these items, please use the CONTACT page and let us know. All of the money from the sale goes to the Uhuru Community Development Project in Kenya. Shipping will be added to your order, but most items will fit in USPS one-size boxes.
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Actor Neil Patrick Harris says he is gay (AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061104/ap_en_tv/people_neil_patrick_harris"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061104/capt.1758915c65d24f5f9af48b588fe82c1e.people_neil_patrick_harris_ny124.jpg?x=88&y=130&sig=Nvrff6U5cg7LzJkUlCHXVw--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="In this Aug. 19, 2006 file photo, Actor Neil Patrick Harris arrives for the Creative Arts Emmy Awards in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - Neil Patrick Harris is gay and wants to quell any rumors to the contrary. "(I) am quite proud to say that I am a very content gay man living my life to the fullest," Harris tells People magazine's Web site.</p><br clear="all"/>
Feds seeks to dismiss filmmaker's suit (AP)
AP - The U.S. government filed a motion Friday seeking to dismiss a lawsuit filed by an aspiring American filmmaker who spent two months in an Iraqi prison without being charged.
'Titanic' success bittersweet to Winslet (AP)
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Ellen Burstyn sounds off on her Emmy nod (AP)
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Smith remains hospitalized in Bahamas (AP)
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McCartney wants to maintain dignity over divorce (Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/entertainment/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061104/music_nm/mccartney_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20061102/i/r1986711781.jpg?x=104&y=130&sig=HRRMSQHiZmDaAk_bwLAZJw--" align="left" height="130" width="104" alt="Yoko Ono, widow of former Beatle John Lennon, gives a victory sign at a news conference in Tokyo November 2, 2006, ahead of John Lennon Super Live concert on Saturday. The Dream Power charity concert is planned to build about ten children's schools in Africa and Asia, the organiser said. REUTERS/Toshiyuki Aizawa (JAPAN)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Paul McCartney says he wants to maintain a "certain dignity" over his divorce from Heather Mills, in his first public comments on their acrimonious split.</p><br clear="all"/>
Tariff a Catch "22" for Canadian college stations (Reuters)
Reuters - Canadian college radio could be under threat, with a number of stations saying they will be forced to pull their online feeds if a tariff proposed by Canada's performing rights society comes into force next year.
Who Will Buy? ActorCrafts Art Fair Will Return to Theatre District (Playbill)
Playbill - ActorCrafts, the arts and crafts event featuring the work of New York City show folk who moonlight as artists, carpenters, jewelry makers and more, will be held Nov. 4 at Holy Cross School in Manhattan.
Bollywood turns to Mumbai blasts to look at Muslims (Reuters)
Reuters - A new Bollywood film will use the July rail bombings in Mumbai that killed 186 people to examine the genesis of Islamist militancy in India and the patriotism of the country's Muslim population.
"Borat" headed for glorious U.S. box office (Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061104/film_nm/leisure_borat_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20061104/2006_11_03t215846_450x326_us_leisure_borat.jpg?x=130&y=94&sig=pWCI.jhMiof6TebniLaGUA--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="British actor Sacha Baron Cohen gives the thumbs up as he arrives for the UK premiere of his new film entitled 'Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit the Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan' in Leicester Square, London October 25, 2006. (Kieran Doherty/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Borat may not be the biggest star of the U.S. multiplex this weekend, but the fictional Kazakh TV reporter is getting huge buzz, rave reviews and seems likely to "make benefit glorious box office" in the long run.</p><br clear="all"/>
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<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061103/ap_en_mo/people_winslet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061103/capt.4facd813051b473a90983f7991ad06ec.people_kate_winslet_nyet104.jpg?x=72&y=130&sig=awL9dC1yBoM9K4pftU8mGQ--" align="left" height="130" width="72" alt="Kate Winslet arrives at the premiere for her film 'Little Children' in London Wednesday Oct. 25, 2006. She recalls in the Sunday, Nov. 5, 2006's Parade magazine that when 'Titanic' was released she was mourning the loss of her first love, Stephen Tredre. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)" border="0" /></a>AP - The release of the blockbuster that made her a household name, "Titanic," should have been a happy time for Kate Winslet. Instead, she was mourning the loss of her first love, Stephen Tredre. "Looking back, I see what I was dealing with when `Titanic' came out," the 31-year-old actress says in Sunday's Parade magazine. "I had a lot of pain, and I was confused about who I was."</p><br clear="all"/>
Aishwarya Rai deemed perfect for role (AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061103/ap_en_mo/people_aishwarya_rai"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061103/capt.a4fde583aa374ee6a32bd8b2d8d3eab9.people_aishwarya_rai_nyet103.jpg?x=93&y=130&sig=aXn8VFX8r1v0UaSEktm2LA--" align="left" height="130" width="93" alt="Actress Aishwarya Rai smiles during the promotion of her upcoming Hindi film 'Umrao Jaan' in Mumbai, India, in this October 26, 2006, file photo. Rai's sensitive nature persuaded Indian filmmaker J.P. Dutta to cast her in the new movie. Dutta told The Indian Express newspaper he noticed the 33-year-old Bollywood star cried when she heard sad stories. (AP Photo/Rajesh Nirgude,File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Aishwarya Rai's sensitive nature persuaded Indian filmmaker J.P. Dutta to cast her in his new movie "Umrao Jaan."</p><br clear="all"/>
LA icon, Griffith Observatory reopens, after makeover (Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061103/film_nm/life_observatory_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20061103/2006_11_03t152839_450x300_us_life_observatory.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=MCilRyiaZZVI8fq57GLUyQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="The Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles is shown at dusk in this March 2006 publicity photograph. An iconic Los Angeles landmark, the 71-year-old Observatory reopened to the public November 3, 2006 after undergoing a five-year $93-million renovation which included restoring the 300-seat planetarium and adding exhibit space. (Griffith Observatory/Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The Griffith Observatory, home for stargazers and a famous backdrop for such stars as James Dean and Arnold Schwarzenegger, reopened on Friday after a four-year, $93 million makeover.</p><br clear="all"/>
Cruise puts `artist' back in UA (AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/movies/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061103/ap_en_mo/cruise_united_artists"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061102/capt.8122b02f4171485dac9338c186069ad3.cruise_united_artists_la105.jpg?x=130&y=91&sig=fxhuii4k4ueKSoXIhdi9zA--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="Actor Tom Cruise gives a thumbs-up to fans upon arrival in Tokyo on a boat for the Japanese premiere of his film 'Mission: Impossible III' in this June 20, 2006, file photo. Cruise and his business partner Paula Wagner have been tapped to run the film studio United Artists, in an announcement made Thursday, Nov. 2, 2006. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)" border="0" /></a>AP - Just months after a fallout with Paramount Pictures, Tom Cruise has landed another mission: bring back a venerable Hollywood label that was founded in the spirit of giving artists freedom to create without big studios pulling the strings.</p><br clear="all"/>
Maya Rudolph Bugged Out (E! Online)
E! Online - What's eating Maya Rudolph? Bedbugs, apparently.
Crowe Cracks on U.S. Courts (E! Online)
E! Online - With his infamous phone-throwing episode behind him, Russell Crowe is ready to unleash hell—on the U.
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061104/music_nm/mccartney_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20061102/i/r1986711781.jpg?x=104&y=130&sig=HRRMSQHiZmDaAk_bwLAZJw--" align="left" height="130" width="104" alt="Yoko Ono, widow of former Beatle John Lennon, gives a victory sign at a news conference in Tokyo November 2, 2006, ahead of John Lennon Super Live concert on Saturday. The Dream Power charity concert is planned to build about ten children's schools in Africa and Asia, the organiser said. REUTERS/Toshiyuki Aizawa (JAPAN)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Paul McCartney says he wants to maintain a "certain dignity" over his divorce from Heather Mills, in his first public comments on their acrimonious split.</p><br clear="all"/>
Texan troupe makes inroads on Latin pop radio (Reuters)
Reuters - In the realm of norteno music, Intocable has the greatest shot at crossover in more ways than one.
Groban "Awakens" to international sounds (Reuters)
Reuters - For his third project, "Awake," Josh Groban at first wasn't sure what he wanted to accomplish. But he knew exactly what he did not want to do.
AOL, Microsoft court indie-rock crowd (Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061104/music_nm/aol_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20061104/2006_11_03t223856_450x294_us_aol.jpg?x=130&y=84&sig=BP.89fOeatqJuzz0Ft4W.g--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Visitors examine Microsoft Corp's new 'Windows Vista' operating system on laptops at a booth during the World PC Expo in Tokyo October 20, 2006. AOL and Microsoft are wooing indie-rock fans to help solidify their digital music strategies. Corporations seeking indie cred are nothing new. But both bids come at critical times for the technology giants. (Kiyoshi Ota/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - AOL and Microsoft are wooing indie-rock fans to help solidify their digital music strategies.</p><br clear="all"/>
U.K. duo Goldfrapp hits the Target (Reuters)
Reuters - When Americans watch the snowy, rosy-cheeked visuals of Target's holiday TV campaign, they'll be hearing the music of British electronic duo Goldfrapp, Billboard has learned.
Amid challenges, Urban eyes new career heights (Reuters)
Reuters - Keith Urban's handsome face is becoming a lot more familiar, generally a good thing when a musical artist has a new album on the horizon. The country star, who was poised for massive crossover success after his last album, is immeasurably more famous than he was 12 months ago -- for a number of reasons.
Wireless ventures aim to boost music subscriptions (Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/music/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061104/music_nm/cingular_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20061104/2006_11_03t220851_450x366_us_cingular.jpg?x=130&y=105&sig=DDSAgVJdYqoqLtCunEttlg--" align="left" height="105" width="130" alt="Cingular Wireless sales consultant Marcell Lane shows how a phone works to a customer at a Cingular Wireless store in Atlanta, February 17, 2004. On Monday (November 6), Cingular Wireless will become the first U.S. operator to provide mobile access to online digital music services such as Napster, eMusic and Yahoo Music. (Tami Chappell/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - On Monday (November 6), Cingular Wireless will become the first U.S. operator to provide mobile access to online digital music services such as Napster, eMusic and Yahoo Music.</p><br clear="all"/>
Disney Records brings digital touch to its vaults (Reuters)
Reuters - There's no occasion like a gold anniversary to start polishing the family heirlooms, and the preservation team at Walt Disney Records has been working overtime to bring its vaunted catalog into the digital age.
The Shins gets "ghostly" on new album (Reuters)
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Brad Paisley hopes to avoid CMA shutout (AP)
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Cohen Media Group, through Renaissance Media, is partnering with Cineplex Events to release the superb 4K restoration of Howards End theatrically across Canada on Oct 21st. Celebrating its 25th anniversary, this award-winning classic is directed by James Ivory and stars Anthony Hopkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, and Emma Thompson. In 1993, Howards End was nominated for nine Academy Awards and won three.
One of Merchant Ivory’s undisputed masterpieces, this adaptation of E.M. Forster’s classic 1910 novel is a saga of class relations and changing times in Edwardian England. Margaret Schlegel (Emma Thompson) and her sister Helen (Helena Bonham Carter) become involved with two couples: a wealthy, conservative industrialist (Anthony Hopkins) and his wife (Vanessa Redgrave), and a working-class man (Samuel West) and his mistress (Niccola Duffet). The interwoven fates and misfortunes of these three families and the diverging trajectories of the two sisters’ lives are connected to the ownership of HowardsEnd, a beloved country home. A compelling, brilliantly acted study of one woman’s struggle to maintain her ideals and integrity in the face of Edwardian society’s moribund conformist values.
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Watch | Channel 4 charts ‘feud’ between Jay-Z & Kanye West in one-off documentary [Trailer]
July 26, 2017 July 26, 2017 scenetvblog
Together they’ve captivated audiences the world over, transcending their hip-hop roots to leave their mark on business, fashion and even politics. Both phenomenally successful they are married to two of the world’s most famous women. But behind their partnership lies an epic rivalry.
Channel 4 has commissioned a brand new one off documentary about the meteoric rise and colossal falling out of two of the world’s most iconic popstars: Jay-Z and Kanye. Public Enemies: Jay-Z v Kanye is produced by ACME Films. The 1×60 programme will air on Channel 4 on Monday 31st July at 10pm.
With home videos, unseen footage and exclusive interviews with the people who know them best, Channel 4 uncovers the true story behind Jay-Z and Kanye West’s rise to success and how their hopes and ambitions led them to falling out. It’s a tale of creativity versus commerce, inner-city deprivation versus suburban aspiration, of right versus left. And it reveals an even bigger story of how race, wealth and celebrity are shaping modern America.
Rob Coldstream, Commissioning Editor, Special Factual says: “Arguably two of the coolest and most influential artists in the world, their incredible life stories offer a fascinating new twist on the American dream. These are two mega-personalities whose success and rivalry has captured the public’s imagination”.
Nico Wasserman, Director adds: “In the process of building their empires Jay-Z and Kanye have provided a spine tingling soundtrack for a generation. Their story goes beyond their music and has opened up discussions on everything from class barriers to mental health”.
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posted Friday, December 30, 2011 - Volume 39 Issue 52
Deep Inside Hollywood
by Romeo San Vicente - SGN Contributing Writer
Linda Lovelace gets her men
It takes a village to tell the story of '70s porn sensation Linda 'Lovelace' Boreman, and acclaimed filmmaking team Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, the guys behind The Celluloid Closet and the James Franco-starring Howl, are quickly putting the finishing touches on the cast list for their upcoming biopic, Lovelace. The project already has its lead in Amanda Seyfried as the world's first erotic superstar and her troubled rise to fame in the crossover porn hit Deep Throat. And Peter Sarsgaard, Sharon Stone, Wes Bentley and Juno Temple have also signed on. But now comes a wave of men to flesh out the roster, including Hank Azaria, Bobby Cannavale, Chris Noth and Robert Patrick as members of the porn world, so all systems are go. Lava lamp mood lighting is set and the cameras are rolling right. More more more to follow.
The Help's Viola Davis helps Pariah's Dee Rees
Currently in theaters and generating a lot of critical praise is Dee Rees's debut feature, Pariah. Featuring rising star Adepero Oduye, it's the moving story of a teenage Lesbian struggling to bridge her family life with the one she secretly shares with a group of new Lesbian friends. This kind of worthwhile debut often generates Hollywood interest and Rees's next project will probably raise her profile even more. Viola Davis, herself receiving Oscar buzz for her role in last summer's The Help, is in talks to work with Rees on an HBO series she'll produce and probably star in through her own newly formed production company. The untitled project will focus on the morally ambiguous headmaster of a private school and the corruption that follows her. Sounds intriguing and, best of all, a great step for both Davis - who, up until The Help, was often the best minor character in mediocre films - and for Rees. May the resulting series, whatever it becomes, catapult them both to even greater success.
Zachary Quinto: Mogul
Branching out from acting and turning producer might not possess the same cool-factor as, say, investing in a hot new restaurant or joining an indie band, but it keeps you busy and ratchets up your power quotient in Hollywood. That's why it's good news to see Zachary Quinto cashing in on his newfound industry mojo by helping J.C. Chandor, director of last year's Wall Street meltdown drama Margin Call (in which Quinto co-starred), get his next project off the ground. Titled All Is Lost, it's an environmental-themed drama written by Chandor with one actor in mind, Robert Redford. The director is currently in talks with the 75-year-old film legend to take the lead role and given Redford's well-documented environmental activism over the course of his life, it seems like a perfect fit. It'll also probably wind up having a negative carbon footprint.
Queer now, what next?
The multiplex is extra Gay at the moment as a trio of high profile actors - Glenn Close, Rooney Mara and Michael Fassbender - are busy captivating audiences in the films Albert Nobbs (where Close plays a Transsexual man), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (with Mara as a tough, brilliant Bisexual computer hacker) and Shame (starring Fassbender as a Bisexual sex addict). Coming off these acclaimed roles, look for the legendary Close next in the ghostly drama Therese Raquin, alongside Martha Marcy May Marlene star Elizabeth Olsen. Meanwhile, Next Big Thing Fassbender will make his third film with British art-film sensation Steve Mcqueen (he also directed Shame) and co-star with Brad Pitt in Twelve Years a Slave, a period film about a man (Chiwetel Ejiofor) kidnapped in the northern United States and sold into slavery in the south. Finally, Mara, whose transformation into cult heroine Lisbeth Salander was so chameleon-like as to render the actress unrecognizable, will appear in Tree of Life director Terence Malick's latest film,Lawless, with Ryan Gosling. In other words, don't worry about any careers around these parts.
Romeo San Vicente is generally law-abiding, depending on which state he's visiting. He can be reached care of this publication or at DeepInsideHollywood@qsyndicate.com.
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River Ave. Blues » David Phelps
Hot Stove Rumors: Harper, Britton, Morton, Hudson, Phelps
November 7, 2018 by Mike
Earlier today the Yankees officially re-signed CC Sabathia and, according to Jon Heyman, the team is still looking to import two more starting pitchers this offseason. Music to my eyes. CC is forever cool with me, but I prefer him as the No. 5 starter on the depth chart. Anyway, here’s the latest from the GM Meetings in sunny Southern California.
Boras pushing Harper at first base
Scott Boras has started his Bryce Harper campaign. During a radio interview yesterday Boras said Harper is capable of playing first base, and while he didn’t mention any teams by name, it’s not hard to connect the dots. The Yankees have a full outfield but questions as first base. “He takes ground balls there all the time in the offseason. He can help a team in many ways. Bryce has the feet, hands, and skill to certainly adapt to first base,” Boras said to Casey Stern.
“Do I think Bryce Harper could play first base? I don’t know. Obviously he’s extremely talented and athletic. As I said, we’ll assess everything in the marketplace and how it might fit us,” Brian Cashman said to Brendan Kuty. For what it’s worth, Chelsea Janes says the Nationals offered Harper a ten-year deal worth $300M recently, which was rejected. Was that a sincere first offer or a token “we tried” offer? Well, whatever. Part of me hopes this Harper stuff plays out like Mark Teixeira back in the day. The Yankees lie in the weeds them bam, surprise signing. Would be cool.
Yankees among teams “laying groundwork” with Britton
The Yankees are among the clubs “laying groundwork” for a deal with Zach Britton, reports Kuty. A signing is not imminent. Free agency is still in its infancy and although teams and players are talking, we’re still weeks away from most decisions. Britton is a Boras client and Boras tends to play it slow with his top clients. It wouldn’t surprise me to see Boras wait until Craig Kimbrel signs, then market Britton as the best available closer.
Britton, 31 next month, started slowly with the Yankees but finished very well, throwing 25 innings with a 2.88 ERA (4.08 FIP) and a 77.8% ground ball rate in pinstripes. He got better and better — and his velocity climbed higher and higher — as he got further away from the offseason Achilles injury that delayed his season debut until mid-June. If the Yankees are going to spend big on a reliever, I prefer David Robertson to Britton. He’s older, yeah, but Robertson has a cleaner injury history and I think he’s the better pitcher. Britton’s pretty good too though.
Yankees checking medicals for Hudson, Morton, Phelps
According to Joel Sherman, the Yankees have requested medical information for free agent right-handers Daniel Hudson, Charlie Morton, and David Phelps. I should note this is likely early offseason due diligence. Teams request medical information for tons of players each offseason. Hudson is a two-time Tommy John surgery guy, Phelps is rehabbing from Tommy John surgery right now, and Morton has a long injury history, including shoulder trouble late in 2018.
Hudson, 31, threw 46 innings with a 4.11 ERA (4.38 FIP) for the Dodgers this past season. Meh. Phelps blew out his elbow in Spring Training and didn’t pitch at all in 2018. From 2016-17, he had a 2.72 ERA (3.09 FIP) with a 29.8% strikeout rate as a setup man for the Marlins and Mariners. The 32-year-old Phelps is an interesting lower cost relief option. Morton, 35 next week, is the biggest name here. He threw 167 innings with a 3.13 ERA (3.59 FIP) with Houston this season, though he faded in the second half. Morton was considering retirement for a bit but recently confirmed he wants to continue playing.
Filed Under: Hot Stove League Tagged With: Bryce Harper, Charlie Morton, Daniel Hudson, David Phelps, Zack Britton
Scouting the Trade Market: Miami Marlins relievers
July 12, 2017 by Mike Leave a Comment
Ramos. (Mike Ehrmann/Getty)
Due to recent events, the bullpen is going to be a hot topic between now and the July 31st trade deadline. The Yankees have lost far too many games at the hands of the bullpen the last few weeks, and as long as they’re in the postseason race, they’re going to look for ways to improve the roster. They could call some youngsters up. They could also look outside the organization. Odds are they’ll do both.
The Marlins are far out of a postseason spot and expected to sell before the trade deadline, making them a potential trade partner. They shipped Adeiny Hechavarria to the Rays a week or two ago, so yeah, the Marlins are open for business. In fact, they’re said to be scouting the Yankees’ farm system. Miami figures to market some of their pricier bullpen pieces before the deadline, and perhaps one or two of them are a match for the Yankees. Let’s take a look.
RHP Kyle Barraclough
Background: The 27-year-old Barraclough went from the Cardinals to the Marlins in the Steve Cishek trade three years ago. So far this season he has a 3.54 ERA (3.89 FIP) with 24.5% strikeouts and 14.7% walks in 40.2 innings. In parts of three MLB seasons Barraclough has thrown 137.2 innings with an 3.01 ERA (2.87 FIP). He’s settled in as a setup man for the Marlins.
The Stuff: Barraclough is a two-pitch reliever with a mid-90s fastball and a hard upper-80s slider. He has pretty consistently thrown 55% fastballs and 45% sliders as a big leaguer. Pretty straightforward guy. Barraclough gets ahead with the heater and tries to put hitters away with the slider.
Why Should The Yankees Want Him? Barraclough misses a ton of bats. A ton. Last year only Dellin Betances (126) and Andrew Miller (123) had more strikeouts among full-time relievers than Barraclough (113). That career 32.0% strikeout rate is no accident. Barraclough’s slider is a legit put-away pitch, and relievers who can make hitters swing and miss are the backbone of any successful bullpen. The pitch is so good he has a small platoon split (career .275 wOBA vs. .258 wOBA in favor of lefties). Also, Barraclough won’t be eligible for free agency until after the 2021 season, so he’d be a long-term buy. (At least as long-term as any 27-year-old slider happy reliever can be.)
Why Should The Yankees Stay Away? With those strikeouts come a lot of walks. Barraclough’s career walk rate is 15.1% and it’s been high throughout his career, even in the minors, so this is just who he is. You can survive as a late-inning reliever with command issues (see: Betances, Dellin) though no one like free baserunners in the late innings of a close game. Also, Barraclough’s strikeout rate has dropped from 36.9% last year to 24.5% this year, which is a red flag. Lots of walks and fewer strikeouts generally isn’t a good combination.
RHP David Phelps
Background: Phelpsie! The Yankees traded Phelps to the Marlins three years ago, and initially he continued to do the swingman thing, then last season he moved into a full-time short relief role. The 30-year-old Phelps has a 3.68 ERA (3.53 FIP) with 26.4% strikeouts and 8.8% walks in 44 innings this year. In three years with the Marlins he has a 3.98 ERA (3.83 FIP) in 131 innings as a starter and a 3.06 ERA (3.11 FIP) in 111.2 innings as a reliever.
The Stuff: As a true one-inning short reliever, Phelps will average right around 95 mph with his two and four-seam fastballs and 91 mph with his cutter. He’s shelved his changeup entirely out of the bullpen and instead uses a low-80s curveball as his top secondary pitch. So it’s four distinct pitches out of the bullpen. A straight four-seamer, a running two-seamer, a cutter, and a curveball.
Why Should The Yankees Want Him? Phelps has found a home in short relief. He was okay as a swingman all those years, but when he can air it out for an inning or two at the time, Phelps can miss bats and be a weapon in the late innings. Plus he’d remain under team control as an arbitration-eligible player in 2018. It doesn’t hurt that he’s played for the Yankees before, so he knows the ropes. You always wonder how guys are going to react when they first come to New York and all that. There’s no such worries with Phelps.
Why Should The Yankees Stay Away? There aren’t many reasons, really. Phelps still walks a few more guys than you like — how he got a reputation for being a strike-thrower with the Yankees, I’ll never know — and that’s about it. It is worth noting he’s not cheap. Phelps will earn $4.6M this season and probably something close to $7M next season, his final year of arbitration-eligibility before qualifying for free agency.
A.J. Ramos
Background: Ramos, 30, took over as Miami’s closer back in 2015. He has a 3.51 ERA (3.60 FIP) with 29.6% strikeouts and 12.7% walks in 33.1 innings this year, making this his worst season since breaking into the big leagues for good in 2013. His career numbers are much more impressive: 2.75 ERA (3.19 FIP) with 27.8% strikeouts and 12.6% walks in 321 innings.
The Stuff: Ramos is a three-pitch reliever with mid-90s fastball, a mid-80s changeup, and a low-80s slider. The slider is his go-to secondary pitch. Ramos will also cut and sink his fastball on occasion, and he even throws a curveball once in a while. He’s primarily a fastball-changeup-slider guy but there are more tools in the shed.
Why Should The Yankees Want Him? Among Miami’s relievers, Ramos has the longest track record of missing bats, and only veteran sidewinder Brad Ziegler has more experience in the late innings. He’s been pitching high-leverage innings for a few years now and he’s shown he can handle them thanks to three pretty good pitches and the ability to keep the ball away from the fat part of the bat. Also, Ramos will remain under team control as an arbitration-eligible player in 2018, so he’s not a rental.
Why Should The Stay Away? The walk rate (career 12.6%) and general lack of ground balls (career 39.5%) are pretty scary, even though Ramos has not been home run prone in his career to date (0.48 HR/9). Still, walks plus fly balls is a less than ideal combination in Yankee Stadium. Also, Ramos is making $6.55M this year and could pull down upwards of $9M next season through arbitration. That’s what 89 career saves (and counting) will do for you. That’s pretty darn expensive. It’s not crazy to think Ramos might be a non-tender candidate after the season, so maybe he is a rental after all.
RHP Junichi Tazawa
Background: The Marlins gave the 31-year-old Tazawa a two-year deal worth $12M this past offseason, and so far he has a 5.87 ERA (5.97 FIP) with 18.4% strikeouts and 11.2% walks in 23 innings. That one isn’t working out too well. He’s been relegated to mop up duty the last few weeks.
The Stuff: All things considered, Tazawa’s stuff is relatively unchanged from the last few years. He’s still low-to-mid-90s with his fastball and upper-80s with his splitter, and he also throws a mid-70s curve.
Your browser does not support iframes. Why Should The Yankees Want Him? History suggests Tazawa is not actually this bad. He dealt with a rib injury earlier this season and that certainly could have negatively affected his performance. Tazawa is a buy low bounceback candidate, basically. Just last year he had a 4.17 ERA (4.23 FIP) with 26.0% strikeouts and 6.7% walks. That’s … better. Plus he knows the AL East from his time with the Red Sox.
Why Should The Yankees Stay Away? A lot of reasons, really. For starters, his performance has been terrible this year, and we can’t ignore that. His strikeouts are down and his walks are up, and hitters are squaring him up more than they have in the past. There’s also $7M left on his contract for next season, so he’s not cheap (by middle reliever standards) either. There is something to be said for buying low on a guy. I think steering clear of a reliever with a 4.45 ERA in 131.1 innings over the last three years is a pretty good idea no matter what the peripherals and track record say, and that goes double for dudes with a decent chunk of change coming their way.
RHP Nick Wittgren
Background: Wittgren, 26, is probably the guy you’ve never heard of in the Marlins bullpen. He has a 3.62 ERA (3.31 FIP) with 26.3% strikeouts and 4.6% walks in 37.1 innings this year, and that’s after a 3.14 ERA (3.67 FIP) with 19.7% strikeouts and 4.7% walks in 51.2 innings last year. The Marlins have themselves a nice little cheap, homegrown middle reliever.
The Stuff: The right-handed Wittgren is low-to-mid-90s with his fastball and he backs it up with a mid-80s changeup and a breaking ball right around 80 mph that sometimes looks like a slider and sometimes looks like a curveball. He throws both secondary pitches pretty regularly, so he is a true-three pitch reliever.
Why Should The Yankees Want Him? I dunno, Wittgren is reasonably effective and he’s young and cheap with minor league options remaining, which makes him a decent depth piece in my opinion. He’s also shown improvement from last year to this year, namely in his strikeout rate. I don’t think Wittgren will one day be a shutdown high-leverage reliever or anything like that. Can he get outs in the sixth inning though? Sure, and the Yankees need a guy like that.
Why Should The Yankees Stay Away? The biggest concern with Wittgren is his propensity to give up fly balls (career 36.5% grounders) and home runs (career 1.11 HR/9). He won’t beat himself with walks and he can miss enough bats to escape jams, so the home run risk is mitigated somewhat. Is another unspectacular reliever the solution to the Yankees’ bullpen woes? I mean, sure, it’s possible, but I don’t think Wittgren moves the needle a whole bunch.
RHP Brad Ziegler
Background: Miami tried to strengthen their bullpen with Tazawa and Ziegler over the winter and it hasn’t worked. Ziegler received two years and $16M and has a 6.52 ERA (4.29 FIP) with 12.3% strikeouts and 9.4% walks in 29 innings. He is still getting a ton of ground balls (64.6%), which has always been the Ziegler trademark. He’s a funky sidewinder who keeps the ball on the ground.
The Stuff: From that funky arm slot comes a low-to-mid-80s sinker, a mid-70s changeup, and a low-70s slider. Ziegler is the rare submarine pitcher with a changeup. The velocity seems alarming but that’s who he is. Ziegler’s been a mid-80s sinker guy for years. The deception and arm angle make it work.
Why Should The Yankees Want Him? As with Tazawa, Ziegler is a buy low bounceback candidate, though we don’t have to look back too far to see the last time Ziegler was very good. Just last season he had a 2.25 ERA (3.10 FIP) with 20.1% strikeouts, 9.0% walks, and 63.3% grounders in 68 innings for the Diamondbacks and Red Sox. Ziegler has been pitching in late-inning roles for a long time and he’s comfortable in any role. He’ll set up, close, middle relieve, whatever. Basically, any team looking at Ziegler is thinking his .382 BABIP won’t last and I want him on my roster when the correction comes. (Career .288 BABIP.)
Why Should The Yankees Stay Away? At 37 years old (38 in October), it’s entirely possible Ziegler has reached the point of no return and this is who he is now. The BABIP is way up and the strikeouts are way down, from 20.1% last year to 12.3% this year — to be fair, he had a 13.7% strikeout rate with a 1.85 ERA (3.44 FIP) in 2015 — and his walk rate keeps trending up. Ziegler’s margin for error seems to be shrinking. And he’s got $9M coming to him next season, which isn’t great.
Given the way the Marlins operate, my guess is they would love to unload their pricey relievers (Ramos, Ziegler, Phelps, Tazawa) and keep the cheap guys in their pre-arbitration years (Barraclough, Wittgren). Well, I guess every team would like to do that, right? The Marlins aren’t so unique in that regard.
I am kinda sorta intrigued by Ziegler as a buy low candidate. Phelps and Ramos are the headliners here though. They’re performing well and they come with an extra year of team control, even if it will be on the expensive side. The Yankees have reportedly contacted the Marlins about both guys already and that in no way surprises me. They’re going to call on every available reliever between now and the trade deadline out of due diligence.
Filed Under: Trade Deadline Tagged With: A.J. Ramos, Brad Ziegler, David Phelps, Kyle Barraclough, Miami Marlins, Nick Wittgren, Scouting The Market
Trade Deadline Rumors: Buyers, Hand, Maurer, Phelps, Ramos
Maurer. (Hunter Martin/Getty)
The 2017 trade deadline is exactly three weeks away, which means the trade rumor mill is really going to start to heat up soon. Pretty much right after the All-Star break. Here’s the latest on the Yankees.
Yankees will be “careful buyers”
All the recent losing has complicated the Yankees’ deadline plans. A few weeks ago they were clear cut contenders with the motivation to buy. Now they’re on the postseason bubble — they are 3.5 games back of the Red Sox in the AL East and essentially one game up on a wildcard spot — and it’s unclear whether buying would be a smart move. During a YES Network interview yesterday (video link), Brian Cashman said the Yankees will be “careful buyers.”
“I think our interest would be buyers, but I think we’re gonna be careful buyers. We have a long-term plan that I think people are seeing excitement from. We’re definitely not gonna deviate from that. But also, part of that long-term plan is, in the short term, winning now and putting out the best effort possible, but not at the expense of what we feel can lead us to more championships … In the next three weeks, Hal Steinbrenner and myself and our entire staff will be trying to do a better job of legitimately plugging holes, if possible. So far I can tell you that sticker prices are pretty high and we’re saying no to a lot of (trades) that have currently been presented to us. But you keep working through it.”
One thing to keep in mind: Hal didn’t want to sell last year. He only gave the okay after Aroldis Chapman turned down a contract extension. I suppose the Yankees could sell again if they keep slipping in the standings, but the trade deadline is only three weeks away, and I don’t think they’ll fall that much. My guess is the Yankees will buy, but not buy big. Maybe a stopgap first baseman and some bullpen arms. I would be surprised if they trade a top prospect.
Yankees, Padres have talked Hand, Maurer
According to Joel Sherman, the Yankees and Padres have talked about relievers Brad Hand and Brandon Maurer. San Diego did ask about Gleyber Torres recently but Sherman says it’s understood they’re not getting a prospect of that caliber for a reliever. One Padres official told Sherman the Yankees have enough pieces to do a deal even without their top prospects. “They had a real good system last year, and it has taken another step up this year,” said one executive.
Here’s my Scouting The Market post on Hand. I’ll refer you to that. As for Maurer, the 27-year-old has a 5.60 ERA (2.95 FIP) with 24.3% walks and 4.9% walks this year. He’s been hurt by a shockingly low strand rate (52.9%) and the fact he’s always been a bit more hittable than his upper-90s fastball and two mid-80s secondary pitches (slider, changeup) would lead you to believe. Maurer, like Hand, is under team control through 2019 as an arbitration-eligible player. I prefer Hand. I’ve had my fill of these “more hittable than his stuff would indicate” guys.
Yankees have asked about Phelps, Ramos
Phelpsie. (Matt Hazlett/Getty)
The Yankees have contacted the Marlins about righty relievers David Phelps and A.J. Ramos, reports Sherman. The Marlins are starting to sell off pieces — Adeiny Hechavarria was traded to the Rays a few weeks back — and as relievers with one year of control remaining and not cheap salaries, Phelps ($4.6M) and Ramos ($6.55M) are obvious trade chips. I think both will be moved before the deadline, but what do I know?
Phelps, 30, has a 3.68 ERA (3.54 FIP) with 26.4% strikeouts and 8.8% walks in 44 innings this year. He really broke out in a true short relief role last year — Phelps had a 2.31 ERA (2.75 FIP) out of the bullpen in 2016 — before the Marlins moved him back into the rotation out of necessity. The 30-year-old Ramos has a 3.51 ERA (3.60 FIP) with 29.6% strikeouts and 12.7% walks in 33.1 innings this season. He’s always been a cardiac closer. Ramos isn’t shy about putting guys on base, though because he misses so many bats, he can get out of jams more often then not. I don’t really have a preference here. I think the Padres guys would probably provide more bang for the buck.
Padres, Marlins scouting Yankees heavily
The Padres and Marlins are currently scouting the Yankees’ farm system, report George King and Clark Spencer, which obviously ties back into those Hand/Maurer and Phelps/Ramos rumors. King says the Padres have sent assistant general manager David Post to watch Triple-A Scranton recently. Spencer says the Marlins are simply “focusing heavily” on New York’s system. (And several other teams too.)
I’m kinda curious to know when Post was scouting the RailRiders because the Yankees have called up many of their best prospects within the last two weeks. Chance Adams and Miguel Andujar are still down in Triple-A, but others like Tyler Wade, Dustin Fowler, and Clint Frazier are all in the big leagues. Hmmm. Maybe the Padres will be really sold on Billy McKinney’s recently hot streak or something. Anyway, potential sellers are scouting the farm system of a potential buyer. News at 11.
Filed Under: Trade Deadline Tagged With: A.J. Ramos, Brad Hand, Brandon Maurer, David Phelps, Miami Marlins, San Diego Padres
Poll: The Biggest Loss of the Offseason
February 23, 2015 by Mike 188 Comments
Prado and some Gatorade. (Jim McIsaac/Getty)
Earlier today we discussed the Yankees’ most important pickup of the offseason. Now it’s time to look at the other end of the spectrum and discuss their biggest loss of the winter. “Loss” is kind of a weird term here because sometimes teams willingly let a player get away, either by trading them or by simply declining to pursue them as a free agent. Other times it’s a true loss. They wanted him to keep him but couldn’t.
As with offseason additions, some offseason losses are bigger than others. Shawn Kelley (traded to the Padres) and Ichiro Suzuki (left as a free agent) saw a lot of playing time with New York the last two years but they aren’t major offseason losses, right? Both have already been replaced by younger if not better players (David Carpenter and Chris Young). Not counting Kelley and Suzuki, the Yankees lost six players this winter who they could end up missing quite a bit, not just in 2015, but beyond as well. Let’s run ’em down.
C Frankie Cervelli
Cervelli’s time in pinstripes was quite a ride. He developed a lot of die-hard defenders who believe he could be a starting catcher for like half the teams in the league, but, in reality, we never saw anything more than flashes of his ability between injuries. Cervelli, who turns 29 next week, has two years of team control remaining and was traded to the Pirates straight up for southpaw Justin Wilson this winter. John Ryan Murphy figures to step in to replace Cervelli as Brian McCann’s backup catcher this year.
RHP Shane Greene
Greene, 26, was a very nice surprise for the Yankees last year. He came up from the farm system as a drafted and developed player, and gave the team 78.2 innings of 3.78 ERA (3.73 FIP) ball. Greene’s stuff is very lively and it appears he overcame his career-long control problems with some mechanical tweaks in 2013. Without those tweaks, he’s probably not a big league starter. At least not one who impresses everyone as much as he did last year. Greene came up for good last July and has all six years of team control remaining. He was traded for Didi Gregorius over the winter.
RHP Hiroki Kuroda
Kuroda’s back with the Carp. (Getty)
I’m guessing that if the 40-year-old Kuroda was willing to pitch for the Yankees another year, the team would have brought him back with open arms. Hiroki’s game slipped a bit last year (3.70 ERA and 3.60 FIP) but he’s an innings eater and the kind of reliable arm the Yankees lack right now. Of course, he opted to return to the Hiroshima Carp for the final season of his career — and took a massive pay cut to make it happen — so the Yankees didn’t even have a chance to bring him back. The rotation sure would look much more sturdier with Kuroda, wouldn’t it?
The Yankees and Marlins reversed roles this winter. Usually the Marlins are the team trading away a player just as he starts to get expensive through arbitration. Instead, the Yankees traded Phelps to the Marlins just as he hits his arbitration years. Phelps, 28, spent three years as a nice swingman with New York (4.21 ERA and 4.20 FIP) and, frankly, the team could still use him for rotation depth. Instead, they used him to get Nathan Eovaldi and Garrett Jones. Phelps is under team control as an arbitration-eligible player through 2017.
UTIL Martin Prado
Prado was the other piece — the main piece, really — that went to Miami in the Eovaldi trade. Before the trade, the 31-year-old Prado was slated to serve as the team’s starting second baseman and was basically their best right-handed hitter. He had a 146 wRC+ in 37 games with the Yankees last year thanks to real nice four-week stretch before going down with an emergency appendectomy, though over the last two years he had a 103 wRC+. That’s the real Prado, not the guy we briefly saw in pinstripes last year. Either way, the Yankees could use his right-handed bat and versatility, as could just about every team. Prado has two years and $22M left on his contract.
RHP David Robertson
At some point early in the offseason the Yankees decided to let Robertson walk as a free agent and replace him with the cheaper and comparable Andrew Miller while also gaining a supplemental first round draft pick in the process. It’s a sound baseball move, albeit one that seems to be unpopular because the team let a homegrown Yankee walk and replaced him with an ex-Red Sox crony. Robertson, 29, has been an elite reliever for four years running even though his FIP has gradually climbed from 1.84 in 2011 to 2.49 in 2012 to 2.61 in 2013 to 2.68 in 2014. Robertson took a four-year, $46M deal from the White Sox, and really, is it hard to envision a scenario in which the Yankees wish they could trade Miller and that draft pick for Robertson at some point in the next four years?
As a reminder, this poll is trying to balance the loss of each player in the short and long-term. Kuroda would only be a one-year addition but he would be a really important one-year piece. Other veterans like Robertson and Prado are more likely to decline going forward rather than improve or even just maintain their current level of performance. Greene and Phelps are still young enough that their best years may be ahead of them, however. Time to poll.
Who was NYY's biggest loss of the offseason?
Filed Under: Polls Tagged With: David Phelps, David Robertson, Francisco Cervelli, Hiroki Kuroda, Martin Prado, Shane Greene
Yankees trade Martin Prado and David Phelps for Nathan Eovaldi and Garrett Jones
December 19, 2014 by Joe Pawlikowski 1,796 Comments
According to Jack Curry, the Yankees have traded Martin Prado the Marlins for RHP Nathan Eovaldi. Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald reports that the deal will also send David Phelps to the Marlins and 1B/OF Garrett Jones to the Yankees. The Yankees will also get RHP prospect Domingo German. The 40-man roster is now full.
The trade comes as something of a surprise. With the re-signing of Chase Headley, it appeared that the Yankees had a solid infield of Headley, Prado, Didi Gregorius, and Mark Teixeira. Moving Prado opens up a spot for Jose Pirela or Rob Refsnyder, or perhaps another second baseman in a trade. Would the Phillies make Chase Utley available?
(Presswire)
The main return in the trade, Eovaldi is a hard-throwing right-handed pitcher who turns 25 in February. Yet he’s already arbitration eligible this year, so the Yankees will have his rights through the 2017 season.
Although Eovaldi has three years’ service time, he’s thrown only 460 MLB innings. Last season was the first in which he made more than 30 starts. His injury history isn’t long, but it certainly concerning. In 2013 he missed the first 69 games of the season with shoulder inflammation, although it didn’t seem to affect him for the rest of the season or in 2014. His only other major injury is Tommy John surgery in 2007.
While he throws very hard, averaging 95.5 mph with his fastball in 2014, Eovaldi doesn’t strike out many hitters. Even as his fastball increased in velocity with his move from LA to Miami, he still stuck around 6.5 K/9, which is far below average right now. The idea, it seems, is to get him with Larry Rothschild and Gil Patterson, hoping that they can turn his plus-velocity into swings and misses.
Eovaldi will presumably take Phelps’s spot in the rotation, giving the Yankees their starting five. They could still make a move, given the injury risk, but that would necessarily bump one of the guys they just brought in. It’s no big loss to move Capuano to the bullpen, but why do that after spending $5 million on him?
German is at least interesting, a hard-thrower who performed well in the Sally league last year. Mike should have more on him later.
Garrett Jones is a prototypical platoon player, though he’s on the strong side. For the past two years he’s been a .250/.300/.400 guy, but .267/.333/.479 career against right-handers. He can back up Mark Teixeira at first base and Carlos Beltran in right field, while also taking reps at DH. In other words, he’s more reason to believe the Yankees have absolutely no plans for Alex Rodriguez.
At first I wasn’t thrilled with the trade, but if the Yankees can help Eovaldi harness his stuff they could make out well. Prado provided them with flexibility, but it’s easy to unfairly weigh his performance in the second half last year. He’s had a rough couple of years. Additionally, if the Yankees can get 75 percent of Prado’s performance from Refsnyder or Pirela, with the potential for improvement in the future, that might be a worthwhile bet. I still feel that they could be better served starting in AAA, but it’s not as though it’s going to make a huge difference.
My only problem is that Eovaldi hasn’t been very good. It’s a big bet for the Yankees to make that they can turn him around.
Filed Under: Transactions Tagged With: David Phelps, Domingo German, Garrett Jones, Martin Prado, Nathan Eovaldi
David Phelps, Adam Warren will come to Spring Training as starters
December 12, 2014 by Mike 93 Comments
Warren in the rotation? As a last resort maybe. (Presswire)
It’s no secret the Yankees came into the offseason needing rotation help. So, after the end of the regular season, the team told both David Phelps and Adam Warren to report to Spring Training next year ready to compete for a spot in the starting rotation. “We could always collapse them back into the (bullpen), but they were told to be physically ready to take a shot at a rotation spot,” said Brian Cashman to Brendan Kuty last week.
Phelps, 28, has been a true swingman the last three years, bouncing back and forth between the rotation and bullpen on numerous occasions. He’s performed a bit better as a reliever but not overwhelmingly so. It makes perfect sense to bring Phelps to camp ready to start. The 27-year-old Warren did a nice job in long relief in 2013 but really seemed to find a niche in short relief this past season. His velocity ticked up a bit and so did his strikeout rate. I understand bringing him to camp as a starter but I think he’s much more valuable as a one-inning reliever.
Despite their inactivity at the Winter Meetings, I definitely expect the Yankees to add a starter this offseason and probably two starters. They need the depth given the injury concerns in the rotation. It makes perfect sense to have Phelps and Warren prepare for a possible starting role, and while starting Phelps every fifth day is a fine fallback plan, I think putting Warren in the rotation should be a last resort. Hopefully he’s an emergency option and nothing more.
Filed Under: Pitching Tagged With: Adam Warren, David Phelps
2014 Season Review: The Swingman
(Mike Stobe/Getty)
Way back in Spring Training, the Yankees held an honest-to-goodness competition for the fifth starter’s spot. Michael Pineda blew everyone out of the water in camp and won the job with ease, but he was a total unknown coming into the year due to his injuries. He has to prove he belonged in the rotation and that’s exactly what he did.
One of Pineda’s competitors for that fifth starter’s job was David Phelps, who has competed for a rotation spot in Spring Training in each of the last three years. Phelps had to settle for a bullpen gig and his role was undefined at the outset of the regular season. He was essentially the third setup option behind Shawn Kelley and Adam Warren before Dellin Betances broke out.
Phelps allowed one run in 1.1 innings in his first appearance of the season, then allowed three runs in two innings of work his next time out. He finally had a scoreless outing in his third appearance, when he recorded all of one out. His best and most memorable relief appearance of the season was his fourth, when he retired all seven Red Sox batters he faced with a 4-1 lead to earn his first career save. The bullpen was taxed and he stepped up in a big way.
Three days later, Phelps recorded his single biggest out of the season (+.174 WPA) by striking out Mike Carp with the bases loaded and two outs in the eighth inning of a game the Yankees led 3-2. It was an eight-pitch at-bat and I remember it because of Phelps’ little fist pump/bunny hop celebration combo:
Phelps remained in the bullpen for the entire month of April — he had a 3.86 ERA and 5.79 FIP in 11.2 innings during the season’s first month — before moving into the rotation to replace the suspended/injured Pineda. His first start was pretty good — he held the Angels to one run in 5.1 innings while on a strict pitch count. Phelps’ next outing was not so good (four runs in five innings against the Brewers) but his next two after that were strong (five scoreless against the Pirates, seven innings of two-run ball against the White Sox).
After getting roughed up in three straight starts by his hometown Cardinals (five runs in six innings), the Mariners (six runs in six innings), and the Royals (seven runs in 5.2 innings), Phelps settled down and went on his best stretch as a big league starting pitcher. Beginning on June 13th, he posted a 3.29 ERA and 4.27 FIP in 54.2 innings spread across his next nine starts. He completed at least five innings in all nine starts and at least six innings in six of nine starts. Phelps’ best start of the season (71 Game Score) was the first of those nine starts (6.2 scoreless against the A’s):
The Red Sox clobbered Phelps for five runs in only two innings on August 3rd, and a day later he was placed on the 15-day disabled list with elbow inflammation. Joe Girardi told Wally Matthews the elbow had been bothering Phelps for “three or four weeks” before he had to placed on the DL. “We thought it was something we could manage, and he was managing. He was pitching well. It was just inflammation. But [against the Red Sox], for whatever reason, it bothered him.”
The injury ended Phelps’ stint as a starter in 2014. He pitched to a 4.28 ERA and 4.18 FIP in 17 starts and 96.2 innings from early-May through early-August, which isn’t sexy but is more than fine from your sixth starter. Phelps was really the team’s seventh starter when you think about it. Vidal Nuno got the call when the team first needed a spot starter and he stayed in the rotation after Ivan Nova blew out his elbow. It wasn’t until Pineda got hurt/suspended that Phelps moved out of the bullpen and into the rotation.
Phelps returned to the team in mid-September and spent the rest of the year working in relief only because there wasn’t enough time left in the season to stretch him back out to starter. He closed out the year with six not particularly good appearances (4.2 IP, 4 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 6 BB, 3 K) in low-leverage spots. The most memorable part of Phelps’ September was when he threw at Kevin Kiermaier of the Rays — he buzzed him inside but did not hit him — apparently in retaliation for Tampa hitting a bunch of Yankees that month. The benches cleared but nothing really came of it.
Between his 17 starts and 15 relief appearances, Phelps had a 4.38 ERA and 4.41 FIP in a career-high 113 innings in 2014. His strikeout rate (7.33 K/9 and 18.5 K%), walk rate (3.66 BB/9 and 9.3 BB%), homer rate (1.04 HR/9 and 10.8 HR/FB%), and ground ball rate (41.2%) were all decidedly mediocre. League average or worse across the board. Phelps was actually more effective against lefties (.314 wOBA) and at home (.327 wOBA) than against lefties (.356 wOBA) and on the road (.338 wOBA), which is weird. Pretty much the opposite of what I expected.
Phelps is now three years into his big league career and he’s established himself as a swingman who won’t kill you as a spot starter for a month or two. His career performance as a starter (4.34 ERA and 4.16 FIP in 219.2 innings) isn’t all that different than his performance as a reliever (3.84 ERA and 4.32 FIP in 79.2 innings), so he’s yet to stand out in either role and make you think that’s where he belongs. That’s fine though. Swingmen get no glory but they are a necessary part of the pitching staff. Phelps was more than capable when pressed into duty this season as well as the last three seasons overall.
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Social Networking | January 2, 2014 | Raghavendar T S
The internet was once a craze among people. Now it has become very much common. With the internet spread all over the world, the idea of social networking in internet came in picture. Social Networking created a great platform for every one including small-scale to large-scale industries. People were able to build their network of friends which resulted in more social interaction. The industries were able to do research on market to understand people and their trends.
Social Networking has become a great platform to publicize products, games, movies and many more. It has become a part of human life. Is it good? Yes! If we use it in right way. The teenagers(youth) are among the top users of the social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and many more. These youths can help India by contributing their views and ideas for the goodness. Social Network is a platform which can drive the youths to vote for the coming Indian General Elections 2014.
Social Networking – A Driving Force For The Youths
The previous generation people were very much interested in Indian politics and Indian economy. There was no driving force for them in knowing about the Indian politics other than news papers. But with all technologies and social networking, the current generation youths can bring a drastic change in Indian politics. Many youths though show their interest in politics, many doesn’t turn up during the voting. What is the reason behind it?
Corruption is one thing which I think is making the people in non-exercising their vote. Many people do not exercise their voting right. There are many people who wants a great leader to lead, but they fail to choose the leader during the election. A great leader can come only if the youths can contribute their vote in selecting their leader. In my personal opinion, only the youths can bring a change in the society. The current generation youths are highly qualified, both in terms of education and technology which is great necessity for bringing out new and innovative ideas to the country more prosperous.
Why not a youth can become a leader?
The question has already been asked in many movies. There are a lot of youths in India who are passionate about India and stand for election. But they fail to get the votes for winning. The reason for the fail is the younger generation people who fail to understand the real politics.
Social Mobile Apps for Indian General Elections 2014
There are millions and millions of people using social networking sites and applications of which youths and teenagers are the biggest audience. Many fail to update themselves in knowing news about the election. So use of social networks will make both leaders and public people share their ideas, suggestions etc. Social Mobile Apps make great news go viral in seconds of time. Social Network is a great platform for the leader and candidates who are standing for election in showcasing their positive views and ideas. With all technologies in hand, younger generation people can easily become next generation leaders. Many people fail to know about the younger candidates who stand for election. But using social network as a platform can make a big difference. This will make the youths to know about the current Indian politics and in turn drives them in exercising their voting right. The social network will help the common people to about the Indian election in positive manner. Use of technology can create a great impact on the youths. This is one of the smart way to attract and gain more audience.
Election Process with Smartphone Applications
The world has gone digital. There are millions of transaction going on in the internet in a secure way. Why not we can make a smartphone application to mobilize the voting process? Mobile applications have become very much popular. They make the living style more comfort and easier. So mobile applications for voting can make the youth more easier in exercising their vote. Who can develop these apps? Well only the youths can do it. But they require strong permissions and rules from the government in designing the standards for voting process and building it.
Social Mobile Apps for Election Campaigns
Before a decade, people used to conduct campaigns in public places to attract people. But they same campaigns can be digitized and mobilized now. The youths can actively contribute their vision to the people who are standing for election. One of the another great advantage is that the public people can have direct contact to the people who are standing for the election. This creates rich bond among everyone. Social networking and forums will bring transparency among everyone. The candidates can build mobile applications and sites for themselves to get well-recognized in the society. These kind of new and innovative strategies can technologist and corporate people get more interested in politics. Politics can be won only by targeting all kinds of audience in the society.
Inspiring Children in knowing about Politics
Now a days, children have a wide range of access to the internet and applications in home, schools and colleges. So they are very much aware about current trends in all areas of the world and also the internet and social network make the children understand the ins and outs of the politics. Though children do not have voting right, the leaders should make sure that the children understand about politics because they are next people. Politics is not just a short-term plan. The leaders should prepare for everything beyond their life time.
Thus mobilizing the Indian General Elections 2014 in social network will bring out complete makeover among the youth and will make the maximum vote percentage as never before.
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School safety in my youth were mundane concerns compared to the safety issue today. School shootings occur far more frequently in the United States than anywhere else in the world. When combined with other mass shootings, eleven of the worst 50 mass shootings were in the United States. We have only 4.4% of the world population but 22% of themass shootings.
After the shooting at Marjorie Stone and Douglas High School in Parkland Florida an Interdisciplinary Group for Preventing School and Cmmunity Violence at the University of Virginia has prepared a Call for Action to Prevent Gun violent in the United States of America. Anya Kamanetz
NPR reported that “About 200 universities, national education and mental health groups, school districts, and more than 2,300 individual experts have signed on to support this document in the weeks since” .
The documents says, “Although security measures are important, a focus on simply preparing for shootings is insufficient. We need a change in mindset and policy from reaction to prevention. Prevention entails more than security measures and begins long before a gunman comes to school. We need a comprehensive public health approach to gun violence that is informed by scientific evidence and free from partisan politics.”
The Call for Action revolves around three levels of action: preparing a safe place, protecting those who are at risk, and intervening when violence is a threat. The eight steps are:
Initiate a national review of school safety to insure safety from bullying, harassment, and discrimination.
A “ban on assault-style weapons, high-capacity ammunition clips, and products that modify semi-automatic firearms to enable them to function like automatic firearms.”
Adequate support staff of psychologists, social workers, and others.
foster positive social, behavioral, emotional, and academic success.
Universal background checks.
Develop threat assessment teams.
Removal of barriers that keep professionals from sharing at risk behaviors with others.
Gun violence protection orders.
We support the Call for Action.
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Home AboutPast Productions
Three Cat Media Past Shows:
Three Cat Media has produced over 30 shows in the past few years. To see the previous productions of the current season, click HERE.
2010 – Season
Rob Dorn: Wonderland
December 11th at 8:00pm
Three Cat Productions presents “Rob Dorn: Wonderland”. Step into a “wonderland” of early 60’s holiday nostalgia with Rob Dorn, featuring songs from his CD aptly titled “Wonderland,” and his own personal christmas memories and stories, including a tribute to all those great holiday specials we grew up with! With guitarist John Behling. This evening of holiday charm is on December 11, 2010 at 8:00pm at the Skokie Theatre Music Foundation.
“Rob Dorn: Wonderland” will be happening at Skokie Theatre Music Foundation, 7924 N. Lincoln Avenue, Skokie, Illinois 60077. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. You can order tickets by calling 847-677-7761 or visit skokietheatre.com.
The War of the Worlds: A Radio Play
October 31st at 2:00pm
Three Cat Productions was thrilled to announce a special Halloween performance of HG Wells’s “The War of the Worlds”. This special performance featured Rick Kogan and Rob Dorn with all proceeds benefiting the Skokie Theatre. The rare performance of the Halloween classic took place on October 31st at 2:00pm at the Skokie Theatre Music Foundation.
“The War of the Worlds” was originally performed on the radio, October 30, 1938 as part of the Mercury Theatre on the Air. Directed and narrated by Orson Welles, the 60 minute broadcast was presented as a series of news bulletins suggesting an actual alien invasion. Reportedly, the broadcast caused wide spread panic specifically for those who missed the opening explanation.
“The War of the Worlds” featured WGN Radio Personality Rick Kogan and Chicago’s celebrated performer Rob Dorn.
The Best of Three Cat Productions
October 16th at 8:00pm
Three Cat Productions gathered together some of the best performers from past productions to create a benefit for Skokie Theatre Music Foundation with “The Best of Three Cat Productions”. The evening of excellent entertainment took place on October 16th at 8:00pm at the Skokie Theatre Music Foundation.
Hosted by Jason Paul Smith and Rob Dorn, the evening highlighted past Three Cat shows at the Skokie Theatre Music Foundation including “Golly Gee: Broadway of the 1950s”, “Bab Fab” and “The Stops”. Performers are some of Chicago’s leading cabaret and musical theatre talent including, John B. Boss, Amy Cole, Jeff Dean, Meredith Freyre, Carla Gordon, Steve Kimbrough, Roberta Miles, Paul Motondo, Marianne Murphy Orland, Melissa Young and more! Musical accompaniment was provided by the talented John Behling and Kevin Disch.
It was an evening full of excitement and surprises!
Dream a Little Dream of Cass Elliott
AUGUST 21, 2010 at 8PM
Three Cat Productions returned to the Skokie Theatre Music Foundation on August 21st at 8:00pm with “Dream a Little Dream of Cass Elliot”. Hosted by Chicago Vocalist Rob Dorn, this Cass Elliot tribute payed homage to one of the greatest voices of the 1960s and 70s. The show featured Chicago cabaret favorites Jaii Beckley, Diego Colon, and Meredith Freyre. Musical director was Beckie Menzie.Known to most as “Mama” Cass, Elliot’s… career rose to stardom in the early 60’s as a member of the celebrated “The Mamas and The Papas”. Elliot’s career didn’t stop with the folk-rock group. She went on to a successful solo recording career even playing Chicago’s famed Mr. Kelly’s.
GENTLEMAN OF SONG
JULY 24, 2010 at 8PM
Rob Dorn sang songs made famous by the Male Vocalists who have inspired him through the years. He also presented excerpts from his CD, “I’m Wishing” to celebrate the CD’s 10th anniversary.
Accompanied by the Damian Espinosa Trio.
THE STOPS
Saturdays in JUNE, 2010 at 8PM
A Musical by Eric Lane Barnes and Drew Emery
Ginny, Euglena, and Rose came to Skokie for “one night only” in order to give a benefit concert for their mentor Dale Meadows, a church music director and song-writer, who has recently been ousted from his position because of his sexuality. These three ladies of NALOG (North American Lady Organists Guild) spread the gospel by singing a number of church songs, ranging the comedy gamut from “The Potluck,” “It’s Raining Amen,” “A Bossa Nova for Jehovah,” “Hallelujah Aloha,” and “The Fundamental.” Ultimately, the three ladies of different faiths find ways to come together despite their theological differences, united in the love of music and the gospel.
THEY SAY IT’S SPRING, The Musical World of Blossom Dearie
Written and Directed by Jason Paul Smith
Musical Direction by Elizabeth Doyle
Celebrated the music of jazz legend, Blossom Dearie, the hippest woman in the world.
Featured a cast of some of Chicago’s best jazz and cabaret vocalists.
Did you know that Blossom sang the songs “Figure 8” and “Unpack your Adjectives” on the Saturday Morning Kids program, “SchoolHouse Rock?”
BABFAB The Barbra Streisand Celebration
APRIL 23, 2010 at 8PM – An evening with Barbra Streisand “archivist” Matt Howe
Matt’s passion for the life and career of Barbra Streisand has not only inspired him to create one of the most thorough informational websites on Barbra but has gained the respect and admiration of several of Barbra’s creative associates, top people in the entertainment industry and Barbra herself!
APRIL 24 & 25, 2010 at 8PM – A Barbra Streisand Birthday Musical Celebration
Written and Directed by Rob Dorn
Hosted by Rob Dorn and featuring Amy Cole, Elizabeth Dowling, Hilary Ann Feldman, Laura Freeman, Scott Gryder, Marianne Murphy Orland, Jason Paul Smith and more!
Three Cat Media was thrilled to present the THIRD annual Barbra Streisand Birthday Celebration. BabFab celebrated the musical career of the legendary Barbra Streisand, from her early days in Greenwich Village to her incredible rise to super stardom, Rob Dorn escorted the audience through a Streisand musical timeline assisted by some of Chicago’s leading cabaret and musical theater talent.
AMY COLE in COLE SINGS COLE
MARCH 13, 2010 at 8PM
Chicago jazz and cabaret artist, Amy Cole, returned to the Skokie Theatre Music Foundation in “Cole Sings Cole”. “Cole sings Cole” celebrated the music of Cole greats Cole Porter, Nat (King) Cole, and Natalie Cole. These talent artists have had an enormous impact on American popular music. Collectively, their contributions have given classic and timeless music that spans from the early part of the century to the present day. Some favorites include Night and Day, Paper Moon and When I Fall In Love.
Performers included Amy Cole as vocals, Chris Sargent on piano, and Joe Policastro on bass. The Musical Director is Paul Marinaro.
For more information about Amy Cole, please visit her website at www.amycolesings.com.
ENDLESS EIGHTIES
Featuring Rob Dorn, Melissa Young and Surprise Guests!
Musical Direction by Mark Burnell
Written by Jason Paul Smith and Rob Dorn
FEBRUARY 20, 2010 at 8PM
The 1980’s are back! Celebrate the great (and sometimes not so great) music of the 80’s from “Cats” to Depeche Mode.
Did you know that at the beginning of her film collaboration with John Hughes, Molly Ringwald was driving a silver VW Rabbit convertible. By the time it ended with Pretty in Pink (1986), she was driving a white BMW…
GOLLY GEE! The Broadway Musicals of the 1950’s
Featuring Rob Dorn, Natalie Myre, Paul Motondo and Elizabeth Doyle.
Written by Rob Dorn
JANUARY 16, 2010 8PM
Three Cat Media was proud to present “Golly Gee” at the Skokie Theatre Music Foundation on January 16th, 2010. This original celebration of the musicals of the fifties was a guaranteed entertaining evening for any theatre lover.
The 1950’s produced 119 original broadway musicals and 38 revivals. The Broadway Musicals of the 1950’s will forever be revered as the Golden Age of Broadway. Golly Gee! honored the most celebrated decade of the American musical. Shows included Guys and Dolls, The King and I, West Side Story, Gypsy, and many more. The show featured: Rob Dorn, Natalie Myre, Paul Motondo and Elizabeth Doyle.
March 20, 2009 – Late Night Cabaret Series
Jason Paul Smith’s “Consulting Mavis
or How I Got My Ass Out of North Dakota & Remained Sane”
11:00pm at Strawdog Theater
April 24, 2009 – Bab Fab 2: Happy Days are Back Again
8:00pm at Davenport’s
A Benefit for Season of Concern
June 19, 2009 – Late Night Cabaret Series
Roberta Miles “Life: A Work in Progress”
July 24th, 2009 – It’s So Easy: The Music of Linda Ronstadt featuring Amy Cole
8:00pm at Skokie Theater
August 16, 2009 – The Judy Garland Duets with Rob Dorn and Laura Freeman
September 18, 2009 – Late Night Cabaret Series
Elizabeth Dowling – Bootless Journey
November 1, 2009 – 20th Century Hit Parade
with Rob Dorn, Laura Freeman, Beckie Menzie, and Tom Michael
Rob Dorn’s Wonderland
December 11 and 12, 2008
Rob Dorn stepped into a “wonderland” of early 60’s holiday nostalgia featuring songs from his CD aptly titled “Wonderland,” and his own personal christmas memories and stories, including a tribute to all those great holiday specials we grew up with! Joining him were John Behling on jazz guitar, Joshua Stephen Kartes on piano and Michael Favreau plays sax, clarinet, flute, etc…
Bab Fab: A Barbra Streisand Birthday Celebration
A benefit for Season of Concern. Some of Chicago’s best vocal talent performed her greatest hits from nightclubs to broadway and beyond. The show was hosted by Rob Dorn and featuring Eric Carlson, Amy Cole, Elizabeth Dowling, John Eskola, Laura Freeman, Carla Gordon, Marianne Murphy Orland, Jason Paul Smith and Robert Whorton accompanied by George Howe on piano.
Three Cat Thursdays – New Works
Timothy Hairston’s Cabaret Show “Webb/Short”
Timothy Hairston’s new cabaret show “Webb/Short”. It was filled with music performed or written by Jimmy Webb or Bobby Short. Hairston is one of Chicago’s leading Cabaret Artists. This show took you on an incredible journey. Joshua Stephen Kartes joined Hairston at the piano!
Three Cat Thursdays – Featured Artist
Matt Griffo: A One Man Comedy Show
Matt presented the opening of his one man comedy show “Who Wrote This?” on February 28th at 8:00pm. With whimsical lyrics and razor sharp satire this show had audiences falling to their knees in laughter. An almost all music show except for a few hilarious bits.
“The Little Lie” by Julie Jurgens
On Valentine’s Day, February 14th, “Three Cat Thursdays – New Works” night presented a cutting from Julie Jurgens new play “The Little Lie”. Julie Jurgens has made a name for herself, primarily as a singer and songwriter.
This Date in History
A special cabaret event “This Date in History: Celebrating January 31st through Song”. A handful of the Chicago’s most talented performers Amy Cole, Rob Dorn, Elizabeth Dowling, Laura Freeman, and Tim Hairston helped explore the important historical events that happened on January 31st. From the births of Carol Channing and Justin Timberlake to the House of Representatives passing of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution officially abolishing and prohibiting slavery.
Roberta Miles, Jillian Erickson, Kelsie Huff and Jason Paul Smith
Roberta Miles, Jillian Erickson, and Kelsie Huff join Three Cat Thursdays producer Jason Paul Smith with an evening that took audiences on a journey from poignant honest stories to hysterical tales that point out life’s funny truths.
Diana Lawrence
Diana Lawrence showcased new material on January 10 at 8:00pm. Her comfort with a wide variety of styles, as pianist, singer and songwriter, has given her the opportunity to work with everyone from world-famous conductors to local actors, from jazz combos to choral ensembles. Most recently Diana worked as musical director of The Apple Tree Theatre’s production of “The Mistress Cycle”.
Reoccuring – 2008:
Three Cat Thursdays – The Cabaret Variety Hour
The Cabaret Variety Hour was held on the first Thursday of each month. In the traditions of The Ed Sullivan Show, Carol Burnett and yes, Donnie and Marie Osmond comes an hour of musical variety, featuring some of Chicago’s most interesting and diverse performers. A little bit of everything, lot’s of fun and surprises.
Three Cat Thursdays – Life is a Song
Life is a Song was held on the third Thursday of each month. Life is a Song is a special cabaret evening based on a theme, such as, “First Kiss”. Local and National singers will be presenting their perceptions of that theme through monologue and song. An exciting new opportunity for the performers and audience alike!!
Ingrid Graudins’ “Brave Again”
Incredibly talent singer songwriter Ingrid Graudins. Having recorded a self titled CD in 2000 entitled “Brave Again”, Ingrid can be seen on album projects, commercials, live dates with bands like Tributosaurus (a Chicago monthly tribute band) and mini tours with the lovely Boston-based alt/folk goddess Catie Curtis and the awesome Chicago-based new folk artist Alice Peacock.
“Minnie America” by Heather Flock
Director Barbe Marshall presented a new work by New York playwright Heather Flock entitled “Minnie America”. Heather Flock, playwright and award-winning choreographer, received her M.F.A. in playwriting from Columbia University where she studied with Romulus Linney. In New York, her plays have been read and performed at New Dramatists, Shotgun Productions, Art & Work Ensemble and Worklight Theatre Company. She currently lives in New York City where she works for the Commissioner of Major League Baseball.
A truly amazing talent and wonderful cabaret performer, Freeman performed all new material. With background as a singer and actress, Freeman, joined by accompanist Jeffrey Roscoe, put together an intimate evening of song.
Roberta Miles, Katie Quick and Ric Brutnall
An evening of new works by exciting local and international artists featuring Katie Quick, Roberta Miles, and british composer Ric Brutnall. The line-up proved to be diverse and incredibly entertaining.
Rob Dorn “Home Again
Rob Dorn presented his hit cabaret show Home Again.
Mixed Nuts by Eric Lane Barnes
Dennis Mahoney at Centerstage calls it ” the ideal venue for presentation, expression and appreciation”.
A rare Chicago performance by the talented composer Jeff Award Winning composer Eric Lane Barnes kicked off our NEW WORKS night, joined by Rob Dorn and the hysterical Tina Gluschenko. The show featured a bunch of new songs he has written in the last couple years. Very funny. This one was a DO NOT MISS show. We have no idea when Eric will be back in town. (He is living in Seattle and is the associate music director of the Seattle Gay Men’s Chorus.)
Life is a Song was held on the third Thursday of each month. Life is a Song is a special cabaret evening based on a theme, such as, “First Kiss”. Local and National singers will be presenting their perceptions of that theme through monologue and song.
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by Lou Sylvre | December 18, 2019 · 12:56 pm
Cover Reveal! A Shot at Living by Lou Sylvre—Vasquez Inc #3
A Shot at Living
Lou Sylvre’s Vasquez Inc series #3—a never before published episode in the lives of Brian and Jackie (wherein danger finds them once again after a move to Los Angeles)
Seen here for the first time: the all new cover by Bryan Keller at Changeling Press.
Links—preorder now!
Preorder now at online retailers
First download available date: 12/21 at the publisher
Download everywhere books are sold online 12/28/19
Changeling Press and Universal: https://www.changelingpress.com/a-shot-at-living-vasquez-inc-3-b-2972(Live links to all markets are available here.)
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Shot-Living-Vasquez-Inc-ebook/dp/B082KHRNRL
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LA’s heat holds danger and mystery for a Dom and his sub aiming for love and a new life together.
Anxious to leave London and its horrors behind, Brian Harrison and Jackie Vasquez move to Los Angeles. Brian hopes working for Luki, managing a small Vasquez Security branch, will leave him more time to live, love, and play with sub Jackie. But Los Angeles awakens old trauma for Jackie, and follows that with a brand new hit.
While Jackie struggles back to health after a crippling accident, Brian strives to find his balance as Jackie’s lover and Dom. Meanwhile, the more Brian defies the order not to investigate the disappearance of the previous branch manager, the deeper and darker the mystery gets.
Can the couple fan the lusty flames still burning between them, rekindle romance, and rise together in time to stand against looming dangers just ahead?
An excerpt
Having limited time, wanting to concentrate on making everything perfect for Jackie, and willing to find excuses to avoid driving in Los Angeles, Brian had dispatched Shel Solomon—the second most senior of the full-time agents employed at VSI-LA—to pick up Jackie at the airport. Now, as he set a third huge bouquet of roses—this bunch almost black—in a vase in his brand-new , not yet completely furnished but promising playroom, he glanced at his watch.
“He’s late,” Brian said to himself. He double checked the app on his phone, confirming the flight had landed only two minutes late. A little bolt of worry shot through him, but he quickly quenched it. This was Los Angeles. The delay was probably due to traffic. $Twenty or thirty minutes late means nothing in this town, he thought. “Hell,” he said aloud, “two hours’ delay is pretty much normal around here.”
Ignoring the hollow sound of those words in the mostly bare room, he set about hanging up carefully coiled hanks of colored rope via stick-on hooks, thinking only about the colors he’d use to make Jackie beautiful when he did arrive. He wouldn’t be able that night to use the suspension rig he’d bought—no time to set it up and make sure it was safe—but that didn’t mean they couldn’t have plenty to play with in the meantime.
Fifty minutes later, Brian had checked and fidgeted with each of the rose bouquets scattered around the apartment at least three times, made sure wine and water were chilling along with a tray of fruit and cheese, wiped the counters again, re-dusted the mantel over the built-in and partially locked cabinet, cleaned a smudge off the playroom’s triple-width, full-length mirror, and listened to two sets of phone messages twice.
Marley sauntered into the new playroom and began an inspection, disapproving as big orange cats tend to do, then gave up and sat down to stare at his human. Brian had just that moment arranged—again—the new cock-ring he’d picked up on another impromptu shopping spree, setting it jauntily alongside the vase of Black Baccara roses and the opened box containing the new collar he hoped to put on Jackie soon—maybe even within hours. He’d chosen the collar carefully, after much deliberation purchasing a rich, pliable, black leather adorned with a silver lock and trim and a stylized Triskeli inset with iridescent labradorite. He situated the box just so, sighed, and ran exasperated hands through his hair.
Legitimately, he had no more preparation to accomplish before Jackie’s arrival, but he fidgeted, knowing he wouldn’t succeed if he tried to do anything important and unrelated. He was full of nervous energy—more so the later it got, so he turned his mind to a minor mystery he’d discovered the day he’d moved in. The playroom had a built-in cabinet, something like a bureau, but mostly recessed into the walls, with a narrow counter stretching across the top like a mantel and a mirror above. Brian had opened, inspected, and cleaned seven of the eight small drawers and found nothing.
But he hadn’t been able to open the eighth drawer. The pull was missing, and at first he thought it was fake—just a façade like the double cabinet door in the center. But why only one fake drawer out of eight? And those doors looked to be painted shut, and their front was recessed from the rest of the structure. But the mystery drawer had a thin strip of metal set unobtrusively—almost but not quite invisible—along its side, between it and the neighboring wood. He bent and peered closely at it, shining the flashlight on his phone into the narrow space. A space in the middle of the inch-long strip looked like it called for a key.
Brian had always been driven to solve a mystery, and this one was no different. He stood with hands on his hips, squinting as if that would provide answers. The locked drawer bothered him enough, and it was enough of a welcome distraction from Jackie’s lateness, that he decided to try his hand at lock-picking. He went decisively to the other bedroom closet where he rummaged through a still-packed box and came up with a few paperclips.
He understood the basics of lock-picking, but had never had much call to apply the skill, which might be why he failed miserably. That added to his frustration with the way things were going in general. Already, things had slid downhill from his perfect plan—starting with the fact that Jackie was late. He wasn’t taking “no” as an answer from the $damned drawer. He lined a butter knife up with the lock and gave it three sharp blows with a hammer, successfully knocking the lock through the wood. Brian sighed, left with mixed feelings—tension relieved, gratified, victorious, but angry as hell and disappointed in himself for ruining the perfection of the setting for tonight’s planned scene. The front of the drawer was a splintery mess. He moved the roses, collar, and cock ring to the other end of the shelf for the sake of aesthetics.
Inside the drawer, he found a small notebook and nothing else. About half the pages were filled with what looked to Brian like scribbling. A few repeated things, like a circle around capital B followed by numbers, and certain other letters that seemed to be abbreviations. The arrangement of entries looked haphazard, completely disorganized, and—to his eye—meaningless. Yet… someone had found it necessary to lock it up, all by itself. The someone likely to have done that would be the now-disappeared Espen, as he was the last person to occupy the apartment.
Something seemed deeply troubling about that.
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Thanks for reading, and as always feel free to leave me your thoughts in a comment. I love hearing from you!
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Tagged as D/s, danger, detective, hurt comfort, Los Angeles, rope bondage, shibari
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A Christmas column AN OUTSIDERS VIEW Ken Fuller 12/20/2011
A Christmas column
AN OUTSIDERS VIEW
Ken Fuller
Regular readers who assume that my silence on the subject of Christmas stems from belief — or, more precisely, the lack of it — are not entirely wrong. But there is another reason: since I first visited the Philippines in late 1989, I have rarely been able to suppress a smile (or, should the mood take me, a grimace) at the wildly inappropriate practice of Christmas songs and carols, many of which have a snowy theme, being played in shopping malls in a tropical climate. This is, of course, an example of US commercial imperialism, just as the practice of Christianity itself arises from Spanish colonialism.
Has Christmas ever been celebrated without Christianity? Yes — although it didn’t go by that name. In pagan times, Northern European peoples celebrated a mid-winter festival. In some places, this was associated with the god Odin (in Anglo-Saxon this is “Woden,” from which “Wednesday” is derived). But gods were not — and are not — a necessary component of such a festival, because one often needs cheering up during a bleak northern winter, and a festival is as good a way as any of accomplishing this..... MORE
OWS marks 3-month anniversary in New York
From the Arab Spring - to America's Autumn, now turned Winter. The Occupy Wall Street movement has marked its 3-month anniversary this weekend.
Images of arrests, brutality, and mass protesting in America over the last 3 months have been gripping the world.
“The cops must be smacking themselves in the forehead, because they’ve given such life to this movement,” said Truthout contributor JA Myerson..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/new-york-movement-occupy-201/
Kim Young-il body placed in glass coffin (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
The body of North Korea’s leader is lying in state in an open glass coffin so that mourners can pay their last respects. His personal armored railway wagon and official Mercedes are on display nearby.
The commemorative events are taking place in Kumsusan Memorial Palace (also called Kim Il-sung Mausoleum) in downtown Pyongyang.
According to official sources, Kim Jong-il died on the morning of December 17 of fatigue and overwork. Reportedly he had been battling heart disease since allegedly suffering a stroke in 2008..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/jong-il-commemorative-events-pyongyang-231/
CSTO talks tough on NATO
The member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization released a strong message warning that European missile defense and unilateral military action may work to destabilize international security and strategic stability around the world.
The harsh statement was released by President Dmitry Medvedev and his counterparts from Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in Moscow on Tuesday.
The leaders made specific mention of the missile defense system that the United States is currently constructing in Eastern Europe, just miles from the Russian border..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/politics/csto-nato-russia-medvedev-kazakhstan-257/
Christmas VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz 12/20/2011
The times are bad and the future is dark. The country is stagnant and millions of Filipinos are suffering from hunger and uncertainty. The local and national problems are not only multiplying but also worsening. The quest for justice and peace remains elusive and the imperative of socio-economic development is far from being seriously attended, much less realistically pursued. The Philippines nevertheless continuous to have one singular blessing: The Filipinos who keep the faith, live with hope, believe in love — especially so during Christmas.
This is the primary reason, notwithstanding all arguments to the contrary, the Philippines is rather known for having the longest Christmas Season in the world. This is also why the Filipinos — creative and ingenious as they are — successfully combine their own native Christian heritage with many elements of imported Christmas symbols and practices..... MORE
Environment defenders’ alliance born
By ALDWIN QUITASOL with reports from LARA CARTUJANO
www.nordis.net
BAGUIO CITY — More than 500 anti-mining activists and advocates from different towns of Northern Luzon expressed unity on programs to save the environment and resources together in the first Northern Luzon Mining and Human Rights Summit held from December 13-15 of 2011 at the Quirino Hall, Teachers’ Camp.
On the theme “Defend and preserve our national patrimony against foreign big business plunder! Assert our rights to life, land, culture, food security and development!”, the three-day summit aimed to study the relation of mining projects to the human rights situation in Northern Luzon, vis a vis national and international developments..... MORE
Source: NORDIS
URL: http://www.nordis.net/?p=11383
Ilocos group calls for troop pull out
By RODA TAJON
CANDON CITY, Ilocos Sur — “Karapatan ng mamamayan, ipaglaban!”
More than 300 human rights advocates in Ilocos repeatedly chanted the above call as they marched to commemorate International Human Rights Day last December 11.
The activity was launched despite efforts from Philippine National Police (PNP) and the city government to frustrate them because of their “no permit, no rally policy”.
Mila Marcelo, public information officer of the Ilocos Human Rights Alliance (IHRA), said that the state-sponsored terror in the countryside and the escalating human rights violations in the Ilocos region has instead served as a challenge to the people to assert their rights..... MORE
Decomposing bodies pile up; casualties hit 823 12/20/2011
‘WE LOST COUNT OF MISSING PEOPLE’ — NDRRMC CHIEF
Decomposing bodies pile up; casualties hit 823
As the body count rose to 823 late yesterday, authorities expect that the casualties from flash floods that devastated two port cities in Mindanao spawned by Typhoon Sendong will continue to pile up in the coming days as officials said more are missing than reported since entire families were believed swept to sea as they slept in coastal slums.
Towns in Cagayan de Oro and Iligan cities which were worst hit by the devastation prepared mass burials for decomposing bodies with authorities saying unclaimed cadavers piling up in mortuaries were posing health risks and had to be buried.
Several television footage showed decomposing bodies lined up in different centers where the dead were delivered for identification, underlining the serious tragedy that some of the survivors compared to the recent tsunami that hit parts of northern Japan last March. One footage from an Iligan mortuary showed a
corridor lined with bodies wrapped in white plastic bags bound with tan-colored packaging tape..... MORE
Luisita seeks SC recall ruling, SDO validity, high just compensation By Benjamin B. Pulta 12/20/2011
Luisita seeks SC recall ruling, SDO validity, high just compensation
By Benjamin B. Pulta 12/20/2011
First the Cojuangco-Aquinos of Hacienda Luisita said they would no longer seek a motion for reconsideration from the Supreme Court ruling that generally favored the hacienda farmers, but with the focus on the impeachment trial of SC Chief Justice Renato Corona and the vow of President Aquino to lobby with the senators to convict the CJ in an impeachment trial, the Cojuangco clan is pushing not only a recall of the SC ruling but for the court to declare the stock distribution option (SDO) valid, and also called for a higher just compensation for the clan.
Lawyers representing the Cojuangco-Aquino family-owned Hacienda Lusita Inc. (HLI) has asked the SC to reconsider its decision last Nov. 22 placing the centuries-old sugar estate under the government’s agrarian reform program.
In a 45-page motion to clarify and reconsider, HLI sought among other things, to have the reckoning point in determining the valuation of the hacienda moved to a later
date, 2006, from the original SC decision which said that the just compensation shall be based on the value of the property in November 1989 when the stock distribution option (SDO) was approved. The high court in its decision this year had struck down the SDO..... MORE
CPP-NPA approves four-day truce with government By Mario J. Mallari 12/20/2011
CPP-NPA approves four-day truce with government
After the New People’s Army (NPA) committed at least two major atrocities following the government’s unilateral suspension of offensive military operations (Somo), the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) yesterday reciprocated the government’s 18-day Christmas truce with its own four-day ceasefire.
In a statement, the CPP-Central Committee issued a ceasefire order to all commands and units of the NPA nationwide starting Dec. 24 to Dec. 26 for the Christmas and Dec. 31 to Jan. 2 for the New Year.
“During the indicated periods, all commands and units of the NPA and the people’s militia shall cease and desist from carrying out offensive operations against the armed units and personnel of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), Philippine National Police and paramilitary forces of the Government Republic of the Philippines (GRP),” the CPP said..... MORE
Gov’t ready to recognize North Korean successor By Michaela P. del Callar 12/20/2011
Gov’t ready to recognize North Korean successor
The Philippine government yesterday said it is prepared to recognize the new North Korean leader following the demise of its Kim Jong-Il, as it called for a “smooth transition to a new leadership.”
In a statement, the Department of Foreign Affairs said: “The Philippine government values its relations with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and will continue to cooperate with them to intensify the promotion and maintenance of peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region, including in the Korean Peninsula , to ensure the region’s continued prosperity.”
Manila, which has decade-old diplomatic ties with Pyongyang , likewise offered its condolences to its government and people on the death of Kim Jong-Il..... MORE
Customs seizes P10.6-M worth of pyrotechnics from China 12/20/2011
Customs seizes P10.6-M worth of pyrotechnics from China
The Bureau of Customs (BoC) seized P10.6-milliion worth of firecrackers and fireworks misdeclared as school supplies that were illegally imported from China, BoC report said yesterday.
Commissioner Ruffy Biazon said the two 40-footer container vans of firecrackers and pyrotechnic devices were consigned to FEC Trading which is owned by a certain Francisco Edward Lopez Claudio of Makati City.
It was learned that the pyrotechnic shipment was lodged at the BoC by FEC Trading’s customs broker Advenzur Ubas..... MORE
Toxins detected on food containers in Metro Manila outlets 12/20/2011
Toxins detected on food containers in Metro Manila outlets
The EcoWaste Coalition yesterday reported that it has detected sky-high levels of toxic elements on several beverage and food containers purchased from popular retail outlets in Metro Manila.
The samples were obtained from Landmark Department Store in Quezon City; Puregold Supermarket in Cubao, Quezon City; Robinsons Supermarket in Mandaluyong City; Shopwise in Vito Cruz, Makati City; and Savemore in Santa Ana, Manila City. All purchases had receipts.
The EcoWaste Coalition has notified the retail outlets about the test results and requested the management to remove the tainted products off the store shelves..... MORE
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Kim Young-il body placed in glass coffin (VIDEO, P...
Christmas VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz 12/...
Decomposing bodies pile up; casualties hit 823 12...
Luisita seeks SC recall ruling, SDO validity, high...
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Crazy Cottage
2 Co-Hosts
Rick Adams (1996)
Jez Edwards (1997-8)
Co-Hosts
Vera the Cuckoo (Steve Nallon)
Action Time and Carlton for CITV, 4 April 1996 to 29 May 1998 (33 episodes in 3 series)
Sdrawkcab gnihtyreve od ot dah uoy erehw wohsemag eht.
Except it wasn't quite as simple as that because in fact you had to do most things forward but in a backwards manner. Not so much sdrawkcab gnihtyreve od ot dah uoy erehw wohsemag eht and more eht wohsemag erehw uoy dah ot od gnihtyreve sdrawkcab then.
The host guided two teams through the Crazy Cottage, starting the programme with a cheery "Goodbye, hope you enjoyed the show!". The five games in the 25-minute show were played in nominally reverse order, beginning with Round Five and ending at Round One, though a winner was declared at the end of the show, conventionally enough. Now and again references were made to going down and up stairs when going up and down, respectively. A supporting character was Vera, a glove puppet cuckoo, who couldn't get the hang of this going-backwards gimmick. Through the windows of the house gaudy coloured skies and giant child audience members could be seen.
First host, Rick Adams
Rounds included riding the bike where the handlebars steered the wrong way, performing a sequence but in a certain order so when the film was played backwards it matched what was on the card, making a pizza in a slopey kitchen, working out backward tunes - stuff like that.
Vera the cuckoo
The first game - er, fifth and final game - is a race to put clothes drying on a washing line away before the sun comes out to dry them (do you see?) The teams race one at a time in relay fashion on large tricycles, BUT, the handlebars are rigged so that steering the bike left turns the wheels to the right, and so on. All three team members get a go at steering the trike around a winding course, getting an item of clothing off a line, and riding back. The set is colourful to the point of being garish, and the background music is jangly and artificial. Really, no expense is spared to create craziness, wackiness, and doing things the unconventional way just for the sake of it (including a long, claymation-type opening sequence) and it starts to grate quickly. The faster team of the two (who take part at once) wins 10 points, but these are bounced to the opponents as the team with the lower score at the end wins. How crazy!. The game varied per episode but followed the same crazy format (Such as undelivering newspapers into mail boxes, etc etc)
Mr. Cyril kept the scores (and made a really great cup of tea, according to Rick)
The second game is quite clever and takes place inside the cottage as such (which is even more colourful than outside). The robot who keeps score, Mr. Cyril, gives a list of three instructions to each team... the team have to do them so that when they are viewed backwards, they're right. For instance: do a backward roll, catch three balls with a tennis racket and roll a football up the stairs is done by rolling the football down the stairs, hitting three tennis balls away with a tennis racket and doing a forward roll... in that order. Vera then awards 40 marks to each team (presumably 10 for each action and 10 for the right order). Rick commentates on the teams' actions, both forwards and backwards... but he's not like he was in Reactive when he had a full desk to play with, chairs and no restrictions on gags. Still quite funny, though.
The third game - introduced as the third game - takes place in a sloping room (maybe 20 degrees or so) with the camera also at this angle, so that everyone looks to be at an angle when standing normally! It's a game straight out of Double Dare/Funhouse but a bit less messy. The teams have to raid the cottage's kitchen and make the highest pizza they can alternating pizza bases (?) and toppings. They have to place the pizzas on top of a table which is also at the slanting angle (the table looks OK on camera, but the pizzas appear to be slanting). Highest pizza in a minute or two wins ten points (for the other team). Because everything being at an angle, food would often fly out of cupboards, Rick would usually slip over at some point and the contestants found it very hard to keep their pizzas together, the higher they got.
The rather mind-boggling Kooky Kitchen round
The fourth game takes place outside and on normally-oriented ground. There are loads of items inside the shed. Rick describes an item that he requires which does not posess a certain three properties (it is not made of wood, it does not have strings, you can not play a tune with it). The teams race to send a member into the shed and find an object which does fulfil the three properties (like a guitar... but there's only one. If the other team gets it, you can't wrestle it off them, alas, you have to get something else, like a loudspeaker in a wooden cabinet). 10 points are awarded for each property fulfilled, so typically this round ends up 30-20. Boring!
The fifth game is a quickfire round inside the cottage with the two teams each using a communal buzzer shaped like a trifle (they get to "push their puds". Oo-er!) and consists of 18 or 19 questions, all buzz-in, worth 10 points apiece. Yep, it's last-round-blows-all-the-others-out-of- the-water-points-wise syndrome, and don't you just love it. The first two questions are, sat upside-down on the sofa, identify pictures of landmarks; the next three are identify celebrities from pictures (with fake beards, hair etc. added) and the next three are identify theme songs and tunes mangled up. The last bit is that a picture is shown with about 10 weird things in it (a picture of a row of houses with a bookcase on top of a house, a shoe on top of a hedge, potatoes instead of windows, knights in shining armour and so on). Buzz madly in and name them for 10 points apiece. Game-imbalancing!
The losing team (with more points, because their opponents have earned more points...) each win left-handed biscuits and backwards clocks, the winning team win goody-bags and days snorkelling with a giant cauliflower. Look, I'm not making this up, worse luck. Rick wishes us "Hello" and the show ends.
The Action Time logo that comes up at the end is a surprise, though. It's very different from most Action Time shows in that it has lots of original ideas and goes at a quick pace (and Stephen Leahy does not get a credit anywhere), all of which is very commendable. However it does suffer from Action Time's trademark last-round-is-the-only-important-one fault.
Second host, Jez Edwards, and a backwards clock.'
Lots of original ideas, and Rick hosted it well (he wasn't nearly as funny as he was in Reactive, though). The backwards gimmick throughout the show worked quite well if you concentrated hard enough. We're not sure if kids would be able to follow it properly, but then again their brains may be able to cope with it better than ours. And we don't half feel old saying that.
This looks very creepy.
Paul Zenon
Some of the hosts' presentation was very much sdrawkcab. They signed-off at the start of the show and welcomed us at the end.
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